Wednesday,
Hours 10:00 AM
- 12:00 PM,
Prego gli Studenti di controllare fino al martedì sera per eventuali variazioni al ricevimento del mercoledì (10.00 - 12.00).
Yvonne Bezrucka is specialized in CULTURAL STUDIES, and in particular in these periods and fields of studies:
1) Due to the Climate Crisis Emergency and the Covid19 pandemia, at the moment I privilege topics related to the Environmental Humanities, and specifically about:
my new research project "Climate Change Emergency: Anthropocene, Olocene, Ecocriticism and Ecoliterature" (cf. my essay Bezrucka, Y. (2013, 2020)
“Nature as Oikos and Kepos: Ecocriticism as a Branch of Bioethics in Romantic Studies”, CRIER Il Romanticismo oggi, Anno X, pp. 33-54, and Polemos, 2020,
“Digital Media, Fears, and their Ontological Demagogic Power: ‘Utopia’, ‘Homeland’, ‘Occupied’”, Pólemos, 14:1, 2020, pp.147-61.
Ongoing topics of interest are:
a) The Enlightenment: Identity Issues and Nation formation, cf. (2017) "The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in 18th-Century
English Literature", Cambridge Scholars; (2016) De Mandeville
b) Modernism, Postmodernism, Victorian Studies with a special focus on Aesthetics and Literature –
strategies of literary representation and aesthetic legitimization: beauty, enframing, mimesis, reality effects –
cf. (2005) "Oggetti e collezioni nella letteratura inglese dellì'Ottocento"
c) Charles Darwin’s Literary Legacies: Body Politics and Policies, Identity Politics and Policies, human rights, body & self-fashioning aesthetics, ethnicity, sex, gender, class and age discrimination –
Material Culture, Cultural Studies, Interrelation of Bodies and Technology – cf. (2008) "The Well-Beloved: T. Hardy's Manifesto or 'Regional Aesthetics'", VLC, Cambridge University Press.
d) Visual Studies: Visual Culture and Visual Rhetoric – painting, sculpture, architecture, garden aesthetics, cinema, photography, and design,
Aesthetics and Politics – "Othello e la retorica visuale" "Tassonomie visuali: Calvino e V. Woolf"
e) Identity Politics and Geopolitical use of Space metaphors, Invented Geographies, Aesthetics and Cultural Regionalisms (various)
cf. (2002) Genio e immaginazione nel Settecento inglese – Francis Grose and Aesthetic Regionalism (2017)
f) Law and Literature, Bioethics and Literature, Dickens and the Law (cf. 2007, 2008, 2010) –
g) Food and Literature, Food for Dreams and an Appetite for Nations, RSV, 44 (2017).
h) Ecocriticism (2013) "Nature as Oikos and Kepos: Ecocriticism as a Branch of Bioethics in Romantic Studies", Quaderni del CRIER, Romanticismi
Modules running in the period selected: 52.
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Di seguito sono elencati gli eventi e gli insegnamenti di Terza Missione collegati al docente:
Topic | Description | Research area |
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Bioethics, Biolaw and Literature | Bioethics and biolaw are two philosophical approaches that address social tensions and conflicts caused by emerging bioscientific and biomedical research and their application. Literature deals with this topics especially in contemporary production. |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Science Fiction / Literature & Science |
corpo e tecnologia |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Cultural Studies and Mentalities |
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Darwin e la letteratura |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Science Fiction / Literature & Science |
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Law and the Body | The body is the focus of the social, legal, and cultural imagination and the privileged metaphor for specific cultural discourses and political practices. The Renaissance literature particularly echoes these topics. |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Critical Theory & Poetics |
Equity: literary and juridical intersections | Equity is a protean concept that covers the fields of law, philosophy of law, and morality. In the history of human ideas the problem of equity has been inseparable from that of justice. This theme is re-echoed throughout English literature in particular in Shakespeare's plays. |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Critical Theory & Poetics |
Estetica e letteratura |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Critical Theory & Poetics |
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Iconology of the law in Literature | The project investigates the link between law, literature and the image. It aims to explore how the study of law and literature can be enhanced by a critical study of iconology. |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Visual Arts & Image Studies |
The concept of power in the Renaissance | The link between words and images is at the basis of the semiotic texture of any culture. This theory can be explored by analyzing the connection between legal words and images in the representation of power in the Renaissance. |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Theatre |
Literature and the Visual Arts | The study of literature and visual arts is linked to the deep connection between words and images, telling and seeing. The visual aspects of literature, as well as the mutual illuminations of the two expressive modes, are related to the rhetorical and stylistic choices of authors. |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Visual Arts & Image Studies |
Literary Ecocriticism | Literary Ecocriticism examines the way literary texts embody ecological concerns in order to pursue an ecological awareness and to envisage ecologically conscious societies, societies that are sustainable, viable and ecologically minded |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Film Studies |
luoghi e identità |
English and Anglophone Literatures
1830-1880 |
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regionalismo critico |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Cultural Studies and Mentalities |
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retorica visuale |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Visual Arts & Image Studies |
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Shakespeare and the law | There is a flourishing production on Shakespeare featuring legal problems in the last twenty years. The Law and Literature movement, born in the United States, has given rise to an endelss re-interpretation of Shakespearean texts according to the many legal elements he discusses about. |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Shakespeare |
Office | Collegial Body |
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member | Collegio dei Docenti del Dottorato in Letterature Straniere, Lingue e Linguistica A.A. 2020/2021 - Department Foreign Languages and Literatures |
Teaching Committee for the PhD in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures - Department Foreign Languages and Literatures | |
associate prof. | Teaching Committee for the PhD in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures |
Teaching Committee for Foreign Languages and Literatures - Department Foreign Languages and Literatures | |
full prof. | Consiglio del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere - Department Foreign Languages and Literatures |
PhD coordinator | Consiglio della Scuola di Dottorato di Studi Umanistici |
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