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{"title":"Nostalgia and the Sublime in Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy","authors":"Mahshid Younesi, Hossein Pirnajmuddin","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018.40.2.45-62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018.40.2.45-62","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEn este trabajo se estudia la manera en la que Cormac McCarthy (1933-) representa la “sublimidad natural” en The Border Trilogy [“Trilogia de la Frontera”] [(1992-1998), donde esta nocion se establece a partir de la experiencia nostalgica de los personajes, en tanto en cuanto el autor situa en primer plano la inalcanzable “sublimidad natural” del salvaje Oeste, asi como sus fascinantes escenas pastoriles. La revision de algunas teorias de lo sublime, en particular las de Edmund Burke (1757), permitira entender como la sublimidad se combina con un sentido inconsolable de perdida de lo pastoril. McCarthy recrea en primer plano el deseo de los personajes de una vida bucolica y, de este modo, escenifica su propio proceso de experimentacion de lo sublime. El modo en que los protagonistas de estos relatos responden a esta experiencia es entendido en el articulo como un indice de caracterizacion. El articulo desvela tambien la importancia del estilo en la representacion de la “sublimidad natural” y propone que la proyeccion estilistica de esta deviene en “sublimidad artistica.” Asi, la representacion artistica del objeto no es percibida sensorialmente de forma distinta a su naturaleza. Lo sublime instala la consciencia en el sujeto hasta el punto de hacerle creer que la sublimidad es un modo de aprehender el mundo o, de manera mas sencilla, es una cualidad experiencial de la persona. En The Border Trilogy, McCarthy ha llevado al primer plano la “sublimidad artistica” centrandose en la perdida de lo pastoril; de este modo, el autor representa la naturaleza salvaje como el espacio natural ideal. EnglishThis article discusses the way Cormac McCarthy (1933-) represents the “natural sublime” in The Border Trilogy (1992-1998), where the notion is by and large distinguished as a kind of nostalgic experience on the part of characters insofar as the writer foregrounds the unattainable “natural sublimity” of the Wild West as well as its charming pastoral scenes. Drawing on theories of the sublime, particularly those of Edmund Burke (1757), an attempt is made to shed light on the modality of the merging of the sublime with an inconsolable sense of pastoral loss. Foregrounding the characters’ desire to live a bucolic life, McCarthy dramatizes the very process of experiencing the sublime on their part. The modality of the protagonists’ response to this experience, it is argued, becomes an index of character. The essay also reveals the importance of style in representing the “natural sublime” in these novels, arguing that stylistically their rendering of the “natural sublime” approaches what could be called the “artistic sublime.” In this sense, the artistic representation of the object is no longer distinguished from the nature of the object in one’s sensation. The sublime, therefore, grounds consciousness in the subject, making that subject believe that sublimity is concerned with the way one apprehends the world or, simply put, the quality of a person’s exp","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128401885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Partly American!”: Sarah Bernhardt’s Transnational Disability in the American Press (1915-1918)","authors":"Ignacio Ramos-Gay","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018.40.2.63-80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018.40.2.63-80","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to analyze the representation of Sarah Bernhardt’s physical disability in the American press prior to and during her last tour in the United States (1915-1918), and how the amputation of her right leg ignited a series of allegories associating the actress with both French and American national identities. Bernhardt’s maimed physicality was rapidly construed as a metaphor of the mutilated French soldiers of the Great War and of a devastated France itself. However, as I will show, one of the prosthetic devices crafted by American manufacturers symbolically turned the tragedienne into “partly an American citizen” as well as into a token of modern western technology. Bernhardt’s artificial leg encapsulated a number of cultural, economic and national attributes linking therapy with American industrial capitalism, and her conceptualization as an American icon thanks to prosthetics reflects the use of non-normative bodily metaphors to encourage national belonging in the press. Keywords: American press; Transatlantic Studies; Sarah Bernhardt; disability; prosthetics","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115966762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Filming Metatheatre in Gregory Doran’s Macbeth: Refracting Theatrical Crises at the Turn of the Century","authors":"Víctor Huertas Martín","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2018-40.2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2018-40.2.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116416352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Appropriated Bodies: Trauma, Biopower and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” and James Tiptree, Jr.’s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In”","authors":"María Ferrández San Miguel","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2018-40.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2018-40.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129022621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Negative Preposing: Intervention and Parametric Variation in Complement Clauses","authors":"Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"This work deals with root transformations (RTs) such as negative preposing in English and Spanish. I claim that RTs may in principle be compatible with all types of embedded clauses, regardless of whether the selecting predicate is factive/non-asserted or non-factive/asserted.  