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  1. Henri Michaux
    experimentation with signs
    Author: Parish, Nina
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Mapping a Creative Itinerary -- Breaking New Ground -- An Oriental Imaginary: The Forms and Functions of Chinese Characters in Michaux’s Signs -- Writing/Drawing Movement... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Mapping a Creative Itinerary -- Breaking New Ground -- An Oriental Imaginary: The Forms and Functions of Chinese Characters in Michaux’s Signs -- Writing/Drawing Movement and the Body -- Experimentation with Book Form -- Beyond the Book: Searching for other Expressive Forms -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. Henri Michaux is both a recognised poet and visual artist, arguably one of the greatest ‘double artists’ of the twentieth century. This book presents the first detailed examination of a particular interdisciplinary aspect of his production, namely, the innovative experimentation with signs contained in four works: Mouvements, Par la voie des rythmes, Saisir and Par des traits . Questions arise concerning their literary and visual status as, in their attempt to render interior rhythm and dynamism, they occupy an interstitial space between writing and drawing, between the book and the canvas, between the Western alphabet and Chinese characters. This study addresses these questions by analysing the conception, production and reception of Michaux’s signs and the literary and artistic contexts in which they were produced

     
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    ISBN: 9789401204927
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    Series: Faux titre ; 302
    Subjects: Picture-writing; Picture-writing; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Michaux, Henri (1899-1984); Michaux, Henri
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (346 pages), illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-334) and index
  2. Lost and found
    the discovery of Lithuania in American fiction
    Author: Paulauskienė, Aušra
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Neither Russians nor Lithuanians but Lithuanian Jews -- The Narrative of Abraham Cahan’s Identity -- Undiscovered Jewish-American Writers from Lithuania: Ezra Brudno and Goldie Stone -- An Unknown Novel about... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Neither Russians nor Lithuanians but Lithuanian Jews -- The Narrative of Abraham Cahan’s Identity -- Undiscovered Jewish-American Writers from Lithuania: Ezra Brudno and Goldie Stone -- An Unknown Novel about Lithuanians: Margaret Seebach’s That Man Donaleitis (sic) -- Lithuanian Voices -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. Aušra Paulauskienė’s book Lost and Found: The Discovery of Lithuania in American Fiction targets American as well as European scholars in the fields of literature, ethnic studies and immigration. The author discovers obscure texts on Lithuania and alerts Western and Eastern academia to their significance as well as the reasons for their neglect. For the first time, Abraham Cahan’s autobiography The Education of Abraham Cahan and Ezra Brudno’s autobiographical novel The Fugitive receive an extensive coverage, while Goldie Stone’s My Caravan of Years and Margaret Seebach’s That Man Donaleitis (sic) receive their first scholarly consideration ever. The author argues that misrepresentations, misattributions and exclusions of Lithuanian legacy in the U.S. were produced by major political events of the twentieth century

     
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    Series: On the boundary of two worlds ; 10
    Subjects: American fiction; American fiction; Literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 173 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  3. Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary material /Editors Queer Sexualities in French and Francophone Literature and Film -- Sodomy, Allegory, and the Subject of Pleasure /Michael A. Johnson -- Divergences et Queeriosités: Ovide moralisé ou les mutations d’“Iphis en garçon”... more

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    Preliminary material /Editors Queer Sexualities in French and Francophone Literature and Film -- Sodomy, Allegory, and the Subject of Pleasure /Michael A. Johnson -- Divergences et Queeriosités: Ovide moralisé ou les mutations d’“Iphis en garçon” (XIIe-XVIIIe) /Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard -- A Modest Proposal for Queering the Past: A Queer Princess with a Space of Her Own? /Pierre Zoberman -- Rousseau’s Queer Bottom: Sexual Difference in the Confessions /Angela N. Hunter -- Mademoiselle de Maupin: Fluctuations identitaires et sexuelles /Guri Ellen Barstad -- Gender Convergence in Sand’s La Mare au diable, a Contrasexual Reading /James F. Hamilton -- “Étrange n’est-ce pas?”: The Princesse Edmond de Polignac, Erik Satie’s Socrate, and a Lesbian Aesthetic of Music? /Samuel N. Dorf -- Outing Proust /Nathan Guss -- The Anus of Tiresias: Sodomy, Alchemy, Metamorphosis /Ed Madden -- Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction /Elizabeth Stephens -- Nous sommes un fléau social: Cinéma, vidéo et luttes homosexuelles /Hélène Fleckinger -- Révélations Intimes: Vers une Cartographie Queer du Sud-Ouest /Philippe C. Dubois -- Stop the World, or What’s Queer about Michel Houellebecq? /Douglas Morrey -- Recto/Verso: Mapping the Contemporary Gay Novel /Lawrence R. Schehr. The steady development of queer theory over the last two decades has provided useful analytical tools and the will to dismiss the watchdog of heteronormativity. Modes of reading have evolved, as this volume of FLS amply attests. Following Bill Edmiston’s introduction to the volume — a concise and informative history of queer theory — the fifteen articles reveal, not surprisingly, significant diversity. One deals with queerness in the context of medieval writing where allegorical and euphemistic expression were understood to be irreconcilable. Another treats translations in Early Modern France of an Ovidian fable that had an inconvenient lesbian dimension. Rousseau’s fixation on his bottom (e.g., for spankings) points to a queer streak, while Gautier’s Mademoiselle de Maupin enhances the theme of sexual misidentity with ornamental figures. The queerness of Sand’s La Mare au diable emerges in the course of a contrasexual reading. A musicologist investigates the possibility of a lesbian esthetics of music in a work by Erik Satie, while a literary scholar finds evidence of Proust’s “outing” in Jean Santeuil . Other articles address the sense of gender transformation wrought by sodomy, a revised view on the writing subject in Jean Genet’s fiction, the queerness of heterosexuality in the works of Michel Houellebecq, and recurring motifs in recent fiction produced by “gay Paris.” Two of the articles treat activism and esthetics in film

     
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    Series: French literature series ; v. 34
    Subjects: French literature; Homosexuality and literature; Homosexuality in literature; Gays' writings, French; Homosexuality and motion pictures; Motion pictures, French; French literature; Gays' writings, French; Homosexuality and literature; Homosexuality and motion pictures; Homosexuality in literature; Motion pictures, French; Conference papers and proceedings; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 209 pages)
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    Contains papers that originated as contributions to the annual French Literature Conference held in 2006 at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, South Carolina

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  4. Chasing tales
    travel writing, journalism and the history of British ideas about Afghanistan
    Author: Fowler, Corinne
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Preface -- Introduction -- Hanging old stories on the necks of new characters: the legacy of nineteenth-century Afghan-British encounters. -- Where ethnographers fear to tread: the counterinfluence of classical ethnography on... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Preface -- Introduction -- Hanging old stories on the necks of new characters: the legacy of nineteenth-century Afghan-British encounters. -- Where ethnographers fear to tread: the counterinfluence of classical ethnography on travel writing and journalism about Afghanistan. -- Retailing insight: reporting Operation Enduring Freedom. -- De-mining the terrain of Afghan-British encounter. -- Endnotes -- Appendix One -- Bibliography of Primary Texts -- Index. Chasing Tales is the first exclusive study of journalism, travel writing and the history of British ideas about Afghanistan. It offers a timely investigation of the notional Afghanistan(s) that have prevailed in the popular British imagination. Casting its net deep into the nineteenth century, the study investigates the country’s mythologisation by scrutinising travel narratives, literary fiction and British news media coverage of the recent conflict in Afghanistan. This highly topical book explores the legacy of nineteenth-century paranoias and prejudices to contemporary travellers and journalists and seeks to explain why Afghans continue to be depicted as medieval, murderous, warlike and unruly. Its title, Chasing Tales , conveys the circulation, and indeed the circularity, of ideas commonly found in British travel writing and journalism. The ‘tales’ component stresses the pivotal role played by fictionalised sources, especially the writing of Rudyard Kipling, in perpetuating traumatic nineteenth-century memories of Afghan-British encounter. The subject matter is compelling and its foci of interest profoundly relevant both to current political debates and to scholarly enquiry about the ethics of travel

