scholarly journals “Come, Dark-eyed Sleep”: Michael Field and the Performance of the Lyric as a Radical Fantasy

2021 ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Mayron Estefan Cantillo Lucuara
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Michael Field ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Systematic Inquiry

This article seeks to illustrate how the Michael Fields articulate their Sapphic poetry in Long Ago (1889) not only in keeping with their own Shakespearean aspirations and with Robert Browning’s hybrid formula of dramatic lyrics, but also in connection with Jonathan Culler’s theory of the lyric as a performative genre. Much recent scholarship has broken ground in the rediscovery and reappraisal of the Fields’ literary stature, yet the general critical approach has been divisive in addressing their poetry and their verse dramas separately. Some critics have taken heed of how their lyrics in general exhibit an intrinsic dramatic temper, yet no systematic inquiry has discussed how this lyrical dramaticity is manifest in any particular instance. Thus, this article singles out Long Ago’s second poem for its powerful performative energy, offering a close reading of each line, and demonstrating that it amounts to a hybrid dramatic lyric, as well as a tragic and transgressive performance in which a new Sappho takes centre stage as a Dionysian apologist of radical erotic fantasies.

Joyce Anthologized in Post-Ulysses England

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Loukopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Political Weekly ◽  
Literary Circles

“Joyce Anthologized in Post-Ulysses England” dismantles the predominant assumption that Joyce was largely rejected by the British intelligentsia and literary circles of the inter-war period. Drawing on recent scholarship on modernist networks of promotion, the chapter outlines the dissemination of Joyce’s work through anthologies, publisher’s series, bookshops, the BBC and political weeklies. It ends by offering a close reading of Joyce’s piece “From a Banned Writer to a Banned Singer” published in London’s widely read political weekly The New Statesman and Nation in February 1932.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Angela Frattarola
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Sound Perception ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Many ◽  
Geographical Scope ◽  
Century Literature

The introduction begins with a close reading of Rudyard Kipling’s “Wireless” in order to clarify the influence of auditory technology on turn-of-the-century literature. While explaining the geographical scope and limitations of the project, the Introduction situates the modernist shift toward sound perception as one of the many breaks with tradition that characterized the period. It also surveys recent scholarship that begins to consider how the soundscape, auditory technologies, and music of the early twentieth century influenced modernist literature.

Vindicating Yahweh: A Close Reading of Lamentations 3.21-42

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-108
Author(s):  
Mark P. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Voice

Recent scholarship on Lamentations has focused on the voice of Daughter Zion in chs. 1–2. Interpreters argue that the frank protests constitute an antitheodicy and have placed these poems in opposition to the voice of the man in Lamentations 3, specifically 3.21-42. This section utilizes Deuteronomistic and Wisdom material to offer a theodicy, counseling penitent acceptance of God's righteous judgment. This article nuances previous analyses of Lam. 3.21-42, arguing in particular that vv. 33–39 subtly manipulate the expected theodic solution until Yahweh's culpability as oppressive agent is denied rather than justified. It is argued that the poet glimpses a ‘secular’ theodicy. This is accomplished through close exegesis of Lam. 3.21-42, and by utilizing Mikhail Bakhtin's concepts of ‘dialogism’ and ‘double-voicing’.

Negotiating Female Authorship in Eighteenth-Century India: Gender and Multilingualism in a Persian Text

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-466
Author(s):  
ZAHRA SHAH
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractIn the last years of the eighteenth century, an Indian woman authored a work in Persian intended for the entertainment and guidance of students of that language. EntitledMiftāḥ-i Qulūb-i Mubtadiyān(‘The Key of the Hearts of Beginners’), the work comprised of stories from vernacular oral traditions as well as extracts from well-known Persian poetic, historical and ethical works. Although the work was translated into English in 1908 by Annette Beveridge, it has received no serious scholarly attention. Drawing upon recent scholarship offering new ways of thinking about India's multilingual literary past, this article examines the intersection of multiple vernacular and generic traditions as translated and manifested inMiftāḥ-i Qulūb al-Mubtadīyān. While vernacular languages followed different, and in relative terms, more limited routes of circulation and exchange in comparison with cosmopolitan languages such as Persian, their paths of movement were no less significant. Through a close reading of this work and its context, this article seeks to understand how Bībī Ḥashmat al-Daula crafted a distinct, cosmopolitan voice for herself through her deployment of both Persianate and regional Indian traditions.

scholarly journals “Through a glass, darkly”: The metaphor of the lens in public discussions about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Lynn Struch
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Media Criticism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The Media ◽  
Rights Issues

Even before it has opened its doors, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has been a topic of discussion, controversy and debate among scholars and in the media. What human rights issues should be included in the museum and how these should be represented have become fodder for public discussion and media criticism. This paper discusses some of the recent scholarship about ideas-based museums in conjunction with theories of the rhetoric of human rights in order to provide a context for a close reading of the use of the metaphor of the lens in the public debate about the CHMR. The paper suggests that the use of the lens metaphor is part of the “spectacular rhetoric” of human rights that, as argued by Wendy Hesford in Spectacular Rhetorics, “activates certain cultural and national narratives and social and political relations” (9). As such this metaphor is a restricted one that “defines the parameters of the public's engagement with key human rights issues” (Hesford 10). ReferencesHesford, Wendy. Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisims. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. Print. 

