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Welcome! A few years ago, I discovered an application that artists employ in their works to bring cultural awareness to their audiences. Having discerned this semiotic theory that applies to literature, music, art, film, and the media, I have devoted the blog,Theory of Iconic Realism to explore this theory. The link to the publisher of my book is below. If you or your university would like a copy of this book for your library or if you would like to review it for a scholarly journal, please contact the Edwin Mellen Press at the link listed below. Looking forward to hearing from you!

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I will present or have presented research on Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) or my semiotic theory of iconic realism at the following location(s):

2023-2025: I will be researching and writing my third book on iconic realism.

April 2022: American Conference for Irish Studies, virtual event: (This paper did not discuss Sydney Owenson.) "It’s in the Air: James Joyce’s Demonstration of Cognitive Dissonance through Iconic Realism in His Novel, Ulysses"

October, 2021: Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT: "Sydney Owenson’s use of sociolinguistics and iconic realism to defend marginalized communities in 19th century Ireland"

March, 2021: Lenoir-Rhyne University, Hickory, North Carolina: "Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan): A Nineteenth Century Advocate for Positive Change through Creative Vision"

October, 2019: Elms College, Chicopee, Massachusetts: "A Declaration of Independence: Dissolving Sociolinguistic Borders in the Literature of Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan)"

04 November, 2024

Sydney Owenson's Rhetoric of Revolution


In the Preface of her 1814 novel, O’Donnel, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) reveals a continuation of her then ten-year application of revolutionary purpose for her writing:

The character of my sex, no less than my own feelings, urged me, in touching those parts of Irish history which were connected with my tale, to turn them to the purposes of conciliation, and to incorporate the leaven of favorable opinion with that heavy mass of bitter prejudice, which writers, both grave and trifling, have delighted to raise against my country.

Clearly, Owenson is conscious of her aristocratic audience as she utilizes feminine rhetoric in direct correlation with her Anglo-Irish background to make her political statement.
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2 comments:

  1. chiccoreal8 July 2010 at 22:31

    Oh interesting! I shall have to look up this woman and her writing. Political? And Revolutionary? 1814...oh I love that time frame!
    Jeanne Iris; I really loved your poem "4th of July" read aloud. I loved the real time of the fireworks at the exact end of the poem! "Filled up on love" and the "feather boa" on the back of a bike! I get the feeling of freedom baby! Yah! You lead a fun life if this is autobiographical! How'd ya do that - on cue with the fireworks? Wonderfully refreshing!

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  2. Dr. Jeanne Iris8 July 2010 at 22:48

    Thanks, Ms. C. Yes, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) was quite controversial for her time, which is why she is the subject my doctoral dissertation. The lady on the bike is not me. I took the photograph and wrote the poem about a friend of mine. Quite an inspiration she is. True.

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