Recently added articles from Symposium:
Sleepwalking in Istanbul: a man in anguish in A. H. Tanpinar's A Mind at Peace.
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's (1901-62) novels reflect the dichotomy within early twentieth-century Turkey: a nation maintaining past tradition yet concurrently embracing modernity. Tanpinar explores the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity and questions acute social and cultural change ....
Journeying identities: mid-nineteenth-century women's travel writing in French colonial Algeria.
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: French women travel writers in colonial Algeria occupy an ambiguous place both in the genre of the recit de voyage and in colonial space. Two travel texts written by French women in Algeria in the middle of the nineteenth century, Anais Dutertre's Voyage de Vermont-sur-Orne a ...
The mirror and the tower: masculinity and specularity in Klinger's Die Zwillinge and Gerstenberg's Ugolino.
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: This article offers an analysis of hypersexualized male subjectivity in two dramas of the Sturm und Drang period in German literature: E M. Klinger's Die Zwillinge ([The Twins]) and H. W. Gerstenberg's Ugolino. Both plays detail struggles with self-reflection, and as such they ...
Sobrevivir la nostalgia en los margenes: La Bohemia de Sergio Boris.
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: Through a study of La Bohemia (1998) by Argentinian playwright Sergio Boris, the author demonstrates how marginalized entities create a community based on shared absences (lack of family, sight, and wealth). Following Svetlana Boym's theory, this community is established through ...
Contesting the emerging modern: early modern critiques of mainstream modernity.
Mar 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: The author argues that postmodern, ecofeminist, and ecopsychological critiques of mainstream modernity are clearly anticipated by several early modern writers. In fact, they, among others, may be taken to represent the second, or self-critical, tendency in modernity. Michel de ...