Languages differ in how freely they allow RTs in various types of complements. Adopting an intervention account, according to which the movement of an operator to Spec-CP intervenes with other types of movement, including RTs, I account for the variation in the distribution of English/Spanish negative preposing by certain options made possible as a result of feature inheritance of discourse features. It is well known that the distribution of RTs in English is extremely limited, while in Spanish the same operations are possible in many more constructions. In Spanish, discourse features may be inherited from complementizer (C) to tense (T) such that negative preposing targets Spec-TP, and hence there is no intervention effect. In contrast, discourse features stay at C in English, meaning that negative preposing competes for the target position with the operator movement to CP, and this gives rise to intervention. This hypothesis is explored and validated through an experiment with informants of the two languages. Keywords: negative preposing; intervention; factivity/assertedness; feature inheritance; root transformations","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123442809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bark Eeckhout and Lisa Goldfarb, eds. 2017. Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens","authors":"Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2018-40.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2018-40.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128283168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Thin Frontera between Visibility and Invisibility: Felicia Luna Lemus’s Like Son","authors":"Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.1.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.1.09","url":null,"abstract":"The historically entrenched gender-based division of western society is also part of the cultural heritage of the Chicano community. The diverse cultural, literary and religious symbols that have defined the female and male roles have been transmitted through the generations, creating a clear gender-based hierarchy within the group. This binary division, however, has left no room for those considered (extremely) deviant such as the LGBT community. The aim of this essay is to observe the way Felicia Luna Lemus’s Like Son (2007) addresses issues of visibility and invisibility and the integration of a family past and a cultural heritage into the life of a young Chicano transgender person, in an attempt to render this group visible and voiced within the community. Keywords: Chicano/a; LGBT; identity; literature; (in)visibility","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126384131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Talking Bodies: Sexual Abuse, Language, Illness and Dissociation in Camilla Gibb’s Mouthing the Words","authors":"Shadia Abdel-Rahman Téllez","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018.40.1.117-133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018.40.1.117-133","url":null,"abstract":"espanolMouthing the Words, de Camilla Gibb (2002), es un Bildungsroman acerca de un trauma fisico y los intentos de la protagonista por escapar de su propio cuerpo. Escrita en un estilo autobiografico, la novela explora la experiencia de (des)encarnacion del personaje principal mediante un trastorno disociativo de identidad y mediante la anorexia, estableciendo una relacion causal entre abuso sexual y enfermedad. Por un lado, la enfermedad se concibe como una especie de lenguaje corporal que rompe con el silencio impuesto por la sexualizacion precoz, y por otro, como un mecanismo de defensa para superar el trauma, disociando mente de cuerpo. Este enfoque cartesiano sobre la existencia proporciona a la protagonista solo dos opciones: completar su disociacion o tratar de recuperar su poder como sujeto. EnglishCamilla Gibb’s Mouthing the Words (2002) is a coming-of-age story about bodily trauma and the attempts of the main character to escape corporeality. Written as a self-narration, the novel explores the protagonist’s (dis)embodied experience of multiple personality disorder and anorexia, establishing a causal relationship between sexual abuse and illness. On the one hand, illness becomes a sort of bodily language to break the silence imposed in early sexualisation and, on the other, a defence mechanism to overcome trauma by dissociating mind from body. This Cartesian approach to existence gives the protagonist only two options: to become fully disembodied, or to try to recover her agency by transforming herself into a fully embodied subject.","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129410720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Graham Greene’s The Living Room: An Uncomfortable Catholic Play in Franco’s Spain","authors":"Mónica OLIVARES LEYVA","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2018-40.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2018-40.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122616914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Thus Spoke Proctor”: Nietzsche and the Overman in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible","authors":"Pouria Torkamaneh, A. Ghaderi","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes Arthur Miller’s The Crucible (1953) through a Nietzschean critique. In fact, Miller’s play presents a leading character whose individuality and interaction with his community, in terms of theology and politics, demands a re-evaluation of all values, much akin to the way Friedrich Nietzsche famously did in nineteenth-century Europe. To explore the possible connections between the two, first, Nietzsche’s idea about Christianity is discussed in comparison to Proctor’s treatment of religion in the play. Both Nietzsche and Miller deconstruct the self-celebrating fanaticism of their respective communities by their vitriolic attacks on individual moral standards and the introduction of an Ubermensch [“Overman”] as a glorious model of human virtues. Therefore, second, this work will demonstrate how Nietzsche’s Ubermensch can offer a fitting paradigm to consider Proctor’s rebellion against the established Church. And third, Nietzsche’s concept of eternal recurrence is used to further illuminate Proctor’s view of life. Keywords: Arthur Miller; The Crucible; Friedrich Nietzsche; Ubermensch / Overman; Christianity; eternal recurrence","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133061870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}