Huatong Sun
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199744763
- eISBN:
- 9780199932993
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744763.003.0008
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Models and Architectures
This chapter explores the complexities of local culture beyond the models of cultural dimensions with a Chinese user case. It regards Chinese graduate student Mei’s late night message exchanges as a ...
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This chapter explores the complexities of local culture beyond the models of cultural dimensions with a Chinese user case. It regards Chinese graduate student Mei’s late night message exchanges as a new form of fan innovation and a literacy practice. In comparison to Brian’s orality practice in the previous chapter, this chapter discusses how different cultural preferences lead to different use and genre patterns of text messaging and contribute to different meanings. It exemplifies the dialogical nature of technology in cross-cultural technology design and illustrates many factors, other than cultural dimensions, contributed to this particular local use. Meanwhile Mei’s case also epitomizes the importance of “constructive subjectiveness” in technology design as her identity as a sports fan was a driving force in her creative way of using and localizing a technology.Less
This chapter explores the complexities of local culture beyond the models of cultural dimensions with a Chinese user case. It regards Chinese graduate student Mei’s late night message exchanges as a new form of fan innovation and a literacy practice. In comparison to Brian’s orality practice in the previous chapter, this chapter discusses how different cultural preferences lead to different use and genre patterns of text messaging and contribute to different meanings. It exemplifies the dialogical nature of technology in cross-cultural technology design and illustrates many factors, other than cultural dimensions, contributed to this particular local use. Meanwhile Mei’s case also epitomizes the importance of “constructive subjectiveness” in technology design as her identity as a sports fan was a driving force in her creative way of using and localizing a technology.
Kristyn Gorton
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748624171
- eISBN:
- 9780748670956
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624171.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
An engaging and original study of current research on television audiences and the concept of emotion, this book offers a unique approach to key issues within television studies. Topics discussed ...
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An engaging and original study of current research on television audiences and the concept of emotion, this book offers a unique approach to key issues within television studies. Topics discussed include: television branding; emotional qualities in television texts; audience reception models; fan cultures; 'quality' television; television aesthetics; reality television; individualism and its links to television consumption. The book is divided into two sections: the first covers theoretical work on the audience, fan cultures, global television, theorising emotion and affect in feminist theory and film and television studies. The second half offers a series of case studies on television programmes in order to explore how emotion is fashioned, constructed and valued in televisual texts. The final chapter features original material from interviews with industry professionals in the UK and Irish Soap industries along with advice for students on how to conduct their own small-scale ethnographic projects.Less
An engaging and original study of current research on television audiences and the concept of emotion, this book offers a unique approach to key issues within television studies. Topics discussed include: television branding; emotional qualities in television texts; audience reception models; fan cultures; 'quality' television; television aesthetics; reality television; individualism and its links to television consumption. The book is divided into two sections: the first covers theoretical work on the audience, fan cultures, global television, theorising emotion and affect in feminist theory and film and television studies. The second half offers a series of case studies on television programmes in order to explore how emotion is fashioned, constructed and valued in televisual texts. The final chapter features original material from interviews with industry professionals in the UK and Irish Soap industries along with advice for students on how to conduct their own small-scale ethnographic projects.
Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, and Jing Jamie Zhao (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9789888390809
- eISBN:
- 9789888390441
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390809.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer as in this digital, globalist age. In response to the proliferation of queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires, ...
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Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer as in this digital, globalist age. In response to the proliferation of queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires, especially as manifested online, this book explores extended, diversified, and transculturally informed fan communities and practices based in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan that have cultivated various forms of queerness. To right an imbalance in the scholarly literature on queer East Asia, this volume is weighted toward an exploration of queer elements of mainland Chinese fandoms that have been less often written about than more visible cultural elements in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Case studies drawn from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the flows among them include: the Chinese online Hetalia fandom; Chinese fans’ queer gossip on the American L-Word actress Katherine Moennig; Dongfang Bubai iterations; the HOCC fandom; cross-border fans of Li Yuchun; and Japaneseness in Taiwanese BL fantasies; among others.Less
Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer as in this digital, globalist age. In response to the proliferation of queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires, especially as manifested online, this book explores extended, diversified, and transculturally informed fan communities and practices based in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan that have cultivated various forms of queerness. To right an imbalance in the scholarly literature on queer East Asia, this volume is weighted toward an exploration of queer elements of mainland Chinese fandoms that have been less often written about than more visible cultural elements in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Case studies drawn from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the flows among them include: the Chinese online Hetalia fandom; Chinese fans’ queer gossip on the American L-Word actress Katherine Moennig; Dongfang Bubai iterations; the HOCC fandom; cross-border fans of Li Yuchun; and Japaneseness in Taiwanese BL fantasies; among others.
