{"title":"Chapter 5 From Dublin to London: Dermot O’Byrne, Arnold Bax, Pádraig Pearse, and the Music of Identity","authors":"Anthony W. Johnson","doi":"10.5771/9783896658685-109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896658685-109","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines an extraordinary case of cultural and intermedial, chameleonism.2 En passant, it will also take stock of a number of ways in which the creative friction experienced by an individual attempting to establish viable positionalities within different places, cultures, and even art forms, may sometimes result in the enrichment of each milieu. Praised by W. B. Yeats but banned by the British censors, there is something rather slippery about Dermot O’Byrne’s lament for the Easter uprising – A Dublin Ballad and Other Poems (1918). On one hand, we need not doubt its sincerity. Its creator, after all, had certainly attracted the sympathetic attentions of the uprising’s leader, Pádraig Pearse: who, reciprocally, remained something of a hero to O’Byrne throughout his later life. On the other hand, as in so much of Yeats’s output, A Dublin Ballad is a work of masks and ventriloquism. Yet beyond even Yeats’s self-dramatizations, “Dermot O’Byrne” was himself a cipher: an acquired identity into which","PeriodicalId":344141,"journal":{"name":"Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130340795","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":"Chapter 8 Movement in the Present: Poetry as a Mindfulness Project in Bernadette Mayer’s Studying Hunger Journals","authors":"Elina Siltanen","doi":"10.5771/9783896658685-171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896658685-171","url":null,"abstract":"Mayer started working on her project in 1972 while she was undergoing psychoanalysis because of anxiety. Studying Hunger was first published in 1975, but the entirety of the journals only saw publication in 2011. In her large volume that contains stream-of-consciousness prose mixed with occasional lineated poetry, Mayer focuses on observing the movements of her mind and her emotional and affective responses. The comment in the beginning of the book begs the question of what happens with Mayer’s attempt to transcribe “every transition of [...] her own mind.” While it is obvious that it is impossible to transcribe every thought that crosses one’s mind, because writing takes its time, I will discuss how Studying Hunger Journals presents a poetic experiment of observing instead of analysing the movements of her mind. This, I argue, shifts Mayer’s poetry away from its starting point in psychoanalysis towards what I will call a mindfulness project. I will make this argument through considering how Mayer’s experiment can be understood in cognitive terms. A related aim of this discussion is to consider what might happen cognitively and affectively when we read complex experimental poetry. Mayer wrote her journals as a tool to be used in psychoanalysis but also as a poetic experiment. She had previous experience from journal art projects, particularly from Memory (1972), which was originally a gallery","PeriodicalId":344141,"journal":{"name":"Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114326899","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":"Chapter 3 Postcritical Erotic Intimacy: Engaging with Oral Sex in Caribbean Literature","authors":"E. Valovirta","doi":"10.5771/9783896658685-63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896658685-63","url":null,"abstract":"Few critics would venture to claim that sexuality in the Caribbean is unproblematic or straightforward. In fact, it has become commonplace to reiterate, how ambivalent, problematic, or contradictory Caribbean sexualities are. Part and parcel of this axiom is the conceptualization of sex and sexuality in polarized terms; it is either frank or prude,1 shameful or casual,2 hypersexual or asexual.3 Research on Caribbean women’s sexualities tends to vacillate between topics like sexual violence and shame to sexual openness and eroticism.4 This tendency to treat sexuality in polarized","PeriodicalId":344141,"journal":{"name":"Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123882361","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":"Chapter 9 Reading and Translation in the Age of the Internet: Findings from a Case Study of a Terry Pratchett Novel Read in Finland","authors":"Damon Tringham","doi":"10.5771/9783896658685-191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896658685-191","url":null,"abstract":"Until relatively recently, reading was done with the support of solely physical reference material – if you wanted to check a word, you used a dictionary, and if you wanted to check a term, phrase, place, event or person, you used an encyclopaedia. Today, this has all changed. With the advent of the Internet it is now possible to check all such matters on-line. In some cases, the information is provided there in a manner no different to the physically published material – for instance, on-line dictionaries and Wikipedia – but the presence of search engines, of which currently the most prominent is Google, has brought the ability to mine the knowledge of the on-line community for answers to even trickier questions. For both the translators and readers of novels, the consequences of this shift are significant. For translators, in addition to checking word meanings and the like, the ability to seek explanations for cultural references1 appearing in the texts they are working on from the pool of knowledge on","PeriodicalId":344141,"journal":{"name":"Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116732343","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":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.5771/9783896658685-319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896658685-319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344141,"journal":{"name":"Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115889946","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":"Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis","authors":"","doi":"10.5771/9783896658685-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896658685-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344141,"journal":{"name":"Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123194371","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":"Chapter 