Visual Culture and Scopic Custom in Jane Eyre and Villette

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Kromm
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Social Constraints ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Gendered Patterns ◽  
Cultural Dynamic

Art making and art viewing activities steeped in assumptions about gender recur throughout Jane Eyre and Villette. This paper will argue that Charlotte Bronte developed these fine arts devices as part of a carefully crafted feminist critique of spectatorship and representation. Bronte pursued this end by demonstrating that incidents relating to the production and reception of visual culture were relevant for visual experience more broadly understood by linking these events in the narrative to “scopic custom”; that is, the art experiences of Bronte's characters are presented as occurring in relation to the customary, gendered patterns of looking and being looked at which dominated Victorian society. This strategic interweaving of visual culture with scopic custom allows Bronte to accentuate their interdependence as a socio-cultural dynamic of critical significance, and to illuminate their share in the cultural and social constraints affecting women as producers and objects of representation.

scholarly journals Postcolonial Resistance of Western Imperialist Ideology: Constructing Identities of Others as Violent Savages

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menia Mohammad Almenia
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
Dominant Society ◽  
Binary Division

This paper examines how hegemonic discourse, or the ideology of a dominant society has essentialized, fixed, and divided identities through the construction of binary division of Western’s ideology as civilized and Others as savages. The development of postcolonial theory will be introduced with special consideration to Said’s (1995) theory of Orientalism and Spivak’s (1988) concept of “silencing the Others.” Sample Western literary texts will show a concerted expression of colonial ideology supporting the concept of binary divisions. These will include The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1990), Robinson Crouse by Daniel Defoe (1899), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2001), and Passage to India by E. M. Foster (1985). In contrast, literary works by minority authors, mainly postcolonialists, will be examined and considered according to how effectively they resist Western imperialist ideology.

scholarly journals Depicting Women Through Transitivity Choices: A Comparative Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-59
Author(s):  
Tazanfal Tehseem ◽  
Humera Iqbal ◽  
Saba Zulfiqar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Nathaniel Hawthorne ◽  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Female Authors

The study aims at depicting how male and female authors portray female characters and how their core ideologies and social influences affect these depictions. This study is based on the feminist stylistic approach, proposed by Sara Mills (1995), embedded with the literary theory of feminism. It is an overlapping field that has its roots in critical discourse analysis. This stance is significant as it allows to critically look at the substance to uncover the ideology related to women. From a feminist stylistic perspective, the notion of presenting the distorted image of the female entity is associated with male authors leading to the point that female authors portray female characters positively as compared to their male counterparts. By employing Halliday’s transitivity framework (2004) in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as an analytic tool, the utterances of the female protagonists from both the novels: The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, have been analysed into the process, participants and circumstances. Social influence, mostly in the form of male domination, on ideologies and linguistic choices in the depiction of women in both the writers’ work has been found on almost equal grounds.

scholarly journals Mind and Hand: Early Scientific Instruments from al-Andalus, and ʿAbbas ibn Firnas in the Cordoban Umayyad Court

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Glaire D. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Scientific Instrumentation ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Early Scientist

Abstract This essay explores the symbiotic relationship between visual culture and the exact sciences that is revealed by the career of ʿAbbas b. Firnas (d. circa 876), as recounted in the Cordoban court chronicle compiled by the historian Ibn Hayyan (d. 1076), and by early scientific instruments from al-Andalus. Ibn Firnas is today remembered as a polymath and early scientist, yet neither historians of art nor of science have fully explored the implications of his reputation among medieval intellectuals as the wellspring of an Andalusi tradition of fine scientific instrumentation. This essay considers the Arabic account of Ibn Firnas as a maker of such objects, alongside early scientific instruments, exploring what these reveal about connections between elite intellectual culture and craft, between science and art making. It argues that considering the objects and texts in tandem reveals that intellectuals, especially those working in the exact sciences, were also “makers” of medieval Islamic visual culture.

