Marta Miquel-Baldellou
Biographic Data
| ID | 3489809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Miquel-Baldellou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Miquel-Baldellou |
| SIGNATURE | MIQUEL-BALDELLOU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Lleida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9002-5679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Ball Is in Your Court: Snapshots of Political Discourses in Contemporary Films about Tennis
Despite the traditional values that tennis has generally been associated with, the portrayal of this sport in different cultural manifestations, such as cinema, gives evidence of its latent potentiality to dismantle conventional social assumptions. In particular, contemporary films about tennis give evidence that, in the evolution of the game, tennis not only has reflected political changes in society but has also contributed to promoting them. W…
Feminist Psychoanalytic Reinterpretations of the Mother as the Monstrous-Feminine in Carlota Pereda’s La Ermita
On the basis of the notion of the monstrous-feminine, it is claimed that, in classic horror narratives, female characters were often portrayed as victims, and little attention was paid to representations of the female monster. The concept of the feminine has been perceived as monstrous mostly owing to psychoanalytic assumptions about an alleged castrated femininity, although that monstrosity truly reveals a male castrating anxiety. In Carlota Per…
Revisiting Suburban Gothic Narratives: Intertextualities, Gender, and the Invisible Trope of Old Age in The Stepford Wives and Edward Scissorhands
Suburban Gothic fiction explores the latent dysfunctionality that lies beneath residential areas despite their apparently blissful image upholding the ideals of the American dream. Insofar as suburban Gothic is rooted in domestic Gothic and, by extension, female Gothic, it underscores the inextricable relation established between gender and aging, particularly with regard to the Victorian trope of arrested development, which acquires different co…
Archaic, Phallic, and Castrated: Revisiting Stephen King’s The Shining through the Trope of the Monstrous Mother and its Manifestations
Stephen King’s novel The Shining (1977) has often been considered a contemporary classic that updates the nineteenth-century ghost story and narratives of haunted houses, while it reflects latent fears about the collapse of the traditional family, and the threat to hegemonic masculinities upon the rise of feminist studies. Drawing on Barbara Creed’s notion of the monstrous-feminine, it is feasible to reinterpret one of King’s most iconic novels a…
From Decline to Becoming: Evolving Images of Aging Masculinities in Stephen King’s Mr Mercedes
The portrayal of the aging detective in King’s first novel of his trilogy of hard-boiled fiction, Mr Mercedes (2014), brings to the fore the interconnection between the discourses of gender and aging, while it also underscores contemporary reinterpretations that call into question the representation of the classic hard-boiled detective as a paradigm of dominant masculinity. Drawing on concepts from the field of age studies—such as Margaret Gullet…
Adaptación y transformación del cuento de fantasmas victoriano: Rastros de intertextualidad en «Los otros» de Alejandro Amenábar y «El orfanato» de Juan Antonio Bayona
Una serie de largometrajes de cineastas españoles de principios del siglo XXI, como es el caso de Los otros (2001) de Alejandro Amenábar y El orfanato (2007) de Juan Antonio Bayona, evocan, a la par que recrean, el cuento de fantasmas victoriano. Ambas obras cinematográficas presentan rasgos intertextuales entre sí debido a que entroncan con la tradición gótica decimonónica, particularmente en lo que atañe a las disfuncionalidades en la instituci…
“It made her age hard to guess”: Narrating the dynamics of aging and gender through Victorian Gothic archetypes in Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black
Although Susan Hill has become a prolific writer of ghost narratives in the last decades, it was at a particularly momentous stage of her life as a woman writer that she published The Woman in Black (1983), which is considered her first ghost novel. Evoking the Victorian past, The Woman in Black engages intertextually with Victorian novels within the Gothic genre. The character of the Woman in Black comprises features pertaining to different Vict…
From Margo Channing to Margaret Elliot: The Aging Actress, Age Performance, and the Dictates of Aging in Joseph Mankiewicz’s All about Eve and Stuart Heisler’s The Star
Bette Davis played the role of an aging actress in different films throughout her career. In Joseph Mankiewicz’s All about Eve (1950), Davis performs one of her most highly acclaimed parts as Margo Channing, a mature actress who must face the decline of her acting career upon the arrival of a younger and ambitious counterpart. Only two years later, in Stuart Heisler’s The Star (1952), Davis once more played the role of an aging actress, Margaret …
