De palabras y cuerpos silenciados: representaciones de Eco en la poesía de Marlene Nourbese Philip

El mito de Eco y la escisión del sujeto. Representaciones del silencio en Echo's Bones de Samuel Beckett

La Phaedra de Swinburne (1866): construcciones de la feminidad en la literatura victoriana

En este trabajo estudiamos el poema "Phaedra" de Algernon Charles Swinburne desde la utilización de la mujer como objeto de transformación de la construcción de la cultura y la sociedad británicas del siglo XIX. Para ello, en primer lugar, nos aproximamos de forma sucinta a dos aspectos fundamentales de la creación social de lo femenino y su manifestación en las artes: la (no) representación del cuerpo/palabra de la mujer y el reflejo de la misma en la construcción femenina decimonónica. A continuación, exploramos brevemente algunas de las figuras femeninas desde las que Swinburne transgrede el modelo de mujer dibujado en los manuales de conducta femenina victorianos para analizar, finalmen…

Classical Myths on the Victorian Popular Stage: the Figure of Cassandra

The scope of the present thesis is to unveil the cultural processes behind the reception of the Cassandra myth in Victorian burlesque theatre. The main focus is on the semiotic dialogue between arts and reality which features nineteenth-century popular theatre as an essential tool for reading the social history of Victorian England. My principal argument is that the analysis of the convergence of popular, iconic and literary refigurations of classical myths and their representation on the Victorian popular stage underscores the relevance of burlesque both as a reflecting and a refracting mirror of the contemporary mindset. The texts and cultural objects under analysis in this thesis are in …

The Voice of Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Cassandra (1852) and the Victorian Woman

In an undated letter to her sister Parthenope (c. 1844), Florence Nightingale wrote:"What is life? It cannot be merely a gaining of experience it is freedom, voluntary force, free-will, & therefore must be a hard fought battle in order to make a choice, there must be evil & good to choose from" (Vicinus & Nergaard 1990: 25). As a victim aware of the social constraints that Victorian women had to tackle in their development as independent citizens, Nightingale fought for further education, for a life outside marriage and for the establishment of midwifery as a respected profession. In such a gallant endeavour, the most passionate battle which she undertook was to acquire a voice which would …

Escribiendo a Casandra: personajes dramáticos en la narrativa contemporánea

Christa Wolf’s Cassandra is the landmark for refigurations of the Cassandra myth in the contemporary novel. Yet close to its date of publication, Ursule Molinaro (1979), Christine Brooke-Rose (1984) and Hilary Bailey (1993) published their own novelistic reworkings of the Cassandra myth. The presence of the Cassandra myth in the British novel is in contrast with the fruitful reworkings of the Trojan princess in poetry and drama. From the nineteenth century onwards, refigurations of Cassandra in prose writings in English range from the feminist essay to the novel of customs and the fin-de-siècle New Women utopias. Works such as Florence Nightingale’s Cassandra, for example, show how the word…

Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the Roman Theatre of Sagunto (1982-2008)

Since 1982, the Spanish historical town of Sagunto has hosted the festival of Sagunt a Escena, which celebrated its twenty-fifth season in 2008. Throughout these years, more than fifty Greek and Roman tragedies, comedies, and plays inspired by classical themes have been put on stage between the months of June and September. Despite the heterogeneity of the festival, conceived as an ensemble of plays, dance, and street theatre, the performances based on classical themes have traditionally been considered the pièce de résistence of its repertoire. As a consequence, some of the world’s most acclaimed cotemporary actors, actresses, stage directors and companies such as Irene Papas, Michael Caco…

Medea y Sylvia Plath en "La chica que quería ser dios"

El objetivo principal que persigue este trabajo es analizar los vínculos que permiten incluir el drama de la poetisa Sylvia Plath en el destino de Medea dentro de la estética de la pieza 'La chica que quería ser dios', ideada por la compañía de teatro colombiana Matacandelas. Las cuestiones que abordamos en el estudio del montaje colombiano se articulan en torno a dos ejes principales: la selección y redistribución de los textos escogidos y el cuestionamiento de la presencia de dos Medeas diferentes, la de Séneca y la de Eurípides, a lo largo de la obra.

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Aplicaciones de Moodle en un entorno b-learning para la enseñanza de la Literatura

Ponencia titulada ''Aplicaciones de Moodle en un entorno b-learning para la enseñanza de la Literatura'' a cargo de Laura Monrós Gaspar de la Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació de la Universitat de València en el marco de las ''II Trobades d'Intercanvi d'Experiències Educatives Universitat-Secundaria''; Producción: Servei de Formació Permanent i Innovació Educativa de la Universitat de València (SFPIE). Centre de Recursos Educatius i Aprenentatge Multimèdia de la UV (CREAM). (www.uv.es/sfpie)(http://cream.uv.es)