Veronica Alfano
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronica Alfano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronica |
| FAMILY NAME | Alfano |
| SIGNATURE | ALFANO V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Borough of Manhattan Community College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9906-2556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reinventing the Local
At the heart of William Barnes’s best-known poetry is a set of contrasts: rural life as marked by both nostalgic inertia and fluid vitality, linguistic strangeness as both forbiddingly disorienting and tantalizingly half-familiar, speakers as both generic and idiosyncratic. Critics have tended to approach these defining issues by focusing on the poet’s use of Dorset dialect. However, I argue that they are best understood by carefully assessing no…
Brain-computer Interfaces and Art
Art that incorporates brain-computer interface (or BCI) technology sheds fresh light on several aspects of aesthetic theory. Because it is radically interactive and can permit viewers or listeners to modify a work directly by means of their cerebral activity, such art illuminates the role of audience members in shaping that work's meaning; in this way, it literalizes reader-response theory and allows the public to engage even with opaque or alien…
William Morris and the Uses of Nostalgia
The stylized medievalism of William Morris's The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems (1858)—often expressed in cryptically condensed and iterative ballad stanzas—appears to reflect asocial and escapist nostalgia. Memory, however, is politicized in the Chants for Socialists that Morris wrote during the 1880s and early 1890s. These poems' conventional and repetitive forms underscore the communal nature of identity, and their commemoration of the …
The Lyric in Victorian Memory
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Ambitious and wide-ranging, Lee Christine O'Brien's The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry is a valuable contribution to feminist literary scholarship and to genre studies. T
A. C. Swinburne and the Singing Word
Reviewed by: A. C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the Mature Work Veronica Alfano (bio) A. C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the Mature Work, edited by Yisrael Levin; pp. x + 190. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2010, £55.00, $99.95. In his essay “Swinburne as Poet,” published in The Sacred Wood (1920), T. S. Eliot infamously declares that A. C. Swinburne’s sonically lush verse consists of sound divorc…
Grandmothers in the Archive
The Orlando Project: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present, which includes searchable entries on over a thousand writers from the medieval era to the present day; A Celebration of Women Writers, which provides full texts by female authors across many time periods, along with relevant links; and Women Writers Online, which features transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850.2 1 ask not only what oppor…
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A. C. Swinburne and the Singing Word
Reviewed by: A. C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the Mature Work Veronica Alfano (bio) A. C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the Mature Work, edited by Yisrael Levin; pp. x + 190. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2010, £55.00, $99.95. In his essay “Swinburne as Poet,” published in The Sacred Wood (1920), T. S. Eliot infamously declares that A. C. Swinburne’s sonically lush verse consists of sound divorc…
Grandmothers in the Archive
The Orlando Project: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present, which includes searchable entries on over a thousand writers from the medieval era to the present day; A Celebration of Women Writers, which provides full texts by female authors across many time periods, along with relevant links; and Women Writers Online, which features transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850.2 1 ask not only what oppor…
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Ambitious and wide-ranging, Lee Christine O'Brien's The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry is a valuable contribution to feminist literary scholarship and to genre studies. T
The Lyric in Victorian Memory
William Morris and the Uses of Nostalgia
The stylized medievalism of William Morris's The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems (1858)—often expressed in cryptically condensed and iterative ballad stanzas—appears to reflect asocial and escapist nostalgia. Memory, however, is politicized in the Chants for Socialists that Morris wrote during the 1880s and early 1890s. These poems' conventional and repetitive forms underscore the communal nature of identity, and their commemoration of the …
Brain-computer Interfaces and Art
Art that incorporates brain-computer interface (or BCI) technology sheds fresh light on several aspects of aesthetic theory. Because it is radically interactive and can permit viewers or listeners to modify a work directly by means of their cerebral activity, such art illuminates the role of audience members in shaping that work's meaning; in this way, it literalizes reader-response theory and allows the public to engage even with opaque or alien…
Reinventing the Local
At the heart of William Barnes’s best-known poetry is a set of contrasts: rural life as marked by both nostalgic inertia and fluid vitality, linguistic strangeness as both forbiddingly disorienting and tantalizingly half-familiar, speakers as both generic and idiosyncratic. Critics have tended to approach these defining issues by focusing on the poet’s use of Dorset dialect. However, I argue that they are best understood by carefully assessing no…
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