378 research outputs found
Women's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects
No full textPhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life
writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I
explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney,
Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the
manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these
sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received
little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights
into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and
social being.
In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual
autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification
provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation.
However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and
self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century
courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship
in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their
narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts
female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of
British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting
personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also
exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation.
In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to
the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the
autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the
productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative
selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social
being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression
of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject
INTORNO AL MONDO IN CINQUANT’ANNI: VIAGGIO ALLA MANIERA DI ULISSE ATTRAVERSO LA POESIA DI HÉDI BOURAOUI (1966-2016)
No full textThis is a review article on Transpoétiquement vôtre. Anthologie (1966-2016) / Transpoeticamente vostro. Antologia (1966-2016), a selection of Hédi Bouraoui’s poetry over 50 years, edited and translated into Italian by Mario Selvaggio, who also provides the Introduction. Hédi Bouraoui has written an Avant-Propos looking back over a long writing career. The article compares his career to a Ulyssean voyage, and sees him as a Nomad of language, of cultures, of Otherness. This article has also been translated into French and Italian (see below)
Remnants and Revenants: politics and violence in the work of Agamben and Derrida
No full textThis is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Frazer, Elizabeth, and Kimberly Hutchings. "Remnants and revenants: politics and violence in the work of Agamben and Derrida." The British Journal of Politics & International Relations 13.2 (2011): 127-144, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2010.00428.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben both consider the question of whether there can be politics without violence, offering contrasting responses. In the case of Agamben, the remnant (that which remains) is disruptive and destabilising of present institutions; in the case of Derrida the revenant, the spectre, promises a future that is open. This reading of the two theories suggests that Derrida's response to the question of politics and violence is more persuasive than Agamben's. But the abstraction of his argument, like the tensions and contradictions in Agamben's, means that we are not hereby furnished with the resources to think politically about violence
Author Correction: A neomorphic cancer cell-specific role of MAGE-A4 in trans-lesion synthesis
No full textAuthor Correction to "A neomorphic cancer cell-specific role of MAGE-A4 in trans-lesion synthesis
AUTOUR DU MONDE EN CINQ DÉCENNIES : VOYAGE À LA MANIÈRE D’ULYSSE À TRAVERS LA POÉSIE D’HÉDI BOURAOUI (1966-2016)
No full textThis is a review article on Transpoétiquement vôtre. Anthologie (1966-2016) / Transpoeticamente vostro. Antologia (1966-2016), a selection of Hédi Bouraoui’s poetry over 50 years, edited and translated into Italian by Mario Selvaggio, who also provides the Introduction. Hédi Bouraoui has written an Avant-Propos looking back over a long writing career. The article compares his career to a Ulyssean voyage, and sees him as a Nomad of language, of cultures, of Otherness. This article has also been translated into French and Italian (see below)
Después de lo trans: Sexo y género entre la izquierda y lo identitario
No full textDespués de lo trans. Sexo y género entre la izquierda y lo identitario After the trans, by Elizabeth Duval (2021), is the result of a research inseparable from the personal experience and public profile of the author, who uses its pages to reflect on the concepts of gender, feminism, women, sex or trans. It is a book published by a commercial publisher (La Caja Books) that does not avoid academic rigor, but rejects academic discourse. Written in the first person, in its pages we find traces of cultural criticism and political news, without losing the essential questions: what is it to be trans? And what is the horizon of emancipation of feminism?Después de lo trans. Sexo y género entre la izquierda y lo identitario de Elizabeth Duval (2021), é o resultado de pesquisas inseparáveis da experiência pessoal e do perfil público da autora, que usa suas páginas para refletir sobre os conceitos de gênero, feminismo, mulher, sexo e trans. Trata-se de um livro publicado por uma editora comercial (La Caja Books) que não foge ao rigor acadêmico, mas rejeita o discurso acadêmico desde o início. Escrito na primeira pessoa, em suas páginas encontramos traços de crítica cultural e notícias políticas, sem perder as questões essenciais: o que é ser trans? E qual é o horizonte de emancipação do feminismo?Después de lo trans. Sexo y género entre la izquierda y lo identitario, de Elizabeth Duval (2021), es el resultado de una investigación inseparable de la experiencia personal y el perfil público de la autora, que aprovecha sus páginas para reflexionar sobre los conceptos de género, feminismo, mujer, sexo o trans. Se trata de un libro publicado por una editorial comercial (La Caja Books) que no elude el rigor académico, pero sí rechaza de base el discurso academicista. Escrito en primera persona, en sus páginas encontramos trazos de crítica cultural y de actualidad política, sin perder las preguntas esenciales: ¿qué es ser trans? y ¿cuál es el horizonte de emancipación del feminismo
Después de lo trans: Sexo y género entre la izquierda y lo identitario
No full textDespués de lo trans. Sexo y género entre la izquierda y lo identitario After the trans, by Elizabeth Duval (2021), is the result of a research inseparable from the personal experience and public profile of the author, who uses its pages to reflect on the concepts of gender, feminism, women, sex or trans. It is a book published by a commercial publisher (La Caja Books) that does not avoid academic rigor, but rejects academic discourse. Written in the first person, in its pages we find traces of cultural criticism and political news, without losing the essential questions: what is it to be trans? And what is the horizon of emancipation of feminism?Después de lo trans. Sexo y género entre la izquierda y lo identitario, de Elizabeth Duval (2021), es el resultado de una investigación inseparable de la experiencia personal y el perfil público de la autora, que aprovecha sus páginas para reflexionar sobre los conceptos de género, feminismo, mujer, sexo o trans. Se trata de un libro publicado por una editorial comercial (La Caja Books) que no elude el rigor académico, pero sí rechaza de base el discurso academicista. Escrito en primera persona, en sus páginas encontramos trazos de crítica cultural y de actualidad política, sin perder las preguntas esenciales: ¿qué es ser trans? y ¿cuál es el horizonte de emancipación del feminismo?Después de lo trans. Sexo y género entre la izquierda y lo identitario de Elizabeth Duval (2021), é o resultado de pesquisas inseparáveis da experiência pessoal e do perfil público da autora, que usa suas páginas para refletir sobre os conceitos de gênero, feminismo, mulher, sexo e trans. Trata-se de um livro publicado por uma editora comercial (La Caja Books) que não foge ao rigor acadêmico, mas rejeita o discurso acadêmico desde o início. Escrito na primeira pessoa, em suas páginas encontramos traços de crítica cultural e notícias políticas, sem perder as questões essenciais: o que é ser trans? E qual é o horizonte de emancipação do feminismo
Actors and Emotion in Performance
No full textUtilising a survey conducted among actors in the USA and UK, this article examines and challenges the historical assumption that textual-based acting in the West is concerned primarily with the [re]creation of emotion. The idea that acting is based on the [re]creation of emotion is supported by a brief exploration of historical notions of acting from ancient Rome to the early twentieth century. Through the use of a questionnaire and interviews, the author uses the words of modern actors along with the writings of their historical counterparts to demonstrate, statistically and anecdotally, that actors do not feel that they are [re]creating emotions but are, in fact, reacting to the given circumstances as the character they are portraying would
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