Listar por autor "Pettersson, Lin Elinor"
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Assembled Female Identities in Neo-Victorian Asylum Narratives.
Pettersson, Lin Elinor
(2024)
In the twenty-first century, women writers in particular have explored the aesthetic possibilities of neo-Victorian asylum fiction to delve into issues of gender and sexuality, and challenged tenacious patriarchal and ... -
Danger and Disability: The Female Body of Miniature in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2018-11-21)
Neo-Victorian reimaginations of the freak simultanously repeat and reject the binaries of normalcy and deviance to criticise the exploitative and objectifying conventions of nineteenth-century enfreakment practices. This ... -
“Definitely an Author to Watch”: Rosie Garland on the (Neo-)Victorian Freak
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Swansea University, Wales, UK, 2016)
This article includes an interview with Rosie Garland, conducted by Dr Lin Pettersson, which gives insight into the author’s writing and her concern for issues regarding gender, normalcy and identity through a discussion ... -
Estrategias Docentes Para la Internacionalización del Alumnado Universitario
Heiberg-Madsen, Lea; García-Jiménez, Rocío; Jiménez-Cebrián, Ana María; Páez-Moguer, Joaquín; Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2014-04-08)
A partir de la década de los 80, se ha tenido cada vez más en cuenta la importancia de internacionalizar el currículo universitario. No obstante, no ha sido hasta hace poco cuando se ha empezado a prestar atención a los ... -
Feminist Geography and the Cityscape in Neo-Victorian Literature
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2014-12-17)
Feminist Geography is a relatively new discipline within Human Geography that undertakes the study of space, place and gender as scholars try to work out how these categories intersect in the production of social identities ... -
Gender Performance and Spatial Negotiation in the Neo-Victorian Novel
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Universidad de Málaga, 2014)
The present volume examines Judith Butler's concept of gender performance in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus (1984), Sarah Waters's. Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Peter Ackroyd's. Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem ... -
Mobile-assisted learning and higher-education ESP: English for physiotherapy
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Lingua Posnaniensis, 2018)
The popularity of Mobile-assisted language learning has increased significantly in recent years, and language teachers are still exploring different ways of introducing new technology into the language classroom. Up to the ... -
Neo-Victorian Incest Trauma and the Fasting Body in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Nordic Irish Studies, 2017)
The Catholic nuclear family, as a product of historical and cultural contingencies, has predominantly figured as dysfunctional in Irish literature. Emma Donoghue’s most recent novel, The Wonder (2016), builds on trauma, ... -
Neo-Victorian Novels of Spectacle: Mapping Gendered Spaces in the City
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Universidad de Málaga, Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgación Científica, 2013)
The scope of the present PhD thesis is to analyse the process of spatialising identities in neo-Victorian literature. This study explores how space and gender converge in the formation of subjective identities using a ... -
Neo-Victorian Transcorporeality: Narrating Julia Pastrana's Body.
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Universitat Jaume I, 2023-05-15)
Julia Pastrana (1834-1860) features prominently in neo-Victorian biofiction, which is probably indebted to her tragic life and posthumous exploitation in the hands of her husband-manager Theodore Lent. Pastrana’s career ... -
“Not the Kind of Thing Anyone Wants to Spell Out”: Lesbian Silence in Emma Donoghue’s Neo-Victorian Representation of the Codrington Divorce
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Lambda Nordica, 2013)
This article looks into how Donoghue uses the trope of silence to reiterate lesbian history in her reimagination of the relationship between Helen Codrington and Emily Faithfull. I will argue that the public/private dichotomy ... -
Restaging Femininities on the Neo-Victorian Popular Stage.
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2023)
The neo-Victorian fascination with nineteenth-century popular entertainment has been consistent since Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (1984) and it has proved a fruitful ground for contemporary authors to explore ... -
Space, history and trauma in Doris Lessing's short fiction set in Europe.
(UMA Editorial, 2023)The past two wars have left their mark on those who participated, witnessed, or had to live in an environment in which one or more traumatised veterans returned home carrying history on their bodies. Doris Lessing and her ... -
The Deviant Body in Neo-Victorian Literature: A Somatechnical Reading of The Freak in Rosie Garland’s The Palace of Curiosities (2013)
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Universidad de la Rioja, 2016-04)
The contemporary fascination with historical, social and literary representations of the deviant body calls for new understandings of corporeality that question the body as a purely biological entity, and invites readings ... -
The Music-Hall Actress and Transcending Femininity in the Victorian Public Sphere: A Re-Orientation of Her Moral Status.
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Instituto Universitario de Estudios de las Mujeres (IUEM), 2022-02-18)
The actress, like the prostitute, was one of the female figures who in the nineteenth century bore a certain social stigma for being professionally active in public and non-domestic roles that were considered vulgar and ... -
The Philanthropist in Neo-Victorian Literature: (Im)Proper Femininity, Gender Inversion and Freakishness
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Universidad de La Laguna, 2017)
The present article singles out the female philanthropist in neo-Victorian fiction to explore the patriarchal unease regarding the unsexing effect of feminism in the mid-Victorian era as well as the literary constructions ... -
‘The Private Rooms and Public Haunts': Theatricality and The City of London In Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and The White.
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
The Victorian period was a densely voyeuristic era in which visual forms of entertainment proliferated and the culture of spectacle stretched beyond the theatrical scene. The use of theatrical imagery for representing the ... -
The role of self-concept and expectations in academic achievement: A preliminary study
Pettersson, Lin Elinor; Muñoz-Luna, Rosa María (2015-09-23)
As early career students face new challenges at university, the relationship between L2 skills and academic success depends upon self-perception to a greater extent than previously assumed. Up to the moment, most levelling ... -
The somatechnics of enfreakment: literary articulations of the body
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2015-04-22)
Lately, the Victorian freak show has attracted scholarly and literary attention alike. New critical approaches to the freak show set the European exhibition of human corporeal deviance apart from the American side show as ... -
Women and The City of London in Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Somers (1984)
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Universidad de La Laguna, 2014)
This paper examines the feminine perspective of London in Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Somers (1984). Lessing offers a feminist vision of the city representing London as a stage. Janna, the protagonist, strolls ...