Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books

Book Synopsis.- 1 Introduction – Reading Pandemic Politics.- 2 Reading the Dominant Ideology from Brexit to Covid.- 3 Covid and the Nations.- 4 Representations of Ageing During the Pandemic.- 5 Covid, Writing and the Politics of Race.- 6 Gender, Power and Domestic Spaces in Covid Fiction.- 7 Conclusion – Pandemic Politics after the Pandemic.

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Book SynopsisDiskurse und Verfahren in frühen Feuilletons und Reportagen.- Jede Berliner Stunde schleudert Millionen von Zeitungsblättern auf die Straße. Gabriele Tergits Zeitungstexte in den neusachlichen Medienkonjunkturen.- Soziale (Un-)Gleichheit und diversitätsbezogene Diskurse bei Gabriele Tergit.- Die Neue Frau und ihre Freundin Generation, Typologie und Klasse in Gabriele Tergits Die Einspännerin.- Unsichtbar steht ein großes Hakenkreuz vor dem Richtertisch. Gabriele Tergits Gerichtsreportagen.- Leser merken janischt. Typografie und Suggestion im Käsebier-Roman.- Von Exklusivität und Exklusion. Zum jüdischen Berlin in Gabriele Tergits Effingers.- Perspektiven auf die unmittelbare Nachkriegszeit: Gabriele Tergits Der erste Zug nach Berlin und Susanne Kerckhoffs Berliner Briefe.- Hohlspiegel gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche und Krisen: Gabriele Tergits So war's eben.- Im unbefreundeten Kosmos. Versuche der Kontextualisierung von GabrieleTergits Palästina-Reportagen .- Ein vernünftiges, sprühend geistvolles Männerland: Gabriele Tergits Buch über England.- Rätsel dieses fremden Erdteils: Gabriele Tergits kleine Form im Nachkrieg oder der stereoskopische Blick des Londoner Exils.

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Book Synopsis1. Einleitung.- 2. Nach dem Ende des Geschichtstheaters.- 3. Geschichte aus weiblichem Blick?.- 4. Perspektiven zur Subjektivität im Theater Elfriede Jelineks.- 5. Fazit.

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Book SynopsisDanksagung.- 1. Einleitung.- 2. Theoretische Annäherung.- 3. Künstlertopoi, Schreibnarrative.- 4. Making-of Peter Kurzeck.- 5. Verortung.- 6. Fazit.- Abbildungsnachweise.- Siglenverzeichnis.- Literaturverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Liminality and Contemporary New York Fiction: Venturing a Synthesis.- Betwixt and Between in the Heart of New York City.- New York as Liminal Lieu de Mémoire in Post-9/11 Fiction.- Conclusion and Outlook.

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Book SynopsisChinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship, well-suited to classroom use in that it combines rigorous analysis with a lively style. Covering the period from the 1980s to the present, it is organized around the notions of text, context and metatext, meaning poetry, its socio-political and cultural surroundings, and critical discourse in the broadest sense. Authors and issues studied include Han Dong, Haizi, Xi Chuan, Yu Jian, Sun Wenbo, Yang Lian, Wang Jiaxin, Bei Dao, Yin Lichuan, Shen Haobo and Yan Jun, and everything from the subtleties of poetic rhythm to exile-bashing in domestic media. This book has room for all that poetry is: cultural heritage, symbolic capital, intellectual endeavor, social commentary, emotional expression, music and the materiality of language – art, in a word.Trade Review"This monograph fully confirms Maghiel Van Crevel’s status as the world’s leading expert on contemporary Chinese poetry. His extremely meticulous documentation, his unbiased approach to a wide range of poets and poems, his terminological consistency and theoretical originality all combine to make this book outclass anything written previously on this topic, whether by western scholars or by Chinese scholars." Michel Hockx, Professor, Chinese Literature and Culture "The culmination of more than a decade of research, much of it conducted “on the ground,” Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money strikes a judicious balance between tracing the geneaology of the Chinese avant-garde and profiling the major poets and polemicists who have helped shape that lineage. (...) [The] translations (...) are a pleasure to read, so much so they leave you hungry for more." Steve Bradbury, World Literature Today, (July-August 2009) “The poets of mainland China have been far busier writing and wrangling over their work during the past 20 or so years than scholars from beyond China have been in analysing it. While research on this body of poetry has begun to fill out in recent years, no single piece of scholarship makes a contribution equal to that of Maghiel van Crevel’s Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money. This is an ambitious book. Its 13 chapters move from an extensive introduction on through a dozen ‘case studies’ that cover, in roughly chronological order, the work of about 11 important poets. Where the individual chapters provide focused, meticulously detailed considerations of poetry and discourse on poetry, the book as a whole presents a timely overview of the development of Chinese avant-garde poetry since the mid-1980s.” John Crespi, IIAS Newsletter #50 (2009) "Reading Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is akin to taking a graduate seminar on the subject.(…) this book solidifies van Crevel's place as the preeminent scholar of contemporary Chinese poetry writing in the West.(…) It should be a companion to graduate seminars (…)if one were to read only one book on the current period, this would be it. In terms of the command of subject matter, the breadth of the discussion, the expanse of time covered, the knowledge the author exhibits of the Chinese-language secondary scholarship, and his intimate familiarity with the original publishing circumstances of myriad specific poems (…) van Crevel's contribution is arguably unparalleled in English-language contemporary Chinese cultural studies." Christopher Lupke, MCLC Resource Center Publication (March 2011) http://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/chinese-poetry/ "Van Crevel surveys and synthesizes a vast range of poetry and literary criticism, in prose that is always clear, cogent, and readable. The book has two major advantages over similar studies published in the PRC: extensive coverage of criticism in Western languages as well as in Chinese; and the ability to address directly sensitive political matters, such as the Tiananmen incident. These advantages, along with Van Crevel’s personal contacts, meticulous research, and encyclopaedic command of his material, make this the definitive sourcebook for the study of contemporary Chinese poetry in any language." Jacob Edmond, The China Quarterly, 207, September 2011 "[T]his is a work of tremendous scholarship, fieldwork, and insight. There is no comparable English-language book that breaks as much new ground or synthesizes as much previous research. It is to be recommended to anyone who seeks a better understanding of the late twentieth-century poetic scene in China." Jack Chen, in China Review International , 16 (2009). '[This] book is … highly suitable for interested non-sinologists looking for a general overview of poetic schools, themes, and discourses. At the same time, it is a foundational work for use in university and high school classrooms – but moreover, it will serve as a useful point of departure for further specialist research. Its content is organized strictly and formulated precisely, and leaves ample room for one’s own discoveries at the same time as competently guiding the reader.' Andrea Riemenschnitter in Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques, 65-2 (2011)

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2014 Victor Adler State Prize from the Austrian Ministry of Science and Education! The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 1919–1939 confronts the life and intellectual heritage of the Galician-Jewish exiled journalist and writer Joseph Roth (1894–1939). Through the quandaries that occupied his mature writings—nostalgia, suffering, European culture, Judaism, exile, self-narration—the book analyses the greater Central European literary culture of the interwar European years through the lens of modern displacement and Jewish identity. Moving between his journalism, novels and correspondence, Lazaroms follows Roth's life as it rapidly disintegrated alongside radicalized politics, exile, the rise of Nazism, and Europe’s descent into another world war. Despite these tragedies, which forced him into homelessness, Roth confronted his predicament with an ever-growing political intensity. The Grace of Misery is an intellectual portrait of a profoundly modern writer whose works have gained a renewed readership in the last decade.Table of ContentsLife on the Tip of a Pen: Preface Chapter 1 - Mental Captivity. Re-imagining a Lost Heritage Chapter 2 - Opening up the Crypt. The Political Potential of Nostalgia Chapter 3 - The Lamentations of an “Old Jew.” The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer Chapter 4 - The Double Bind of Self-Narration. Jewish Identity and the Undercurrents of German-Jewish Modernity Chapter 5 - Prophecies of Unrest. Interwar Europe under an Apocalyptic Lens Postscript

