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Claudia Alonso Recarte
‘When the animal cannot keep up a good appearance it had better go out of the room’: vivisection and theatricality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
The nineteenth century represents the consolidation of the field of experimental physiology in medical training, first in continental Europe and then in Britain. As vivisection became more widespre...
Introduction: real animals on the stage
This special issue explores the role particularly of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the present time. The contributions deal with visual and textual representations of performing animals, typologies of animals in the theatre, the hybridization of the drama with the circus, the zoo and the cinema, as well as the semiotic transfer of animal roles from the text to the stage. We seek here to focus on the changing historical fortunes of the four-footed actor and explore the ways that attitudes to the animal affect their dramatic representations and uses. In attempting to relate snapshots of acting animals from their earliest manifestation on the early modern stage, we co…
Myths of Primitiveness: A Barthean Interpretation of Rhetorical Devices in Early Jazz Criticism
Ever since jazz began to make an impact in white aesthetic culture in the late 1910s and 1920s, critics, regardless of whether they celebrated or condemned the music, enmeshed their discourse with images of exoticism, noble savageness, and racial brutishness. As Jazz Studies emerged as an academic discipline, scholars have shown increasing interest in exposing these images in order to illustrate the pervading racist sentiment inscribed within white perception of the jazz idiom and also to establish the connections between jazz and the modernist obsession with primitivism. The aim of this paper is to contribute further study to the intricacies of primitivism through a close examination of th…
Animal liberation, American anti-terrorist culture and Denis Hennelly’sBold Native
ABSTRACTSince its birth in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the animal liberation movement has attempted to expose the transnational, global character of speciecism and institutionalised forms of exploitation. Within the American panorama, however, the “war against terror” following 9/11 had such a profound effect on (radical) activism at a legal and legislative level that the movement found itself in the position of having to reassess their focus, leading to theoretical and aesthetic responses to anti-terrorist rhetoric. The aim of this article is (1) to examine the manner by which anti-terrorist rhetoric affected the movement and how the movement appropriated such rhetoric to re…
Crítica Práctica de la Literatura Inglesa: Midterm Exam (35334)
Modelo de examen parcial de la asignatura Crítica Práctica de la Literatura Inglesa del Grado de Estudio Ingleses en el curso 2015-16
Crítica Práctica de la Literatura Inglesa: Final Exam (35334)
Modelo de examen final de la asignatura de Crítica Práctica de la Literatura Inglesa del Grado de Estudios Ingleses, curso 2015-16.
Crítica Práctica de la Literatura Inglesa: Actividad formativa sobre Hamlet de Michael Almereyda (35334)
Modelo de actividad formativa y evaluable para la asignatura Crítica Práctica de la Literatura Inglesa del Grado de Estudios Ingleses.
Crítica Práctica de la Literatura Inglesa: Actividad formativa sobre Hamlet de Franco Zeffirelli (35334)
Modelo de actividad formativa y evaluable de la asignatura Crítica Práctica de la Literatura Inglesa del Grado de Estudios Ingleses.
Crítica Práctica de la Literatura Inglesa: an essay on Frankenstein (35334)
Modelo de instrucciones y temas de ensayo crítico para la asignatura de Crítica Práctica de la Literatura Inglesa del Grado de Estudios Ingleses en el curso 2015-16.