Weaving Tales

Anglo-Iberian Encounters on Literatures in English

Paula García-Ramírez, Beatriz Valverde, Angélica Varandas, Jason Whittaker, Paula García-Ramírez, Beatriz Valverde, Angélica Varandas, Jason Whittaker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032447681
• eBook ISBN: 9781000988093
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This collection of essays brings together a wide range of Spanish and Portuguese academics and writers exploring the ways in which our encounters with literatures in English inform our assumptions about texts and identities (or texts as identities) and the way we read them. Mapping, examining, reading and re-reading, fashioning and self-fashioning and, especially, weaving appear as appropriate images that convey the complexity and the nature of creative writing. Such a metaphor has been fundamental for the history of world literature since the Roman poet Ovid had included a tale in his Metamorphoses in which weaving, narration, uncertain identities, and the risks of telling uncomfortable truths all figure prominently. As such, these essays trace the intertwined patterns that knit texts together, weaving identities as well as undoing them and, in the process, interrogating established and official truths.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Weaving Tales
• 1 Urizen now: Reading anew William Blake’s response to his times
• 2 William Blake in Spanish popular culture and literature
• 3 (Re)reading classical mythology through the Aztec gods: Cherríe Moraga’s lesbian Mexican Medea
• 4 From influence to response: Angela Carter’s selected novels come to terms with William Shakespeare’s tragedies
• 5 P.D. James’ The Black Tower: “Almost Iris Murdoch with murders in it”?
• 6 Romanticism and heteronymic theory: John Keats and the poetics of Fernando Pessoa
• 7 Jennifer Egan and digital fiction after postmodernism
• 8 Non Angli, sed angeli: The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Dawn of Englishness
• 9 Exploring the outsider consciousness in a selection of stories by Alice Munro
• 10 Depiction of enforced identity in Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa—the novel and the film
• 11 A transmodern reading of Joanna Kavenna’s Zed: Digital reason and the attempt to transcend Cartesian dialectics
• 12 Hospitable loci: The spatialization of oppositional world views in eighteenth-century women’s writings
• 13 “Rememberest Thou Me?”: Violent women in Louisa Medina Hamblin’s “The Panorama of Life”
• 14 Patriarchal orthorexia and embodied dissidence in contemporary feminist dystopias
• 15 Instapoetry and the transmodern paradigm: Transnational feminism in Nikita Gill’s work1
• Index