{"title":"Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid","authors":"Dean Allbritton","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2265611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2265611","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"L’Assommoir and Zola’s Nuanced Vision of Nineteenth-Century Alcoholism","authors":"Susanna Lee","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2265812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2265812","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines depictions of problem drinking in Emile Zola’s 1877 L’Assommoir, situating the novel within contemporaneous writings about alcoholism. While criticism has long found in Zola’s...","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"20 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138508551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“[L]e divorce terrible entre le cœur et la chair:” Joseph Kessel’s Belle de Jour (1928)","authors":"Hope Christiansen","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2252332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2252332","url":null,"abstract":"The publication in 2020 of Joseph Kessel’s writings in Gallimard’s distinguished Pléiade series prompted Gaby Levin to publish an article titled “France Rediscovers Joseph Kessel, the Jewish Writer...","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"234 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“For Rats Died in the Street; Men in their Homes:” The Pharmacology of the Human-Rat Relationship in Camus’s The Plague","authors":"Pritikana Karmakar, Nagendra Kumar","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2265826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2265826","url":null,"abstract":"Animals have always embodied the memory and trauma of troubled times in human history. The alienization of animals in terms of their non-human essence results in their gothification, resulting in i...","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forecasting Extinction at the Guatemalan Border Forests: El mundo como flor y como invento by Mario Payeras","authors":"Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2263348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2263348","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I examine two short stories written by Guatemalan author Mario Payeras, both included in the collection El mundo como flor y como invento. Through the portrayal of the connections ...","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138508526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dante and Violence: Domestic, Civic, Cosmic","authors":"Dino S. Cervigni","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2252959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2252959","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Desafíos, diferencia y deformaciones de la ciudadanía: mutantes y monstruos en la producción cultural latinoamericana reciente","authors":"Juan Pablo Rivera","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2265607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2265607","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Megan Corbin. Haunted Objects. Spectral Testimony in the Southern Cone Post-Dictatorship. Raleigh, North Carolina: A Contracorriente, 2021. 200 pp.","authors":"Sebastián Muñoz Ruz","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2252955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2252955","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"177 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technologies of the Novel: Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems","authors":"Olivier Delers","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2262094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2262094","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"39 Suppl 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La représentation de Jeanne d’Arc dans la France du XVIe siècle: Politique, religion et genre dans L’Histoire tragique de la Pucelle d’Orléans (1580)","authors":"Ji Gao","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2230872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2230872","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article proposes an interpretation of Fronton du Duc’s L’Histoire tragique de la Pucelle d’Orleans (1580), an important early adaptation of Joan of Arc’s story partially based on contemporary records of her trial. Through a close reading of this little-known work, the article shows that the Jesuit playwright consciously made use of three types of discourse—politics, religion, and gender. As this piece was written for the French king’s visit to Lorraine, Fronton du Duc underlines the alliance between France and Lorraine and highlights the image of a united France. By calling attention to the divide between Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church, the author anachronistically makes use of Joan of Arc’s story to emphasize the religious dimension of late sixteenth century French nationalism. Besides, Fronton du Duc brings a gender discourse into play to underscore Joan of Arc’s “feminity,” and thus maintains Joan’s mystical role without affecting the masculinized image of the French state. This specific portrayal of Joan of Arc corresponded to the historical context of the French wars of religion in the second half of the sixteenth century and marked a crucial step in the early representation of Joan of Arc as a national heroine.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"77 1","pages":"156 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49391617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}