Papers by Laura Lojo-Rodríguez
In 1934, Argentinian editor and writer Victoria Ocampo commissioned Jorge Luis Borges the transla... more In 1934, Argentinian editor and writer Victoria Ocampo commissioned Jorge Luis Borges the translations of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Orlando, to be published in 1935 and 1937, respectively, under the auspices of the intellectual circle ‘Sur’ (‘South’). These translations would inspire generations of writers, appealed by Woolf’s subversive strategies to trespass physical and psychological boundaries, and by her innovative conception of time, history, and gender, which anticipated what came to be later known as ‘magic realism’. This essay explores the ways in which Woolf’s influence affects the construction of alternative ontological realms that both coexist with and transcend identifiable historical sites in the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Michèle Roberts, and Jeanette Winterson. The chapter further examines the different strategies these writers use to unsettle received assumptions pertaining to history and to propose alternative rewritings of it in Woolf’s wake.
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2003
The diaza ligand 1,4-bis(4-pyridyl)butadiyne (L) has been used as a linker in self-assembly react... more The diaza ligand 1,4-bis(4-pyridyl)butadiyne (L) has been used as a linker in self-assembly reactions with different diphosphine Pd(II) and Pt(II) triflates to build metallosupramolecular squares and triangles. Equilibria between triangular and square entities have been detected in most of the cases and their composition studied by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. The self-assembly process has been shown to be
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Miscelánea: A Journal of …, 2011
From Romanticism onwards, childhood was constructed as an alternative to the alienating world of ... more From Romanticism onwards, childhood was constructed as an alternative to the alienating world of modern progress. Though this idealised version of childhood consecrated in Romantic literature was questioned by the end of the nineteenth century, ...
John Donne (1572-1631) “ committed ” a mistake that neither his contemporaries nor later critics ... more John Donne (1572-1631) “ committed ” a mistake that neither his contemporaries nor later critics would forgive him: being born in the age of the greatest master of English Literature, William Shakespeare. Donne himself was aware of the oddity of the situation, as well as of the totally new kind of poetry he was creating, utterly different from what had been previously made by, namely, Sidney and Spenser. His conception of poetry also differed a great deal from that of his contemporaries: he supposed that his poetry would be understood only by those friends for whom he wrote, and even in 1614, when he was thinking of publishing his poems, this was to be not for a public view, but a few copies at his own cost. Donne himself was, therefore, aware of the difficulty that his poetry conveyed; however, far from choosing a tendency towards simplification, he would continue to create poetry for an elite of educated people trained in the same tradition as his. Any twentieth-century reader who...
Virginia Woolf’s literary essays emerge out of an eagerness to communicate a self at odds with it... more Virginia Woolf’s literary essays emerge out of an eagerness to communicate a self at odds with its own time, rejecting ideological assumptions present in her contemporaries’ critical practice. Woolf’s reformulation articulates itself as a return to the humble origins of the essay as form, which she acknowledged to appear embodied in Michel de Montaigne’s Essais (1580). The present paper aims to explore the ethics of subversion which underpin Woolf’s criticism and her conception of the literary essay, along with the aesthetics which its form presents has promulgated by its “modern” inventor, from Woolf’s first reception of the Frenchman’s essayist to her own first collection of criticism, The Common Reader (1925).
Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story
Andrea Levy’s work is characterised by a critical engagement with ethnicity, national identity an... more Andrea Levy’s work is characterised by a critical engagement with ethnicity, national identity and culture of the Jamaican diaspora in the United Kingdom. This chapter examines Levy’s “That Polite Way English People Have” and “Uriah’s War”, two short stories included in the collection Six Stories & An Essay (2014). Here Levy deals with Britain’s Caribbean narratives, violently blotted out from British mainstream history. Posed in an interstitial position between her Jamaican legacy and a British background, Levy’s hybrid identity is metaphorically signalled in the narrative through the choice of liminal spaces which work as indication of her identitary conflicts.
Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism
This essay examines the seminal role of Argentinean writer Victoria Ocampo (1890–1979) in the rec... more This essay examines the seminal role of Argentinean writer Victoria Ocampo (1890–1979) in the reception of the so-called High Modernism in Spanish-speaking countries through her professional activity as a literary critic and as a publisher under the auspices of the intellectual circle “Sur” [“South”]. In her project of running a literary journal, Ocampo partly emulated the spirit of Sylvia Beach’s monthly publication Navire D’Argent, but was most positively encouraged by Waldo Frank and Jose Ortega y Gasset—editors of Seven Arts (1916–1917) and Revista de Occidente [Journal of the Western World], respectively. Both Frank and Ortega were extremely influential in Ocampo’s ambition to establish an inspiring cultural network connecting Europe and the American continent. Ocampo, Frank and Ortega joined in an effort to counterbalance what they saw as a decadent European aesthetics via Hispanic routes of inspiring connections among cultural capitals in the interwar period. A careful analysis of the sociological impact, in South-America, of these avant-garde publications, allows us to conclude that they served the cause of empowering women intellectuals in the geographical periphery much more than did contemporary European maganizes.
Información del artículo Intertextualidad y reescritua en Virginia Woolf y Michel Cunningham.
This book focuses on the emergence of women poets from the 1980s to the present in both Ireland a... more This book focuses on the emergence of women poets from the 1980s to the present in both Ireland and Galicia. Departing from common ground in shared myths and comparable political and social circumstances, each contributor to this volume looks into central aspects of Irish and Galician identity issues, which range from configurations of the nation, nature and feminine paradigms, to the poets' elaborations on their own literary practice. The comparative approach followed shows both that questions raised in one community can find relevant answers in the other and that reciprocal knowledge helps to disseminate the writers' work - and the criticism of it - beyond their respective national borders. This collection of essays and interviews also provides both poets and critics with a mutual space in which to voice their concerns, thus bringing down the barrier that is often raised artificially between these two literary activities.
... Luckhurst explora a relación literaria de Woolf con outro home do renacemento, Michel de Mont... more ... Luckhurst explora a relación literaria de Woolf con outro home do renacemento, Michel de Montaigne, creador do ensaio moderno. ... Experience" en Virginia Wooifandthe Essay (Beth Carole Rosenberg e Jeanne Dubino eds., New York: Sf Martin's, 1997]. Page 5. ...
This article aims at critically examining the contemporary urge to overcome taboos, silence and a... more This article aims at critically examining the contemporary urge to overcome taboos, silence and amnesia both in private and public history as a result of participation in the “Great War” in order to exorcise the transgenerational phantom which continues to haunt the present. To do so, I here examine two contemporary short stories published in the wake of centennial commemorations of the Great War in 2014, Sheena Wilkinson’s “Each Slow Dusk” and Xiaolu Guo’s “Coolies”. These stories articulate from different angles and perspectives women’s necessity to settle accounts with their own family history and with a traumatic inheritance which has been silenced. Unlike many war veterans whose participation in the war was acknowledged by proper mourning and public rituals, the protagonists of Guo and Wilkinson’s stories were deprived of recognition and their participation was silenced within the family and by official amnesia. The political position of Northern Ireland as part of the British ...
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