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Book SynopsisArchitectures of Poetry is the first comprehensive accounting of the currently intense dialogue between the sister arts of poetry and architecture. Refusing to take either term in a metaphoric sense, the eleven essays collected in this volume exemplify an exciting methodological direction for work in the humanities: a literal wager that is willing to take the unintended suggestions of language as reality. At the same time, they also provide close readings of the work of a number of important writers. In addition to a suite of essays devoted to the team of Arakawa and Madeline Gins, chapters focus on figures as diverse as Francesco Borromini, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stéphane Mallarmé, Friedrich Achleitner, John Cage and Lyn Hejinian.Table of ContentsCraig DWORKIN: Introduction: Against Metaphor (construye en lo ausente) Jed RASULA: “When the mind is like a hall”: Places of a Possible Poetics Gregg BIGLIERI: Sublime Façade: Borromini’s Oratorio and the Presentation of Radical Exteriority A.S. BESSA: Vers: Une Architecture Tyrus MILLER : Concrete Dialects, Spatial Dialectics : Friedrich Achleitner as Poet and Architectural Historian Michel DELVILLE: How Not to Die in Venice: The Art of Arakawa and Madeline Gins Steve McCAFFERY: Parapoetics and the Architectural Leap Karen Mac CORMACK: MUTUAL LABYRINTH: a proposal of exchange Jeff DERKSEN: “The Obvious Analogy Is With [Architecture]”: Megastructural My Life Marjorie PERLOFF: John Cage’s Dublin, Lyn Hejinian’s Leningrad John Cage’s Dublin, Lyn Hejinian’s Leningrad: Poetic Cities as Cyberspaces María Eugenia DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ: Coda

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Book SynopsisCe livre donne pour la toute première fois un aperçu de la littérature française à contraintes en prose. Contrairement à un préjugé tenace, écrire à contraintes n’est pas seulement une pratique poétique, mais touche également au genre apparemment le plus « libre » qui soit, le roman. Combinant analyse théorique et microlecture stylistique, le présent ouvrage passe en revue l’essentiel des auteurs et des livres qui explorent ce domaine, parfois très connu (Jacques Roubaud, Claude Ollier, Robert Pinget, par exemple), parfois plus confidentiel (Jean Lahougue, Bernard Colin, Jean-Benoit Puech, notamment). Dans le sillage du travail réalisé par Jan Baetens dans le cadre de Formules, la revue des littératures à contraintes, cette étude s’intéresse aussi de très près à toute une série de figures rhétoriques dont le roman à contraintes fait un usage systématique.Table of ContentsSommaire Introduction : la contrainte et la question du roman 1ère partie Un « auteur » à contraintes atypique : Jean-Benoît Puech 2e partie L’apprentissage de la contrainte : le discours analogique 3e partie Autour du Nouveau Roman 4e partie Du roman à la prose 5e partie Sujet, hors-sujet, non-sujet Conclusion : de la contrainte au texte Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisSchlägt man ein willkürliches Handbuch der deutschen Literatur aus dem 19. Jahrhundert auf, so begegnet man Namen, die nur noch wenige kennen. Eine solche Begegnung kann ein Schock sein. Was hat man nicht alles versäumt? Hat man das Glück, über eine (ur)großelterliche Bibliothek zu verfügen, ist man erstaunt, wenn man außer den Namen etablierter Klassiker, wie Goethe, Schiller, Heine oder Lenau, in weit größerer Zahl Werke antrifft, die der bürgerlichen Bildungstradition des 19. und des anfangenden 20. Jahrhunderts ihren Stempel aufgedrückt haben, manchmal sogar in zwanzigbändigen, schmucken Ausgaben. Da trifft man auf Namen wie Felix Dahn, Paul Heyse, Waldemar Bonsels, Otto Flake und Otto Roquette. An ihrer Seite treten im 19. Jahrhundert schon andere Autoren in Erscheinung, die den konservativen Kräften entgegenwirkten und sich energisch für eine neue Gesellschaft und eine neue Literatur einsetzten. Im 20. Jahrhundert ist eine ähnliche Entwicklung wahrzunehmen, anfangend mit den Expressionisten, unter denen es auch „Vergessene“ und „poetae minores“ gibt, die an der Geschichte ihrer Zeit aber mit neuer Innerlichkeit teil hatten und einen Ansturm gegen die Grenzen der tradierten Literatur unternahmen. Die Literaturgeschichte sichtet und beseitigt. Ob dieses Sichten und Unsichtbarmachen mit Recht geschehen ist, bildet die Kernfrage dieses Buches.Table of ContentsZum Geleit Claudia ERDHEIM: Karl Emil Franzos (1848–1904) Klaus-Peter MÖLLER: Hoffnung auf den Geistesfrühling. Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow (1811–1878) Martin A. HAINZ: Mehr als ein Syndrom zu Leopold von Sacher Masoch (1836–1895) Peter RIETBERGEN: Besinnung auf Felix Dahn Hans ESTER: Otto Roquette kam zur rechten Zeit Guillaume van GEMERT: Der Dichter als Identifikationsfigur national-kultureller Eigenständigkeit. Zu Adam Müller-Guttenbrunns Lenau-Trilogie (1919–1921) Peter DELVAUX: Otto Flake Martin A. HAINZ: Verhaltenes Ermöglichen – Zu Alfred Margul-Sperber (1898–1967) Peter DELVAUX: Waldemar Bonsels Hanna DELF VON WOLZOGEN: Wir ziehen ja doch an einem Strang. Gustav Landauer, ein einsamer Grenzgänger und Europäer Thomas EICHER: Grandseigneur und mehr: Alexander Lernet Holenia (1897–1976) Lars KOCH: Vom Erzählen ohne Zentrum zum Schweben des Denkens – Friedo Lampes Roman Am Rande der Nacht Christiaan JANSSEN: Der Kulturvermittler Friedrich Markus Huebner: Kunst, Literatur und die richtige Lebensführung Julia BERTSCHIK: „Kolportageliteratur mit Hintergründen“. Zur Problematik literarischer Wertung am Beispiel von Vicki Baum (1888–1960) Kerstin SCHOOR: Der Journalist und Schriftsteller Leo Hirsch (1903–1943) Henk J. KONING: Ernst von Houwalds Epik Waltraud ›Wara‹ WENDE: Grenzerfahrungen und Sprachlosigkeit der Protagonisten in der Novellensammlung Nächte von Carl Hauptmann Gerhard LEYERZAPF: „Verhängnis Amsterdam“. Grete Weils Schicksal in ihrem Werk Natalia W. PESTOVA: Wilhelm Runge: „Das Denken träumt“ Jattie ENKLAAR: Sophie van Leer (1892–1953): „Und gleich einem Blitz ist eines Tages die Erkenntnis in mein Hirn geschlagen“ Lotti de WOLF-PFÄNDLER: Johanna Spyri (1827–1901). Anlässlich einer neueren Biographie Karl W.J.M. TAX: Nachruf auf Professor Dr. Gilbert A.R. De Smet Abstracts Die Autoren und Herausgeber

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Book SynopsisLa publication de la Dissertation sur les causes de l’universalité de la langue françoise de Johann Christoph Schwab (1784), traduction et appendices de Denis Robelot (1803), permet de redécouvrir un ouvrage qui, au-delà de sa richesse linguistique et culturelle, est aussi un document historique. Le texte et sa traduction se rattachent à deux moments décisifs de l’histoire de deux pays voisins : l’Allemagne des années 1780, qui recherche son identité politique et intellectuelle à l’ombre de la France de Louis XIV et de Voltaire, et la France d’entre deux siècles, convalescente mais avide de se rétablir et de retrouver la grandeur d’un passé légendaire. A la différence de ce que croit la tradition, c’était l’ouvrage de Schwab, et non celui d’Antoine de Rivarol, qui, initialement, a été primé par le jury du concours de l’Académie des Sciences et des Belles-Lettres de Berlin (1782/1784). En outre, malgré son estime pour la France, Schwab a prévu et expliqué d’avance le triomphe de la langue anglaise que l’on connaît aujourd’hui. L’ample étude de Freeman Henry qui précède les textes est une mise au point qui permet au lecteur d’interpréter événements et concepts à la lumière des valeurs politico-culturelles d’une époque cruciale.Table of ContentsFreeman G. HENRY: Avant-Propos. Schwab / Robelot / Rivarol : une étude Denis ROBELOT: Avertissement du traducteur Johann Christoph SCHWAB : Lettre sur la traduction Préface « Dissertation sur les causes de l’universalité de la langue françoise et la durée vraisemblable de son empire » (Traduction de Denis Robelot) Preuves et Éclaircissemens Denis ROBELOT : Observations du traducteur sur l’universalité de la langue françoise au moyen âge

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Book SynopsisAlchemy and Amalgamexplores a relatively un-researched area of the Baudelairean corpus (his translations from English) and relates them to the rest of his works. It seeks to establish a link between translational and creative writing, arguing for a reassessment of the place of translation in Baudelaire’s writing method. Rather than a sideline in Baudelaire’s creative activities, translation is thus shown to be a central form of dual writing at the core of his works. Baudelaire’s translations from English, his constant rewriting of pre-existing material (including his own), the doublets, the transpositions d’art, and the art criticism are all based on an approach to writing which is essentially derivative but also transformative. Thus the Baudelairean experiment illustrates the limits of romantic notions of originality, creativity and genius, reminding us that all writing is intrinsically intertextual. It also shows the complexity of translation as a form of creation at the core of modern writing. The book is one of the first of its kind to link the study the translational activity of a major writer to his ‘creative’ writings. It is also one of the first to provide an integrated presentation of French 19th-century translation approaches and to link them to questions of copyright and authorship in the context of the rise of capitalism and romantic views of creation and genius. It offers, therefore, a new perspective both on translation history and on literary history. Alchemy and Amalgam will be of interest to students of translation, comparative literature and French studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: ‘L’amour du métier’? Baudelaire’s approaches to translation Chapter 2: Translation in 19th-century France Chapter 3: Translation and creation in Un Mangeur d’opium Chapter 4: Le ‘procès baudelairien’. Baudelaire and literary property Chapter 5: Baudelaire’s aesthetics of amalgame Chapter 6: The limits of translation? Conclusion: Translation as metaphor? Appendix A: Chronology of Baudelaire’s translations Appendix B: Annotated extract from Un Mangeur d’opium Appendix C: Literary Property Law of 19 July 1793 Appendix D: ‘Le Joujou du pauvre’ / Morale du joujou Bibliography Index of source authors and translations

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Book SynopsisTranscultural Graffiti reads a range of texts – prose, poetry, drama – in several European languages as exemplars of diasporic writing. The book scrutinizes contemporary transcultural literary creation for the manner in which it gives hints about the teaching of literary studies in our postcolonial, globalizing era. Transcultural Graffiti suggest that cultural work, in particular transcultural work, assembles and collates material from various cultures in their moment of meeting. The teaching of such cultural collage in the classroom should equip students with the means to reflect upon and engage in cultural ‘bricolage’ themselves in the present day. The texts read – from Césaire’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Tempest, via the diaspora fictions of Marica Bodrožic or David Dabydeen, to the post-9/11 poetry of New York poets – are understood as ‘graffiti’-like inscriptions, the result of fleeting encounters in a swiftly changing public world. Such texts provide impulses for a performative ‘risk’ pedagogy capable of modelling the ways in which our constitutive individual and social narratives are constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed today.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface: Transcultural Graffiti Part One: Positions 1 Classrooms in transcultural texts – Transcultural texts in the classroom 2 Postcolonial ‘bricolage’ Part Two: Translation 3 Genetic Translation: Böll’s translation of Patrick White 4 Césaire’s Bard: From Shakespeare’s Tempest to Césaire’s Une Tempête 5 Teaching Nomadism: Inter/Cultural Studies in the Context of Translation Studies Part Three: Autobiography 6 Triangulating the Self: Turner Hospital, Hoffman and Sante 7 Bura Part Four: Indigenous Studies 8 Listening to Indigenous Voices: The Ethics of Reading in the Teaching of Australian Indigenous Oral Narrative Part Five: Teaching 9 ‘(Mis)Taking the Chair’: The Text of Pedagogy and the Postcolonial Reader 10 Writing the Disaster: New York Poets on 9/11 Conclusion: What is your name? Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe study of resistance developed here, by Dr Esther Rowlands, consists of a fresh interrogation of the notion of resistance discourse. Here, for the first time, this detailed study of selected, wartime texts produced by Francis Ponge, Benjamin Péret, Henri Michaux and Antonin Artaud, compiled between 1936 and 1946, presents a specific critique of resistance which investigates the possibility for opposition and subversion to take place without direct allusion to the object of resistance. This investigation questions the criteria according to which literature is perceived as being ‘resistant’ and suggests that historical and political referentiality may be deemed retaliative and reactionary, thereby risking replication of the dominant order. The relationship between language and power structures is elucidated through allusion to modern theorists Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, Ross Chambers and Françoise Proust. The necessary framework for a study of the poetic voice draws upon aspects of the post-structuralist work of Jacques Derrida and Giles Deleuze, incorporating specific theories expounded by the Surrealist leader, André Breton. The works of the above theorists are foundational to this new critique of poetic discourse which, when applied by Dr Esther Rowlands, to the wartime works of the four named writers, suggests that language itself may be recognised as a locus of resistance. This book is designed to be of interest both to undergraduates and to researchers studying Surrealism, Second World Wartime Literature and Critical Theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Surrealist Position Chapter Two: The Resistant Ponge Chapter Three: The Resistant Péret Chapter Four: The Resistant Michaux Chapter Five: The Resistant Artaud Conclusion Bibliography of Works Consulted