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Book SynopsisWolf Totem and the Post-Mao Utopian by Li Xiaojiang explores the controversial best-selling novel by the political economist Jiang Rong as an allegory of utopia through discussion of an encyclopaedic range of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that offer thinking on topics introduced in the novel. In promoting the significance of utopian thought, Li stresses that the term for her study, “post-utopian criticism,” is not the same as anti-utopian criticism, but an analytical approach to criticism in order to addresses the shortcomings of postmodern and postcolonial theories applied to contemporary China, and to open up interpretive space for the specific historical experience of its people and its utopian ideals.Table of ContentsPreface: ‘Allegorical Writing’ and ‘Post-Utopian Criticism’ Postscript to the Revised Edition: The Restrictions on Utopia Part 1: Textual Analysis 1 What Kinds of Stories Does Wolf Totem Narrate?: As Allegory: The Qualities and Characteristics of Wolf Totem  1 Allegory and Modern Allegory  2 Tracing the Wolf Motif  3 The Narrative Strategy of Wolf Totem 2 Why Was There Such a Wide Readership for Wolf Totem?: As Fiction: The Shift of Subject Position in the Context of Post-Modernism  1 Theme the Logic of the Grassland: Existence in Primal Nature  2 The Protagonist, the Grassland Wolf: The Spirit of Primal Freedom  3 Plot: The Story of the Wolf Cub and the Death of Freedom  4 Tragedy, the End of the Grassland: The Death of Nature 3 How Did Wolf Totem Captivate Readers?: Aesthetics: A Model Text of Postmodernist Empathy  1 The Ecosystem 119   a) Structure: Emplacement and Heterotopias   b) Rhythm: Rotation and Reversal  2 The Language of Life   a) Scenery: Action Words   b) Details: Sensuous Vocabulary Part 2: Allegorical Interpretation 4 How Many Allegories are Contained in Wolf Totem?: The Utopian Boat: A Journey of Redemption Has a Nearly Inaccessible Destination  1 In Terms of Semiotics: How Many Meanings Lie Hidden in Wolf Totem?  2 In Terms of Linguistics: Are ‘Translation’ and ‘Mediation’ Possible?  3 In Terms of Religious Studies: How Did the Wolf become a Totem?  4 In Terms of Anthropology: Whence Human Nature? Whither Human Nature?  5 In Terms of Gender: ‘Asexual’ or ‘Sexual’?  6 In Terms of Ecology: How Much Space for Choice Do Humans still Have?  7 In Terms of Cultural Studies: In the Contest of Civilizations, Who is the Winner?  8 In Terms of Economics: What is the Distance between Labor and Power?  9 In Terms of Political Science: What Weapon Do You Use to Conquer the Grassland?  10 In Terms of Historiography: Where Does the Story of ‘Nature’ End?  11 In Terms of Philosophy: What Lies Ahead for ‘Freedom’?  12 In Terms of Folklore: Limited Use or Limited Survival? 5 How Could Wolf Totem Evoke Diametrically Opposed Moods and Opinions?: Postcolonial Criticism: Allegory is in the Self-Dissolution of ‘Thinking’  1 On Dialogue (a): War and Peace  2 On Dialogue (b): The Issue of National Character  3 On “The Lecture”: China and the World  4 The Author: A Farewell to Revolution? 6 A Brief Conclusion: The Discursive Space Within and Outside Wolf Totem: In Terms of Criticism: Interpretation and Necessary “Over-interpretation”  1 ‘Post-’ Discourse Encounters Danger While Traveling  2 The Disappearance and Return of the Second World  3 Post-Utopian Criticism and the End of the ‘Post-’

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Book SynopsisKatherine Mansfield’s French Lives explores how both the literary, cultural, editorial and biographical influence of French arts and philosophy, and life as an émigré in France shaped Mansfield’s evolution as a key modernist writer, while setting her within the geographies and cultural dynamics of Anglo-French modernism. Mansfield’s many stays in France were decisive in intellectual, personal and psychological terms: discovering ‘Murry’s Paris’ and the Left Bank; escaping to the War Zone to join Francis Carco; living as a civilian in wartime during the bombardments of Paris; travelling and finding lodgings as a single woman in war-ravaged towns; the experience of bereavement and debilitating ill-health abroad; and the joys and pitfalls for an outsider of a foreign land and idiom.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Mansfield in France Sydney Janet Kaplan Mansfield and Murry’s Sojourns in France: A Bi-National Quarrel Louise Edensor Un profession de foi pour toujours: Katherine Mansfield and Beatrice Hastings in France Galya Diment Katherine Mansfield’s Russian Healers Gilles Freyssinet Francis Carco: The Poet of ‘Paname’ Part Two: Literary Representations of France W. Todd Martin A Tale of Two Cities: London and Paris in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘A Little Episode’ Janka Kascakova ‘For all Parisians are more than half–’: Stereotypes and Physical Love in Katherine Mansfield’s Writing Gina Wisker Looking for a Resting Place: Travel and Defamiliarisation in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Epilogue I: Pension Seguin’ Chris Mourant ‘Alors, Je Pars’: Katherine Mansfield and the New Age, 1915-17 Part Three: Mansfield and French Literature Janet Wilson Katherine Mansfield and Anima Mundi: France and the Tradition of Nature Personified Anne Mounic Katherine Mansfield, Proust and Baudelaire: On the Questionable Issue of Literary Influence Mirosława Kubasiewicz Art Collectors and Artists: Love in the Works of Marcel Proust and Katherine Mansfield Gerri Kimber Deux Femmes ‘Vagabondes’: Katherine Mansfield and Colette Part Four: Intercultural Approaches: The Arts and Languages of France Tracy Miao Artistic Coalescence and Synthetic Performance: Katherine Mansfield and her ‘Rhythms’ Rishona Zimring Rethinking Mansfield Through Gaudier-Brzeska: Monumentality and Intimacy Josiane Paccaud-Huguet ‘Dames seules’ Lost in Translation: The French Language in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio Writing the Undiscovered Country: Katherine Mansfield, Childhood and France Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn Struggle by the Pen, Ondřej Klimeš explores the emergence of national consciousness and nationalist ideology of Uyghurs in Xinjiang from c. 1900-1949. Drawing from texts written by modern Uyghur intellectuals, politicians and propagandists throughout this period, he identifies diverse types of Uyghur discourse on the nation and national interest, and traces the emergence and construction of modern Uyghur national identity. The author also demonstrates that the modern Uyghur intelligentsia regarded political emancipation and social modernization as the two most important interests of their nation, and that they envisaged Uyghurs as citizens of a modern republican state founded on the principles of representative government. This book thus presents a new perspective on Uyghur intellectual history and on Republican Xinjiang.Trade Review"This book breaks new ground in its emphasis on the writing of history... The historiographical approach is innovative and very interesting. Not only does it explicate and give function to the main Uyghur historians of the period, but it also adds new perspectives on the whole area of national consciousness and its rise under the circumstances of emerging modernization." Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Australia, China Information, Vol. 30, No. 1., 2016 "It is important to look at research offering a lucid, nuanced and historical appraisal of contestation in Xinjiang, especially in regard to the expression of national interests among the Turkic Muslims living in the region. Ondřej Klimeš has provided such a book. The author’s work describes the course of a debate on nation among early 20th century thinkers in Xinjiang contemporary observers would be prudent to read. Furthermore, Klimeš has offered a rare kind of book in the field, in that it studies the ideas of individuals and not just the policies of institutions. At its core this is a humanistic work. […] [This] book produced by Klimeš will not only be important in tracing the historical roots of the nation debate in Xinjiang, but also critical in voicing an indigenous tradition of intellectual thought over national interest." Henryk Szadziewski, University of Hawaii at Manoa, New Books Asia, 2016 "This is a useful contribution to nationality studies. Klimeš’ command of Uyghur has allowed him to probe the changing character of Uyghur identity through close reading of a number of publications inaccessible to most scholars; moreover, Klimeš has made a “special effort … to refer to sources which have not been previously examined” (p.19)." Malcolm McKinnon, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, June 2017Table of ContentsList of Acronyms List of Tables List of Illustrations Chronology of Major Political Events Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Protonational Identity and Interest (1900s) Chapter 2: Emergence of National Idea and National Agitation (1910s–1920s) Chapter 3: Politicization of National Interest (1930s) 3.1. Turkic Insurgency (1930–34) 3.2. Administration of Sheng Shicai (1934–44) Chapter 4: The Significance of a National Boundary in Flux (1940s) 4.1. Republican Turkic Nationalism (1930s–49) 4.2. The Three Districts’ Revolution (1944–49) Chapter 5: Conclusion Bibliography Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisEngaged with the paradigms of cultural geography, local history, spatial politics, and everyday life, The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren unveils a Sichuan writer’s lifelong quest: an independent historical fiction writing project on Chengdu from the turn of the century through China’s 1911 Revolution. Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng's study illuminates the crisis of writing home in a globalized age by rescuing Li Jieren’s repeatedly revised but never finished river-novel series written from Republican to Communist China, struggling to liberate local memory from the national cum revolutionary currents. The book undercuts official historiography and rewrites Chinese literary history from the ground up by highlighting Li’s resilient geopoetics of writing that decenters the nation by adopting the place-based view of a distant province.Trade Review“In The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren: The Crisis of Writing Chengdu in Revolutionary China, Kenny K. Ng offers much-needed insights into the regional culture of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, and the less well-known but very creative literary writer, Li Jieren (1891-1962). […] Ng successfully articulates the connections between native place and modernity, which span the local, regional, and national levels. […] [T]hroughout, Ng convincingly brings to light Li Jieren’s ceaseless improvement of his writing on the 1911 Revolution in all its complexity, and foregrounds the writer’s craft in depicting the structure of daily life, geographic specificity, and social customs that are inseparable from the overall meaning and import of the revolutionary events. In sum, The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the politics of localized memory and alternative forms of microhistorical configurations of place against hegemonic macrohistorical narratives and cultural paradigms in the PRC.” Yuehtsen Juliette Chung, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, MCLC Resource Center Publication, June 2016.Table of ContentsFigures Acknowledgments 1.) Introduction: The Man, The Place, The Novel 2.) From Tianhui to Chengdu: Geopoetics and Historical Imagination 3.) No Place for Good Memories: Chengdu 1911 4.) Tempest in a Teacup: Local Memorial Dynamics 5.) Love in the Time of Revolution 6.) The Road to Perdition Conclusion: No Sense of an Ending Appendix: Translations by Li Jieren Works Cited Chinese Glossary

