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1909), the most autobiographical novel by Jack London, was written and published at a time when s... more 1909), the most autobiographical novel by Jack London, was written and published at a time when socialism attained a peak in popularity in the United States. Growing public awareness of class inequalities and preoccupation over the workers' condition led to the rise of the Socialist Party of America, which reached 6% of the popular vote in 1912.
Meta)theatre as a political weapon:
Both postcolonial reading and writing are to a large extent characterized by an enhanced attentio... more Both postcolonial reading and writing are to a large extent characterized by an enhanced attention paid to the voices silenced by imperial hegemony, political repression and, in a broad acceptation of the postcolonial, by any form of domination, including patriarchy. By rewriting Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys made a deliberate choice of shifting the narrative from the white, male English centre to a West Indian, female margin, in order to rehabilitate the main subaltern in Bronte's novel, namely Rochester's Creole wife, the "madwoman in the attic" 12 . But in what seems at first a paradox, the author also gives a
If one attempts to summarize the manifold plot of Graham Swift's 1996 novel, Last Orders, it gene... more If one attempts to summarize the manifold plot of Graham Swift's 1996 novel, Last Orders, it generally stands out as an extremely dark one: the protagonists, who all had lives marked by ordeals and failures, are gathered by the death of a common friend.
s 1871 novel is very much a product and a reflection of a sea change in the cultural landscape of... more s 1871 novel is very much a product and a reflection of a sea change in the cultural landscape of its time. The 19th century witnessed, as a corollary of a sweeping intellectual renewal, a great "Crisis of Faith". The triumph of philosophical trends such as positivism -and empiricism, particularly in Britain -and the remarkable development of science and technology put an unprecedented challenge to Christian values and creeds, with critical works such as Charles Darwin's The Origins of Species, published hardly a decade before George Eliot's Middlemarch[1]. Such a crisis was paralleled with attempts at redefining and reasserting the place of religion in the life of society and individuals, together with a set of moral values more or less connected with religion. Arts and literature in particular reflected this period of questioning, and many Victorian novels had the ambition of playing a moral and social role through narratives promoting exemplary behaviours and condemning sin and crime, or, in a more subtle way, raising the question of what goodness looks like in the modern world, if not stemming from Christian theology. Many elements converge in showing that Middlemarch fits in this pattern, as one of its major points is trying to figure out a definition of morality through different individuals, situations and narrative strategies.
Ah, what is it? ---that I heard": exploring a distressed self in Katherine Mansfield's "The Canary"
1909), the most autobiographical novel by Jack London, was written and published at a time when s... more 1909), the most autobiographical novel by Jack London, was written and published at a time when socialism attained a peak in popularity in the United States. Growing public awareness of class inequalities and preoccupation over the workers' condition led to the rise of the Socialist Party of America, which reached 6% of the popular vote in 1912.
Meta)theatre as a political weapon:
Both postcolonial reading and writing are to a large extent characterized by an enhanced attentio... more Both postcolonial reading and writing are to a large extent characterized by an enhanced attention paid to the voices silenced by imperial hegemony, political repression and, in a broad acceptation of the postcolonial, by any form of domination, including patriarchy. By rewriting Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys made a deliberate choice of shifting the narrative from the white, male English centre to a West Indian, female margin, in order to rehabilitate the main subaltern in Bronte's novel, namely Rochester's Creole wife, the "madwoman in the attic" 12 . But in what seems at first a paradox, the author also gives a
If one attempts to summarize the manifold plot of Graham Swift's 1996 novel, Last Orders, it gene... more If one attempts to summarize the manifold plot of Graham Swift's 1996 novel, Last Orders, it generally stands out as an extremely dark one: the protagonists, who all had lives marked by ordeals and failures, are gathered by the death of a common friend.
s 1871 novel is very much a product and a reflection of a sea change in the cultural landscape of... more s 1871 novel is very much a product and a reflection of a sea change in the cultural landscape of its time. The 19th century witnessed, as a corollary of a sweeping intellectual renewal, a great "Crisis of Faith". The triumph of philosophical trends such as positivism -and empiricism, particularly in Britain -and the remarkable development of science and technology put an unprecedented challenge to Christian values and creeds, with critical works such as Charles Darwin's The Origins of Species, published hardly a decade before George Eliot's Middlemarch[1]. Such a crisis was paralleled with attempts at redefining and reasserting the place of religion in the life of society and individuals, together with a set of moral values more or less connected with religion. Arts and literature in particular reflected this period of questioning, and many Victorian novels had the ambition of playing a moral and social role through narratives promoting exemplary behaviours and condemning sin and crime, or, in a more subtle way, raising the question of what goodness looks like in the modern world, if not stemming from Christian theology. Many elements converge in showing that Middlemarch fits in this pattern, as one of its major points is trying to figure out a definition of morality through different individuals, situations and narrative strategies.
Ah, what is it? ---that I heard": exploring a distressed self in Katherine Mansfield's "The Canary"