Biography, Literature and Literary studies Books
Bloomsbury Academic Pilgrim Myths in American Fiction 18201920
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Masculinity Coloniality and the USMexico Border in Literature and Political Culture
Book SynopsisJoshua D. Martin is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Tennessee Tech University.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ReEnvisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature
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Bloomsbury Academic Tolkiens Medievalism in Ruins
Book SynopsisNick Katsiadas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Writing at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. Carl Sell is Associate Director for McNair and Undergraduate Research Programs at the Universityof Pittsburgh.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sacred Places in Comparative PostColonial Writing
Book SynopsisRosanna Masiola is a retired professor of English, translation, and Anglo-American literature at the University for Foreigners of Perugia.Matteo Baraldo is Senior Research Officer in the School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex.
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The Mercier Press Ltd This Man's Wee Boy
Book SynopsisA uniquely-crafted memoir of the author's early childhood (1967–1972), the third oldest in a working-class Catholic family from the Brandywell in Derry. Written with the authentic voice of a child, this snapshot of his young life unfolds in a series of stories evoking the innocence of childhood, family dynamics and tensions, street friendships and characters, the onset of civil strife, and a family protecting itself from conflict, with CS gas coming in through the door and tracer bullets flying past the windows. The book centres on Tony’s father, Patrick – a legend in his son's eyes and a man who struggles to raise a family through bitter years of economic inactivity. It beautifully and movingly portrays the relationship between Tony and the father he adores, yet slightly fears, as events, both within the family and on the streets, unfold and fuse together. The burgeoning chaos of conflict finds its way into his life through the death of a friend under an army truck and more horrifically, directly into the Doherty household. Described as 'a treasure', it draws the reader into a child's world, his innocent view of the harsh reality of life and the horrifying events unfolding around him. It has bags of humour and paints a picture of a lost world of children running wild in play, unsupervised by or worried over by adults. The book is also very moving, to the point of provoking tears at the end.
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Zeticula Ltd Bho Chluaidh Gu Calasraid - from the Clyde to Callander: Gaelic Songs, Poetry, Tales and Traditions of the Lennox and Menteith in Gaelic with English Translations
Book SynopsisAlthough Gaelic no longer resounds through the Lennox and Mentieth as it once did, this volume demonstrates that its rich heritage of literature and folklore deserves to be rediscovered and reclaimed by new generations. Gaelic was once spoken by its earls and chieftains, farmers and fishermen, into the twentieth century. This book presents some of the songs, stories and traditions which recapture the timeless brilliance of the Gaelic heroic age in the area. Dr Michael Newton has brought together the legends of the early Christian saints, tales of the supernatural, panegyric verse of professional poets, clans sagas of the Colquhouns, MacGregors, and MacFarlanes, Jacobite songs, elegies, local calendar customs, and other remnants of folklore and folklife. Patient and dedicated research has enabled this wealth of material to be accessible for the first time to students, scholars, and all enthusiasts of the history and culture of the Lennox and Menteith, bringing back to life an ancient inheritance worth celebrating.Trade Review'... an excellent (bilingual) publication [which] provides material not readily available anywhere else [and] supports a better understanding of a local Gaelic identity.' Ruairidh Maclean
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The Mercier Press Ltd Caisleáin Óir
Book SynopsisThough it is more than seventy years since it was first written, Caisleáin Óir, Séamus Ó Grianna's best-known novel, still has the power both to touch the heart with its story of the blighting of young love and to delight the ear with the excellence of its idiomatic Irish. The story of Séimí Phádraig Dubh and his sweetheart Babaí Mháirtín growing up at the turn of the century in the rocky peninsula of Rannafast in the Rosses of Donegal is one of bitter sadness, as they are deprived by fate and economic necessity of the magic glimpsed as children:'A Shéimí, goidé an cineál tithe iad sin,' arsa sise, ag amharc ar na néalta, 'atá os cionn luí na gréine?''Tá,' arsa Séimí, 'sin caisleáin óir a bhfuil na daoine beaga ina gcónaí iontu . . . '
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The Mercier Press Ltd Diary Of An Irish Countryman
Book SynopsisLittle St. John's Day. Fair Day in Thomastown. Feast Day of St. Peter and St. Paul, apostles … Cherries and red and black currants for sale at Crois. A sultry day. Hurling on Fair Green. I was knocked down by a young brat, but it was nothing to be ashamed of, as I brought him down as well. Cow-dung oft knocked a good man. Everything is growing now as fast as ferns.' ⪦p>Keeping a personal diary was not a practise among writers of Irish before O'Sullivan's time and contemporary Irish scholars saw no future for the language and consequently wrote in English. Hence Humphrey O'Sullivan (Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin) showed remarkable originality and courage in undertaking a diary in the Irish language.He lived a full life as a successful businessman, a fearless worker in the cause of freedom and social justice, a lover of nature, an antiquarian, collector of manuscripts and enjoyer of good food and drink. By jotting down notes on daily activities he has left us a lively and frank account of life in a small town during a particularly turbulent and important period in Irish history, which included the struggle for Catholic Emancipation, the Tithe War, the foundation of the National Schools, the secret societies, famine, plague, evictions and faction fighting.O'Sullivan has left us with a remarkable contribution to the social history of Ireland as seen from the inside by a man of wide interests and deep understanding.
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Serving House Books Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton
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Serving House Books Concord
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Beyond Publishing The Fingerprint Series: Discovering Your Unique Relationship with Christ
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Beyond Publishing Unveiled: Secrets To A Marriage That Lasts Forever
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Beyond Publishing C the Change
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Catafalque Press Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity
Book SynopsisCatafalque offers a revolutionary new reading of the great psychologist Carl Jung as mystic, gnostic and prophet for our time. This book is the first major re-imagining of both Jung and his work since the publication of the Red Book in 2009 -- and is the only serious assessment of them written by a classical scholar who understands the ancient Gnostic, Hermetic and alchemical foundations of his thought as well as Jung himself did. At the same time it skillfully tells the forgotten story of Jung''s relationship with the great Sufi scholar, Henry Corbin, and with Persian Sufi tradition. The strange reality of the Red Book, or New Book as Carl Jung called it, lies close to the heart of Catafalque. In meticulous detail Peter Kingsley uncovers its great secret, hidden in plain sight and still -- as if by magic -- unrecognized by all those who have been unable to understand this mysterious, incantatory text. But the hard truth of who Jung was and what he did is only a small part of what this book uncovers. It also exposes the full extent of that great river of esoteric tradition that stretches all the way back to the beginnings of our civilization. It unveils the surprising realities behind western philosophy, literature, poetry, prophecy -- both ancient and modern. In short, Peter Kingsley shows us not only who Carl Jung was but who we in the West are as well. Much more than a brilliant spiritual biography, Catafalque holds the key to understanding why our western culture is dying. And, an incantatory text in its own right, it shows the way to discovering what we in these times of great crisis must do. Book details 844-page paperback.
