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The Politics of Utopia: Walter Pater’s “Lacedaemon”
2016
Walter Pater is not usually considered as a politically committed writer, neither is Aestheticism of which he was the gifted theoretician with The Renaissance (1873). Although the political commitments of the Aesthetic movement have been questioned over the last two decades, both by including women aesthetes, and by re-evaluating the movement’s dissemination among the middle classes, discussion of Pater’s political ideas is almost non-existent. His Plato and Platonism (1893) is however not so remote from politics since it discusses Plato’s political philosophy. In particular, “Lacedaemon”, the chapter devoted to Sparta, enables Pater to intervene in the political debate from an original sta…
Reminiscing in white in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone
2018
The article focuses on the representation of whiteness in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone (1993), in particular on how the aesthetic and the socio-historical strata of the novel intersect, how by saturating the imagery of Bone with whiteness, Ng conveys the first person Chinese American narrator’s positionality and the positionality of other Chinese American characters as members of the Chinese American community and members of broader American society. The images involving whiteness compose a kind of the palimpsest overwritten with personal and communal ethnic watermarks as well as repressed, surfacing and semi-articulated history of Leila’s family that she channels into the narrative, having engaged…
Shokkihoitoa sukupuolirooleille : vallan ja väkivallan kysymyksiä Naomi Aldermanin Voimassa
2019
Colita en contexto: fotografía y feminismo durante la transición española.
2018
El trabajo que desarrolló la fotógrafa catalana Colita (Barcelona, 1940) durante la década de los setenta fue aliado del movimiento feminista que se recompuso en el Estado español tras la muerte de Franco. En este artculo estudiaremos sus práctcas fotográfcas al respecto, aquellas que visibilizaron las demandas más importantes del feminismo español del momento: su trabajo para la revista <em>Vindicación feminista</em> (1976- 1979 y el fotolibro <em>Antfémina</em> (Editora Nacional, 1977), que hizo en colaboración con María Aurèlia Capmany. En segundo lugar atenderemos a la fotografa erótca que también desarrolló Colita durante estos años, una producción más problemát…
Psychology of Gender
2013
Throughout the history of philosophy authors have used claims about women’s deficient psychological capacities in order to justify their inferior position in society. Likewise, male and female defenders of women have most often based their arguments on claims about psychological equality, if not similarity, between the sexes. This chapter traces the major developments and shifts in philosophical discussions about gendered aspects of the soul from Antiquity until the Enlightenment.
Finns and the Indigenous People in the Great Lakes Region: Playing with Settler Myths in Late 20th- and Early 21st-Century Finnish American Fiction
2022
This chapter explores the Finnish settler migration mythology through a selection of Finnish–American literature produced in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The idea is to shed light on the ways in which these texts create, spread, and perpetuate the settler myths. A close reading of literary texts can offer the opportunity to refocus, reframe, and reconceptualize Finnish experiences in North America. The chapter demonstrates that these texts can be approached as reinforcing the Finnish–Indigenous myth. They feature perennial images and themes as well as familiar one dimensional and/or glamorizing and sugarcoating stereotypes, such as shared lore and mysticism, sauna–sweat lodge sim…
Plonk & Replonk, le pastiche de l’histoire
2012
Plonk & Replonk elaborent des images relevant de la chronique evenementielle, ou la nostalgie est cultivee jusqu’a l’absurde et ou le sepia des cartes postales 1900 est detourne en « feeries » derisoires et navrantes. Selon une pratique volontairement grossiere du trucage proche du collage, ils proposent des compositions subversives qui sont des pastiches de la peinture d’histoire et de l’image de propagande moderne, qu’ils travestissent litteralement a des fins comiques et dont ils critiquent les procedes mis a nu. Leurs illustrations ont paradoxalement le pouvoir de creer des evenements qui n’ont pas existe, dans une economie du carnaval.
Mīts par Tristānu un Izoldi 20.gs. pirmās puses krievu literatūras kontekstā
2014
Anotācija Promocijas darbā pētīta Tristana un Izoldes mīta recepcija 20. gadsimta pirmās puses krievu kultūrā. Darbā apkopoti un analizēti poētiskie teksti (vairāk nekā 25), kas veidojuši Tristana un Izoldes sižeta konceptuāli vienoto krievisko invariantu. Īpaša uzmanība pievērsta divām galvenajām problēmām: pieprasījumam pēc šī sižeta 19.gadsimta beigas un 20.gadsimta sakuma krievu kultūrā un leģendas avotu, svarīgu krievu sabiedrībai, noskaidrošanai. Pētījums atklāj, ka šī mīta recepcija krievu kultūrā ir sarežģīts un heterogēns process, kam par impulsu kalpojuši krievu autoru personiskie kontakti ar Vāgneru, neomītisma ietvarā aktualizētā interese par pagājušo laikmetu literatūru, kā arī…