Samuel O’Donoghue
Biographic Data
| ID | 5423428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel O’Donoghue |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Donoghue |
| SIGNATURE | O’DONOGHUE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8861-1372 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Poetry, Parody and the Construction of Contrarian Discourse in Franco’s Spain
This article examines how poetry subverted Francoist control over the written word in National-Catholic Spain. Despite the policing of culture by the regime’s censors, poets were able to use their works to express their nonconformity with the social and political situation. Spanish poets working under the regime resorted to subtle techniques in order to articulate their dissent. This article explores the political possibilities of one such techni…
Language and pain in Camilo José Cela’s Pabellón de reposo
Figurations of Suffering in Concentration Camp Testimony
This article offers a close reading of the figurative language used to represent suffering in literary testimonies of the Nazi concentration camps. It begins with an overview of the debate over the legitimacy of figurative language in representations of the Holocaust and considers the arguments against metaphor by scholars in the field of pain research and Holocaust studies. Bringing into dialogue the disciplines of pain studies and Holocaust stu…
Disinherited Trauma in Adelaida García Morales’ El Sur
Adelaida García Morales’ El Sur (1985) was written two decades before the surge of public interest in collective memories of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship at the turn of the twenty-first century. The novella has attracted a good deal of critical attention in the years since its publication, but most scholars have focused on the incestuous family drama at the centre of the work and addressed its allusions to postwar Spain only as…
Carlos Barral and the Struggle for Holocaust Consciousness in Franco's Spain
knowledge of the Holocaust through a number of publishing ventures beginning in the late 1950s. Based on research in the Archivo General de la Administracin, it sets Barral's endeavors in the context of the Franco regime's resistance to the public airing of Nazi crimes in Spain. The article begins with an overview of the historical factors that help explain why Franco's regime was reluctant to tolerate an uninhibited public awareness of the exter…
Ida y vuelta
Jorge Semprun was something of a Renaissance man: a gifted philosophy student and polyglot turned resistance fighter in occupied France, a clandestine communist agitator who later became the author
The ‘Truth’ of the Past
This article explores the debates regarding the use of fiction to represent traumatic twentieth-century experiences. Through an analysis of Jorge Semprún’s Quel beau dimanche (1980) and L’écriture ou la vie (1994), Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Sefarad (2001) and Alberto Méndez’s Los girasoles ciegos (2004), it interrogates the value and morality of contemporary Spanish novelists’ use of fiction to explore the past. At the same time, this article seeks …
Juan Benet and the French Nouveau Roman
Juan Benet and the French Nouveau Roman:A Contentious Connection Revisited Samuel O’Donoghue Juan Benet’s fiction tends to be envisaged as something of a rarity. In their conspicuous detachment from social realist techniques and concerns, Benet’s early novels yield all too readily to critical evaluations that locate the significance of these texts in their decisive rupture with the literary tradition that preceded them. Compared with the social r…
Errancy and alterity
This article considers Antonio Muñoz Molina's debt to Marcel Proust in his use of literature as a means of exploring alterity in the novel Sefarad (2001). Adapting Proust's model for the recovery of the self through fiction, Muñoz Molina demonstrates how to engage empathetically with the victims of mid-twentieth century history. Sefarad thus posits a search for lost time through the forgotten testimonies of suffering at the hands of totalitarian …
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Errancy and alterity
This article considers Antonio Muñoz Molina's debt to Marcel Proust in his use of literature as a means of exploring alterity in the novel Sefarad (2001). Adapting Proust's model for the recovery of the self through fiction, Muñoz Molina demonstrates how to engage empathetically with the victims of mid-twentieth century history. Sefarad thus posits a search for lost time through the forgotten testimonies of suffering at the hands of totalitarian …
The ‘Truth’ of the Past
This article explores the debates regarding the use of fiction to represent traumatic twentieth-century experiences. Through an analysis of Jorge Semprún’s Quel beau dimanche (1980) and L’écriture ou la vie (1994), Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Sefarad (2001) and Alberto Méndez’s Los girasoles ciegos (2004), it interrogates the value and morality of contemporary Spanish novelists’ use of fiction to explore the past. At the same time, this article seeks …
Juan Benet and the French Nouveau Roman
Juan Benet and the French Nouveau Roman:A Contentious Connection Revisited Samuel O’Donoghue Juan Benet’s fiction tends to be envisaged as something of a rarity. In their conspicuous detachment from social realist techniques and concerns, Benet’s early novels yield all too readily to critical evaluations that locate the significance of these texts in their decisive rupture with the literary tradition that preceded them. Compared with the social r…
Ida y vuelta
Jorge Semprun was something of a Renaissance man: a gifted philosophy student and polyglot turned resistance fighter in occupied France, a clandestine communist agitator who later became the author
Carlos Barral and the Struggle for Holocaust Consciousness in Franco's Spain
knowledge of the Holocaust through a number of publishing ventures beginning in the late 1950s. Based on research in the Archivo General de la Administracin, it sets Barral's endeavors in the context of the Franco regime's resistance to the public airing of Nazi crimes in Spain. The article begins with an overview of the historical factors that help explain why Franco's regime was reluctant to tolerate an uninhibited public awareness of the exter…
Disinherited Trauma in Adelaida García Morales’ El Sur
Adelaida García Morales’ El Sur (1985) was written two decades before the surge of public interest in collective memories of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship at the turn of the twenty-first century. The novella has attracted a good deal of critical attention in the years since its publication, but most scholars have focused on the incestuous family drama at the centre of the work and addressed its allusions to postwar Spain only as…
Figurations of Suffering in Concentration Camp Testimony
This article offers a close reading of the figurative language used to represent suffering in literary testimonies of the Nazi concentration camps. It begins with an overview of the debate over the legitimacy of figurative language in representations of the Holocaust and considers the arguments against metaphor by scholars in the field of pain research and Holocaust studies. Bringing into dialogue the disciplines of pain studies and Holocaust stu…
Language and pain in Camilo José Cela’s Pabellón de reposo
Poetry, Parody and the Construction of Contrarian Discourse in Franco’s Spain
This article examines how poetry subverted Francoist control over the written word in National-Catholic Spain. Despite the policing of culture by the regime’s censors, poets were able to use their works to express their nonconformity with the social and political situation. Spanish poets working under the regime resorted to subtle techniques in order to articulate their dissent. This article explores the political possibilities of one such techni…
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