Articles by Teresa Gibert
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 2022
Between 1930 and 2022, no fewer than 35 people (including professional translators, scholars and ... more Between 1930 and 2022, no fewer than 35 people (including professional translators, scholars and amateurs) met the formidable challenge of translating into Spanish either The Waste Land in full or only some of its sections. With varying degrees of success, these translations found their way into the pages of single books, anthologies, literary magazines or journals both in Spain and in Hispanic-American countries such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Santo Domingo. Undertaking a close analysis of all these versions not only provides an excellent opportunity to revisit T.S. Eliot’s best-known poem on the centenary of its publication, but may also contribute to the study of the complex process of its retranslation over more than nine decades.
Journal of English Studies (JES), 2019
L. Frank Baum’s "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) and Victor Fleming’s film “The Wizard of Oz” ... more L. Frank Baum’s "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) and Victor Fleming’s film “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) play an important intertextual role in Margaret Atwood’s critical and fictional writings. Atwood has often been inspired by both versions of this modern fairy tale and has drawn attention to the main issues it raises (e.g. the transformative power of words, gendered power relationships, the connection between illusion and reality, the perception of the artist as a magician, and different notions of home). She has creatively explored and exploited themes, settings, visual motifs, allegorical content and characters (Dorothy, her three companions, the Wizard and the witches, especially Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West), subversively adapting her literary borrowings with a parodic twist and satirical intent. Parts of “Life Before Man” (1979) may be interpreted as a rewrite of a story defined by Atwood as “the great American witchcraft classic”.
Anglo Saxonica, 2018
A number of Canadian writers have carefully re-worked or significantly alluded to John McCrae’s i... more A number of Canadian writers have carefully re-worked or significantly alluded to John McCrae’s iconic poem “In Flanders Fields” (1915 ) either to support or to challenge some of the myths of the Great War. Celebrated and beloved by the general public, this extremely popular war poem has made a lasting impression on Canada’s collective memory. While it continues to be recited with reverence and genuine patriotic pride at solemn commemorative ceremonies every Remembrance Day, it has also given rise to bitter controversies about its presumed healing powers and alleged traumatic effects. Taking advantage of the fact that many Canadians grew sentimentally attached to the moving lines they learned in their childhood, “In Flanders Fields” was exploited by politicians to fuel antagonisms within the country and has often been misused as a military propaganda tool. Paradoxically, two of the initial literary responses it inspired were not belligerent poems, but sympathetic elegies for the dead in WWI, concluding with unequivocal calls for world peace. In contrast with the respectful attitude expressed by McCrae’s contemporary writers, his rondeau was later subversively transformed or parodied —by Margaret Atwood in particular—through innovative uses of intertextuality for various satirical purposes, including that of rejecting any glorification of war, and more specifically, the moral and political questioning of Canada’s engagement in a war fought on foreign soil.
ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies, 2018
Most metaphorical expressions related to children in Margaret Atwood’s novels and short stories c... more Most metaphorical expressions related to children in Margaret Atwood’s novels and short stories can be grouped into two coherent sets. The predominant negative set includes a wide range of monsters and hideous animals, whereas the much shorter list of positive representations encompasses sunflowers, jewels, feathers, little angels, gifts and lambs. Negative representations of children in Atwood’s fiction are generally rendered in an unconventional manner and reflect the frustration felt by realistically portrayed characters in their everyday experience. On the contrary, favorable expressions have a tendency toward stereotype and often belong to the world of memories, dreams and illusions.
Miscelánea. A Journal of English and American Studies, 2018
This article explores how Margaret Atwood engages with the literary trope of
spectrality through... more This article explores how Margaret Atwood engages with the literary trope of
spectrality through the ghost of Lucy in “Death by Landscape” (1990), an
enigmatic short story which can be fruitfully analyzed in the light of both the
author’s critical writings and the spectropoetics introduced by Jacques Derrida.
As an outstanding example of the Canadian Gothic, this brief narrative not only
addresses the universal concerns of death and bereavement, but also raises more
specific key issues, including present-day human relationships with the natural
environment and the perception of geographical spaces as symbolic sites. Lucy’s
ghostly presence haunting Lois draws special attention to the noxious effects of
the modern appropriation of Native-American cultures, a controversial topic
illustrated by the Indian-themed summer camp where Lucy mysteriously
disappears and by her naïve friend Lois’s explicit desire “to be an Indian”.