Edward P. Comentale
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037399
- eISBN:
- 9780252094576
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037399.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter shows how the very deadliness of the commodity form—its radical detachment from any traditional context—ultimately extends the affective range and reach of popular music. It argues that ...
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This chapter shows how the very deadliness of the commodity form—its radical detachment from any traditional context—ultimately extends the affective range and reach of popular music. It argues that the rock counterculture was founded not against, but through technological manipulation, commercial standardization, and consumer desire, and thus provided fans with new, more thrilling ways of inhabiting a national scene defined by market identities and taste cultures. Somewhere between Marcel Duchamp's arty toss-off and Elvis Presley's tossed-off art, a certain indifference comes to infect popular culture at large. In the end, this chapter focuses on the experiences and emergent sites of fandom, arguing that, with each cut, the King presented his body as an affectively charged and fully mediated public body and that, with records, radio, television, and film, his revolt extended—from one savvy fan to the next—across the body politic at large.Less
This chapter shows how the very deadliness of the commodity form—its radical detachment from any traditional context—ultimately extends the affective range and reach of popular music. It argues that the rock counterculture was founded not against, but through technological manipulation, commercial standardization, and consumer desire, and thus provided fans with new, more thrilling ways of inhabiting a national scene defined by market identities and taste cultures. Somewhere between Marcel Duchamp's arty toss-off and Elvis Presley's tossed-off art, a certain indifference comes to infect popular culture at large. In the end, this chapter focuses on the experiences and emergent sites of fandom, arguing that, with each cut, the King presented his body as an affectively charged and fully mediated public body and that, with records, radio, television, and film, his revolt extended—from one savvy fan to the next—across the body politic at large.
Simon J. Bronner
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813134062
- eISBN:
- 9780813135885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813134062.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter evaluates six prevalent interpretations of football's popularity in the United States and suggests that overlooked is the symbolic connection of football for both players and fans to ...
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This chapter evaluates six prevalent interpretations of football's popularity in the United States and suggests that overlooked is the symbolic connection of football for both players and fans to frontier mythology and the psychological use of football as a framed outlet for hypermasculinity in a feminizing modern culture. This analysis also helps explain the sport's lack of diffusion to other continents when compared to baseball and basketball.Less
This chapter evaluates six prevalent interpretations of football's popularity in the United States and suggests that overlooked is the symbolic connection of football for both players and fans to frontier mythology and the psychological use of football as a framed outlet for hypermasculinity in a feminizing modern culture. This analysis also helps explain the sport's lack of diffusion to other continents when compared to baseball and basketball.
Shih-chen Chao
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9789888390809
- eISBN:
- 9789888390441
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390809.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
This paper analyzes gender performativity in the form of cross-dressing cuteness through cosplaying by a popular male-cosplaying-female fan group “Ailisi Weiniang Tuan (Alice Cos Group)” based in ...
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This paper analyzes gender performativity in the form of cross-dressing cuteness through cosplaying by a popular male-cosplaying-female fan group “Ailisi Weiniang Tuan (Alice Cos Group)” based in China. Drawing from cute studies, gender/queer studies, and fan studies, this paper examines the phenomenon of fake girls as a venue of redefining the boundaries of identity and gender using cosplaying and the notion of cuteness to achieve queerness to address the issue of gender performativity through queered cuteness in today’s China.Less
This paper analyzes gender performativity in the form of cross-dressing cuteness through cosplaying by a popular male-cosplaying-female fan group “Ailisi Weiniang Tuan (Alice Cos Group)” based in China. Drawing from cute studies, gender/queer studies, and fan studies, this paper examines the phenomenon of fake girls as a venue of redefining the boundaries of identity and gender using cosplaying and the notion of cuteness to achieve queerness to address the issue of gender performativity through queered cuteness in today’s China.
Lisa Horton
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781628460919
- eISBN:
- 9781626740532
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628460919.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Steampunk aesthetics in the production design of Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film production of Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) reinforces a burgeoning alliance ...
