Irene Mira
List of John Benjamins publications in which Irene Mira is involved.
Articles
2020 Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Mercè Rodoreda’s ‘Night and Fog’ Discourses on the Edges of Life, Salvador, Vicent †, Adéla Kotátková and Ignasi Clemente (eds.), pp. 147–166 | Chapter
This chapter explores the relationship between post-Freudian melancholia, memory and mothers in the short story “Nit i boira” [“Night and Fog”] (1947) by Mercè Rodoreda. I relate the story to the concept of “desnéixer” from Maria-Mercè Marçal’s Raó del cos [The Body’s Reason] (2000). Both texts… read more
2020 The scenography of death in contemporary poetry: The case of Vicent Andrés Estellés Discourses on the Edges of Life, Salvador, Vicent †, Adéla Kotátková and Ignasi Clemente (eds.), pp. 167–178 | Chapter
From the perspective of new studies on spatiality, which favours the concept of place (as opposed to the broader concept of space), representations of death are linked to specific places that are typical of each culture. In our current culture, places such as the sanatorium, the hospital, the… read more