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Book SynopsisThis book studies the influence of censorship on the selection and translation of English language fiction in the People’s Republic of Poland, 1944-1989. It analyses the differences between originals and their translations, taking into account the available archival evidence from the files of Poland’s Censorship Office, as well as the wider social and historical context. The book examines institutional censorship, self-censorship and such issues as national quotas of foreign literature, the varying severity of the regime, and criticism as a means to control literature. However, the emphasis remains firmly on how censorship affected the practice of translation. Translators shaped Polish perceptions of foreign literature from Charlie Chan books to Ulysses and from The Wizard of Oz to Moby-Dick. But whether translators conformed or rebelled, they were joined in this enterprise by censors and pulled into post-war Poland’s cultural power structures.Trade Review“This monograph is a long-awaited, comprehensive and thorough study filling the research gap concerning translation and censorship in the context of the Polish People’s Republic (1944-1989) [...] The book definitely makes an important contribution to the literature on censorship and translation. It is a highly recommended reading for all those interested in translation in the context of repressive constraints and those interested in translation conventions and norms across languages and cultures.” - Joanna Dybiec-Gajer, University of Krakow, Poland in Target, Vol. 29 No. 2 2017 pp. 344-349Table of ContentsContents Chapter 1 Censors 7 Chapter 2 Progressives 27 Chapter 3 Others 67 Chapter 4 Morals 101 Chapter 5 Racists 135 Chapter 6 Children 155 Chapter 7 Translators 187 Bibliography .03 Index 223

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Book SynopsisExperimental Chinese Literature is the first theoretical account of material poetics from the dual perspectives of translation and technology. Focusing on a range of works by contemporary Chinese authors including Hsia Yü, Chen Li, and Xu Bing, Tong King Lee explores how experimental writers engage their readers in multimodal reading experiences by turning translation into a method and by exploiting various technologies. The key innovation of this book rests with its conceptualisation of translation and technology as spectrums that interact in different ways to create sensuous, embodied texts. Drawing on a broad range of fields such as literary criticism, multimodal studies, and translation, Tong King Lee advances the notion of the translational text, which features transculturality and intersemioticity in its production and reception.Trade Review"A clear and wideranging exposition of these issues in the Chinese-language context, Lee's book is a welcome change and addition to the more usual focus on the artistic practices of experimental writers and text-based artists in Europe and North America." -Adam Jaworski, The University of Hong Kong, in Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol. 50, Iss. 1.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables and Figures Chapter 1 Central Issues Experimental Literature and its Modes of Materiality Multimodality and Intersemioticity Translation and the Translational Technology Chapter Outline Chapter 2 Machine Translation and Hsia Yü's Poetics of Deconstruction Translation and Deconstruction Dichotomies Revisited Pink Noise: Mode of Writing Deconstructing Authorship Romancing the Machine Poet Transparent Meanings: Multimodality and Materiality The Texts: Literary Meaning and its Discontents Disjuncture and Divergence Concretising Images Ungrammaticality: Fetishism with the Word Proliferating Différance: Pink Noise in Multiple MT (Ir)reconciling Text and Machine The Text-Machine as Monster The ‘Ish-ness’ of Language Chapter 3 The Material Poetics of Chen Li: Translation and Technology The Translingual Sign as Inscription Technology Intermediality: The Printed Text and its Digital ‘Translation’ Interlinguality: Writing Through Translation Intersemioticity: Creative Transpositions Engendering a Material Poetics through Translation and Technology Chapter 4 Visuality and Translation in Literary Art: Xu Bing's A Book from the Sky and A Book from the Ground The Imagetext in Deconstructed Chinese Characters: A Book from the Sky Icon-Language in Deverbalised Communication: A Book from the Ground Imagetext: Image-In-Text to Image-As-Text Chapter 5 The Translational: Intersemioticity and Transculturality Case Examples Text Garden Read, Art Evil/Exorcised Translation as Method in Literary Art Chapter 6 On Chineseness and the Trope of Translation in Experimental Literature Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA Writer’s Topography examines French-Algerian Nobel Prize laureate Albert Camus’s intimate yet often unsettled relationship with natural and human landscapes. Much like the Greek hero Sisyphus about whom he wrote his famous philosophical essay, Camus sustained a deep awareness of and appreciation for what he termed le visage de ce monde—the face of this earth. This wide-ranging collection of essays by Camus scholars from around the world demonstrates to what extent topography is omnipresent in Camus’s life and works. Configurations and contemplations of landscape figure prominently in his fictional works on both a literal and figurative level—from the earliest writings of his youth to his final, unfinished novel, Le Premier Homme. Furthermore, as a core component of the way in which Camus perceived, conceived and expressed the human condition, topography constitutes an over-arching and particularly profound dimension of his personal, public and philosophical thought.Table of ContentsJason HERBECK and Vincent GRÉGOIRE: Introduction Part I. Camus and His Works: Openings and Closings Agnès SPIQUEL-COURDILLE: Les lieux ouverts et le royaume Raymond GAY-CROSIER: Exiled in a Spiritual Geography: Albert Camus’s Road to Values Part II. Ontological Spaces Vincent GRÉGOIRE : Réflexion sur le thème du plateau dans la vie et l’œuvre de Camus Guy BASSET : Topographies suspendues Jacquelyn LIBBY : Tipasa and le monde: Metonymic Displacement in “Noces à Tipasa” Sophie BASTIEN : Formes et fonctions de la prison chez Camus Part III. Literal Meeting Places of the Imaginary Steven WINSPUR : Paysages et d’autres réseaux de vie chez Camus John WALSH: The Cooper and the Painter: The Topography of the Atelier in L’Exil et le Royaume Lorenzo GIACHETTI: A Psychogeography of the Monstrous in Le Premier Homme Part IV. Literary Meeting Places: Camus and His Contemporaries Thierry DURAND : Blanchot, Camus: une approche préliminaire Martine BENJAMIN : Le tombeau parental, ou « le temps d’un retour » dans Le Premier Homme d’Albert Camus, et dans Adieu ma mère, adieu mon cœur de Jules Roy Ben STOLTZFUZ: Hemingway’s Influence on Camus: The Iceberg as Topography Part V. In (the) Place of Writing: Literal and Literary Constructions Jason HERBECK: Bridging Consciousness: A Topographical Reading of La Chute Marie-Thérèse BLONDEAU : La Peste ou les métamorphoses d’Oran Matthew MOYLE : Écrire le lieu qui s’inscrit: topographies toponymiques dans La Peste et La Chute John LAMBETH: The Figure of the Labyrinth in “Le Renégat” and “La Pierre qui pousse” Author Information

