{"title":"Safo y su recepción moderna: María Rosa de Gálvez","authors":"A. Luque","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2149071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2149071","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The reception of Sappho in modernity raises a series of readings that explore various facets of the Greek poetess. This essay analyzes two works by María Rosa de Gálvez (her drama Safo and Poetry. Ode to a lover of the imitation arts) because they take into account the sapphic person and work, combined in the classic category of fame. An 18th-century woman writer projects the voice and figure of the ancient poetess into enlightened Modernity, with a new political and proto-feminist perspective. This projection shows that classical tradition operates as a multidirectional phenomenon, since it is channeled through a complex network of intermediate readings that involves different genres and traditions (Greek lyric poetry, Roman epistolary genre, French travel narrative, Spanish dramatic writing) and various translation strategies (translation from French and Greek as agents of reception).","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49330633","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":"Looking In and Shouting Out: Gendered Perspectives on the Convent in Gouges, Diderot, and Théron","authors":"Kelly Keenan","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2127200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2127200","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article argues that the gendered differences present in eighteenth-century French convent literature are put forth by two interconnected factors: (1) the ways in which the author understands and critiques the structure and function of monastic confinement and (2) the mechanism that drives the text forward, namely voice, gaze, or embodiment. Close readings of Olympe de Gouges’s Le Couvent ou les voeux forcés and Denis Diderot’s La Religieuse serve to demonstrate that the authors’ critiques of the convent space are not only present in their plots, but also replicated in the very form of their writing. These Enlightenment texts are juxtaposed with a 2012 theatrical adaptation of Diderot’s La Religieuse staged by French playwright Anne Théron, allowing for an investigation of how the mechanism propelling the work develops or persists when the authorial voice is altered across time and gender.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45254665","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":"Precarious Mourning: Friendship in Nathacha Appanah’s Le dernier frère (2007)","authors":"Akrish Adhikari","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2127195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2127195","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article considers and develops Jacques Derrida’s ideas on friendship. According to him, friendship between two people is haunted by the knowledge that both will die, and that one will probably witness the death of the other. Due to this knowledge, friendship is structured by a sense of mourning, both before and after the friend’s death. I read this idea in the context of Nathacha Appanah’s novel, Le dernier frère (2007). In it, she recounts a story of two boys, Raj and David, who meet in Mauritius during the Second World War period. More exactly, they become friends in precarious conditions, such that one is constantly aware of the other’s mortality. I argue that, because of this constant awareness, their friendship is haunted by a conscious form of mourning: explicit, intense, and continuous, both in life and in death. I call this affect precarious mourning, which constitutes friendships formed in precarity.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44454530","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":"Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870–1945","authors":"Matthew D. Miller","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2127206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2127206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46842869","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":"CAROLINE A. KITA. Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna. Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater . Bloomington, IN: Indiana up, 2019. 188 pp","authors":"Helga Schreckenberger","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2127207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2127207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47176096","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":"Awaiting Revolution: Performing Chile’s Hierarchies in Ernesto Orellana’s Inútiles","authors":"Carlos A. Ortiz","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2127201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2127201","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In response to the 2019 social uprising in Chile that resulted in several casualties, trauma, and an eventual plebiscite where the nation decided to rewrite its constitution, scholars are tracing what led to this social outburst. This study examines Ernesto Orellana’s Inútiles (2016) to show how theater crystallized the desires and need for change prior to the estallido social of October 2019. In this sense, the play is a prelude to the uprising. As a cultural product, it dismantles the racial and gender hierarchies that have been sustaining the nation and materializes a discourse of emancipation embodied by Mapuche characters. By analyzing the hierarchies unveiled by the 2016 play along with images that emerged during and post-October 2019, this study makes the case for art as intuitive toward social change and that art can help to eradicate the oppressing powers of a nation.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43646795","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":"Capitalist Thresholds: La muerte de Artemio Cruz and the Mapmaking of Modern Mexico","authors":"Pavel Andrade","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2127197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2127197","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this essay, I argue that Carlos Fuentes’ La muerte de Artemio Cruz (1962) delineates a theory of Mexico’s long transition to capitalism. I demonstrate that Fuentes’ novel makes sense of the world as it continually separates the external from the internal, the realm of the social from the realm of the individual, and popular from bourgeois interests. While literary scholarship has often interpreted Artemio Cruz as an emblem of the betrayal of the ideals of the Mexican Revolution, I propose to approach the novel’s main character as a personification of capital, a representative of a definite social class, whose life provides a narrative enclosure of Mexico’s peripheral modernization. Throughout the essay, I focus on separation as a spatial code that accounts for the emergence of a new class formation in Mexico in the 1940s and 50 s. I argue that in its spatial integrations, La muerte de Artemio Cruz formalizes the obstacles presented by economic dependency to the expansion of a national bourgeois order.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45873743","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":"Ana Elena Puga and Víctor M. Espinosa. Performances of suffering in Latin American migration: Heroes, Martyrs and Saints.","authors":"Christina Baker","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2127203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2127203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45327000","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":"Ainsley Morse. Word play. Experimental poetry and soviet children’s literature . Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern up, 2021. 251 pp","authors":"Erika Haber","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2127205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2127205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41731187","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":"On Eider Rodriguez’s Fiction: Gender, Anger, and (Basque) Politics","authors":"Larraitz Ariznabarreta","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2064630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2064630","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The work of Basque short story writer Eider Rodriguez (Errenteria, 1977) has garnered remarkable acclaim from contemporary critics and readers alike. In the realm of Basque literature—which often rolls into the common sea of politics and/or sentimentality—Rodriguez’s stories slickly swim their way between both waters; and fly inland as the Basque witches’ old saying goes, “sasi guztien gainetik, hodei guztien azpitik” [above all bushes, beneath all clouds]. Awarded with the Basque National Literature Prize in 2018, Rodriguez is the author of four short story collections: Eta handik gutxira gaur (Susa 2004), Haragia (Susa 2007), Katu jendea (Elkar 2010), Bihotz handiegia (Susa 2017) and the title of her first novel Erainkuntzarako Materiala (Susa 2021). Without resorting to the apparel of great events, Rodriguez’s bare sketches explore the everyday, small world of unnamed cities, in small circles from family to local ambiance. Plainly focused on such a microcosm, the author portrays a nuanced milieu of pervasive violence within the interactions of her characters with families, neighbors, friends, lovers, and—none the least—themselves. Bereft of any political correctness, Rodriguez represents a rich universe of frustrated, bored, fearful, and angry characters (Gabilondo 2019). This article examines the author’s fictional world of ubiquitous anger and resentment and explores the origin and scope of such violence by interpreting it as a metaphor of the personal and social anxieties triggered by politics in the—allegedly peaceful—contemporary Basque Country.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45179645","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}