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10th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture // elts.cankaya.edu.tr
2023 •
, Mustafa Kirca, Mustafa Güneş, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Çağlayan DOĞAN, Pelin Doğan-Özger, Yakut Akbay, Selena Ozbas, Esra ÜNLÜ ÇİMEN, Yağmur Sönmez Demir, Baraa Abuzayed
This international conference is a peer-reviewed academic event and a comprehensive venue for the free exchange and dissemination of ideas on language, translation, literary and cultural studies, and aims to bring together scholars and graduates researching the intersections of these fields. The 10th LLC was held as an online conference on September 15-16, 2023. The topical theme of the conference is "Fashion as Material Culture". Selected papers will be published in a volume.
Style and the Single Girl: How Modern Women Re-dressed the Novel, 1922-1977. Ohio State University Press (2016).
Hope Howell Hodgkins
Style and the Single Girl reveals how four very different single-girl novelists employed modern modes to re-dress the traditional English marriage plot. In the first monograph to use fashion theory and history to trace the literary progress of British women in later modernity, Hodgkins argues that correspondences between a gendered sartorial style and a gendered literary style persisted throughout the modern era. She demonstrates how those correspondences did not fade but became fraught as women matured in the sharply gendered crucible of war. Hodgkins delineates how, in the 1920s and 1930s, popular novels by Dorothy Sayers and high-art fiction by Jean Rhys used dress to comment wittily and bitterly on gender relations. During World War II, changes in British Vogue and compromises made by the literary journal Horizon signaled the death of modernist styles, as Elizabeth Bowen’s gender-bent wartime stories show. Then demure and reserved postwar styles—Dior’s curvy New Look, the Movement’s understated literary irony—were intertwined in the fictions of Barbara Pym and Muriel Spark, who re-dressed the novel with a vengeance. Whether fashioning detective fiction, literary impressionism, or postwar comedy, these novelists used style in every sense to redefine that famous question, “What do women want?”
Humanities
‘OMG JANE AUSTEN’: Austen and Memes in the Post-#MeToo Era
2022 •
Georgios Chatziavgerinos
Catherine Mintler
"Re-Fashioning Flânerie: the Urban Flâneuse & Women’s Experiences of the Modern City" This paper will revisit Janet Wolff’s argument, made in “The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity,” that the Flâneur can only be understood as a pre-20th century male figure and Flânerie limited to urban experiences of the male observer-writer. In light of recent scholarship that finds Wolff’s argument outdated and limited (and that begins where Deborah Parson’s work in Streetwalking the Metropolis ends), I will offer a reading of several works of late-19th and early 20th century literature—bookended by Baudelaire’s “A Une Passante” and Storm Jameson’s “A Day Off” and including novels by Collette, Dreiser, and Rhys—that chronicle the experiences of women engaged in urban practices typically gendered feminine that are not merely characteristic of what we might call female flânerie, but that also arguably created the conditions for the emergence of the urban Flâneuse. Such practices include, but are not limited to: various types of “street-walking”; window-shopping and other forms of sartorial observation and appraisal; female consumerism; the homelessness and vagrancy of the urban “kept woman”; and the paradoxical tension between the commodification of female identity and the two-way female gaze that both internalizes and critiques capitalist commodity culture and masculinist economies of exchange that oppress women. The central threads weaving together feminine experiences of the city include fashion, sartorial and commodity, and urban exchange economies that paradoxically and simultaneously include and exclude women from their circulations, as either producers or consumers. The observations and experiences of women living in cities—women who not only walked through and worked in the city, but who also observed urban spectacle and participated in the same aesthetic and social critique of the Flâneur—offer both a narrative and a critique of feminine experience of the modern city from women’s point of view.
Sing, O Djinn!: Violence, Memory, and Narrative in The Bastard of Istanbul
Perin Gurel
Ángeles Tomé Rosales
PhD thesis
Strange Intimacy: Affect, Embodiment, Materiality and the Non-Human in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys
Eret Talviste
This thesis explores how the novels of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys – To the Lighthouse (1927), Between the Acts (1941), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930) and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) – despite being set in times of wars and social change that influence personal lives, maintain an attachment to and love for life. This thesis proposes that Woolf and Rhys ‘locate’ this attachment to life in the moments and atmospheres of ‘strange intimacy’ – in sensual, affective, and oddly intimate moments and settings where characters realise their bodily connection to the world of others, things, and places. This work suggests that this love for life is cultivated when life is seen as ‘a life’ and selves as ‘haecceities’ in the Deleuzian sense, and when we consider modern life as enchanted, not disenchanted. To examine the love for life and strange intimacies further, this thesis rethinks the works of Hélène Cixous in the light of contemporary theories of affect and new materialism that are inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s philosophies. This theoretical framework allows the examination of the complex ways in which intimacy, selfhood, and desire are portrayed in Woolf’s and Rhys’s modernist fiction. This thesis also demonstrates how post-structural feminism’s focus on radical alterity and its emphasis on and (re)turn to materiality, the non-human, bodies, and affects, which are drawn together in the notion of écriture féminine, pre-figures the concerns of affect studies and new materialisms. The reading of Cixous’s, Deleuze and Guattari’s, and Bennett’s works performed in this thesis demonstrates how their theories of affect and the non-human help us to further our understanding of intimacy in the works of Woolf and Rhys and to reconsider the life-affirming, affective, and anti-Oedipal qualities of their modernism. Such an approach allows not only the discovery of a new understanding of Woolf’s and Rhys’s writings, but it contributes significantly to how we understand these theories and modernism in general.
Feminine Identities
2003 •
Teresa Alves F A Alves
The first four essays in this volume all focus on issues of gender in the works of different English authors and thinkers. Shorter versions of each of these essays were formerly presented as papers in an autonomous section of the Research and Educational Programme on Studies of Identity at the XXth Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (Póvoa de Varzim, 1999) and published in the proceedings of the conference. The second cluster of essays in this volume — two of which (Jennie Wang’s and Teresa Cid’s) were first presented, in shorter versions, at the joint ASA/CAAS Conference (Montréal, 1999) — addresses the work of American women variously engaged in contexts of cultural diversity and grappling with the ideas of what it means to be an American and a woman, particularly in the twentieth century. These essays approach, from different angles, the definitional quandaries and semantic difficulties encountered when speaking about the self and the United States an...
MFS Modern Fiction Studies
Utterly Other Discourse": The Anticanon of Experimental Women Writers from Dorothy Richardson to Christine Brooke-Rose
1988 •
Ellen Friedman
Directory of members
1995 •
Chantal Zabus
Since many Continental colleagues have to cover several sectors of English Studies and also fulfil duties towards their national communities publishing substantial work in the native tongue, it soon became evident that 5 GS titles in English might not capture an appropriate picture, and we therefore added the rubric “HOMEPAGE (if available)”. By now 18 countries are represented, and readers will certainly be fascinated by the breadth and variety of the work that is documented here. The pdf format allows searches by names, key words, etc.
