Wordsworthian Representation of Literary Imagination through Idiocy

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 285-313
Author(s):  
Byeonghoon Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Literary Imagination

Exploring Humanistic Layers of Urban Travel

Transfers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
Jooyoung Kim ◽  
Taehee Kim ◽  
Jinhyoung Lee ◽  
Inseop Shin
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Mobile Video ◽  
Urban Travel ◽  
Han River ◽  
Mobile Community ◽  
Restricted Region ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Relationship Of

This think piece approaches urban travel from a mobility humanities perspective, using the example of Seoul, South Korea, a leading metropolis in Asia. The article demonstrates three modes of interpreting urban travel in Seoul: (1) representation by means of mobile video technologies embodying a paradoxical relationship of powers; (2) literary imagination confining a possible mobile community in a restricted region; and (3) philosophical speculation presenting “crossing the Han River” as a spiritual and emotional reproduction of the connection between, and consequential rupture of, heterogeneous territories. The article pays particular attention to the represented, imagined, and speculated dimensions of urban travel, which is understood as a physically practiced and cognitively elaborated production, rather than a predefined movement per se.

Rape, Representation, and the Endurance of Hegemonic Masculinity

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (13) ◽  
pp. 1613-1630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Swanson
Keyword(s):  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Texts

This article mines the history of rape jurisprudence to illuminate how the legal treatment of wartime rape informs long-standing gendered tropes that dominate its understanding on the ground as well as its representation in literary and cultural texts. The essay concludes by reading Congolese novelist Emmanuel Dongala’s Johnny Mad Dog as a model for a dialogic literary imagination capable of revealing the fatal consequences of toxic masculinity as it informs not only the perpetration of rape in wartime, but also the possibility for either perpetrator or victim to achieve subjectivity free from the burdens of brutally constraining gender norms.

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