     
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    Series: Studia imagologica ; 12
    Subjects: Travelers' writings, English; Ethnology; Ethnology; Literature; Travelers' writings, English; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 283 pp), illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  5. Birth and death in nineteenth-century french culture
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction /Lisa Downing , Nigel Harkness , Sonya Stephens and Tim Unwin -- George Sand: la genèse des fins de romans /Claudine Grossir -- Flaubert, Apuleius and Ovid: The Genesis of a Recurring Theme... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction /Lisa Downing , Nigel Harkness , Sonya Stephens and Tim Unwin -- George Sand: la genèse des fins de romans /Claudine Grossir -- Flaubert, Apuleius and Ovid: The Genesis of a Recurring Theme /Stephen Goddard -- Perdue en traduction: Translation, Betrayal and Death in Mérimée’s Carmen /Larry Duffy -- Le Tombeau de la Poésie: Strategies of Textual Resurrection in Mallarmé and Banville /Davi Devans -- Wilde’s Salomé: Tenses, Tension and Progression in Salomé’s Final Monologue /Peter Cogman -- Figures de l’artiste et comédiens du réel: de la difficile naissance à l’implacable mort dans La Comédie humaine /Isabelle Michelot -- Soeur Philomène ou comment la mort s’invite à l’hôpital /Barbara Giraud -- Death for Beginners: Nineteenth-Century Katabatic Narratives for Young Readers /Kiera Vaclavik -- Stendhal’s Rebellious Mothers and the Fight Against Death-by-Maternity /Maria Scott -- La Mort de Madame de Vernon et les deux dénouements de Delphine: invention romanesque et réminiscences maternelles chez Madame de Staël /Catherine Dubeau -- Midwifery and Malpractice in Fécondité: Zola’s Fictional History of Problematical Maternities /Carmenk. Mayer-Robin -- L’érotisme cristallin de Théophile Gautier: étude de la figure de la ‘morte amoureuse’ dans les contes fantastiques /Nathalie Dumas -- L’Évangile de la pourriture selon Saint Huysmans: Lydwine de Schiedam /Philippe Berthier -- Une esthétique de la mort au dix-neuvième siècle: Alphonse Daudet /Isabelle Droit -- Selon Max Nordau: le poème naturel du corps de Mallarmé /Pascal Caron -- The Aesthetics of Self-Skeletonization in James Ensor /Claire Moran -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. This volume draws contributors from around the globe who represent the full range of approaches to scholarship in nineteenth-century French studies: historical, literary, cultural, art historical, philosophical, and comparative. The theme of the volume – Birth and Death – is one with particular resonance for nineteenth-century French studies, since the nineteenth century is commonly perceived as an age of new life and renovation. It is the epoch that witnessed an efflorescence of industrial and artistic progress, the birth of the individual and the birth of the novel, and the creation of an urban population in the major demographic shift from the rural provinces to Paris. At the same time, however, it is the century of Decadence and degeneration theory, marked by a prominent morbid aesthetic in the artistic sphere and a fascination with criminality, moral decay and the pathologization of racial and sexual minorities in the scientific discourses. It is also the century in which reflection on processes of artistic creation begins to problematize concepts of mimetic representation, the function of the author and the status of the text. In the context of the dialectical quality of nineteenth-century French culture, caught between an obsession with the new and innovative and a paranoid sense of its own encroaching decay, the twin themes of birth and death open onto a variety of issues – literary, social, historical, artistic – which are explored, interrogated and reassessed in the essays contained in this volume

     
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    ISBN: 9789401204866
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    Series: Faux titre ; 301
    Subjects: French literature; Death in literature; Childbirth in literature; Women in literature; Childbirth in literature; Civilization; Death in literature; French literature; Women in literature; Conference papers and proceedings; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (260 pages), illustrations
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    "The essays contained in this volume were first presented at the third annual conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, which took place at Queen's University Belfast in April 2005"--Acknowledgments

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  6. Maurice Blanchot et l'art au XXème siècle
    une esthétique du désoeuvrement
    Author: Ravel, Emmanuelle
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- La modernité, la mort, et l’image blanchotienne -- Kasimir Malevitch, Maurice Blanchot et le silence de l’oeuvre -- Le langage chez Blanchot ou des illuminations d’absence -- Marcel Duchamp et l’Avant-Garde --... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- La modernité, la mort, et l’image blanchotienne -- Kasimir Malevitch, Maurice Blanchot et le silence de l’oeuvre -- Le langage chez Blanchot ou des illuminations d’absence -- Marcel Duchamp et l’Avant-Garde -- Le ready-made, achèvement ou inachèvement de la modernité ? -- Le modernisme de Greenberg, celui de Blanchot -- L’Art Minimal et l’écriture du dehors -- La question de l’autonomie de l’art -- De l’énigme au désastre -- Du fragmentaire -- Conclusion -- Bibliographie -- Table des matières. Maurice Blanchot est certainement l’un des plus éminents penseurs et écrivains du vingtième siècle, dont le retrait et la discrétion ont laissé la marque même de son effacement comme événement de l’expérience littéraire. C’est par une démarche de dialogue avec les artistes qui ont façonné le siècle de la modernité que nous confrontons ses écrits à des œuvres dont le leitmotiv est la perte, l’absence, l’infigurable. Pour dire si l’avant-gardisme est une notion qui fait écho dans le déploiement singulier de son espace littéraire , ce livre se propose de sonder les questions essentielles de l’auteur de L’Ecriture du désastre , et invite à poser la question du passage de la phénoménologie à l’esthétique

     
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    ISBN: 9789401204859
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    Series: Chiasma ; 24
    Subjects: French literature; French literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Blanchot, Maurice; Blanchot, Maurice
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (197 pages)
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    Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Western Ontario, 2001

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-195)
  7. The play within the play
    the performance of meta-theatre and self-reflection
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- The Birth of the Subject out of the Spirit of the Play within the Play: The Hamlet Paradigm /Bernhard Greiner -- Self-Reflexivity in the Play within the Play and its Cross-Genre Manifestation /Yifen Beus -- ‘Backstage... more

