Reorienting the Gaze: Monstrous Bodies in Remediations of Frankenstein

Visual adaptations of the Frankenstein myth highlight the role ocularcentrism and scopic power play. By engaging with the concept of the gaze, this paper analyzes remediations of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece and discusses how visual narratives frame potentially monstrous bodies in order to assimilate or question traditional privileged visions and their construction of otherness, as well as to (re) orient spectators towards recognition of or detachment from the onscreen monster. It will address particularly relevant examples: Edison’s Frankenstein, the YouTube series Frankenstein M.D., Whale’s and Branagh’s iconic remediations, as well as the less known Murders of the Rue Morgue and Frankenhooker. Ultimately, this work will vindicate the role of remediations as an arena within which contemporary imaginaries regarding otherness and who holds the visual and narrative power are either legitimized or challenged

A Mad Knight in her Attic: the Reformulation of Quixotism and its Use in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote

[Abstract] Women writers in eighteenth century England had to deal with accusations of immorality and perversion of young female minds, due to the alleged subversion of their role as “domestic” and “invisible” women. Charlotte Lennox chose to approach quixotism in her most celebrated novel, The Female Quixote, or, the Adventures of Arabella (1752), to create an appealing heroine whose literary delusions allowed her to experience freedom and power for the first time in her life. Lennox, as other writers would do following her example, employed that momentary escape from constraint, the subsequent punishment of her heroine and her final return to reason, to make a statement on her status as a woman writer, as well as to consolidate herself as a respectable one. Moreover, by so doing, she transformed completely the concept of “Quixote” and proved an important transition in the quixotic tradition towards a more romantic heroine

Reading Don Quixote as political agent: a Spanish knight in British ideological and literary wars

En medio de una batalla política y literaria tanto los autores radicales como los antiradicales usaron el Don Quijote de Cervantes como herramienta ideológica. En concreto, los novelistas anti-Jacobinos usaron el quijotismo para identificar las ilusiones del Quijote con los ideales revolucionarios, para condenarlos por su absurdidad o traición, y para usar la irrevocable cura de sus Quijotes como una llamada al conservatismo político y a la preservación de los valores tradicionales británicos. Este artículo analizará tres novelas publicadas en esta época y que tienen como protagonista a un Quijote político: The History of Sir George Warrington; or the Political Quixote (1797), The Infernal Quixote (1801), The Heroine, or the Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader (1813). El artículo enfatizará cómo el quijotismo se convierte en una de las bases del discurso antiradical, cómo estas novelas adaptan el quijotismo y cómo contribuyen, por tanto, a la relevante y rica tradición quijotesca en Gran Bretaña.In the midst of a political and literary battle, radical and anti-radical authors employed Cervantes’ Don Quixote to serve their ideological purposes. In particular, anti-Jacobin novelists used quixotism to identify the illusions of the Quixote with revolutionary ideas, to condemn them as foolishness or sedition, and to use the unavoidable cure of their characters’ quixotism as a call for political conservatism and for the preservation of British traditional values. The present paper will focus on three novels which were published at this time and which have at their core a political Quixote: The History of Sir George Warrington; or the Political Quixote (1797), The Infernal Quixote (1801), The Heroine, or the Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader (1813). It will highlight how quixotism becomes a foundation for the anti-radical discourse, how these novels adapt quixotism and how they contribute to the relevant and rich tradition of the reception of Don Quixote in Britain

«Your wines are as foreign as your sentiments»: the Quixote as literary and political alien in the English anti-Jacobin novel

En el presente trabajo se consideran tres novelas anti-jacobinas, The History of Sir George Warrington, or the Political Quixote (1797), The Infernal Quixote. A Tale of the Day (1801), y The Heroine, or Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader (1813), y su contribución a la tradición quijotesca en la literatura británica a través de la concepción del Quijote como ser doblemente alienado, tanto desde el punto de vista epistemológico como político, y de su lectura negativa de la extranjerización del personaje quijotesco en el contexto de la respuesta a la Revolución francesa en Gran Bretaña, en claro contraste con la interpretación radical e idealizada del Quijote desarrollada de forma paralela en esta época.The present paper discusses three anti-jacobin novels, The History of Sir George Warrington, or the Political Quixote (1797), The Infernal Quixote. A Tale of the Day (1801), and The Heroine, or Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader (1813), and their contribution to the tradition of quixotism in British literature by means of their conception of the Quixote as a doubly-estranged character, both from an epistemological and a political point of view, and of their negative reading of the quixotic foreignness in the context of the aftermath to the French Revolution in Great Britain, in clear contrast to the radical and idealized interpretation of the Quixote developed coevally at this time

Defensa de la lectura quijotesca en El príncipe que todo lo aprendió en los libros

