Goethe's Heirs@@@The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture

Isabel Archer and the Burdens of Centrality

The House on Mango Street has been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide, including Croatian in 2005. The novel has secured a firm foothold in many a literature and cultural studies syllabus outside the USA and has served as one of central entry points for the discussion and understanding of the position of women in America’s ethnicized communities. In its treatment of women’s disadvantaged position, Cisneros’s novel relies heavily on the tenets of liberal feminism, which reduces the understanding of gendered oppression to personal relationships between individual men and women and to the attitudes of men towards women. Unlike liberal feminist literary theory, systemic feminist literary theory takes a broader social context into consideration by directing our critical gaze to the structural forces and institutional practices that shape gendered positions and define the role of women inside and outside family settings. The paper shows that because of its subscription to the tenets of liberal feminism, the novel ends up treating gender constraints and women’s domestication as though these were phenomena limited only to ethnicized communities. As a result, women’s marginalization comes to be construed as a marker of ethnic otherness rather than a structural problem defining and permeating American society as a whole. Through translations, these constructs

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Ethnicizing women’s domestic entrapment in sandra cisneros’s antibildungsroman the house on mango street

Profoundly Ordinary: Jon McGregor and Everyday Life

Between parodic interruptions, burlesques of Irish Revivalist poetics, and send-ups of nationalistic rhetoric, the caustic narrator of “Cyclops,” the twelfth episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses, inexorably persists, sardonically recollecting the verbal bar-room brawl between the aggressive “Citizen” and the hapless everyman, Leopold Bloom. “So off they started,” he quips, “about Irish sports and shoneen games the like of lawn tennis and about hurley and putting the stone and racy of the soil and building up a nation

"Erin go bragh": "Banal Nationalism" and the Joycean Performance of Irish Nationhood

This thesis is the first extensive study devoted to the generic originality of Iurii Tynianov’s representation of Pushkin in his two historical novels, Pushkin (1935-1943) and the abandoned The Gannibals (1932). Chapter 1 contextualises Tynianov’s contribution to the current debates on the novel’s demise, ‘large’ form and the worthy protagonist. The conditions giving rise to contemporary interest in the genres of biography and the historical novel are deliniated and the critical issues surrounding these are examined; Tynianov’s concern to secularise the rigid monolith of an all but sanctified ‘state-sponsored Pushkin’ and the difficulties of the task are also reviewed. Chapter 2 shifts the examination of Pushkin as a historical novel to its study within the generic framework of the Bildungs, Erziehungs and Kunstlerromane with their particular problematics which allowed Tynianov to grapple with a cluster of moral, philosophical and educational issues, and to explore the formative influences on the protagonist’s identity as a poet. Chapter 3 explores the concept of history underlying Tynianov’s interpretation of the characters and events and the historiographical practices he employed in his analyses of the factors that shaped Pushkin’s own historical thinking. Chapter 4 investigates Tynianov’s scepticism about Abram Gannibal’s and A. Pushkin’s mythopoeia which reveals itself in Tynianov’s subversively ironical and playful use of myth in both novels. The Conclusion assesses Tynianov’s contribution to the 20 century fictional Pushkiniana and reflects on his innovative transgeneric historical novel which broke the normative restrictions of the genre, elevated it to the level of ‘serious’ literature and made it conducive to stylistic experimentation.

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Goethe's Heirs@@@The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture

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Isabel Archer and the Burdens of Centrality

Ethnicizing women’s domestic entrapment in sandra cisneros’s antibildungsroman the house on mango street

Profoundly Ordinary: Jon McGregor and Everyday Life

"Erin go bragh": "Banal Nationalism" and the Joycean Performance of Irish Nationhood

The generic originality of Iurii Tynianov's representation of Pushkin in the novels 'Pushkin' and 'The Gannibals'

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