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Book SynopsisDeux constats appliqués à l’œuvre de Claude Simon sont au fondement de cette étude. En premier lieu, il convient de donner toute sa force à la conception simonienne de l’écriture comme fabrication ; en second lieu, de mesurer l’ampleur des échos tissés de livre en livre et qui érigent lentement le « portrait d’une mémoire ». Embrassant l’ensemble des romans simoniens, nous nous proposons d’analyser les enjeux de ces retours, aux manifestations protéiformes. Intimement liée à la poétique romanesque, la répétition ne l’est pas moins de l’imaginaire ; jamais reprise stricte à l’identique, elle implique différence et variation. Se donnent alors à voir nombre de tensions constitutives qui travaillent l’ensemble scriptural, de la phrase à l’œuvre entière. Dès lors, si la syntaxe tout autant que la structure tendent à la circularité, ce retour parfait que dessine le cercle est bientôt compliqué : il se tord, se distend, se déploie. Nous voulons suivre cette arabesque et nous mettre à l’écoute de son chant.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapitre I : Visible Chapitre II : Lisible Chapitre III : Indicible Chapitre IV : Mouvement Chapitre V : Imaginaire Chapitre VI : Retour Chapitre VII : Recyclage Conclusion Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisTerritoires et terres d’histoires - perspectives, horizons, jardins secrets dans la littérature française d’aujourd’hui est un recueil qui se veut panoramique et explorateur, donnant sa part à l’analyse approfondie aussi bien qu’au plaisir des découvertes et des surprises. Les choix judicieux des différents spécialistes permettent de combiner des synthèses équilibrées et des aventures de lecture originales. Parcours fléchés, promenades guidées, randonnées suggérées: marcheurs de grand chemin, baladeurs du dimanche et coureurs de fond peuvent y trouver des excursions à leur goût. Au programme : Michel Houellebecq et Frédéric Beigbeder; Jean-Christophe Grangé; Benoît Peeters; François Bon; Antoine Volodine; Christine Angot; Hélène Cixous; Pierre Bergounioux; Olivier Rolin; Sylvie Germain; Marie Darrieussecq; Tanguy Viel; Alain Robbe-Grillet; Pascal Quignard; Richard Millet; Henri Raczymow; Gaétan Soucy; Lionel Trouillot.Table of ContentsIntroduction Sabine van WESEMAEL : L’esprit fin de siècle dans l’œuvre de Michel Houellebecq et de Frédéric Beigbeder Jeanette den TOONDER : L’autoreprésentation dans une époque massmédiatisée : le cas Angot Sjef HOUPPERMANS : Perspectives du roman policier : l’abîme des sens dans Les Rivières pourpres de Jean-Christophe Grangé Jorden VELDHUIJSEN : Tigre en papier d’Olivier Rolin : un « imbroglio d’histoires » Mariska KOOPMAN-THURLINGS : Immensités de Sylvie Germain : l’évolution spirituelle de Prokop Poupa et la pensée de Levinas Dominique VIART : François Bon : écrire les fractures du monde Richard SAINT-GELAIS : Le polytexte Volodine Jan BAETENS : Mr Peeters, I presume? Portrait d’un pervers polymorphe de l’écriture Christa STEVENS : Hélène Cixous et le livre indécidable : Manhattan Fieke SCHOOTS : Le bien et Le Mal de mer de Marie Darrieussecq Frank WAGNER : « C’est à moi que tu parles ? » Allocutaires et auditeurs dans Le Black Note de Tanguy Viel Holden LIEVESTRO : Quand Robbe-Grillet reprend la perversion Christine BOSMAN DELZONS : Terrasse à Rome de Pascal Quignard : un portrait en éclats Aline MURA-BRUNEL : Richard Millet : entre les ombres et les vivants Cora REITSMA-LA BRUJEERE : Miette de Pierre Bergounioux, le récit d’un monde oublié Annelies SCHULTE NORDNOLT : Henry Raczymov romancier : judéité et modernité Danièle de RUYTER-TOGNOTTI / Marloes POIESZ : Le récit d’enfants et la double lecture : Gaétan Soucy, La Petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes, et Lionel Trouillot, Les Enfants des héros Liste des auteurs

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Book SynopsisThe collapse of the supposedly ‘civilized’ German nation into the ‘barbarism’ of Hitler’s Third Reich has cast a long shadow over interpretations of German culture and society. In the remarkable work of Norbert Elias, himself a refugee from Nazi Germany, a deep concern with the distinctiveness of ‘the Germans’ is linked with an ambitious attempt to work out more general relations between broad historical processes – patterns of state formation, changing social structures – and the character of the individual self, as evidenced in changing thresholds of shame and embarrassment. In critical engagement with Elias’s notion of the ‘civilizing process’, the essays collected here explore moments of excess and transgression, moments when the very boundaries of ‘civilization’ are both constructed and challenged. Inter-disciplinary contributions – on topics ranging from medieval laughter, cursing and swearing, through to music, the bourgeois self, and aspects of modern violence – highlight the complexity of inter-relations between the individual imagination and creativity, on the one hand, and the brute facts of political power and social structural inequalities, on the other; and develop new insights into the changing patterns of culture and society in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present.Trade Review”….unique collection of essays” in: Germanic Studies Review, Vol. 31, No. 3Table of ContentsMary FULBROOK: Introduction: The Character and Limits of the Civilizing Process Sebastian COXON: Laughter and the Process of Civilization in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival Geraldine HORAN: (Un-)Civilized Language: The Regulation of Cursing and Swearing in German through the Ages Martin SWALES: Civilization, Un-Civilization, Transgression: On Goethe’s Faust Susanne KORD: The Pre-Colonial Imagination: Race and Revolution in Literature of the Napoleonic Period Mark HEWITSON: Violence and Civilization: Transgression in Modern Wars Ernest SCHONFIELD: Civilization in the Dining Room: Table Manners in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks Maiken UMBACH: The Civilizing Process and the Construction of the Bourgeois Self: Music Chambers in Wilhelmine Germany Stephanie BIRD: Norbert Elias, the Confusions of Törleß and the Ethics of Shamelessness Mererid Puw DAVIES: Bodily Issues: The West German Anti-Authoritarian Movement and the Semiotics of Dirt Mary FULBROOK: Changing States, Changing Selves: Generations in the Third Reich and the GDR

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Book SynopsisCe volume réunit un ensemble d’études sur et autour de la médiologie de Régis Debray. Il présente l’avantage de comporter des essais explicatifs clairs et précis sur la théorie et la pratique médiologiques par des médiologues eux-mêmes (Régis Debray, Daniel Bougnoux et Louise Merzeau). L’ouvrage comprend également des analyses sur la réception de la médiologie, notamment aux Etats-Unis, ainsi qu’une série d’articles qui situent la médiologie dans le contexte plus large des disciplines dites connexes, notamment la sémiologie, l’anthropologie, les media studies et cultural studies d’inspiration anglo-américaine, la culture internet et le post-média. Cet ensemble d’études « médio-média » fait le point aussi bien sur le personnage de Régis Debray que sur le chantier médiologique qu’il a initié. Un ouvrage utile pour toute personne qui s’interesse à la question essentielle de la transmission culturelle.Table of ContentsStéphane SPOIDEN: Médio-Média – Introduction La médiologie par les médiologues: Régis DEBRAY: Où en est-on « vingt ans après ? » Daniel BOUGNOUX: La condition médiologique Louise MERZEAU: Penser la médiation Médio/Sémio/Média Nathalie ROELENS: Sémiotique et médiologie : frères de lait, plus que jamais Pierre LÉVY: Pour une langue de l’intelligence collective Olivier BLONDEAU: « Become the Media ! » Du post-media au médiascape Régis Debray et la médiologie en Amérique Wayne WOODWARD: Dialogue transatlantique : Harold Innis, James Carey et le project médiologique Stéphane SPOIDEN: Les rendez-vous manqués : de la médiologie en Amérique Jeffrey MEHLMAN: Du tour néo-conservateur dans la pensée française : reflexions d’un ami américain Entretien avec Régis Debray Stéphane SPOIDEN: Propos sur la médiologie – entretien avec Régis Debray Résumés

