Irene Gammel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3467658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene Gammel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene |
| FAMILY NAME | Gammel |
| SIGNATURE | GAMMEL I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2321-6333 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Common Concern
Rouge
This article draws on theories of Canadian suburban literature (Cheryl Cowdy 2022) and suburban settlement (Zhixi Zhuang 2024), alongside experimental and subway poetics (Eric Schmalz 2022; Tim Conley 2014), to explore the Canadian suburban poetic imaginary. Focusing on Adrian De Leon’s 2018 collection Rouge: Poems, which maps a subway journey from western Toronto to the eastern suburb of Scarborough, the article examines how poetry serves as bot…
The Memory of St Julien
This essay takes the commemorative work of the Canadian painter Mary Riter Hamilton (1867–1954) as a case study to explore representations of what is often remembered as a key moment of Canadian nation-building: the Second Battle of Ypres and the German chlorine gas attack at St Julien. The essay argues that Hamilton treated the subject of St Julien differently from the official Canadian war artists. By adopting a retrospective, immersive and mod…
New Readings of American Expats in Paris
More than fifty years after his violent death in 1961, Ernest Hemingway remains a writer of gigantic proportions. He has a faithful following among high school and university readers, bolstered by a popular culture industry of Hollywood adaptations, biopics, documentaries, and fictionalized expat films: most recently, Hemingway and Gellhorn (2012), an action-packed film starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman; Woody Allen’s summer blockbuster comed…
Lacing Up the Gloves
This article explores women's early twentieth-century engagement with boxing as a means of expressing the fragmentations and contradictions of modern life. Equally drawn to and repelled by the visceral agonism of the sport, female artists and writers of the First World War and post-war era appropriated the boxer's virile body in written and visual autobiographies, effectively breaching male territory and anticipating contemporary notions of femal…
Anne's World
The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
From Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood, this is a complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English and French from its beginnings. The multi-authored volume pays special attention to works from the 1960s and after, to multicultural and indigenous writing, popular literature, and the interaction of anglophone and francophone cultures throughout Canadian history. Established genres such as fiction, drama and poetry are discussed…
Baroness Elsa
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874--1927) is considered by many to be first American dadaist as well as mother of dada. An innovator in poetic form and an early creator of junk sculpture, the was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances. Some thought her merely crazed, others thought her a genius. The editor Margaret Anderson called her perhaps only figure of our generation who deserves epithet extraordinary. Yet desp…
Dada-Ikone in New York. Die Performance- Künstlerin Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
An innovator in cross-disciplinary art forms and the use of found objects, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927) was America’s earliest performance artist. She was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances. A poet, sculptor, and model, she literally embodied the avant-garde dada movement in New York from 1913-1923. During her sojourns in Berlin, Munich, New York, and Paris, she shocked viewers with her perf…
Breaking the Bonds of Discretion
Sexualizing Power in Naturalism
This book began as a doctoral dissertation at McMaster University, but its roots go back even further.After I had left Germany to study in Canada in 1986, Carl Ballstadt's exploration of the "Literature of the Arrival" introduced me to P.P. Grove, touching some deep
The City's Eye of Power
Visibility is a trap. Michel Foucault To go to the city is the changeless desire of the mind. To join in the great, hurrying throng; to see the endless lights, the great shops and stores, the towering structures and palatial mansions, becomes a desire which the mind can scarcely resist. Theodore Dreiser Chicago and New York, Dreiser's celebrated New World cities, energize the movement of author and characters with their raw, sensual drive. They a…
Lacing Up the Gloves
This article explores women's early twentieth-century engagement with boxing as a means of expressing the fragmentations and contradictions of modern life. Equally drawn to and repelled by the visceral agonism of the sport, female artists and writers of the First World War and post-war era appropriated the boxer's virile body in written and visual autobiographies, effectively breaching male territory and anticipating contemporary notions of femal…
Sexualizing Power in Naturalism
This book began as a doctoral dissertation at McMaster University, but its roots go back even further.After I had left Germany to study in Canada in 1986, Carl Ballstadt's exploration of the "Literature of the Arrival" introduced me to P.P. Grove, touching some deep
The City's Eye of Power
Visibility is a trap. Michel Foucault To go to the city is the changeless desire of the mind. To join in the great, hurrying throng; to see the endless lights, the great shops and stores, the towering structures and palatial mansions, becomes a desire which the mind can scarcely resist. Theodore Dreiser Chicago and New York, Dreiser's celebrated New World cities, energize the movement of author and characters with their raw, sensual drive. They a…
Sexualizing Power in Naturalism
This book began as a doctoral dissertation at McMaster University, but its roots go back even further.After I had left Germany to study in Canada in 1986, Carl Ballstadt's exploration of the "Literature of the Arrival" introduced me to P.P. Grove, touching some deep
Breaking the Bonds of Discretion
Baroness Elsa
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874--1927) is considered by many to be first American dadaist as well as mother of dada. An innovator in poetic form and an early creator of junk sculpture, the was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances. Some thought her merely crazed, others thought her a genius. The editor Margaret Anderson called her perhaps only figure of our generation who deserves epithet extraordinary. Yet desp…
Dada-Ikone in New York. Die Performance- Künstlerin Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
An innovator in cross-disciplinary art forms and the use of found objects, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927) was America’s earliest performance artist. She was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances. A poet, sculptor, and model, she literally embodied the avant-garde dada movement in New York from 1913-1923. During her sojourns in Berlin, Munich, New York, and Paris, she shocked viewers with her perf…
The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
From Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood, this is a complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English and French from its beginnings. The multi-authored volume pays special attention to works from the 1960s and after, to multicultural and indigenous writing, popular literature, and the interaction of anglophone and francophone cultures throughout Canadian history. Established genres such as fiction, drama and poetry are discussed…
Anne's World
Lacing Up the Gloves
This article explores women's early twentieth-century engagement with boxing as a means of expressing the fragmentations and contradictions of modern life. Equally drawn to and repelled by the visceral agonism of the sport, female artists and writers of the First World War and post-war era appropriated the boxer's virile body in written and visual autobiographies, effectively breaching male territory and anticipating contemporary notions of femal…
New Readings of American Expats in Paris
More than fifty years after his violent death in 1961, Ernest Hemingway remains a writer of gigantic proportions. He has a faithful following among high school and university readers, bolstered by a popular culture industry of Hollywood adaptations, biopics, documentaries, and fictionalized expat films: most recently, Hemingway and Gellhorn (2012), an action-packed film starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman; Woody Allen’s summer blockbuster comed…
The Memory of St Julien
This essay takes the commemorative work of the Canadian painter Mary Riter Hamilton (1867–1954) as a case study to explore representations of what is often remembered as a key moment of Canadian nation-building: the Second Battle of Ypres and the German chlorine gas attack at St Julien. The essay argues that Hamilton treated the subject of St Julien differently from the official Canadian war artists. By adopting a retrospective, immersive and mod…
Rouge
This article draws on theories of Canadian suburban literature (Cheryl Cowdy 2022) and suburban settlement (Zhixi Zhuang 2024), alongside experimental and subway poetics (Eric Schmalz 2022; Tim Conley 2014), to explore the Canadian suburban poetic imaginary. Focusing on Adrian De Leon’s 2018 collection Rouge: Poems, which maps a subway journey from western Toronto to the eastern suburb of Scarborough, the article examines how poetry serves as bot…
Common Concern
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