Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books

Book SynopsisNew Quotatoes, Joycean Exogenesis in the Digital Age offers fourteen original essays on the genetic dossiers of Joyce’s fiction and the ties that bind the literary archive to the transatlantic print sphere of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Availing of digital media and tools, online resources, and new forms of access, the contributions delve deeper than ever before into Joyce’s programmatic reading for his oeuvre, and they posit connections and textual relations with major and minor literary figures alike never before established. The essays employ a broad range of genetic methodologies from ‘traditional’ approaches to intertextuality and allusion to computational methods that plumb Large-scale Digitisation Initiatives like Google Books to the possibilities of databasing for Joyce studies. Contributors: Scarlett Baron, Tim Conley, Luca Crispi, Ronan Crowley, Sarah Davison, Tom De Keyser, Daniel Ferrer, Finn Fordham, Robbert-Jan Henkes, John Simpson, Sam Slote, Dirk Van Hulle, Chrissie Van Mierlo, and Wim Van Mierlo.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction: The Books Awake Ronan Crowley and Dirk Van Hulle A Library of Indistinction Daniel Ferrer Joyce and the Rhythms of the Alphabet Scarlett Baron “And words. They are not in my dictionary”: James Joyce and the OED John Simpson Human Pages, Human Fingers: Stephen’s Schoolbooks in A Portrait Ronan Crowley The Notescape of Ulysses Luca Crispi Joyce and Malory: A Language in Transition Chrissie Van Mierlo “The True-Born Englishman” and the Irish Bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” Episode of Ulysses Sarah Davison James Joyce and the Middlebrow Wim Van Mierlo The Economy of Joyce’s Notetaking Sam Slote Playing with Matches: The Wake Notebooks and Negative Correspondence Tim Conley James Joyce and Rudyard Kipling: Genesis and Memory, Versions and Inversions Finn Fordham A Secretful of Sources, or More Books at the Wake Robbert-Jan Henkes An Action-Oriented Approach to James Joyce’s Reading Notes Tom De Keyser A James Joyce Digital Library Dirk Van Hulle List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn Le clair-obscur « extrême contemporain »: Pierre Bergounioux, Pierre Michon, Patrick Modiano et Pascal Quignard, Julia Holter proposes that a chiaroscuro aesthetic and mode of thought underlie and unite the work of four well-known contemporary French writers, studied together for the first time. Dans Le clair-obscur « extrême contemporain » : Pierre Bergounioux, Pierre Michon, Patrick Modiano et Pascal Quignard, Julia Holter montre comment la notion de clair-obscur sous-tend la pensée et l’esthétique de quatre écrivains français extrême-contemporains rassemblés pour la première fois.Trade Review"This is an impressive book. It is full of sensitive readings, rigorously argued and the product of great erudition, effortlessly ranging over a wide variety of subject areas. Quite apart from her detailed knowledge of her selected writers’ oeuvres and associated secondary literature, Holter extends her scope to disciplines such as Fine Art (the centrality of chiaroscuro oblige), literary theory, sociology, etymology, philosophy and psychoanalysis, travelling backwards and forwards with ease between l’extrême contemporain and Antiquity. [...] its academic impact may [...] be considerable, since the very nature of Holter’s innovative, self-created concept means that it will have a broader, more universal application to the French literature of today." - Alan Morris, Irish Journal of French Studies, 2017.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapitre I. Une thématique (mystère, secret, énigme du moi) 1. Quelques repères historiques pour un concept critique 2. Le clair-obscur des origines 3. Autoportrait en clair-obscur Chapitre II. Une esthétique 1. Oxymore et oscillation 2. Le petit et le fragment 3. Figure du cercle Chapitre III. Une pensée 1. Complexité, sensibilité, poétique 2. La haute tension Chapitre IV. Quatre études pour un clair-obscur 1. Pascal Quignard: Les solidarités mystérieuses, 2011 2. Pierre Michon : Les Onze, 2009 3. Pierre Bergounioux : Une chambre en Hollande, 2009 4. Patrick Modiano : Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue, 2007 Conclusion Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisTrois décennies après l’émergence du VIH, deux générations de chercheurs dressent le bilan des représentations qu’en a donné la littérature française. À travers diverses approches, ils interrogent l’actualité d’un phénomène aux multiples implications, intimes et politiques, morales et poétiques. Three decades