Abstract This article approaches the theme of ‘life and narrative’ from the perspective of cultural memory studies and argues for a less individualized approach to the analysis of narrative self-fashioning. It uses the case of Bobby Sands, who died on hunger strike in Northern Ireland in 1981, as an example of the complex interactions between… Continue reading Ann Rigney | Embodied and Remembered Lives
Month: October 2014
Jürgen Pieters & Julie Rogiest | Self-fashioning in de vroegmoderne literatuuren cultuurgeschiedenis: genese en ontwikkeling van een concept
Abstract This article takes as its starting point the prominent use of Stephen Greenblatts concept of ‘selffashioning’ in the recent work of a number of Dutch Early Modernists. Our text’s main aim is to point out the notion’s dual conceptual background. On be traced back in Greenblatts work to a number of prototypical humanist reflections… Continue reading Jürgen Pieters & Julie Rogiest | Self-fashioning in de vroegmoderne literatuuren cultuurgeschiedenis: genese en ontwikkeling van een concept
Machteld de Caluwé & Koen Rymenants | Leven en sterven van Rembrandt: De fictionele biografie tussen geschiedenis en psychologie
Abstract This article discusses three Dutch fictional biographies about the painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669): Rembrandt (1931) by Theun de Vries, Hendrickje Stoffels: Roman uit het leven van Rembrandt (1936) by Rovan Oven and Licht en schaduw: De roman van Rembrandt’s leven (1942) by Ch. Huygens. A comparative analysis of these novels’ dominant modes of… Continue reading Machteld de Caluwé & Koen Rymenants | Leven en sterven van Rembrandt: De fictionele biografie tussen geschiedenis en psychologie
Solange Leibovici | Over narrativiteit en fictionalisering in de (auto)biografische ruimte
Abstract Stories on people’s lifes play an ever growing part in postmodernism. This article discusses the way narrativity relates three fields: the autobiographical, the historical, and the psychological. Creative processes create accounts of happenings in which narrative structures are introduced en a story takes form. More interesting, however, are the moments in which narrativity is… Continue reading Solange Leibovici | Over narrativiteit en fictionalisering in de (auto)biografische ruimte
Bram Ieven | Machine, poëzie en kapitaal: Een involutie op het werk van Félix Guattari
Abstract This article analyzes Félix Guattari’s concept of the (abstract) machine and its implications for the relation between literature and capitalism. Guattari’s work develops an alternative concept of the machine that endeavors to think a transversal nterrelation between heterogeneous elements. At the same time, the machinic processes that Guattari sees everywhere can operate as restraining… Continue reading Bram Ieven | Machine, poëzie en kapitaal: Een involutie op het werk van Félix Guattari
Elisabeth Ladenson | Proust, Self-Censorship and the Representation of Homosexuality
Abstract This essay arose out of the observation that while censorship is, for obvious reasons, most often studied in terms of works actually censored, it has always worked most consistently and most effectively through self-censorship. Taking Marcel Proust’s groundbreaking depiction of homosexuality in his Sodome et Gomorrhe — a work that was never censored —… Continue reading Elisabeth Ladenson | Proust, Self-Censorship and the Representation of Homosexuality
Francesca Billiani | Aesthetic Censorship? Readers’ Reports from Fascist Italy
Abstract This article discusses the complex and ambivalent nature of book censorship of translations in Italy during the fascist period, from the point of view of the publishing industry. By not understanding censorship as a merely top-down phenomenon and by adopting Michel Foucault’s notion of Panopticism, it assesses the extent to which readers’ demands and… Continue reading Francesca Billiani | Aesthetic Censorship? Readers’ Reports from Fascist Italy
Andrew Hadfield | Censorship in Renaissance England: The Fate of Edmund Spenser
Abstract Using the example of Edmund Spenser, a writer who was frequently in danger of having his work censored, this article argues that analysis of Elizabethan censorship in recent times has often been misdirected. Scholars have argued about the behaviour of the authorities and whether what they decided to allow into print was reasonable. As… Continue reading Andrew Hadfield | Censorship in Renaissance England: The Fate of Edmund Spenser
Nicholas J. Karolides | Suppression of Thought: Political Bans and Societal Constraints
Abstract Political and societal insecurities are the bases of most censorship activities, each representing suppression of freedom of expression. Governments — from military dictatorships to democracies — are concerned with security, corruption charges, and embarrassing revelations. And when a society’s moral norms seem to be challenged in literary works, officials and citizens may reject the… Continue reading Nicholas J. Karolides | Suppression of Thought: Political Bans and Societal Constraints
Antoon De Baets | Power, Freedom and the Censorship of History
Abstract This essay analyzes the relationship between power, freedom, and history. It concentrates on the theoretical problems generated by the censorship of history and the justifications and effects of that censorship in contemporary political settings (dictatorship, post-conflict society, and democracy). In order to define the censorship of history, borderline areas and demarcations with closely related… Continue reading Antoon De Baets | Power, Freedom and the Censorship of History