Díaz-Andreu, M. 2010. Grahame Clark and Spain. In Marciniak, A. and Coles, J. (eds.), Grahame Clark and his legacy. A history of European prehistoric archaeology 1930-2000. Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 205-240.
This article explores how Grahame Clark's archaeology was received in Spain on the basis of the correspondence sent to... more This article explores how Grahame Clark's archaeology was received in Spain on the basis of the correspondence sent to three of the most important archaeologists of Francoist Spain (1936/39–1975), Julio Martínez Santa–Olalla (1905–1972), Luis Pericot García (1899–1978) and Martín Almagro Basch (1911–1984). The letters show that they exchanged the specialist journals published by the institutions they were involved with, in addition to other publications, and that Clark even lectured in Spain in 1952 and 1963. In the 1950s, he also encouraged several students to undertake research in Spain. Michael W. Thompson, John Evans and John Scantlebury were among the earliest to follow this route. Only the first of these successfully completed his research, but his move away from academia meant that his work failed to have the impact it would otherwise have had. After this first batch of students, others educated at Cambridge followed in the 1960s and 1970s, but none seems to have been directly connected to Clark. The second part of the article undertakes an analysis of the extent of Clark’s influence on Spanish archaeology. Several aspects are analysed, including the number of reviews of Clark’s publications in Spanish journals and the translations into Spanish of his work. Some thought is given to the reasons for an interest in economic and social archaeology in Spain. Instead of seeing this as the result of Clark’s influence, this article suggests that a series of works in this area were an echo of the French Annales School, which entered Spain via the studies of the medieval and modern historian, Jaime Vicens Vives.
"sancta mulier nomine Mechtildis". Mechthild (von Magdeburg) und ihre Wahrnehmung als Religiose im Laufe der Jahrhunderte, in: Beginen. Eine religiöse Lebensform von Frauen in Geschichte und Gegenwart, hg. von Marco A. Sorace und Jörg Voigt (erscheint in der Reihe: Studien zur christlichen Religions- und Kulturgeschichte) (in Vorbereitung)
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Mechthild von Magdeburg macht Karriere - als Nonne (und Begine?) in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, als... more
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Mechthild von Magdeburg macht Karriere - als Nonne (und Begine?) in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, als Begine (und Nonne!) in der Moderne
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Seen by:Der involvierte Leser. Immersive Lektürepraktiken in der spätmittelalterlichen Mystik-Rezeption, in: Immersion im Mittelalter, hg. von Hartmut Bleumer (Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 167, 2012) (in Druckvorbereitung)
The article approaches the immersive potential of Mechthild von Magdeburg's “Fließendes Licht“, dispensing the reader... more
The article approaches the immersive potential of Mechthild von Magdeburg's “Fließendes Licht“, dispensing the reader from his role as a spectator and turning him into a participant, something which has frequently been claimed by the new German medieval studies. This particular kind of recipient is, certainly, an ideal-typical reader, a literary construct with the function to display the strategies of persuasion in “Fließendes Licht“ and the special literacy or the functional inclusion of the text. It should be all the more interesting to have a look at a specific historical recipient as this allows making the text's calculated aesthetic impacts plausible or outlining them with regard to the history of receptions. The instructions by Heinrich von Nördlingen from the first half of the 14th century, addressed to Margareta Ebner and the Dominican nuns of Maria Medingen near Dillingen, which told them how to incorporate and read „Fließendes Licht“ will be the centre of my analysis. This particular example and the recourse to circulating thoughts about the phenomenology of immersion shall show which requirements have to be fulfilled in a special religious context of reception to obtain the effect of immersion. Heinrich's directives are perfectly suitable for this line of questioning as they create the model of an involved reader, amounting to the requirement to get into the diegesis of the text and to identify with the literary figure.