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Book SynopsisThe motifs of island and shipwreck have been present in literature and the arts from ancient times. Whether they occur as plot elements, as part of literary or film imagery, as symbols in paintings, as leitmotifs in songs, or as concepts in philosophical theories, both have always been a source of fascination to authors, artists and scholars. In Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts, Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer have gathered essays that explore shipwreck and island figures in texts as historically, culturally and artistically diverse as Walter Scott’s The Lord of the Isles, Cristina Fernández Cubas’ “The Lighthouse”, reality TV series Treasure Island, pop songs of the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs, or The Otolith Group’s essay-film Hydra Decapita.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgements Epigraph Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer Introduction: Shipwrecks and Islands as Multilayered, Timeless Metaphors of Human Existence I: Shipwrecks, Islands and Subjectivity Volkmar Billig “I-lands”: The Construction and Shipwreck of an Insular Subject in Modern Discourse Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton, Gerald Naughton, and Samiah Haque The Island as Chora Phillip Stevenson “Mine Was a Peculiar Kind of Wreck”: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Deconstruction of Treasure Island in The Wrecker Michael Hinds Robinson in Headphones: The Desert Island as Pop Fetish II: The Island as Aesthetic Concept Heather H. Yeung Adventures in Form: The Hebrides and the Romantic Imaginary Patricia García “The Lighthouse” (Edgar Allan Poe, 1849; Cristina Fernández Cubas, 1997): From the “Egocentred” to a “Geocentred” Analysis David Garrett Izzo Fifty Years On: Aldous Huxley’s Island (1962) Reconsidered III: Weathering the Tempest – Images of Shipwrecks and Islands from Ancient to Modern Times Barbara Freitag The Gaelicization of Brasil Island: From Cartographic Error to Celtic Elysium Robert J. Vrtis The Tempest Toss’d Ship: Twelfth Night and Emotional Communities in Early Modern London Dyani Johns Taff A Shipwreck of Faith: Hazardous Voyages and Contested Representations in Milton’s Samson Agonistes Barra Ó Seaghdha Islands and Irelands: Journeys, Mappings and Re-Mappings IV: The Island as Feminine Space Sara K. Day “Maybe Girls Need an Island”: Desert Islands and Gender Troubles in Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens Amy Hicks Recreating Home for the New Girl: Domesticity and Adventure in L.T. Meade’s Four on an Island Shawn Thomson Lady Castaways in the Gilded Age in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth Sandra Vlasta Islands to Get Away From: Postcolonial Islands and Emancipation in Novels by Monica Ali, Andrea Levy and Caryl Phillips V: Experimental Shipwrecks and Island as Laboratory Shiela Pardee Drifting and Foundering: Evolutionary Theory in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos Maria Błaszkiewicz “You Turn Worlds Upside Down”: The Politics of Reversal in Terry Pratchett’s Nation Pat Brereton Shipwrecks and Desert Islands: Ecology and Nature – A Case Study of How Reality TV and Fictional Films Frame Representations of Islands Beatrice Ferrara The Figuration of the Shipwreck as Political Commentary in Hydra Decapita, an Essay-Film by The Otolith Group Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConfiguring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most current developments in the emergent field of Masculinity Studies with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature from the Middle Ages to the present and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. The volume combines seminal articles on the most important concepts in Masculinity Studies by acknowledged experts such as Raewyn Connell, Todd Reeser, and Richard Collier with new and innovative analyses of key British literary texts combining Literary and Cultural Studies approaches with those currently deployed in Masculinity Studies, Gender Studies, Legal Studies, Postcolonial Studies as well as methodologies derived from sociology.Trade Review"The collection opens with three essays that provide broad and thorough introductions to key developments in the field [of masculinity studies] over time. Stefan Horlacher’s introduction, entitled “Configuring Masculinity”, is a succinct exploration of just what is and what might be this “new field of research” called masculinity studies. For those new to the field, Horlacher’s review of the field’s development serves as an important first step toward future studies; for those who’ve been at it a while, it serves as a good take on just how we can make this field matter, not just to literary studies, but to all inquiries into the humanities. […] We know by now that masculinity has moved beyond a single, stable benchmark against which all male behavior can be read. What we don’t know is what’s next, and the essays here help us envision the possibilities of what the future of masculinities studies might hold. What all of these readings do, to various degrees, can be applied to the reading of any work of literature, and I would suggest other works of art as well. They teach us how to note and interpret the many visions and versions of masculinity that we come upon as we move through the business of making sense and lessons out of whatever reading and interpreting we may do.” - Fred Gardaphe, Queens College/CUNY, in: Culture, Society & Masculinities 8.1 (2016), pp. 82-84 "This set of essays is ideal for readers who wish to gain new interpretative methodologies to reading literary texts.” - Georgina Bozsó, University of Debrecen, HU, in: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 23.2 (2017), pp. 440-444Table of ContentsCONTENTS Stefan Horlacher Configuring Masculinity Todd W. Reeser Concepts of Masculinity and Masculinity Studies Raewyn Connell Masculinities: The Field of Knowledge Richard Collier On Reading Men, Law and Gender: Legal Regulation and the New Politics of Masculinity Christoph Houswitschka Masculinity in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur Mark Bracher From Antisocial to Prosocial Manhood: Shakespeare’s Rescripting of Masculinity in As You Like It Rainer Emig Sentimental Masculinity: Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771) Stefan Horlacher “Joseph the Dreamer of Dreams”: Jude Fawley’s Construction of Masculinity in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure Sebastian Müller From Angry Young Scholarship Boy to Male Role Model: The Rise of the Working-Class Hero Fatemeh Hosseini “Filiarchy” and Masculinity in the Early Novels of Ian McEwan Bettina Schötz “What Is a Man?”, or the Representation of Masculinity in Hanif Kureishi’s Short Fiction Bénédicte Ledent Of Invisible Men and Native Sons: Male Characters in Caryl Phillips’ Fiction Daniel Lukes Surrogate Dads: Interrogating Fatherhood in Will Self’sThe Book of Dave Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. He is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and Parade’s End, which was adapted by Tom Stoppard for the acclaimed 2012 television series, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. This volume marks the centenary of The Good Soldier, with eighteen essays by established experts and new scholars. It includes groundbreaking work on the novel’s narrative technique, chronology, and genre; plus pioneering work considering the treatment of bodies and minds; eugenics; poison; and surveillance. Innovative comparative studies discuss Ford’s novel in relation to Henry James, Violet Hunt, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Jean Rhys, David Jones, and Lawrence Durrell.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction MAX SAUNDERS SECTION 1: NARRATIVE, CHRONOLOGY, GENRE The Good Soldier: Ford’s Postmodern Novel CATHERINE BELSEY July 4 to August 4: Paradigmatic and Palimpsestic Plots in The Good Soldier MELBA CUDDY-KEANE The Good Soldier and the Problem of Compositional (Un)Reliability EYAL SEGAL From Disfigured to Transfigured Past: Memory and History in The Good Soldier ISABELLE BRASME ‘It is Melodrama; but I Can’t Help It’: Dowell’s Melodramatic Imagination ROB HAWKES Screening The Good Soldier JANET HARRIS SECTION 2: MIND/BODY, CARE, TREATMENT Dowell and Dopamine: Information, Pleasure and Plot SARA HASLAM The Case of The Good Soldier MAX SAUNDERS Affairs of the Heart: Illness and Gender Subversion in The Good Soldier ELIZABETH BRUNTON Caring to Know: Narrative Technique and the Art of Public Nursing in The Good Soldier BARRY SHEILS ‘Rabbiting On’: Fertility, Reformers and The Good Soldier PAUL SKINNER The Good Soldier: A Tale of Poison. Lethal Little Bottles in the Work of Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt VENETIA ABDALLA SECTION 3: CONTEXTS AND CONTRASTS ‘Early Kipling Told by Henry James’: A Reading of The Good Soldier HARRY RICKETTS Anglo-German Dilemmas in The Good Soldier, or: Europe on the Brink in 1913 JULIAN PREECE ‘The End is Where We Start from’: Spatial Aspects of Retrospection in The Good Soldier and In Parenthesis CARA CHIMIRRI Good People and Chorus Girls: The Notion of Respectability in The Good Soldier and Quartet NAGİHAN HALİLOĞLU Love’s Knowledge: Realisation Beyond Defence: Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet After, and Beyond, Ford’s The Good Soldier OMAR SABBAGH ‘Don’t You See?’: Surveillance and Utopian Tranquillity in The Good Soldier PETER MARKS Contributors