11 Studying Forced Mobility: Critique as a Matter of Shifting Perspectives","authors":"Erzsébet Barát","doi":"10.5771/9783896658685-233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896658685-233","url":null,"abstract":"The theme of the present volume is movement and change in relation to matters of present-day interest and concern. As a scholar whose main research interest is critical studies of discourse, more specifically the relationship between meaning making and ideology, I would like to explore the discursive articulation of the ‘migrant’ figure in contemporary Hungarian political discourse. My choice is motivated not only by a commitment to destabilizing the daily routine of hate speech but also to finding a rhetoric that may be effectively deployed to that end. My approach is originally grounded in Nancy Fraser’s criterion for doing a (feminist) critical study.1 She contends that producing (social) critique above all entails speaking to relevant social events in order to deconstruct their hegemonic logic. However, Fraser does not problematize the very act of ‘finding’ such an event. I would want to argue that such a ‘choice’ emerges out of a contingent triangulation of multiple perspectives on ‘migration’ in order to forge a critical position that recognizes the agency of the (relatively) dispossessed participants in the event and does not simply reiterate a self-congratulatory discourse of humanitarian pity – in Lilie Chouliaraki’s sense of the term.2 In agreement with her, I want to see how it is possible to go beyond the arguably sympathetic representations dominating main stream (visual) media coverage when representing the sufferings of the distant other (refugees), which tends to evoke a response either in terms of some humanitarian pity (drawing on an alleged sameness between refugee and","PeriodicalId":344141,"journal":{"name":"Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126024875","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":"Chapter 13 “I’ve been here before”: Ursula Todd’s Repeated Returns in Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life","authors":"I. Hansen","doi":"10.5771/9783896658685-267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896658685-267","url":null,"abstract":"The British author Kate Atkinson’s novel Life after Life (2013) begins in November 1930, when the protagonist Ursula Todd walks into a café in Munich with the intent of shooting Hitler. Nothing in this passage suggests whether she succeeds, nor are the possible implications to world history of such an incident revisited later in the novel. What this two-page passage does, then, is set the stage for the story to come by showing the repercussions of the act to Ursula herself: As Ursula is shot and killed in the café, “[d]arkness fell.”1 The following chapter, “Snow,” then opens on February 11, 1910, when Ursula is born in Fox Corner, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.2 Yet, her life has hardly begun, when darkness falls again, wrapped around her neck as an umbilical cord (LL 24). As the next chapter, “Snow,” again opens on February 11, 1910, the reader begins to realize that these births are not a case of analepsis. They are second chances. Furthermore, it gradually dawns on the reader – as well as to Ursula – that while her birth necessarily means the end of life, her death also signifies a new beginning. This notion is not new in any way, but the implications are highlighted when in the course of the novel Ursula is born and dies at least seventeen times. In Life after Life, the boundaries of life and death are, at the very least, elusive. As some reviews of the novel have suggested, the overall themes of Life after Life are conventional: the possibility of starting again, the circle of life and death, the madness of war and the ability to change its course, and even an author’s chance to write as many lives for the protagonist as they","PeriodicalId":344141,"journal":{"name":"Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128109005","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":"Chapter 1 Mobility, Method and Textual Practice: Re-reading Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders","authors":"L. Pearce","doi":"10.5771/9783896658685-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896658685-19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344141,"journal":{"name":"Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129293555","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":"Chapter 15 Between Domestic and International: The Finnish Translation of Göhler’s Orchesterkompositionen von Jean Sibelius as an Image Builder","authors":"T. Rautaoja","doi":"10.5771/9783896658685-301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896658685-301","url":null,"abstract":"Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), the national composer of Finland, was a significant force in the cultural and national awakening of Finland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and still continues to be the most important ambassador of Finnishness in the world. Texts on Sibelius and his works were an elemental building block in the construction of the image of the composer in Finland, as several books as well as other texts were published on Sibelius already during his lifetime. There was one notable feature to the more lengthy texts in this range of texts, however: save for a few exceptions, they were not originally written in Finnish but translated from Swedish, English and German. In this chapter I examine the case of one of the earliest Sibelius-related texts, Georg Göhler’s “Orchesterkompositionen von Jean Sibelius,” which was originally published in 1908 in the German journal Der Kunstwart1 and translated into Finnish eighteen years later for the Annals of the Kalevala Society.2 The study investigates how Göhler’s essay constructed the image of Sibelius and the idea of Finnishness. In particular, through an analysis of the source text and its translation, the chapter discusses the translation as a locus of change: it considers the effects of the shifts that occurred in place, time and language and how they influenced the portrayal of national imagery.","PeriodicalId":344141,"journal":{"name":"Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121745906","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}