Aristi Trendel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4206278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aristi Trendel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aristi |
| FAMILY NAME | Trendel |
| SIGNATURE | TRENDEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2349-5478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From Southern Insularity to Transculturality in Carson McCullers’ Novella The Ballad of the Sad Café
For the past decades, critics have examined how Carson McCullers’ The Ballad of the Sad Café disrupts fixed identities of gender, social hierarchy, and regional belonging, suggesting that the novella’s meaning exceeds a purely Southern tradition and invites broader interpretation. Going beyond this body of scholarship, this essay argues that the text can be more productively understood through the lens of transcultural theory, a framework that ha…
Laurence W. Mazzeno. Becoming John Updike
John Updike scholarship seems to be thriving. After The John Updike Encyclopedia by Jack De Bellis (2000) another volume of encyclopedic nature has come out this year: Becoming John Updike: Critical Reception, 1958-2010 by Laurence W. Mazzeno, President Emeritus of Alvenia University, whose volumes on Austen, Dickens, Tennyson and Matthew Arnold make his latest one a classic. As its title indicates, the book presents critical reception that cover…
The Reinvention of Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex
In his second novel, Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides is deep in the Greeks. If Melville in Moby Dick sets up an anthology of whaling, Eugenides builds his collection of Greekness. It may be because the Greeks found a mythical way out of the contradictions and the ambiguities that characterize the fragmented human being in search of unity through Hermaphroditus, the figure of an indivisible duality, quite appropriate to express the diverse reality of…
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The Reinvention of Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex
In his second novel, Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides is deep in the Greeks. If Melville in Moby Dick sets up an anthology of whaling, Eugenides builds his collection of Greekness. It may be because the Greeks found a mythical way out of the contradictions and the ambiguities that characterize the fragmented human being in search of unity through Hermaphroditus, the figure of an indivisible duality, quite appropriate to express the diverse reality of…
Laurence W. Mazzeno. Becoming John Updike
John Updike scholarship seems to be thriving. After The John Updike Encyclopedia by Jack De Bellis (2000) another volume of encyclopedic nature has come out this year: Becoming John Updike: Critical Reception, 1958-2010 by Laurence W. Mazzeno, President Emeritus of Alvenia University, whose volumes on Austen, Dickens, Tennyson and Matthew Arnold make his latest one a classic. As its title indicates, the book presents critical reception that cover…
From Southern Insularity to Transculturality in Carson McCullers’ Novella The Ballad of the Sad Café
For the past decades, critics have examined how Carson McCullers’ The Ballad of the Sad Café disrupts fixed identities of gender, social hierarchy, and regional belonging, suggesting that the novella’s meaning exceeds a purely Southern tradition and invites broader interpretation. Going beyond this body of scholarship, this essay argues that the text can be more productively understood through the lens of transcultural theory, a framework that ha…
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