Retracing the Gothic Romance: Instances of Transtextuality in Gaston Leroux’s Le fantôme de l’opéra and Alejandro Amenábar’s Abre los ojos
This article aims to offer a comparative analysis between Gaston Leroux’s novel Le fantôme de l’opéra (1910) and Alejandro Amenábar’s film Abre los ojos (1997) in which Amenábar’s film will be interpreted as a postmodern adaptation of Leroux’s original novel. This analysis will also identify those traits pertaining to the Gothic tradition and the nineteenth-century Gothic romance as reflected in Leroux’s modernist approach and reinterpreted in Am…
Envejecimiento, género y performatividad en ‘‘The cat from hell’’ de Stephen King y ‘‘The front room’’ de Susan Hill
Con la eclosión de los estudios del envejecimiento, las teorías de género han dirigido su atención hacia el modo en que los discursos de feminidad y masculinidad inciden en las percepciones de la vejez y, a su vez, en la manera en que los discursos del envejecimiento también condicionan el género. Judith Butler (1990) acuñó la noción de performatividad de género y el modo en que la imposibilidad de repetir las mismas rutinas sociales de género a …
‘The End Lies in the Beginning’: Embracing Childhood and Old Age in Susan Hill's Ghost Novels The Small Hand and Dolly
Susan Hill's novels The Small Hand (2010) and Dolly (2012) evoke Victorian tropes of age inversion drawn from children's literature and ghost narratives that undermine the boundaries established between childhood and old age. Given their neo-Victorian features, Hill's two novels engage in dialogue with these Victorian tropes, but, in comparison, Hill's spectral entities literally denote that these life stages are interrelated and should be embrac…
From pathology to invisibility: Age identity as a cultural construct in vampire fiction
A diachronic analysis of the way the literary vampire has been characterised from the Victorian era up to the contemporary period underlines a clear evolution that seems particularly relevant from the perspective of ageing studies. One of the permanent features characterising the fictional vampire from its origins to its current manifestations in literature is precisely the vampire’s disaffection with the effects of ageing in spite of its old chr…
Leaving Darwing behind? Transcending body, mind and soul through the occult in Edward Bulwer-Lytton ́s a strange story
En la novela A Strange Story, concebida como un romance en defensa de lo sobrenatural, Bulwer- Lytton aspira a conducir a su héroe Allen Fenwick hacia la creencia en la existencia del alma. Bulwer- Lytton intenta redimir a Fenwick a través de la reducación espiritual, cuestionando así la teoría de la evolución de Darwin, publicada dos años antes que A Strange Story. Pese a todo, Bulwer-Lytton emplea la ciencia para analizar el alma. En el periodo…
From boys to men in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham and Horatio Alger's "Struggling Upward": The dandy and the self-made man coming of age
En la Inglaterra victoriana y la América decimonónica, las narraciones de aventuras se convirtieron en un género privilegiado para inculcar determinados valores a los chicos jóvenes. A pesar de la supuesta universalidad que suele caracterizar a estos relatos, las concepciones de nación y género que presentan suelen caracterizar a sus países de origen. El escritor inglés de la época victoriana Edward Bulwer-Lytton, en su temprana novela, Pelham (1…
Women in the Twilight and Identity in the Making: The Concept of Transition in Eavan Boland’s Poetry
Many of Eavan Boland's poems appear to be located at transitional or liminal moments. The women that populate her poems often tend to make their appearance at dusk, or during the twilight that is formed when the day gives way to the night. This atmosphere of ambiguity and of blurring of certainties seems to be
A series of mere household events: Evoking and questioning nineteenth-century ethics of victorian family life in Edgar Allan Poe's tales
En este documento se hace un esfuerzo para cortar una clara distinción entre la neutralización con respecto al eje y la neutralización con respecto al eje sintagmático , independientemente de la utilidad de nombrarlos sincretismo y neutralización , respectivamente
The Beloved Purple of Their Eyes: Inheriting Bessie Smith's Politics of Sexuality
Bessie Smith has traditionally been regarded as The Empress of the Blues. Armed with a potent voice and a daring performance, she became one of the first and most popular African-American artists of all time. Through the lyrics of her songs, she underlined the difficulties many African-American women underwent at the time, focusing on their sorrows, their sexuality and the relationships they established with both males and other females. The poli…
From pathology to invisibility: Age identity as a cultural construct in vampire fiction
