Marta Bernabeu

University of Salamanca · Department of English

William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth (2016) presents a recognisable Brontëan cinematic language that invites comparison between its protagonist, Katherine Lester, and Emily Brontë's Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights (1847). Whilst Earnshaw's self-deprivation mirrors her struggle for a disembodied self that transcends her gendered body, Oldroyd's...

Justin Kurzel's Macbeth (2015) reflects the religious intertextuality that permeates cultural debates about gender underlying Shakespeare's text. The aim of this article is to determine the extent to which Kurzel's cinematic text challenges or conforms to medieval and early modern gender construals in its attempt to allegedly rewrite and redeem Lad...

The present work displays the methodology and results of an activity conducted using ICT and a student- centred learning approach from a gender perspective to expand the curricula of two optional literature modules from the Faculty of Philology at University of Salamanca, Spain. The proposed task is conceived to require an active methodology that f...

Review of Shannon Wells-Lassagne / Eckart Voigts (eds.): Filming the Past, Screening the Present. Neo-Victorian Adaptations. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, Vol. 64 (2023)

The Conversation España: https://theconversation.com/leer-rebecca-con-los-ojos-de-la-nueva-mujer-184391

Una de las figuras shakesperianas más problemáticas a la vez que multidimensionales, Lady Macbeth, encabeza aún hoy en día las listas de personajes femeninos más malvados de la literatura. Macbeth (2015), versión dirigida por Justin Kurzel, pone su foco principal en la maternidad, la pérdida y la corporeidad de Lady Macbeth como lugar de encuentro...

Review of / Reseña de: Moreno Lago, Eva María (Ed.). Pioneras, escritoras y creadoras del siglo XX. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2019. 531 pp. ISBN: 978-84-1311-216-9

Review of Contemporary Rewritings of Liminal Women: Echoes of the Past, Miriam Borham-Puyal, Routledge, 2020, 160 pp., ISBN 9780367277789

Numerosas voces en diversos ámbitos educativos han apuntado la necesidad de fomentar una práctica docente en la enseñanza de la literatura que sea inclusiva y desarrolle competencias centradas en la visión del mundo de los estudiantes, dando visibilidad a voces y discursos reprimidos u olvidados, así como a nuevas formas de literatura de la era dig...

Cultural representations of the Brontë sisters generally favour Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847). However, recent scholarship such as Samantha Ellis’ Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of Life (2017) attempts to vindicate the revolutionary nature of the apparently most quiet and religious sister, as well a...

Remaking the Literary Canon in English: Women Writers, 1880-1920. Edited by María Elena Jaime de Pablos. Granada: Editorial Comares, 2019, pp. 128. ISBN: 978-84-9045-748-1.

In an attempt to comprehend the significance of existence and pain, suffering is often seen as the way to a deeper awareness. This paper concentrates on the following aspects: firstly, the way in which Poe's views of melancholy are the correlates of his own ideal concept of Beauty. Secondly, on the way in which suffering is regarded as a way to rea...