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Book SynopsisLa Bataille du soliloque reconstitue la genese de ce qu'il faut bien appeler le bilinguisme de Beckett. Or, toute genese est une proposition theorique, evidemment dependante du sens que l'on donne au sens du mot "bilinguisme"; c'est pourquoi il est bon de dire d'emblee que ce qui fait la force et l'originalite de l'hypothese ici defendue, c'est au fond une definition forte du bilinguisme. Du bilinguisme de Beckett. [...] Chiara Montini parle donc resolument, et justement, d'une poetique bilingue. C'est-a-dire d'un projet d'ecrivain qui aurait choisi, a un moment donne de sa carriere (La Bataille du soliloque reconstitue ce moment) non une autre langue, mais deux langues. Car finalement, on le sait bien, entre l'anglais et le francais, Beckett n'a jamais choisi. Il n'a jamais cesse de pratiquer l'une et l'autre langues. Et meme, contrairement a une idee assez repandue, l'une et l'autre en meme temps. Le sens du mot " genese " doit donc etre mis en rapport avec cette pratique d'ecriture absolument inouie. Chiara Montini distingue trois periodes dans l' uvre, la derniere (le bilinguisme) constituant une sorte d'aboutissement qu'on peut dire logique meme s'il est vrai qu'il perturbe de fond en comble le paysage poetique du siecle. Bruno ClementTrade ReviewLa Bataille du soliloque reconstitue la genèse de ce qu’il faut bien appeler le bilinguisme de Beckett. Or, toute genèse est une proposition théorique, évidemment dépendante du sens que l’on donne au sens du mot 'bilinguisme'; c’est pourquoi il est bon de dire d’emblée que ce qui fait la force et l’originalité de l’hypothèse ici défendue, c’est au fond une définition forte du bilinguisme. Du bilinguisme de Beckett. […] Chiara Montini parle donc résolument, et justement, d’une poétique bilingue. C’est-à-dire d’un projet d’écrivain qui aurait choisi, à un moment donné de sa carrière (La Bataille du soliloque reconstitue ce moment) non une autre langue, mais deux langues. Car finalement, on le sait bien, entre l’anglais et le français, Beckett n’a jamais choisi. Il n’a jamais cessé de pratiquer l’une et l’autre langues. Et même, contrairement à une idée assez répandue, l’une et l’autre en même temps. Le sens du mot 'genèse' doit donc être mis en rapport avec cette pratique d’écriture absolument inouïe. Chiara Montini distingue trois périodes dans l’œuvre, la dernière (le bilinguisme) constituant une sorte d’aboutissement qu’on peut dire logique même s’il est vrai qu’il perturbe de fond en comble le paysage poétique du siècle. – Bruno ClémentTable of ContentsPréface de Bruno Clément : Logique du bilinguisme Introduction Chapitre I: Le monolinguisme polyglotte (1929-1937) Première partie : les essais critiques Deuxième partie : la fiction destructrice Troisième partie : vers le bilinguisme anglophone Chapitre II: Le bilinguisme anglophone (1939-1945) Première partie : l’exil et la transition Deuxième partie : Watt Troisième partie : une rencontre exceptionnelle. Quatrième partie : comment « mettre à mal » la langue Chapitre III: Le bilinguisme francophone (1946-1953) Première partie : Mercier et Camier Deuxième partie : les mots, les personnages Troisième partie : représentations, réécriture, traduction Conclusions et ouvertures Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisDans 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.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapitre 1 : L’écriture de l’histoire : la schématisation des rôles pour la promotion d’un nouvel héroïsme Chapitre 2 : Les stratégies de la persuasion : du commentaire et du dialogue comme formes privilégiées de la manipulation Chapitre 3 : Fragilité de la postérité : l’influence de Rousseau Chapitre 4 : Le procès du philosophe : les difficultés du jugement Chapitre 5 : Surmonter la crise : des issues de secours à la fondation d’un nouveau rapport au lecteur Conclusion Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisThis 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.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction On Textual Genesis, Translation and Resurrection Claudine GROSSIR: George Sand: la genèse des fins de romans Stephen GODDARD: Flaubert, Apuleius and Ovid: The Genesis of a Recurring Theme Larry DUFFY: Perdue en traduction: Translation, Betrayal and Death in Mérimée’s Carmen David EVANS: Le Tombeau de la Poésie: Strategies of Textual Resurrection in Mallarmé and Banville Narratives of Birth and Death Peter COGMAN: Wilde’s Salomé: Tenses, Tension and Progression in Salomé’s Final Monologue Isabelle MICHELOT: Figures de l’artiste et comédiens du réel: de la difficile naissance à l’implacable mort dans La Comédie humaine Barbara GIRAUD: Soeur Philomène ou comment la mort s’invite à l’hôpital Kiera VACLAVIK: Death for Beginners: Nineteenth-Century Katabatic Narratives for Young Readers Problematizing Maternity and Femininity Maria SCOTT: Stendhal’s Rebellious Mothers and the Fight Against Death-by-Maternity Catherine DUBEAU: La Mort de Madame de Vernon et les deux dénouements de Delphine: invention romanesque et réminiscences maternelles chez Madame de Staël Carmen K. MAYER-ROBIN: Midwifery and Malpractice in Fécondité: Zola’s Fictional History of Problematical Maternities Nathalie DUMAS: L’Érotisme cristallin de Théophile Gautier: étude de la figure de la ‘morte amoureuse’ dans les contes fantastiques Aestheticizing Bodily Death Philippe BERTHIER: L’Évangile de la pourriture selon Saint Huysmans: Lydwine de Schiedam Isabelle DROIT: Une esthétique de la mort au dix-neuvième siècle: Alphonse Daudet Pascal CARON: Selon Max Nordau: le poème naturel du corps de Mallarmé Claire MORAN: The Aesthetics of Self-Skeletonization in James Ensor Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOffering essays from some of the leading academic writers and younger scholars in the field of American studies from both the United States and Europe, this volume constitutes a rich and varied reconsideration of Modernist American poetry. Its contributions fall into two general categories: new and original discussions of many of the principal figures of the movement (Frost, Pound, Eliot, Williams, Cummings and Stevens) and reflections on the phenomenon of Modernism within a broader cultural context (the influence of Haiku, parallels and connections with Surrealism, responses to the Modernist accomplishment by later American poets). Because of its mixture of European and American perspectives, Modernism Revisited will be of vital interest to students and scholars of American literature and Modernism in general and of twentieth-century comparative literature and art.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Paul Scott DERRICK: Introduction I. Reflections on Modernity: The Aura of Modernism Marjorie PERLOFF: The Aura of Modernism II. Transgressing Boundaries: Some Modernists Revisited Barry AHEARN: Frost’s Sonnets, In and Out of Bounds Hélène AJI: Pound and Williams: The Letters as Modernist Manifesto Zhaoming QIAN: Pao-hsien Fang and the Naxi Rites in Ezra Pound’s Cantos Viorica PATEA: T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and the Poetics of the Mythical Method Isabelle ALFANDARY: Poetry as Ungrammar in E. E. Cummings’ Poems Bart EECKHOUT: Wallace Stevens’ Poetry of Resistance III. Strategies of Renewal: Modernism in a Broader Context Gudrun M. GRABHER: In Search of Words for “Moon-Viewing”: The Japanese Haiku and the Skepticism towards Language in Modernist American Poetry Ernesto SUÁREZ-TOSTE: Spontaneous, not Automatic: William Carlos Williams versus Surrealist Poetics Manuel BRITO: Instances of the Journey Motif through Language and Selfhood in some Modernist American Poets Heinz ICKSTADT: For Love and Language: The Poetry of Robert Creeley Charles ALTIERI: Modernist Realism and Lowell’s Confessional Style Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisNational identity is not some naturally given or metaphysically sanctioned racial or territorial essence that only needs to be conceptualised or spelt out in discursive texts; it emerges from, takes shape in, and is constantly defined and redefined in individual and collective performances. It is in performances—ranging from the scenarios of everyday interactions to ‘cultural performances’ such as pageants, festivals, political manifestations or sports, to the artistic performances of music, dance, theatre, literature, the visual and culinary arts and more recent media—that cultural identity and a sense of nationhood are fashioned. National identity is not an essence one is born with but something acquired in and through performances. Particularly important here are intercultural performances and transactions, and that not only in a colonial and postcolonial dimension, where such performative aspects have already been considered, but also in inner-European transactions. ‘Englishness’ or ‘Britishness’ and Italianità, the subject of this anthology, are staged both within each culture and, more importantly, in joint performances of difference across cultural borders. Performing difference highlights differences that ‘make a difference’; it ‘draws a line’ between self and other—boundary lines that are, however, constantly being redrawn and renegotiated, and remain instable and shifting.Table of ContentsManfred PFISTER: Introduction: Performing National Identity 1. Early Modern Literary Exchanges Werner VON KOPPENFELS: ‘Stripping up his sleeves like some juggler’: Giordano Bruno in England, or, The Philosopher as Stylistic Mountebank Ralf HERTEL: ‘Mine Italian brain ’gan in your duller Britain operate most vilely’: Cymbeline and the Deconstruction of Anglo-Italian Differences 2. Italian and English Art in Dialogue John PEACOCK: Inigo Jones and the Reform of Italian Art Alison YARRINGTON: ‘Made in Italy’: Sculpture and the Staging of National Identities at the International Exhibition of 1862 3. Travelling Images Barbara SCHAFF: Italianised Byron – Byronised Italy Fabienne MOINE: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Italian Poetry: Constructing National Identity and Shaping the Poetic Self Stephen GUNDLE: The ‘Bella Italiana’ and the ‘English Rose’: Reflections on Two National Typologies of Feminine Beauty 4. Political Negotiations Pamela NEVILLE-SINGTON: Sex, Lies, and Celluloid: That Hamilton Woman and British Attitudes towards the Italians from the Risorgimento to the Second World War Peter VASSALLO: Italian Culture versus British Pragmatics: The Maltese Scenario David FORGACS: Gramsci’s Notion of the ‘Popular’ in Italy and Britain: A Tale of Two Cultures 179 Carla DENTE: Personal Memory / Cultural Memory: Identity and Difference in Scottish-Italian Migrant Theatre 5. Contemporary Mediations Claudio VISENTIN: The Theatre of the World: British-Italian Identities on the Tourism Stage Judith MUNAT: Bias and Stereotypes in the Media: The Performance of British and Italian National Identities Sara SONCINI: Re-locating Shakespeare: Cultural Negotiations in Italian Dubbed Versions of Romeo and Juliet Mariangela TEMPERA: Something to Declare: Italian Avengers and British Culture in La ragazza con la pistola and Appuntamento a Liverpool Anthony KING: English Fans and Italian Football: Towards a Transnational Relationship Greg WALKER: Selling England (and Italy) by the Pound: Performing National Identity in the First Phase of Progressive Rock: Jethro Tull, King Crimson, and PFM Gisela ECKER: Zuppa Ingleseand Eating up Italy: Intercultural Feasts and Fantasies Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth century. Gersdorf argues that the integration of the desert into America catered to the entire spectrum of ideological and political responses to the history and culture of the US, maintaining that the Americanization of this landscape was and continues to be staged within the idiomatic parameters and in reaction to the discursive authority of four spatial metaphors: garden, wilderness, Orient, and heterotopia.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mapping the (Critical) Territory I. Garden II. Orient III. Wilderness IV. Heterotopia Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Sade at one end of the nineteenth century to Freud at the other, via many French novelists and poets, pleasure and pain become ever more closely entwined. Whereas the inseparability of these themes has hitherto been studied from isolated perspectives, such as psychoanalysis, sadism and sado-masochism, melancholy, or post-structuralist textual jouissance, the originality of this collaborative volume lies in its exploration of how pleasure and pain function across a broader range of contexts. The essays collected here demonstrate how the complex relationship between pleasure and pain plays a vital role in structuring nineteenth-century thinking in prose fiction (Balzac, Flaubert, Musset, Maupassant, Zola), verse and the memoir as well as socio-cultural studies, medical discourses, aesthetic theory and the visual arts. Featuring an international selection of contributors representing the full range of approaches to scholarship in nineteenth-century French studies – historical, literary, cultural, art historical, philosophical, and sociopolitical – the volume attests to the vitality, coherence and interdisciplinarity of nineteenth-century French studies and will be of interest to a wide cross-section of scholars and students of French literature, society and culture.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations David EVANS and Kate GRIFFITHS: Introduction Part I: The Novel Henri MITTERAND : Jouir / souffrir: le sensible et la fiction Michael TILBY: Balzac’s Convivial Narrations: Intoxication and its Discourse in ‘La Comédie humaine’ Francesco MANZINI: The Zero-Sum Game of Providential Pain: Balzac’s L’Envers de l’histoire contemporaine Part II: Crime and Punishment Anne-Emmanuelle DEMARTINI : L’Affaire Lacenaire ou les jouissances de l’exhibitionnisme criminel au temps du romantisme Loïc GUYON : Le sex-appeal de la Veuve: guillotine et fantasmes romantiques Natalia LECLERC : Le ‘bonheur dans le crime’: le plaisir de perdre et de se perdre chez Barbey d’Aurevilly Part III: Écritures féminines Anna NORRIS : Marie Cappelle Lafarge ou l’écriture de la douleur Sara JAMES: Malvina Blanchecotte and ‘la douleur chantée’: the Creation of a Female Poetic Self Rachel MESCH: Sexual Healing: Power and Pleasure in Fin-de-siècle Women’s Writing Part IV: Defining Sexual Experience Gretchen SCHULTZ : La Rage du plaisir et la rage de la douleur: Lesbian Pleasure and Suffering in Fin-de-siècle French Literature and Sexology Alison MOORE: Pathologizing Female Sexual Frigidity in Fin-de-siècle France, or How Absence Was Made into a Thing Elizabeth STEPHENS: Redefining Sexual Excess as a Medical Disorder: Fin-de-siècle Representations of Hysteria and Spermatorrhoea Part V: Aesthetics, Beauty and the Visual Arts Rae Beth GORDON: What is Ugly? Taine, Allen, Moreau Carol RIFELJ : ‘Il faut souffrir pour être belle’: Pain and Beauty in Prose Fiction Claire MORAN: Creative Crucifixions: The Artist as Christ in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDislocation and the need for radical reorientation are central experiences in 20th-century German history. Much of German culture has also consisted of reflections on and responses to the historical caesurae of 1933, 1945 and 1989-90, and the massive political, social and economic changes that accompanied them. In the first instance, dislocation and reorientation are to be understood in the physical sense, i.e. the loss of their homes in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia by Jewish and Communist émigrés after 1933, by Germans in Eastern Europe after 1945, and by disaffected individuals leaving the GDR for the West between 1949 and 1989. But they are also ideological, social and cultural experiences. This volume seeks to explore the parallels and differences between the impact on these groups of their sense of loss and their struggle to establish new identities after major upheavals. What their diverse experiences have in common is the sense of social and intellectual dislocation, even amongst those whose physical location did not change for long periods of time. Drawing on the ideas of various social and cultural theorists, and adopting a variety of approaches, our contributors examine how not only dislocation but also reorientation has been articulated, both in political discourse and across the cultural spectrum from fiction to life writing, from poetry to film.Table of ContentsAxel GOODBODY, Pól Ó DOCHARTAIGH, Dennis TATE: Introduction Volker BRAUN: Aus: Machwerk oder Das Schichtbuch des Flick von Lauchhammer Anna CHIARLONI: A polso teso. Portrait der Poesie Volker Brauns Axel GOODBODY: Political dislocation and poetic reorientation in Volker Braun’s Bodenloser Satz Karen LEEDER: ‘Totentänze’: Volker Braun’s late poems – Postscripts on the end of utopia Gerd LABROISSE: Überlegungen zu Volker Brauns Rede zur Verleihung des Schiller-Gedächtnispreises 1992: ‘Ist das unser Himmel? Ist das unsre Hölle?’ Daniel AZUÉLOS: Die deutschsprachige Exilpresse und das Attentat des 20. Juli 1944 Geoffrey V. DAVIS: ‘The fog of peace and war’: German exiles in postcolonial Anglophone writing Wolfgang EMMERICH: Odradek – ein Bewohner des Dritten Raums. Mit Franz Kafka unterwegs zu transkulturellen Lektüren Helen FEHERVARY: Kipling and others: Literary allusions in Anna Seghers’s ‘Die schönsten Sagen vom Räuber Woynok’ Peter HUTCHINSON: Stefan Heym’s exile poetry as the foundation for his later fiction Hamish RITCHIE: Kurt Schwitters in Ambleside Gisela HOLFTER: Ein Fallbeispiel zur Rückkehrproblematik aus dem Exil – Ernst Lewy (1881-1966) Deborah VIETOR-ENGLÄNDER: Résistance, Restauration und deutsch-jüdische West-Remigranten: Alfred Kantorowiczs Schauspiel Die Verbündeten in der DDR Ian CONNOR: German expellees in the SBZ/GDR and the Oder-Neisse ‘peace border’ Peter BARKER: Dislocation and reorientation in the Sorbian community (1945-2008) Dennis TATE: Von der Fröhlichkeit im Schrecken: Fred Wander’s celebration of dislocation Mike DENNIS: A people’s game: Football in the German Democratic Republic Peter THOMPSON: Heimatlos zu Hause: Bloch, Žižek and the dislocated Heimat Dieter SEGERT: Ausreisen und Ausflüge – Geschichten aus dem letzten Jahr der DDR Roger WOODS: Retold lives: East German autobiography after East Germany Gerrit-Jan BERENDSE: Verlust der Mitte: Wolf Biermanns Abnabelung von seinem Topos Berlin Christine COSENTINO: Ingo Schulze’s Handy. Thirteen Tales in the Old Style: Another look at East(ern) Germanness and identity formation Stuart PARKES: ‘Home soured home?’ Dislocation as a motif in the works of Martin Walser Colin B. GRANT: Without a name: Kurt Drawert and the dislocated self Gert-Joachim GLAEßNER: Westernisation, Europeanisation, and civil society: Has Thomas Mann’s vision of a European Germany come true? Ian Wallace Bibliography Index of Contributors