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Editions Technip Select Thermodynamic Models for Process Simulation
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John Moorhead 52 panneaux solaires
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Palgrave Macmillan Cultures Futures
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Science Fiction, Anthropology and the Problem of Culture.- Chapter 2: Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians: Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Modernist Anthropology and the Idea of Culture.- Chapter 3: Well-Wrought Cultures and Carrier Bags: Forms of Culture in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming Home.- Chapter 4: Captivity, Conversion, Culture: Octavia E. Butler's Genre-tic Engineering of Ethnography and Science Fiction in the Xenogenesis Trilogy.- Chapter 5: Resisting Culture: Culture and/as Sovereignty in Indigenous Futurisms.- Chapter 6: Coda: Culture's Futures.
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Palgrave Macmillan Narrative Digitality WellBeing
Book Synopsis.- 1. Introduction: the philosophy of digitality.- 2: Digitality and the new narratives.- 3: Narrative theory and narrative therapy: the unexplored narratives of wellbeing.- 4: The incorporation of digitality into contemporary novels: Jennifer Egan, Sally Rooney, Ted Chiang, Anton Hur and Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan.- Narratives of Burnout: Digital echoes through nostalgic means in Sally Rooney, Mieko Kawakami, Max Porter and Sarah Manguso.- 6. The Impact of Narrative Identity through Online Narratives on Wellbeing Among Young People in Hong Kong and China.- 7. Technology in the English classroom and lecture theatre in Ireland: teachers’ perspectives on wellbeing and the language of narration.
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Springer-Verlag GmbH Palestinian Activism in Israel
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Poststrukturalismus: Herausforderung an die Literaturwissenschaft. DFG-Symposion 1995
Book SynopsisDieser Band bietet eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme und produktive Verarbeitung der Situation der Literaturwissenschaft 'nach dem Strukturalismus' und vor der Etablierung einer neuen Kulturwissenschaft unter den Leitkategorien 'Psychoanalyse', 'Rhetorik', 'Philosophie' und 'Geschichte'.
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J.B. Metzler Mythen multimedial
Book SynopsisModernste Antike. Methodische Fragen zu einer Weiterarbeit am multimedialen Mythos heute.- Wiederbelebung archaischer Mythen in der Moderne. Michael Endes Unendliche Geschichte als mythologischer Roman.- Der Trojanische Käse. Oder: Ökologiedidaxe und antike Mythen in Luis Sepúlvedas Roman Wie Kater Zorbas der kleinen Möwe das Fliegen beibrachte und in seiner Filmadaptation von Enzo D'Alò.- Wer einmal lügt Zur Rezeption einer Fabel Aesops in der Kinderliteratur und Populärkultur.- Die dunkle Seite der Unterwelt: Hades Speaks! .- Bellum Gallicum reloaded. Eine multimediale Caesarlektüre zur Abmilderung des Lektüreschocks und zur Konfrontation mit (klischeebeladenen) modernen Caesarbildern?!.- Kindgerechte" Sklaverei? Politisch (in-)korrekte Vermittlung von Ungerechtigkeit, Ungleichheit und (Un-)Rechtsbewusstsein.- Ein vielschichtiger Medienverbund um Katniss Everdeen und die Bewohner von Panem? Die Tribute von Panem als polyvalente und multimediale All-Age-Serie oder gewaltverherrlichende Trivialliteratur.- Pat Barkers Die Stille der Frauen als aktuelles Beispiel mythopoietischen Wi(e)dererzählens Homers zwischen Fanfiction und Rewriting.- Der Zug der Zehntausend aus der Perspektive einer Frau in Valerio Massimo Manfredis L'armata perduta.- Über philosophische Implikationen von Blumenkohl und Stadtbränden. Transformationen der Antike in Walter Moers' Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher .- Neue Feste für Dionysos. Chorische Theatralität in antiken Texten und aktuellen Inszenierungen der Antike.- Jonathan Meese Ameise und Sokrates der Kunst.- Gender Mythos Die Frauenquote in der filmischen Antikenrezeption: von WONDER WOMAN über CAPTAIN MARVEL bis zu Vitrine im Karnutenwald.- Antike in Themenparks. Zwischen Plurimedialität und Remediatisierung.- Mit Ariadnefaden durch ein phantastisches Labyrinth. Ein Kategorisierungsvorschlag für die Antikenrezeption in der Phantastik.- Ein neues Buch und alte Gespräche. Die Rezeption von Herodot und Platon im Videospiel Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
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J.B. Metzler Personale und funktionale Bildung im
Book SynopsisAutorinnen und Autoren.- Einführung: Personale und funktionale Bildung im Deutschunterricht.- Teil I: Theoretische Perspektiven auf die Unterscheidung von personaler und funktionaler Bildung.- Personalität und Funktionalität in der Didaktik des Kaiserreichs mit besonderem Bezug zur Literaturpädagogik.- Funktionale und personale Bildung eine taugliche Unterscheidung in historiographischer Perspektive? Hans Richert und seine Einheit in der Mannigfaltigkeit.- Die Unterscheidung von funktionaler und personaler Bildung Differenzen, Konvergenzen und blinde Flecken im literaturdidaktischen Diskurs.- Zwischen emotionaler Involvierung und kritischer Distanz: Das Konzept der narrativen Kompetenz.- Zum Zusammenhang von funktionalen und personalen Aspekten der Schreibkompetenz.- Künstliche Intelligenz als Ghostwriter, Writing Tutor und Writing Partner.- Teil II: Empirische Perspektiven auf personale und funktionale Bildungsprozesse im Deutschunterricht.- Befunde zum Aktivierungspotenzial eines literarischen Textes im Horizont von Symmedialität und Synästhetik.- Die Bedeutung emotionaler Aktivierung für personale und funktionale Bildungsprozesse im literarästhetischen Gespräch eine inhaltsanalytische Untersuchung ästhetischer Kommunikation.- Personale Effekte funktionaler Bildung. Befunde zur differenziellen Wirksamkeit von kognitiv-funktionalen und ästhetisch-personalen Gesprächen über Literatur.- Personale und funktionale Bildung im Literaturunterricht durch handlungs- und produktionsorientierte und/oder analytische Lernaufgaben..- Teil III: Praxisbezogene Perspektiven auf personale und funktionale Bildungsprozesse im Deutschunterricht.- Personale Bildung durch ein Weiterbildungsprogramm im literarischen Schreiben für Deutschlehrer*innen.- Kreatives Schreiben als Beitrag zur personalen Bildung.- Didaktisierung funktionaler und personaler fachlicher Bildung mit dem Drei-Phasen-Modell des identitätsorientierten Deutschunterrichts Ein Praxisbeispiel zu Ingeborg Bachmanns Gedicht Reklame.- VR-Experiences und ihr Potenzial für fachlich personale und funktionale Bildungsprozesse im Deutschunterricht.- Teil IV: Fazit.- Funktionale und personale Aspekte fachlicher Bildung Klärungsbedarfe und Forschungsdesiderate aus deutschdidaktischer Sicht.
