Sara Martin Alegre
Biographic Data
| ID | 319056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Martin Alegre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Alegre |
| SIGNATURE | ALEGRE S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0619-9255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Major Importance of Minor Characters
Special Issue of Hélice
Between Dystopia and Utopia in Catalonia
Manuel de Pedrolo (1918–1990) is one of the most important authors in Catalan, the language used by about ten million speakers in a variety of territories in Southwestern Europe.1 Pedrolo was born to an impoverished aristocratic family near Tàrrega, in Lleida,2 about 110 kilometers east of Barcelona. He moved to the Catalan capital city first in 1935 as an undergraduate student, and later in 1946 after the victory of fascist General Francisco Fra…
Representing (Post) Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction by Carmen Laguarta-Bueno
Carmen Laguarta-Bueno’s remarkable volume Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction is part of the Routledge series Perspectives on the Non-human in Literature and Culture. I mention the series because although this volume might have also been published within the Studies in Speculative Fiction series, the author distances herself both from this mode and from science fiction. Laguarta-Bueno emphasizes in…
Exploring the Affective and Spatial Politics of Choral Music Performance through Focus Groups with Singers
This paper builds on focus groups with singers from a chamber choir that rehearses and performs in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. It explores the spatial politics of performance and singers’ understandings of the impact of choral music, in particular in music with social justice themes. Discussion centers on two compositions about forced migration. Singers reflected on their experiences rehearsing and performing these and other works, exploring the…
An Overlooked Adulteress
Most critics and readers of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) focus on the triangle formed by Helen Graham, her first husband Arthur Huntingdon and the second one Gilbert Markham. However, as I argue here, Brontë narrates yet another romantic story, that of Arthur and his mistress Annabella. Helen’s unhappiness is actually caused by Annabella’s earlier decision to marry a richer, aristocratic man rather than Arthur, whom she loves.…
Das Anna und ihr Hund
In numerous German dialects and in Luxembourgish women or girls are referred to in the neuter. This raises the question whether this is also the case for female animals. Based on data from the research project “Das Anna und ihr Hund – Weibliche Rufnamen im Neutrum”, the present article examines the gender of names and pronouns referring to dogs. Dogs today are no longer kept primarily to perform functions (guard dog, herding dog) but rather as pe…
Schnëssen . Surveying language dynamics in Luxembourgish with a mobile research app
The mobile app Schnëssen establishes a digital and participatory research platform to collect data on present-day spoken Luxembourgish through crowdsourcing and to present the results of data analysis to the general public. Users can participate in different kinds of audio recording tasks (translation, picture naming, reading, question) as well as in sociolinguistic surveys. All audio recordings are accessible to the public via an interactive map…
Per una storia privata della critica cinematografica italiana
In the last two decades, the history of film criticism gained significant attention both within Italy and internationally.The three-year research project "A Private History of Italian Film Criticism.Public Roles and Private Relations: the Institutionalization of Film Criticism in Italy from 1930s to 1970s" (funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research) aims at investigating the process of institutionalization of Italian film critici…
The Power of Monstrous Women
This essay deals with three British novels written by female novelists in the 1980s: Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry. The protagonists of these three novels are monstrous women who enjoy power over men in different situations. The essay considers the idea of monstrosity explored in each novel from the freakish to the carnivalesque-and argues that, firs…
The Power of Monstrous Women
This essay deals with three British novels written by female novelists in the 1980s: Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry. The protagonists of these three novels are monstrous women who enjoy power over men in different situations. The essay considers the idea of monstrosity explored in each novel from the freakish to the carnivalesque-and argues that, firs…
The Power of Monstrous Women
This essay deals with three British novels written by female novelists in the 1980s: Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry. The protagonists of these three novels are monstrous women who enjoy power over men in different situations. The essay considers the idea of monstrosity explored in each novel from the freakish to the carnivalesque-and argues that, firs…
An Overlooked Adulteress
Most critics and readers of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) focus on the triangle formed by Helen Graham, her first husband Arthur Huntingdon and the second one Gilbert Markham. However, as I argue here, Brontë narrates yet another romantic story, that of Arthur and his mistress Annabella. Helen’s unhappiness is actually caused by Annabella’s earlier decision to marry a richer, aristocratic man rather than Arthur, whom she loves.…
Das Anna und ihr Hund
In numerous German dialects and in Luxembourgish women or girls are referred to in the neuter. This raises the question whether this is also the case for female animals. Based on data from the research project “Das Anna und ihr Hund – Weibliche Rufnamen im Neutrum”, the present article examines the gender of names and pronouns referring to dogs. Dogs today are no longer kept primarily to perform functions (guard dog, herding dog) but rather as pe…
Schnëssen . Surveying language dynamics in Luxembourgish with a mobile research app
The mobile app Schnëssen establishes a digital and participatory research platform to collect data on present-day spoken Luxembourgish through crowdsourcing and to present the results of data analysis to the general public. Users can participate in different kinds of audio recording tasks (translation, picture naming, reading, question) as well as in sociolinguistic surveys. All audio recordings are accessible to the public via an interactive map…
Per una storia privata della critica cinematografica italiana
In the last two decades, the history of film criticism gained significant attention both within Italy and internationally.The three-year research project "A Private History of Italian Film Criticism.Public Roles and Private Relations: the Institutionalization of Film Criticism in Italy from 1930s to 1970s" (funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research) aims at investigating the process of institutionalization of Italian film critici…
Representing (Post) Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction by Carmen Laguarta-Bueno
Carmen Laguarta-Bueno’s remarkable volume Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction is part of the Routledge series Perspectives on the Non-human in Literature and Culture. I mention the series because although this volume might have also been published within the Studies in Speculative Fiction series, the author distances herself both from this mode and from science fiction. Laguarta-Bueno emphasizes in…
Exploring the Affective and Spatial Politics of Choral Music Performance through Focus Groups with Singers
This paper builds on focus groups with singers from a chamber choir that rehearses and performs in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. It explores the spatial politics of performance and singers’ understandings of the impact of choral music, in particular in music with social justice themes. Discussion centers on two compositions about forced migration. Singers reflected on their experiences rehearsing and performing these and other works, exploring the…
Special Issue of Hélice
Between Dystopia and Utopia in Catalonia
Manuel de Pedrolo (1918–1990) is one of the most important authors in Catalan, the language used by about ten million speakers in a variety of territories in Southwestern Europe.1 Pedrolo was born to an impoverished aristocratic family near Tàrrega, in Lleida,2 about 110 kilometers east of Barcelona. He moved to the Catalan capital city first in 1935 as an undergraduate student, and later in 1946 after the victory of fascist General Francisco Fra…
The Major Importance of Minor Characters
Art (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Dystopia (2 works)