Papers by Ana-Karina Schneider
American, British and Canadian Studies
Transylvanian Review, 2017
9/11 and the Dystopian Imaginary: Towards a Periodization of Contemporary
In other words: the journal for literary translators, 2007
... | Ayuda. Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never let me go" in Romanian translatio... more ... | Ayuda. Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never let me go" in Romanian translation. Autores: Ana-KarinaSchneider; Localización: In other words: the journal for literary translators, ISSN 1361-911X, Nº. 30, 2007 , pags. 21-31. © 2001-2010 Universidad ...
American, British and Canadian Studies, 2017
American, British and Canadian Studies, 2017
... STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI, PHILOLOGIA, LIV, 1, 2009 A HISTORICIST CRITIQUE OF IDENTIT... more ... STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI, PHILOLOGIA, LIV, 1, 2009 A HISTORICIST CRITIQUE OF IDENTITY CONSTRUAL IN WILLIAM FAULKNER'S LIGHT IN AUGUST ANA-KARINASCHNEIDER ABSTRACT. ... The implication is: if Page 3. ANA-KARINA SCHNEIDER 296 ...
Guest co-edited special journal edition bringing together substantial papers on the history, curr... more Guest co-edited special journal edition bringing together substantial papers on the history, curriculum and pedagogic practices of the academic discipline of English Studies in Romania, with brief response papers in some instances.
SPECIAL ISSUE: Literature and the City (June 2020)
American, British and Canadian Studies, 2019
College Literature, 2019
In The Politics of Friendship, Jacques Derrida questions the "familial, fraternalist and thus and... more In The Politics of Friendship, Jacques Derrida questions the "familial, fraternalist and thus androcentric configuration of politics" which has "naturalised" certain types of discourse. His intention is to foreground the tenuousness, on the one hand, of describing woman as unable to comprehend and discursivise friendship and, on the other, of the historical gendering of rhetorical genres. This article draws on ideatic, linguistic, and textural evidence from The Politics of Friendship in order to tease out Anne Enright's similar critique in The Gathering of the naturalization of the conceptual slippages binding family and nation. Enright's novel engages with the western philosophical and rhetorical tradition that tackles friendship, family, loyalty, and duty. By experimenting with modes of representation, narrative techniques, and rhetorical registers, I argue, Enright destabilises entrenched views of women as passive, reinserting them as agents at moments in history from which they were left out by the patriarchal tradition.
International Conference
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu,
7-9 November 2019
Invited Speakers... more International Conference
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu,
7-9 November 2019
Invited Speakers include:
Daisy Black (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Peter Childs (Newman University, Birmingham, UK)
Sebastian Groes (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Studia Philologia, 2018
Anne Enright’s novel The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch follows its pregnant protagonist’s journey into ... more Anne Enright’s novel The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch follows its pregnant protagonist’s journey into the city of Asunción and Dr William Stewart’s away from the city, into the more innocent but war-ravaged Cordillera mountains in mid-nineteenth century Paraguay. Food and its lack are a leit motif of Enright’s novel, variously featuring banquets, rampant consumerism, famine and cannibalism. A fictional biography of historical figures and also a commentary on contemporary consumerism, The Pleasure foregrounds Eliza’s embodied experience of pregnancy, with its cravings and physiological transformations, and displaces the historical perspective onto the European observer, Dr Stewart, who echoes the baffled fascination and revulsion and the patriarchal moral stance of male historians writing about the colonies. Moreover, in a country on the brink of modernisation, Stewart’s ambivalent reaction to the viscerality of both sexuality and wartime violence typifies the experience of abjection that pre-dates and triggers the formation of norms and the establishment of the symbolic order in subject formation. My essay draws on Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection in order to show how Enright uses representations of food and the female body to problematise historical processes and the position of women within the order of discourse.