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Book SynopsisDans L'Elaboration du mythe de soi, Solveig Hudhomme démontre comment les oeuvres de Samuel Beckett construisent leur propre intériorité, lieu d'images et de mythes créateurs. In L'Elaboration du mythe de soi Solveig Hudhomme highlights how Samuel Beckett's works build their own inner space, their own image and mythology.Trade Review“Au cours des neuf chapitres de cette étude, l’auteur analyse les différentes parties ou “constituants” du discours mythique beckettien. Son analyse porte, par conséquent, sur l’œuvre entière, mais privilégie le genre narratif qui se prête plus aisément à l’analyse structurale du récit telle qu’elle est pratiquée ici. […] D’autres motifs narratifs participant de cette architecture mythique sont aussi analysés dans certains récits (Compagnie, Le Dépeupleur, Mercier et Camier, L’Innommable, Molloy), et montrent comment l’œuvre participe de sa propre mythification en créant ses propres réseaux de signification et ses propres thématiques.” - Nadia Louar, in La Revue des Lettres Modernes, No. 7 2020Table of ContentsIntroduction : Écriture du/de soi : l’élaboration d’une entité mythique. Mythologies beckettiennes Circonscrire le mythe De la pluralité des personnages à la permanence de l’archétype Motif de la pénultième La fable des « vieilles histoires » Les « vieilles histoires » La fondation du soi : « conte », « féerie » et autres « fantaisies » Fable et compagnie Le temps du mythe « Présent mythologique » : le temps des limbes L’anticipation comme principe d’annulation La nominalisation du récit : un « aujourd’hui sans avant ni après » Le mythe de l’œil L’Œil personnage « L’inspection » : motif du regard inquisiteur « The eye suicide » : Naissance de l’image « Qu’est-ce que j’appelle voir et revoir ? » Forcer l’image « La folle du logis » La perception comme scène Les « écarquillés » L’utopie du crâne Le cylindre : mise en image du soi Négociation du soi L’observation de soi Géométrie du soi L’Abandonné Polyphonie pour un soi Le mythe d’une voix L’entreprise polyphonique : le mythe du ventriloque Variations pronominales et avènement du soi Une parole en soi Mythe et « aséité » « Soi soi-disant » Conclusion : Mythe et écriture, l’acte narratif en question Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisAnti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) is a study of a-physiognomic descriptions of the face. It demonstrates that writers such as George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Nicolay Gogol, Virginia Woolf and Witold Gombrowicz vigorously resisted the belief that facial features reflect character. While other studies tend to focus on descriptions which affirm physiognomy, this book examines portraits which question popular face-reading systems and contravene their common premise – the surface-depth principle. Such portraits reveal that physiognomic formula is a cultural construct, invented to abridge, organise and regulate legibility of the human face. Most importantly, strange and ‘unreadable’ fictional faces frequently expose the connection between physiognomic judgement and stereotyping, prejudice and racism.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. GEORGE ELIOT AND TOLSTOY: THE HUMAN FACE – SUBSTANCE OR SPIRIT? CHAPTER II. POE AND GOGOL: THE FACE AS PRINCIPLE OF ORDER CHAPTER III. GOMBROWICZ AND WOOLF: THE FACE AS CULTURE CONCLUSION WORKS CITED