after the emergence of HIV, two generations of researchers take stock of its representations in French literature. Taking various approaches, they question the current relevance of a phenomenon with implications that are personal, political, ethical, and poetic.Table of ContentsStefano Genetti et Jean-Marie Roulin : Introduction Jean-Pierre Boulé : Typologie des premiers livres publiés en France sur le sida Bruno Blanckeman : Hervé Guibert, témoin d’exception Nadia Setti : Mon corps m'appartient-il ? Distopies corporelles du corps étranger Fabio Libasci : La narration de la maladie entre construction esthétique et déconstruction du discours médical Jean-Marie Roulin : Fragments d’un discours d’apprentissage : Le Fil de C. Bourdin et L’Apprentissage de J.-L. Lagarce Alessandro Badin : Mourir en enfant au temps du sida Stefano Genetti : Appréhender sa mort par l’écriture de l’autre : L’Aztèque de Bertrand Duquénelle et Perfecto de Thierry Fourreau Lorenzo Bernini : Du désir à la tombe. Littérature et analité chez Guy Hocquenghem et Leo Bersani Daoud Najm : Défense et illustration du bareback : de la responsabilité à l’œuvre chez Guillaume Dustan et Érik Rémès Lucille Toth : La littérature post-sida : entre nostalgie et actualité de la maladie

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Book SynopsisIf the transgressions of modern French poetry have been amply noted at thematic and formal levels, they remain largely unremarked at the most visceral level of reading. Indebted to, while problematizing the Kristevan concept of sémiotique, Scott Shinabargar’s The Revolting Body of Poetry reveals how the very “matter” of key works forces us to enact these transgressions, when articulating textures of offensive lexica and imagery. While certain phonemes provide access to previously untapped forces, first apparent in Baudelaire and Lautréamont, compulsive repetitions produce expressive inflation, diffusing any initial impact. Césaire and Char, however, demonstrate an acquired control of these forces, intensity contained. Shinabargar concludes with a survey of contemporary poets, inviting readers to consider the legacy of revolting poetics.Table of ContentsOverview Introduction Part I: Revolutions 1 La diction du mal: Baudelaire 2 An Exaggerated Scale of Evil: Lautréamont Part II: Revolitions 3 Grounding Force: Césaire 4 In the Wind’s Gold: Char Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the “dynamic plant” through film and literature in early 20th century German culture. Often discussed solely as symbols or metaphors of the human experience, plants become here the primary focus and their role in literature and film is extended beyond their symbolic function. Plants have been (and still are) seen as closer to static objects than to living, moving beings. Making use of examples from film and literature, Janet Janzen demonstrates a shift in the perception of plants-as-objects to plants-as-living-beings that can be attributed to new technology and also to the return of Romantic and Vitalistic discourses on nature.Trade Review"With its forty illustrations, bibliography, index, and English translations of original German citations, Janzen's book is an invaluable resource not only to scholars in German studies but to anyone across the disciplines with an interest in the nascent field of plant studies." --Alice Kuzniar, (University of Waterloo) Seminar: A Journal for Germanic Studies, Vol. 54, No.1 (2018).Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Flying Plants: Imaginary Media as a Model for Representing the Plant Soul in Kurd Lasswitz’s Sternentau: Die Pflanze vom Neptunsmond (1909) Chapter 2: Animating Glass: Representing the Elusive Plant Soul in Paul Scheerbart's “Flora Mohr: eine Glasblumen-Novelle” (1909) Chapter 3: Empathetic Media: Film and the “Gestures” of Plants in Das Blumenwunder (1926) Chapter 4: The Radical Other: The Metamorphosis of Humans and Animals into Plants in Gustav Meyrink's “Die Pflanzen des Doktor Cinderella” (1905) Chapter 5: The Plant Bites!: Deviant Plants in Nosferatu and Alraune as Metaphors for Social Instability in Weimar Culture Conclusion Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIn the Name of Friendship: Deguy, Derrida and "Salut" centres on the relationship between poet Michel Deguy and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Translations of two essays, "Of Contemporaneity" by Deguy and "How to Name" by Derrida, allow Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert to develop the implications of this singular intellectual friendship. In these thinkers’ efforts to reinvent secular forms of the sacred, such as the singularity of the