JZ: I realise that quoting excerpts from other people's essays on your work may seem ironic, as it creates a danger of 'monumentalising' the author and letting others speak 'in your name'. Nevertheless, I would like to take the risk of beginning with the words of Lorna Sage. In her preface to The Life and Loves of a She-Develop Lorna Sage writes: 'Fay's lack of respect for "nature" . . . is one of her greatest strengths: she knows it's fetish and attacks it with its own weapons'. I wonder, could you comment a little on your relation to nature?
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Masculine Appearances
Male Physicality on the Late-Victorian Stage
David Haldane Lawrence
James Eli Adams, in Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity (1995), has written of the ‘intractable element of theatricality in all masculine self-fashioning, which inevitably makes appeal to an audience, real or imagined … even the normative is typically asserted as an unending performance’. It could also be argued that ‘masculine self-fashioning’, and the necessity for display to an audience gaze, is taken to its extreme in the world of entertainment, where men appear on stage, in costume, wearing make-up, and acting out aspects of masculinity often alien to their own personae. Through applying this debate to nineteenth-century popular culture, this article discusses men who confronted the gaze of both sexes while posing as living statues, displaying muscular strength, or encouraging idolatry through their charismatic presences on the legitimate stage.
The Rape of the Lock
Desire between Couple(t)s – a Counselling Intervention
Dennis Brown
I want, here, to focus on this originary motive for the poem, and to suggest ways in which it informs the poet’s larger purpose – to create a social poem which negotiates tensions within the age-old battle of the sexes. The finished masterpiece, I shall argue, has relevance not only to contemporary debates about the ideology of gender3 but, in particular, to the rise of our now-ubiquitous ‘counselling’ culture. For such a discussion it is important that the ‘Offence’ occurred within a tightly knit, ‘marginal’ group, and that the poetic strategy develops a phantasmagoric ‘interpretation’ of the incident, as a proto-Freudian6 narrative in which attentive intelligence has transformed the strength of Desire into mock-heroic sweet reason.
Touring the Dead Lands
Emily Eden, Victorian Famines, and Colonial Picturesque
Pablo Mukherjee
There is a striking tonal similarity amongst those who reviewed Emily Eden’s account of her journey with her brother George Auckland – the recently appointed Govenor-General of British India – across the northern provinces of the country between 1837 and 1840. On its publication in 1866, the Athenaeum decided that like Lawrence Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, Eden’s book had no information of interest to the Statistical Society. The Fortnightly Review agreed: ‘it is true that very little of what is commonly called “useful knowledge” will be found in these volumes’. Yet, it is precisely Eden’s failure to provide ‘useful knowledge’ that was seen as the strength of her work. Freshness, humour, feminine vivacity, grace, and charm were the typical adjectives employed to describe Eden’s prose. Moreover, the reviewers seem to have decided that Up the Country was best evoked in visual terms. The Athenaeum praised Eden for capturing the ‘picturesque appearance of Indian life’ and representing her ‘picturesque misery and magnificence’; the Fortnightly Review applauded the book as ‘a series of pictures true to life. In her letters we do not read about India; we see it’.
Joachim Frenk
force as it were more delighting therein, and the large protection of his shield animating him unto it. Pyrocles, of a more fine and deliver strength, watching his time when to give fit thrusts … so would he soon have made an end of Anaxius if he had not
Brian Yothers, Gillian Dooley, Guy Galazka, Peter Weisensel, Jackie Coon, Magdalena Banaszkiewicz, and David Cashman
decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem lingers on unresolved, with both parties seemingly more interested in successive futile trials of strength and short-term media coverage victories. Chapter 5 considers new approaches for tourism
Steven Lovatt
. Each of the principal characters is associated with certain qualities that are in turn related to distinctive tempos in the narration. George Morn (‘George’, from the Greek, connoting earth and physical work) represents strength, manliness, self
Sartre, Lacan, and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
A Defense of Lacanian Responsibility
Blake Scott
being closer than is often portrayed in the literature. One reason I think that such a comparison has proved so difficult in the past is the continuing strength of the polemics between humanism and structuralism, which, at least in the English literature
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 3–12
Shadowing Shakespeare
Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha (1980) and William Shakespeare's English History Plays (c. 1591–98)
Alex Watson
transform into him, asserting, ‘this man could become so immersed in the character of Shingen … because of the strength of Shingen's own character’. 11 Donald Richie interprets the double's gesture as a confirmation that the thief has transformed himself
Jamie McMenamin, Lauri Hyers, Jeroen Nawijn, and Aviva Sinervo
analysis would have made this book’s introductory and closing chapters more valuable. In conclusion, the strength of this book is its individual chapters. Instead of simply including up to date literature reviews, these chapters present original work and