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Steampunk aesthetics in the production design of Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film production of Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) reinforces a burgeoning alliance between steampunks and traditional Sherlockian fan cultures. This chapter explores how such a presentation of the character and world of Sherlock Holmes further popularlizes steampunk aesthetics for mass-market consumption and demonstrates the natural fit of a steampunk interpretation for this most popular of Victorian narratives.It also discusses how the film’s attraction for steampunks enthusiasts makes it a remix of the character and story for contemporary sensibilities rather than the more usual pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle’s style and voice that reinterpretations have so often been. Finally, it extrapolates that this process of “remix,” that is replicated across other literatures and their interpretations, might be the correct descriptor for the larger aesthetic and cultural movement of steampunk.Less
Steampunk aesthetics in the production design of Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film production of Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) reinforces a burgeoning alliance between steampunks and traditional Sherlockian fan cultures. This chapter explores how such a presentation of the character and world of Sherlock Holmes further popularlizes steampunk aesthetics for mass-market consumption and demonstrates the natural fit of a steampunk interpretation for this most popular of Victorian narratives.It also discusses how the film’s attraction for steampunks enthusiasts makes it a remix of the character and story for contemporary sensibilities rather than the more usual pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle’s style and voice that reinterpretations have so often been. Finally, it extrapolates that this process of “remix,” that is replicated across other literatures and their interpretations, might be the correct descriptor for the larger aesthetic and cultural movement of steampunk.
Hilary A. Hallett
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520274082
- eISBN:
- 9780520953680
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520274082.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Chapter 2 explores how the fan culture surrounding the early film industry’s female celebrities—not just performers, but writers, directors, editors, and producers—placed them in a new kind of ...
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Chapter 2 explores how the fan culture surrounding the early film industry’s female celebrities—not just performers, but writers, directors, editors, and producers—placed them in a new kind of western frontier, where they appeared as resourceful, independent, and ambitious pioneers out to achieve fortune and success. This publicity drew women, figuratively and literally, to the picture business by attracting the female fans who were central to the rise of Hollywood and to the reputation and identity of modern Los Angeles. Ultimately, the celebration of these women as feminist avatars by writers like Louella Parsons led fans to believe that they were helping to midwife an industry that was wide open to their new desires.Less
Chapter 2 explores how the fan culture surrounding the early film industry’s female celebrities—not just performers, but writers, directors, editors, and producers—placed them in a new kind of western frontier, where they appeared as resourceful, independent, and ambitious pioneers out to achieve fortune and success. This publicity drew women, figuratively and literally, to the picture business by attracting the female fans who were central to the rise of Hollywood and to the reputation and identity of modern Los Angeles. Ultimately, the celebration of these women as feminist avatars by writers like Louella Parsons led fans to believe that they were helping to midwife an industry that was wide open to their new desires.
Marina Dahlquist (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037689
- eISBN:
- 9780252094941
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037689.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Exceptionally popular during their time, the spectacular American action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology, ...
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Exceptionally popular during their time, the spectacular American action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology, often starring resourceful female heroines who displayed traditionally male qualities such as endurance, strength, and authority. The most renowned of these “serial queens” was Pearl White, whose career as the adventurous character Pauline developed during a transitional phase in the medium's evolving production strategies, distribution and advertising patterns, and fan culture. This book explores how American serial films starring Pearl White and other female stars affected the emerging cinemas in the United States and abroad. The book investigates the serial genre and its narrative patterns, marketing, cultural reception, and historiographic importance, with chapters on Pearl White's life on and off the screen as well as the “serial queen” genre in Western and Eastern Europe, India, and China.Less
Exceptionally popular during their time, the spectacular American action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology, often starring resourceful female heroines who displayed traditionally male qualities such as endurance, strength, and authority. The most renowned of these “serial queens” was Pearl White, whose career as the adventurous character Pauline developed during a transitional phase in the medium's evolving production strategies, distribution and advertising patterns, and fan culture. This book explores how American serial films starring Pearl White and other female stars affected the emerging cinemas in the United States and abroad. The book investigates the serial genre and its narrative patterns, marketing, cultural reception, and historiographic importance, with chapters on Pearl White's life on and off the screen as well as the “serial queen” genre in Western and Eastern Europe, India, and China.
Robert Mayer
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198794820
- eISBN:
- 9780191836435
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198794820.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Drawing on discussions of “fandom” in the twentieth century, this chapter treats relationships that are, or seek to be, mainly affective and that explicitly entail constructing the author as a ...