Ground Control to Major Tom

2017 ◽  
pp. 264-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron D. Knochel
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Positioning Systems ◽  
Global Positioning ◽  
A Site ◽  
Intensive Course ◽  
The City

In this chapter I explore satellite seeing in the convergence of global visual culture as a human-satellite co-figuration. Satellites, Global Positioning Systems, and mobile devices are engaged as prosthetic extensions of an embodied experience that can augment the potential of place-based learning. I engage this co-figuration through Mirzoeff's (2000/2006) notion of intervisuality and diaspora, the work of contemporary artists Trevor Paglen and Jeremy Wood, and my experiences with graduate students in Helsinki, Finland in an intensive course that developed understandings of the city as a site of geographic and cultural identity while exploring ideas of public space and performative interventionist practices in art making. The relations of the human-satellite co-figuration give insight as to the convergence of the local as a scale of the global, imprinted with transcultural pathways for understanding how we are located in the world.

Ground Control to Major Tom

2021 ◽  
pp. 1053-1066
Author(s):  
Aaron D. Knochel
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Positioning Systems ◽  
Global Positioning ◽  
A Site ◽  
Intensive Course ◽  
The City

In this chapter I explore satellite seeing in the convergence of global visual culture as a human-satellite co-figuration. Satellites, Global Positioning Systems, and mobile devices are engaged as prosthetic extensions of an embodied experience that can augment the potential of place-based learning. I engage this co-figuration through Mirzoeff's (2000/2006) notion of intervisuality and diaspora, the work of contemporary artists Trevor Paglen and Jeremy Wood, and my experiences with graduate students in Helsinki, Finland in an intensive course that developed understandings of the city as a site of geographic and cultural identity while exploring ideas of public space and performative interventionist practices in art making. The relations of the human-satellite co-figuration give insight as to the convergence of the local as a scale of the global, imprinted with transcultural pathways for understanding how we are located in the world.

Análise de adaptações cinematográficas baseadas em obras canônicas da literatura: os casos de Jane Eyre e Madame Bovary

2021 ◽  
pp. 14-28
Author(s):  
Cynthia Beatrice Costa
Keyword(s):  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Madame Bovary

Clássicos da literatura sempre estiveram presentes nas telas. Dois desses clássicos, Jane Eyre (1847), de Charlotte Brontë, e Madame Bovary (1856), de Gustave Flaubert, acumulam, respectivamente, cerca de 30 e de 15 adaptações televisivas e cinematográficas – uma história multimidiática que impacta a renovação constante desses romances em nosso imaginário.

Mansour, Sliman (b.1947, Palestine)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Ann Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Olive Tree ◽  
The Political ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
Orange Tree ◽  
Political Act ◽  
First Intifada ◽  
Village Life ◽  
Palestinian Woman

Born in 1947 in Birzeit, Palestine (north of Ramallah), Sliman Mansour studied fine arts at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. Since the 1970s, his works on paper have contributed to the development of a visual iconography of the Palestinian struggle: the orange tree (symbol of the 1948 Nakba), the olive tree (symbol of the 1967 war), traditional Palestinian embroidery, village life, and the Palestinian woman as the maternal figure of Palestine. In 1987, together with artists Vera Tamari, Tayseer Barakat, and Nabil Anani, Mansour founded New Visions, a collective formed in response to the first intifada (1987–1993). Boycotting art supplies imported from Israel, the artists instead worked with natural materials (coffee, henna, and clay), thereby tying the process of art making to the land and its struggle. In doing so, art no longer merely represented the political. Instead, artistic production itself became a political act. Mansour is known for using mud as a medium. By layering and moulding mud into figural compositions on wooden frameworks, Mansour deploys the literal land to artistically depict Palestine, its history, and its people.

Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë , Jane Jack , Margaret Smith

1971 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-79
Author(s):  
Robert A. Colby
Keyword(s):  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Jane Eyre
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