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J.B. Metzler Postmigrantische Literatur
Book Synopsis1. Literatur und Postmigration. Einleitung.- Teil I: Kritik der hegemonialen Wissensproduktion.- 2. Aleida Assmann: Erinnern in der Migrationsgesellschaft.- 3. Iulia-Karin Patrut: Macht und Wertung. Überlegungen zu einer Literaturtheorie der Postmigration.- Teil II: Grundlagen postmigrantischer Literatur und Kultur.- 4. Christine Meyer: Writing back to Germany from the margins: Strategien der Kanon-Aneignung in der Minderheitenliteratur der Nachwendezeit.- 5. Jana-Katharina Mende: Mehrsprachigkeit, Übersetzung und Sprachreflexionen: Postmigrantische Spielformen von Mehrsprachigkeit in der Gegenwartsliteratur.- 6. Martina Kofer: Postmigrantische Identitätskonstruktionen.- 7. Michael Hofmann: Neue Perspektiven auf den literarischen Kanon aus postmigrantischer Perspektive.- 8. Ines Böker: Theatrale Bodenlosigkeit Zum Zusammenhang von institutioneller, ästhetischer und wissenschaftlicher Widersetzlichkeit im postmigrantischen Theater.- 9. Isabelle Leitloff: Postmigrantische Gesellschaf
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J.B. Metzler Inklusiver und symmedialer Literaturunterricht in der Grundschule
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Inklusive Didaktik und Deutschdidaktik.- Literaturunterricht an Grundschulen.- Inklusiver Literaturunterricht.- Inklusiver Literaturunterricht und Medienbildung.- Inklusiver und Symmedialer Literaturunterricht.- Forschungsdesign.- Zyklus 1: Leitfadeninterviews.- Gestaltungsprinzipien und Erstes Design.- Zyklus 2: Transkribierte Unterrichtsgespräche und E-Books.- Überarbeitung Gestaltungsprinzipien und Re-Design.- Zyklus 3: E-Books.- Überarbeitung Gestaltungsprinzipien und Re-Design.- Zyklus 4: Leitfadeninterviews.- Summative Evaluation.- Fazit und Ausblick.
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J.B. Metzler Kafka entangled
Book SynopsisKafka und die Environmental Humanities.- Theoretische und methodische Grundlagen.- Forschungsstand.- Grenzen.- Wellen.- Naturenkulturen.- Fazit und Ausblick.- Literaturverzeichnis.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. The Poems of John Keats
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Brill Guy de Maupassant
Book SynopsisMaupassant occupe une place à part dans les lettres françaises. S’il jouit d’une grande popularité auprès du lectorat et des élèves de l’enseignement secondaire où ses contes et romans sont beaucoup étudiés, il semble moins intéresser l’université et les institutions françaises. En dehors des célébrations de sa mort et de sa naissance, rares sont les numéros de revues et les ouvrages collectifs qui lui ont été consacrés. Cependant, l’œuvre du nouvelliste et du romancier est l’une des plus traduites et des plus lues à l’étranger. Il était donc nécessaire de s’interroger sur la position actuelle de Maupassant dans le monde et dans la recherche hors de l’hexagone, en ce début de XXIe siècle. Ce volume réunit les contributions de douze chercheurs français et étrangers, enseignant aux quatre coins du globe. Chacun à sa manière souligne la diversité des études sur l’œuvre de Maupassant dans les pays francophones (Belgique, Tunisie) et non francophones (Espagne, Grande-Bretagne, Italie, Nouvelle-Zélande, Pays-Bas, Portugal, Roumanie, Suède, Ukraine). A travers différentes approches critiques (narratologie, poétique, stylistique, étude de la réception, comparatisme, analyse filmique…), leurs travaux privilégient de nouvelles lectures et des domaines moins étudiés (le Maupassant conteur, chroniqueur, épistolier, ayant influencé et inspiré ses contemporains et les artistes d’aujourd’hui), pour constituer une sorte de bilan critique. Des documents inédits (lettres et carte) viennent compléter l’ensemble.Table of ContentsNoëlle BENHAMOU : Maupassant dans le monde aujourd’hui Adrian RITCHIE : Maupassant en 1881 : entre le conte et la chronique Marc SMEETS : Huysmans, Maupassant et Schopenhauer : note sur la métaphysique de l’amour Kelly BASILIO : Trilles et frétillements. L’écriture « impressionniste » du désir dans Une partie de campagne de Maupassant Hans FÄRNLÖF : De la motivation du fantastique Concepción PALACIOS : Maupassant et Clarín, face à face Karl ZIEGER : Arthur Schnitzler – un « Maupassant autrichien » : le rôle de Maupassant pour l’insertation d’un auteur étranger dans le champ littéraire français Galyna DRANENKO : L’histoire de l’héritage maupassantien en Ukraine Alexandra VIORICA DULĂU : La réception de Maupassant en Roumanie Arselène Ben FARHAT : La réception de Maupassant dans les pays arabes : étude des stratégies paratextuelles dans les récits traduits René GODENNE : Le monde de la nouvelle française du XXe face à Maupassant Leisha ASHDOWN-LECOINTRE : Maupassant à l’écran : The Golden Braid (1990) de Paul Cox, adaptation filmique de La Chevelure Noëlle BENHAMOU : Il Diavolo (2005) d’Andrea Lodovichetti : du conte noir à la fable métaphysique Documents, présentés par Noëlle Benhamou (4 lettres inédites de Guy de Moupassant) Résumés
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Brill Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+: New Perspectives in Literature, Film and the Arts
Book SynopsisMulti-Ethnic Britain 2000+ provides an encompassing survey of artistic responses to the changes in the British cultural climate in the early years of the 21st century. It traces topical reactions to new forms of racism and religious fundamentalism, to legal as well as ‘illegal’ immigration, and to the threat of global terror; yet it also highlights new forms of intercultural communication and convivial exchange. Framed by contributions from novelists Patrick Neate and Rajeev Balasubramanyam, Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ showcases how artistic representations in literature, film, music and the visual arts reflect and respond to social and political discourses, and how they contribute to our understanding of the current (trans)cultural situation in Britain. The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of writers such as Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay, Nadeem Aslam, Gautam Malkani, Nirpal Dhaliwal and Monica Ali; films ranging from Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice to Michael Winterbottom’s In This World and Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men; paintings and photography by innovative black and Asian British Artists; and dubstep music.Table of ContentsLars ECKSTEIN, Barbara KORTE, Eva Ulrike PIRKER, Christoph REINFANDT: A Divided Kingdom? Reflections on Multi-Ethnic Britain in the New Millennium Writers’ Views Patrick NEATE: The Little Book of Tommy: Another Tommy Akhtar Investigation Rajeev BALASUBRAMANYAM: The Rhetoric of Multiculturalism Film I: Beyond the Burden of Representation? Ellen DENGEL-JANIC and Lars ECKSTEIN: Bridehood Revisited: Disarming Concepts of Gender and Culture in Recent Asian British Film Sandra HEINEN: Multi-Ethnic Britain on Screen: South Asian Diasporic Experience in Recent Feature Films Claudia STERNBERG: Babylon North: British Muslims after 9/11 in Yasmin (2004) Fiction I: Multi-Ethnic Utopias and Dystopias Lucie GILLET: Representations of Multicultural Society in Contemporary British Novels Sabine NUNIUS: ‘Sameness’ in Contemporary British Fiction: (Metaphorical) Families in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (2005) Ulrike ZIMMERMANN: Out of the Ordinary – and Back? Jackie