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Drawing on discussions of “fandom” in the twentieth century, this chapter treats relationships that are, or seek to be, mainly affective and that explicitly entail constructing the author as a charismatic individual (although one who is also approachable). The chapter shows that fans, unlike clients, do not contact the author for practical help but instead write to establish an emotional link with a famous writer and thereby give greater meaning to their lives. It includes a discussion of fetishists, letter-writers who sought to exchange with Scott things that were charged with significance. The individuals treated are mostly obscure, but there are a few correspondents known to Scott scholars or socially important in their own day, who nevertheless functioned as fans because they sought to share or tap into the great man’s charisma or authority. Finally, the chapter shows that Scott at times gave credence to the longing of his fans.Less
Drawing on discussions of “fandom” in the twentieth century, this chapter treats relationships that are, or seek to be, mainly affective and that explicitly entail constructing the author as a charismatic individual (although one who is also approachable). The chapter shows that fans, unlike clients, do not contact the author for practical help but instead write to establish an emotional link with a famous writer and thereby give greater meaning to their lives. It includes a discussion of fetishists, letter-writers who sought to exchange with Scott things that were charged with significance. The individuals treated are mostly obscure, but there are a few correspondents known to Scott scholars or socially important in their own day, who nevertheless functioned as fans because they sought to share or tap into the great man’s charisma or authority. Finally, the chapter shows that Scott at times gave credence to the longing of his fans.
Phil Powrie and Éric Rebillard
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748621972
- eISBN:
- 9780748651191
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748621972.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The star system in France emerged around 1910 as theatre and music-hall stars crossed over into film, but only really took off in the 1920s with the establishment of a wide-ranging film press, and ...
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The star system in France emerged around 1910 as theatre and music-hall stars crossed over into film, but only really took off in the 1920s with the establishment of a wide-ranging film press, and the sharp rise in cinema attendance in the mid-1920s. French actors had to contend, then as they do now, with American or American-based stars in particular. None the less, by the end of the decade there was a flourishing star culture comprising both French and non-French names. Pierre Batcheff was one of the leading jeune premiers of his time, foreshadowing the popular heroes of the 1930s while still looking backwards to both the Romantic hero of the nineteenth century, as well as the exotic New World star most keenly represented by Rudolph Valentino. Seen from the vantage point of the mid-1940s, Batcheff might well have seemed a transitional form of masculinity. This chapter looks at Batcheff as a jeune premier, as pin-up, and as a surrealist star and describes fan culture during his time.Less
The star system in France emerged around 1910 as theatre and music-hall stars crossed over into film, but only really took off in the 1920s with the establishment of a wide-ranging film press, and the sharp rise in cinema attendance in the mid-1920s. French actors had to contend, then as they do now, with American or American-based stars in particular. None the less, by the end of the decade there was a flourishing star culture comprising both French and non-French names. Pierre Batcheff was one of the leading jeune premiers of his time, foreshadowing the popular heroes of the 1930s while still looking backwards to both the Romantic hero of the nineteenth century, as well as the exotic New World star most keenly represented by Rudolph Valentino. Seen from the vantage point of the mid-1940s, Batcheff might well have seemed a transitional form of masculinity. This chapter looks at Batcheff as a jeune premier, as pin-up, and as a surrealist star and describes fan culture during his time.
Douglas Harrison
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252036972
- eISBN:
- 9780252094095
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252036972.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter provides an extended inquiry into the psychodynamics of southern gospel. It identifies a reciprocal process of sentimental exchange in the music that sustains a surreptitious modernity ...
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This chapter provides an extended inquiry into the psychodynamics of southern gospel. It identifies a reciprocal process of sentimental exchange in the music that sustains a surreptitious modernity within a fundamentalist culture. This dynamic operates just beneath the surface of consensus about the music and about evangelicalism as a structure of belief. Methodologically, the chapter draws on literary critical readings of song lyrics in relation to analysis of live performance and the music's fan culture. It shows how the music allows the individual to confront feelings of doubt, insecurity, fear, isolation, and general spiritual discontent—even or especially when these feelings might contradict orthodox doctrine—without ever putting the individual in direct, public conflict with orthodoxy. Ultimately, this chapter demonstrates how a shaky but workable pluralism takes hold within evangelical fundamentalism.Less
This chapter provides an extended inquiry into the psychodynamics of southern gospel. It identifies a reciprocal process of sentimental exchange in the music that sustains a surreptitious modernity within a fundamentalist culture. This dynamic operates just beneath the surface of consensus about the music and about evangelicalism as a structure of belief. Methodologically, the chapter draws on literary critical readings of song lyrics in relation to analysis of live performance and the music's fan culture. It shows how the music allows the individual to confront feelings of doubt, insecurity, fear, isolation, and general spiritual discontent—even or especially when these feelings might contradict orthodox doctrine—without ever putting the individual in direct, public conflict with orthodoxy. Ultimately, this chapter demonstrates how a shaky but workable pluralism takes hold within evangelical fundamentalism.
