scholarly journals Erica Jong’s Sappho’s Leap:(Re-)constructing Gender and Authorship through Sappho

2020 ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Emily Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Positive Role Model ◽  
Erica Jong ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Women’S Writing

For contemporary female authors, Sappho is a literary forebear who is both a model for women’s writing and a reminder of the ways in which women have been excluded from the literary canon. Poet and novelist Erica Jong takes up the challenge to gender and authorship posed by Sappho in her 2003 novel, Sappho’s Leap. Jong weaves Sappho’s poetry into her fiction to both complement the Sapphic tradition and to supplant it, proving that female poetry —and authorship— is alive and well, with Sappho continually mediated by and validating each subsequent writer in the female tradition. In addition, Jong’s emphasis on the authentic expression of sexual desire as a bridge to authorship transcends gender binaries, turning Sappho’s Leap into a study of authorship that is not confined to gender. This enables Jong to shift the debate away from the sense of burden placed on female authors post- Sappho and to transform her Sappho into a positive role model for all authors, turning the focus towards a poetics of passion and away from prescriptive assumptions of the relationship between gender and authorship.

‘Now I come to you, ladies, after so much time’: Cleopatra, Maria d'Aragona and an intermedio for the Duchess of Alba

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-63
Author(s):  
NINA TREADWELL
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Relative Autonomy ◽  
Positive Role Model ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
Performance Context ◽  
A Performance

AbstractDuring March 1588, Maria d'Aragona, the Marchesa of Vasto, sponsored a set of four intermedi at her palazzo in Chiaia, Naples. The centrepiece of the entertainment was the intermedio entitled ‘Queen Cleopatra on her Ship’. This article explores d'Aragona's role as sponsor of the entertainment, particularly in relation to her interest in the historical figure of Cleopatra. Drawing on sources that informed perceptions of the Egyptian queen during the early- to mid-Cinquecento, it will be shown that within a performance context governed by a strong-willed female patron, the often negatively depicted Cleopatra could be cast as a positive role model, particularly for d'Aragona-related noblewomen who themselves had experienced strong female mentorship and enjoyed the relative autonomy of widowhood. D'Aragona's decision to cast the Neapolitan virtuosa Eufemia Jozola as Cleopatra reinforced the female-orientated nature of the intermedio, and sheds new light on mid-Cinquecento Neapolitan performance practice.

scholarly journals Charles Darwin i dansk litteratur med særlig henblik på Johannes V. Jensens forfatterskab

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-200
Author(s):  
Sven Hakon Rossel
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Philosophical Debate ◽  
Origin Of Species ◽  
Positive Role Model ◽  
Nobel Prizewinner ◽  
Descent Of Man

Abstract Charles Darwin’s theories were already introduced in Scandinavia in the early 1860s, whereas his two major works, On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), were translated by Danish writer J.P. Jacobsen in the 1870s. Jacobsen acts as an important intermediary both as a scientist and, probably, the first Danish writer whose work is influenced by Darwin’s thoughts. But also in the writings of other authors of the time, e.g. Herman Bang, at least the name “Darwin” infrequently occurs as is also the case with the symbolist writers of the 1890s, e.g. Viggo Stuckenberg and Sophus Claussen. However, not until after 1900 does Darwin serve as an artistic inspiration and a positive role model. This happens in an overpowering manner in the fictional and essayist works of the Danish Nobel Prizewinner Johannes V. Jensen. Jensen’s Darwinism was not countered until the so-called “livsanskuelsesdebat” - a philosophical debate - during the 1920s with the eloquent poet and dramatist Helge Rode as his acute opponent. Hereafter, Darwin’s role in Danish literature decreases significantly unless one wishes to see Peter Høeg’s novel from 1996, Kvinden og aben (The Man and the Ape) as the last example of a Darwin-influence on a literary text.

scholarly journals From a double margin: Anglophone translation of women's writing from Croatia and Serbia

Reci, Beograd ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Sibelan Forrester
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Canon Formation ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Women’S Writing

This article examines Anglophone translations of women's writing from Eastern Europe with particular focus on writers from Croatia and Serbia. After outlining the presences and absences of these women writers in Anglophone translations, it raises some questions about the significance of gender in literary canon formation and the emergence of literary works into a global context through translation.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Role Model terhadap Pilihan Karir pada Mahasiswa Fakultas Kedokteran

