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Blind Advocacy: Blind Readers, Disability Theory, And Accessing John Gower, Jonathan Hsy
Blind Advocacy: Blind Readers, Disability Theory, And Accessing John Gower, Jonathan Hsy
Accessus
Toward the end of his life, medieval poet John Gower (d. 1408) composed Latin poetry about his own progressive blindness, and later nineteenth-century Blind readers appropriated Gower’s work as part of a platform to advocate for changed perceptions and opportunities for the blind and other people with disabilities. In this essay, I approach nineteenth-century narrative compilations of blind lives (which include Gower’s) as transformative acts of literary historiography. These compilers not only appropriate the medieval blind poet to advance their own social and political ends, but they also create a new disability-centered approach to the entire Western artistic tradition. I …
Introduction, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
Introduction, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
Accessus
This Introduction by co-editors Georgiana Donavin and Eve Salisbury celebrates the publication of the first issue of Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media, a biannual publication of The Gower Project. The Introduction provides a short history of The Gower Project and explains the scope of Accessus: an e-journal dedicated to articles composed in electronic formats on Western European literature written before 1660. This first issue is dedicated to scholarship on the fourteenth-century English poet John Gower, who inspired the Project and this journal. For a decade The Gower Project has supported exciting new interpretations of …
‘There’S A Lot More To Ogres Than People Think’: Shrek As Ethical Fairy Tale, Eugene O'Brien
‘There’S A Lot More To Ogres Than People Think’: Shrek As Ethical Fairy Tale, Eugene O'Brien
Journal of Franco-Irish Studies
No abstract provided.
Science Fiction And The Myth Of Trajectory Evolution, Jocelyn D. Pickreign
Science Fiction And The Myth Of Trajectory Evolution, Jocelyn D. Pickreign
The Macalester Review
Stephen Jay Gould first proposed the idea of “iconographies of progress.” Today, one of the most prominent forms of progress iconography is the science fiction story. Science fiction as a genre frequently portrays evolution as a linear trajectory of increasing complexity, and in doing so, furthers a worldview that is not unlike the pre-Darwin understanding of human beings as both the center and the pinnacle of the natural world.
Dracula's Colonized Tongue Speaks Through Fanged Teeth, Creighton Nicholas Brown
Dracula's Colonized Tongue Speaks Through Fanged Teeth, Creighton Nicholas Brown
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Triangulated Desire In Meyer's Twilight: A Queer Dynamic, Jami Mcfarland
Triangulated Desire In Meyer's Twilight: A Queer Dynamic, Jami Mcfarland
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
A Very Victorian Feast: Food And The Importance Of Consumption In Modern Adaptations Of Dracula, S. Brooke Cameron, Suyin Olguin
A Very Victorian Feast: Food And The Importance Of Consumption In Modern Adaptations Of Dracula, S. Brooke Cameron, Suyin Olguin
Journal of Dracula Studies
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