Early Twentieth-Century Fashion Designer Life Writing,
2011
University of British Columbia
Early Twentieth-Century Fashion Designer Life Writing, Ilya Parkins
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Early Twentieth-century Fashion Designer Life Writing," Ilya Parkins examines memoirs of major modernist fashion designers in the, finding that the genre is characterized by a strong geographic cleavage between France and America, overlain by perceptions of epistemic difference. She compares Elsa Schiaparelli's and Paul Poiret's work, finding that despite their differences, the opposition between France as a locale of abstract knowledge and America as a site of empiricism allows them to claim, as French designers, a certain privilege in a profession characterized by an unresolvable tension between art and commerce. The encroachment of American industrial models in …
Comparativism And Cyberculture: A Review Article Of New Books By Płaszczewska And Zawojski,
2011
Jagiellonian University
Comparativism And Cyberculture: A Review Article Of New Books By Płaszczewska And Zawojski, Michał Ostrowicki
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Science Fiction And A Rhetorical Analysis Of The 'Literature Myth',
2011
Ghent University
Science Fiction And A Rhetorical Analysis Of The 'Literature Myth', Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert, Geert Vandermeersche
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In their article "Science Fiction and a Rhetorical Analysis of the 'Literature Myth'" Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert, and Geert Vandermeersche discuss what we can learn from science fiction about cultural literacy in general and literary culture in particular. From a theoretical and methodological perspective the authors start from the work of rhetorician Kenneth Burke. First, the authors conceptualize literature as "equipment for living" followed by a discussion of science fiction as "equipment for living" based on a description of the genre as "satire by entelechy." Second, they analyze a selection of science fiction narratives using the "dramatistic pentad" as …
Translating Enlightenment: A Review Article Of New Books By Stockhorst, Vidal Claramonte, And Tortosa,
2011
University of Valencia
Translating Enlightenment: A Review Article Of New Books By Stockhorst, Vidal Claramonte, And Tortosa, Mónica Bolufer
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Echoes Of Sophocles's Antigone In Auster's Invisible,
2011
University of Hong Kong
Echoes Of Sophocles's Antigone In Auster's Invisible, Kathleen Waller
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Echoes of Sophocles's Antigone in Auster's Invisible" Kathleen Waller discusses Paul Auster's Invisible, a novel that explores Deleuze's and Guattari's ontological idea of becoming in a virtual world versus merely living in the actual, physical world. Sexual and immortal desires in the protagonist's virtual world show a near achieved nothingness, or "a space which is unlimited" and filled with the being's energy, and a being who is becoming, a "univocal being" as a "free spirit" of energy. However, because these desires are only realized through a repression, Auster asks us not to go as far …
Review Of Ernesto Cardenal’S Pluriverse: New And Selected Poems (Edited By Jonathan Cohen),
2011
San Jose State University
Review Of Ernesto Cardenal’S Pluriverse: New And Selected Poems (Edited By Jonathan Cohen), Anne Fountain
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Much Ado And Pride And Prejudice: Twin Characters And Parallel Plots,
2011
Dixie State College
Much Ado And Pride And Prejudice: Twin Characters And Parallel Plots, Ace G. Pilkington
Quidditas
Much Ado About Nothing and Pride and Prejudice are telling a similar story which centers on Beatrice and Benedick in the first case and Darcy and Elizabeth in the second. The article also argues that Jane Austen had Much Ado in mind while writing Pride and Prejudice, but this second proposition is not readily provable (as such borrowings often are) by direct quotation and comparison. Jane Austen’s familiarity with Shakespeare and the similarity of her plot suggest the truth of this second proposition, but more important for this paper are the comparisons between the narratives themselves since they tell important …
Women & Language: Essays On Gendered Communication Across Media,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Women & Language: Essays On Gendered Communication Across Media, Melissa R. Ames
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
The present volume of essays examines women's communication as it has evolved historically across multiple mediums. Part I explores how women became "gossip girls" and the important role of gossip in the perception and practice of female communication. Essays in Part II cover the convergence of oral and written communication in women's literature. Gendered performance in such arenas as salsa dance, Dr. Phil and the Internet is examined in Part III, and essays in Part IV discuss women's communication in the technology-rich 21st century. This excerpt features the introduction and one essay from the co-editor.
Women & Language: Essays On Gendered Communication Across Media,
2011
Eastern Illinois University
Women & Language: Essays On Gendered Communication Across Media, Melissa R. Ames
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
The present volume of essays examines women's communication as it has evolved historically across multiple mediums. Part I explores how women became "gossip girls" and the important role of gossip in the perception and practice of female communication. Essays in Part II cover the convergence of oral and written communication in women's literature. Gendered performance in such arenas as salsa dance, Dr. Phil and the Internet is examined in Part III, and essays in Part IV discuss women's communication in the technology-rich 21st century. This excerpt features the introduction and one essay from the co-editor.