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Fatty Maulidira ◽  
Rizma Adlia Syakurah ◽  
Mariatul Fadilah ◽  
Hendarmin Aulia
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Positive Role Model ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Communication Method ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
Career Options ◽  
And Behavior

Introduction: Career as a doctor is not finished after graduate from basic medical education and clerkship. It will continue and there are many career options that can be choose, divided into clinician or non-clinician. There are many factors that influencing career choice, and one of them is role model. This research aimed to know how role model influence career choicing at students’ of Medical Faculty of Sriwijaya University. Method: This research is descriptive qualitative research. Data is acquired from Program Studi Pendidikan Dokter students by survey with open questions and in-depth interview.Results: 293 students become respondents of the survey and 8 students become key informants form in-depth interview. Based from informants, positive role model’ criterias are having a good-teaching method, looking good, having a good communication method, good attitude and behavior, skilled, and success in their career so that students want to follow those positive role model. Informants also said that negative role model’ criterias are having bad teaching method, bad looking and having bad attittude and behavior so that students don't want to follow role model’ trait. Conclusion: Positive role model can make students interested to follow positve role model’ career, and negative role model make students do not want to follow negative role model’ trait.

Feminism and Alienated Labor: Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills

Prospects ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 239-250
Author(s):  
Marty Roth
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
The Past ◽  
Obvious Reason ◽  
Women’S Writing

As One of the primary works of American literature to be recovered by feminist archaeology, Life in the Iron Mills (1861) can also stand as the test of a theoretical blind spot of early feminist criticism – its inability to see “bad writing” – for Davis's novella is notably awkward in its conception and construction. An obvious reason for the lack is that this kind of judgment fulfills an assumption of patriarchy in regard to women's writing: “that the reason for the absence of women [in the literary canon] is that women have not written in the past – or that what they have written is not very good” (Spender, 1). In the older formalist critical dispensation, aesthetic defects had to be publicly identified and labeled, like Hester Prynne's badge of shame. I certainly do not mean to suggest that feminism (however constituted) has any obligation to reproduce this order of judgment, but not owning such effects has consequences. Davis's novella can temporarily resolve this dilemma by using feminism to expose the traditional aesthetics of judgment.

The Flâneur in Undue Influence (1998)

2020 ◽  
pp. 160-191
Author(s):  
Peta Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Undue Influence ◽  
Rhetorical Figure ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Women’S Writing

This chapter takes protagonist Claire Pitt’s speculative imagination, walking and misreading to read Undue Influence through the figure of the flâneur. Tracing the walking journeys undertaken by Claire Pitt and Martin Gibson, it presents a literal and literary map of the novel. It argues against Michel de Certeau’s assertion that maps constitute procedures for forgetting by demonstrating how Brookner’s women’s walking texts have been largely unrecognised. Drawing on Charles Baudelaire’s theories of Romantic imagination and walking, Harold Bloom’s narrative of intertextual influence and the rhetorical figure of peripeteia (reversal), this chapter recasts the relationship between Claire and Martin as the relationship between ephebe and precursor poet. In staging the performance of the flâneur, it rereads Undue Influence through the ‘revisionary ratios’ of Bloom’s narrative of influence—clinamen, tessera, kenosis, daemonisation, askesis, apophrades. It argues against the heterocentric presumption of Brookner’s reception in which personal and romantic failure is the dominant narrative to tell about the novel. By freighting emphasis on women’s creativity, imagination, artistry and subversion and finding new ways to read intersubjective relationships, this chapter underscores value and industry of the woman writer and women’s writing.

Exemplary Rehabilitation Educators Experiences of Mentoring and Beginning Their Careers

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irmo Marini ◽  
Noreen M. Graf ◽  
Bruce J. Reed
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Career Experiences ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Positive Role Model

Purpose: To investigate the career experiences and mentoring advice of nationally recognized rehabilitation educators who have excelled and proffer strategies for success to newcomers to the field.Method: The authors surveyed via Qualtrics 28 rehabilitation educators regarding their career experiences with open and closed structured questions and triangulated for common themes.Results: Two thirds of respondents expressed having a mentor and following his or her advice which included offering opportunities to research and publish, opening doors and assisting in networking, establishing a research agenda, time management, serving as a positive role model, and providing social and emotional support.Conclusions: Respondents emphasized establishing a research agenda, networking, managing time well, and having a mentor who opened doors as being necessary components to success. Implications for doctoral students and new faculty are discussed.

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