1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910552759803321

Autore

Lambert Gregg <1961->

Titolo

The world is gone : philosophy in light of the pandemic / / Gregg Lambert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-4529-6718-0

1-4529-6717-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (113 pages)

Collana

Forerunners

Disciplina

302.545

Soggetti

Social isolation - Psychological aspects

Existentialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditationsPart personal memoir, part philosophical reflection and written in the midst of the pandemic in 2021, The World Is Gone employs the Robinson Crusoe fable to launch an existential investigation of the effects of extreme isolation, profound boredom, nightly insomnia, and the fear of madness associated with the loss of a world populated by others.Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911008479903321

Autore

Kebadze Nino <1975->

Titolo

Romance and exemplarity in post-war Spanish women's narratives / / Nino Kebadze

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. ; ; Rochester, N.Y., : Tamesis, 2009

ISBN

1-282-98836-0

9786612988363

1-84615-757-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 187 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Coleccion Tamesis. Serie A, Monografias ; ; 279

Disciplina

863.64099287

Soggetti

Spanish fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Spanish fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Politics and literature - Spain - History - 20th century

Women and literature - Spain - History - 20th century

Literature and society - Spain - History - 20th century

Women in literature

Spain History 1939-1975

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2023).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

FRONTCOVER; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I Towards Female Exemplarity: Setting the Norm; 1 From Nationalist Victory to New Signifying Practices; 2 Engendering Exemplary Women; 3 La perfecta casada: The Catholic Model of an Ideal Wife; 4 El ángel del hogar and the Bourgeois Ideal of Domesticity; 5 Female Formation and La nueva mujer of the Falange; PART II Reading Romance: Questioning the Norm; 6 Post-War Conventions of Representing Women: Gender and Genre Constraints; 7 "La imperfecta casada" or the Making of an Ideal Wife in Luisa-María Linares' Un marido a precio fijo

8 Interpreting 'Surrender' in Concha Linares-Becerra's Como los hombres nos quieren9 Carmen de Icaza's Soñar la vida or the Imperative to Dream; 10 Taking Matters into Your Own Hands in María Mercedes Ortoll's En pos de la ilusión; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; BACKCOVER



Sommario/riassunto

A reading of women's post-war literary representations in terms of exemplarity. The effects of General Francisco Franco's authoritarian rule (1939-1975) on the production and reception of cultural texts can be gauged by the silence that now surrounds them. This is especially true of works which enjoyed considerable popularity when first published. Most of the novels in question belong to the sentimental genre known as novela rosa, whose authors-mostly women-and heroines Academe has consistently treated as literary pariahs. This volume represents the first serious effort to question the categories used to assess the value and meaning of texts previously presumed to be devoid of both. It does so by bringing to the fore the operative premise of Francoist cultural politics, wherein fictional works have the power to mould individual character and conduct. Narratives by Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza and María Mercedes Ortoll are thus examined in terms of the effects that they were expected to have on their readers, and the constraints that such expectations placed on the works' production and reception. The result is a paradox: while the study of women's bestselling novels is by definition a study of the constraints that shape them, careful reading reveals the limitations of those selfsame constraints. NINO KEBADZE is an Assistant Professor in the Hispanic Studies Department of the University of Massachusetts Boston.