Kay’s Recent Short Fiction Daniel SCHÄBLER: Teenage Transformations in Multi-Ethnic Britain: Rehana Ahmed’s Walking a Tightrope (2004) Nadia BUTT: Between Orthodoxy and Modernity: Mapping the Transcultural Predicaments of Pakistani Immigrants in Multi-Ethnic Britain in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) Cordula LEMKE: Racism in the Disapora: Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) Visual Art and Music: Picturing and Sounding Identity Eva Ulrike PIRKER: Images of Muslim Britain Go Global: A Reading of the British Council’s Touring Exhibition Common Ground Ingrid VON ROSENBERG: Female Views: Cultural Identity as a Key Issue in the Work of Black and Asian British Women Artists Christoph HÄRTER: The Dub Renaissance – Reflections on the Aesthetics of Dub in Contemporary British Music Film II: Borderlines and Contested Spaces Sissy HELFF: Scapes of Refuge in Multicultural Britain: Representing Refugees in Digital Docudrama and Mockumentary Kathy-Ann TAN: ‘If you’re not on paper, you don’t exist’: Depictions of Illegal Immigration and Asylum in Film – on Michael Winterbottom’s In This World (2002) and Code 46 (2003) Barbara KORTE: Envisioning a Black Tomorrow? Black Mother Figures and the Issue of Representation in 28 Days Later (2003) and Children of Men (2006) Fiction II: Reading and Writing the Metropolis Michael MITCHELL: Escaping the Matrix: Illusions and Disillusions of Identity in Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani (2006) Ellen DENGEL-JANIC: ‘East is East and West is West’: A Reading of Nirpal Dhaliwal’s Tourism (2006) Yvonne ROSENBERG: ‘Stop Thinking like an Englishman’ or: Writing Against a Fixed Lexicon of Terrorism in Patrick Neate’s City of Tiny Lights (2005) Stephan LAQUÉ: ‘A deconstructed shrine’: Locating Absence and Relocating Identity in Rodinsky’s Room (2000) Susanne CUEVAS: ‘Societies Within’: Council Estates as Cultural Enclaves in Recent Urban Fictions Interviews Angela KURTZ: Interview with Rajeev Balasubramanyam Violeta TOPALOVA: Interview with Patrick Neate Index Acknowledgements
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Brill Témoignages de l’après-Auschwitz dans la littérature juive-française d’aujourd’hui: Enfants de survivants et survivants-enfants
Book SynopsisRaczymow, Wajsbrot, Lecadet, Wajcman, Orner, Aaron, Cormann, Modiano… Oler, Cohen, Perec, Federman, Kofman, Burko-Falcman, Meschonnic, Vargaftig, Goscinny… Qu’ont en commun ces deux ensembles d’auteurs juifs-français, qui diffèrent tant par le genre et le style de leurs œuvres ? Les premiers, nés après la Libération, enfants ou petits-enfants des survivants de la Shoah, n’étaient pas là, c’est pourquoi ils ne peuvent témoigner de ce qui pourtant a déterminé tout leur être. Les seconds, nés peu avant ou pendant l’Occupation, appartiennent à la minorité d’enfants qui survécurent miraculeusement aux persécutions, cachés dans des institutions ou chez des familles. Etaient-ils là, eux qui étaient généralement trop jeunes pour vivre consciemment ce qui leur arrivait ? Enfants de survivants ou survivants-enfants, leur expérience commune serait alors d’appartenir à l’après, de témoigner de l’après-Auschwitz, de la difficile transmission et élaboration de la Shoah, dans l’univers d’aujourd’hui. « Témoins absents » ou par procuration, ces auteurs sont à la fois le témoin de leurs aînés et, de plus en plus, témoins d’eux-mêmes, de leur propre expérience de l’après. Par des textes inédits des auteurs en question, des essais théoriques et des études critiques, le présent recueil espère mieux faire connaître la vaste et riche panoplie de leurs œuvres.Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Textes d’auteur Henri RACZYMOW : Histoire : Petit h et grande hache Cécile WAJSBROT : Après coup Clara LECADET : Le gardien Alexandre OLER : Pépé n’a rien dit II. Les « enfants cachés » (essais) Yoram MOUCHENIK : Passeurs de mémoire. Elaboration et transmission, soixante ans plus tard, chez les enfants juifs, traqués et cachés en France pendant l’Occupation Steven JARON : Le témoignage discret de Marcel Cohen Susan SULEIMAN : Expérimentation littéraire et traumatisme d’enfance: Perec et Federman Sara HOROWITZ : Sarah Kofman et l’ambiguïté des mères Eléonore HAMAIDE : Les enfants cachés, de Georges Perec à Berthe Burko-Falcman : un monde à reconstruire, une mémoire à inventer Serge MARTIN : Henri Meschonnic et Bernard Vargaftig : le poème relation de vie après l’extermination des Juifs d’Europe Nicolas ROUVIÈRE : Astérix et les pirates, ou l’obsession que le pire rate : la conjuration d’un naufrage de l’histoire III. Deuxième et troisième générations (essais) Fransiska LOUWAGIE : « Métastases » d’Auschwitz. Modalités et limites d’une tradition testimoniale Catherine OJALVO : Une mémoire lacunaire mais exaucée Timo OBERGÖKER : Shoah et récit fictionnel, un champ de force délicat : Le Non de Clara de Soazig Aaron Jean-Paul PILORGET : Un théâtre pavé d’horreur et de folie : Toujours l’orage de Enzo Cormann Katja SCHUBERT : Les temps qui tremblent ou un passé possible de ce présent ? A propos de l’œuvre de Cécile Wajsbrot Annelise SCHULTE NORDHOLT : Perec, Modiano, Raczymow et les lieux comme ancrages de la postmémoire Bibliographie
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Brill Infiltrations d’images: De la réécriture de la fiction pastorale ibérique en France (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)
Book SynopsisInfiltrations d’images. De la réécriture de la fiction pastorale ibérique en France (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) propose une relecture actuelle de la fiction pastorale née du dialogue original entre les espaces littéraires ibérique et français: Jorge de Montemayor, Lope de Vega, Cervantès, Honoré d’Urfé, Gomberville, Du Verdier, Du Broquart…. En analysant un corpus pluriel qui couvre près de deux siècles, d’Amyot-traducteur à Prévost-traducteur, cet ouvrage met en avant le rôle prépondérant de la traduction dans l’établissement des différents modèles d’écriture en abyme (les images infiltrées) qui accompagnent l’évolution de l’écriture bucolique en France, du roman à la nouvelle galante ou à la pastorale dramatique. On tente ici de démontrer que des enjeux de convergence littéraire, historique, culturelle, sociale marquent la conception, la transposition et la lecture des Arcadies de fiction, reprises, depuis Sannazar, par Jorge de Montemayor et Honoré d’Urfé. Ainsi, plus que de présenter une confrontation circonscrite d’écritures du roman pastoral en Espagne et en France, on s’efforce de renouveler l’histoire de la légitimation du genre pastoral, de la fin du XVIe siècle jusqu’à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, dans la littérature française – et a fortiori dans la littérature européenne. L’inscription de cette nouvelle hypothèse de lecture dans le cadre d’un univers épistémologique, où « la littérature est l’épreuve de la traduction » (Meschonnic), ouvre cette étude au domaine du Poétique.Table of ContentsAvant-Propos Première Partie: Des Réécritures Chapitre I: Schémas d’images: de la représentation du texte littéraire Chapitre II: Images avant le texte: dire et montrer la réécriture en France aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles Deuxième Partie: Des Modèles de Réécritures Chapitre I: Images superposées: modèles de thématisation et expériences esthétiques Chapitre II: Images de l’inversion: modèles de canonisation Chapitre III: Images de la transposition: modèles d’autonomie esthétique Troisième Partie: De l’Écriture et du Speculum Chapitre I: Images de la subversion: multiplication de stéréoty-pes Chapitre II: Images sous l’image: la dialectique du speculum dans la fiction pastorale française Conclusion Bibliographie Index des Noms