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Book SynopsisIn recent years postnational theory has become a primary tool for the analysis of European integration. Though interpretations of the concept vary, there is a wide consensus about postnationalism as a way to forge a European identity beyond a particular national history. In line with the German historical context in which this key concept was formulated in the first place, postnationalism is considered to be an adaptation of Kantian cosmopolitanism to the conditions of the modern world. This collection of essays is the first to systematically and comparatively explore the links between postnationalism and cosmopolitanism within the context of the “New Europe”. Contributors: Susana Araújo, Sibylle Baumbach, Helena Buescu, John Crosetti, Maria DiBattista, César Domínguez, Soren Frank, Birgit Mara Kaiser, Dorothy Odartey-Wellington, Maria Esteves Pereira, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Aysegul Turan.Trade Review“Those wondering about the future of Europe, given the recent political and social difficulties the continent has faced, might be well-advised to turn to César Domínguez and Theo D’haen’s timely collection of essays for possible answers.” - Audrey Louckx, Université de Mons, Belgium, in: Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research, Vol. 33 (2017), pp.218-224Table of ContentsTable of Contents César Domínguez. “Introduction” Part 1. Challenging Postnationalism/Cosmopolitanism Helena Buescu. “Europe between Old and New: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered” César Domínguez. “Local Rooms with a Cosmopolitan View? Novels in/on the Limits of European Convergence” Sibylle Baumbach. “Rooting “New European Literature”: A Reconsideration of the European Myth of the Postnational and Cynical Cosmopolitanism” Maria DiBattista. “Native Cosmopolitans” Part 2. What’s New in European Literature? Susana Araújo. “European Security, European Identity? Fictions of Terror and Transnationality” Søren Frank. “Globalization, Migration literature, and the New Europe” Karen-Margrethe Simonsen. “Towards a New Europe? On Emergent and Transcultural Literary Histories” Part 3. Test Cases on Postnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the New Europe John Crosetti. “Europeanization, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Cases in the Crime Fiction of Poe, Gadda and Simenon” Birgit Mara Kaiser. “The Spaces of Transnational Literature: Or, Where on Earth Are We with Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Der Hof im Spiegel?” Dorothy Odartey-Wellington. “Postnational or Postcolonial? Reading Immigrant Writing in Postnational Europe: The Case of Equatorial Guinea and Spain” Margarida Esteves Pereira. “A Transnational and Transcultural Perspective: Transcending the “Englishness” of English Literature” Aysegul Turan. “How to Become a “Rudeboy”: Identity Formation and Transformation in Londonstani”

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of post-communist identity reconstructions under the impact of experiences such as migration and displacement, collective memory and trauma, and cultural self-colonization. The book facilitates a mutually productive dialogue between postcolonialism and post-communism, mapping the rich terrain of contemporary East-Central European creative writing and visual art.Trade Review“An important and timely volume on post-communist cultures that seeks to offer an insightful contribution to the field of postcolonial studies [...] The diverse disciplinary background of the authors ensures that this very rich cultural material is explored from different angles [...]" - Ágnes Györke, University of Debrecen, Hungary in Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research , Vol. 33 2017 pp.110-114Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Dobrota Pucherová and Róbert Gáfrik Introduction: Which Postcolonial Europe? Part I: Post-Communist, Post-Socialist, Post-Soviet, Post-Dependence: Preliminary Considerations on East-Central European Un-Homing Madina Tlostanova Postcolonial Theory, the Decolonial Option and Postsocialist Writing Benedikts Kalnačs Postcolonial Narratives, Decolonial Options: The Baltic Experience Cristina Sandru Joined at the Hip? About Post-Communism in a (Revised) Postcolonial Mode Emilia Kledzik Inventing Postcolonial Poland: Strategies of Domestication Part II: The Ghosts of the Past: Post-Communist Rewriting of National Histories Bogdan Ştefănescu Filling in the Historical Blanks: A Tropology of the Void in Postcommunist and Postcolonial Reconstructions of Identity Adriana Raducanu Confessions from the Dead: Reading Ismail Kadare’s Spiritus as a ‘Post-Communist Gothic’ Novel Dobrota Pucherová Trauma and Memory of Soviet Occupation in Slovak (Post-)Communist Literature Natalie Paoli ‘Let My People Go’: Postcolonial Trauma in Oksana Zabuzhko’s The Museum of Abandoned Secrets Edit Zsadányi Voicing the Subaltern by Narrating the Communist Past through the Focalization of a Child in Gábor Németh’s ‘Are You a Jew?’ and Endre Kukorelly’s ‘The Fairy Valley’ Part III: Place and Displacement in (Post-)Communist Narratives and Cityscapes Irene Sywenky Geopoetics of the Female Body in Postcolonial Ukrainian and Polish Fiction Tamás Scheibner Building Empire through Self-Colonization: Literary Canons and Budapest as Sovietized Metropolis Xénia Gaál The City of K. (Königsberg/Kaliningrad) as a Cultural Phenomenon: Cultural Memory, the Myth and Identity of the City Dorota Kołodziejczyk The Organic (Re)Turn ― Ecology of Place in Postcolonial and Central/Eastern European Novel of Post-Displacement Part IV: Imagining the Orient in Central European Communist Travel Writing Róbert Gáfrik Representations of India in Slovak Travel Writing during the Communist Regime (1948–1989) Martin Slobodník Socialist Anti-Orientalism: Perceptions of China in Czechoslovak Travelogues from the 1950s Agnieszka Sadecka A Socialist Orientalism? Polish Travel Writing on India in the 1960s Part V: Between the East and the West: The Colonial Present Mykola Riabchuk Ukrainian Culture after Communism: Between Post-Colonial Liberation and Neo-Colonial Subjugation Dariusz Skórczewski Trapped by the Western Gaze: Contemporary European Imagology and Its Implications for East and South-East European Agency ― a Case Study Jagoda Wierzejska Central European Palimpsests: Postcolonial Discourse in Works by Andrzej Stasiuk and Yurii Andrukhovych Contributors

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Book SynopsisSound Effects combines literary criticism and psychoanalytic theory in eleven original articles which explore the potential of the object voice as an analytic tool to approach fiction. Alongside the gaze, the voice is Jacques Lacan’s original addition to the set of partial objects of classical psychoanalysis, and has only recently been theorised by Mladen Dolar in A Voice and Nothing More (2006). With notable exceptions like Garrett Stewart’s Reading Voices (1990), the sonorous element in fiction has received little scholarly attention in comparison with poetry and drama. Sound Effects is a contribution to the burgeoning field of sound studies, and sets out to fill this gap through selective readings of English and American fiction of the last two hundred years. Contributors: Fred Botting, Natalja Chestopalova, Mladen Dolar, Matt Foley, Alex Hope, Phillip Mahoney, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Marcin Stawiarski, Garrett Stewart, Peter Weise, and Bruce Wyse.Trade Review“The editors succeeded in selecting and organizing a number of high quality contributions by some of the most prominent names in the field in a book which definitely fulfils its aims. Sound Effects can at times make a demanding reading but it is also a much needed one for academics interested on the ways literary criticism intersects with psychoanalytic theory and sound studies. By triangulating these fields, the volume does not only contribute to fill a critical vacuum, but it also paves the way to further research on the vocal effects of texts and the intriguing notion of the “object voice” in fiction.”- María Casado Villanueva, University College of Southeast Norway, in Nexus, Vol. 2 2017 pp. 54-59Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: Is There a Voice in the Text? Mladen Dolar Revoicing Writing: An Introduction to Theorizing Vocality Jorge Sacido-Romero and Sylvia Mieszkowski ‘Secondary Vocality’ and the Sound Defect Garrett Stewart Section I: The Nineteenth Century The Object Voice in Romantic Irish Novels Peter Weise Poe, Voice and the Origin of Horror Fiction Fred Botting Double Voice and Extimate Singing in Trilby Bruce Wyse Section II: The Twentieth Century Bloom’s Neume: The Object Voice in the “Sirens” Episode in Joyce’s Ulysses Phillip Mahoney Fantasizing Agency and Otherness through Voice and Voicelessness in Ellison’s Invisible Man Natalja Chestopalova The Voice in Twentieth-Century English Short Fiction: E.M. Forster, V.S. Pritchett and Muriel Spark Jorge Sacido-Romero Section III: The Twenty-First Century Voices of Terror and Horror: Towards an Acoustics of Modern Gothic Matt Foley “That which cannot be said”: Voice, Desire and the Uncanny in Armistead Maupin’s The Night Listener Sylvia Mieszkowski “It’s only combinations of letters, after all, isn’t it”: The “Voice” and Spirit Mediums in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day (2006) Alexander Hope ‘Voice-Trace’ in James Chapman’s How Is This Going to Continue? (2007) Marcin Stawiarski Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature, Atsuko Sakaki closely examines photography-inspired texts by four Japanese novelists: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (1886-1965), Abe Kōbō (1924-93), Horie Toshiyuki (b. 1964) and Kanai Mieko (b. 1947). As connoisseurs, practitioners or critics of this visual medium, these authors look beyond photographs’ status as images that document and verify empirical incidents and existences, articulating instead the physical process of photographic production and photographs’ material presence in human lives. This book offers insight into the engagement with photography in Japanese literary texts as a means of bringing forgotten subject-object dynamics to light. It calls for a fundamental reconfiguration of the parameters of modern print culture and its presumption of the transparency of agents of representation.Trade Review"the book is uniquely valuable for its thorough and sophisticated treatment of photography in the works of the four writers it takes up. Sakaki’s extended, often insightful discussion of the novels Kishi no machi and Karui memai (Dizzy Spells) should be required reading for anyone with an interest in Kanai Mieko. Many analyses throughout the book will moreover provide a model for thinking about photographs and their functions in other contexts and cultures. No less valuable is Sakaki’s careful cataloguing of the allusions and other echoes among the works of the various overlapping coteries of writers, photographers, and critics, many of them French, that come into her account; she reveals an international network of surprising size and complexity. (...) Last, the book should be applauded for its generous quantity of photographic reproductions—thirty-six in all, including some in color. Thanks to these strengths, readers of Sakaki’s book will be rewarded with a deeper understanding not only of the four authors it studies, but also of the processes involved in producing and consuming photographs and the varied ways that photographs can work with or against an accompanying narrative." Mark Silver, Monumenta NIpponica 72:1 (2017) 'a masterpiece of insight into the practice of photography and its performance on the pages of literary texts.(...) Atsuko Sakaki’s book is a dense text(ure) of interwoven discourses—based upon the theory and practice of photography, as well as the critical and fictional literatures that use photography as their core material. The complexity already resides in the basic choices of literary works selected for analysis. This then blooms and flourishes as the book develops a complex, hybrid methodology of weaving and intertwining the two discourses into a smooth and elaborated narrative texture. Sakaki’s greatest success, therefore, comes from her ability to crossdisciplinary boundaries, and to offer an exquisite piece of textual embroidery that constructs a profound and insightful literary visual-text.' Ayelet Zohar, Japanese Language and Literature (2015)

