Stefania Arcara
Biographic Data
| ID | 1253997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefania Arcara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefania |
| FAMILY NAME | Arcara |
| SIGNATURE | ARCARA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Catania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Woman Is Talking To Death
The “feminist poetry movement” of the 1970s constitutes a distinct current in American poetry and, like other movements such as the Beat poets of the 1950s and the antiwar poets of the 1960s, achieves a combination of art and politics. The groundbreaking long poem A Woman Is Talking To Death by working-class lesbian-feminist poet Judy Grahn, published in 1973 and enthusiastically received in the context of the women’s liberation movement, and at …
Le féminisme matérialiste contre les études littéraires et de traductologie. Comment Christine Delphy a changé ma vie d’universitaire
The autobiography of a Victorian pornographer
Written by Edward Sellon just before his suicide, The Ups and Downs of Life (1867) is at once a book of pornography and a pornographer’s philosophical testament. This article analyzes the literary strategies, discursive practices and ideological implications that inform this ‘erotic autobiography’, a remarkable text so far neglected by scholarship. With the methodological tools of gender studies and feminist literary criticism, the article examin…
Hellenic transgressions, homosexual politics
This essay explores a lesser known aspect of the construction of Italy in late Victorian culture: the way in which Sicily, with its ancient Greek associations, functioned as a code for the expression of dissident desire and provided a powerful ideological support in the emergence of modern male homosexual identity in Britain. Symonds and Wilde, who both visited Sicily twice, are intellectual travellers whose motivations are not limited to those o…
The serpent and the dove
This article centres on the figure of Emily Lowe, an obscure Victorian traveller, and on her book Unprotected Females in Sicily (1859). Far from being just one more eccentric woman traveller, Lowe displayed highly ambivalent behaviour, alternatively adopting a traditional feminine attitude and an extremely transgressive conduct epitomized in the concept of her ‘unprotectedness’. The intentional ambiguity of her narrative persona is analysed in Fo…
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The serpent and the dove
This article centres on the figure of Emily Lowe, an obscure Victorian traveller, and on her book Unprotected Females in Sicily (1859). Far from being just one more eccentric woman traveller, Lowe displayed highly ambivalent behaviour, alternatively adopting a traditional feminine attitude and an extremely transgressive conduct epitomized in the concept of her ‘unprotectedness’. The intentional ambiguity of her narrative persona is analysed in Fo…
Hellenic transgressions, homosexual politics
This essay explores a lesser known aspect of the construction of Italy in late Victorian culture: the way in which Sicily, with its ancient Greek associations, functioned as a code for the expression of dissident desire and provided a powerful ideological support in the emergence of modern male homosexual identity in Britain. Symonds and Wilde, who both visited Sicily twice, are intellectual travellers whose motivations are not limited to those o…
The autobiography of a Victorian pornographer
Written by Edward Sellon just before his suicide, The Ups and Downs of Life (1867) is at once a book of pornography and a pornographer’s philosophical testament. This article analyzes the literary strategies, discursive practices and ideological implications that inform this ‘erotic autobiography’, a remarkable text so far neglected by scholarship. With the methodological tools of gender studies and feminist literary criticism, the article examin…
Le féminisme matérialiste contre les études littéraires et de traductologie. Comment Christine Delphy a changé ma vie d’universitaire
A Woman Is Talking To Death
The “feminist poetry movement” of the 1970s constitutes a distinct current in American poetry and, like other movements such as the Beat poets of the 1950s and the antiwar poets of the 1960s, achieves a combination of art and politics. The groundbreaking long poem A Woman Is Talking To Death by working-class lesbian-feminist poet Judy Grahn, published in 1973 and enthusiastically received in the context of the women’s liberation movement, and at …
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