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    Preliminary Material -- The Birth of the Subject out of the Spirit of the Play within the Play: The Hamlet Paradigm /Bernhard Greiner -- Self-Reflexivity in the Play within the Play and its Cross-Genre Manifestation /Yifen Beus -- ‘Backstage Discourse’: Staging the Other in Ethnographic and Colonial Literature /Klaus R. Scherpe -- The Play within the Play and the Closure of Representation /David Roberts -- Playing and not Playing in Jean Genet’s The Balcony and The Blacks /Caroline Sheaffer-Jones -- The Figure in the Carpet: Metadramatical Concepts in Jacob Bidermann’s Cenodoxus (1602) /Christian Sinn -- Holding a Mirror up to Theatre: Baro, Gougenot, Scudéry and Corneille as Self-Referentialists in Paris, 1628-35/36 /John Golder -- Rehearsing the Endgame: Max Frisch’s Biography: A Play /Manfred Jurgensen -- Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound (1968) and The Real Thing (1982): New Frames and Old /Barnard Turner -- The Invisible Fool: Botho Strauss’s Postmodern Metadrama and the History of Theatrical Reality /Ulrike Landfester -- Queen of a Bathtub: Hanoch Levin’s Political, Aesthetic and Ethical Metatheatricality /Shimon Levy -- The Disguised and Distanced Real(ity) Play within the Fictitious Play in Israeli Stage-Drama /Gad Kaynar -- A Lacerated Culture, A Self-Reflexive Theatre: The Case of Israeli Drama /Zahava Caspi -- ‘Very Tragical Mirth’: The Play within the Play as a Strategy for Interweaving Tragedy and Comedy /Frank Zipfel -- Play and Reality in Austrian Drama: The Figure of the Magister Ludi /Herbert Herzmann -- Playing Tragedy: Detaching Tragedy from Itself in Classical Drama from Lessing to Büchner /Helmut J. Schneider -- Playwrights Playing with History: The Play within the Play and German Historical Drama (Büchner, Brecht, Weiss, Müller) /Gerhard Fischer -- Postmodernism Unmasked: Rainald Goetz’s Festung and Albert Ostermaier’s The Making of B-Movie /Birgit Haas -- The Context Within: The Play within the Play between Theatre Anthropology, System Theory and Postcolonial Critique /Lada Cale Feldman -- Intercultural Framing in Aimé Césaire’s Une Tempête /Maurice Blackman -- Re-Interpreting Shadow Material in an Ancient Greek Myth: Another Night: Medea /Kyriaki Frantzi -- John Gay and the Frame Play /Yvonne Noble -- Opera within Opera: Contexts for a Metastasian Interlude /Donald Bewley -- Theatrical Transformation, Media Superimposition and Scenic Reflection: Pictorial Qualities of Modern Theatre and the Hofmannsthal/Strauss Opera, Ariadne auf Naxos /Theresia Birkenhauer -- Pushkin in Love, or: A (Screen)Play within the Play. The Cinematic Potential of Romantic-Ironic Narration in Eugene Onegin /Erika Greber -- The Text within the Text, the Screen within the Screen: Multi-Layered Representations in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet and Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet /Alessandro Abbate -- ‘Gotta Dance’ (in the Dark): Lars von Trier’s Critique of the Musical Genre /Ken Woodgate -- The Game of the Narrative: Kleist’s Fiction from a Game-Theoretical Perspective /Tim Mehigan -- French Beans and Mashed Potatoes: Agonistic Play and Symbolic Acting in Gottfried Keller’s Prose Fiction /Alexander Honold -- Playing with the Apparatus: Franz Kafka’s ‘In the Penal Colony’ and Barrie Kosky’s Interpretation for the Melbourne International Arts Festival /Ulrike Garde -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names. The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play . The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting – from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy – but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized specialists in their respective fields, draw on recent debates in such areas as postcolonial studies, game and systems theories, media and performance studies, to analyze the specific qualities and characteristics of the play within the play : as ultimate affirmation of the ‘self’ (the ‘Hamlet paradigm’), as a self-reflective agency of meta-theatrical discourse, and as a vehicle of intermedial and intercultural transformation. The challenging study, with its underlying premise of play as a key feature of cultural anthropology and human creativity, breaks new ground by placing the play within the play at the centre of a number of intersecting scholarly discourses on areas of topical concern to scholars in the humanities

     
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    Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 112
    Subjects: Play within a play; Drama; Drama; Play within a play; Conference papers and proceedings; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 460 pages), illustrations
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    Selection of papers delivered at the 2004 Sydney German Studies Symposium and revised and edited for publication

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  8. Marcel Proust constructiviste
    Author: Houppermans, Sjef
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- PORTAIL -- POURTOURS ET DIVERSIONS -- TERRIER LE FURET FURTIF : UNE FIGURE DE JEU -- MAUSOLÉE CONSTRUCTION DU DEUIL : DE PROUST À BECKETT -- BANDES TRANSVERSALES : LA PALETTE DES COULEURS -- RANDONNÉE ONIRIQUE -- MACHINES --... more

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    Preliminary Material -- PORTAIL -- POURTOURS ET DIVERSIONS -- TERRIER LE FURET FURTIF : UNE FIGURE DE JEU -- MAUSOLÉE CONSTRUCTION DU DEUIL : DE PROUST À BECKETT -- BANDES TRANSVERSALES : LA PALETTE DES COULEURS -- RANDONNÉE ONIRIQUE -- MACHINES -- EN COULISSE: Il y a mèche -- EN PASSANT: Intersections I -- TOUT AU LONG DES ROUTES: Intersections 2 -- PROLONGEMENTS: Intersections 3 -- AUTOUR DU CLOCHER TANT DE TEMPS -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE. A la Recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust est en premier lieu une construction complexe. La composition y est au service du désir, car elle seule permet de faire apparaître la vérité de l’inconscient qui ne saurait s’exprimer par des efforts de mémoire ou par des esquisses psychologiques, mais bien par des figures telles que le cercle, l’ellipse ou l’étagement. Ce sont des formes dynamiques qui surgissent et reviennent, qui tournent et montent, acte de perlaboration au service de l’inconscient dont seules les traces mouvantes permettent de deviner la pertinence

     
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    Series: Faux titre ; 300
    Subjects: Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Proust, Marcel
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (244 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references
  9. Relocating consciousness
    diasporic writers and the dynamics of literary experience
    Author: Grace, Daphne
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material /Daphne Grace -- Readdressing Consciousness, Locating Diasporas /Daphne Grace -- Exploring Self and Other: Theories of Consciousness /Daphne Grace -- Trauma, Terror and the Impact of Consciousness /Daphne Grace -- Empire,... more

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    Preliminary Material /Daphne Grace -- Readdressing Consciousness, Locating Diasporas /Daphne Grace -- Exploring Self and Other: Theories of Consciousness /Daphne Grace -- Trauma, Terror and the Impact of Consciousness /Daphne Grace -- Empire, Violence, and the Writing of History /Daphne Grace -- The Self-Reflexive World: Consciousness and Social Responsibility /Daphne Grace -- African Explorations of the Sacred and the Self /Daphne Grace -- The Literature of Human Survival: Envisaging Alternatives /Daphne Grace -- Encounters in the Earthly Paradise: Relocating the Self /Daphne Grace -- Cosmopolitanism, Political Conscience and Higher Consciousness /Daphne Grace -- Bibliography /Daphne Grace -- Index /Daphne Grace. This book deals directly with issues of consciousness within works of postcolonial and diasporic writers. It discusses fiction, autobiography and theory to re-formulate a “writing of consciousness”, addressing contemporary cultural theory related to a wide range of dynamic writers and ground-breaking novels. A critical analysis of literature contextualises consciousness (understood here as the source of language and human creativity), and explores ways in which consciousness is involved in the creative process. Tackling the controversial nature of consciousness itself, the book argues that consciousness must be understood in its philosophical and social contexts. The idea of relocating consciousness calls for a new aesthetics and ethics of living in the diasporic world where we are all to some extent “migrant”. The book explores notions of consciousness as alternative narrative structures to society, while expanding contemporary postcolonial theory beyond the limited dimension of power-based-on-violence to a more visionary exploration of experience based on consciousness as unity-in-diversity. Themes explored include sacred experience as empowerment; trauma, terror and the impact of consciousness; cosmopolitanism and globalisation; and the literature of human survival. Written in a lively and accessible manner the book will appeal to all readers who enjoy being on the cutting-edge of contemporary world literature

     
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    Series: Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 7
    Subjects: Postcolonialism in literature; Consciousness in literature; English literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Consciousness in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; English literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (252 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index
  10. The legacy of ancient Rome in the Russian silver age
    Author: Frajlich, Anna
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Off to Rome… -- Departing from Stylization Apollon Maikov -- The Forum of Forgotten Thoughts Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov -- And a Fourth Shall Never Be… Vladimir Solovyov -- The... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Off to Rome… -- Departing from Stylization Apollon Maikov -- The Forum of Forgotten Thoughts Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov -- And a Fourth Shall Never Be… Vladimir Solovyov -- The Contradictions of the Northern Pilgrim Dmitry Merezhkovsky -- Julius Caesar, Antony and Sulla Valery Bryusov -- The God-Loving Roman Vyacheslav Ivanov -- From Prophecy to Transubstantiation Maksimilian Voloshin -- The Quest for Pax Romana as a Quest for Peace of Mind Vasily Komarovsky -- The Distant Eternal City Mikhail Kuzmin -- «Как сделан Рим»? (How Is Rome Made?) Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. For poets throughout the world Rome was the world. This is particularly true for Russian poets, owing to the anagrammatical relation of the words Rome and mir (Rome and world). The legacy of ancient Rome has always constituted an important component of the Russian cultural consciousness. The revitalization of classical scholarship in nineteenth-century Russia and new approaches to antiquity prompted many of the Russian Symbolists to seek their inspiration in ancient Rome. Vladimir Solovyov, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Valery Bryusov, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Maksimilian Voloshin, Vasily Komarovsky, and Mikhail Kuzmin all made significant contributions to what is often referred to as the “Roman text.” The Legacy of Ancient Rome in the Russian Silver Age analyzes the forms involved in creating the Roman image and explores its functionality within the given poetic system. In addition to the formal analysis, the background and the stimulus leading up to the composition of a particular poem are explored, as well as allusions to legends, myths and Rome’s geography and architecture. Moreover, this study considers the function of the Roman text in Russian Symbolist poetics and the works of the individual poets. Finally, the relation between the Roman and Petersburg texts of Russian literature is explored, since many of the Russian Symbolist poets found in Rome a perfect metaphor for their studies of the city and “urban” poetry

