Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1353/chl.2023.a898413
H. Brewster
presentation of Anne as different from other mother-figures common in children’s literature (318); other articles—by comparing Valancy to other Montgomery or fairytale heroines, for instance—address children’s literature even when talking about adult books. Because of its consideration of readerships and the diverse approaches taken to the study of gender, this collection contains many thought-provoking essays that will be useful to scholars and students of Montgomery’s works and of children’s literature.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1353/chl.2023.a898396
C. Tarr
Abstract:J. M. Barrie's Neverland functions as a fantasy space of alternative energy that defies the laws of thermodynamics. Barrie, whose interest in science remains underrepresented, studied under the eminent physicist Peter Guthrie Tait. In Peter and Wendy (1911), the mysterious forces in Neverland amass and reuse reality's waste, ultimately demonstrating the cyclical immortality of stories.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1353/chl.2023.a898402
M. Sasser
Abstract:Donald Trump has overlapped with children's culture since the early 1990s, yet since his presidency, his appearance has become ubiquitous in children's literature. To survey Trump's controversial presence throughout such literature is to witness the ways contemporary publishers grapple with American presidential history, indoctrination, politics, and even supply and demand.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.3390/literature3020017
María del Mar López-Cabrales, Inmaculada Rodríguez-Cunill
In this essay, we intend to demonstrate how the cities of Havana and Cádiz became mutable literary subjects that accompany the female characters of the narratives of female writers of the past decades from Havana (Anna Lidia Vega Serova, Ena Lucía Portela, and Mylene Fernández Pintado) and Cádiz (Ana Rossetti and Pilar Paz Pasamar). The ironic and delusional visions of a ruined life due to the special period, economic crisis, and political xenophobia in Cádiz will be illustrated by Cuban-Spanish mapping of the analyzed authors’ works. Our hypothesis stems from the idea that there is a clear relation between the representation of the city and political, cultural, and patriarchal transgression that is quoted in these texts (Bataille), which relates to the experience of scarcity/poverty lived on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Our bibliographic search has focused on the literary expression of the experience of these cities from the point of view of female writers and protagonists. We concluded with a universal understanding of the experience of the space marked by literature and the gaze of women.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.3390/literature3020016
M. Martinat
This article presents some recent trends in French historiography that concern the relationship between history and literature. Among the recent developments are “experiments” carried out by a few historians, which are characterized by an explicit determination to focus on narrative, along with a willingness to share one’s own historical subjectivity. By going through some of the examples from this approach, this article highlights how these literary reflexes make important contributions. However, it also points out the weakness of this proposed method of making history on epistemological grounds. That is, it abandons the form of historical writing that requires distance and an appreciation that history’s vocation is to propose solid but uncertain propositions (to paraphrase Zemon Davis). By insisting on emotional and sensitive understanding, the knowledge gained from these experiments only questions the scientific aspects of history and history itself. This recent trend is not exactly new, as it evidently links up with some of the consequences generated by the linguistic turn.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.3390/literature3020015
A. Zuliani
This article investigates the representation of objects in La Jalousie (1957), a novel in the nouveau roman tradition written by French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet. If the ‘new novel’ sought to render the material world with objective clarity, and positioned itself against traditional fiction, with its reliance on metaphor, allegory, and other ‘projections,’ this article argues that such an aesthetic program is undercut by its own assumptions about the power of description and the primacy of the visual. In an analysis which hybridizes three separate strands of criticism—object-oriented ontology, Heideggerian phenomenology, and the models of ‘resonation’ proposed by Brian Massumi—I will argue that such a treatment of objects, with its exclusive reliance on visual description, measurement, and enumeration, ends up depriving objects of the vitality and dynamism that would justify such a fictional project in the first place. However, traces of this dynamism do survive the flattening sweep of Robbe-Grillet’s narration, and indeed offer from the cracks and fissures of the novel’s otherwise smoothly controlled style the possibility of an alternate ‘object-orientation’—one, I will argue, which suspends its cool optical detachment to allow, however briefly, the eruption of a messy, entangling register of touch.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-08DOI: 10.3390/literature3020014