Additionally, Atwood’s short story evokes the physical displacement due to
colonial expansion and recalls the ensuing social dislocation of the decimated
Native populations, eventually almost erased from the actual and imaginary
landscapes of North America.
Journal of the Short Story in English, 2006
Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate, 2005
Journal of the Short Story in English. Les Cahiers de la …, Jan 1, 2003
DA: Datta: Teaching The Waste Land, 2001
A Distancia. Cuadernos de Cultura, 1998
BELLS (Barcelona English Language and Literature Studies), 1995
Critics have already pointed out some of the parallelisms between "The Sisters" and "The Dead". W... more Critics have already pointed out some of the parallelisms between "The Sisters" and "The Dead". We will compare and contrast the roles of two pairs of rninor characters4Vannie and Eliza Flynn on one hand, and Julia and Kate Morkan on the other-so as to demonstrate that they represent complements and counterparts which illustrate the statusof a signijicant segment of the middle classlrish population depicted by James Joyce throughout Dubliners.
ES. Revista de Filología Inglesa, 1995
In the past ten years, feminist criticism has dealt with issues arising both from the representat... more In the past ten years, feminist criticism has dealt with issues arising both from the representation of women and the treatment of the feminine in T.S. Eliot's writings. Although the former area of enquiry -focusing on his poems and plays- had already aroused a great deal of interest among non-feminist scholars, feminists explore different aspects, such as the use of "feminine speech" or the "appropriation of female voices" in The Waste Land and its relevance for the consolidation of a male/female hierarchy of discourse. The latter -that is, Eliot's concept of femaleness as expressed in his essays and letters- still deserves careful attention, since it has been argued that the question of femininity is central to his aesthetic theory.
Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense, Jan 1, 1994
The metaphorical strategies adopted by David Lodge throughout bis fiction are closely linked to t... more The metaphorical strategies adopted by David Lodge throughout bis fiction are closely linked to the theoretical principies expressed by Ihe author in his Iiterary criticisrn. From Language of Fiction (1966) until After Bakhtin (1990), Lodge's interest in metaphor has never failed, though it has undergone significant changes, all of which are reflected in his novels.
EPOS. Revista de Filología, 1994
ES. Revista de Filología Inglesa, 1993
When considering new trends in contemporary Canadian literature written by women, one of the most... more When considering new trends in contemporary Canadian literature written by women, one of the most striking features to be noticed is a clear shift from victimisation to affirmation and celebration. Examples of this change can be found in the latest novels by Margaret Atwood, Aritha Van Herk and Joy Kogawa compared and contrasted with some of their earlier ones. Female characters become assertive and powerful as they reject both passive and aggressive attitudes (typical of their double colonisation) in order to progress towards more positive perceptions of human relationships.
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 1993
La bibliografía en torno a la literatura canadiense ha crecido en estos últimos años de una forma... more La bibliografía en torno a la literatura canadiense ha crecido en estos últimos años de una forma espectacular. Con frecuencia se trata de estudios sobre autores contemporáneos que siguen escribiendo nuevas obras, razón por la cual los investigadores se ven obligados a finalizar sus trabajos con unas conclusiones provisionales basadas en el conjunto publicado hasta un determinado momento. Actualmente, en Canadá, la creación literaria genera una copiosa exégesis crítica, que en poco tiempo alcanza un volumen muy superior a aquélla. Considerando cómo los críticos no sólo son más numerosos sino por lo general también más prolíficos que los poetas y los novelistas, mantenerse informado acerca de las novedades del panorama literario canadiense supone un considerable -aunque grato-esfuerzo.