Im Beitrag geht es um das in der neueren germanistisch-mediävistischen Forschung vielfach behauptete immersive Potential des „Fließenden Lichts“ Mechthilds von Magdeburg, den Leser seiner Rolle als Beobachter (spectator) zu entbinden und ihn zu einem Teilnehmer (participant) der textuell entworfenen virtuellen Realität zu machen. Freilich handelt es sich bei diesem Typ vom Rezipienten um einen idealtypischen Leser, ein literaturwissenschaftliches Figurenkonstrukt also, dessen Funktion darin besteht, die im „Fließenden Licht“ verfolgten Persuasionsstrategien und damit die besondere Literarizität bzw. funktionale Einbindung des Textes sichtbar zu machen. Umso interessanter dürfte es sein, den Blick auf einen konkreten historischen Rezipienten zu lenken, ermöglicht er doch, die von der Forschung beobachteten kalkuliert wirkungsästhetischen Effekte des Textes zu plausibilisieren bzw. rezeptionsgeschichtlich zu perspektivieren. Im Mittelpunkt meiner Untersuchung stehen die an Margareta Ebner und die Dominikanerinnen von Maria Medingen bei Dillingen gerichteten Anweisungen von Heinrich von Nördlingen aus der Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts, wie sie das „Fließende Licht“ aufnehmen und lesen sollen. An diesem Fallbeispiel und im Rückgriff auf die kursierenden Überlegungen zur Phänomenologie der Immersion gilt es zu zeigen, welche Voraussetzungen speziell in einem religiösen Rezeptionskontext erfüllt werden müssen, damit es überhaupt zum Effekt der Immersion kommt. Heinrichs Direktiven eignen sich für diese Fragestellung insofern bestens, als sie das Modell des involvierten Lesers entwerfen, laufen sie doch auf die Forderung hinaus, sich in die Diegese des Textes zu begeben und sich mit der Textfigur zu identifizieren
’We Cannot Be Greek Now’: Age Difference, Corruption and the Making of Sexual Inversion
by Jana Funke
Forthcoming in English Studies, Special Edition, (Re)Reading John Addington Symonds, 2013
Navigating the Past: Sexuality, Race and the Uses of the Primitive in Magnus Hirschfeld’s Travel Writings
by Jana Funke
Forthcoming in Compelling Connections: Sexual Knowledge and Receptions of the Past. Eds. Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Literary Celebrity and the Discourse on Authorship in Dutch Literature
Literary celebrity results from a clash between two discursive configurations: literary authorship and popular... more Literary celebrity results from a clash between two discursive configurations: literary authorship and popular celebrity. In order to gain an understanding of the contradictions that lie at the heart of literary celebrity, the authorial subjectivity of two Dutch authors are analyzed: Menno ter Braak (1902-1940) and Jan Cremer (1940-). Ter Braak will be shown to personify a classic, high modernist notion of authorship, which entails a resistance to commodification, a critique of personality cult, and a privileging of originality. Cremer, on the other hand, constructs his authorial subjectivity by embracing commerciality, posing as an overtly public individual, and preferring repetition over originality. Yet literary celebrity cannot be understood as a simple inversion of the hierarchical oppositions that characterize the discourse on literary authorship: by analyzing Cremer’s work and reception, I demonstrate that literary celebrity entails a 'staging’ of high modernist authorship
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Seen by:Making an American Feminist Icon: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Reception in US Newspapers, 1800-1869
History of Political Thought, forthcoming
This article examines Mary Wollstonecraft's public reception in American newspapers from 1800 to 1869. Wollstonecraft... more This article examines Mary Wollstonecraft's public reception in American newspapers from 1800 to 1869. Wollstonecraft was portrayed to the American public as a philosopher of women’s rights, a new model of femininity, and a pioneer of women’s political activism. Although these iconic uses of Wollstonecraft were regularly negative, they grew more positive as the women’s rights movement gained steam alongside the abolition movement. This study thus shows the significance of Wollstonecraft in early representations of women’s rights issues and debates in the US, and underscores the role of journalistic media in the spread and growth of feminism.
Manga in Europe : A Short Study of Market and Fandom.
by Ariane Beldi
Bouissou, Jean-Marie, Dolle-Weinkauff, Bernd, Marco Pellitteri, with Ariane Beldi. 2010. “Manga in Europe : A Short Study of Market and Fandom.” In Manga : An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives, Toni Johnson-Woods (ed.), New York : Continuum International Publishing Group.
Nella Patria di Heidi (Translated in Italian by Marco Pellitteri)
by Ariane Beldi
Kappa Magazine. 06/2005
Woolloomooloo or Wapping? Critical responses to The Sentimental Bloke in 1920s London and the normalization of the inner-city working class
Published in 'Studies in Australasian Cinema' (Intellect), Volume 5, Issue 3, March 2012.
This article explores the British reception of the first film adaptation of C. J. Dennis' verse poem The Sentimental... more This article explores the British reception of the first film adaptation of C. J. Dennis' verse poem The Sentimental Bloke, and traces the tendency of contemporary London critics to re-align the film's inner-city character 'types' with those much closer to home. Whilst contemporary Australian reviews tended to regard the central characters as typical Australian 'larrikin' types, London critics consistently compared them with – and occasionally even mistook them for – their own inner-city working class types. References to cockneys and costers abound in a process of normalization that saw Sydney's urban working class identities subsumed by that of their more familiar English cousins. Framed by an investigation of themes of 'realism', 'authenticity' and 'universality', this article asks why London critics may have needed to normalize certain aspects of the film and ponders what that process might say about urban identity and broader British notions of Australia and 'Australianness' in the 1920s.
