María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1445040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro |
| GIVEN NAMES | María Jesús |
| FAMILY NAME | Martínez-Alfaro |
| SIGNATURE | MARTÍNEZ-ALFARO M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Zaragoza |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7335-7690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Confronting the Joint Legacies of the Holocaust and Colonialism in Alex Miller'sLandscape of Farewell
The aim of this article is to apply the concept of synergy to the workings of memory in Alex Miller''s Landscape of Farewell (2007) by focusing on the relationship between its two main characters, Max Otto, a German professor of history, and Dougald Gnapun, an Aboriginal elder. It does so with a view to analysing the way in which fiction can weave connections between different histories of violence-in this case the Holocaust and the colonisation …
The Estrangement Effect in Three Holocaust Narratives
Holocaust literature has often been described as producing disruption and estrangement. As the Holocaust challenges traditional forms of expression, writers have used alternative techniques, sometimes blurring genres and registers. This is the case with Holocaust narratives that rewrite fairy tales or use fairy-tale motifs and structures: they produce an estrangement effect in that their intertexts are defamiliarised as a strategy for opening up …
The Spectral Evidence of Photography in Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room
This article focuses on Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room (2001), which I place in the context of what Froma I. Zeitlin (2006) regards as an emerging trend in Holocaust literature: fictional stories that move away from the victims and focus instead on the victimisers, as well as on the impact and legacy of the Nazi period on average Germans. The Dark Room consists of three independent but related stories, entitled after each German protagonist, and…
A Look into the Abyss
Although its origins are traceable to the 1930s, the greatest surge of the metaphysical detective story and of the critical inclination to examine detective narratives within this framework coincides, to a remarkable extent, with the emergence of postmodern culture. The metaphysical detective story shares its heritage with the mainstream detective story-especially the influence of Poe-but it differs from the latter in many ways. Patricia Merivale…
Postmodernism and the ontological dominant
This article proposes an analysis of Peter Ackroyd's The House of Doctor Dee (1993) in the light of two different dichotomies: Brian McHale's epistemological (cognitive) / ontological (postcognitive) dominant and John Vernon's garden / map dynamics. The House of Doctor Dee is constructed around a series of strategies closely related to the postcognitive worldview, strategies which have come to be associated with postmodernist aesthetics and which…
A Look into the Abyss
Although its origins are traceable to the 1930s, the greatest surge of the metaphysical detective story and of the critical inclination to examine detective narratives within this framework coincides, to a remarkable extent, with the emergence of postmodern culture. The metaphysical detective story shares its heritage with the mainstream detective story-especially the influence of Poe-but it differs from the latter in many ways. Patricia Merivale…
Postmodernism and the ontological dominant
This article proposes an analysis of Peter Ackroyd's The House of Doctor Dee (1993) in the light of two different dichotomies: Brian McHale's epistemological (cognitive) / ontological (postcognitive) dominant and John Vernon's garden / map dynamics. The House of Doctor Dee is constructed around a series of strategies closely related to the postcognitive worldview, strategies which have come to be associated with postmodernist aesthetics and which…
A Look into the Abyss
Although its origins are traceable to the 1930s, the greatest surge of the metaphysical detective story and of the critical inclination to examine detective narratives within this framework coincides, to a remarkable extent, with the emergence of postmodern culture. The metaphysical detective story shares its heritage with the mainstream detective story-especially the influence of Poe-but it differs from the latter in many ways. Patricia Merivale…
The Spectral Evidence of Photography in Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room
This article focuses on Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room (2001), which I place in the context of what Froma I. Zeitlin (2006) regards as an emerging trend in Holocaust literature: fictional stories that move away from the victims and focus instead on the victimisers, as well as on the impact and legacy of the Nazi period on average Germans. The Dark Room consists of three independent but related stories, entitled after each German protagonist, and…
The Estrangement Effect in Three Holocaust Narratives
Holocaust literature has often been described as producing disruption and estrangement. As the Holocaust challenges traditional forms of expression, writers have used alternative techniques, sometimes blurring genres and registers. This is the case with Holocaust narratives that rewrite fairy tales or use fairy-tale motifs and structures: they produce an estrangement effect in that their intertexts are defamiliarised as a strategy for opening up …
Confronting the Joint Legacies of the Holocaust and Colonialism in Alex Miller'sLandscape of Farewell
The aim of this article is to apply the concept of synergy to the workings of memory in Alex Miller''s Landscape of Farewell (2007) by focusing on the relationship between its two main characters, Max Otto, a German professor of history, and Dougald Gnapun, an Aboriginal elder. It does so with a view to analysing the way in which fiction can weave connections between different histories of violence-in this case the Holocaust and the colonisation …
Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · The Holocaust (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)