scholarly journals Wonder and the Divine. The Eternal Chain in Plutarch’s, De E apud Delphos 384D-385D

Ploutarchos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Laurens Van der Wiel
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
A Chain

The first two introductory chapters of De E apud Delphos are confusing from a chronological point of view. A close reading and detailed analysis, however, reveals that Plutarch hid a chain throughout this part of the text, by means of thematic and verbal connections. This chain highlights that every mystery related to Apollo raises wonder about the god that leads to philosophical discussions. These discussions never result in a full answer, but lead to a new mystery related to the god that will elicit new discussions. This not only shows that recent scholarship is correct in claiming that Ammonius’ lengthy reply at the end of De E is not the eventual solution to the meaning of the E, but also clarifies Sarapion’s precise function as Plutarch’s dedicatee.

Seduction, Aggression, and Frenchness in LA VIE PARISIENNE (1914–1918)

2021 ◽  
pp. 095715582110323
Author(s):  
Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
First World War ◽  
Sexual Consent ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
World War ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

The article retraces how the notion of cultural singularity in sexuality was constructed and weaponized in the most popular French illustrated periodical of the First World War. It argues that La Vie Parisienne’s sublimation of romantic love, sex, and Frenchness worked as a cultural tactic that, while helping the readership cope with a devastating historical disruption, undermined at the same time claims for social change. The close analysis of works by illustrator Chéri Hérouard uncovers how nationalism and anxieties of sexual dispossession contributed to integrate a fraught notion of women’s sexual consent to a broader claim of cultural superiority. This article provides a critical approach to popular and visual representations of heterosexual and non-conjugal norms of desire, seduction, and sexuality in wartime France. It also offers a historical example of how the racialization and nationalisation of gender relations, discussed as ‘Gallic singularity’ in recent scholarship, trivialises masculine aggression and produces the ambivalence long associated with the notion of women’s sexual consent in France.

scholarly journals Sappho, Hegel and Michael Field: Paradox and desire in lyric III

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Mayron Estefan Cantillo-Lucuara
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Michael Field ◽  
Long Cycle ◽  
Unrequited Love ◽  
Dramatic Inquiry ◽  
Katharine Bradley

This article offers a close reading of Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper’s lyric III in Long Ago, a Sapphic volume of verse published in 1889 under the collaborative nom de plume of Michael Field. This collection articulates a dramatic inquiry into the tragedy of unrequited love in a long cycle of lyrics whose third piece most effectively encapsulates the kernel of what the Fields reconstruct as Sappho’s ambivalent eroticism. The outcome of this reconstruction, as analysed in light of lyric III, is a consistent Hegelian view of desire that subsumes a complex system of tropes, myths, paradoxes and imaginative strategies under an overarching ideology of desire as a radical experience of appropriation, violence and self-destruction.

scholarly journals Affirmational canons and transformative literature: Notes on teaching with fandom

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Zygutis
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Fan Practices ◽  
Mainstream Culture ◽  
Authorial Voice ◽  
The Way

Instructors who use fan studies in the classroom are likely to make use of transformative works and theories. The remix classroom offers a way to read against popular interpretations of mainstream texts. In the process, teaching with fandom—not to mention fandom itself—is often presented specifically as a salve to prescriptive readings of texts. Yet fan practices are often imagined by mainstream culture as being uniquely affirmational—a particularly enthusiastic form of close reading that emphasizes and rewards deference to an authorial voice. In this sense, the way media and popular culture understand fandom is as an extension of how students are often taught to read texts: via a formalistic, New Critical approach that centers authoritative criticism. Students who interact with fan texts but do not see themselves as fans feel this way, just as students often fail to recognize themselves as critical readers because expertise has been made into a form of gatekeeping.

scholarly journals ETHIOPIA AND ETHIOPIANISM IN SELECTED HISTORICAL PLAYS BY TSEGAYE GEBREMEDHIN

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Haimanot Wassie ◽  
Animut Getahun
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Research Questions

The main objective of this research was to show the representation of Ethiopia and Ethiopianism in Tsegaye Gebremedhin’s selected historical plays (Tewodros, Petros Yachin Seat and Menelik). The basic research questions focused on how the depiction and representation can be explained and to answer these questions, new historical theoretical and critical approach was used. A purposive sampling method was used to select the sample plays that offer relevant data by using some criteria. The main method of data collection focuses on a close reading of literary and non-literary texts. After reading the plays critically, the major elements of Ethiopianism and historical events are identified, analyzed and interpreted. Accordingly, patriotism, unity, hospitality and freedom and independence were identified as elements of Ethiopianism, and the passion of Abune Petros, Tewodros at Meqdela and the battle of Adwa are identified as major historical events. The analysis mainly shows that these elements of Ethiopianism and historical events are depicted in the plays positively to promote the prevalence of Ethiopianism. The plays used direct, indirect and symbolic way of expression to articulate Ethiopianism. Generally, the plays are written based on the actual historical events which possess the mentioned elements of Ethiopianism and these elements are depicted in a way that advocates the need to develop the sense of Ethiopianism than ethnicity.

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