A diachronic analysis of the way the literary vampire has been characterised from the Victorian era up to the contemporary period underlines a clear evolution that seems particularly relevant from the perspective of ageing studies. One of the permanent features characterising the fictional vampire from its origins to its current manifestations in literature is precisely the vampire’s disaffection with the effects of ageing in spite of its old chr…
Women in the Twilight and Identity in the Making: The Concept of Transition in Eavan Boland’s Poetry
Many of Eavan Boland's poems appear to be located at transitional or liminal moments. The women that populate her poems often tend to make their appearance at dusk, or during the twilight that is formed when the day gives way to the night. This atmosphere of ambiguity and of blurring of certainties seems to be
A series of mere household events: Evoking and questioning nineteenth-century ethics of victorian family life in Edgar Allan Poe's tales
En este documento se hace un esfuerzo para cortar una clara distinción entre la neutralización con respecto al eje y la neutralización con respecto al eje sintagmático , independientemente de la utilidad de nombrarlos sincretismo y neutralización , respectivamente
The Beloved Purple of Their Eyes: Inheriting Bessie Smith's Politics of Sexuality
Bessie Smith has traditionally been regarded as The Empress of the Blues. Armed with a potent voice and a daring performance, she became one of the first and most popular African-American artists of all time. Through the lyrics of her songs, she underlined the difficulties many African-American women underwent at the time, focusing on their sorrows, their sexuality and the relationships they established with both males and other females. The poli…
From boys to men in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham and Horatio Alger's "Struggling Upward": The dandy and the self-made man coming of age
En la Inglaterra victoriana y la América decimonónica, las narraciones de aventuras se convirtieron en un género privilegiado para inculcar determinados valores a los chicos jóvenes. A pesar de la supuesta universalidad que suele caracterizar a estos relatos, las concepciones de nación y género que presentan suelen caracterizar a sus países de origen. El escritor inglés de la época victoriana Edward Bulwer-Lytton, en su temprana novela, Pelham (1…
Leaving Darwing behind? Transcending body, mind and soul through the occult in Edward Bulwer-Lytton ́s a strange story
En la novela A Strange Story, concebida como un romance en defensa de lo sobrenatural, Bulwer- Lytton aspira a conducir a su héroe Allen Fenwick hacia la creencia en la existencia del alma. Bulwer- Lytton intenta redimir a Fenwick a través de la reducación espiritual, cuestionando así la teoría de la evolución de Darwin, publicada dos años antes que A Strange Story. Pese a todo, Bulwer-Lytton emplea la ciencia para analizar el alma. En el periodo…
From pathology to invisibility: Age identity as a cultural construct in vampire fiction
A diachronic analysis of the way the literary vampire has been characterised from the Victorian era up to the contemporary period underlines a clear evolution that seems particularly relevant from the perspective of ageing studies. One of the permanent features characterising the fictional vampire from its origins to its current manifestations in literature is precisely the vampire’s disaffection with the effects of ageing in spite of its old chr…
‘The End Lies in the Beginning’: Embracing Childhood and Old Age in Susan Hill's Ghost Novels The Small Hand and Dolly
Susan Hill's novels The Small Hand (2010) and Dolly (2012) evoke Victorian tropes of age inversion drawn from children's literature and ghost narratives that undermine the boundaries established between childhood and old age. Given their neo-Victorian features, Hill's two novels engage in dialogue with these Victorian tropes, but, in comparison, Hill's spectral entities literally denote that these life stages are interrelated and should be embrac…
Envejecimiento, género y performatividad en ‘‘The cat from hell’’ de Stephen King y ‘‘The front room’’ de Susan Hill
Con la eclosión de los estudios del envejecimiento, las teorías de género han dirigido su atención hacia el modo en que los discursos de feminidad y masculinidad inciden en las percepciones de la vejez y, a su vez, en la manera en que los discursos del envejecimiento también condicionan el género. Judith Butler (1990) acuñó la noción de performatividad de género y el modo en que la imposibilidad de repetir las mismas rutinas sociales de género a …
Adaptación y transformación del cuento de fantasmas victoriano: Rastros de intertextualidad en «Los otros» de Alejandro Amenábar y «El orfanato» de Juan Antonio Bayona