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Book SynopsisFraming Consciousness in Art shows how the frames-in-frames in these different contexts question notions of vision and representation, linear time, conventional spatial coordinates, binaries of ‘internal’ consciousness and ‘external’ world, subject and object, and the precise anatomy of mental states by which we are meant to carve up the territory of consciousness. The phenomenological experience of art is certainly as important as the folk psychology which scientists and philosophers use to taxonomise ordinary first-person modes of subjectivity. Yet art excels in configuring the visual field in order to articulate and sustain a complex network of higher-order thoughts structuring art and consciousness.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Framing Art History Part 2. Framing Philosophy Part 3. Framing Consciousness Studies Part 4. Framing Consciousness in Art Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDying and death are topics of deep humane concern for many people in a variety of circumstances and contexts. However, they are not discussed to any great extent or with sufficient focus in order to gain knowledge and understanding of their major features and aspects. The present volume is an attempt to bridge the undesirable gap between what should be known and understood about dying and death and what is easily accessible. Included in the present volume are chapters arranged in three sections. First, there are chapters on aspects of dying, written by people who have professional experience and personal insights into the nature of the processes at work and the ways it should be treated. Secondly, there are chapters on assisted death (Euthanasia) that illuminate the practices involved in the professional assistance given to persons who suffer from an incurable illness and who do not want their painful life to be medically extended. Thirdly, there are chapters on mourning, examined in a variety of cultural contexts. These provide insights for different ways of maintaining the presence of the dead in the life of the living: “life in the hearts”.Table of ContentsAsa Kasher: Introduction Section 1: Dying Mary Josephine Mahoney: Hospice and the Intangible Wonders of Being Jeremy Weinstein: ‘So That’s a Completely Different Story’: Competing Narratives in the Lives of Relatives Caring for Dying Patients Chris J. Onof: Death and the Sense of Self Karl Traugott Goldbach: Political Murder on the German Opera Stage: Masagniello Furioso, Günther von Schwarzburg and Rienzi Section 2: Euthanasia Nele De Bal, Bernadette Dierckx, de Casterlé and Chris Gastmans: Nurse Involvement in the Care for Patients Requesting Euthanasia Susan Dawson and Bill Campbell: Are We Barking Up the Wrong Tree? Questioning the Appropriateness of the Human Models for Understanding Bereavement as Applied to the Experience of Companion Animal Loss through Euthanasia Section 3: Mourning Werner Nell: The Saying Hallo Metaphor as Alternative Approach to Death-Related Counselling Una MacConville and Regina McQuillan: Remembering the Dead: Roadside Memorials in Ireland Emily Boone Hagenmaier: “Untitled” (Queer Mourning and the Art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres) Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisPerhaps more than in any other period in modern history, our globalized present is characterized by a constant interaction of, and exposure to, different peoples, regions, ways of life, traditions, languages, and cultures. Cross-boundary communication today comes in various shapes: as mutual exchange, open dialogue, enforced process, misunderstanding, or even violent conflict. In this situation, ‘translation’ has become an inevitable requirement in order to ease the flow of disinterested and unbiased cultural communication. The contributors to this collection approach the subject of the ‘translation of cultures’ from various angles. Translation refers, of course, to the rendering of texts from one language into another and the shift between languages under precolonial (retelling/transcreation), colonial (domestication), and postcolonial (multilingual trafficking) conditions. It is also concerned with the (in-)adequacy of the Western translation concept of equivalence, the problem of the (un)translatability of cultures, and new postcolonial approaches (representation through translation). Translation here is used as a broader term covering the interaction of cultures, the transfer of cultural experience, the concern with cultural borders, the articulation of liminal experience, and intercultural understanding.Table of ContentsPetra Rüdiger and Konrad Gross: Translation of Cultures: An Introduction Translatability and Untranslatability of Cultures Omotayo Oloruntoba-Oju: Translation, Adaptation, and Intertextuality in African Drama: Wole Soyinka, Zulu Sofola, Ola Rotimi Joseph Swann: Open Boundaries: Encountering Nissim Ezekiel and A.K. Ramanujan Petra Rüdiger: ‘Nordism’: The Translation of ‘Orientalism’ into a Canadian Concept Monica Bottez: Translation of Romanian Culture in Kenneth Radu’s Fiction Eva Knopp: ‘There are no jokes in paradise’: Humour as a Politics of Representation in Recent Texts and Films from the British Migratory Contact-Zone Ursula Kluwick: Postcolonial Literatures on a Global Market: Packaging the ‘Mysterious East’ for Western Consumption Travel and Translation in the Contact Zone Tobias Döring: Transporting Ceylon: Robert Knox (1681) and the Temptations of Translation Joanna Collins: Transcribing Colonial Australia: Strategies of Translation in the Work of Rosa Campbell Praed and Daisy Bates Translation of the Transcultural Self Michaela Moura-Koçoğlu: Swarming with Ghosts and Tūrehus: Indigenous Language and Concepts in Contemporary Māori Writing Christine Vogt-William: Of Serpents and Swastikas: Transcultural Interrogations in Two Poems by Indian Women Writers of the Diaspora Kirsten Sandrock: Scottish Territories and Canadian Identity: Regional Aspects in the Literature of Alistair MacLeod Agnese Fidecaro: “But who is that on the other side of you?” Translation, Materiality, and the Question of the Other in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day Sabine Schlüter: Deconstructing the Canadian Mosaic: Heaven by George F.Walker Postcolonial Multilingualism Timo Lothmann: Functional Equivalence Revisited: Adequacy and Conflict in the Tok Pisin Bible Translation Christine Möller: The History and Future of Bilingual Education: Immersion Teaching in Germany and its Canadian Origins Silke Stroh: Transperipheral Translations? Native North America/Scottish Gaelic Connections Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju: Translation Shifts in African Women’s Writing: The Example of Nigeria Marie Chantale Mofin Noussi: Translation, Multilingualism, and Linguistic Hybridity: A Study of The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis book testifies to the growing interest in the many spaces of utopia. It intends to ‘map out’ on utopian and science-fiction discourses some of the new and revisionist models of spatial analysis applied in Literary and Cultural Studies in recent years. The aim of the volume is to side-step the established generic binary of utopia and dystopia or science fiction and thus to open the analysis of utopian literature to new lines of inquiry. The essays collected here propose to think of utopias not so much as fictional texts about future change and transformation but as vital elements in a cultural process through which social, spatial and subjective identities are formed. Utopias can thus be read as textual systems implying a distinct spatial and temporal dimension; as ‘spatial practices’ that tend to naturalize a cultural and social construction – that of the ‘good life’, the radically improved welfare state, the Christian paradise, the counter-society, etc. – and make that representation operational by interpellating their readers in some determinate relation to their givenness as sites of political and individual improvement. This volume is of interest for all scholars and students of literature who wish to explore the ways in which utopias of the past and recent present have circulated as media of cultural exchange and homogenization, as sites of cultural and linguistic appropriation and as foci for the spatial formation of national and regional identities in the English-speaking world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Ralph Pordzik: Introduction: The Overlaid Spaces of Utopia Chapter I: Constructing Borders, Defining Limits: The Ideal Space of Utopia Revisited Gabriela Schmidt: The Translation of Paradise: Thomas More’s Utopia and the Poetics of Cultural Exchange Hans Ulrich Seeber: Utopia, Nation-Building, and the Dissolution of the Nation-State Around 1900 Richard Nate: Discoveries of the Future: Herbert G. Wells and the Eugenic Utopia Ralph Pordzik: Persistence of Obedience: Theological Space and Ritual Conversion in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Chapter II: Homely Spaces, Intimate Borders – Utopias to Live in Nicole Pohl: ‘And is not every Manor a Little Common Wealth?’ Nostalgia, Utopia and the Country House Christoph Ehland: The Watchdogs of Eden: Chesterton and Buchan Look at the Present of the Future Elizabeth Leane: The Land that Time Forgot: Fictions of Antarctic Temporality Dunja M. Mohr: “The Tower of Babble”? The Role and Function of Fictive Languages in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction Chapter III: Worlds Beyond Worlds – The Limits of Geographical and Perceptual Space Martina Mittag: Rethinking Deterritorialization: Utopian and Apocalyptic Space in Recent American Fiction Doreen Hartmann: Space Construction as Cultural Practice: Reading William Gibson’s Neuromancer with Respect to Postmodern Concepts of Space Saskia Schabio: Peripheral Cosmopolitans: Caribbeanness as Transnational Utopia? Antonis Balasopoulos: “Utopian and Cynical Elements”: Chaplin, Cinema, and Weimar Critical Theory Index

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Book SynopsisUniting critical writing on novels, poetry, painting, and ritual, this volume takes a regional approach to the cultures of the Caribbean Basin. Ranging across the linguistic spectrum of the area, it examines cultural production from the Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone islands, Suriname and the Guyanas, and ‘Latin’ and Central America. The interdisciplinary nature of the collection and the challenge it poses to the balkanization of the region within academic discourse will make it of especial interest to students and scholars of the Caribbean. Inspired by the category of the ‘Other America’ as developed by Édouard Glissant, the book offers a series of original and stimulating engagements with topics that include nationalism, migration and exile, landscape and the environment, gender and sexuality, and Postcolonial Studies and ‘world literature’. In addition to contributions by leading scholars such as Peter Hulme, Theo D’haen, and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, it contains interviews with two renowned novelists from the region, Lawrence Scott and Mayra Santos-Febres. Underpinning the collection is an interrogation of received ideas of the nation-state and a suggestion that regionalism might provide a better optic through which to view the circum-Caribbean – that national consciousness, in other words, must always also be a regional consciousness.Table of ContentsMichael Niblett and Kerstin Oloff: Introduction: Regionalism and the Caribbean Part 1. The ‘Other America’ and Representation Peter Hulme: Expanding the Caribbean Michael Niblett: The Arc of the ‘Other America’: Landscape, Nature, and Region in Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert: ‘American’ Landscapes and Erasures: Frederic Church’s The Vale of St.Thomas and the Recovery of History in Landscape Painting Part 2. Otherness, Gender and Sexuality in the Expanded Caribbean Heidi Bojsen: Other Americas, Other Genderings: Postcolonial Heroines and Rhizomatic Geographies in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Biblique des derniers gestes Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley: “No Storm to Blow Me Over?” Mapping Same-Sex Sexuality in the Other Americas Mayra Santos-Febres: “Más allá de la información”: Region, Culture and the Imagination. An Interview Part 3. Location, Region and Culture Néstor E. Rodríguez: The Twilight Zone: Puerto Rico’s Cultural Identity in the Work of José Luis González Patricia Krus: The Ethics of Postcolonial Healing in Astrid Roemer’s Trilogy of Suriname Paulette Ramsay: Cross-Cultural Poetics: Debating the Place of Afro-Mexican Poetry in the Context of Caribbean Literary and Cultural Aesthetics Part 4. Caribbean Writing in a Global Context Theo D’haen: Exile, Caribbean Literature, and the World Republic of Letters Kerstin D. Oloff: Wilson Harris, Regionalism and Postcolonial Studies Lawrence Scott: Region, Location and Aesthetics: An Interview