Survivor Song: The Voice Of Trauma And Its Echoes,
2011
University of Denver
Survivor Song: The Voice Of Trauma And Its Echoes, Jennifer Rinaldi
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
For societies and cultures that experience mass torture and trauma, giving voice to the story of what happened is significant for both the specific individuals who have survived or witnessed the trauma, and the culture that is forced to process it and incorporate the experience into its collective identity. Testimonial literature that resulted from the detention and torture of desaparecidos under the military dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s and 80s, and the genocide of the Armenian people in 1915, reveals many different approaches in the ways that people write about torture and trauma. In attempting to find a voice …
Full Issue,
2011
Brigham Young University
Money For Nothing: Molière’S Miser And The Risky World Of Early Modern France,
2011
Brigham Young University
Money For Nothing: Molière’S Miser And The Risky World Of Early Modern France, Michael Call
Quidditas
Molière’s 1668 comedy L’Avare, or The Miser, takes place during a significant shift in the way that early modern Europeans thought about chance and risk. Staged at the same historical moment that Pascal, Huygens, and Leibnitz were developing the first foundations of probability mathematics, L’Avare conjures up an atmosphere of uncertainty, setting in opposition risk-takers and the risk-averse. As the characters encounter and debate the concepts of usury, life expectancy, gambling, and the risks of maritime travel, they grapple palpably with the consequences of an uncertain world in which Divine Providence can no longer be assumed—a new world …
“Mutual Comfort”: Courtly Love And Companionate Marriage In The Poetry Of Sir Philip Sidney And Edmund Spenser,
2011
University of Minnesota
“Mutual Comfort”: Courtly Love And Companionate Marriage In The Poetry Of Sir Philip Sidney And Edmund Spenser, Amanda Taylor
Quidditas
The interaction between courtly love poetry and the development of companionate marriage has received little critical attention. Rather, critics of courtly love poetry focus on authorial ambition and self-presentation. This paper explores how the revision of the courtly love genre in the poetry of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser participated within the societal transformation toward companionate marriage. The individualized female characters in their poetry shatter courtly stereotypes, but the relationship options presented either fragment the sequence, as in Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella, or enable it to drive forward to completion, as in Spenser’s Amoretti and Epithalamion. I …
Love And Marriage On The Medieval English Stage: Using The English Cycle Plays As Sources For Social History,
2011
Bowling Green State University, Emeritus
Love And Marriage On The Medieval English Stage: Using The English Cycle Plays As Sources For Social History, James H. Forse
Quidditas
Much scholarship concerning the concept of “companionate” marriage traces its origins to the early modern period as clergymen, especially Protestant ones, began to publish “guides” to the relationships and respective duties of husbands and wives in the 1500s and 1600s. Studies of marriage in the Middle ages concentrate on marriage among the nobility, since there is more documentary evidence about the medieval elites. Examinations of sermons reveal that the Church, especially after the twelfth century, stressed the sanctity of marriage as an institution created by God and blessed by Christ at the marriage at Cana, but sermons say little about …
A Tale Of Two Shakespeares: Staging Shakespeare At Conservative Christian Colleges,
2011
Lee University
A Tale Of Two Shakespeares: Staging Shakespeare At Conservative Christian Colleges, Christine Sustek Williams
Quidditas
American Theatre publishes an annual list of the top ten plays in production in regional theatres each year and simply removes all Shakespeares from consideration. Otherwise the top ten list would simply be the top ten Bard List. However, when it comes to attempting Shakespeare on the college stage, I argue that many theatre teachers in higher education think twice, or even thrice, before brushing off the old complete works. Most students are quite intimidated when they reach for Shakespeare, having been told for many years that his work is hard to read and harder to understand. Add to that …
Review Of Victorian Biography,
2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Review Of Victorian Biography
The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375
No abstract provided.
Front Matter,
2011
Brigham Young University
Writing And Rewriting Early Modern History: Five Sixteenth-Century English Chroniclers,
2011
Kent State University, Emeritus
Writing And Rewriting Early Modern History: Five Sixteenth-Century English Chroniclers, Barrett L. Beer, Andrea Manchester
Quidditas
In the field of early modern historical writing, sixteenth-century English chronicles have been regarded as an outdated medieval form, and they and their authors have suffered in comparison with later works influenced by Renaissance humanism. Yet in the Tudor period, chronicles, especially the smaller, abridged versions, enjoyed a substantial readership and were reprinted multiple times—very often with revisions. The nature of and motivation behind these revisions reveal much about the varying personal priorities and backgrounds of the chroniclers as well as the readership for which they were writing. This study focuses on five sixteenth-century chroniclers, Thomas Cooper, Robert Crowley, Richard …
Re-Envisioning Reproduction: Dividing Life From Death In Charles Etienne’S De La Dissection,
2011
Harvard University
Re-Envisioning Reproduction: Dividing Life From Death In Charles Etienne’S De La Dissection, Miranda Mollendorf
Quidditas
Charles Estienne’s De la Dissection des parties du corps humain (1546) presents the uterus not only as a site of generation and life, but also putrefaction and death. Estienne first writes about the uterus as a surgical site where life and death converge and must be separated, and then as an anatomical site where pain and pleasure are divided because of Galenic theories about the uterus that involve generation and corruption. In spite of frequent attempts to visually quarantine the uterus from the rest of the body with a printed inset, these surgical and anatomical separations between life and death …
A Poet's Request : Text And Subtext In Horace's Odes 1.1,
2011
Marshall University
A Poet's Request : Text And Subtext In Horace's Odes 1.1, Virginia C. Cook
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
As the first poem within Horace's original publication of Odes, Odes 1.1 embodies aspects of theme and style representative of the poet's approach to the genre of lyric poetry. The Odes of Horace allow various interpretations by the reader based on construction, vocabulary and imagery. This thesis explores Odes 1.1 in its entirety through such approaches and focuses on the text and subtext incorporated by the poet. The first chapter sets the foundation needed in order to begin a study of Horace's lyric poetry, detailing the genre as a whole, the life of the poet, as well as the contradiction …