name, and especially poetic naming, Deguy, by adopting a Derridean programme of the impossible, and Derrida, by developing Deguy's ethics of naming through the word "salut," situate themselves at the forefront of contemporary debates over politics and religion alongside figures like Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Marion, John Caputo and Martin Hagglund.Trade Review"This lengthy, sophisticated, and complex book by Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert includes previously untranslated essays by Jacques Derrida (‘How to Name’) and Michel Deguy (‘Of Contemporaneity’); it is a celebration of the long friendship between these two thinker-poets, and their dialogue on a number of topics including (their) friendship. [...] this is a substantial contribution, and will be helpful for those working in the field to consult." br/>Judith Still, University of Nottingham, French Studies, 73-2, April 2019.Table of ContentsContents Preface   Adelaide Russo Acknowledgments Foreword: Of Friendship with Derrida  Michel Deguy Abbreviations Translator’s Note Polemical Introduction 1 The Poetics of Friendship 2 “The Sacred Without the Sacred”: Salut and the Metonymy of Poetic Nomination 3 Of Contemporaneity: A Talk for Jacques Derrida  Michel Deguy 4 The Poet’s Duty: Michel Deguy’s Deconstructive Poethics  Christopher Elson 5 How to Name  Jacques Derrida 6 Calling Names: Derrida, Deguy, and Spectropoetics  Garry Sherbert 7 “A Religion of the Event”: Salut, Ethics, and Quasi-Atheistic Transcendence Conclusion Appendix of Additional Texts by Michel Deguy Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume pays tribute to the formidable legacy of Hena Maes–Jelinek (1929–2008), a pioneering postcolonial scholar who was a professor at the University of Liège, in Belgium. Along with a few moving and affectionate pieces retracing the life and career of this remarkable and deeply human intellectual figure, the collection contains poems, short fiction, and metafiction. The bulk of the book consists of contributions on various areas of postcolonial literature, including the work of Wilson Harris, the ground-breaking writer to whom Hena Maes–Jelinek devoted much of her career. Other writers treated include Ben Okri, Leone Ross, Kamau Brathwaite, Jamaica Kincaid, Peter Carey, Murray Bail, Patrick White, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Dan Jacobson, Joseph Conrad, and Eslanda Goode Robeson. Caryl Phillips revisits his earlier reflections on the ‘European tribe’. There are wide-ranging essays analysing consanguineous authors, on such topics as Caribbean treatments of the Jewish Diaspora, Swiss-Caribbean authors, the contemporary Australian short story and the Asian connection, and ‘habitation’ in Australian fiction, as well as a searching examination of the socio-political fallout from the scandal of Australia’s ‘Stolen Generations’. Contributors are: Gordon Collier, Tim Cribb, Fred D'Aguiar, Geoffrey V. Davis, Jeanne Delbaere, Marc Delrez, Jean–Pierre Durix, Wilson Harris, Dominique Hecq, Marie Herbillon, Louis James, Karen King–Aribisala, Bénédicte Ledent, Christine Levecq, Alecia McKenzie, Carine Mardorossian, Peter H. Marsden, Alistair Niven, Annalisa Oboe, Britta Olinder, Christine Pagnoulle, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Scott, Stephanos Stephanides, Klaus Stuckert, Peter O. Stummer, Petra Tournay–Theodotou, Daria Tunca, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Janet Wilson.Table of ContentsThe Invention of Legacy: A Tribute to Hena Maes–Jelinek, by JEANNE DELBAERE Because It Was She, by JEANNE DELBAERE The Invention of Legacy: Opening Ceremony, by GEOFFREY V. DAVIS Text Read at the Launch of The Labyrinth of Universality, by WILSON HARRIS Cumberland Lodge: Honouring Hena in the Right Setting, by ALASTAIR NIVEN A Kaddish for Hena, by PETER H. MARSDEN The Photo, by ALECIA MCKENZIE The Wind Under My Lips, by STEPHANOS STEPHANIDES The Empathy of Genius: Hena Maes–Jelinek and Wilson Harris, by LOUIS JAMES Place and Time: The Two Anchors, by T.J. CRIBB The Legacy of the Imagination: Reading Wilson Harris after Hena Maes–Jelinek, by JEAN–PIERRE DURIX Intersections on the ‘Map of Art’: Metaphor in Ben Okri’s Dangerous Love and Wilson Harris’s The Mask of the Beggar, by DARIA TUNCA A Tribute to Hena, by LAWRENCE SCOTT On a Voyage to Demerara, 1859, by LAWRENCE SCOTT The Shylock In Me, by KAREN KING–ARIBI SALA Revisiting The European Tribe, by CARYL PHILLIPS How Anancy Feeds His Family (and Himself), by FRED D’AGUIAR Telling Your Story: Memory and Trauma in Leone Ross’s Orange Laughter, by PETRA TOURNAY–THEODOTOU On the ‘Erasure of Specificities’ in Studies of