     
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    Subjects: Russian literature; Literature; Russian literature; Russian literature ; Classical influences; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  11. Border transits
    literature and culture across the line
    Author: Manzanas, Ana M.
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Border Dynamics: From Terminus to Terminator /Ana Mª Manzanas -- Circles and Crosses: Reconsidering Lines of Demarcation /Ana Mª Manzanas -- Up against the Border: A Literary Response /José Pablo Villalobos -- Dispelling the... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Border Dynamics: From Terminus to Terminator /Ana Mª Manzanas -- Circles and Crosses: Reconsidering Lines of Demarcation /Ana Mª Manzanas -- Up against the Border: A Literary Response /José Pablo Villalobos -- Dispelling the Border Myth: Zonkey Writers and the Black Legend /Édgar Cota-Torres -- Border Voices: Life Writings and Self-Representation of the U.S.-Mexico Frontera /Javier Durán -- Postcards from the Border: In Tijuana, Revolución is an Avenue /Santiago Vaquera -- “To Hear Another Language”: Lifting the Veil between Langston Hughes and Federico García Lorca /Isabel Soto -- The Brown/Mestiza Metaphor, or the Impertinence against Borders /Isabel Durán -- “A Wall of Barbed Lies”: Absent Borders in María Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction /Begoña Simal -- Ethnographies of Transnational Migration in Rubén Martínez’s Crossing Over (2001) /Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger -- Mapping the Trans/Hispanic Atlantic: Nuyol, Miami, Tenerife, Tangier /Manuel Martín-Rodríguez -- Resisting through Hyphenation: The Ethics of Translating (Im)pure Texts /África Vidal -- Trespassers of Body Boundaries: The Cyborg and the Construction of a Postgendered Posthuman Identity /Ángel Mateos-Aparicio -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX. What constitutes a border situation? How translatable and “portable” is the border? What are the borders of words surrounding the border? In its five sections, Border Transits: Literature and Culture across the Line intends to address these issues as it brings together visions of border dynamics from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The volume opens with “Part I: (B)orders and lines: A Theoretical Intervention,” which explores the circle and the cross as spatial configurations of two contradictory urges, to separate and divide on the one hand, and to welcome and allow passage on the other. “Part II: Visions of the Mexican-US Border” zooms in onto the Mexican-United States border as it delves into the border transits between the two neighboring countries. But what happens when we situate the border on the cultural terrain? How well does the border travel? “Part III: Cultural Intersections” expands the border encounter as it deals with the different ways in which texts are encoded, registered, appropriated, mimicked and transformed in other cultural texts. “Part IV: Trans-Nations,” addresses instances of trans-American relations stemming from experiences of up-rooting and intercultural contacts in the context of mass-migration and migratory flows. Finally, “Part V: Trans-Lations,” deals with the ways in which the cultural borderlands suffuse other discourses and cultural practices. The volume is of interest for scholars and researchers in the field of Border studies, Chicano studies, “Ethnic Studies,” as well as American Literature and Culture

     
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    Series: Critical approaches to ethnic American literature (CAEAL), 2 ; v. v. 2
    Subjects: American literature; Ethnicity in literature; Language and culture; American literature ; Minority authors; Ethnicity in literature; Language and culture; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (312 pages)
  12. Ford Madox Ford's literary contacts
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE /Max Saunders -- INTRODUCTION /Paul Skinner -- ‘THAT SUBTLE AND DIFFICULT THING: A NATIONAL SPIRIT’: FORD, ANGLO-SAXONDOM AND ‘THE GORGEOUSLY ENGLISH’ GEORGE BORROW /Helen Southworth -- TROLLOPE... more

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    Preliminary Material -- GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE /Max Saunders -- INTRODUCTION /Paul Skinner -- ‘THAT SUBTLE AND DIFFICULT THING: A NATIONAL SPIRIT’: FORD, ANGLO-SAXONDOM AND ‘THE GORGEOUSLY ENGLISH’ GEORGE BORROW /Helen Southworth -- TROLLOPE RE-READ /Monica C. Lewis -- THE PROPHET AND THE SCEPTIC: GEORGE ELIOT AND FORD MADOX FORD /Sara Haslam -- FORD AND TURGENEV /Max Saunders -- OPPOSING ORBITS: FORD, EDWARD GARNETT AND THE BATTLE FOR CONRAD /Helen Smith -- MARIE BELLOC LOWNDES ON FORD AND VIOLET HUNT /Susan Lowndes Marques -- THE COMPLEXITY OF TRUTH: FORD AND THE RUSSIANS /Anat Vernitski -- MOURNING AND RUMOUR IN FORD AND PROUST /John Coyle -- ‘A ROYAL PERSONAGE IN DISGUISE’: A MEETING BETWEEN FORD AND JOHN COWPER POWYS /Stephen Rogers -- THE GENIUS AND THE DONKEY: THE BROTHERS HUEFFER AT HOME AND ABROAD /Joseph Wiesenfarth -- FORD MADOX FORD AND WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: THE COUNTRY SQUIRE AND DR. CARLOS /Christopher MacGowan -- THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER AND PARADE’S END: FORD’S REWORKING OF WEST’S PASTORAL /Seamus O'Malley -- HERBERT READ'S DILEMMA: FATHERLY ADVICE FROM FMF /Michael Paraskos -- ALL AT SEA WITH PETRONELLA: A FORD MADOX FORD BIOGRAPHICAL MYSTERY /Brian Ibbotson Groth -- IMAGES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR: FORD’S ‘IN OCTOBER 1914’ READ IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY GERMAN WRITERS /Jörg W. Rademacher -- ‘THUS TO REVISIT OR THUS TO REVISE-IT’: ERNEST HEMINGWAY, DEFIANT DISCIPLE /Susan Swartzlander -- RICHARD HUGHES: FORD’S ‘SECRET SHARER’ /Corwin Baden -- FORD AND GRAHAM GREENE /Bernard Bergonzi -- HUEFFER/FORD AND WILSON/BURGESS /William Mill -- ‘LONG LETTERS ABOUT FORD MADOX FORD’: FORD’S AFTERLIFE IN THE WORK OF HAROLD PINTER /Angus Wrenn -- THE GHOSTLY SURFACES OF THE PAST: A COMPARISON BETWEEN FORD’S WORKS AND A. S. BYATT’S THE VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN /Laura Colombino -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ABSTRACTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Other volumes in the series. The controversial British ...

     
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    Series: International Ford Madox Ford studies ; v. 6
    Subjects: Friendship; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939); Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939); Ford, Ford Madox
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  13. Challenging the boundaries
    Published: 2007
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    Preliminary Material -- The Exploitation of Meaning: Literary Text and Local Grammars /John Sinclair -- The ‘not-me in thee’: Crossing Boundaries Through Literature /Willie van Peer -- Foucault: Explorer of the Limitless Reign of the Limits /Daniel... more

