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Yaël Schlick

Biography

My teaching and research interests include travel writing, metafiction, poetry, the historical novel, and literary non-fiction.  

In recent years, some of my research has been in the archives: At Ohio State 카지노게임사이트, I examined documents having to do with the contentious composition of explorer Richard Byrd카지노 게임 컬렉션s best-selling Polar adventure, Alone, a work largely ghost-written by Charles Murphy; at Vassar College I researched Elizabeth Bishop카지노 게임 컬렉션s use of the postcard and her development of a picturesque aesthetic as seen in her travel writings, journals and poems. Currently I카지노 게임 컬렉션m reading material in the Martha Gellhorn archive at Boston 카지노게임사이트, working on a project that will utilize biography as a means of exploring the intriguing connections between her writing as a war correspondent, as a traveler, and as a novelist and short story writer. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s her correspondence, though, that often gives me the strongest sense of the force and liveliness of her personality. She minces no words: 카지노 게임 컬렉션What, what, WHAT has happened to you?,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she writes to her friend Bernard Perlin. 카지노 게임 컬렉션You cannot, like all Americans, have lost the power to set pen to paper? Reassure me, please.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Her archive is a rich trove of material about her fascinating life as well as a veritable catalog of the woes of the twentieth century.

 

Research Interests

Contemporary fiction; American poetry; travel writing; metafiction; autobiography & literary non-fiction

Selected Publications

Metafiction

Routledge
2022

Metafiction explores the great variety and effects of this popular genre and style, variously defined as a type of literature that philosophically questions itself, that repudiates the conventions of literary realism, that questions the relationship between fiction and reality, or that lies at the border between fiction and non-fiction. Yaël Schlick surveys a wide range of metafictional writings by diverse authors, with particular focus on the contemporary period.

This book asks not only what metafiction is but also what it can do, examining metafictional narratives' usefulness for exploring the role of art in society, its role in conceptualizing the figure of author and the reader of fiction, its investigation and playfulness with respect to language and linguistic conventions, and its troubling of the boundaries between fact and fiction in historiographic metafiction, autofiction, and autotheory.

Metafiction is an engaging and accessible introduction to a pervasive and influential form and concept in literary studies, and will be of use to all students of literary studies requiring a depth of knowledge in the subject.

 

 

Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment

Bucknell 카지노게임사이트 Press
2014

Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel as a 카지노 게임 컬렉션technology of gender.카지노 게임 컬렉션 It also investigates the way travel카지노 게임 컬렉션s utopian dimension and feminism카지노 게임 컬렉션s utopian ideals have intermittently fed off each other in productive ways. With broad historical and theoretical understanding, Yaël Schlick analyzes the intersections of travel and feminism in writings published during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a period of intense feminist vindication during which women카지노 게임 컬렉션s very presence in the public sphere, their access to education, and their political participation were contentious issues. Schlick examines the gendering of travel and its political implications in Rousseau카지노 게임 컬렉션s Emile, and in works by Mary Wollstonecraft, Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Frances Burney, Germaine de Staël, Suzanne Voilquin, Flora Tristan, Gustave Flaubert, and George Sand, arguing that travel is instrumental in furthering diverse feminist agendas. The epilogue alerts us to the continuation of the utopian strain of the voyage and its link to feminism in modern and contemporary travelogues by writers like Mary Kingsley, Robyn Davidson and Sara Wheeler.

Refiguring the Coquette: Essays on Culture and Coquetry

Bucknell 카지노게임사이트 Press
2008

This is a collection of nine original essays selected and edited with a twofold aim: to establish the parameters of coquetry as it was defined and represented in the long eighteenth century, and to reconsider this traditional figure in light of recent work in cultural and gender studies. The essays provide analyses of lesser-known works, examine the depiction of the coquette in popular culture, explore the importance of coquetry as a contemporary term applicable to men as well as women, and amplify current theorization of the coquette. By bringing together the diverse contexts and genres in which the figure of the coquette is articulated - drama, art, fiction, life-writing - Refiguring the Coquette offers alternative perspectives on this central figure in eighteenth-century culture. 

Edited by Shelley King and Yäel Schlick 

Essay on Exoticism: An Aesthetics of Diversity

Duke 카지노게임사이트 Press
2002

The 카지노 게임 컬렉션Other카지노 게임 컬렉션카지노 게임 컬렉션source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. Victor Segalen카지노 게임 컬렉션s early attempt to theorize the exotic is a crucial reference point for all discussions of alterity, diversity, and ethnicity. Written over the course of fourteen years between 1904 and 1918, at the height of the age of imperialism, Essay on Exoticism encompasses Segalen카지노 게임 컬렉션s attempts to define 카지노 게임 컬렉션true Exoticism.카지노 게임 컬렉션 This concept, he hoped, would not only replace nineteenth-century notions of exoticism that he considered tawdry and romantic, but also redirect his contemporaries카지노 게임 컬렉션 propensity to reduce the exotic to the 카지노 게임 컬렉션colonial.카지노 게임 컬렉션 His critique envisions a mechanism that appreciates cultural difference카지노 게임 컬렉션which it posits as an aesthetic and ontological value카지노 게임 컬렉션rather than assimilating it: 카지노 게임 컬렉션Exoticism카지노 게임 컬렉션s power is nothing other than the ability to conceive otherwise,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he writes. Segalen카지노 게임 컬렉션s pioneering work on otherness anticipates and informs much of the current postcolonial critique of colonial discourse. As such Essay on Exoticism is essential reading for both cultural theorists or those with an interest in the politics of difference and diversity.

Translated and edited by Yäel Schlick 

Additional Publications 

  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션'All the untidy activity': Travel & the Picturesque in Elizabeth Bishop카지노 게임 컬렉션s Writings,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive, Bethany Hicok, ed. (Lever Press, 2019): 173-192.
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션Writing Alone Together: Richard Byrd카지노 게임 컬렉션s Antarctic Classic and the Challenges of Reading Collaborative Autobiography,카지노 게임 컬렉션 The Polar Journal 6.2 (2016): 328-342.
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션Writing Wonder: Elizabeth Bishop카지노 게임 컬렉션s Ethics of Perception,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Environmental Ethics 36.3 (Fall 2014): 319-332.
  • 카지노 게임 컬렉션What Is an Experience? Selves and Texts in the Comics Autobiographies of Alison Bechdel and Lynda Barry,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art, Jane Tolmie, ed. (카지노게임사이트 Press of Mississippi, 2013): 26카지노 게임 컬렉션43.
Genres and Forms
Autobiography and Memoir
Literary Theory and Criticism
Poetry and Poetics
Travel Writing

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