Libros / Books by Marisol Morales-Ladrón
World Literature Studies, 2023
The classical Cartesian dualism body/mind has informed much of western thought since the 17th ce... more The classical Cartesian dualism body/mind has informed much of western thought since the 17th century and it has also served as a means with which to validate unbalanced dichotomies, especially those associated to gender roles, which placed women closer to the body, or to emotions, and men closer to reason. In their refusal to endorse this reductionism, feminist scholars have been at pains to redefine biased ideological positions and have articulated discourses that delved into the blurring of boundaries of such artificial categories. Besides, recent discoveries in neuroscience have confirmed the interrelationship of body and mind, suggesting that emotions and feelings, even more than reason, shape our decision-making processes and therefore our daily lives. In Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary (2012), a subversive revision of one of the most emblematic symbols of Catholic faith, the Passion of Christ, a grieving Mary recollects the last days of her son’s life more than twenty years after his death. Questioning the validity of the Gospels as given truths and refusing to collaborate with the apostles to confirm their version, she vindicates her authority to narrate her own experience as a resilient woman and a witness of the events, triggering her own healing process. In so doing, she refuses to endorse the received image of herself as an atemporal, iconic symbol of a sacrificing mother. Empowered and gendered, Mary gives shape to her consciousness through an unorthodox account that relies on emotions located in a corporeal reality that, as signifiers of truths, exist beyond given interpretations.
Bearing these aspects in mind, this discussion will explore Mary’s resilient narrative as a self-therapeutic exercise with which to redeem her sorrow and properly grieve the loss of her son. A close look will be placed at the function of the body in understanding the shaping of consciousness, with a view to dissolve traditional binaries as regards body/mind and reason/emotion. Within this framework, I will rely on the theories of neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Antonio Damasio, who argues that emotions need to be located in the body whereas thought emerges at a further stage in the cognitive process, as he has demonstrated in influential works on the emotional mapping of the mind such as Descartes’ Error (1994), The Feeling of What Happens (2000) and Looking for Spinoza (2003). This proposal will eventually aim at demonstrating how in Tóibín’s controversial The Testament of Mary –originally written for the stage as a solo play and later adapted in the form of a novella–, resilience functions as a mechanism of resistance against received assumptions of Christian thought and as a driving force in its capacity to challenge any authoritative narrative that does not rest upon the experiencing self.
Manchester University Press, 2022
The Irish writer, Deirdre Madden, has written key novels about the
Northern Irish Troubles and a... more The Irish writer, Deirdre Madden, has written key novels about the
Northern Irish Troubles and about contemporary Ireland. In these
works, she weighs up the aftermath of violence and the impact of the
shift to a more open but materialist society in the country overall.
Memory, trauma, and the abiding but elusive links between the past
and the present are central concerns of her fiction. This pioneering set
of essays by leading experts in Irish Studies explores the many
dimensions of her novels from a wide variety of perspectives.
Madden's skill at interweaving novels of ideas with artist novels that
draw out the complex inner predicaments of her characters is
highlighted. States of dislocation are concentrated on in her texts, but
also the quest for a home in the world and a lasting set of values that
allows for personal integrity and authenticity. These multifaceted
explorations bear out the compelling and enduring aspects of
Madden's highly regarded novels.
... Información General. Autores: Marisol Morales Ladrón; Editores: Universidad de Alcalá de Hena... more ... Información General. Autores: Marisol Morales Ladrón; Editores: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares; Año de publicación: 1999; País: España; Idioma: Español; ISBN : 84-8138-315-5. Otros catálogos. Bibliotecas Universitarias en las que se encuentra ( REBIUN ). Fundación Dialnet ...
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011
... 54 2.3 La recepción de la obra de Joyce en la literatura española 66 2.3.1 La teoría estética... more ... 54 2.3 La recepción de la obra de Joyce en la literatura española 66 2.3.1 La teoría estética de la recepción 66 2.3.2 La recepción de la obra de Joyce a partir de los años veinte 68 2.3.3 Las traducciones de la obra de Joyce 79 2.4 Asimilación de la creación joyceana en los ...
Alcalá: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá, 2001
Alcalá: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad, 2000.