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    Preliminary Material -- The Exploitation of Meaning: Literary Text and Local Grammars /John Sinclair -- The ‘not-me in thee’: Crossing Boundaries Through Literature /Willie van Peer -- Foucault: Explorer of the Limitless Reign of the Limits /Daniel Defert -- Vatic Craft: The Science and Poetics of Perception /Sharon Lattig -- Grand Principles of Narratology /Henrik Schärfe -- The Ottoman Phenomenon and Edward Said’s Monolithic Discourse on the Orient /Esin Akalın -- The Stylistic Dialogue of East and West in Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle /Dilek Kantar -- Logical/Textual Space vs. Physical Space: Same or Different? /Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska -- Winding Through Lynchville Highway: Challenging the Curves of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive /Ayşegül Gündoğdu -- The Boundaries of Narrative: The Problems, Possibilities, and Politics of Accommodating the Lyric Mode in Narrative Fiction /Nil Korkut -- Engaging the Other in the Self: The Bodily Experience of Virtual Imagery /Binnie Brook Martin -- What Can Literature Do for Linguistics? Metaphorical Synonymy and Distant Cohesion in James Joyce’s Ulysses /Nina Nørgaard -- Humpty Dumpty’s Fall: Failing to See the Writing on the Wall /Hande Tekdemir -- Crossing the Boundaries of Flesh and Narrative /Fiona Tomkinson -- Bibliography -- Index. Challenging the Boundaries seeks to transcend the limits of literary genres and national cultures, exploring both old and new frontiers in language and literature from an interdisciplinary, multifaceted, and challenging perspective. Selected from the pathbreaking Istanbul conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, these papers treat topics ranging from contemporary neurobiology’s insights into the sources of poetic creativity to the cultural theories of Michel Foucault and Hélène Cixous and their literary consequences; from the films of the American director David Lynch to those of the Senegalese artist Djibril Diop Mambéty; from the work of the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk to James Joyce’s Ulysses and the stories of Virginia Woolf. This volume will be of particular interest to readers who might wish to become acquainted with the work of able young scholars from an exceptionally wide array of academic cultures and theoretical commitments. The authors whose essays appear in Challenging the Boundaries reflect in their approaches and subjects both the breadth and depth of the international academic community. PALA Papers is a series of volumes comprising essays selected and edited from presentations at the annual conferences of the Poetics and Linguistics Association , an international body of scholars whose work focuses on the interdisciplinary nexus of linguistics, discourse theory, and literary analysis, criticism, and theory. Each volume will present studies that provide models to scholars throughout the world for conducting their own research in this multidisciplinary paradigm on such topics as, among many others, close linguistic analysis of canonical literary works, corpus-based studies of literary narrative, and the linguistic basis of contemporary social and cultural theory

     
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    Series: PALA [Poetics and Linguistics Association] papers ; 2
    Subjects: Literature; Poetry; Literature; Poetry; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  14. Diderot, Sénèque et Jean-Jacques
    un dialogue à trois voix
    Author: Gatefin, Eric
    Published: 2007
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    Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- L’écriture de l’histoire : la schématisation des rôles pour la promotion d’un nouvel héroïsme -- Les stratégies de la persuasion : du commentaire et du dialogue comme formes privilégiées de la manipulation --... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- L’écriture de l’histoire : la schématisation des rôles pour la promotion d’un nouvel héroïsme -- Les stratégies de la persuasion : du commentaire et du dialogue comme formes privilégiées de la manipulation -- Fragilité de la postérité : l’influence de Rousseau -- Le procès du philosophe : les difficultés du jugement -- Surmonter la crise : des issues de secours à la fondation d’un nouveau rapport au lecteur -- Conclusion -- Bibliographie -- Table des matières. Dans l’ Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron , dernier texte publié de son vivant, Diderot dresse un portrait élogieux du philosophe Sénèque, dont l’action et les préceptes devraient être, selon son apologiste, l’objet d’une égale admiration. Exploitant l’opinion des uns, contestant les parti-pris des autres, le défenseur du sage stoïcien tente de donner de l’éclat à l’action du philosophe et de pousser le lecteur à partager son enthousiasme. Toutefois, l’univocité du discours ne peut cacher une interrogation de Diderot sur la réussite du programme qu’il s’est fixé. Cette étude sur l’apologie de Sénèque s’efforce de montrer que ce questionnement est en bien des points comparable à celui qui hante Rousseau dans ses Dialogues . Inquiets de voir certains préjugés prendre la forme de vérités incontestées, Diderot et Jean-Jacques veulent fixer pour la postérité une image favorable, presque idéale de l’homme qu’ils défendent. Dans le sillage d’un auteur dont l’objectif principal est de démontrer son innocence absolue, le défenseur de Sénèque ne se résout pas à ne pas avoir le dernier mot, révélant, au-delà de l’importance d’un enjeu qui dépasse le cadre de l’Antiquité romaine, une facette étrange et inattendue de son personnage

     
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    Series: Faux titre ; 299
    Subjects: Philosophy in literature; Philosophy in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Diderot, Denis (1713-1784); Diderot, Denis; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
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  15. The non-literate other
    readings of illiteracy in twentieth-century novels in English
    Author: Ramsey-Kurz, Helga
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- ILLITERACY AS A THEORETICAL ANATHEMA -- IN THE HUMANITIES: TABOOED -- IN LITERARY STUDIES: IGNORED -- ILLITERACY AS A LITERARY THEME -- ILLITERACY IN EARLIER FICTION -- ILLITERACY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FICTION:... more

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    Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- ILLITERACY AS A THEORETICAL ANATHEMA -- IN THE HUMANITIES: TABOOED -- IN LITERARY STUDIES: IGNORED -- ILLITERACY AS A LITERARY THEME -- ILLITERACY IN EARLIER FICTION -- ILLITERACY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FICTION: HEART OF DARKNESS -- THE NON-LITERATEWITHOUT: UNLETTERED CALIBANS IN DISTANT EUROPE -- UNEARTHING THE PRE-LITERATEMIND: WILLIAM GOLDING’S THE INHERITORS -- PROJECTIONS OF A POST-LITERATEMIND: ANGELA CARTER’S HEROES AND VILLAINS -- POSTCOLONIAL RETURNS TO A PRE-LITERATE EUROPE: DAVID MALOUF’S AN IMAGINARY LIFE AND GILLIAN BOURAS’ APHRODITE AND THE OTHERS -- THE NON-LITERATE IN SIGHT: THE UNLETTERED NATIVE IN CONTACT NARRATIVES -- EARLY CONTACTS IN FICTIONAL AFRICA -- BUT A GLIMPSE IN THE REAR VIEWMIRROR: THE UNINTELLIGIBLE NATIVE IN GRAHAM GREENE’S THE HEART OF THE MATTER -- ARRIVALS ON A BICYCLE: THE UNINTELLIGIBLE COLONIST IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART -- MEETING IN THE DESERT: MIRAGES OF LITERATE AND NON-LITERATE BARBARITIES IN J.M. COETZEE’S WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS -- LATER CONTACTS IN NEW ZEALAND AND NORTH AMERICA -- ISLANDS OF PRELITERATE ORALITY: LOUISE ERDRICH’S LOVE MEDICINE AND PATRICIA GRACE’S POTIKI -- THE NON-LITERATEWITHIN: ESTABLISHED FORMS OF NON-LITERACY IN LITERATE CULTURES -- ILLITERACY FORGED BY THE INDIAN CASTE SYSTEM -- THE OUTCASTE’S LONGING TO LEARN: MULK RAJ ANAND’S UNTOUCHABLE -- LEARNING TO BELONG TO THE OUTCASTES: SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN -- BLACK ILLITERACY FORGED BY SLAVERY AND RACISM -- THE LURE OF WHITE LITERACY: RICHARD WRIGHT’S BLACK BOY -- RESISTINGWHITE LITERACY: TONIMORRISON’S BELOVED -- FORGING A BLACK LITERACY: SAPPHIRE’S PUSH AND ERNEST J. GAINES’ ALESSON BEFORE DYING -- THE ILLITERATE RETURNED: ILLITERACY IN MIGRANT LITERATURE -- THE ILLITERATEMOTHER: MAXINE HONG KINGSTON’S THE WOMAN WARRIOR -- THE ILLITERATE DAUGHTER: JOY KOGAWA’S OBASAN -- GENERATIONS OF ILLITERACY: AMY TAN’S THE BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER -- CLOSING REMARKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX -- INDEX. Public debates on the benefits and dangers of mass literacy prompted nineteenth-century British authors to write about illiteracy. Since the early twentieth century writers outside Europe have paid increasing attention to the subject as a measure both of cultural dependence and independence. So far literary studies has taken little notice of this. The Non-Literate Other: Readings of Illiteracy in Twentieth-Century Novels in English offers explanations for this lack of interest in illiteracy amongst scholars of literature, and attempts to remedy this neglect by posing the question of how writers use their literacy to write about a condition radically unlike their own. Answers to this question are given in the analysis of nineteen works featuring illiterates yet never before studied for doing so. The book explores the scriptlessness of Neanderthals in William Golding, of barbarians in Angela Carter, David Malouf, and J.M. Coetzee, of African natives in Joseph Conrad and Chinua Achebe, of Maoris in Patricia Grace and Chippewas in Louise Erdrich, of fugitive or former slaves and their descendants in Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, and Ernest Gaines, of Untouchables in Mulk Raj Anand and Salman Rushdie, and of migrants in Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, and Amy Tan. In so doing it conveys a clear sense of the complexity and variability of the phenomenon of non-literacy as well as its fictional resourcefulness

