María Isabel Romero-Pérez

University of Granada | UGR · Department of English and German Philologies

“And in one place lay Feathers and dust, to-day and yesterday” (Donne 1633, 144). The cult of antiquity belongs to the veneration for modernity in Hope Mirrlees’ book, A Fly in Amber: being an extravagant biography of the romantic antiquary Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1962). The ambivalence of modernism towards the past and tradition posited by Mirrl...

“Do you like listening in? No, but I am haunted by the Past” (“Listening in to the Past.” Collected Poems 85). Published in 1926 in The Nation and Athenᴂum, “Listening in to the Past” manifests the appreciation for the narratives of the past and Hope Mirrlees’ hopeful use of the past as a conciliatory formula. The past was at the heart of the matt...

One of the canonical writings of English literature, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) illustrates the distortion and polarisation of nature, the resistance of patriarchal figures and the prime importance of knowledge and reason in dissolving and reclaiming alienated identities. Approaching the narrative through Plumwood’s (1993/2003) (eco)fe...

This paper aims to explore how racialized identities are typified as a modernist construct in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones (1920). To this end, the notion of whiteness is identified as a mediated construct and contextualized in the proliferation of American minstrel shows. This popular entertainment projected to white audiences the racial mea...

Since the onset of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has integrally modified the neoliberal fabric at an international scale. As an invisible invader, the new coronavirus disease has forcefully turned into an increasingly relevant crisis in a myriad of domains, modifying and consuming not exclusively micro-organisms and human bodies, but entire social an...

The machine era and the urban cityscape have largely characterised Modernism, laying the foundations of its paradigm on industrialism, capitalism, cosmopolitanism and globalization. In this volatile era, modernists’ renewed reappraisal of ancient mythologies and folklore came to define writers’ attitudes towards the past and tradition, which grante...

El éxodo migratorio se encuentra contextualizado en la problemática del entramado social y político que enfrentan las personas migrantes, y en particular, las mujeres en su travesía hacia Estados Unidos. Las mujeres y las niñas que emigran encierran un relato de complejidades que es preciso estudiar en relación a la violencia estructural e intersec...

El éxodo migratorio se encuentra contextualizado en la problemática del entramado social y político que enfrentan las personas migrantes, y en particular, las caravanas migrantes de mujeres en su travesía hacia los Estados Unidos de América. Las mujeres y las niñas que emigran encierran un relato diverso de complejidades que es preciso estudiar en...

Frente a una mirada globalizadora desde el contexto latinoamericano, en la cual la vulneración del medio ambiente provoca tensiones y conflictividades que van en detrimento del desarrollo sostenible, se debe estudiar la intervención de la mujer desde una mirada ecofeminista. Este enfoque invita a reivindicar la justicia ambiental desde la sororidad...

Twentieth-century literature has often been characterised as experimental and avant-garde. Modernist literary conventions on innovation came to define a predominantly masculine canon, in which Virginia Woolf figures as the only chronicled women writer (Garrity 807) in institutional Modernism, whereas Hope Mirrlees’ status remains a complex case (Co...

Las lecturas de la modernidad marcan la transición de las nuevas subjetividades narrativas y representaciones culturales, psicologías individuales y valores de los últimos tiempos. Cristalizados en diversos formatos, los acontecimientos históricos-literarios precedentes y subsecuentes a la era Victoriana, la devastación de las dos grandes guerras o...

Nineteenth and twentieth century Modernism transformed the aesthetics, philosophy and subjetivities of global realities and modern societies. Modernists revealed a socio-cultural revolution in the stablished patterns of tradition, modes of expression and narrative forms. In literature, the terms of twentieth-century writers centred on vanguard, exp...

La editorial británica fundada por Leonard y Virginia Woolf confirió al modernismo una de las piedras angulares de los movimientos vanguardistas de los siglos XIX y XX. La imprenta Hogarth Press supuso un acercamiento clave entre autores y artistas, entre el grupo intelectual de Bloomsbury, Inglaterra y Francia. En este contexto, la quinta publicac...