Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.3390/literature3030020
R. Franchi
This paper traces the complex relationship between classical literature and Christian doctrine in the first four centuries. In the earliest period of Christianity, we can identify two attitudes of Christians towards Greek literature: the hostile attitude shown by Tatian, Theophilus, and Tertullian, and the openness to Greek culture and philosophy demonstrated by Justin the Martyr, Athenagoras of Athens, and Minucius Felix. A notable change happened in the Alexandrian milieu when Clement of Alexandria and Origen started considering Greek classics the embodiment of an authentic Christian spirit. In keeping with Origen, Basil of Caesarea realized a good synthesis between Greek thought and Christian faith. Noting germs of divine revelation in ancient Greek thought, Christian authors took the tools of Greco-Roman criticism and ancient philosophy to develop their doctrine.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-25DOI: 10.3390/literature3030019
Jason M. Beckman
Within literary criticism, the second-person narrative is frequently read within the conventions of the modern realistic novel, tackling the narratee/protagonist as a narratological problem. Such an approach, however, overlooks a core component of what second-person fiction aims to do: that is, draw the reader into the narrative and experience the world of the text firsthand. Seeking instead to theorize the ways in which second-person narratives involve the reader in the text and invite the act of perspective-taking, I turn to virtual reality, which is deeply invested in the cognitive mechanisms through which a sense of presence is produced and in questions of how the mediated experience of virtual reality can influence human thought and behavior. Examining Kurahashi Yumiko’s Kurai Tabi (1961), one of the earliest examples of the literary form in Japanese literature, I consider how the reader can experience presence during moments in the text, and how the text drives the reader’s identification with the “you” who is the target of the narration. Analyzing the second-person narrative as a virtuality provides a new avenue for understanding the reader’s cognitive engagement and experience of second-person fiction.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.3390/literature3020018
Samir Dayal
My essay explores challenges posed to the discourse of rights from new technologies of the human as these are represented in a range of cultural texts—Spike Jonze’s film her, Marie Kondo’s The Magic of Tidying Up, Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. These works share a concern with the implications of a relationship, a shared or co-produced world, in which both humans and nonhumans have agency. I conclude by revisiting the bifurcated discourses of antihumanism, especially through a brief consideration of an Afropessimist critique of the category of “Man”, to ask: What status, affordances, and rights, should be extended to nonhumans: robots, anthropomorphized commodities, humanoids, AIs, or human adjacents, or to those excluded or abjected from the category of “the fully human”?
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1353/chl.2023.a898400
K. Hansen
Abstract:J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2008) uses paratext to align Harry Potter's Wizarding world with the extradiegtetic readers' world. Doing so may aim at extending the novels' theme of connection, but it complicates that theme by emphasizing readers' status as marginalized from the magical realm.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1353/chl.2023.a898397
C. Flower
Abstract:This article focuses upon toy soldiers and masculinity. I examine H.G. Wells's fascination with these toys in his war-gaming manuals, as well as Robert Louis Stevenson's toy soldier poems. I focus on the toy's complicity in a broad cultural fantasy of masculine embodiment that denies both corporeal pain and maturation.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1353/chl.2023.a898412
A. Howey
porary Reviews (2004), or both. Eiselein also refers to Clark’s Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children’s Literature in America (2003), her important articulation of children’s books such as Little Women being moved to the margins of literary culture; and Phillips and Doyle cite several essays in Clark’s co-edited collection, with Janice M. Alberghene, “Little Women” and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays (1999). In his acknowledgments Shealy links these extraordinary teachers, scholars, and friends to Amy March’s desire to be “‘great, or nothing.” “Beverly Lyon Clark and Joel Myerson,” Shealy concludes, “were ‘great’” (x). Little Women at 150 is a rich, mature volume that rounds out at least thirty years of Alcott criticism and children’s literature scholarship. It could usefully supplement an Alcott seminar at the graduate level, offer rich and accessible essays for undergraduate teaching, fuel further Alcott research, and enrich teaching and scholarship in not only children’s literature but cultural studies, gender studies, history, American and transatlantic studies, and book history. It’s also a volume simply to read for pleasure and enjoy.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496815163.001.0001
Brianna Anderson
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1353/chl.2023.a898398
Julia L. Mickenberg
Abstract:Through the picturebook Mommies at Work, this essay explores the hidden history of non-sexist children's literature, which seemed to grow out of Women's Liberation in the 1970s. Originally written in 1955 but popularized in the 1970s, Mommies grew out of author Eve Merriam's "left feminism" and her involvement with Communism.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1353/chl.2023.a898399
Barbara Tannert-Smith
Abstract:Meg Rosoff's 2004 novel, How I Live Now, demands a different theorization of the entanglement of the human and the nonhuman, of the female adolescent body and landscape, of text and intertext. Specifically, a reading able to engage questions of trauma, recovery and the environmental uncanny.
摘要:梅格·罗索夫(Meg Rosoff) 2004年出版的小说《我现在的生活》(How I Live Now)要求对人类与非人类、女性青少年的身体与景观、文本与互文的纠缠进行一种不同的理论化。具体来说，是一种能够涉及创伤、恢复和环境神秘等问题的阅读。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1353/chl.2023.a898401
K. Mikkonen
Abstract:Hybrid works between picturebooks and comics have the potential to destabilize assumptions about reading conventions and expectations that are common to these artforms. In particular, hybridity can make evident the recursive reading strategies that are imperative to make sense of connections between visual and verbal elements, and their combined forms.
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