     
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    Series: Costerus ; new ser., v. 171
    Subjects: English fiction; Literacy; English fiction; Literacy; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  16. The nothing machine
    the fiction of Octave Mirbeau
    Author: Ziegler, Robert
    Published: 2007
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    Preliminary Material -- Art as Repair: Le Calvaire -- Iconoclasm: L’Abbé Jules -- The Perfect Death: Sébastien Roch -- Reaching Up: Dans le ciel -- A Way Out: Un gentilhomme -- The Undifferentiated Bed: Le Jardin des supplices -- Fetish and Meaning:... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Art as Repair: Le Calvaire -- Iconoclasm: L’Abbé Jules -- The Perfect Death: Sébastien Roch -- Reaching Up: Dans le ciel -- A Way Out: Un gentilhomme -- The Undifferentiated Bed: Le Jardin des supplices -- Fetish and Meaning: Le Journal d’une femme de chambre -- From Matter to Motion: Les 21 jours d’un neurasthénique -- The Novel as Machine: La 628-E8 -- Non-human Narrative: Dingo -- Conclusion -- References -- Index. In an era when reality was aestheticized as collectibles, Octave Mirbeau unleashed his fiction like a destructive machine, setting fire to stale material and discredited ideologies, burning them as fuel and expelling texts as clean emissions. In this first English-language overview of all the novels published under Mirbeau’s name, this study argues that Mirbeau is unique among his fin-de-siècle peers. Unlike the Decadents, whose art was a reliquary in which dead inspiration was preserved, Mirbeau disengaged himself from the corpses of past works. Abhorring tradition and complacency, Mirbeau elaborated a kinetics of fiction that made the novel into an agent of violent transformation. Contrasting the Decadents’ aesthetic of elegant morbidity with Mirbeau’s vitalistic view of fiction, this volume shows Mirbeau modeling himself on the figure of the torture artist, cutting up his finished works, building novels to disassemble them, fitting them together in revolutionary ways. Creativity for Mirbeau fertilizes un jardin des supplices , a cemetery smoldering with decomposing texts that are resolved into their constituent parts and then reemerge in different guises. In Mirbeau’s writing, lives and art works are only transient aggregates of material, and creativity is immortalized through the perishing of old forms

     
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    Other subjects: Mirbeau, Octave (1848-1917); Mirbeau, Octave
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  17. Women without a past?
    German autobiographical writings and fascism
    Author: Sayner, Joanne
    Published: 2007
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    Preliminary Material -- Patterns of Remembering -- Memories of a Survivor: The Story of Hilde Huppert’s Autobiographies -- Competing Voices in Inge Scholl’s Die Weiße Rose -- Intoxicating Transience: Negotiations of Public and Private in Elisabeth... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Patterns of Remembering -- Memories of a Survivor: The Story of Hilde Huppert’s Autobiographies -- Competing Voices in Inge Scholl’s Die Weiße Rose -- Intoxicating Transience: Negotiations of Public and Private in Elisabeth Langgässer’s Published Letters -- “One Must Tear Aside the Flowers…”: Melita Maschmann’s Fazit -- Clarity and Insight: Greta Kuckhoff’s Memories of Resistance in Vom Rosenkranz zur Roten Kapelle -- Und außerdem war es mein Leben: Subjectivity, Subjugation and Self-Justification in Elfriede Brüning’s Autobiography -- “To Write against Forgetting”: Grete Weil’s Leb ich denn, wenn andere leben -- Conclusion -- Works Cited. Who remembers, and how? Debates about the role of memory as history – and of literature as memory – have increasingly come to fascinate those interested in how we look at our pasts as a means for understanding the present. Women without a Past ? brings together for the first time autobiographies written by seven women who experienced Nazism from different perspectives: Elfriede Brüning, Hilde Huppert, Greta Kuckhoff, Elisabeth Langgässer, Melita Maschmann, Inge Scholl, and Grete Weil. Their autobiographies provoke diverse and challenging answers to questions about who remembers what, when, where, how and on behalf of whom. This book foregrounds the positive political potential of re-reading well-known texts and seeking out reasons why others have been marginalized. It examines autobiography as a form of writing at the very centre of contemporary debates on the ‘self’, ‘truth’ and ‘history’. Women without a Past ? offers new insights into the politics of memory and autobiography, and will be of particular interest to researchers and students engaging with women’s writing and memories of Nazism

     
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    Series: Genus--gender in modern culture ; 8
    Subjects: Women authors, German; Autobiographical memory in literature; National socialism and women
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  18. The littoral zone
    Australian contexts and their writers
    Published: 2007
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    Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Setting the Scene: Littoral and Critical Contexts /Robert Zeller and CA. Cranston -- A Beach Somewhere: The Australian Littoral Imagination at Play /Bruce Bennett -- The Shadow on the Field: Literature and... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Setting the Scene: Littoral and Critical Contexts /Robert Zeller and CA. Cranston -- A Beach Somewhere: The Australian Littoral Imagination at Play /Bruce Bennett -- The Shadow on the Field: Literature and Ecology in the Western Australian Wheatbelt /Tony Hughes-d’Aeth -- Literature in the Arid Zone /Tom Lynch -- The Green Thumb of Appropriation /Mitchell Rolls -- Under the Mountains and Beside a Creek: Robert Gray and the Shepherding of Antipodean Being /Mark Tredinnick -- The Poetry of Judith Wright and Ways of Rejoicing in the World /Veronica Brady -- Ecopoetics of the Limestone Plains /Kate Rigby -- Hugging the Shore: The Green Mountains of South-East Queensland /Ruth Blair -- Tales of the Austral Tropics: North Queensland in Australian Literature /Robert Zeller -- Islands /CA. Cranston -- “A Place of Ideals in Conflict”: Images of Antarctica in Australian Literature /Elizabeth Leane -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Index. In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and US scholars explore the transliteration of land and sea through the works of Australian authors and through their own experiences. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature organised around the natural environment—rainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There’s the beach, where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the Western Australian wheatbelt; deserts, camel trekking, and the transformation of a salt flat into an inland island; New Age literature that ‘appropriates’ Aboriginal culture as the healing poultice for an ailing West; a re-examination of pastoralism; an inquiry into whether Judith Wright's work can “persuade us to rejoice” in the world; the Limestone Plains, home of the bush capital and the bogong moth; tropical North Queensland; national parks where “the mountains meet the sea”; temperate islands, with their history of sealing, Soldier Settlement, and sea country pastoral; and Antarctica, where a utopian vision gives way to an emphasis on its ‘timeless’ icescape as minimalist backdrop for human dramas. The author-terrain includes poets, playwrights, novelists, and non-fiction writers across the range of contexts constituting the littoral zone of ‘Australia’

     
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    Subjects: Australian literature; Nature in literature; Australian literature; Nature in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  19. From Shadow to Presence
    Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature
    Author: Eesni, Jelena
    Published: 2007
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    Preliminary Material /Jelena Šesnić -- Acknowledgments /Jelena Šesnić -- US ethnic identities from cultural nationalism to trans-nationalism /Jelena Šesnić -- Impassioned discourse and “passionate politics”: cultural nationalism and the ethnic... more