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Brill The Original Explosion That Created Worlds : Essays on Werewere Liking’s Art and Writings
Book Synopsis“The Original Explosion That Created Worlds” is the first book entirely devoted to the Cameroonian Werewere Liking, one of the most important writers and innovative artists of post-colonial Africa. The book includes a wide-ranging collection of essays by some of Liking’s finest critics addressing her life and work, from her earlier fiction and social criticism to her later experimental drama, which has been produced on stages around the world. Several essays also look at Liking’s culture-based entrepreneurial work, in which she has attempted to establish a new economic support for African artistic expression. Liking’s excellent but little-known poetry and art criticism, her iconoclastic novels and essays are all the subject of close critical attention in particular studies. There is also consideration of the challenges that her original language and fictional forms present to a literary translator. Liking’s work has provoked an extensive commentary, in the popular press as well as in scholarly journals and her critical reception both inside and outside of Africa is carefully examined. The final important inclusions are two plays by Liking published here for the first time in English translations–Liquid Heroes and This Africa of ours... “The Original Explosion That Created Worlds”: Essays on Werewere Liking’s Art and Writings may serve as an introduction to the work of one of Africa’s most important contemporary artists and one of the most astute commentators on the position of Africa in the new century. To those already familiar with Liking’s novels, poetry, plays, criticism or other cultural work it offers an expanded and deepened understanding of her working contexts and the amazing reach of her cultural expression. The book is of necessary interest to all readers, students, and scholars of postcolonial African literatures, of translation studies, and of gender issues.Table of ContentsFor John Conteh-Morgan Acknowledgements John Conteh-Morgan and Irène Assiba d’Almeida: Introduction Art, culture, and politics Michelle Mielly: An Aesthetics of Necessity in the Age of Globalization: Village Ki-Yi as a New Social Movement Peter Hawkins: Werewere Liking and Artistic Synthesis: A Postcolonial Practice? Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi: Un-Masking the Mediator: Werewere Liking’s Flashes of Light Yvette Balana: La Parole du Mbombock : au-delà des problématiques féministe et francophone Transgressive narratives: Werewere Liking’s fictions Eloise A. Brière: Recycling the Past: Myth and History in Liking’s Work Odile Cazenave: La mémoire amputée, ou comment raconter les silences de l’Afrique Hélène Tissières: L’amour-cent-vies: dans la mouvance du voyage et des entrelacs Spectacle and Myth: Werewere Liking’s Drama Transl. Judith Miller: Werewere Liking, Liquid Heroes (Héros d’eau) Judith Miller: Liquid Heroes: A Commentary John Conteh-Morgan: The Rehearsal Is the Play: Dramatic Self- Reflexivity and This Africa of Ours… Transl. John Conteh-Morgan: Werewere Liking, This Africa of Ours…(Quelque Chose—Afrique) (excerpts) The starting point: Werewere Liking’s Poetry Joseph E. Mwantuali: Au commencement était le ver(s) Séwanou Dabla: La poésie transgénérique de Werewere Liking Translating Werewere Liking: A Synesthetic Experience Marjolijn de Jager: Translating Werewere Liking: Speaking Pictures, Seeing Words Jeanne N. Dingomé: Translating Echoes: A Joyride into Werewere Liking’s Ritual Drama Kathryn Batchelor: Translating Texts That Play: Elle sera de jaspe et de corail and its translation into English Reading Werewere Liking Irène Assiba d’Almeida: La “misovire” et la critique: La réception des œuvres de Werewere Liking Bibliography Contributors Index
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Brill Subjects Not-at-home: Forms of the Uncanny in the Contemporary French Novel: Emmanuel Carrère, Marie NDiaye, Eugène Savitzkaya
Book SynopsisSubjects Not-at-home is the first book-length study of the concept of the uncanny (Das Unheimliche) in the context of French literature. It explores the ways in which certain contemporary French novelists are exploiting the themes, imagery and dynamics of the uncanny to generate a repertoire of narrative tactics for the portrayal of the chez soi. Through an analysis of nine novels by Marie NDiaye, Eugène Savitzkaya and Emmanuel Carrère, the author reveals a developing tendency within current writing to re-appropriate figures of the strange – the double, intellectual uncertainty, the fragmented body, the spectral, the haunted house – in order to represent the ‘familiar’ spaces of the home, the family, the self and the everyday. This problematic is situated with respect to tendencies in present-day French writing, with the uncanny being viewed as a particular approach to the contemporary novel’s inclination to privilege the site of the chez soi. Readings of the literary texts are informed by philosophical, psychoanalytic and literary reinterpretations of the Freudian uncanny, with an emphasis on the historical and contextual evolution of the concept itself.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Das Unheimliche Extra-Ordinary Homes De-familiarization A Narrative Ethics of the Unhomely General Conclusion Bibliography
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Brill Reading Song Lyrics
Book SynopsisReading Song Lyrics offers the first systematic introduction to lyrics as a vibrant genre of (performed) literature. It takes lyrics seriously as a complex form of verbal art that has been unjustly neglected in literary, music, and, to a lesser degree, cultural studies, partly as it cuts squarely across institutional boundaries. The first part of this book accordingly introduces a thoroughly transdisciplinary interpretive framework. It outlines theoretical approaches to issues such as performance and performativity, generic convention and cultural capital, sound and songfulness, mediality and musical multimedia, and step by step applies them to the example of a single song. The second part then offers three extended case studies which showcase the larger cultural and historical viability of this model. Probing into the relationship between lyrics and the ambivalent performance of national culture in Britain, it offers exemplary readings of a highly subversive 1597 ayre by John Dowland, of an 1811 broadside ballad about Sara Baartman, ‘The Hottentot Venus’, and of a 2000 song by ‘jungle punk’ collective Asian Dub Foundation. Reading Song Lyrics demonstrates how and why song lyrics matter as a paradigmatic art form in the culture of modernity.Trade Review”Lars Eckstein’s Reading Song Lyrics deserves a place among the key works op popular music studies. […] the author securely combines scattered existing notions of words in songs to create a practical methodological framework for the analysis of song lyrics. […] To simply state that the book is a pleasure to read would be an understatement. It is rare to find an academic work written in such a clear and eloquent manner throughout. […] Reading Song Lyrics ranges among the best attempts yet at coming to grips with song lyrics. All the components necessary to facilitate a breakthrough in the way we analyse words in songs should now be at hand. This remarkable book has delivered its part, and in grand style.” - Yngvar B. Steinholt, Tromso University, Norway, in: The Journal of Popular Music 30.3, 2011Table of ContentsIntroduction Toward a Cultural Rhetoric of Lyrics Performativity and Performance Generic Conventions and Cultural Capital Sound and Songfulness Mediality and Musical Multimedia Bridge: Song and National Culture Case Studies: Performing Englishness Love is in the Ayre (1597) Broadsides and Backsides (1811) Toasting the English (2000) Conclusion Works Cited
