Emma Domínguez-Rué
Biographic Data
| ID | 1249424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Domínguez-Rué |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Domínguez-Rué |
| SIGNATURE | DOMÍNGUEZ-RUÉ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Lleida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9718-0110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Negotiating feminine identity through the maternal bond in Elena Ferrante's Troubling Love
Cultural representations have traditionally portrayed the mother as a one-dimensional figure of sacrifice and unconditional devotion, but contemporary writing by women has examined the complexities of what allegedly is the most ‘natural’ of female roles. In her first novel Troubling Love (1992), Elena Ferrante places the mother figure at the centre of feminine identity while seeking to liberate it from stereotypes, thus presenting motherhood in a…
Shaking words
Death is the unusual narrator of The Book Thief (2005), a fictional memoir set in Bavaria at the onset of WWII. Liesel Meminger's foster parents decide to help a German Jew, an event that will catalyze major changes in their lives and which will in turn be embedded in Liesel's account. This paper attempts at analyzing the role of words and how they symbolically recover the stories of those who were silenced: Liesel's memoirs thus become acts of c…
The art of doing good. Aging, creativity and wisdom in the Isabel Dalhousie novels
Successful female aging for beginners
Although Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (1926–2003) is best known for her best-selling mystery novels, published under the pseudonym of Amanda Cross, she also authored remarkable pieces of non-fiction which evidence an intense reflection upon female aging as well as her long-standing commitment to feminism. Works such as Reinventing Womanhood (1979), The Representation of Women in Fiction (1983), Writing a Woman's Life (1988), and The Last Gift of Time: L…
What goes around comes back around
Nightmares of repetition, dreams of affiliation
Mary Wollstonecraft's fiction uses the conventions of the Female Gothic to portray the horrors of women's oppressive reality within a patriarchal society, which do not end with her escape from the haunted castle. Like Wollstonecraft, the writers Elizabeth Gaskell and Ellen Glasgow also use the Gothic confusion of the boundaries of ordinary life – self/other, past/present, reality/fantasy – to reveal a looking-glass world where assumptions of the …
Pen-is-envy
May Sinclair took the risk of using psychoanalysis and the modernist technique of ‘stream of consciousness’ to revise and explore the Victorian world that had shaped her childhood and early youth. This article examines psychoanalysis as Sinclair's instrument to achieve self-realization: in writing her female self through fiction, Sinclair came to terms with the conflicts of her childhood, while redefining herself as a writer and as a woman. The a…
Mothers, daughters and midlife (self)-discoveries
Sins of the flesh
This article discusses anorexia as an aesthetic ideal rather than as an actual illness, as well as its erotic connotations in the context of Victorian literature and culture. The nineteenth century regarded anorexia as a gendered disease: like other so-called ‘female maladies’, it is connected with male standards of femininity and the devastating effects it has on women's self-image. The sometimes contradictory representation of anorexia in liter…
Mothers, daughters and midlife (self)-discoveries
Sins of the flesh
This article discusses anorexia as an aesthetic ideal rather than as an actual illness, as well as its erotic connotations in the context of Victorian literature and culture. The nineteenth century regarded anorexia as a gendered disease: like other so-called ‘female maladies’, it is connected with male standards of femininity and the devastating effects it has on women's self-image. The sometimes contradictory representation of anorexia in liter…
Sins of the flesh
This article discusses anorexia as an aesthetic ideal rather than as an actual illness, as well as its erotic connotations in the context of Victorian literature and culture. The nineteenth century regarded anorexia as a gendered disease: like other so-called ‘female maladies’, it is connected with male standards of femininity and the devastating effects it has on women's self-image. The sometimes contradictory representation of anorexia in liter…
Mothers, daughters and midlife (self)-discoveries
Pen-is-envy
May Sinclair took the risk of using psychoanalysis and the modernist technique of ‘stream of consciousness’ to revise and explore the Victorian world that had shaped her childhood and early youth. This article examines psychoanalysis as Sinclair's instrument to achieve self-realization: in writing her female self through fiction, Sinclair came to terms with the conflicts of her childhood, while redefining herself as a writer and as a woman. The a…
What goes around comes back around
Nightmares of repetition, dreams of affiliation
Mary Wollstonecraft's fiction uses the conventions of the Female Gothic to portray the horrors of women's oppressive reality within a patriarchal society, which do not end with her escape from the haunted castle. Like Wollstonecraft, the writers Elizabeth Gaskell and Ellen Glasgow also use the Gothic confusion of the boundaries of ordinary life – self/other, past/present, reality/fantasy – to reveal a looking-glass world where assumptions of the …
Successful female aging for beginners
Although Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (1926–2003) is best known for her best-selling mystery novels, published under the pseudonym of Amanda Cross, she also authored remarkable pieces of non-fiction which evidence an intense reflection upon female aging as well as her long-standing commitment to feminism. Works such as Reinventing Womanhood (1979), The Representation of Women in Fiction (1983), Writing a Woman's Life (1988), and The Last Gift of Time: L…
The art of doing good. Aging, creativity and wisdom in the Isabel Dalhousie novels
Shaking words
Death is the unusual narrator of The Book Thief (2005), a fictional memoir set in Bavaria at the onset of WWII. Liesel Meminger's foster parents decide to help a German Jew, an event that will catalyze major changes in their lives and which will in turn be embedded in Liesel's account. This paper attempts at analyzing the role of words and how they symbolically recover the stories of those who were silenced: Liesel's memoirs thus become acts of c…
Negotiating feminine identity through the maternal bond in Elena Ferrante's Troubling Love
Cultural representations have traditionally portrayed the mother as a one-dimensional figure of sacrifice and unconditional devotion, but contemporary writing by women has examined the complexities of what allegedly is the most ‘natural’ of female roles. In her first novel Troubling Love (1992), Elena Ferrante places the mother figure at the centre of feminine identity while seeking to liberate it from stereotypes, thus presenting motherhood in a…
Art (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works)