... Breve introducción a la literatura comparada. Información General. Autores: Marisol MoralesLa... more ... Breve introducción a la literatura comparada. Información General. Autores: Marisol MoralesLadrón; Editores: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares; Año de publicación: 1999; País: España; Idioma: Español; ISBN : 84-8138-336-8. Otros catálogos. ...
Artículos / Peer Revewed Articles by Marisol Morales-Ladrón
Irish Studies Review, 2023
Anna Burns, the first Northern-Irish woman to have been awarded the Booker Prize for her novel Mi... more Anna Burns, the first Northern-Irish woman to have been awarded the Booker Prize for her novel Milkman in 2018 has been celebrated since then as a lucid and necessary voice in the contemporary panorama. Set in an unknown location in Northern Ireland, at a time when the Troubles were at its peak, the narrative defiantly targets at what appears to be sexual harassment, to further disclose layers of more subtle meanings related to sociopolitical (self-)control and surveillance, in an atmosphere of pathological silence. Informed by Michel Foucault's theories, developed in his studies Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality, this article explores Burns' novel in light of Foucault's model of biopower, defined as a "technology of power centered on life," within which the panopticon will be revisited. I will contend that silence, consequently, surfaces as both the voluntary alternative and the inevitable consequence of the imposition of regulatory practices on docile bodies, on a disempowered microstructure of inmates that facilitates the success of such technology of power.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia , 2021
is one of the most prominent voices within the contemporary Irish short story panorama. Internati... more is one of the most prominent voices within the contemporary Irish short story panorama. Internationally acclaimed, her prose has been praised for its frank and bitter portrayal of a rural world, whose outdated values, no matter how anchored in the past they might be, still prevail in a modern milieu. Keegan's unsympathetic views on society, mainly on the Catholic Church and the family, are the main targets of her harsh criticism. Issues like gender and sexuality, two social constructs with which to validate an uneven distribution of power, constitute the pillars of most of her plots. Bearing these aspects in mind, my proposal focuses on the analysis of Keegan's first collection of short stories, Antarctica (1999), in light of gender relations and female agency, in an attempt to find patterns ofoften thwartedfemale emancipation in the context of the rapid changes of a society that is still adjusting to a globalised world. This article will also engage in the discussion of her second collection, Walk the Blue Fields (2007), and her long short story Foster (2010).
ES Review 40, 2019
Arguing that critical approaches to urban literature have often undermined the role of rivers, th... more Arguing that critical approaches to urban literature have often undermined the role of rivers, the present analysis will look at the emotional power that the river Liffey brings about in Nuala Ní Chonchúir's debut novel You (2010). Informed by ecocritical theory, the discussion will tackle issues connected to the effects of urban and semi-urban habitats on the shaping of the individual mind, in a way that will challenge the traditional divide between city and countryside. It will consequently contend that the protagonist's perception and relation to the places she inhabits can be explained in terms of the notions of topophilia and ecophobia, with the sole purpose of subverting them. The analysis will finally suggest that the comforting sound of whirls, the lulling effect of the current of the river, is the nurturing element that stands between the laws of nature and those of society, blending life with death and allowing the possibility for rebirth. Resumen: A partir de la idea de que el acercamiento crítico a la literatura urbana ha tendido a ignorar el papel que juegan los ríos, este estudio trata de analizar el poder emocional que adopta el río Liffey en la primera novela de Nuala NíChounchúir, You (2010). Siguiendo postulados de ecocrítica, el presente análisis ahonda en temas relacionados con el efecto que tienen los hábitats urbanos y semiurbanos en la formación del pensamiento individual, cuestionando la división tradicional entre el campo y la ciudad. De esta forma, defiende que la percepción de la protagonista y la relación que mantiene con los lugares que habita pueden explicarse a partir de los conceptos de topofilia y ecofobia, con el fin de subvertirlos. Finalmente el análisis sugiere que el sonido arrullador de la cascada de agua y el efecto de la corriente del río son los elementos que, al disolver las leyes naturales y las sociales, nutren la fusión entre la vida y la muerte posibilitando así el renacer. This work is licensed under CC-BY-NC. ES REVIEW. SPANISH JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES 40 (2019): 77-95
The protagonist of Emma Donoghue's historical novel The Sealed Letter (2008), Emily "Fido" Faithf... more The protagonist of Emma Donoghue's historical novel The Sealed Letter (2008), Emily "Fido" Faithfull, is a New Woman, a campaigner for women's rights, whose involvement in a scandalous divorce that shocked the London society of 1864 was overtly silenced. In an attempt to unearth her role as one of the leaders of first-wave feminism, Donoghue explores the nature of female friendship through her unfortunate attachment to a troublesome woman with a duplicitous nature and her resentful husband. Considering the game of perspectives displayed in the narrative as propositions for the coexistence of a plurality of truths, this article will venture towards the understanding of the implicative dilemmas characters have to unravel in face of each other and of Victorian mores, as these have been defined by constructivist epistemology and, more specifically, within the framework of constructive psychology.