EPOS. Revista de Filología, 1993
Las mujeres ocupan un lugar P-^-nte en ^1^^^^^^^^^ ' Cfr. «It is imperative that we look more clo... more Las mujeres ocupan un lugar P-^-nte en ^1^^^^^^^^^ ' Cfr. «It is imperative that we look more closely at Native literature and judge it not within a European cultural paradigm but from the points of view of the culture from which it spríngs». AGNES GRANT, «Contemporary Native Women's Voices in Literature», en W.H. NEW (ed.), Native Writers and Canadian Writing, Vancouver, UBC Press, 1990, p. 126. Este tipo de afirmaciones, tan bienintencionadas como perjudiciales para los propios nativos, se han convertido en un lugar común en los estudios sobre las literaturas que tradicionalmente han quedado relegadas. La aceptación rigurosa de tales principios nos obligaría a tratar únicamente lo conocido de manera inmediata e impediría analizar fenómenos alejados en el espacio o en el tiempo. Llevando la teoría al extremo, sólo podríamos estudiar y apreciar las obras de los autores de nuestro mismo país, sexo, raza, clase social, época, etc.
EPOS: Revista de Filología, 1992
EPOS: Revista de Filología, 1991
El uso de la metáfora en The Handmaid's Tule M." TERESA GIBERT MACEDA UNED Entre las múltiples ap... more El uso de la metáfora en The Handmaid's Tule M." TERESA GIBERT MACEDA UNED Entre las múltiples aproximaciones que podemos elegir para abordar el análisis de una obra literaria, cabe destacar el examen del lenguaje metafórico en ella empleado. Como a lo largo de los últimos años se ha venido registrando una auténtica proliferación de este tipo de estudios, no resulta necesario detenerse a exponer pormenorizadamente los postulados teóricos sobre los cuales parece existir un consenso general'. Por otra parte, dado que en el anterior volumen de EPOS ya explicamos de manera sucinta los principios esenciales que habíamos tomado como punto de partida para interpretar Life Before Man, ahora evitaremos la reiteración al disponernos a aplicar dichos principios a otra novela de Margaret Atwood^ Sin embargo, conviene recordar la idea -comúnmente admitida desde que Jakobson la formulase por vez primera-de que la metáfora suele predominar en la poesía, mientras que la metonimia generalmente prevalece en las es-' A los 4.193 títulos publicados sobre esta materia entre los años 1970 y 1985, que Jean-Pierre VAN NOPPEN compiló en Metaphor.
EPOS: Revista de Filología, 1990
Cuando llegó a mis manos la invitación para participar en urjas Jornadas sobre «Imágenes del Cana... more Cuando llegó a mis manos la invitación para participar en urjas Jornadas sobre «Imágenes del Canadá Contemporáneo», me encontraba leyendo Ufe Tfore Man novela que -por ser un excelente ejemplo del realismo social dfk)s años setenta-podia constituir una materia de estudio apropiada cara a ocasión Como entonces también estaba yo realizando un trabajo X L teorTa"bipoSr del lenguaje de Román fo^^¿^rarac^^i^n.^^^^^ pensé en aplica, dicha teoría ^ ^^^ no^a^d^^^^^^^^^^ Trrp^i üo'Ters'pá^^^^^^^ he tratado de contemplar, L./. Before ¿Tdesde una perspectiva que el propio J-^^\Z:Zl^Z:S'^Slíí práctica, pero que otros investigadores han empleado con éxito en el análisis de ciertas obras literarias'.
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Articles by Teresa Gibert
spectrality through the ghost of Lucy in “Death by Landscape” (1990), an
enigmatic short story which can be fruitfully analyzed in the light of both the
author’s critical writings and the spectropoetics introduced by Jacques Derrida.
As an outstanding example of the Canadian Gothic, this brief narrative not only
addresses the universal concerns of death and bereavement, but also raises more
specific key issues, including present-day human relationships with the natural
environment and the perception of geographical spaces as symbolic sites. Lucy’s
ghostly presence haunting Lois draws special attention to the noxious effects of
the modern appropriation of Native-American cultures, a controversial topic
illustrated by the Indian-themed summer camp where Lucy mysteriously
disappears and by her naïve friend Lois’s explicit desire “to be an Indian”.
Additionally, Atwood’s short story evokes the physical displacement due to
colonial expansion and recalls the ensuing social dislocation of the decimated
Native populations, eventually almost erased from the actual and imaginary
landscapes of North America.