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Brill Historiographie de l’antiquité et transferts culturels: Les histoires anciennes dans l’Europe des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
Book SynopsisDe Giambattista Vico à J. G. Herder et de B. G. Niebuhr à Théodore Mommsen, les essais réunis dans ce volume nous proposent des lectures stimulantes d’un certain nombre d’œuvres majeures des Lumières et de la période post-révolutionnaire. Le livre est divisé en deux parties : la première, intitulée « Questions d’historiographie » permettra aux lecteurs d’appréhender, à travers l’analyse des récits d’histoire ancienne, les mutations du discours historique pendant le XVIIIe et le XIXe siècle. La seconde partie, intitulée « Questions de transferts culturels » , porte sur la diffusion du savoir classique dans l’Europe, notamment à travers l’analyse des mécanismes de réception. Mots clés : Antiquité et Modernité, historiographie, philosophies de l’histoire, échanges culturels, usages politiques de l’histoire, identité nationale et nationalisme.Table of ContentsChryssanthi Avlami: « L’antiquité gréco-romaine vue d’ailleurs » Davide Luglio and Adriana Zangara: Giambattista Vico lecteur de l’Antiquité : une troisième voie entre Anciens et Modernes Chantal Grell: Penser l’histoire grecque et romaine en France au XVIIIe siècle : ambiguïtés et potentialités de « modèles » historiques Chryssanthi Avlami: Le modèle antique à l’épreuve du XVIIIe siècle : réflexions sur l’analogie, la différenciation et l’Histoire Giuseppe Cambiano: Herder et la jeunesse de l’Antiquité Clelia Martínez Maza: De la théologie à l’anthropologie : utilisation du paganisme gréco-romain dans l’Europe du XVIIIe siècle Claude Mossé: Un éloge inattendu de la démocratie athénienne au XVIIIe siècle : les Recherches philosophiques sur la Grèce de Cornelius de Pauw Paraskevas Matalas: Historiens et voyageurs : itinéraires modernes aux sites de l’histoire ancienne Pascal Payen: Le cosmopolitisme des nations dans l’Histoire de l’Hellénisme de Johann Gustav Droysen Ioannis Koubourlis: Les péripéties de l’intégration des anciens Macédoniens dans une « histoire de la nation grecque » Fernando Wulff Alonso: Une question historiographique ou seulement espagnole? Positions antiromaines et identités culturelles Antonio Gonzales: Auguste Castan, historien d’une ville de province au passé antique Michel Espagne: Au-delà du comparatisme. La méthode des transferts culturels Gérard Laudin: Christoph Meiners, lecteur de Montesquieu, et son traducteur dans la France révolutionnaire Oswyn Murray: Niebuhr in Britain Sotera Fornaro: Storia della religione antica tra XVIII e XIX secolo, tra Germania e Francia Jaime Alvar: L’histoire ancienne à l’Ateneo de Madrid au XIXe siècle : activités académiques et ressources bibliographiques Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg: Mommsen in Frankreich: Übersetzungen und Rezensionen Mirella Romero Recio: Les traductions sur le monde antique aux éditions La España Moderna Fernando Lozano Gómez: L’influence de la pensée de Chateaubriand dans l’Histoire générale de l’Andalousie de Joaquín Guichot y Parody Jesús Salas Álvarez: Les antiquités classiques dans l’Andalousie du siècle des Lumières Les auteurs
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Brill Reception and Memory: A Cognitive Approach to the Chansons de geste
Book SynopsisThis book is the first cognitive literary analysis in the field of medieval French literature. As such, it focuses on the question of audience in the Old French epic poems known as chansons de geste. Bringing to bear evidence from historical, literary, and manuscript sources, from the perspective of cognitive theory, Leverage demonstrates that there were multiple, complex audiences of the poems, and that common to each was a more personal, engaged, emotive relationship with the poems than has been recognized previously. Central to the audience’s experience of the poems and to the aesthetic of the genre, is memory, both in the sense of a cognitive process and as a theory that has occupied the interest of rhetoricians and philosophers from Antiquity to the present. The book is of interest to medievalists, cognitive theorists, and cognitive scientists working in memory-based text processing.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Reception of the Chansons de geste: The Medieval Model The Codicology and Transmission History of the Manuscripts Reception of the Chansons de geste: The Modern Model Medieval Memory Theory and the Epic Aesthetic A Remembering Audience An Aesthetic of Division and Repetition Repetition Effects Conclusion Bibliography Index of Manuscripts General Index
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Brill Rewriting History: Peter Carey’s Fictional Biography of Australia
Book SynopsisPeter Carey is one of the most richly awarded and critically acclaimed novelists of the present day. Most of his fictions relate to questions of Australian history and identity. Rewriting History argues that taken together Carey’s novels make up a fictional biography of Australia. The reading proposed here considers both key events in the life of the subject of Carey’s biography (such as the exploration of the interior of the continent, the dispossession of the Aborigines, the convict experience, the process of Australia’s coming of age as a postcolonial country) as well as its identity. Rewriting History demonstrates how Carey exposes the lies and deceptions that make up the traditional representations of Australian history and supplants them with a new national story – one that because of its fictional status is not bound to the rigidities of traditional historical discourse. At a time of momentous cultural change, when Australia is being transformed from a “New Britannia in another world” to a nation not merely in, but actually of the Asia-Pacific region, Carey’s fiction, this book argues, calls for the construction of a postcolonial national identity that acknowledges the wrongs of the past and gives Australians a sense of cultural orientation between their British past and their multicultural present.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the McRae Award 2011. From the Judges’ Report: "Re-writing History is an impressive tribute to Carey’s contribution to a ‘nascent mythology’ (rather than a revisionist history) via his complex fictions. Responding to the already fine and far-ranging analysis of Carey’s fiction from Australian and international scholars, Gaile is erudite in his examination of Carey’s Australian novels and their use of post-modernist literary tricks of fabulation, magic realism and metafiction. He offers a valuable re-reading of Carey’s use of these strategies as postmodernism with ‘moral concern’ tied to an ‘emancipatory vision’ of Australia’s history."Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Theoretical Premises Rewriting History: Theoretical Premises Theorizing Carey’s Fictional Biography After the Grand Narratives: From History to Mythistory Strategies of an Illywhacker (I): Replacing the Truth-Paradigm with a “Weaseling Kind of ‘Truth’” Strategies of an Illywhacker (II): Transcending Historical Reality Strategies of an Illywhacker (III): Telling History as Story Carey’s Biography of Australia: Key Events in the Life of a Nation Dissecting the Lies of Terra Nullius: The Nightmare of Aboriginal History Deconstructing Leichhardt: Peter Carey and the Explorer Myth “Decolonizing the Mind” (I): Colonial Australia “Decolonizing the Mind” (II): Postcolonial Australia Carey’s Biography of Australia: Australian Identity “Trying to Make Out the Southern Cross”, Or, The Dilemma of Australian Identity The Real Matilda: Re-Inscribing the “Pygmies” of Australian Culture Intruders in the Bush: Women in Male Domains Postscript Wrong About Carey? Reading Carey in Post-Postmodern Times Bibliography Index
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Brill The Domination of Fear
Book SynopsisThe tropes of fear, horror and terror have come to play a dominant role the analysis of contemporary social life. The predominance of fear, as the frame through which we narrativize experience, can be perceived readily echoing across various fields from theoretical research, to the mass media, to the quotidian. Despite the commonly held view that fear is a primitive and universal affect, its definition, potential value, and perceived effects vary wildly in each instance. From literary theory to psychoanalysis to politics to philosophy, this collection of research attempts to both flesh-out these tropes and to complexify them. Individually, the essays reflect a diversity of approaches to the constellation: fear, horror and terror. Taken as a whole, they produce the ground for an analysis of the dominance of fear.Table of ContentsMikko Canini: Introduction Cultural Materialisation of Fear, Horror, Terror Beth A. Kattelman: Carnographic Culture: America and the Rise of the Torture Porn Film Thomas Riegler: We’re All Dirty Harry Now: Violent Movies for Violent Times Yvonne Leffler: The Gothic Topography in Scandinavian Horror Fiction Shona Hill: Getting Medieval: Bodies of Fear, Serial Killers and Se7en Fear, Horror and Politics Ali Riza Taskale: Clash of Nihilisms Banu Baybars-Hawks: Long Term Terrorism in Turkey: The Government, Media and Public Opinion Fear, Horror and Literature Cynthia Jones: Into the Woods: Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf Lizzy Welby: Solar Midnight: Traversing the Abject Borderline State in Rudyard Kipling’s The City of Dreadful Night Maureen Moynihan: The Laughter of Horror: Judgement of the Righteous or Tool of the Devil? Simone do Vale: Trash Mob: Zombie Walks and the Positivity of Monsters in Western Popular Culture Mikko Canini: Horror and the Politics of Fear
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Brill Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews
Book SynopsisTwenty years after the fall of apartheid, South Africa is still struggling with its traumatic past. In this interdisciplinary collection of interviews, prominent South African novelists, psychologists, and academics reflect on the issues of trauma, memory, and narrative. The authors André Brink, Maxine Case, Sindiwe Magona, Susan Mann, and Zoë Wicomb recount their personal experiences of writing about trauma, discussing its literary-aesthetic relevance and potential. The psychologists Don Foster, Ashraf Kagee, Pumla Gobodo–Madikizela, and Miriam Fredericks reflect on traditional Western conceptualizations of trauma and the need to extend and even re-write trauma theory from a postcolonial perspective. In the third part, Neville Alexander and Alex Boraine look back on the achievements and shortcomings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, describe the state of the nation, and underscore the need to relocate trauma structurally and historically. Annie Gagiano, Helen Moffett, Tlhalo Raditlhalo, and Chris van der Merwe show how trauma theory can open new horizons and create a new vocabulary for literary criticism by tackling issues of gender, representation, and genre. All in all, these interviews provide fascinating insights into the present state of the South African soul, its current hopes and anxieties. Rather than claiming final answers to a complex and controversial issue, this volume aims at opening up debate and making a contribution to the already existing discussion about trauma in the South African context.Table of ContentsIntroduction Interviews with South African Authors Articulating the Inarticulate: An Interview with André Brink Washing Dirty Linen in Public: An Interview with Zoë Wicomb The Magic of Writing: An Interview with Sindiwe Magona Speaking Through Silences: An Interview with Susan Mann The Things We Still Don’t Say: An Interview with Maxine Case Interviews with South African Psychologists Political Violence, Children, and Trauma Response: An Interview with Miriam Fredericks and her Team But Even Bodies Never Speak Pure Languages: An Interview with Don Foster Testing the DSM Model in South Africa: An Interview with Ashraf Kagee Interviews with South African Academics Commissioner of Transitional Justice: An Interview with Alex Boraine Vanitas Vanitatum: An Interview with Neville Alexander A Better Past: An Interview with Pumla Gobodo–Madikizela and Chris van der Merwe ‘De-Othering’ the Perpetrator: An Interview with Annie Gagiano The Grand Narrative of Life: An Interview with Tlhalo Raditlhalo Gender Is a Matter of Life and Death: An Interview with Helen Moffett Biographical Notes Notes for Contributors
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Brill Green Man Hopkins: Poetry and the Victorian Ecological Imagination
Book SynopsisThis book, the first to consider Gerard Manley Hopkins as an ecological writer, explores the dimension that social ecology offers to an ecocriticism hitherto dominated by romantic nature writing. The case for a ‘green Hopkins’ is made through a paradigm of ‘Victorian Ecology’ that expands the scope of existing studies in Victorian literature and science. Parham argues that Hopkins developed a two-fold understanding of ecology – as a scientific philosophy constructed around ecosystems theory; and as a corresponding theory of society organised around the sustainable use of energy – as well as a corresponding poetic practice. In a radical new reading of the poems, he suggests that Hopkins translated an innovative nature poetry, in which rhythm conveyed a nature characterised by dialectical energy exchange, into a social ‘ecopoetry’ that embodied the environmental impact of Victorian ‘risk’ society on its human population. Located within a ‘Victorian ecological imagination’ that fused romanticism and pragmatism, the book views Hopkins’ work as indicating the value of reconciling a deep ecological assertion of the intrinsic value of (nonhuman) nature with social ecology’s more pragmatic attempts to critique and re-conceptualise human life.