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Libros / Books by Marisol Morales-Ladrón
Bearing these aspects in mind, this discussion will explore Mary’s resilient narrative as a self-therapeutic exercise with which to redeem her sorrow and properly grieve the loss of her son. A close look will be placed at the function of the body in understanding the shaping of consciousness, with a view to dissolve traditional binaries as regards body/mind and reason/emotion. Within this framework, I will rely on the theories of neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Antonio Damasio, who argues that emotions need to be located in the body whereas thought emerges at a further stage in the cognitive process, as he has demonstrated in influential works on the emotional mapping of the mind such as Descartes’ Error (1994), The Feeling of What Happens (2000) and Looking for Spinoza (2003). This proposal will eventually aim at demonstrating how in Tóibín’s controversial The Testament of Mary –originally written for the stage as a solo play and later adapted in the form of a novella–, resilience functions as a mechanism of resistance against received assumptions of Christian thought and as a driving force in its capacity to challenge any authoritative narrative that does not rest upon the experiencing self.
Northern Irish Troubles and about contemporary Ireland. In these
works, she weighs up the aftermath of violence and the impact of the
shift to a more open but materialist society in the country overall.
Memory, trauma, and the abiding but elusive links between the past
and the present are central concerns of her fiction. This pioneering set
of essays by leading experts in Irish Studies explores the many
dimensions of her novels from a wide variety of perspectives.
Madden's skill at interweaving novels of ideas with artist novels that
draw out the complex inner predicaments of her characters is
highlighted. States of dislocation are concentrated on in her texts, but
also the quest for a home in the world and a lasting set of values that
allows for personal integrity and authenticity. These multifaceted
explorations bear out the compelling and enduring aspects of
Madden's highly regarded novels.
Artículos / Peer Revewed Articles by Marisol Morales-Ladrón
Bearing these aspects in mind, this discussion will explore Mary’s resilient narrative as a self-therapeutic exercise with which to redeem her sorrow and properly grieve the loss of her son. A close look will be placed at the function of the body in understanding the shaping of consciousness, with a view to dissolve traditional binaries as regards body/mind and reason/emotion. Within this framework, I will rely on the theories of neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Antonio Damasio, who argues that emotions need to be located in the body whereas thought emerges at a further stage in the cognitive process, as he has demonstrated in influential works on the emotional mapping of the mind such as Descartes’ Error (1994), The Feeling of What Happens (2000) and Looking for Spinoza (2003). This proposal will eventually aim at demonstrating how in Tóibín’s controversial The Testament of Mary –originally written for the stage as a solo play and later adapted in the form of a novella–, resilience functions as a mechanism of resistance against received assumptions of Christian thought and as a driving force in its capacity to challenge any authoritative narrative that does not rest upon the experiencing self.
Northern Irish Troubles and about contemporary Ireland. In these
works, she weighs up the aftermath of violence and the impact of the
shift to a more open but materialist society in the country overall.
Memory, trauma, and the abiding but elusive links between the past
and the present are central concerns of her fiction. This pioneering set
of essays by leading experts in Irish Studies explores the many
dimensions of her novels from a wide variety of perspectives.
Madden's skill at interweaving novels of ideas with artist novels that
draw out the complex inner predicaments of her characters is
highlighted. States of dislocation are concentrated on in her texts, but
also the quest for a home in the world and a lasting set of values that
allows for personal integrity and authenticity. These multifaceted
explorations bear out the compelling and enduring aspects of
Madden's highly regarded novels.