Estella Tincknell and Ian Conrich
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623440
- eISBN:
- 9780748651115
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623440.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book is about musical performance on film, the use of music within film and film musicals: a triple focus that articulates the complex relationship that exists between music and the cinematic ...
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This book is about musical performance on film, the use of music within film and film musicals: a triple focus that articulates the complex relationship that exists between music and the cinematic text. While the film musical has always been seen as the main vehicle for cinematic musical performance, it is by no means the only place where singing, dancing, jazz bands or even on-screen orchestras are featured. Indeed, the sheer range of musical performances or what we call ‘musical moments’ that have appeared throughout cinema history, together with the extraordinary procession of featured stars and performers is remarkable.Less
This book is about musical performance on film, the use of music within film and film musicals: a triple focus that articulates the complex relationship that exists between music and the cinematic text. While the film musical has always been seen as the main vehicle for cinematic musical performance, it is by no means the only place where singing, dancing, jazz bands or even on-screen orchestras are featured. Indeed, the sheer range of musical performances or what we call ‘musical moments’ that have appeared throughout cinema history, together with the extraordinary procession of featured stars and performers is remarkable.
Caroline T. Schroeder
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520292086
- eISBN:
- 9780520965638
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520292086.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
The Life of Melania the Younger is filled with emotional language and emotionally charged interactions between characters. Desire, zeal, distress, and other emotions paradoxically drive events in a ...
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The Life of Melania the Younger is filled with emotional language and emotionally charged interactions between characters. Desire, zeal, distress, and other emotions paradoxically drive events in a narrative about a woman exceedingly successful in the art of self-control. This chapter examines the function of emotions at the intersection of gender, class, and religion in the Life of Melania the Younger and within the context of late antique hagiography, which typically privileged desire, grief, and maternal love as the standard feminine emotional repertoire. The Life provides a handbook in elite emotional behavior for the emerging Christian ascetic set by presenting a woman deft at the art of public and private self-fashioning.Less
The Life of Melania the Younger is filled with emotional language and emotionally charged interactions between characters. Desire, zeal, distress, and other emotions paradoxically drive events in a narrative about a woman exceedingly successful in the art of self-control. This chapter examines the function of emotions at the intersection of gender, class, and religion in the Life of Melania the Younger and within the context of late antique hagiography, which typically privileged desire, grief, and maternal love as the standard feminine emotional repertoire. The Life provides a handbook in elite emotional behavior for the emerging Christian ascetic set by presenting a woman deft at the art of public and private self-fashioning.
Harald Hendrix
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198826477
- eISBN:
- 9780191865442
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198826477.003.0015
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter focuses on the ‘rediscovery’ of Virgil’s tomb in the Renaissance, exploring its position in the cultures of scholarship, travel, and leisure. Clusters of poets’ graves sprang up around ...
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This chapter focuses on the ‘rediscovery’ of Virgil’s tomb in the Renaissance, exploring its position in the cultures of scholarship, travel, and leisure. Clusters of poets’ graves sprang up around the so-called ‘tomb of Virgil’ in Piedigrotta near Naples, re-establishing it as a site of literary succession and inspiration; the tomb played a central role in the construction of Neapolitan urban identity and was a popular site for early modern travel and leisure, a role it still retains today. Generations of visitors to the tomb have felt a strong personal connection to the poet, a connection they have chosen to mark by leaving graffiti or notes at the tomb, by taking away laurel leaves, and by reciting and producing poetry at the site.Less
This chapter focuses on the ‘rediscovery’ of Virgil’s tomb in the Renaissance, exploring its position in the cultures of scholarship, travel, and leisure. Clusters of poets’ graves sprang up around the so-called ‘tomb of Virgil’ in Piedigrotta near Naples, re-establishing it as a site of literary succession and inspiration; the tomb played a central role in the construction of Neapolitan urban identity and was a popular site for early modern travel and leisure, a role it still retains today. Generations of visitors to the tomb have felt a strong personal connection to the poet, a connection they have chosen to mark by leaving graffiti or notes at the tomb, by taking away laurel leaves, and by reciting and producing poetry at the site.
