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Abstract: Adam Mickiewicz’s historical writings, his Paris lectures as well as his cor- respondence, clearly indicate that one of the most important topics on which he pondered during the exile period of his life was the future of the Slavonic peoples (the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs, etc.)—nations dispersed in Europe, deprived of statehoods and mostly remaining under foreign rule. When holding the newly created chair of the Slavic Studies in the Collège de France (1840–1844) the writer had the opportunity to publicly propagate ideas that pointed a way to freedom for those peoples and were based on qualities and values shared by all of Slavdom.The aim of this article is to reconstruct Mickiewicz’s idea of the Slavonic ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: One of the most shocking, rarely studied literary phenomenon is that change from respectability to crossover in the performances of African American women comedians. Many factors have led to the emergence of this trend from the light sexual jokes of Mom’s Mabley to explicit shocking sex of Thea Vidale. This unpreceded moral revolution of the black women has been the fulcrum of many western critics. Naomi Zack attributes it to the “1964 Civil Rights act outlawing discrimination against non-whites and women in employment, made . . . racial minority female, stand-up comedians possible” (2013, 37). Protected, thus, by the law, the amount of liberty has increased, especially for those performances that have been ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The present article defends a materialist approach to literary criticism (the text as determined by its conditions of production), while positing an asymmetry in the achievements of precisely such an approach. If, on the one hand, a materialist critique tends to give a robust analysis of the text’s socio-economic content (how it represents power relations, exploitation, social structures, and so on), on the other hand, a satisfactory materialist account of interiority, psychology, affect, feeling, or tone may be harder to come by. Thus, for example, the crisis of King Lear’s reign can be understood as the staging of the violent and jolting transition from feudalism to merchant capitalism, with the attendant ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 1930, when French couturier Paul Poiret surveyed his storied career, he paid tribute to a pivotal figure in his empire’s success. The ideal mannequin, he explains, is not only beautiful but also active and engaged; she “must assimilate the spirit of her costume, and act its personality, and put on its significance” (2019, 151). Within the mannequin’s peculiar “nomenclature” (his word), one remained exemplary. She was a “vaporous blonde, whose pale blue eyes seemed made of porcelain or of glass . . . she was plump and elegantly rolled as a cigarette” (2019, 151). He called her Paulette.Paul and Paulette worked closely together, or so it seemed to him. “The way in which she gave life to everything I put on her,” ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Historically, Lord Byron’s Manfred has been interpreted as an exploration of being and knowledge, often through a rather rigid lens of Classical Greek and Miltonic influence. Canonically, the dramatic poem has been placed in the center of British Romanticism and its protagonist’s privileged defiance has taken on an air of universality. However, this inherited tradition glosses the subject-position of estrangement and mobility of Byron’s poetic vision, concealing its radicality. Alternatively, I would argue Manfred crafts a genealogy of human knowledge through the Foucauldian principle of “limit-testing.” It is about an exile trying to find a “way out” of gendered being and social/sexual banishment. Through ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: “I made a private inquiry last week, Mr. Superintendent,” he [Cuff] said. “At one end of the inquiry there was a murder, and at the other end there was a spot of ink on a table cloth that nobody could account for. In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.”It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Victorian plot, in possession of a dramatis personae, must be in want of furniture. With a “material turn” in Victorian studies, what was once considered the age’s eclectic fetish for bric-a-brac and knickknacks now battles the individual spirit and “human prerogatives” of the Victorians with metonymic powers (Pykett 2004; Roston 96). As ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Cognitive literary criticism has arguably been the fastest growing area of criticism in recent times. A field characterised by diversity, it is unified by an analytical animus: to discover what the cognitive sciences can teach us about art, and what art can teach us about cognition. More specifically, it engages with contemporary neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy of mind, to consider the nature of sociality, empathy, perception, and consciousness in relation to literature and the processes surrounding its production and consumption. In particular, second-generation cognitive literary criticism—which is premised on a model of the mind as embodied, culturally and ecologically situated in a particular ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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