Background
Shiach, Morag Elizabeth was born on October 12, 1958 in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Daughter of James Hamish and Doreen Elizabeth Shiach.
(A critical tradition in literary and historical studies v...)
A critical tradition in literary and historical studies views the impact of modernity on human labor resulting in the intensification of alienation. Morag Shiach, however, explores a series of efforts to articulate the relationship between labor and selfhood within modernism. Through studies of Sylvia Pankhurst and D.H. Lawrence, Shiach demonstrates how labor supports the political and textual innovations of the period.
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(This study examines the history of analyses of popular cu...)
This study examines the history of analyses of popular culture in Britain, from the 18th century to 1989. It highlights the ways in which discussions of popular culture have been structured by considerations of power, class and gender and have generally marginalized the cultural contributions of women. The book focuses on a series of key phases in the history of discourses on popular culture, phases during which the nature of popular culture became a crucial issue for theorists situated within the dominant culture. By focusing on these key phases, it is able to bring out some of the cultural and political assumptions underlying the prevailing discourses on popular culture. Among the examples discussed are: 18th-century peasant poetry, penny fiction and the revival of folk music in the 19th century; popular theatre in the early 20th century; and the transformation of discourses on popular culture brought about by the development of broadcasting. The book argues that the assumptions underlying discourses on popular culture - assumptions concerning class and culture, the role of women, authenticity and cultural decline - raise issues which should be examined critically in current discussions of popular culture. This wide-ranging work should be of interest to students of communication and cultural studies, litrature and literary theory, women's studies and cultural history.
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(Helene Cixous' analyses of the relations between sexualit...)
Helene Cixous' analyses of the relations between sexuality and textual production have transformed theoretical discussion of gender and writing. Her work on the implications of a feminine economy in writing, and insistence on the bodily dimensions of textual production have led to a new understanding of the project of feminist literary criticism. Morag Shiach provides an introduction for the English-speaking reader to the range of Cixous's creative and theoretical writings. In dealing with Cixous' theoretical arguments, Shiach both clarifies the philosophical and historical context of her work, and insists on its novelty and specificity. The book offers close analysis of Cixous' fictional texts, as well as her discussions of the relations between the political and the textual. There is also a detailed account of Cixous' theatrical writings, and of her collaboration with the Theatre du Soleil. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of women's studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and continental philosophy.
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Shiach, Morag Elizabeth was born on October 12, 1958 in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Daughter of James Hamish and Doreen Elizabeth Shiach.
Master of Arts with honors, University Glasgow, Scotland, 1980. Master of Arts, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, England, 1987.
Lecturer English Queen Mary, University London, 1987—1999, reader in cultural studies, 1995—1999, professor cultural history, since 1999. Head School English and drama Queen Mary, University London, since 2002.
(A critical tradition in literary and historical studies v...)
(Helene Cixous' analyses of the relations between sexualit...)
(This study examines the history of analyses of popular cu...)
(Book by Shiach, Morag)
Member of Institute for Learning and Teaching.
Married Michael Moriarty, September 12, 1992. Children: James Moriarty, John Moriarty.