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Book SynopsisGiven that the dissemination of enlightened thought in Europe was mostly effected through translations, the present collection of essays focuses on how its cultural adaptation took place in various national contexts. For the first time, the theoretical model of ‘cultural transfer’ (Espagne/Werner) is applied to the eighteenth century: The intercultural dynamics of the Enlightenment become manifest in the transformation process between the original and target cultures, be it by way of acculturation, creative enhancement, or misunderstanding. Resulting in shifts of meaning, translations offer a key not just to contemporary translation practice but to the discursive network of the European Enlightenment in general. The case studies united here explore both how translations contributed to the transnational standardisation of certain key concepts, values and texts, and how they reflect national specifications of enlightened discourses. Hence, the volume contributes to Enlightenment studies, at least as much as to historical translation studies.Trade Review"Die in englischer und französischer Sprache geschriebenen Aufsätze des vorliegenden, sehr lesenswerten Bandes behandeln vielfältige Aspekte ei-nes Themas, das für die Erfassung der Netzwerke und Kulturen des Wis-sens in der europäischen Aufklärung von großer Bedeutung ist." – Till Kinzel, in: Informationsmittel (IFB). Digitales Rezensionsorgan für Bibliothek und Wissenschaft 18/2 (2010) "[…] a remarkable collective work put together by Stockhorst." – in: Mónica Bolufer, “Translating Enlightenment: A Review Article of New Work by Stockhorst, Vidal Claramonte, and Tortosa”, in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 13 (2011)Table of ContentsStefanie Stockhorst: Introduction. Cultural transfer through translation: a current perspective in Enlightenment studies Translation and transfer in theoretical discourse Avi S. Lifschitz: Translation in theory and practice: the case of Johann David Michaelis’s prize essay on language and opinions (1759) Christina Oberstebrink: Plagiarism and originality in painting: Joshua Reynolds’s concept of imitation and Enlightenment translation theory Individual texts and their cultural impact through translation Monika Baár: From general history to national history: the transformations of William Guthrie’s and John Gray’s A General History of the World (1736-1765) in Continental Europe Saskia S. Wiedner: Melchiorre Cesarotti Il Fanatismo ossia Maometto profeta: tragedia di Voltaire (1742) – la traduction italienne de la tragédie voltairienne Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet le prophète (1741) Astrid Krake: ‘Translating to the moment’ – marketing and Anglomania: the first German translation of Richardson’s Clarissa (1747/1748) Andreas Dittrich: Traduire la pensée utopique: le transfert des paradigmes de L’An 2440 et Der goldne Spiegel Barry Murnane: Uncanny translations, uncanny productivity: Walpole, Schiller and Kahlert John R. J. Eyck: Where Werther went: what happens when a ‘minor’ literature transposes a ‘major’ character The dissemination of genres and ideas as cultural transfer Pierre Degott: Early English translations of Italian opera (1711-1750) Andreas Önnerfors: Translating discourses of the Enlightenment: transcultural language skills and cross-references in Swedish and German eighteenth-century learned journals Huib J. Zuidervaart: Science for the public: the translation of popular texts on experimental philosophy into the Dutch language in mid-eighteenth century John Stone: Translated sociabilities of print in eighteenth-century Spain Mladen Kozul: D’Holbach et les déistes anglais: la construction des ‘lumières radicales’ à la fin des années 1760 Alison E. Martin: Paeans to progress: Arthur Young’s travel accounts in German translation Fania Oz-Salzberger: Did Adam Ferguson inspire Friedrich Schiller’s philosophy of play? An exercise in tracking the itinerary of an idea Biographical notes

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Book SynopsisAddressing both the humanities and the social sciences, this volume aims to explore the enduring significance of the work of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) in the field of cultural theory. It assembles a variety of articles by internationally renowned scholars from different academic disciplines and traditions. Contrary to recent commemorative publications on Derrida’s oeuvre, this volume proposes to critically evaluate and rethink key concepts in Derrida’s work within the present state of affairs in cultural theory. Centred around four main topics (manoeuvres, societies, images and fictions), the sections propose a creative and contemporary reading of ‘Derrida’ and its openings to new work in cultural theory. Ce livre qui se destine à la fois aux humanités et aux études sociales tente d’explorer la signification durable de l’œuvre de Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) dans le champ de la théorie culturelle. Il rassemble un ensemble d’articles variés écrits par des chercheurs de renommée internationale provenant de différentes disciplines et traditions académiques. S’opposant par là à la majorité du flot de publications récentes sur l’œuvre de Derrida ce volume se propose d’évaluer et de repenser d’un point de vue critique les concepts clé de Derrida tenant compte de l’état actuel de la recherche en études culturelles. Centrées autour de quatre domaines majeurs (manœuvres – sociétés – images – fictions), les sections offrent une lecture créatrice et actuelle de ‘Derrida’ et des ouvertures que sa pensée permet vers une nouvelle idée de la théorie culturelle.Table of ContentsIntroduction (English) Introduction (Français) Summaries / Résumés Authors / Auteurs Manoeuvres Paul Bowman: Deconstruction is a Martial Art Eberhard Gruber: Quel héritage quand le message est équivoque? Une difficulté décisive pour la transmission derridienne Peter van Zilfhout: Traces of Nihilism Societies / Sociétés Joost de Bloois: The Last Instance: Deconstruction as General Economy Maik Herold: Symbolic Representation and Différance. Jacques Derrida and the Problem of Validity in Constitutional Theory Tom Cohen: “Climate Change,” Deconstruction, and the Rupture of Cultural Critique. A proleptic preamble Rey Chow: Reading Derrida on being monolingual Images Ginette Michaud: Jacques Derrida, les Yeux Bandés ou Lire à l’épreuve de l’invisibilité Michel Lisse: Iconographies de Jacques Derrida Marc De Kesel: Noli Me Tangere. Critical Remarks on Jean-Luc Nancy’s Reference to Derridian Deconstruction Fictions Mireille Calle-Gruber: Les Écritures du « comme si » Héritage de Derrida Rico Sneller: A Contemporary Maskil Sarfat? Derrida and the Provence Cabbala Sjef Houppermans: A l’ombre des Roses de Personne Jacques Derrida et Paul Celan General Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOver the last decade, migration flows from Central and Eastern Europe have become an issue in political debates about human rights, social integration, multiculturalism and citizenship in Great Britain. The increasing number of Eastern Europeans living in Britain has provoked ambivalent and diverse responses, including representations in film and literature that range from travel writing, humorous fiction, mockumentaries, musicals, drama and children’s literature to the thriller. The present volume discusses a wide range of representations of Eastern and Central Europe and its people as reflected in British literature, film and culture. The book offers new readings of authors who have influenced the cultural imagination since the nineteenth century, such as Bram Stoker, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad and Arthur Koestler. It also discusses the work of more contemporary writers and film directors including Sacha Baron Cohen, David Cronenberg, Vesna Goldsworthy, Kapka Kassabova, Marina Lewycka, Ken Loach, Mike Phillips, Joanne K. Rowling and Rose Tremain. With its focus on post-Wall Europe, Facing the East in the West goes beyond discussions of migration to Britain from an established postcolonial perspective and contributes to the current exploration of 'new' European identities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Barbara Korte: Facing the East of Europe in Its Western Isles: Charting Backgrounds, Questions and Perspectives East and West: Mirrorings Elisabeth Cheauré: Infinite Mirrorings: Russia and Eastern Europe as the West’s “Other” Mike Phillips: Narratives of Desire – A Writer’s Statement Christiane Bimberg: ‘A glimpse behind the scenes’, ‘trying to capture the very soul of things Russian’: Literary Representations of Intercultural East-West Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes Kapka Kassabova: From Bulgaria with Love and Hate: The Anxiety of the Distorting Mirror (A Writer’s Perspective) Two Poems Kapka Kassabova: Our Names Long and Foreign Kapka Kassabova: The Travel Guide to the Country of Your Birth Journeys, Encounters, Cultural Translations Elmar Schenkel: To Russia with Love: Maurice Baring (1874-1945) Dirk Wiemann: A Russian Romance: 1930s British Writers as Wishful Participants in the Soviet Revolution Sissy Helff: From Euphoria to Disillusionment: Representations of Communism and the Soviet Union in Arthur Koestler’s The Invisible Writing Eva Ulrike Pirker: The Unfinished Revolution: Black Perceptions of Eastern Europe Cinzia Mozzato: Looking Eastwards: Borders and Border-Crossing in the Work of Ken Smith A Play in One Act Mike Phillips: You Think You Know Me But You Don’t Stereotypes: Staying Power and Subversion Vedrana Veličković: Balkanisms Old and New: The Discourse of Balkanism and Self-Othering in Vesna Goldsworthy’s Chernobyl Strawberries and Inventing Ruritania Michael McAteer: A Troubled Union: Representations of Eastern Europe in Nineteenth-Century Irish Protestant Literature Jonas Takors: ‘The Russians could no longer be the heavies’: From Russia with Love and the Cold War in the Bond Series Wolfgang Hochbruck, Elmo Feiten and Anja Tiedemann: ‘Vulchanov! Volkov! Aaaaaaand Krum!’: Joanne K. Rowling’s “Eastern” Europe Nadia Butt: Between Dream and Nightmare: Representation of Eastern Diaspora in Eastern Promises Susanne Schmid: Taking Embarrassment to Its Extremes: Borat and Cultural Anxiety Martin Hermann: Immigrants, Stereotypes and the New Ireland: Czech Identity in and in Response to the Film Once Christian Schmitt-Kilb: Gypsies and Their Representation: Louise Doughty’s Stone Cradle and David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green Polish Identities in Perspective: Accession – Integration – Perception Joanna Rostek and Dirk Uffelmann: Can the Polish Migrant Speak? The Representation of “Subaltern” Polish Migrants in Film, Literature and Music from Britain and Poland Przemysław Wilk: Images of Poles and Poland in The Guardian, 2003-2005 Marie-Luise Egbert: “Old Poles” and “New Blacks”: The Polish Immigrant Experience in Britain (Re-)Visiting Eastern Spaces in Contemporary British Fiction Corina Crişu: British Geographies in the Eastern European Mind: Rose Tremain’s The Road Home Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz: West Faces East: Images of Eastern Europe in Recent Short Fiction Michael Szczekalla: ‘Under Western Eyes’: Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the Fiction of Martin Amis, Nicholas Shakespeare and Carl Tighe Ingrida Žindžiuvienė: Images of Lithuania in Stephan Collishaw’s Novels Claudia Duppé: Tourist in Her Native Country: Kapka Kassabova’s Street Without a Name Doris Lechner: Eastern European Memories? The Novels of Marina Lewycka Doris Lechner: Interview with Marina Lewycka Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHexagonal Variations provides an essential overview of key debates about contemporary French society and culture. Concise, challenging and comprehensive, its chapters each address the processes of change and redefinition that characterise France today. Contributors analyse and situate cinematic, literary, online and visual texts, mediatic, political and everyday discourses, in each case pinpointing how diversity, plurality and reinvention inflect cultural and social evolution in France. The chapters in the collection share a key set of thematic concerns and raise topics for debate among scholars and students alike. Central to these are questions about France’s uncertain place and role in Europe and the wider world; the morphing topography of its capital; and the many conundrums posed by the persistence of Republican paradigms in a global environment. If France is no longer the exception, what are the versions and varieties of being French that are lived, thought and imagined in the new millennium?Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Jo McCormack, Murray Pratt and Alistair Rolls: Towards a Preface Murray Pratt and Alistair Rolls: Variations on the Hexagon: Getting the Measure of Culture Change in Contemporary France Section 1: Perspectives on Hexagonality Rada Iveković: The Global Nostalgia of a Non-global Language Brigitte Jandey: Frenchness in Perspective(s) Jean-Marc Kehrès (Translated by Alistair Rolls): National Genius and Universal Sociability: The Relevance of the Enlightenment Today Section 2: Expressing Plurality Joe Hardwick: So Over the Rainbow? The Singular Plurality of Martineau and Ducastel’s Drôle de Félix Monique Monville-Burston: Youth Speech au pluriel in the Written Press Sam Haigh: Integration or Interaction? Disability in France Today Section 3: Identity and Ethnicity Hélène Jaccomard: Racaille versus Flics? Who’s to Blame for Criminality and Delinquency in Franco-Maghrébine (Beur) Fiction? Francesco Ricatti: ‘Je ne suis pas noir’: Global Football and (Post)Colonial France Martine Fernandes (Translated by Murray Pratt): Tos Ethnic Identity in France through the Blogs of Young People of Portuguese Descent Section 4: Measuring Cultural Change in Contemporary France Kiran Grewal: The Natives Strike Back: ‘L’Appel des Idigènes de la République’ and the Death of Republican Values in Post-colonial France Lawrence R. Schehr: Soukaz in a Staccato Mode Martin O’Shaughnessy: Hidden Violences: Work and the Working Class in Recent French Film Section 5: Reordering Regionality Chris Reynolds: May-June 1968. Reflector and Vector of a Nation’s Diversity: The Case of Strasbourg, Alsace Angela Giovanangeli (Translated by Travis Watters): French Unity and the European Union: The Role of French Regions Russell West-Pavlov: Haunted Europe: Virilio and Sangatte Section 6: Paris au pluriel Ben McCann: A Many Splendoured Thing? Plural Visions of the City in Paris, je t’aime Carolyn Stott: Belleville au pluriel: Representations of a Parisian Suburb in the Néo-Polar Katherine Gantz: Concrete Criticism: Annotation and Transformation in Haussmannized Paris Section 7: Hexagonal Variations Vladimir Kapor: On a Postcolonial Dialogue de Sourds: Exotisme in Contemporary French Criticism Fiona Barclay: Postcolonial France: Immigration and the De-Centring of the Hexagon Enda McCaffrey and Murray Pratt: Erasmus, Exchange Value and Euronormativity in Cédric Klapisch’s L’Auberge espagnole and Les Poupées russes Contributors’ Biographies Index