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Book SynopsisWhen Joseph Conrad’s novel Chance appeared in serial form in the New York Herald in 1912 and in book form in 1914 it established the author’s financial security for the first time. Following years of struggle to reach a wide audience for his fiction, Conrad benefitted from the American marketing of this novel for the women readers of romance. Aggressive advertising promoted the writer’s new focus on a female protagonist and Conrad’s division of the story’s location between land and sea. The novel proved popular and lucrative. Yet in spite of its economic success, Chance remains one of Conrad’s less well-known narratives. This fresh new collection of essays from both young and established scholars opens up a lively critical debate taking Chance beyond the status of best-selling romance. In a striking re-evaluation of the novel these writers examine Chance’s innovative narrative strategies, its up-to-the-minute commentary on female politics, contemporary ethics, as well as its antecedents in classical debate and the significance of Conrad’s last use of his seaman narrator Marlow.Table of ContentsForeword “The shore gang”: Chance and the Ethics of Work Andrew Glazzard Rortyian Contingency and Ethnocentrism in Chance Jay Parker Speech, Affect, and Intervention in Chance Anne Enderwitz Marlow, Socrates, and an Ancient Quarrel in Chance Debra Romanick Baldwin Chance and Its Intertextualities Ewa Kujawska-Lis The “girl-novel”: Chance and Woolf’s The Voyage Out E. H. Wright “Fine-weather books”: Representations of Readers and Reading in Chance Helen Chambers From Incapable “Angel in the House” to Invincible “New Woman” in Marlovian Narratives: Representing Womanhood in “Heart of Darkness” and Chance Pei-Wen Clio Kao “Let that Marlow talk”: Chance and the Narrative Problem of Marlow John G. Peters Chance: Conrad’s A Portrait of a Feminist Yumiko Iwashimizu Ships in the Night: Intimacy, Narration, and the Endless Near Misses of Chance Mark Deggan Contributors

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Book SynopsisImperial-Time-Order is an engagingly written critical study on a persistent historical way of thinking in modern China. Defined as normalization of unification and moralization of time, Qian suggests, the imperial-time-order signifies a temporal structure of empire that has continued to shape the way modern China developed itself conceptually. Weaving together intellectual debates with literary and media representations of imperial history since the late Qing period, ranging from novels, stage plays, films, to television series, Qian traces the different temporalities of each period and takes “time” as the analytical node by which issues of empire, nation, family, morality, individual and collective subjectivity are constructed and contested.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Romanization and Script List of Illustrations Introduction Part One: The Imperial-Time-Order 1. The Imperial-Time-Order: The Eternal Return of the Chinese Empire Part Two: Time, Unity, and Morality from the Late Qing to Mao’s China 2. Suspended Time: Grounding the Present in the Late Qing 3. Split Time: Enlightenment and its Discontent 4. Continuous Time: Heroes in the ‘Protracted War’ 5. Transitional Time: Defining the ‘People’ and the ‘Nation’ in Mao’s China Part Three: The Return of ‘Empire’ in the post-Mao Period 6. Resurgent Time: The Return of ‘Empire’ in Post-socialist Representation 7. Love or Hate: The First Emperor on the Cinematic Screen 8. The Fascinating Empire: Emperors in Contemporary Novels 9. Tianxia Revisited: Empire and Family on the Television Screen 10. Becoming-Minority: Chinese Characteristics in Minority Historical Fiction Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Picaresque Fiction Today Luigi Gussago examines the development of the picaresque in contemporary Anglophone and Italian fiction. Far from being an extinct narrative form, confined to the pages of its original Spanish sources or their later British imitators, the tale of roguery has been revisited through the centuries from a host of disparate angles. Throughout their wanderings, picaresque antiheroes are dragged into debates on the credibility of historical facts, gender mystifications, rational thinking, or any simplistic definition of the outcast. Referring to a corpus of eight contemporary novels, the author retraces a textual legacy linking the traditional picaresque to its recent descendants, with the main purpose of identifying the way picaresque novels offer a privileged insight into our sceptical times. Cover illustration by Eugene Ivanov "Night Airing", 2007.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: A Journey around the Picaresque Novel Chapter 1 History through Roguish Eyes Foreword History and picaresque fiction Meaning and significance in historical fiction The pícaro and history Dual sign irony ‘Historical’ irony Deictic markers of time and space Polemical use of the allocutive pronoun ‘you’ Metonymy Markers of ‘being’ and ‘seeming’ Otto, Baudolino, Niketas: three portraits of the Emperor The death of two obsessions Chapter 2 Alienation and Counter-Culture Foreword The picaresque counter-culture What happens at the boundary? The stranger, der Fremde, l’estraneo Mirror symmetry and alienation Mythological and metadescriptive consciousness Homonyms/synonyms Circumlocution Euphemism Synecdoche Acting vs improvising Rhetorical questions Odilo’s private holocaust Chapter 3 Women on the Edge: Sexuality and Gender Dissent Foreword Platonic love and the pícara Cupid, Psyche and curiosity The constraints of nature Procreation Parenthood The constraints of society Demystified women Religion Sentimental love Primeval innocence Literature, ambition and transcendence in Vendita galline km 2 King Lear’s pasteboard crown Chapter 4 Humour and the Muffled Voice of Reason Foreword Varieties of humour in the picaresque Irony Irony in the picaresque: Benni and Doyle Contradiction Self-irony Summary Satire Self-satire Parody The enlightened grin The Enlightenment watershed Individualism, common good and general will Experience and causation The question of happiness God’s laughter in Saltatempo Concluding Remarks Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAn innovative volume of interdisciplinary essays on the significant British writer J. G. Ballard (1930-2009), exploring the physical, cultural and intertextual landscapes in several key novels with a central focus on The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), one of the most challenging texts in contemporary literature. Contributors include established critics of Ballard alongside newcomers. Different spatial concepts underpin the essays, from the landscapes of Ballard’s youth in Shanghai and his life in suburban London, to nuclear testing spaces and outer space exploration. Figurative locations typical of Ballard’s work are explored, including the beach, the motorway, the high-rise and the shopping mall. Textual spaces are explored through Ballard’s affiliation with modernist literary forms, including surrealist prose writing and collage, and poetic romanticism.Table of ContentsAuthor Biographies List of Figures Standard Abbreviations Introduction Fay Ballard – Shanghai/Shepperton 1. Graham Matthews – J. G. Ballard and the Drowned World of Shanghai 2. Thomas Knowles – Aeolian Harps in the Desert: Romanticism and Vermilion Sands 3. Catherine McKenna – Zones of Non-Time: Residues of Iconic Events in Ballard’s Fiction 4. Andrew Warstat – Speeding to the Doldrums: Stalled Futures and the Disappearance of Tomorrow in “The Dead Astronaut” 5. Richard Brown – Jarry, Joyce and the Apocalyptic Intertextuality of The Atrocity Exhibition 6. Guglielmo Poli – Geometries of the Imagination: The Map-Territory Relation in The Atrocity Exhibition 7. Elizabeth Stainforth – “The Logic of the Visible at the Service of the Invisible”: Reading Invisible Literature in The Atrocity Exhibition 8. Christopher Duffy – Hidden Heterotopias in Crash 9. William Fingleton – Pillars of the Community: The Tripartite Characterisation of High-Rise 10. Jeanette Baxter – Fascisms and the Politics of Nowhere in Kingdom Come Index

