Verena Laschinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4206292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verena Laschinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verena |
| FAMILY NAME | Laschinger |
| SIGNATURE | LASCHINGER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fatih University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
I knew a dog once
Stomping, crawling, buzzing, waddling through her works, animals are Laura E. Richards’s (1850–1943) main narrative fare, especially in her early works. For the most part figurations of humans and human affairs, Richards’s literary animals uphold the human-animal divide, abounding in anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and speciesism. Richards’s nonsense poem “Eletelephony” (1932), however, dynamically entangles the human, the animal, and the mac…
She Loves Nothing but Her Art
At first glance, “A Marble Woman” (1865) seems to offer but a trite marriage plot, assuaging Louisa May Alcott’s contemporary readers while containing the heroine’s scandalous abilities. On a second and read through a new materialist critical lens, it becomes apparent how cunningly the female sculptor Cecil negotiates her creativity with the societal demands on the true woman and the marriage doctrine of her time. The sensational story’s twist re…
Whirls of Faith and Fancy
Elif Shafak’s The Flea Palace (2004) exposes secularized Istanbul as a grotesque world. By establishing the apartment building as a synecdoche for the city and negotiating the characters’ trajectories within the historical context of modernizing Istanbul, the novel presents their alienation as the sine qua non of the modern individual which is best confronted playfully or rather in the Sufi way. The argument is supported by the novel’s complex em…
Per si muove—it was a mass of moonstone”
The essay examines Harriet Prescott Spofford’s short story “The Moonstone Mass” (1868) through the lens of fluidity foregrounded by her Arctic poem “The Story of the Iceberg” (1897). Rendering a network of actors (human and other), who are connected and continuously influence one another, “The Moonstone Mass” demands an analysis that acknowledges relationality as facilitating the protagonist’s discovery of the Northwest Passage alongside other me…
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Per si muove—it was a mass of moonstone”
The essay examines Harriet Prescott Spofford’s short story “The Moonstone Mass” (1868) through the lens of fluidity foregrounded by her Arctic poem “The Story of the Iceberg” (1897). Rendering a network of actors (human and other), who are connected and continuously influence one another, “The Moonstone Mass” demands an analysis that acknowledges relationality as facilitating the protagonist’s discovery of the Northwest Passage alongside other me…
Whirls of Faith and Fancy
Elif Shafak’s The Flea Palace (2004) exposes secularized Istanbul as a grotesque world. By establishing the apartment building as a synecdoche for the city and negotiating the characters’ trajectories within the historical context of modernizing Istanbul, the novel presents their alienation as the sine qua non of the modern individual which is best confronted playfully or rather in the Sufi way. The argument is supported by the novel’s complex em…
She Loves Nothing but Her Art
At first glance, “A Marble Woman” (1865) seems to offer but a trite marriage plot, assuaging Louisa May Alcott’s contemporary readers while containing the heroine’s scandalous abilities. On a second and read through a new materialist critical lens, it becomes apparent how cunningly the female sculptor Cecil negotiates her creativity with the societal demands on the true woman and the marriage doctrine of her time. The sensational story’s twist re…
I knew a dog once
Stomping, crawling, buzzing, waddling through her works, animals are Laura E. Richards’s (1850–1943) main narrative fare, especially in her early works. For the most part figurations of humans and human affairs, Richards’s literary animals uphold the human-animal divide, abounding in anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and speciesism. Richards’s nonsense poem “Eletelephony” (1932), however, dynamically entangles the human, the animal, and the mac…
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