Una serie de largometrajes de cineastas españoles de principios del siglo XXI, como es el caso de Los otros (2001) de Alejandro Amenábar y El orfanato (2007) de Juan Antonio Bayona, evocan, a la par que recrean, el cuento de fantasmas victoriano. Ambas obras cinematográficas presentan rasgos intertextuales entre sí debido a que entroncan con la tradición gótica decimonónica, particularmente en lo que atañe a las disfuncionalidades en la instituci…
“It made her age hard to guess”: Narrating the dynamics of aging and gender through Victorian Gothic archetypes in Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black
Although Susan Hill has become a prolific writer of ghost narratives in the last decades, it was at a particularly momentous stage of her life as a woman writer that she published The Woman in Black (1983), which is considered her first ghost novel. Evoking the Victorian past, The Woman in Black engages intertextually with Victorian novels within the Gothic genre. The character of the Woman in Black comprises features pertaining to different Vict…
From Margo Channing to Margaret Elliot: The Aging Actress, Age Performance, and the Dictates of Aging in Joseph Mankiewicz’s All about Eve and Stuart Heisler’s The Star
Bette Davis played the role of an aging actress in different films throughout her career. In Joseph Mankiewicz’s All about Eve (1950), Davis performs one of her most highly acclaimed parts as Margo Channing, a mature actress who must face the decline of her acting career upon the arrival of a younger and ambitious counterpart. Only two years later, in Stuart Heisler’s The Star (1952), Davis once more played the role of an aging actress, Margaret …
Retracing the Gothic Romance: Instances of Transtextuality in Gaston Leroux’s Le fantôme de l’opéra and Alejandro Amenábar’s Abre los ojos
This article aims to offer a comparative analysis between Gaston Leroux’s novel Le fantôme de l’opéra (1910) and Alejandro Amenábar’s film Abre los ojos (1997) in which Amenábar’s film will be interpreted as a postmodern adaptation of Leroux’s original novel. This analysis will also identify those traits pertaining to the Gothic tradition and the nineteenth-century Gothic romance as reflected in Leroux’s modernist approach and reinterpreted in Am…
Archaic, Phallic, and Castrated: Revisiting Stephen King’s The Shining through the Trope of the Monstrous Mother and its Manifestations
Stephen King’s novel The Shining (1977) has often been considered a contemporary classic that updates the nineteenth-century ghost story and narratives of haunted houses, while it reflects latent fears about the collapse of the traditional family, and the threat to hegemonic masculinities upon the rise of feminist studies. Drawing on Barbara Creed’s notion of the monstrous-feminine, it is feasible to reinterpret one of King’s most iconic novels a…
From Decline to Becoming: Evolving Images of Aging Masculinities in Stephen King’s Mr Mercedes
The portrayal of the aging detective in King’s first novel of his trilogy of hard-boiled fiction, Mr Mercedes (2014), brings to the fore the interconnection between the discourses of gender and aging, while it also underscores contemporary reinterpretations that call into question the representation of the classic hard-boiled detective as a paradigm of dominant masculinity. Drawing on concepts from the field of age studies—such as Margaret Gullet…
Feminist Psychoanalytic Reinterpretations of the Mother as the Monstrous-Feminine in Carlota Pereda’s La Ermita
On the basis of the notion of the monstrous-feminine, it is claimed that, in classic horror narratives, female characters were often portrayed as victims, and little attention was paid to representations of the female monster. The concept of the feminine has been perceived as monstrous mostly owing to psychoanalytic assumptions about an alleged castrated femininity, although that monstrosity truly reveals a male castrating anxiety. In Carlota Per…
Revisiting Suburban Gothic Narratives: Intertextualities, Gender, and the Invisible Trope of Old Age in The Stepford Wives and Edward Scissorhands
Suburban Gothic fiction explores the latent dysfunctionality that lies beneath residential areas despite their apparently blissful image upholding the ideals of the American dream. Insofar as suburban Gothic is rooted in domestic Gothic and, by extension, female Gothic, it underscores the inextricable relation established between gender and aging, particularly with regard to the Victorian trope of arrested development, which acquires different co…
The Ball Is in Your Court: Snapshots of Political Discourses in Contemporary Films about Tennis
Despite the traditional values that tennis has generally been associated with, the portrayal of this sport in different cultural manifestations, such as cinema, gives evidence of its latent potentiality to dismantle conventional social assumptions. In particular, contemporary films about tennis give evidence that, in the evolution of the game, tennis not only has reflected political changes in society but has also contributed to promoting them. W…
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