Outputs (297)

Úna ínsula para isleños, tierra adentro (2020)
Journal Article
Roberts, S., & Mora, J. L. (2020). Úna ínsula para isleños, tierra adentro. Insula, 886, 3-7

This article looks at the intellectual relationship between British Hispanists and Spanish intellectuals at the start of the 1970s.

Dread, Desire and Destruction: The Historical Sublime in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999) (2020)
Journal Article
Mertens, B. (2020). Dread, Desire and Destruction: The Historical Sublime in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999). Journal of Modern Literature, 44(1), 165-182. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.44.1.10

Erwin Mortier’s novel Marcel (1999) addresses the still controversial topic of the Flemish collaboration with the German occupier during the Second World War, and its subsequent repression by the Belgian state. Told from the perspective of a grandchi... Read More about Dread, Desire and Destruction: The Historical Sublime in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999).

Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: representations of work in post-Fordist France (2020)
Book
Lane, J. (2020). Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: representations of work in post-Fordist France. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Over recent decades concerns at the increased scarcity and precarity of salaried employment have dominated political struggles, theoretical debates and cultural representations in France. This study argues that such concerns are evidence of a profoun... Read More about Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: representations of work in post-Fordist France.

Domestication and Foreignisation in a Cognitively Estranged World: The Application of Venuti's Framework to Science Fictional Texts (2020)
Journal Article
Gray, M. (2020). Domestication and Foreignisation in a Cognitively Estranged World: The Application of Venuti's Framework to Science Fictional Texts. Transletters: International Journal of Translation and Interpreting, 4, 75-97

Darko Suvin argues for an understanding of science fiction as the literature of ‘cognitive estrangement’. This paper will take Suvin’s notion as its starting point, examiningextracts from two works by author Alain Damasio to demonstrate how... Read More about Domestication and Foreignisation in a Cognitively Estranged World: The Application of Venuti's Framework to Science Fictional Texts.

Looking back for ways ahead – Revisions Post-Dictatorship memories in Repare Bem (Maria de Medeiros) and Luz Obscura (Susana de Sousa Dias) (2020)
Journal Article
MIRANDA, R. (2020). Looking back for ways ahead – Revisions Post-Dictatorship memories in Repare Bem (Maria de Medeiros) and Luz Obscura (Susana de Sousa Dias). Diacrítica: revista do centro de estudos humanísticos, 34(2), 29-47. https://doi.org/10.21814/diacritica.567

Repare bem (Maria de Medeiros, 2013) and Luz obscura (Susana de Sousa Dias) are illustrative examples of women documentary filmmaker's approach to post-dictatorship memory in Brazil and in Portugal. Their attempt to counterpose affective and personal... Read More about Looking back for ways ahead – Revisions Post-Dictatorship memories in Repare Bem (Maria de Medeiros) and Luz Obscura (Susana de Sousa Dias).

Deep Song: The Life and Work of Federico Garcia Lorca (2020)
Book
Roberts, S. (2020). Deep Song: The Life and Work of Federico Garcia Lorca. London: Reaktion Press

This is a new literary biography of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca.

Smearing Time: Critical Temporality and Corporate Ontology (2020)
Journal Article
Hegarty, P., & Genosko, G. (2020). Smearing Time: Critical Temporality and Corporate Ontology. Time and Society, 29(4), 1009-1023. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X20933479

Since 1972 a leap second has been introduced into global time standardization systems, due to the discrepancy between Coordinated Universal Time and International Atomic Time. Until recently, the leap second has been a consensual, if mildly uncanny a... Read More about Smearing Time: Critical Temporality and Corporate Ontology.

Arctic rolls and gender roles: Female and male eating disorders in Karen Duve’s Regenroman and other texts (2020)
Journal Article
Bartel, H. (2020). Arctic rolls and gender roles: Female and male eating disorders in Karen Duve’s Regenroman and other texts. Journal of Romance Studies, 20(2), 225-248. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.14

The following article examines disordered eating in men and women. It discusses the novel Regenroman [Rain] by German writer Karen Duve focusing on gender roles, food consumption and the interconnection between female bulimia and male binge eating in... Read More about Arctic rolls and gender roles: Female and male eating disorders in Karen Duve’s Regenroman and other texts.

Disorderly eating in contemporary women’s writing: Introductory essay (2020)
Journal Article
Jordan, S., & Still, J. (2020). Disorderly eating in contemporary women’s writing: Introductory essay. Journal of Romance Studies, 20(2), 193-223. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.13

The Introduction presents the rationale for the special issue, and engages with key scholarship in the field. It makes the case for considering eating disorders in the wider context of ‘disorderly eating’, both as a sociological phenomenon and a recu... Read More about Disorderly eating in contemporary women’s writing: Introductory essay.

Painting and devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales (2020)
Book
Andrews, J. (2020). Painting and devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press

Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century, the high point of the Spanish and Portuguese counter-reformations. He spent... Read More about Painting and devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales.