MiscelaneaPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20236909
A. Muro
{"title":"Guilt, Shame and Narration in John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies","authors":"A. Muro","doi":"10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20236909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20236909","url":null,"abstract":"This article deals with the psychological affects of guilt and shame in John Boyne’s novel The Heart’s Invisible Furies and with how these influence the way in which the narrator, Cyril Avery, chooses to present his life narrative. Being both the narrator and the main character/focalizer of the events told, the question of his (un)reliability proves extremely relevant for the analysis. The guilt and shame Cyril feels in the first part of the novel —which is also the first part of his life— on account of his being a gay man is forced upon him by the Irish society of the time. Hence, it is only when he leaves his homeland that he can start to find the peace he so much longs for and which, eventually, allows him to tell his story.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46236664","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}
MiscelaneaPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237385
Antonio Fernández-García
{"title":"EFL learners' narrative skills: the case of contemporary country music","authors":"Antonio Fernández-García","doi":"10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237385","url":null,"abstract":"Facilitating oral skills through authentic materials such as music has been essential in foreign language teaching (FLT). However, a model whose core element is to develop adolescent EFL learners’ narrative skills through songs with highly emotional lyrics is still non-existent. Furthermore, engaging students in vivid debates about everyday topics with which they can relate is considered a key element to develop their narrative skills. Both, themes and structure of contemporary country music songs have been analysed by means of a corpus. Additionally, a questionnaire has been administered to know adolescent English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ attitude towards the implementation of social issues and music in class. The results show that there exists a narrative structure in contemporary country music songs and a wide range of topics with which students can easily identify. These results suggest that these song lyrics may serve to facilitate EFL students' narrative skills.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42358710","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}
MiscelaneaPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20238539
Sándor Klapcsik
{"title":"In Our Own Image: Fictional Representations of William Shakespeare, by David Livingstone (Olomouc: Palacký University Olomouc, 2019)","authors":"Sándor Klapcsik","doi":"10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20238539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20238539","url":null,"abstract":"Livingstone’s book is an apt and enjoyable summary of the fictional accounts of Shakespeare’s life from the 20th and 21st centuries. Partly due to recent popular cultural works such as the British sitcom Upstart Crow (2016-) and the awardwinning Shakespeare in Love (1998), the topic has received the attention of critics in recent decades (Buffey 2020; Lanier 2007; O’Sullivan 2005; Sawyer 2016), but book-length discussions are still rather rare (Franssen 2016). Livingstone’s In Our Own Image fills a few gaps, but still leaves plenty of room for investigation.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46274869","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}
MiscelaneaPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20238554
Francisco Yus
{"title":"Discourse Studies in Public Communication, edited by Eliecer Crespo-Fernández (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2021)","authors":"Francisco Yus","doi":"10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20238554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20238554","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48950062","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}
MiscelaneaPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237163
Carmen Laguarta Bueno
{"title":"Trauma, Gender and Ethics in the Works of E.L. Doctorow, by María Ferrández San Miguel (New York: Routledge, 2020)","authors":"Carmen Laguarta Bueno","doi":"10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42251690","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}
MiscelaneaPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20236808
Miriam Santiago
{"title":"Striving for Attention: Furthering a Comparative Reading of Robert Browning and Edgar Allan Poe","authors":"Miriam Santiago","doi":"10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20236808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20236808","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the possible influence between certain works by Robert Browning and Edgar Allan Poe, composed and published very close in time, which deal with similar themes and share literary strategies and techniques. Although the possibility that they might have been reading each other’s work is supported by their respective correspondences with Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the similarities between their works could also be attributed to literary experimentation as a means of standing out in a fiercely competitive literary market that had to pander to both popular and critical taste. This article compares the similarities in choice of tone and sensational event, as well as the use of voice in a short list of titles that coincide in both time of publication and topic, to raise the issue of influence in a controversial historical context when plagiarism and radical innovation were equally problematic.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42967778","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}
MiscelaneaPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20236898
Pilar SÁNCHEZ CALLE
{"title":"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young/Mature Woman in Just Kids, M Train, and Year of the Monkey, by Patti Smith","authors":"Pilar SÁNCHEZ CALLE","doi":"10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20236898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20236898","url":null,"abstract":"Patti Smith and her 2010 National Book Award-winning Just Kids offers an autobiographical account of the artist’s life with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Smith also shows her involvement in New York City’s bohemian downtown scene in the 1960s and 70s. In 2015, Smith published a second memoir, M Train, and a third one, Year of the Monkey, followed in 2019. These two books are more experimental works where linear chronology is altered. The narrator mixes dream and reality in her recollection of her life after the death of her husband Fred “Sonic” Smith, and pays homage to those beloved persons (writers, artists, family members, friends) who have made an emotional and artistic impact on her. As a significant number of critical articles and book chapters have been devoted to analysing gender issues and narrative strategies of life-writing in Smith’s memoirs, my aim in this essay eschews those topics and explores the search for the artistic self as well as Smith’s ideas of art and performance in Just Kids, M Train and Year of the Monkey.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41698503","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}
MiscelaneaPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237246
Teresa Martínez-Quiles
{"title":"Translating Anger into Care: An Examination of Black Female Identity and Bonding in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time (2016)","authors":"Teresa Martínez-Quiles","doi":"10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237246","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to explore the political possibilities of anger as a potential source of Black female identity construction and solidarity in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time (2016). I will argue that Audre Lorde’s insights into anger in Sister Outsider (1984) are particularly suited to understanding how anger functions in Smith’s fictional work, where this emotion is presented as a powerful “energy” (Lorde 2019: 120) that has the potential to move the subject towards a more empowered selfhood. Nevertheless, I also explore, through the discourses of Lorde (2019) and bell hooks (1995, 2012), the social boundaries and potentially damaging effects attached to this emotion. More specifically, I consider how anger, by itself, is not enough to ensure a stable sense of self because it does not directly motivate the development of female solidarity. Instead, Smith demonstrates how anger may be effectively complemented through the paradigm of care, which does encourage the protagonists to move towards each other, and towards the liberating potential of a more outward view of the world.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47517344","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}
MiscelaneaPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20238675
Carla Abella Rodríguez
{"title":"The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in US Literature and Culture, edited by Amanda Ellen Gerke, Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan and Patricia San José Rico (Leiden: Brill, 2020)","authors":"Carla Abella Rodríguez","doi":"10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20238675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20238675","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46318288","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}
MiscelaneaPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237268
Ariadna García Carreño
{"title":"La Peste Escarlata, de Jack London, traducción y edición de Jesús Isaías Gómez López (Madrid: Visor Libros, 2022)","authors":"Ariadna García Carreño","doi":"10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237268","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44648137","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}