... of gender can play an important interpretive role. Testimonial objects enable us to consider crucial questions about the past, about how the past comes down to us in the present, and about how gender figures in acts of memory and transmission. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Adler...

... with a cross-dressed brother and sister. The analysis examines the construction of the play and its production history to understand the potential pleasures it offered to early modern spectators. This adds a new dimension to the gender studies that formerly dominated the scholarship on this play...

... to show (1)why it appeared useful for literary theory and what happens when literature is construed as fundamentally performative; (2) how it functions in theory and criticism associated with deconstruction, and (3) what role it plays in recent work in gender studies and queer theory, where Judith Butler...

... Swastika Night (1937), the article suggests that the history of feminist speculative fiction offers a counter to twenty-first-century queer scholarship's sometimes reductive approaches to gender and reproduction. Burdekin's book is best known for its prescience in imagining the horrifying prospect...

... developed the new orality by introducing gendered speech and professional argot, creating in turn a Yiddish of the common man, woman, and child and a Yiddish Sublime. In the next phase, two verbal artists, Eliezer Shteynbarg and Itzik Manger, perfected a single, minor speech genre that was performable...

...Rey Chow Taking as its point of departure the unresolved problematic of ethics in poststructuralist theory, this essay approaches ethics from the perspective of mediated visuality in contemporary cultural politics. Noting how the sensitivity to otherness—be it in the form of mass culture, gender...

... of gender as an idiom of remembrance. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2008 Assmann, Aleida 2006 Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit: Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik (Munich: Beck). Assmann, Jan 1997 Das kulturelle Gedächtnis: Schrift, Erinnerung und politische...

... be understood through concepts of sensorimotor imaging, hypnosis, and interoception. To expand the range and nuance of embodied responses, I first counterpoint Fried's two interpretations of the painting Balcony Window , offering a gendered reading and a taxonomy of three sensory modes of looking at art. Second...

..., particularly in terms of gender; they posit that art objects trigger unquenchable desire; and—most significantly—they attribute transformative power to such objects. By affirming the power of art images to improve empathy and relationality in their privileged viewers, the novels reauratize art, supplementing...

..., although certain groups of readers, especially in certain situations, may experience personal relevance and related effects more strongly than others. The literature further suggests that large-scale similarities between reader and character (e.g., gender) may not per se be enough for relevance effects...

... , edited by Bland Lucy Doan Laura , 27 – 43 ( Cambridge, UK : Polity ). Harrowitz Nancy A. Hyams Barbara , eds. 1995 Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger ( Philadelphia : Temple University Press ). Joyce James 1960 [1922] Ulysses ( London : Bodley...

... and Disability . New York : New York University Press . Twigg Juila . 2004. “The Body, Gender, and Age: Feminist Insights in Social Gerontology.” Journal of Aging Studies 18 , no. 1 : 59 – 73 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2003.09.001 . Yoshizaki-Gibbons Hailee M . 2018...

... specificity in this escape act. Whereas Knausgård and Ferrante were able to escape the grids of gender by overdetermining them, Vollmann and Danielewski remain stuck in an in-between space-time that is always changing but where one is never free. The next chapter examines the novel in the post-television...

... literature and thought, to appear in 2024. Alice Crossley is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Lincoln. Her research focuses on intersections between age and gender (especially masculinity) in texts primarily by Victorian and modernist writers. In the field of aging studies her...

... , translated by Harry Zohn(London: NLB). Butler, Judith 1991 “Imitation and Gender Insubordination,” in Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories , edited by Diana Fuss, 13 -31(New York: Routledge). de Certeau, Michel 1984 [1980] The Practice of Everyday Life , translated by Stephen F. Rendall...

..., Kracauer, Canetti, and Sebald and is the author of Kafka and Photography (2007). Marianne Hirsch is professor of English and comparative literature and director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. Her recent publications include Family Frames...

...). 1995 “On Narratology: Criteria, Corpus,Context,” Narrative 3 : 73 -84. 1996 “Narratology, Narratological Criticism, and Gender,” in Fiction Updated: Theories of Fictionality,Narratology, and Poetics , edited by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu and Walid Hamarneh, 159 -64 (Toronto: University...

.... It emerged that female and male readers as well as readers with different sociocultural backgrounds (in Pierre Bourdieu's sense) preferred different reading strategies. © 2004 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2004 Ashmore, Richard D. 1990 “Sex, Gender, and the Individual...

... Life and Letters , edited by Fishman Joshua A. , 1 – 97 ( The Hague : Mouton ). Hadda Janet 1992 “The Eyes Have It: Celia Dropkin's Love Poetry,” in Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature , edited by Sokoloff Naomi Lerner Anne Lapidus Norich Anita...