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Muddying the Waters: Towards a Humanist Ecocriticism Definitions: preservation, conservation, environmentalism, ecology ‘Deep’ versus ‘social’ ecology Deep ecocriticism Towards a social (and humanist) ecocriticism Outline of the book The Trajectory of a Victorian Ecology Re-thinking romanticism Parameters of a Victorian ecology The transition towards a Victorian ecology John Ruskin William Morris Conclusion Ways of Understanding Nature: Ecology in Hopkins’ Intellectual Formation Hopkins as not a poet of place Hopkins’ intellectual formation: three major influences Beginnings of an ecological philosophy: undergraduate essays The development of an ecological philosophy: journal writing Inscape and instress Duns Scotus and Hopkins’ ecological theology Conclusion Finding a Voice: The Development of a Sustainable Poetry The search for a contemporary style of nature writing The development of a poetic style Sprung rhythm Formation of an ecopoetic Sustainable poetry Hopkins in the Victorian World: From a Social to a Human Ecology Hopkins as a Victorian ecological critic Poems of ecological protest Hopkins, the city, and social ecopoetry Hopkins, the body, and environmental health A humanist ecopoetic Development of, and retraction from, an ecological social philosophy Bewitched by the “Spell of the Sensuous”: A Disenchanted Ecological Imagination The factors undermining an ecological philosophy Theological writing Unsustainable poetry Disenchantment Re-enchantment Bibliography Index
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Brill Apollinaire on the Edge: Modern Art, Popular Culture, and the Avant-Garde
Book SynopsisThe title of the present study refers to the fact that Apollinaire consistently worked at the cutting edge of modern aesthetics. The volume seeks to rehabilitate four experimental genres in particular that have received relatively little attention. The first chapter examines a charming artist’s book entitled The Bestiary, which features illustrations by Raoul Dufy. The second is concerned with a group of poems that celebrate ordinary, everyday life. The next chapter considers Apollinaire’s little-known debt to children’s rhymes. The final chapter discusses an avant-garde drama that was destined to play a key role in the evolution of modern French theater. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in avant-garde aesthetics. It will appeal not only to scholars of twentieth-century poetry but also to devotees of modern art and modern theater.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Contemplating The Bestiary In Search of the Whatnots Apollinaire and Children’s Rhymes The Mammaries of Tiresias Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Klabund: Sämtliche Werke, Band I: Lyrik, Dritter Teil
Table of ContentsVerzeichnis & Register der abgedruckten Gedichte Verzeichnis der abgedruckten Gedichte, Band I, Erster Teil _ Zweiter Teil _ Dritter Teil Band I Dritter Teil Kleines Klabund-Buch Lesebuch Der Leierkastenmann Der Neger Wie Ich den Sommernachtstraum im Film Sehe Einzelveröffentlichungen (1911-1928) Postume Einzelveröffentlichungen Unveröffentlichte Gedichte Register
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Brill Of Love and War: The Political Voice in the Early Plays of Aphra Behn
Book SynopsisOf Love and War: The Political Voice in the Early Plays of Aphra Behn is a study which situates Behn’s early plays within their historical and political context. Behn (c.1640-1689), the first professional female playwright in England, is a fascinating study, having traveled to Surinam as a young woman, served as a spy for Charles II, and evidently supported her family through her writing, including plays, poetry, fiction, and translation. Her early plays have often been dismissed as romances, largely because they treat such social and/or gender issues as forced marriage and female desire. This study argues that these same social issues frequently serve as tropes for political commentary and propaganda in support of foreign and domestic policies. Behn’s plays clearly demonstrate staunch loyalist support of the Stuart government, yet within the dramatic construction, she—like her contemporary male colleagues, offers fascinating covert political criticism.Table of ContentsIntroduction Romance, Restoration, and Exclusion in The Young King: or, The Mistake High, Bold Rebells and Phantastick Courtiers in The Forc’d Marriage, or The Jealous Bridegroom Sexual Deviance and Universal Order in The Amorous Prince, or, The Curious Husband The Rake, the Whore, and the Third Dutch War in The Dutch Lover Bleeding Hearts and Killing Darts in Abdelazer, or The Moor’s Revenge Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index
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Brill A Recipe for Discourse: Perspectives on Like Water for Chocolate
Book SynopsisSlender and yet panoramic in scope, historical and yet relevant to current-day concerns, Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate has provoked from the outset a divergent range of critical opinions. The essays in A Recipe for Discourse: Perspectives on Like Water for Chocolate represent the novel’s problematic nature in their many diverse approaches, perspectives that are certain to awaken in the reader new ways of approaching the text while challenging old ones. This volume’s ‘dialogue’ format, in which essays are grouped thematically, is particularly effective in presenting such a diverse range of viewpoints. The reader will find herein lively discussion on LWFC as it relates to such themes as gastronomy, superstition, mythology, folklore, the Mexican Revolution, magical realism, female identity, alteration, and matriarchy/ patriarchy. It is the editor’s hope that a diverse readership, from undergraduate students to seasoned scholars, will find this volume engaging and enlightening.Trade Review”The multitude of scholarly positions is thought-provoking. […] In sum, Skipper’s A Recipe for Discourse: Perspectives on Like Water for Chocolate succeeds in illuminating how Esquivel’s novel and movie provoke discourse and dialogue from across disciplines.” - Jason Meyler, Marquette University, USA, in: Hispania, Vol. 95.2, June 2012, pp. 359-361Table of ContentsAcknowledgements General Editor’s Preface Preface LWFC and Gender Issues Tina Escaja: Women, Alterity and Mexican Identity in Como Agua para Chocolate Jorge J. Barrueto: Like Water for Chocolate: Cinematic Patriarchy and Tradition Jerry Hoeg: Like Water for Chocolate and Human Nature LWFC, Magical Realism and the Critical Response to its Use Jay Corwin: Like Water for Chocolate and the Art of Criticism Mónica Zapata: Under the Sign of Hyperbole: Magical Realism and Melodrama in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate LWFC and the Cinderella Myth Cherie Meacham: Como Agua para Chocolate: Cinderella and the Revolution Victoria Martinez: Myth and Marginalization in Como Agua para Chocolate Rabelaisian Appetites and Gastronomy in LWfC Amelia Chaverri: Female Rebellion and Carnival: Like Water for Chocolate Ellyn Lem: Chile Conquest: Like Water for Chocolate’s ‘Revolutionary’ Impact on Perceptions of Mexican Food in the United States LWFC and the Mexican Revolution María Teresa Martínez-Ortiz: National Myths of Archetypal Imagery in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate Eric Skipper: The Mexican Revolution as an active Participant in Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate Abstracts of Arguments About the Authors Index
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