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Book SynopsisWriting the Heavenly Frontier celebrates the early voices of the air as it examines the sky as a metaphorical and political landscape. While flight histories usually focus on the physical dangers of early aviation, this book introduces the figurative liabilities of ascension. Early pilot-writers not only grappled with an unwieldy machine; they also grappled with poetics that were extremely selective. Tropes that cast Charles Lindbergh as the transcendent hero of the new millennium were the same ones that kept women, black Americans, and indigenous peoples imaginatively tethered to the ground. The most popular flight autobiographies in the United States posited a hero who rose from the mundane to the miraculous; and yet the most startling autobiographies point out the social factors that limited or forbade vertical movement—both literally and figuratively. A survey of pilot writing, the book will appeal to flight enthusiasts and people interested in American autobiography and culture. But it will also appeal strongly to readers interested in the poetics and politics of place.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Writing the Heavenly Frontier The Mundane to the Miraculous Imaginative Geographies and the Invention of the Aerial Subject From Pilot to Poet: The Transformation of Lindbergh Polar Frontiers and Public Fictions: Skyward with Richard E. Byrd The Colors of the Earth and the Sanctity of Space Autobiographical Demands and Historical Realities Jimmy Collins and the Tethers of Materiality Flight as Emancipation: William J. Powell’s Dream of Black Wings Masculine Spaces and Women Flyers The Flying Boudoir The Sound of Wings: Autobiographies by Amelia Earhart Louise Thaden and the Tethers of Motherhood Flight as Upward Mobility: Jackie Cochran and the Stars at Noon Aerial Geographies and Imperial Discourses Transcendence Abroad Cultivating the Garden: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the Noble Struggle Escaping the Wilderness: Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the Epic Journey Epilogue: Late Century Metaphors: Larry Walters and the Rich Man’s Wedding Cake Index

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Book SynopsisThe French Revolution of 1789 altered the face of power and the institutions it inhabited in France, and the aftershocks of this seismic change rippled throughout the nineteenth century. With power changing hands between monarchy, empires and republics in quick succession, the nature of power, both personal and political, and institutions, both real and metaphorical, was constantly being redefined, argued over and fought for. This volume provides innovative analyses of nineteenth-century power relations in France across a series of interlinked spheres: artistic, literary, cultural, political, scientific and topographical. Its seventeen chapters trace the direct impact of politics and the shifting power of regimes on the creative arts, and explore power relations in a wide range of contexts including novels, sculpture, painting, education, religion, science, museums and exhibitions across a wide geographical area from Paris to the provinces, southern France and the colonies. The contributors, all experts in their fields, assess the evolving relationship between institutions and power in nineteenth-century France, exploring how the nation debates its past, negotiates its present and, as the foundation of the Third Republic ushers in a period of relative stability, sets about creating its common future.Table of ContentsList of illustrations David Evans and Kate Griffiths: Introduction Political Power: Legacies and Myths Nicole Mozet: Balzac, Théoricien du pouvoir absolu et romancier du chaos post-révolutionnaire Damian Catani: The French Revolution: Historical Necessity or Historical Evil? Terror and Slavery in Hugo’s Quatrevingt-treize and Confiant’s L’Archet du colonel Jean-Marie Seillan: Institutions et pouvoirs occultes: Huysmans et l’imaginaire conspirationniste Janice Best: Les Hommes de bronze de la Troisième République: Commémoration ou oubli de l’histoire? Power and Space Elisabeth Gerwin: Power in the City: Balzac’s Flâneur in La Fille aux yeux d’or Claire I.R. O’Mahony: The Colony Within? Poets and the Politics of Particularism in Toulouse’s Capitole Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini: Le Pouvoir de la représentation: Écriture pittoresque et construction de la nation dans la série provinciale des Français peints par eux-mêmes Leonard R. Koos: Razzia in Stone: Building Colonial Algiers, 1830-1900 Institutions and Knowledge Francesco Manzini: Doctors, Priests, Magistrates: Stendhal, Cabanis and the Power of Medical Practitioners Rosemary Lloyd: The Crocodiles of Caen and the Molluscs of the Museum: Rhetoric, Science, and Power in Nineteenth-Century France Mary Orr: Education, Education, Education: The Space of the Muséum as Showcase for Thinking its Public Scott A. Gavorsky: L’État comme propriétaire? Schools as Property in Nineteenth-Century France Writing Art History: Institutions and Alternative Authorities Juliet Simpson: Whose History? Art, History and the Nation State in Early Third Republic France L. Cassandra Hamrick: Beyond Institutions: In Search of le souffle moderne in Gautier’s Salon de 1844 Gilles Bonnet: Le Contre-pouvoir critique: Huysmans, vers une fiction d’art Sonya Stephens: Auguste Rodin, or the Institutionalization of the Self as Artist Notes on contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays aims to investigate the complex issues surrounding contemporary cultural discourses on land and identity – their production, construction, and reconstruction across a range of different texts and materials. The chapters offer disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches opening up discussion and new routes for research in a number of interrelated areas such as Countryside vs. City, Diaspora, Landscapes of Memory and Trauma, Migrational Spaces, and Ecology. They represent a number of innovative contemporary responses to how concepts of land intersect and dialogue with notions of identity across and between regions, nations, races, and cultures. Through employing interdisciplinary methods and theories drawn from diverse sources, such as cultural studies, spatial theory, philosophy and literary theory, the chapters chart varied and complex themes of identity formation in relation to spatiality.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Christine Berberich, Neil Campbell & Robert Hudson: Introduction: Framing and Reframing Land and Identity Land and Identity: Theories and Philosophies David Crouch: Landscape, Land and Identity: A Performative Consideration Fran Speed: Nature Qua Identity: Nature, Culture and Relational Integrity Donna Landry: The Geopolitical Picturesque Landscapes of Memory: Eschatology, Trauma, and Diaspora Kirby Farrell: Eschatological Landscape Jenni Adams: Cities Under a Sky of Mud: Landscapes of Mourning in Holocaust Texts Moy McCrory: “This Time and Now”: Identity and Belonging in the Irish Diaspora: The Irish in Britain and Second-Generational Silence Literary Landscapes: Urbanism, Ecology and the Rural Elsa Cavalié: “And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past”: Recovering Identity in A Month in the Country Monica Germanà: Beyond the Gaps: Postmodernist Representations of the Metropolis Brian Jarvis: “It is always another world”: Mapping the Global Imaginary in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition Alex Lockwood: The Shore is Not a Beach Christine Berberich & Neil Campbell: Afterword: Lines of Flight: Unframing Land, Unframing Identity – Two Speculations Index

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Book SynopsisThe content of this volume reflects theoretical and practical discussions on cultural issues influenced by increased adoption of information and communication technologies. The penetration of new forms of communication, such as online social networking, internet video-casting, and massive online multiplayer gaming; the experience and exploration of virtual worlds; and the massive adoption of ever-emergent ICT technologies; are all developments in desperate need of serious examination. It is not surprising that these new realities, and the questions and issues to which they give rise, have drawn increasing attention from academics. Those engaging these issues do so from a wide range of academic fields. Accordingly, the authors contributing to this volume represent an impressive array of academic disciplines and varied perspectives, including philosophy, sociology, religion, anthropology, digital humanities, literature studies, film science, new media studies and still others. Thus, the subsequent chapters offer the reader a multidimensional examination of this volume’s unifying theme: the ways and extent to which current and anticipated cybernetic environments have altered, and will continue to shape, our understandings of what it means to be human.Table of ContentsDaniel Riha: Introduction Critical Philosophies Imre Bárd: The Doubtful Chances of Choice Tamar Sharon: Technoscience and Schizophrenia: The Technological Production of Nature and Biology under Control Leighton Evans: A Phenomenological Analysis of Social Networking Cyber-Identity Melissa de Zwart and David Lindsay: My Self, My Avatar, My Rights? Avatar Identity in Social Virtual Worlds Jordan J. Copeland: Too Faced? Reconsidering Friendship in the Digital Age Ewan Kirkland: Experiences of Embodiment and Subjectivity in Haunting Ground Virtual Environments and Academia Peter Ludes: Trans-Generational Dialogues: Social Sciences as Multimedia Games Daniel Riha: Interactive 3-D Documentary as Serious Videogame Anna Maj and Michal Derda-Nowakowski: Ecosystem of Knowledge: Strategies, Rituals and Metaphors in Networked Communication Cyberpunk Literature and Film Katherine Harrison: Gender Resistance: Interrogating the ‘Punk’ in Cyberpunk Laura Schuster: What Does a Scanner See? Techno-Fascination and Unreliability in the Mind-Game Film Michael J. Klein: Modern Myths: Science Fiction in the Age of Technology Merger of Cyberspace and Art Elizabeth Borst: ‘Cyborg Art’ as a Critical Sphere of Inquiry into Increasing Corporeal Human-Technology Merger Zeynep Gündüz: Digital Dance: Encounters between Media Technologies and the Dancing Body

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Book SynopsisLes Lumières amorcent brillamment la plupart de nos idéologies modernes. Elles se délectent en même temps d’une production romanesque devenue largement illisible puisque desservie par un pathétique aussi outrancier que stéréotypé. Ce pathétique envahit aussi le théâtre et imprègne d’abondantes correspondances. La verve critique des Philosophes fait ainsi bon ménage avec un esprit de sérieux sentimental, auquel même Voltaire, si doué pour saisir au premier coup d’œil le ridicule de tous engouements, sacrifie au long d’une vingtaine de tragédies. Réputées aujourd’hui injouables, elles auront été au cœur de sa popularité d’époque. Il y a là une manière de scandale, ou du moins de paradoxe irritant. L’accès de mauvais goût le plus impardonnable de toute la littérature française (ce qui n’est pas peu dire) se trouve être le fait de ceux qui auront fondé aussi– par ailleurs ou du même mouvement, c’est selon – notre monde moderne. Il s’impose donc de chercher à comprendre, à défaut de pouvoir encore les partager, les délices de la sensibilité. Le présent recueil y tâche pour sa part en relisant ce corpus devenu indigeste devant l‘horizon des ‘mentalités’.Table of ContentsIntroduction La communauté des âmes sensibles I. Un Ancien Régime de la sensibilité? La soeur jalouse ou les partialités de l’évidence Les « commencements d’amour » d’Artaxandre Les prosaïsmes de l’amitié dans La Duchesse d’Estramène et Eléonor d’Yvrée Les métamorphoses du vieux Dupuis Les Illustres Françaises/I> ou la finitude du sentiment II. Prévost Rassurantes étrangetés. Les prodiges de l’émoi dans Cleveland La tentation du fantastique dans Le Pour et Contre Cleveland en miniature: Histoire intéressante Une velléité d’Apocalypse. Le dénouement des Campagnes Philosophiques Cleveland à gros traits: Liebman III. La Nouvelle Héloïse, suites et fins Les invités des Wolmar Julie et ses doubles: Les Amours de Milord Edouard Bomston Une Princesse de Clèves sentimentale. Motifs de retraite Un « trésor de l’absence ». Les Lettres d’Afrique « Un amour faiblement partagé »: Adèle de Sénange ou Lettres de Milord Sydenham Les ruines de Yedburg ou le refus des chimères « La mort justifie toujours les âmes sensibles » Origine des textes

