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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Prospección, Retrospección, Retroproyección, Retroalimentación in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 4 years agoSpanish abstract: La cibernética, la neurología, la semiótica y la narratología han de emprender conjuntamente el estudio interdisciplinar de la consciencia entendida como la circulación retroalimentativa compleja entre distintos sistemas y circuitos cerebrales—así como entre distintas modalidades de representación en el cerebro. Se entender…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Clarissa la crítica, y su ética del buen gusto: Una narración autoengendrada in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 4 years agoSpanish abstract: Comentamos aquí sobre la integración de algunos aspectos éticos, estéticos, psicológicos y narrativos en la novela epistolar ´Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady´ de Samuel Richardson (1747-48), en concreto la encarnación de un ideal ético-estético en el personaje de Clarissa, y la elección consciente de una técnica na…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Explicitando al autor implícito in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoSpanish abstract: El concepto de ‘autor implícito’ (implied author) lo difundió Wayne Booth en ‘La Retórica de la Ficción’ (1961) pero, como veremos, algo apuntaron al respecto con anterioridad otros autores. Aquí señalamos más en concreto el precedente de Hegel. ______…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited DARE in the group
History of Illustration and Illustration Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoDARE * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-ND
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Baring the Device of Reality: A Note on Unamuno’s Metafiction in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoA note on the existential significance of Miguel de Unamuno’s metafiction. His novels question the ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ which is the bedrock of workaday human reality. (A retropost from 2011).
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Pruritus Migrans deposited Vae terrae et mari! in the group
History of Illustration and Illustration Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoVae terrae et mari! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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