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    Preliminary Material /Jelena Šesnić -- Acknowledgments /Jelena Šesnić -- US ethnic identities from cultural nationalism to trans-nationalism /Jelena Šesnić -- Impassioned discourse and “passionate politics”: cultural nationalism and the ethnic revival /Jelena Šesnić -- Summoning a new subject: “ethnic feminists” /Jelena Šesnić -- Borderlands/contact zones: “reworlding” ethnicity /Jelena Šesnić -- Diasporic identities: breaking and re-making ethnicity /Jelena Šesnić -- Afterword: the wheel keeps on turning /Jelena Šesnić -- Notes /Jelena Šesnić -- Bibliography /Jelena Šesnić -- Index /Jelena Šesnić. This volume departs from a more static concept of identity politics to engage the varied and entangled processes of ethnic/racial, national, and gender identifications in a range of contemporary US ethnic texts (from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s). Recognizing the growing salience of variously named ethnic, multicultural, and minority literatures as they are produced and circulated in the USA and worldwide nowadays, this work charts four broadly defined models of approaching such texts: cultural nationalism, ethnic feminism, borderlands and contact zones, and finally, the diasporic model. Drawing extensively on psychoanalytic theory, feminist/gender studies, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and its revision of ethnography, the book offers a fresh, engaged, theoretically, and analytically well-rehearsed overview of the distinctive and determining features of a rapidly expanding domain of contemporary US literary production, namely, ethnic literatures. Of potential interest to scholars of American/US literature, but also minority and postcolonial literatures, and to students of American literature, the book attempts an interethnic comparative approach to well- and lesser-known texts. Among the authors represented are Shawn Wong, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie, Denise Chávez, Rolando Hinojosa, Roberto Fernández and Edwidge Danticat

     
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    Subjects: American literature; Ethnicity in literature; American literature ; Minority authors; Ethnicity in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  20. A breath of fresh Eyre
    intertextual and intermedial reworkings of Jane Eyre
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann -- The Strange After-Lives of Jane Eyre /Barbara Schaff -- The Future That Has Happened: Narrative Freedom and Déjà lu in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea /Bárbara... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann -- The Strange After-Lives of Jane Eyre /Barbara Schaff -- The Future That Has Happened: Narrative Freedom and Déjà lu in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea /Bárbara Arizti -- Landscape and Character in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea /Thomas Loe -- The Intertextual Status of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea: Dependence on a Victorian Classic and Independence as a Post-Colonial Novel /Wolfgang G. Müller -- ‘The Second Mrs. Rochesters’: Telling Untold Stories of Jane Eyre’s (Im-)Possible Married Lives /Ines Detmers -- Pathologies of Sexuality, Empire and Slavery: D.M. Thomas’s Charlotte /Sue Thomas -- Brontë Badland: Jane Eyre reconfigured as Colonial Gothic in Mardi McConnochie’s Coldwater /Maggie Tonkin -- Jane’s Angry Daughters: Anger in Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac, Margaret Drabble’s The Waterfall, Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy /Ursula Kluwick -- Jane Eyre in Outer Space: Victorian Motifs in Post-Feminist Science Fiction /Jürgen Wehrmann -- Invasions into Literary Texts, Re-plotting and Transfictional Migration in Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair /Margarete Rubik -- A Parallelquel of a Classic Text and Reification of the Fictional – the Playful Parody of Jane Eyre in Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair /Katrin Thomas and Mark Berninger -- An Eyre-Less Affair? Jasper Fforde’s Seeming Elision of Jane /Juliette Wells -- From Thornfield Hall to Manderley and Beyond: Jane Eyre and Rebecca as Transformations of the Fairy Tale, the Novel of Development, and the Gothic Novel /Verena-Susanna Nungesser -- “Picturing in me a hero of romance”: The Legacy of Jane Eyre’s Byronic Hero /Sarah Wootton -- Children in the Jane Eyre Films /Carol M. Dole -- Reader, She Married Him: Abridging and Adapting Jane Eyre for Children and Young Adults /Marla Harris -- Jane Eyre for Young Readers: Three Illustrated Adaptations /Norbert Bachleitner -- Jane Eyre Illustrated /Michaela Braesel -- Paula Rego’s Visual Adaptations of Jane Eyre /Aline Ferreira -- Myth-making Opera: David Malouf and Michael Berkeley’s Jane Eyre /Walter Bernhart -- The Madwoman in the Classic: Intermediality, Female Subjectivity, and Dance in Michael Berkeley’s Jane Eyre /Bruno Lessard -- Mad Intertextuality: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, After Mrs Rochester /Jarmila Mildorf -- “From a Land of Hot Rain and Hurricanes” – Polly Teale’s Stage Adaptation of Jane Eyre /Kathleen Starck -- John Brougham’s Stage Adaptation of Jane Eyre – a Marxist Reading of Brontë’s Novel? /Elke Mettinger-Schartmann -- Blasting Jane: Jane Eyre as an Intertext of Sarah Kane’s Blasted /Rainer Emig -- Reader: Who Wrote You? An Autocritical Exercise upon Jane Eyre /Michelene Wandor. Ever since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre – one of the most popular English novels of all time – has fascinated scholars and a wide reading public alike and has proved a source of inspiration to successive generations of creative writers and artists. There is hardly any other hypotext that has been re-worked in so many adaptations for stage and screen, has inspired so many painters and musicians, and has been so often imitated, re-written, parodied or extended by prequels and sequels. New versions in turn refer to and revise older rewritings or take up suggestions from Brontë scholarship, creating a dense intertextual web. The essays collected in this volume do justice to the variety of media involved in the Jane Eyre reworkings, by covering narrative, visual and stage adaptations, including an adaptor’s perspective. Contributions review a diverse range of works, from postcolonial revision to postmodern fantasy, from imaginary after-lives to science fiction, from plays and Hollywood movies to opera, from lithographs and illustrated editions to comics and graphic novels. The volume thus offers a comprehensive collection of reworkings that also takes into account recent novels, plays and works of art that were published after Patsy Stoneman’s seminal 1996 study on Brontë Transformations

     
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    Other subjects: Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855): Jane Eyre
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  21. Leaving Parnassus
    the lyric subject in Verlaine and Rimbaud
    Author: Whidden, Seth Adam
    Published: 2007
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    Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Dominance of Parnassian Poetry -- Verlaine’s Identities -- Rimbaud, Beyond Time and Space -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. Leaving Parnassus: The Lyric Subject in Verlaine and... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Dominance of Parnassian Poetry -- Verlaine’s Identities -- Rimbaud, Beyond Time and Space -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. Leaving Parnassus: The Lyric Subject in Verlaine and Rimbaud considers how the crisis of the lyric subject in the middle of the nineteenth century in France is a direct response to the aesthetic principles of Parnassian poetry, which dominated the second half of the century much more than critics often think. The poets considered here rebel against the strict confines of traditional and contemporary poetry and attempt to create radically new discursive practices. Specifically, the close readings of poems apply recent studies of subjectivity in poetry and focus on the works of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud to see how each subverts the dominant tradition of French poetry in a unique way. Whereas previous studies considered isolated aspects of each poet’s lyric subject, Leaving Parnassus shows that the situation of the lyric is a source of subversion throughout the poets’ entire work, and as such it is crucial to our full understanding of their respective innovations

     
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    Subjects: French poetry; Subjectivity in literature; Parnassianism; French poetry; Parnassianism; Subjectivity in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896); Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891); Rimbaud, Arthur; Verlaine, Paul
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  22. A Nation of victims?
    representations of German wartime suffering from 1945 to the present
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary material /Editors A Nation of Victims? -- Introduction: The Return of Wartime Suffering in Contemporary German Memory Culture, Literature and Film /Editors A Nation of Victims? -- Germans in the Lager. Reports and Narratives about... more

