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Curriculum Vitae: Transsexual Life Writing And The Biofictional Novel, Pamela Caughie Mar 2019

Curriculum Vitae: Transsexual Life Writing And The Biofictional Novel, Pamela Caughie

Pamela Caughie

The complex relation between bio and fiction, life and writing, is central to the project I am currently working on, a comparative scholarly edition of Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex (1933), the life narrative of Lili Elbe, formerly Einar Wegener, the Danish artist who became Lili Elvenes (her legal name) through a series of surgeries in 1930. In chapter six, Andreas Sparre (the fictional name used for Wegener in the narrative) offers to tell his life story to his friends, Niels and Inger, on the night before his first surgery, his last night as …


Mikhail Bakhtin’S Heritage In Literature, Arts, And Psychology. Introduction, Slav N. Gratchev, Howard Mancing Sep 2018

Mikhail Bakhtin’S Heritage In Literature, Arts, And Psychology. Introduction, Slav N. Gratchev, Howard Mancing

Dr. Slav N. Gratchev

This volume celebrates hundred years of Bakhtin’s heritage: in September 13 of 1919 in the literary journal Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) was published the first work of Mikhail Bakhtin, Art and Answerability, the work that became his literary manifesto.

This book aims to examine the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin in a variety of disciplines. To achieve this end, we drew upon colleagues from eight different countries across the world--United States, Canada, Spain, Great Britain, France, Russia, Chile, and Japan--in order to bring the widest variety of points of view on the subject. But we also wanted …


Appropriating The Restoration: Fictional Place And Time In Rose Tremain’S Restoration: A Novel Of Seventeenth-Century England, Judith Bailey Slagle Aug 2017

Appropriating The Restoration: Fictional Place And Time In Rose Tremain’S Restoration: A Novel Of Seventeenth-Century England, Judith Bailey Slagle

Judith Bailey Slagle

Excerpt: It was the sixties—albeit the 1660s—a time for tricksters, rakes, subversive women and sexual energy on the stage. It was a time of fun for those with the means to partake of it. The “good old days” are, of course, always better from a distance, but writers on through the twentieth century found the Restoration an apt setting for their fictions about prostitution, political intrigue, and tragic or comic historical events, especially for the cinema.


The Fictionality Of Topic Modeling: Machine Reading Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire Series, Rachel S. Buurma Nov 2015

The Fictionality Of Topic Modeling: Machine Reading Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire Series, Rachel S. Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

This essay describes how using unsupervised topic modeling (specifically the latent Dirichlet allocation topic modeling algorithm in MALLET) on relatively small corpuses can help scholars of literature circumvent the limitations of some existing theories of the novel. Using an example drawn from work on Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire series, it argues that unsupervised topic modeling's counter-factual and retrospective reconstruction of the topics out of which a given set of novels have been created allows for a denaturalizing and unfamiliar (though crucially not “objective” or “unbiased”) view. In other words, topic models are fictions, and scholars of literature should consider …


Tidying As We Go: Constructing The Eighteenth Century Through Adaptation In Becoming Jane, Gulliver’S Travels, And Crusoe, Karen Gevirtz Dec 2013

Tidying As We Go: Constructing The Eighteenth Century Through Adaptation In Becoming Jane, Gulliver’S Travels, And Crusoe, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

Gevirtz argues that adaptations not only affect the cultural capital of the adapted material and the adaptation, but also affect the cultural construction of historical moments. Analyzing Becoming Jane (2007), Gulliver's Travels (2010), and Crusoe (2008-9), Gevirtz shows how adaptations create a version of history that in turn presents a particular construction of the present moment.


"I Recognized Myself In Her": Identifying With The Reader In George Eliot’S The Mill On The Floss And Simone De Beauvoir’S Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter, Laura Green Sep 2013

"I Recognized Myself In Her": Identifying With The Reader In George Eliot’S The Mill On The Floss And Simone De Beauvoir’S Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter, Laura Green

Laura Green

No abstract provided.


Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz Dec 2010

Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.


(De)Constructing Jane: Converting Austen In Film Responses, Karen Gevirtz Dec 2009

(De)Constructing Jane: Converting Austen In Film Responses, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.


My Worldy Goods Do Thee Endow: Widowhood, Economic Conservatism, And The Mid- And Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Karen Gevirtz Dec 2002

My Worldy Goods Do Thee Endow: Widowhood, Economic Conservatism, And The Mid- And Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.


Institutions Of The English Novel's Canon: Review Of Institutions Of The English Novel By Homer Obed Brown, Karen Gevirtz Dec 1999

Institutions Of The English Novel's Canon: Review Of Institutions Of The English Novel By Homer Obed Brown, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.