Miguel de Cervantes’ masterpiece Don Quijote de la Mancha (1605, 1615) is a recurrent presence in children’s literature from the 18th century onwards. Together with abridged editions of the novel, it is possible to find less obvious rewritings of the quixotic myth. This is the case of El príncipe que todo lo aprendió en los libros (1909), written by Jacinto Benavente and staged at the “Teatro de los Niños” that he had founded himself. The present article claims that the rewriting of the quixotic myth performed by Benavente aims to defend children’s imagination. In particular, it explores how the prince’s taste for reading is not corrected, but praised, and how the author includes a wide range of references to fairy tales to claim the role of fiction in children’s education. Benavente’s work, then, becomes a story for both adults and children on the power of literature and its effect on the values of the readers. La obra maestra de Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha (1605, 1615) es una presencia recurrente en la literatura infantil desde el siglo XVIII hasta nuestros días. Además de ediciones adaptadas de la novela, es posible encontrar obras que reescriben el mito quijotesco de manera menos obvia. Es el caso de la obra de teatro El príncipe que todo lo aprendió en los libros (1909) escrita por Jacinto Benavente y estrenada en “El teatro de los niños” que él mismo había fundado. Este artículo propone que la reescritura del mito quijotesco que hace Benavente tiene como objetivo realizar una defensa de la imaginación de los niños. En concreto, explora cómo la afición a la lectura del príncipe no es corregida, sino alabada, y cómo el autor incorpora una plétora de referencias a cuentos populares para reivindicar el papel de la lectura de ficción en la formación de los niños. La obra de Benavente se perfila así como una historia para niños y adultos sobre el poder de la literatura y su efecto sobre los valores del público lector.

La resiliencia del mito quijotesco: Don Quijote Z o el mash-up del clásico

Among recent rewritings of Don Quixote de la Mancha, the mash-up stands out as a relevant comment on the enduring presence of Cervantes’ text in contemporary culture. Don Quijote Z (2010) provides an original approach to the quixotic text: rather than rewriting Don Quixote into a different context, it inscribes zombie literature within the hypotext. Given its generic nature, the quixotic mash-up challenges the politics of exclusion from the canon, while highlighting in a self-referential manner its own position on its margins. It is able to develop a Cervantean parody not only of the Z genre, but also of scholarly works, as well as to deliver a satirical approach to contemporary cultural and social values. This paper will analyse the reasons behind the quixotic resilience in literature and culture, together with its manifestation in the Z mash-up of Cervantes’ classic.Entre las más recientes apropiaciones de Don Quijote de la Mancha cabe destacar el mash-up como un comentario a la inagotable presencia del texto de Cervantes en la cultura contemporánea. Don Quijote Z (2010) proporciona un original acercamiento al texto quijotesco: en vez de reescribir a don Quijote en un contexto nuevo, reformula la obra cervantina con elementos de la literatura zombi. El mash-up quijotesco supone, por su propia naturaleza genérica, un reto a las políticas de exclusión del canon, y se muestra autorreferencial al comentar su propia posición en los márgenes de este. Lo hace al desarrollar una parodia cervantina del género Z, pero también de la escritura académica, al mismo tiempo que mantiene un enfoque satírico sobre los valores sociales y culturales contemporáneos. El presente artículo explora los motivos tras esta resiliencia quijotesca en la literatura y la cultura, que se hace evidente en el mash-up Z del clásico de Cervantes

Strategies of (In)Visibility and Resilience: Women Writers in a Digital Era

Women’s presence in literary history has been particularly conditioned by their place in society and by the limited spheres in which their production was expected to appear (e.g. the sentimental novel, romances or children’s literature). In today’s digital, open and connected society, women continue to face visibility problems in the publishing industry and in the online spaces that grant presence and agency. Their role in cultural creations is still hindered by vertical powers that operate as main censors. This circumstance takes place even in a rhizomatic and decentralized virtual space, where dissident discourses have highlighted it, although without enough discursive power to create a full disruption in those monolithic powers capable of isolating and making invisible whole social and cultural sectors. Forcing women’s invisibility or limiting the scope of their production in cultural spheres results in adverse, when not downright traumatic, situations for these authors. The present study addresses the phenomenon of the neutralization of the female author and the strategies developed by women writing in Spanish and English in order to turn this situation around

Buenas prácticas en la enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera (EFL): Familiarización y (auto)evaluación de los estudiantes con el Marco Común Europeo de Referencia

Memoria ID-0025. Ayudas de la Universidad de Salamanca para la innovación docente, curso 2016-2017

WebQuest en el EEES: Percepción del alumnado y formación docente en el uso de las TIC

Memoria ID-167. Ayudas de la Universidad de Salamanca para la innovación docente, curso 2018-2019

Hacia una enseñanza bilingüe: evaluación de competencias lingüísticas y prácticas docentes en lengua extranjera

Memoria ID-0065. Ayudas de la Universidad de Salamanca para la innovación docente, curso 2014-2015