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the artistic trajectories of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, examining their literary representations of the nomadic ethic pervading the twentieth-century expatriate movements in and out of America. The book argues that these authors contribute to the nomadic aesthetic of American modernism: its pastoral ideographies, (post)colonial ecologies, as well as regional and transcultural varieties. Mapping the pastoral moment in different temporalities and spaces (Barnes representing the 1920s expatriation in Europe while Bowles comments on the 1940s exodus to Mexico and North Africa), this book suggests that Barnes and Bowles counter the critical trend associating American modernity primarily with urban spaces, and instead locate the nomadic thrust of their times in the (post)colonial history of the American frontier.

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Book SynopsisNathaniel Wallace’s Scanning the Hypnoglyph chronicles a contemporary genre that exploits sleep’s evocative dimensions. While dreams, sleeping nudes, and other facets of the dormant state were popular with artists of the early twentieth century (and long before), sleep experiences have given rise to an even wider range of postmodern artwork. Scanning the Hypnoglyph first assesses the modernist framework wherein the sleeping subject typically enjoys firm psychic grounding. As postmodernism begins, subjective space is fragmented, the representation of sleep reflecting the trend. Among other topics, this book demonstrates how portrayals of dormant individuals can reveal imprints of the self. Gender issues are taken up as well. “Mainstream,” heterosexual representations are considered along with depictions of gay, lesbian, and androgynous sleepers.Trade Review"Wallace offers a fascinating exploration of how humans have sought to represent that most elusive cousin of thanatos, sleep itself. While setting his parameters within the modernist and post-modernist eras, W. engages with a wide-ranging swath of discourses (from Platonic philosophy to 17th century French painting to contemporary cognitive science), all of which have addressed the challenges of speaking the unsayable nature of dormancy. The author identifies sleep’s critical function as resistant to narrative processes, as humans alternatingly cede to and resist psychic maturation. In the process, if somewhat paradoxically, his investigation reveals much about how we tell stories of the self (the diarist’s impulse), or seek to escape the grasp of those stories. Taken discretely, Wallace’s analyses of verbal and visual representations of sleep initiate the reader into various interpretive strategies that allow us to better contemplate sleeping subjects (though our full comprehension of those subjects may remain just out of reach). Particularly impressive is Wallace’s understanding of Baudelaire’s sonnets as heralding a modernist approach to sleep, one that reflects upon the precarious realities of urban sprawl. Cumulatively, Wallace’s readings chart conflicted but entangled attitudes toward sleep that, on the one hand, uphold its salubrious restorative potential and, on the other, condemn its allure as an escape from industry and cognition. A well developed and erudite approach to sleep that is anything but soporific, Wallace’s book should prove a critical conversant in the ever evolving debates that surround discourses of sleep as well as its antithesis, the vigilant Argos that is twenty-first century surveillance." - Hunter H. Gardner, University of South Carolina "Scanning the Hypnoglyph is a trove of fascinating and surprising references. Wallace's deciphering of sleep gives elegant and extensive voice to the unsayable, thereby enriching our imagination and understanding of how subjectivity can become shaped and reshaped through sleep. This is a must read for comparatists, not simply for its content but also for its methodologies." - Wenying Xu, Jacksonville University, Florida, in The Comparatist, vol. 44, October 2020 "Wallace casts his net wide, providing detailed analysis of writers from North America, France, and Japan and no less detailed scrutiny of the work of visual artists from North America, Germany, and France. The book is handsomely illustrated and Wallace reads visual texts as patiently and astutely as he reads literary ones. [...] It is difficult to imagine a reader interested in the history of sleep who would not learn something from every chapter of this book." - Michael Greaney, Lancaster University, in MLR, vol. 116, iss. 3, 2021Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments I. Introduction: From Hypnos to the Hypnoglyph Formatting the Hypnoglyph Sleep and Narrative Resistance Sleep and Cognitive Study The Dream, Textual Servant Fighting Sleep: Persons & Baxter: The Case of the Christian Directory Descartes’s cogito & Pascal Baudelairean Backgrounds Sleep amid Mid-Nineteenth Century Migrations of Religious Discourse II. A Life in the Day of a Hypnoglyph: Vertical Slumber and Other Typicalities Elizabeth Bishop’s “Sleeping Standing Up” Robert Lowell’s “Man and Wife” Vincent Desiderio, The Sleeping Family, The Interpretation of Color III. The Size of Sleep, Sizing the Self Thomas Mann’s “Sleep, Sweet Sleep” (“Süßer Schlaf”) Richard Wilbur’s “Walking to Sleep” Anselm Kiefer’s The Rose Gives Honey to the Bees (Dat Rosa Mel Apibus) Fran Gardner’s No Need for Wings and Orienting the Self David Yaghjian’s Sleep IV. Latter Day Ariadnes: From Hypnoglyph to Somnoscript Marguerite Duras’s The Malady of Death (La maladie de la mort) Anselm Kiefer’s Brunnhilde Sleeps (Brünnhilde Schläft) Yasunari Kawabata’s “House of the Sleeping Beauties” V. Alternate Endymions / Other Ariadnes Gustave Courbet’s Sleep (The Two Friends) The Plurisexual Marcel Proust The Queer Schlaraffenland of Paul Cadmus Signorelli’s Afterlife from Sigmund Freud to Jacques Lacan Andy Warhol’s Sleep Marguerite Duras’s Blue Eyes Black Hair (Les yeux bleus cheveux noirs) Mark Tansey’s Utopic Vincent Desiderio’s Couple VI Conclusion: The Hypnoglyph and the Missing Closure of the Postmodern Works Cited Index

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