Michaela Keck
Biographic Data
| ID | 4206264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michaela Keck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michaela |
| FAMILY NAME | Keck |
| SIGNATURE | KECK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Shared Passion for Nonsense
This article opens up a transnational and transhistorical dialogue between the two North American women authors Laura E. Richards and Margaret Atwood regarding their shared passion for literary nonsense. I argue that reading Richards’s and Atwood’s nonsense alongside each other highlights the continuity of nonsense’s characteristic duality of subversion and dominance as well as the ongoing social and sexual violence that surrounds their young fem…
Psyche and Pygmalion
Taking my cue from Hans Blumenberg’s notion of the “work on myth,” according to which myth is always in the process of revision, this article explores Alcott’s reconfiguration of the Psyche and Pygmalion myths in her novella “A Marble Woman” in conjunction with the nineteenth-century context of women’s quest for self-possession in marriage. Alcott rewrites Psyche’s curious gaze at the sleeping Amor as the heroine’s, i.e., Cecil’s, self-possessed …
Paradise Retold
This paper focuses on the subversive potential of myths by exploring Margaret Atwood’s feminist revision of creation, more specifically the myth of paradise. According to Adrienne Rich’s definition, the “re-vision” of myths signifies the critical adaptation, appropriation, and invasion of traditional texts. As such, myths have not only legitimized exploitative power relationships, but they have also served as a powerful means to participate in an…
Marginocentricity and cosmopolitan interconnections of black radical thought in Arna Bontemps’s Black Thunder
This study uses Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer’s notion of marginocentricity to examine Arna Bontemps’s novel Black Thunder (1936) as a construction of the American South, seeing it as a peripheral yet cosmopolitan topographical node that interlinks the slave community of Richmond, Virginia, with the French peasant revolution and the Black Revolution of Haiti. It argues that Bontemps’s fictional account of Gabriel Prosser’s 1800 revolt conn…
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Marginocentricity and cosmopolitan interconnections of black radical thought in Arna Bontemps’s Black Thunder
This study uses Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer’s notion of marginocentricity to examine Arna Bontemps’s novel Black Thunder (1936) as a construction of the American South, seeing it as a peripheral yet cosmopolitan topographical node that interlinks the slave community of Richmond, Virginia, with the French peasant revolution and the Black Revolution of Haiti. It argues that Bontemps’s fictional account of Gabriel Prosser’s 1800 revolt conn…
Paradise Retold
This paper focuses on the subversive potential of myths by exploring Margaret Atwood’s feminist revision of creation, more specifically the myth of paradise. According to Adrienne Rich’s definition, the “re-vision” of myths signifies the critical adaptation, appropriation, and invasion of traditional texts. As such, myths have not only legitimized exploitative power relationships, but they have also served as a powerful means to participate in an…
Psyche and Pygmalion
Taking my cue from Hans Blumenberg’s notion of the “work on myth,” according to which myth is always in the process of revision, this article explores Alcott’s reconfiguration of the Psyche and Pygmalion myths in her novella “A Marble Woman” in conjunction with the nineteenth-century context of women’s quest for self-possession in marriage. Alcott rewrites Psyche’s curious gaze at the sleeping Amor as the heroine’s, i.e., Cecil’s, self-possessed …
A Shared Passion for Nonsense
This article opens up a transnational and transhistorical dialogue between the two North American women authors Laura E. Richards and Margaret Atwood regarding their shared passion for literary nonsense. I argue that reading Richards’s and Atwood’s nonsense alongside each other highlights the continuity of nonsense’s characteristic duality of subversion and dominance as well as the ongoing social and sexual violence that surrounds their young fem…
Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mythology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)