Jan-Melissa Schramm
Biographic Data
| ID | 357899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan-Melissa Schramm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan-Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Schramm |
| SIGNATURE | SCHRAMM J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Human Rights, World Literature, and World Citizenship: From Charles Dickens to Alexis Wright
Human Rights, World Literature, and World Citizenship: From Charles Dickens to Alexis Wright interrogates the structural tension between the universalist ambitions of human rights discourse and their chronic subordination to the municipal jurisdictions of sovereign nation-states. Tracing this contradiction from its Enlightenment origins through the contemporary moment, the article contends that imaginative literature constitutes a distinct and ir…
I feel I am a man and a free man too: Palawa voices and the ethics of representation in contemporary Tasmanian fiction
This article takes as its point of departure the political work of the English novel in both accompanying and arguably catalysing the expansion of the public sphere in the 18th/19th centuries through the enfranchisement of an ever-expanding range of previously marginalized voices. The representation of first-person testimony was crucial to this achievement, enabling the novel genre to function as a paralegal petition for the pursuit of an ever mo…
Sacrifice and Modern War Literature
Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. It has been common for critics to argue that after the First World War many of the cultural and religious values associated with sacrifice have been increasingly rejected by writers and others. As the contributors to this volume show, though, literature has continued to add…
Afterword
In trying to understand why ‘nation-ness is the most universally legitimate value in the political life of our time’, Benedict Anderson stresses the importance of the role played by the human imagination—both individual and collective.1 As literacy rose across the course of the long nineteenth century, acts of reading—of newspapers, novels, and poetry—took place contemporaneously within its borders, creating among citizens a shared idea of a poli…
Sacrifice and the Inner Organs of the Cold-War Citizen: The Battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror
The cold war as a historical continuum within the citizen imagination existed as a set of internalized mechanisms for the imperilling and domination of the subject. This transpires in some of the more extreme fictions that attempted to stage this anxiety as a fear for internal organs, as a sacrificial logic threatening innocent citizen ‘insides’. This chapter discusses examples of those stagings: Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy; Elizabeth Bowen’s The Li…
From Virtue to Goodness: Biblical Values in Victorian Literature
Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative
The Anatomy of a Barrister's Tongue”: Rhetoric, Satire, and the Victorian Bar in England
I N THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS (1848–50), William Thackeray calls upon the binary model of Victorian intellectualism in order to define the status and responsibilities of an author of fiction. For Thackeray, himself an initiate of the Middle Temple, the antagonist which permitted such a clarification of artistic privilege was the law, as conceived in utilitarian and mechanistic terms. Perhaps inspired by the ensign of the Inner Temple, the Winged H…
I feel I am a man and a free man too: Palawa voices and the ethics of representation in contemporary Tasmanian fiction
This article takes as its point of departure the political work of the English novel in both accompanying and arguably catalysing the expansion of the public sphere in the 18th/19th centuries through the enfranchisement of an ever-expanding range of previously marginalized voices. The representation of first-person testimony was crucial to this achievement, enabling the novel genre to function as a paralegal petition for the pursuit of an ever mo…
The Anatomy of a Barrister's Tongue”: Rhetoric, Satire, and the Victorian Bar in England
I N THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS (1848–50), William Thackeray calls upon the binary model of Victorian intellectualism in order to define the status and responsibilities of an author of fiction. For Thackeray, himself an initiate of the Middle Temple, the antagonist which permitted such a clarification of artistic privilege was the law, as conceived in utilitarian and mechanistic terms. Perhaps inspired by the ensign of the Inner Temple, the Winged H…
Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative
From Virtue to Goodness: Biblical Values in Victorian Literature
Sacrifice and Modern War Literature
Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. It has been common for critics to argue that after the First World War many of the cultural and religious values associated with sacrifice have been increasingly rejected by writers and others. As the contributors to this volume show, though, literature has continued to add…
Afterword
In trying to understand why ‘nation-ness is the most universally legitimate value in the political life of our time’, Benedict Anderson stresses the importance of the role played by the human imagination—both individual and collective.1 As literacy rose across the course of the long nineteenth century, acts of reading—of newspapers, novels, and poetry—took place contemporaneously within its borders, creating among citizens a shared idea of a poli…
Sacrifice and the Inner Organs of the Cold-War Citizen: The Battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror
The cold war as a historical continuum within the citizen imagination existed as a set of internalized mechanisms for the imperilling and domination of the subject. This transpires in some of the more extreme fictions that attempted to stage this anxiety as a fear for internal organs, as a sacrificial logic threatening innocent citizen ‘insides’. This chapter discusses examples of those stagings: Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy; Elizabeth Bowen’s The Li…
I feel I am a man and a free man too: Palawa voices and the ethics of representation in contemporary Tasmanian fiction
This article takes as its point of departure the political work of the English novel in both accompanying and arguably catalysing the expansion of the public sphere in the 18th/19th centuries through the enfranchisement of an ever-expanding range of previously marginalized voices. The representation of first-person testimony was crucial to this achievement, enabling the novel genre to function as a paralegal petition for the pursuit of an ever mo…
Human Rights, World Literature, and World Citizenship: From Charles Dickens to Alexis Wright
Human Rights, World Literature, and World Citizenship: From Charles Dickens to Alexis Wright interrogates the structural tension between the universalist ambitions of human rights discourse and their chronic subordination to the municipal jurisdictions of sovereign nation-states. Tracing this contradiction from its Enlightenment origins through the contemporary moment, the article contends that imaginative literature constitutes a distinct and ir…
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