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    Preliminary material /Editors A Nation of Victims? -- Introduction: The Return of Wartime Suffering in Contemporary German Memory Culture, Literature and Film /Editors A Nation of Victims? -- Germans in the Lager. Reports and Narratives about Imprisonment in Post-War Allied Internment Camps /Gregor Streim -- Die, von denen man erzählt hat, dass sie die kleinen Kinder schlachten’. Deutsche Leiderfahrung und Bilder von Juden in der deutschen Kultur nach 1945. Zu einigen Texten Wolfgang Weyrauchs /Hans-Joachim Hahn -- The Representation of Wehrmacht Soldiers as Victims in Post-war West German Film: Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben? and Der Arzt von Stalingrad /Helen Wolfenden -- The German Myth of a Victim Nation: (Re-)presenting Germans as Victims in the New Debate on their Flight and Expulsion from Eastern Europe /Samuel Salzborn -- Implicit Equations in Constructions of German Suffering /Bill Niven -- Dresden and Hamburg - Official Memory and Commemoration of the Victims of Allied Air Raids in the two Germanies /Gilad Margalit -- Regarding and Imagining. Contrived Immediacy of the Allied Bombing Campaign in Photography, Novel and Historiography /Heinz-Peter Preußer -- Lost in Translations? The Discourse of ‘German Suffering’ and W. G. Sebald’s Luftkrieg und Literatur /Annette Seidel Arpacı -- Wahrheit und Erinnerung. Die Spuren des Jahres 1945 in Texten von Christa Wolf /Odile Jansen -- Historicism, Sentimentality and the Problem of Empathy: Uwe Timm’s Am Beispiel meines Bruders in the Context of Recent Representations of German Suffering /Helmut Schmitz -- Literary Representations in Contemporary German Fiction of the Expulsions of Germans from the East in 1945 /Stuart Taberner -- Der Untergang (2004): Victims, Perpetrators and the Continuing Fascination of Fascism /Paul Cooke -- Index of Contributors /Editors A Nation of Victims?. The re-emergence of the issue of wartime suffering to the fore of German public discourse represents the greatest shift in German memory culture since the Historikerstreit of the 1980s. The (international) attention and debates triggered by, for example, W.G. Sebald’s Luftkrieg und Literatur , Günter Grass’s Im Krebsgang , Jörg Friedrich’s Der Brand testify to a change in focus away from the victims of National Socialism to the traumatic experience of the ‘perpetrator collective’ and its legacies. The volume brings together German, English and Israeli literary and film scholars and historians addressing issues surrounding the representation of German wartime suffering from the immediate post-war period to the present in literature, film and public commemorative discourse. Split into four sections, the volume discusses the representation of Germans as victims in post-war literature and film, the current memory politics of the Bund der Vertriebenen , the public commemoration of the air raids on Hamburg and Dresden and their representation in film, photography, historiography and literature, the impact and reception of W.G. Sebald’s Luftkrieg und Literatur , the representation of flight and expulsion in contemporary writing, the problem of empathy in representations of Germans as victims and the representation of suffering and National Socialism in Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film Der Untergang

     
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    Series: German monitor ; no. 67
    Subjects: Germans in literature; German literature; Germans in literature; Germans in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Suffering in literature; Suffering in motion pictures; War and motion pictures; War in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
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  23. Abstract machines
    Samuel Beckett and philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari
    Author: Dowd, Garin
    Published: 2007
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    Preliminary Material -- Note on references -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Shadow Hospitality: Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari -- Beckett’s Abstract Machines: from Murphy to The Lost Ones -- From Monadology to Nomadology:... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Note on references -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Shadow Hospitality: Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari -- Beckett’s Abstract Machines: from Murphy to The Lost Ones -- From Monadology to Nomadology: Leibniz, Deleuze, Beckett -- Matter, Judgement and Immanence in How It Is -- “Vasts apart”: Deleuze, Phenomenology and Worstward Ho -- Beckett’s ‘Dislocations’ -- “l’insurrection des molécules” -- Works Cited -- Index. What can philosophy bring to the reading of Beckett? Combining intertextual analysis with a ‘schizoanalytic genealogy’ derived from the authors of L’Anti-Œdipe , Garin Dowd’s Abstract Machines: Samuel Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari offers an innovative response to this much debated question. The author focuses on zones of encounter and thresholds of engagement between Beckett’s writing and a range of philosophers (among them Spinoza, Leibniz and Kant) and philosophical concepts. Beckett’s writing impacts in a variety of ways on Deleuze and Guattari’s thought, and, in particular, resonates with Deleuze’s contributions to the history of philosophy (in books such as Le Pli: Leibniz et le baroque ), and his ‘critical and clinical’ approach to literature. Furthermore, the books co-written with Guattari, concerned as they are with the ‘molecularization’ of the discipline of philosophy in the name of ‘thinking otherwise’, reveal themselves in a new light when explored in conjunction with Beckett’s œuvre . With its arresting perspectives on a wide range of Beckett’s works, Abstract Machines will appeal to academics and postgraduate students interested in the philosophical aspects of his writing. Its engagement with alternative contributions to the question of Beckett and philosophy, including that of Alain Badiou, renders it a timely and provocative intervention in contemporary debates on the relationship between literature and philosophy, both within the field of Beckett studies and beyond

     
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    Subjects: Philosophy; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Beckett, Samuel
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  24. Kailyard and Scottish literature
    Author: Nash, Andrew
    Published: 2007
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    Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- What is Kailyard? -- The Invention of the Term -- Regionalism, Representation and the Art of J.M. Barrie -- S.R. Crockett: Romancing Galloway -- The Sentimental Art of Ian Maclaren -- The Marketing of... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- What is Kailyard? -- The Invention of the Term -- Regionalism, Representation and the Art of J.M. Barrie -- S.R. Crockett: Romancing Galloway -- The Sentimental Art of Ian Maclaren -- The Marketing of Kailyard and the Debate over Popular Culture -- The Critical Kailyard -- Bibliography -- Index. For more than a century, the word 'Kailyard' has been a focal point of Scottish literary and cultural debate. Originally a term of literary criticism, it has come to be used, often pejoratively, across a whole range of academic and popular discourse. Historians, politicians and critics of Scottish film and media have joined literary scholars in using the term to set out a diagnosis of Scottish culture. This is the first comprehensive study of the subject. Andrew Nash traces the origins of the Kailyard diagnosis in the nineteenth century and considers the critical concerns that gave rise to it. He then provides a full reassessment of the literature most commonly associated with the term – the fiction of J.M. Barrie, S.R. Crockett and Ian Maclaren. Placing this work in more appropriate contexts, he considers the literary, social and religious imperatives that underpinned it and discusses the impact of these writers in the publishing world. These chapters are succeeded by detailed analysis of the various ways in which the term has been used in wider discussions of Scottish literature and culture. Discussing literary criticism, film studies, and political and sociological analyses of Scotland, Nash shows how Kailyard, as a critical term, helps expose some of the key issues in Scottish cultural debate in the twentieth century, including discussions over national representation, popular culture and the parochialism of Scottish culture

     
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    Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 8
    Subjects: English literature; English literature; Popular culture; Literature and society; English literature; English literature ; Scottish authors; Literature and society; Popular culture; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Barrie, J. M (1860-1937); Crockett, S. R (1859-1914); Maclaren, Ian (1850-1907); Barrie, J. M; Crockett, S. R; Maclaren, Ian
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  25. How does it feel?
    point of view in translation : the case of Virginia Woolf into French
    Author: Bosseaux, Charlotte
    Published: 2007
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    Preliminary Material -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Narrative Point of View and Translation -- The Different Categories of Point of View -- Methodological Tools and Framework -- Virginia Woolf, a Case in Point -- The Model Demonstrated:... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Narrative Point of View and Translation -- The Different Categories of Point of View -- Methodological Tools and Framework -- Virginia Woolf, a Case in Point -- The Model Demonstrated: Case-study One: To the Lighthouse -- The Model Demonstrated: Case-Study Two: The Waves -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. Narratology is concerned with the study of narratives; but surprisingly it does not usually distinguish between original and translated texts. This lack of distinction is regrettable. In recent years the visibility of translations and translators has become a widely discussed topic in Translation Studies; yet the issue of translating a novel’s point of view has remained relatively unexplored. It seems crucial to ask how far a translator’s choices affect the novel’s point of view, and whether characters or narrators come across similarly in originals and translations. This book addresses exactly these questions. It proposes a method by which it becomes possible to investigate how the point of view of a work of fiction is created in an original and adapted in translation. It shows that there are potential problems involved in the translation of linguistic features that constitute point of view (deixis, modality, transitivity and free indirect discourse) and that this has an impact on the way works are translated. Traditionally, comparative analysis of originals and their translations have relied on manual examinations; this book demonstrates that corpus-based tools can greatly facilitate and sharpen the process of comparison. The method is demonstrated using Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931), and their French translations

     
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    Subjects: English language; Translating and interpreting
    Other subjects: Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941): To the lighthouse; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941): Waves
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