Stultitia on stage: Gnapheus's Foolish Scientist and the Praise of Folly of Erasmus
Book chapter published in J. Bloemendal en Ph. Ford (red.), Neo-Latin Drama: Reception, Form and Function (Hildesheim 2008) 165-183.
Gnapheus' Latin play Morosophus is a dramatisation of Erasmus' Moria. Gnapheus' Latin play Morosophus is a dramatisation of Erasmus' Moria.
Refracting media characters through the prism of ethnic identity formation and gender
by David Oh
Revise & resubmit at Popular Communication; This is the final essay adapted from my dissertation.
Second-generation Korean Americans’ identification practices with media characters and celebrities in transnational... more Second-generation Korean Americans’ identification practices with media characters and celebrities in transnational media from Korea intersect with their constructions of ethnic identity. Intragroup differences in identification around ethnic involvement and gender, in particular, lead to reading positions. Their identification practices are constructed within taste hierarchies that define ethnic authenticity and boundaries of ethnic membership.
Biased optimism, media, and Asian American identity
by David Oh
Book chapter for Identity and Media: New Agendas in Communication (in press)
Not available - It is an audience reception study of Asian Americans' viewing practices of dominant media. The... more Not available - It is an audience reception study of Asian Americans' viewing practices of dominant media. The chapter asserts that Asian Americans adopt "biased optimism" to believe they are only beneficially shaped by representation.
Mediating the boundaries: Second-generation Korean American adolescents’ use of transnational Korean media as markers of social boundaries
by David Oh
International Communication Gazette, 2012; This is the second of three chapters I am adapting from my dissertation.
This article builds on media use scholarship by focusing on an understudied population, second- generation Korean... more
This article builds on media use scholarship by focusing on an understudied population, second- generation Korean American adolescents and their use of transnational media. The primary findings are that second-generation Korean Americans use transnational media as cultural resources through which they construct “new ethnicities” that are situated at the borders of their identities as members of the Korean diaspora whose everyday experiences are rooted in their status as marginalized racialized ethnic minorities in the U.S. Second-generation Korean Americans build inter-ethnic boundaries to create a unique identity that separates themselves from the controlling gaze of dominant culture and to build intra-ethnic boundaries to differentiate between authentic and inauthentic Korean Americans. To do so, they draw on knowledge of Korean popular culture as it comes to be known through transnational Korean media. Finally, their use of Korean media is also influenced by their local views of gender and, in particular,
masculinity.
Viewing identity: Second-generation Korean American ethnic identification and the reception of Korean transnational films
by David Oh
Communication, Culture, & Critique, 2011; The first of three papers adapted from my dissertation, and the second-place faculty paper award winner for the Asian/Pacific American Division of NCA
Despite the growing importance of transnational flows of heritage media for second-generation Asian Americans, there... more Despite the growing importance of transnational flows of heritage media for second-generation Asian Americans, there is little research that investigates this relationship. This study focuses on second-generation Korean American adolescents' reception of transnational Korean media as influenced by their ethnic identity formation. It builds greater understanding of a specific Asian American ethnic group, informs ethnic identity formation research, furthers understanding of transnational Korean films, and furthers understanding of second-generation Asian Americans' reception of media. The primary finding of this study is that ethnic identity formation is a socializing force for second-generation Korean Americans that shapes their reception of transnational Korean films.
El discurso shakesperiano en la cultura popular gallega: el papel de la prensa periódica de Álvaro Cunqueiro en “El Envés” (Faro de Vigo 1961-1981)
Journal "Espéculo"
This paper accomplishes a critical outline on the Shakespearean influence in Galicia, a North-Western community of... more This paper accomplishes a critical outline on the Shakespearean influence in Galicia, a North-Western community of Spain, through the eyes of 20th century writer Álvaro Cunqueiro in his periodical literary columns published in Galician newspaper "Faro de Vigo" for 20 years.
William Shakespeare y su recepción en Galicia a través del Sueño de una noche de San Juan de Álvaro Cunqueiro: Una versión teatral de A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1594-6) radiada durante el franquismo.
Co-authored with Elena Domínguez Romero in the volume Ensayos sobre Shakespeare // Essays on Shakespeare (published by the University of Extremadura and the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI
This article analyses the reception of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Galicia in the radio, paying special attention to... more This article analyses the reception of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Galicia in the radio, paying special attention to three key concepts: censorship, postcolonialism and identity.
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