94 research outputs found
International Intrigue: Plotting Espionage as Cultural Artefact
No full textThis introduction identifies recent scholarship in espionage studies, and the range of critical questions raised by the genre
Book review: Phyllis Lassner, British Women Writers of World War Two / Heather Ingham, Women's Fiction Between the Wars
No full textReviews of Phyllis Lassner, 'British Women Writers of World War Two' and Heather Ingham, 'Women's Fiction Between the Wars'
The challenges of translating Art Spiegelman’s Maus
No full textThis chapter explores the challenges in translating the voice of the survivor in Art Spiegelman’s Maus,
illustrating the multiple complexities and nuances of how a Holocaust testimony may reach readerships
across the world. The Holocaust was a transnational event uniquely recorded, by survivors, victims, and
descendants of victims, in a variety of languages. Yet, often, Holocaust accounts have only reached global
audiences through versions in English or other majority languages. This chapter shows that because
translation can never be a completely transparent process where an exact equivalence between original and
target texts is to be found, a fascinating field of enquiry stretches now before us, one that lies at the
crossroads between Holocaust representation and translation studie
Call for Papers : "Middlebrow Cultures"
No full textCall for Papers: Middlebrow Cultures University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Tuesday 14th, Wednesday 15th July 2009 Plenary speakers: Professor Ann Ardis, University of Delaware and Professor Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University The Network was launched at the "Historicising the Middlebrow" conference at Sheffield University in July 2008, and we now invite papers for the second conference. The study of middlebrow culture matters because it illuminates a set of tastes, institutions and social p..
Testing the Limits of the Middlebrow: The Holocaust for the Masses
No full text This essay explores how analyzing popular Holocaust films as a representation of Middlebrow cultural production changes conventional assessments of each. Unlike those writers who have suffered the opprobrium of too much accessibility, of being relegated to Middlebrow marginalization from canonical cultural status, Holocaust writers struggle to find the language and forms through which to bear witness to their experiences, in short, to achieve accessibility. In turn, just as popular Holocaust films defy the promises of escapist fantasy, so they demonstrate how Middlebrow culture can be seen as questioning and revising traditional forms of realism and modernist experiment. </jats:p
On Aarons’s Holocaust Graphic Narratives
No full textHolocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory. By Victoria Aarons.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 256 pp., ISBN 978-1978802551
(pb), $24.95
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