{"id":3479,"date":"2022-02-23T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/?page_id=3479"},"modified":"2022-02-24T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T10:19:18","slug":"vol-30-2-winter-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/vol-30-2-winter-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 30-2 Winter 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Contents<\/h2>\n

An issue containing ten articles written by the participants in the ESSE Doctoral Symposium. Foreword<\/strong> by\u00a0Professor J. Lachlan Mackenzie<\/strong> (CELGA-ILTEC, Portugal),\u00a0Organizer of the ESSE Doctoral Symposium<\/p>\n

\"\" Leave Neverland, Fall down the Rabbit Hole<\/h3>\n

Tu\u011f\u00e7e Alk\u0131\u015f<\/h4>\n

Philip Pullman\u2019s multi-layered contemporary children\u2019s fantasy fiction, His Dark Materials<\/em>, embraces profound subjects while discussing the misconceptions of childhood. His well-known trilogy, which focuses on Lyra\u2019s adventurous journeys through the alternative worlds, employs fantasy in order to examine the problems and concerns of the contemporary world and to subvert the canonized and idealized associations with childhood innocence. The aim of this study is to discuss how Pullman\u2019s trilogy reconceptualises the dichotomy between the innocence of childhood and the maturity of adulthood and how fantasy enables us to interpret real life issues from a refreshed vantage point.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\u00a0\u201cFree, equal lords of the triumphed world\u201d<\/h3>\n

Amira Aloui<\/h4>\n

The argument of this paper is centred on early modern Tacitism and emergent political theory in Ben Jonson\u2019s England and his play Sejanus His Fall<\/em>. Early modern political theory displayed a shift from a Christian humanist framework to what has been termed as Tacitean politics. In this paper, I will be discussing how Ben Jonson\u2019s Sejanus His Fall<\/em> comments on current political affairs via contemporary Tacitism and particularly George Buchanan\u2019s political theory, especially his oeuvre De Jure Regni Apud Scotos; A Dialogue Concerning the Rights of the Crown in Scotland. <\/em>Jonsonian scholarship has successfully discussed Ben Jonson\u2019s sources and focused mainly on the famous Flemish influence of Justus Lipsius\u2019s Tacitism but has overlooked George Buchanan\u2019s thought and his importance in the drama of Ben Jonson and his play Sejanus His Fall<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\u00a0From \u201cviolence against women\u201d to\u00a0 \u201cviolence against women and girls\u201d<\/h3>\n

C\u00e9lia Atzeni<\/h4>\n

The aim of this paper is to discuss the reconceptualisation of violence against women in the United-Nations discourse on violence against women between 1996 and 2019. The paper relies on a corpus-based approach to discourse analysis and argues that the term \u201cviolence against women and girls\u201d became the United-Nations\u2019 preferred term to discuss the issue of violence against women in their press releases because of a shift in the feminist theorisation of the concept of \u201cviolence against women\u201d and the influence of the geopolitical context of the 2000\u2019s and beginning of the 2010\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\u00a0The Self and Sovereignty<\/h3>\n

Shreya Bera<\/h4>\n

In this article, the novel Mistress of Spices <\/em>(1997) evinces the interaction between two socio-cultural environments, at times resulting in disillusionment. This concept of disillusionment will further debate on the feelings of terror, reason, and freedom to showcase the formulation of the sublime within diaspora studies.\u00a0Immanuel Kant\u2019s account of the sublime will help to propose exile and diasporicity as natural stimulus that permits humanity to revel in some extraordinary power of their own minds. The sublime describes the awakening of a certain psychological phenomenon, especially in the subjugated woman, aiding her freedom from the masculine construct of the society and reaching the sovereign self.<\/p>\n

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\"\" Nonsense as the Artist\u2019s Identity Quest\u00a0 in Mervyn Peake\u2019s Letters from a Lost Uncle<\/em><\/h3>\n

Vanessa Bonnet<\/h4>\n

This paper explores the use of nonsense in Mervyn Peake\u2019s Letters from a Lost Uncle<\/i> (1948). It aims at shedding a light on how nonsense highlights the character\u2019s quest for identity which ultimately reflects the author\u2019s own quest as an artist. The figure of the author is shown as struggling to get a firm grasp on language while compensating through drawing, which gives him back some control. Parody and exaggeration allow Peake to take a step back on his own work and depict artistic creation as an endless quest for the unreachable.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"\u00a0Poetics of an abstract author\u00a0 in Ackroyd\u2019s The House of Doctor Dee<\/em><\/h3>\n