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Book SynopsisBringing together contributions from various disciplines and academic fields, this collection engages in interdisciplinary dialogue on postcolonial issues. Covering African, anglophone, Romance, and New-World themes, linguistic, literary, and cultural studies, and historiography, music, art history, and textile studies, the volume raises questions of (inter)disciplinarity, methodology, and entangled histories. The essays focus on the representation of slavery in the transatlantic world (the USA, Jamaica, Haiti, and the wider Caribbean, West Africa, and the UK). Drawing on a range of historical sources, material objects, and representations, they study Jamaican Creole, African masks, knitted objects, patchwork sculpture, newspapers, films, popular music, and literature of different genres from the Caribbean, West and South Africa, India, and Britain. At the same time, they reflect on theoretical problems such as intertextuality, intermediality, and cultural exchange, and explore intersections – postcolonial literature and transatlantic history; postcolonial and African-American studies; postcolonial literary and cultural studies. The final section keys in with the overall aim of challenging established disciplinary modes of knowledge production: exploring schools and universities as locations of postcolonial studies. Teachers investigate the possibilities and limits of their respective institutions and probe new ways of engaging with postcolonial concerns. With its integrative, interdisciplinary focus, this collection addresses readers interested in understanding how colonization and globalization have influenced societies and cultures around the world. Contributors: Anja Bandau, Sabine Broeck, Sarah Fekadu, Matthias Galler, Janou Glencross, Jana Gohrisch, Ellen Grünkemeier, Jessica Hemmings, Jan Hüsgen, Johannes Salim Ismaiel–Wendt, Ursula Kluwick, Henning Marquardt, Dennis Mischke, Timo Müller, Mala Pandurang, Carl Plasa, Elinor Jane Pohl, Brigitte Reinwald, Steffen Runkel, Andrea Sand, Cecile Sandten, Frank Schulze–Engler, Melanie Ulz, Reinhold Wandel, Tim WatsonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Jana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier: Introduction: Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines Interdisciplinary Reflections Tim Watson: Postcolonial Studies and Atlantic Studies: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Slavery and Empire Jessica Hemmings: Postcolonial Textiles: Negotiating Dialogue Melanie Ulz: Masking the White Gaze: Towards a Postcolonial Art History of Masks Andrea Sand: From Bush Talk to Nation Language: Language Attitudes in Jamaica Before and After Independence Johannes Ismaiel–Wendt: Track Studies: Popular Music and Postcolonial Analysis Ellen Grünkemeier: Postcolonial Cultural Studies: Writing a Zulu Woman Back Into History Interdisciplinary Atlantic Studies Timo Müller: Postcolonial Pursuits in African American Studies: The Later Poems of Claude McKay Carl Plasa: “Mainly Storytelling and Play-Acting”: Theatricality and the Middle Passage in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger Henning Marquardt: Negotiating Family Models in Jamaican Literature: Class, Race, and Religion Anja Bandau: Transatlantic Representations of the Revolution in Saint-Domingue at the End of the Eighteenth Century and the Haitian Turn Sarah Fekadu: Writing Off-Centre: Global Imagination and Modernism in the Short Fiction of Phyllis Shand Allfrey Jan Hüsgen: Emancipation and Protest: Moravian Mission and the Labour Strike in St Kitts Steffen Runkel: The Perspectives of African Elites on Slavery and Abolition on the Gold Coast (1860–1900): Newspapers as Sources Frank Schulze–Engler: Fragile Modernities: History and Historiography in Contemporary African Fiction Crossovers: Historiography, Fiction, Criticism Matthias Galler: Historiographic Indian English Fiction: Indira Gandhi’s Emergency Rule in Midnight’s Children, The Great Indian Novel, and A Fine Balance Cecile Sandten: Kaliyattam (The Play of God) by Jayaraj: Polymorphous and Postcolonial Poetics in an Indian Othello Adaptation Dennis Mischke: Othering Otherness: Stephen Muecke’s Fictocriticism and the Cosmopolitan Vision Postcolonial Studies in Research and Teaching Ursula Kluwick: The (Inter)Disciplinarity of Postcolonial Research Sabine Broeck: Lessons for A-Disciplinarity: Some Notes on What Happens to an Americanist When She Takes Slavery Seriously Janou Glencross: Postcolonial Studies as a Discipline: An External Perspective on Administrative Headaches Brigitte Reinwald: On the Challenge of De-Provincializing the University Classroom: Teaching African History from a Postcolonial Perspective Frank Schulze–Engler: Studying Anglophone Literatures and Cultures in a World of Globalized Modernity: Notes on the ‘Frankfurt Experience’ Elinor Jane Pohl: Postcolonial Readings in German Secondary Education Mala Panduran: Cross-Cultural Pedagogical Practices: Understanding the German Context Reinhold Wandel: Teaching India in the German EFL Classroom: Issues and Problems Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis collective volume offers a new reflection on Eroticism by bringing together the erotic and mythology in the literary and cultural production of the extreme contemporary. Mythes et érotismes propose une réflexion neuve sur l’Érotisme en rapprochant l’érotique et le mythe dans la production littéraire et culturelle de l’extrême contemporain.Trade Review"Cet ouvrage souligne le rôle important de l’érotisme dans la littérature de l’extrême contemporain, tout particulièrement chez les écrivaines. À noter qu’il fait une large place à la littérature hexa-gonale, puisque seuls quatre articles abordent le corpus africain et caribéen." - Cécile Jest.Table of ContentsEfstratia Oktapoda: Introduction Gaëtan Brulotte: La crise de l’éternel féminin : la littérature érotique féminine dans la francophonie contemporaine Christa Stevens: Pour en finir avec l’obscénité féminine : mythes sexuels et politiques érotiques dans Pornocratie de Catherine Breillat Karin Schwerdtner: Désir et relation. L’Usage de la photo, Annie Ernaux/Marc Marie Metka Zupančič: Marie-Sissi Labrèche et l’exploration des limites (érotiques) de l’être Efstratia Oktapoda: Michel Houellebecq. Entre représentation obsessionnelle de scènes de sexe et déni de l’amour Najib Redouane: Expressions sexuelles dans le texte féminin au Maroc Alison Rice: Hybridités et sexualités : Le corps et la sensualité dans l’écriture des femmes d’Algérie Susan Mooney: Empreintes paternelles sur la masculinité et la féminité chez Nina Bouraoui et Michel Houellebecq Julie Monty: Virginie Despentes et Coralie Trinh Thi et le (post)féminisme. La Vengeance de viol dans (le film) Baise-moi Safoi Babana-Hampton: Pérégrinations mythiques et érotiques chez Nancy Huston et Milan Kundera : L’Empreinte de l’ange et L’Ignorance Murielle Lucie Clément: Gabriel Osmonde. Métaphysique des gros seins et Troisième naissance Rabia Redouane: Femme nue, femme noire de Calixthe Beyala : Pour une mythologie de l’érotisme africain Arzu Etensel Ildem: Le manque et l’excès : la sexualité dans la littérature antillaise

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Book SynopsisHas thinking, working and teaching in terms of national literatures become obsolete in today’s globalized world of hyphenated languages, literatures and cultures? Since the rise of modern European national philologies coincided with the emergence of modern European nation-states, does the dissolution of the latter in the European supranational unity imply the suspension of the former? Or we must, on the contrary, consider the fact that today’s Europe is not only postnational but, in its re-nationalized East-Central-European part, post-multinational as well, i.e., emerging out of the breakdown of the postimperial state formations such as the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia?Table of ContentsVladimir Biti: Introduction: Reexamining the National-Philological Legacy: Quest for a New Paradigm? Section I. The Hyphenation of Literature: A Genealogy Vladimir Biti: The Janus Face of Literary Bildung: Education and/or Self-Formation? Section II. Decomposing Nations, Establishing Contact Zones: Toward a New Idea of Literature Mario Grizelj: ‘Back’ to the West. Homecoming and Alterity around 1830 John Neubauer: “Humbly Report”? Svejk’s Voices from Exile Svend Erik Larsen: With Other Eyes or the Eyes of Others? A Scandinavian Case Eduardo F. Coutinho: The National Concept of Literature and Minority Group’s Identities in Latin America Section III. The Spectral Border: ‘Major’ and ‘Minor’ Identities Mladen Lazić and Jelena Pešić: National and European Identities among Political Elites and Population in European Countries Galin Tihanov: Do ‘Minor Literatures’ Still Exist? The Fortunes of a Concept in the Changing Frameworks of Literary History Guido Snel: After the Bridge: The Bosnian War as a European Trauma in the Work of Emir Suljagić and Aleksandar Hemon Section IV. The Politics of the Improper: Community as a Limit-Experience Ulrike Kistner: The Literary-Political Beyond Nation, State, Nation-State. Critical Unhingings in the Thought of Jan Patočka and Hannah Arendt Aleksandar Mijatović: Heteroessences: Community, Demonstratives and Interpretation in Agamben’s Philosophy of Language Zrinka Božić Blanuša: What about the Politics of Deconstruction? Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisÀ l’ère postcoloniale, les littératures de la migration et de l’exil se sont considérablement développées dans les pays de la Méditerranée qui ont connu, sous des formes diverses, le colonialisme, les guerres d’indépendance, puis la décolonisation. « Espace-mouvement » autour de trois aires culturelles, la chrétienté, le monde orthodoxe et la oumma musulmane, la Méditerranée a connu nombre d’affrontements, de heurts et de bouleversements identitaires. Au-delà de la crainte et de la méfiance nées de cette histoire, il existe une capacité d’invention renouvelée manifestée par les textes des écrivains issus des différents pays méditerranéens: Algérie, Chypre, Croatie, Égypte, Grèce, Liban, Maroc, Tunisie. À la lumière de la critique postcoloniale, Espace méditerranéen : écritures de l’exil, migrances et discours postcolonial analyse la dimension politique de ces œuvres et le rôle qu’a pu jouer la découverte de cultures différentes – à travers la migration, l’exil, l’expatriation – dans le parcours de certains écrivains ou penseurs caractérisés par une double appartenance. Les auteurs de cet ouvrage s’attachent donc à montrer les complexités mais aussi tout l’intérêt des écritures de l’exil et de la migrance à la croisée des cultures et des langues de la Méditerranée contemporaine.Table of ContentsJean-Marc Moura et Vasiliki Lalagianni: Écrire l’exil et la migrance à l’ère postcoloniale Margarita Alfaro: Le harem méditerranéen: la femme écrivaine face à un espace de rêve ou un espace d’exil culturel et personnel Beatriz Mangada: Le bassin méditerranéen, espace d’errances topographiques et de dérives énonciatives chez Andrée Chedid Arzu Etensel Ildem: De Beyrouth à Montréal, Abla Farhoud: la voix de l’exil et de la solitude Ilaria Vitali: De l’errance géographique au nomadisme littéraire: le cas de Vénus Khoury-Ghata Alison Rice: Navigations textuelles des femmes marocaines dans l’espace méditerranéen : mémoires, mères, monde Cheryl Toman: Écrire la guerre, la migration et l’exil: voix des femmes du Liban et de Croatie Vasiliki Lalagianni: Exil et mémoire traumatique dans les écrits de Mimika Kranaki et d’Aline Apostolska Elena-Brandusa Steiciuc: Déchantement postcolonial et migrance dans les écrits de Boualem Sansal Georges Fréris: Le « mythe » de El Greco exilé dans la culture néohellénique Antoine Sassine: L’exil et la quête du paradis dans l’oeuvre de Georges Schehadé Louisa Christodoulidou: Trauma, identité nationale et discours post-colonial dans Portes Closes de Costas Montis Adelaida Porras Medrano: Le discours postcolonial chez quelques écrivains maghrébins de langue française: autour des libérations des motifs exiliques et d’expatriation Odile Cazenave: Dire le retour sans le dire tout en le disant: Nouvelle configuration Jean-Marc Moura: De la critique et des lettres postcoloniales dans l’aire euroméditerranéenne. Désert de J.M.G. Le Clézio et L’Enfant de sable de Tahar Ben Jelloun Contributeurs et contributrices