American, British and Canadian Studies, 2018
In this essay, Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy” is read as a series of Bildungsromane that... more In this essay, Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy” is read as a series of Bildungsromane that test the limits of that genre. In these thematically unrelated novels, characters reach critical points in their lives when they are confronted with the ways in which their respective childhoods have shaped their grownup expectations and professional careers. In each, the protagonist has a successful career, whether as a musician (The Unconsoled), a detective (When We Were Orphans), or a carer (Never Let Me Go), but finds it difficult to overcome childhood trauma. Ishiguro’s treatment of childhood in these novels foregrounds the tension between individual subjectivity and the formal strictures and moral rigors of socialisation. In this respect, he comes close to modernist narratives of becoming, particularly James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Narrative strategies such as epiphanies and the control of distance and tropes such as boarding schools and journeys to foreign lands provide the analytical coordinates of my comparative analysis. While raising the customary questions of the Bildungsroman concerning socialisation and morality, I argue, Ishiguro manipulates narration very carefully in order to maintain a non-standard yet meaningful gap between his protagonists’ understanding of their lives and the reader’s.
Narrative Strategies in the Reconstruction of History, 2018
Anne Enright’s second and third novels thematise the condition of women in periods previous to th... more Anne Enright’s second and third novels thematise the condition of women in periods previous to the early 21st century when they were published. What Are You Like? (2000) describes the convergence of twin sisters separated at birth after their mother’s death as a victim of policies that privileged the life of the unborn child over that of the mother. The novel covers the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and follows the protagonists’ exploits in Dublin, London and New York. The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002) is the fictional biography of a real-life 19th-century Irish adventuress who became the consort of Paraguay’s dictator during the war against the Triple Alliance. However, both novels reflect critically on contemporary matters from the changing rights of women to consumerism and cosmopolitanism in Celtic Tiger Ireland. While the discourse of the Celtic Tiger years typically celebrated immigration and return migration, Enright investigates the silenced histories of women emigrants, reflecting critically on the shame and incomprehension that frequently attach to their plight. Othered and by turns desired and reviled, Eliza Lynch makes for a subversive case study of the relationship between gender and political power. More understated, What Are You Like? “confronts a number of political debates about the reproductive female body,” as critic Ellen McWilliams points out (2013: 185). Enright’s project of recuperating and reinstating women at various points in history from which they have been excluded by the patriarchal tradition is inflected by recent feminism, although the author resists programmatic identification with any of the currently circulating “-isms.” Rather than lament their marginalisation and vilification, Enright shows women as responsible agents by recreating for them biographies and motivations that both individualise them and render them credible. This chapter proposes to investigate the narrative techniques and stylistic particularities whereby What Are You Like? and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch intertwine commentary on the condition of women both in past periods and in the early twenty-first century.
Studies in the Novel, 2018
This article proposes a contextual and comparative approach to Anne Enright's predilection for sp... more This article proposes a contextual and comparative approach to Anne Enright's predilection for specific forms and themes and the critics' tendency to categorize them in accordance with the trends of contemporary literature. I analyze developments in Enright's work, historicizing her fiction and interrogating the impact of critical theories and terminologies on its writing and reading. The propensity to annex the prefix 'post-' to the names of current critical and cultural paradigms is widespread and symptomatic of an ongoing project to periodize and characterize contemporary literature. Enright rejects such descriptions that essentialize the thematic concerns of recent fiction and critiques fashionable terms such as postfeminism and postnationalism, which obscure historical realities and suggest that productive concepts such as feminism and nationalism have become outdated. Enright's writing career, spanning almost three decades, is illustrative of significant evolutions in the way western cultures relate to the prefix 'post-' and its temporal and paradigmatic connotations.
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Papers by Ana-Karina Schneider
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu,
7-9 November 2019
Invited Speakers include:
Daisy Black (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Peter Childs (Newman University, Birmingham, UK)
Sebastian Groes (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu,
7-9 November 2019
Invited Speakers include:
Daisy Black (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Peter Childs (Newman University, Birmingham, UK)
Sebastian Groes (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Guest Editor: Petronia Popa-Petrar (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), [email protected]
Extended deadline: 1 September 2021