L. Cortesi
The impact of WWI on Russian society was immediately disruptive. This effect affected every sphere of social and cultural environs. Although previous research has established that WWI was a major topic of the cultural discourse of that time, the way in which WWI literature, and in particular consumer literature, contributed to the representation of war among the mass population deserves further research. By drawing a parallel with the phenomenon of the American dime novel, this study is grounded on the analysis of the style, content, structure, and even of the ‘mere’ appearance of some 1914–1916 ‘mass’ publications aimed at the broader public. The goal of this article, therefore, is to stimulate a consistent re-evaluation of this strand of ‘consumer’ war literature and to focus on its importance as a culturological tool to have a better understanding of the cultural environment of that time.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-23DOI: 10.3390/literature3020012
Betsabé Navarro
Some claim there is a lack of attention to black studies in current literary and academic fields in Spain. Even though there is an emerging wave of Afro-Spanish writers in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, many of them denounce the struggle they experienced to see their stories published and state that Afro-Spanish literature is absent from Spanish universities’ curricula. Among the recent black voices that have achieved recognition in Spain is journalist and writer Lucía Mbomío, who condemns, in her debut novel Hija del camino (2019), the traumatic experiences that black women undergo with racism and sexism in Spain. With the aim of giving representation to the literature of Afro-Spanish women writers, the present article analyzes Mbomío’s novel from the perspective of black studies, black feminism, and cultural studies.
一些人声称，在西班牙当前的文学和学术领域，对黑人研究缺乏关注。尽管在21世纪的前25年出现了一股西班牙裔黑人作家的浪潮，但他们中的许多人谴责他们为看到自己的故事出版而经历的斗争，并指出西班牙大学的课程中没有西班牙裔黑人文学。最近，在西班牙获得认可的黑人声音中，记者兼作家Lucía Mbomío在她的处女作小说《Hija del camino》(2019年)中谴责了黑人女性在西班牙遭受种族主义和性别歧视的创伤经历。本文从黑人研究、黑人女性主义和文化研究的角度对Mbomío的小说进行了分析，以期对西班牙黑人女作家的文学作品进行再现。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-23DOI: 10.3390/literature3020013
Laura Miguélez-Cavero
A systematic socio-cultural study of the uses of Christian poetry in the late antique Greek-speaking Mediterranean is still lacking. Most literary overviews restrict themselves to an overview of the extant texts and some programmatic reflections in the poetry by Gregory of Nazianzus. This paper seeks to address this matter by a combined reading of the best-known poetic forms (including the programmatic reflections by Gregory) and the poems copied in the Codex Visionum (now in the Bodmer Collection). Since the edition of the latter was completed in 1999, they have often featured in studies on the origin of monasticism and are well known in papyrological circles, but have received insufficient attention from literature and cultural historians.
对古代晚期讲希腊语的地中海地区基督教诗歌使用的系统的社会文化研究仍然缺乏。大多数文学概述都局限于对现存文本的概述和格列高利(Gregory of Nazianzus)诗歌中的一些纲领性反思。本文试图通过结合阅读最著名的诗歌形式(包括格里高利的纲论性反思)和《视觉抄本》(现收录于博德默文集)中的诗歌来解决这个问题。自1999年完成后，它们经常出现在关于修道起源的研究中，并在纸莎草学界享有盛名，但却没有得到文学和文化史家的足够重视。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.3390/literature3010011
Andrew Campana
In this article, I explore a set of poetic works from early 20th-century Japan that took cinema—films, movie theaters, screenings, sets, and a variety of cinematic technologies—as their main subject. An enormous range of poets, including some of modern Japanese poetry’s most canonical figures, took a diverse set of approaches to the subject matter, but all were less interested in portraying films themselves, and more in how poetry could use “cinema” and the “cinematic” to grapple with questions of memory, media, ecology, the body, and social change. Looking at these works—most of which appear here in English for the first time—we can find a new archive of early cinematic thought and sensation not bound to the screen.
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