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Book SynopsisHow does one read across cultural boundaries? The multitude of creative texts, performance practices, and artworks produced by Indigenous writers and artists in contemporary Australia calls upon Anglo-European academic readers, viewers, and critics to respond to this critical question. Contributors address a plethora of creative works by Indigenous writers, poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and painters, including Richard Frankland, Lionel Fogarty, Lin Onus, Kim Scott, Sam Watson, and Alexis Wright, as well as Durrudiya song cycles and works by Western Desert artists. The complexity of these creative works transcends categorical boundaries of Western art, aesthetics, and literature, demanding new processes of reading and response. Other contributors address works by non-Indigenous writers and filmmakers such as Stephen Muecke, Katrina Schlunke, Margaret Somerville, and Jeni Thornley, all of whom actively engage in questioning their complicity with the past in order to challenge Western modes of knowledge and understanding and to enter into a more self-critical and authentically ethical dialogue with the Other. In probing the limitations of Anglo-European knowledge-systems, essays in this volume lay the groundwork for entering into a more authentic dialogue with Indigenous writers and critics.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Beate Neumeier and Kay Schaffer: Introduction Sharing Across Boundaries Kim Scott: From Drill to Dance Stephen Muecke: The Great Tradition: Translating Durrudiya’s Songs Anna Haebich: Aboriginal Families, Knowledge, and the Archives: A Case Study Michael Christie: Decolonizing Methodology in an Arnhem Land Garden Eleonore Wildburger: The ‘Cultural Design’ of Western Desert Art Ethical and Other Encounters Ian Henderson: Modernism, Antipòdernism, and Australian Aboriginality Bill Ashcroft: Material Resonance: Knowing Before Meaning Lisa Slater: Waiting at the Border: White Filmmaking on the Ground of Aboriginal Sovereignty Kay Schaffer: Wounded Spaces/Geographies of Connectivity: Stephen Muecke’s No Road (bitumen all the way), Margaret Somerville’s Body/Landscape Journals, and Katrina Schlunke’s Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre Sue Kossew: Recovering the Past: Entangled Histories in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance Reading Transformations Philip Mead: The Geopolitical Underground: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, Mining, and the Sacred Heinz Antor: Identity and the Re-Assertion of Aboriginal Knowledge in Sam Watson’s The Kadaitcha Sung Anne Brewster: Gallows Humour and Stereotyping in the Nyungar Writer. Alf Taylor’s Short Fiction: A White Cross-Racial Reading Katrin Althans: “And in my dreaming I can let go of the spirits of the past”: Gothicizing the Common Law in Richard Frankland’s No Way to Forget Beate Neumeier: Performative Lives – Transformative Practices: Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages of Grieving, and Richard Frankland, Conversations with the Dead Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe boundary between ‘high’ culture and ‘popular’ culture is neither hermetic nor stable. A wide-spread mechanism of a reception strongly influenced by structuralism and post-modernism has led to the amplification and acceleration of cultural production between these two poles. Relying on a decidedly theoretical approach, this volume offers a broad perspective transgressing linguistic, cultural, temporal, and media borders. Reflections and perspectives on the relationship between ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture are the subject of the thirteen articles collected here. Side by side with theoretical approaches, case studies covering classical and Heavy Metal music, TV series and pornographic films, zombies and ‘Creature Features’, philosophically infused comics and popular lexicography, professional wrestling and hypertext literature pave the way to a contemporary aesthetics.Table of ContentsKeyvan Sarkhosh and Paul Ferstl: Introduction: Popular Culture in the Field of ‘Undercomplexity’ and ‘Imbalanced Coding’ Moritz Baßler: “New Standards of Beauty and Style and Taste”. Expanding the Concept of Camp Achim Hölter: Doppelte Optik and lange Ohren – Notes on the Aesthetic Compromise Marion Wittfeld: “Wartime Entertainment”: Press Instructions of the NS Propaganda Ministry on Literary Texts in Magazines Norbert Bachleitner: Literary Field or “Digital Soup”? Literature in the Internet Keyvan Sarkhosh: »Sick, sick, sick«? Pornography, Disgust, and the Limit Values of Aesthetics Daniel Syrovy: Sharks, Spiders, Locusts, Bats, and Rats: Thoughts Toward the Morphology of Creature Features Sabine Schönfellner: Appropriating the Undead: Zombies Outside the Horror Genre Stefan Tetzlaff: Narrative Devices in Contemporary Animated Series, or: Why Family Guy Does not Copy The Simpsons Paul Ferstl: Wrestling with Narratives: Reflections on the Montréal Screwjob Esteban Sanchino Martinez: The Logic of Metallica out of the Spirit of the Drastic: Reflections on Serious Writing in Popular Culture Ulrich Meurer: Becoming Line: On Some Features of Philosophy in Salut, Deleuze! Monika Schmitz-Emans: Alphabetical Writing between Information, Entertainment, and Experiment. Playful Variations of Lexicography in High and Popular Culture Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisFrançois Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (1651–1715) exerted a considerable influence on the development and spread of the Enlightenment. His most famous work, the Homeric novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, Fils d’Ulysse (1699), composed for the education of his pupil Duc de Bourgogne, was, after the Bible, the most widely read literary work in France throughout the eighteenth century. It was also translated and adapted into many other European languages. And yet oddly enough, the question as to why Fénelon’s ideas resonated over such a wide span of space and time has as yet found no coherent and comprehensive answer. By taking Fénelon’s intellectual influence as a matter of ‘cultural translation’, this anthology traces the reception of Fénelon and his multifaceted writings outside of France, and in doing so aims to enrich not only our understanding of the Enlightenment, but also of the thinker himself.Trade Review“The essays collected here resist the lure of Saint-Simon’s neat but reductive formula while endeavouring to render some of the contradictions in Fénelon’s life and work more intelligible. This volume offers a number of fresh insights as well as some useful correctives to persistent but misplaced beliefs. It displays due balance and caution throughout and is a very welcome contribution to scholarship.” - Nicholas N. Hunter, University of Birmingham, in: Modern Language Review 111.2 (2016), pp. 527-528 “Informationen zu den Beiträgern sind ebenso vorhanden wie ein Register. Das gelungene Buch bzw. einzelne seiner Beiträge sind vor allem für Aufklärungsforscher von Interesse, die sich mit Rezeptions- und Austauschprozessen zwischen den Nationen beschäftigen, die weitaus komplizierter ausfallen, als bloße „Einflüsse“, die aus einer Kultur in die andere wirken. Neben Literaturwissenschaftlern, Übersetzungswissenschaftlern und Kulturhistorikern sind die Beiträge des Bandes insbesondere auch für Religionshistoriker bzw. Theologen von Interesse.” - Till Kinzel, in: Informationsmittel für bibliotheken IFB

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the so far insufficiently considered concept of long modernity, this volume brings together contributions by leading European and American scholars in the fields of Literature, Cultural Studies, Intellectual and Cultural History. Behind it are research, debates and academic events organized by the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity, University of Bucharest, on modernity as a Western project. The book distinguishes phases in its unfolding, from the early, via the classic and high to the late modern period. Each chapter reveals a marked interdisciplinary approach to the various aspects of this century-old process. The theoretical introduction provides the conceptual scaffolding further fleshed out by individual chapters and case studies meant as illustrations. Staff and students interested in cultural identity are expected to find this collection useful and relevant.Table of Contents1. Mihaela Irimia (University of Bucharest): Why the Long Modernity 2. C.W.R.D. Moseley (University of Cambridge): Forging the Key of Remembrance: Books, Cultures and Memory 3. Madalina Nicolaescu (University of Bucharest): Mediating Between East and West in Nineteenth-Century Romanian Translations of Shakespeare 4. Stefan Herbrechter (Coventry University): Shakespeare – Early, Late or Posthumanist: The Case of Hamlet 5. Malgorzata Grzegorzewska (University of Warsaw): ‘Pictures like a summer’s cloud.’ The Phenomenology of the Visual in William Shakespeare’s Plays and on the Stage of the Contemporary Theatre 6. Petruta Naidut (University of Bucharest): Spectres of the Old World in the New 7. Christoph Ehland (University of Paderborn): The Laws of Piracy: Pirates as Messengers of Modernity in Thomas Heywood’s Fortune by Land and Sea 8. Herbert Grabes (University of Giessen): The Five Radical Modernizations of Long Modernity 9. Pat Rogers (University of South Florida): Modernity Then and Now 10. Francis O’Gorman (University of Manchester): An Alternative to Whig Modernity: An Analysis of Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century 11. Clifford Siskin (NYU): Literary History in the Long Modernity 12. Shobhana Battacharji (Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi): Modernity during the Long Romanticism: The Case of Byron 13. Jürgen Pieters (Ghent University): Literature and the Long Search for Modernity: The Counter-Histories of Antoine Compagnon and William Marx 14. Laurent Milesi (Cardiff University): Speeds of (Post)Modernity 15 Thomas Docherty (University of Warwick): Now, or to Tell the Truth, the Contemporary 16. Adrian Otoiu (University of Baia Mare): In the Wake of Finnegan? Wordplay in Malcolm Lowry and Flann O’Brien: Modernism as a Punceptual Dead End 17. Hans-Peter Söder (University of Munich): The Globe is Not Enough: In Defence of National Literature(s) 18. Linda Hutcheon (University of Toronto): Literature in the Long Modernity: Its Reception in the Digital Age 19. Alan Riach (University of Glasgow): Scottish Literature and Anglo-American Modernity: What Makes It New? 20. Eve Patten (Trinity College, Dublin): Modernity and Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Making of a ‘National Reader’ 21. Isabel Oliveira Martins (The New University of Lisbon): Marianne Baillie’s View of Portugal or British Femaleness Abroad 22. Michael Hutcheon (University of Toronto): The Musical Modernism of Olivier Messiaen 23. Ludmila Volná (Charles University, Prague): Towards Indian Modernity and the Birth of Indian Writing in English: The Case of Rammohan Ray 24. Bogdan Stefanescu (University of Bucharest): Late (for) Modernity: Transition and the Traumatic Colonization of the Future of Postcommunist Cultures 25. Arleen Ionescu (University of Ploiesti): Hauntologies of Post-Joycean Modernity in Romanian Literature. Adrian Otoiu’s Coaja lucrurilor sau Dansând cu jupuita Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisDespite the fact that transnational movement and intercultural encounter are the signs of our present time, questions of belonging and legitimation of citizenship in most West-European countries still largely depend on monolingual norms and the problematic conflation of the idea of a national language with that of the mother tongue. This volume explores literary negotiations of and challenges to this powerful myth of monolingualism in various, mostly West-European cultural contexts. The focus of these explorations ranges from the ethics of mono- and multilingualism and the persistent ideology of nativity and the native speaker, to multilingual strategies and the trials and tribulations of translating multilingual texts. The volume also contains contributions by awarded literary writers, such as Yoko Tawada, Ramsey Nasr, Chika Unigwe and Fouad Laroui: texts that demonstrate the creative multiplicity of language and the disruptive potential of multilingualism in action.Table of ContentsLiesbeth Minnaard and Till Dembeck: Introduction: How to Challenge the Myth of Monolingualism? David Gramling: Getting up onto Monolingualism: Barthes, Kafka, Myth Fouad Laroui: A Case of 'Fake Monolingualism': Morocco, Diglossia and the Writer Madeleine Kasten: Moroccan Literature: A Monster Yet To Be Born? A Response to Fouad Laroui Till Dembeck and Georg Mein: Philology's Jargon: How Can We Write Post-Monolingually? Esther Kilchmann: Monolingualism, Heterolingualism, and Poetic Innovation: On Contemporary German Literature, with a Side Glance to the Seventeenth Century Ramsey Nasr: mi have een droom (with an Introduction by Liesbeth Minnaard) Liesbeth Minnaard: About Being Representative: Ramsey Nasr's Poetic Performances as Antwerp City Poet and Dutch Poet Laureate Chika Unigwe: Eechtenteechtig (with an Introduction by Elisabeth Bekers) Elisabeth Bekers: "Bearing Gifts of Words": Multilingualism in the Fiction of Flemish-Nigerian Writer Chika Unigwe Thomas Ernst: Brussels is Europe: Koen Peeters' Grote Europese Roman as Multilingual Literature Maria Boletsi: The Barbarism(s) of Multilingualism: Outweirding the Mainstream in Guillermo Gomez-Pena's Performance Literature Yoko Tawada: The Script of a Turtle or the Problem of Translation Bettina Brandt: The Bones of Translation: Yoko Tawada's Translational Poetics The Contributors

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Book SynopsisAbstract space becomes concrete place by being bound to individual and historical experience. Sea and coast – in texts from antiquity to the present mostly seen as mere spaces of transit and division between geographical places – are hotly contested topographical phenomena, which instigate the designation of highly semanticized cultural spaces in imagination and everyday practice. Literature has always been a central agent of the maritime cultural imaginary through the initiation and negotiation of competing versions of coast and sea. This anthology offers international research on historically specific functions of maritime spaces as historicized places, where national and individual identities, cultural exchange, a globalized economy, and ‘the technical sublime’ are dramatized. The essays focus on literature from Shakespeare through British literary history to David Dabydeen, Yann Martel, and Australian author Stephen Orr, but also on film (James Cameron, Danny Boyle), cartography, and historiographical accounts of Irish migration or Caribbean piracy in the late 17th century. They enlarge the field of ‘Hermeneutical Sea Studies’, an only recently established area of Cultural Studies. The book is targeted at an academic audience, while retaining a high level of appeal for any reader who is interested in popular culture. As the anthology combines theoretical approaches with practical case studies, it is suitable for courses at university level, both graduate and undergraduate.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Anna-Margaretha Horatschek: From Cultural Spaces to Maritime Places: An Introduction Chapter I. Voyages Gesa Mackenthun: Oceanic Topographies: Routes, Ships, Voyagers Joanna Rostek: Refusing to Rest on the Sea's Bed: The Sea of the Middle Passage in David Dabydeen's Turner (1994) and Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997) Jens Martin Gurr: When China's Trade all Europe Overflows: Edward Young's Naval Lyrics, Critical (Mis)Fortune, and the Discourses of Naval Power, Trade, and Globalisation Joachim Schwend: The Trish Atlantic - Everywhere Green Is Worn Chapter II. Heterotopic Places Jonathan Rayner: What Does this Vaingloriousness Down Here?: Thomas Hardy, James Cameron, and the Titanic Alexandra Ganser: The Coastal Figuration of the Caribbean Pirate in the Late Seventeenth Century Francesca Nadja Palitzsch: 'Managing Wilderness': Insular Topographies, Outcast Identities, and Cultural Representation in James Hawes' Speak for England, Scarlett Thomas' Bright Young Things, and Yann Martel's Life of Pi Johannes Riquet: Bliss and War on the Island: Undoing Myth and Negotiating History in Stevenson's Treasure lsland (1883) and Garland's The Beach (1996) Chapter III. Liminal Spaces Wolfgang Klooss: Coast and Beach: Contested Spaces in Cultural and Literary Discourse Liz Ellison: On the Beach: Exploring the Complex Egalitarianism of the Australian Beach Ursula Kluwick: The Coast as a Site of Ecological Haunting in Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca Patrizia A. Muscogiuri: Sea and Coast between Metaphor and History in Virginia Woolf's Writing Chapter IV. Maritime Border Aesthetics Stephen Wolfe: The Borders of the Sea: Spaces of Representation Ruben Moi: Ocean's Love to Ireland: Imagery of the Sea in Contemporary Irish Poetry Timothy Saunders: Coasting Classical Antiquity: Percy Shelley in the Bay of Naples Søren Frank: The Tensions between Domestic Life and Maritime Life in Sea Novels Index

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