Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2021.13.0007
Tomáš Kačer
The article deals with the early development of the ‘stage Indian’ as a character in early American drama and theatre. It studies ‘stage Indian’ characters, which reflect historical theatrical conventions rather than being historically accurate representations. It explores early plays depicting Native Americans as the ‘exotic other’. It considers plays involving the myth of the noble savage on the one hand and some parodying of this myth on the other. Finally, it describes various performances involving Native American performers in the United States in the 1890s. These examples show the diversity of the ‘stage Indian’ as a literary and performative construct.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2021.13.0008
Rupendra Guha Majumdar
In his screenplay/film Silent Tongue (1992), Sam Shepard appears to synthesize the elements of multiple genres from the modern literary repertoire of his American and European precursors (Poe, O’Neill, Williams, Beckett), including facets of expressionism, magic realism, surrealism, the gothic, science fiction, the absurd, etc. And yet, it also appears that his work does not exactly belong to “any literary or theatrical tradition at all” but emerges from the subversion of “all such traditions” in America (Gilman, Sam Shepard xiii), thus paradoxically endorsing an original form of drama that reflects the complexity of his generation in the Vietnam era and after.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2021.13.0011
Tomáš Jajtner
The present article investigates the notion of economy (of nature) in Thoreau’s Walden or Life in the Woods (1854); it introduces the context of coining the concept of economy of nature, presents the challenges of exploring nature in Romantic thought, and finally deals with Thoreau’s concept of “economy” as discussed in the first chapter of his opus magnum. Despite its historical grounding in the Romantic tradition and in the tradition of American Transcendentalism, Thoreau’s idea of “economy” represents a remarkably fresh version of a sustainable lifestyle, combining scientific observation with profound philosophical and poetic insights.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2021.13.0010
Orsolya K. Albert
The study presents a close analysis of the immersive yet disorienting textual space of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in order to explore its sublime aesthetics. As a piece of portal fantasy, the work enables readers to enter into the transcendent sphere of uncontrolled imagination via the adventures of the prophetic Dream Child, eliciting what David Sandner has defined as both a reformulation and an extension of the Romantic sublime: the fantastic sublime. A more favourable attitude towards the elusiveness of meaning in the text lies in Barbara Claire Freeman’s feminine sublime, which prefers the excessive and unrepresentable to exclusion and control.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2021.13.0012
Alice Tihelková, Veronika Quinn Novotná
Since the 1920s, British Conservatives pursued the concept of property‑owning democracy, with home ownership viewed as a guarantor of social stability and personal autonomy. However, recent increases in housing costs have made the “British Dream” of home‑ownership more elusive than ever, with renting becoming a lifelong prospect for large swathes of people. Using the Discourse Historical Approach, a method falling within Critical Discourse Analysis, the article analyzes the 2019 housing speech by Prime Minister Theresa May to ascertain whether the changing situation has been reflected in the Conservatives’ housing rhetoric, traditionally driven by a property‑owning ethos. Examining May’s argumentation and language use, it concludes that May’s proclaimed commitment to renewed council house construction represents both a long‑overdue acknowledgement of the housing affordability crisis and a pre‑election strategy to win Labour voters.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2021.13.0009
Filip Krajník
This study addresses the presentation and interpretation of Shylock’s dream “of money‑bags” in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596–1598) and George Granville’s The Jew of Venice (1701). The text argues that, although verbally very similar, the two episodes should be considered within their respective dramaturgical traditions (the Elizabethan and the Restoration), as well as within the different genres into which each play falls. While Granville’s rendition of the dream episode seems merely to contribute to the stereotypical image of a greedy Jew, Shakespeare’s version draws on the conventional employment of dream prophecies in Renaissance tragedies and contributes not only to the unity of the play’s plot, but also adds to the complexity and the tragic overtones of his Shylock.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2020.12.0010
Alessandra Ficarra
[Abstract] Museums possess, represent and interpret others’ culture, raising important questions on ownership and the authority of their conduct. The act of translating cultures is one of the prime modes through which history is rewritten and knowledge is constructed: through a selected representation of a given culture – its translation, indeed – museums give their version of the past, commemorating what is chosen to be commemorated. Museums construct and propose spaces of meanings in which other cultures and their stories are intelligible to visitors. However, it is time to capsize the interpretative perspective, and let the narrated become the narrator.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2020.12.0007
Silvia Chiarle
[Abstract] Darlington Hall epitomises a political arena that corresponds to what John Ruskin describes as the male public sphere. The main actors in this sphere are Lord Darlington and Stevens, who both regard their activities as a form of service to humanity. Nevertheless, if we analyse Stevens’s behaviour not only in the light of Freud’s theories about idealisation and love as explained in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego and On Narcissism: An Introduction, but also through the cultural and custom sources that deal with the condition of menservants and wives in the Victorian age, it would appear that Stevens’s social sex role conforms more to Ruskin’s concept of the feminine. Stevens and Darlington would form a virtual couple, where the former has the role of the wife and the latter that of the husband.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2021.13.0006
M. Černý
The paper presents a bibliography of the publications of Professor Stanislav Jindřich Kavka (1946 2015), a renowned Czech Anglicist and comparative linguist. The bibliography was compiled on the occasion of what would have been the year of his 75th birthday. It is meant to serve as a modest contribution to the history of English studies in Central Europe.
本文介绍了捷克著名英语语言学家、比较语言学家Stanislav Jindřich Kavka教授(1946 - 2015)的著作参考书目。参考书目是在他75岁生日之际编纂的。它的目的是为中欧英语研究的历史做出微薄的贡献。
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.15452/ojoep.2021.13.0005
D. Livingstone
This essay examines the literary output of Marcela Sulak, a Texas‑born Czech poet and academic now living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel. There is a focus not only on her recently published memoir, but on her poetry and her translations of two Czech classics (Mácha and Erben) into English. The primary interest of the essay is in exploring her search for identity, not only geographically, but also spiritually. Increased attention is paid to those aspects of her life and work connected with the Czech nation, history, culture and language.
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