Khanim Garayeva<\/h4>\n

This paper constitutes a part of one of the subchapters of my doctoral thesis the aim of which is to examine the different attitudes to esotericism in Dan Brown\u2019s and Peter Ackroyd\u2019s selected six novels. The general chapter under which this subsection falls is an attempt to frame Peter Ackroyd\u2019s and Dan Brown\u2019s esoteric narratives. Having introduced the authors\u2019 literary activities at this point, it investigates the narratological differences between them. Nevertheless, this paper exclusively focuses on one of such differences, namely, the presence of the abstract author in Peter Ackroyd\u2019s The House of Doctor Dee <\/i>(1994). Here, using the theory of Wolf Schmid, it argues that Peter Ackroyd\u2019s text deviates from Barthes\u2019 concept of \u201cthe death of the author\u201d and conveys the presence of the real author stylistically along with several semantic-linguistic techniques by locating Ackroyd himself within the text as an abstract author.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"\u00a0Against Dehumanised Hermeneutics<\/h3>\n

Krystian Piotrowski<\/h4>\n

The paper problematises two distinct approaches to contemporary hermeneutics which advocate its complete reconceptualisation. One, offered by Jacques Derrida, excoriates \u201chermeneutic somnambulism\u201d that disregards the text\u2019s sovereignty, and \u2013 by extension \u2013 the author\u2019s intended meaning. Derrida criticises the prescriptivist mindset of an exegete who imposes their interpretation on a text in an attempt to classify, delimit, and appropriate its meaning. On the other hand, Roland Barthes, as one may read in The Pleasure of the Text<\/em> and A Lover\u2019s Discourse: Fragments<\/em>, praises the ultimate readerly and interpretative freedom; to read deeply is to achieve a sense of bliss (jouissance<\/em>), a sensual pleasure which Barthes compares to that of a sexual climax. Both authors noticeably eroticise their language and employed imagery: partly to shock, and partly to make their reader aware of how much human corporeality, affectivity, and carnality have been disregarded in traditional hermeneutics. Both, too, propose exchanging scholarly hermeneutic paradigms (active interpretative stance) for the sheer readerly pleasure (passive receptive stance), by means of which reading \u2013 freed from its exegetic function \u2013 becomes a passionate act full of interpretative possibilities.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\u00a0On Translatability of an Intensional Function within Computer-Assisted Literary Translation<\/h3>\n

Tereza \u0160pl\u00edchalov\u00e1<\/h4>\n

This paper discusses literary translation against the backdrop of digital humanities and explores the applicability of a computer-assisted approach to detection, re-creation, and translatability of an intensional function. Using Sketch Engine as the main tool, a single-novel parallel corpus is set up, containing an English novel and its Czech translation, and a series of computations is performed so as to reveal potentially useful narratological and linguistic data. The results are interpreted through the lens of fictional worlds theories, arguing that with the intention of successfully rendering a\u00a0fictional world available to readers of another language, its intensional structure needs to be considered in the process of translation. Accordingly, this paper uses the proposed corpus-aided model to detail the distribution of a naming function in both, the source and target text, and suggests what adjustments might have been made in order to preserve the intensional trace.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"\u00a0Turns of the Century\u00a0 108<\/h3>\n

Yuliia Terentieva<\/h4>\n

The city is a frequent setting in various novels written in the last century and an important entity, almost a character in its own right, in many of them. This paper investigates the modes and techniques of narration in the representation of the city in selected novels of David Lodge and compares them with those of James Joyce in order to investigate the similarities and differences of the representation of the city at the beginning and the end of the 20th<\/sup> century, as well as to establish the ways in which the image of the city and its suburbs affects the representation of the novels\u2019 characters and their narratives in general.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"\u00a0Presentation of vox pop in public media broadcasts<\/h3>\n

Iveta \u017d\u00e1kovsk\u00e1<\/h4>\n

My dissertation project, written in the English Linguistics<\/em> doctoral programme, focuses on the investigation of the presence of \u201cvox-pops\u201d, sound-bites and fragmented interviews with members of the public in TV news broadcasts, as part of the tendency towards the \u201cconversationalization\u201d of public discourse.\u00a0This article introduces the aims and methods of the project, outlines the theoretical points of departure and presents a preliminary small-scale study performed within the project, focusing on the strategies used for representing voices of citizens in TV news broadcasts on a public-service Czech and British channel and a commercial Czech channel.<\/p>\n

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Contents An issue containing ten articles written by the participants in the ESSE Doctoral Symposium. Foreword by\u00a0Professor J. Lachlan Mackenzie (CELGA-ILTEC, Portugal),\u00a0Organizer of the ESSE Doctoral Symposium Leave Neverland, Fall down the Rabbit Hole Tu\u011f\u00e7e Alk\u0131\u015f Philip Pullman\u2019s multi-layered contemporary children\u2019s fantasy fiction, His Dark Materials, embraces profound subjects while discussing the misconceptions of childhood. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3479","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3479\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}