the African Diaspora, by CHRISTINE LEVECQ Swiss-Caribbean Authors: A Legacy of Swiss Involvement in the Colonial System, by KLAUS STUCKERT On the Kamau Trail: Tracking Poems from Page to Stage, by CHRISTINE PAGNOULLE Race, Literacy, and Postcoloniality in Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter, by CARINE MARDOROSSIAN Caribbean Writers and the Jewish Diaspora: A Shared Experience of Otherness, by BÉNÉDICTE LEDENT Remarkable Developments in the Australian Short Story: John Murray and Nam Le, by PETER O. STUMMER Mourning and Metafiction in Peter Carey’s Chemistry of Tears, by MARC DELREZ Tribute, by MARIE HERBILLON Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus: An Australian Fairy-Tale?, by MARIE HERBILLON Metonyms of Mood and Condition: The Semiosis of Habitation in Selected Australian Fiction Since Patrick White, by GORDON COLLIER (Not) Saying Sorry: Australian Responses to the Howard Government’s Refusal to Apologize to the Stolen Generations, by JANET WILSON Cannibalism and ‘Unspeakable Rites’: Patrick White’s A Fringe of Leaves and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, by CYNTHIA VANDEN DRIESEN The Holocaust as Private and Public Crisis: Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Poetic Version of Etty Hillesum’s Diaries and Letters, by BRITTA OLINDER “The Territory of My Imagination”: Rediscovering Dan Jacobson’s South Africa, by GEOFFREY V. DAVIS The Legacy of Atlantic Crossings: Eslanda Goode Robeson’s African Journey (1945), by ANNALISA OBOE Letters to the End of Grief, DOMINIQUE HECQ

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Book SynopsisPortrayals of Antigone in Portugal gathers a collection of essays on the Portuguese drama rewritings of this Theban myth produced in the 20th and 21st centuries. For each of the cases analysed, the Portuguese historical, political and cultural context is described. This perspective is expanded through a dialogue with coeval European events. As concerns Portugal, this results principally in political and feminist approaches to the texts. Since the importation of the Sophoclean model is often indirect, the volume includes comparisons with intermediate sources, namely French (Cocteau, Anouilh) and Spanish (María Zambrano), which were extremely influential on the many and diversified versions written in Portugal during this period.

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Book SynopsisVolume 18 in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies is entitled Exile and Gender II: Politics, Education and the Arts. It is edited by Charmian Brinson, Jana Barbora Buresova and Andrea Hammel, and is intended as a companion volume to Volume 17, which focused on literature and the press. This new volume considers the life and work of exiled women politicians, academics and artists, among others, examining the ways – both positive and negative - in which their exile affected them. The sixteen contributions, which are in English or German, set out to throw new light on aspects of gendered relations and experiences of women in exile in Great Britain and Ireland. Contributors are: Jana Barbora Buresova, Rachel Dickson, Inge Hansen-Schaberg, Gisela Holfter, Hadwig Kraeutler, Ulrike Krippner, Dieter Krohn, Gertrud Lenz, Bea Lewkowicz, Sarah MacDougall, John March, Iris Meder, Irene Messenger, Merilyn Moos, Felicitas M. Starr-Egger, Jennifer Taylor, Gaby Weiner.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Erratum Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Charmian Brinson, Jana Barbora Buresova and Andrea Hammel 1. The Society for the Furtherance of the Critical Philosophy (SFCP): A Foundation of German Female Refugees and their British Comrades in 1940 Dieter Krohn 2. Gertrud Meyer (1914-2002). Ein politisches Leben im Schatten Willy Brandts Gertrud Lenz 3. Layers of Concealment: Post-War Cultures of Surveillance and Secrecy in the Lives of Jewish Refugees, as Exemplified by the Case of Steffi Dinger Gaby Weiner 4. “A heart in transit”: The Unusual Life of Lotte Moos Merilyn Moos 5. Hana Benešová: The Forgotten First Lady Jana Barbora Buresova 6. Marriages of Convenience as a Strategy to Escape to the UK Irene Messinger 7. Women Refugee Academics at the University of London Felicitas M. Starr-Egger 8. Reformpädagoginnen im englischen Exil Inge Hansen-Schaberg 9. Women Exile Photographers John March 10. Charlotte Bondy ‒ a Graphic Designer in Exile Jennifer Taylor 11. Elisabeth Tomalin ‒ Emigrée Designer 1912-2012: “The only joy in life is being creative. Everything else is more or less pain” Rachel Dickson 12. “‘Meine Heimat’ is in my heart and my head”: Women artists in exile: Susan Einzig (1922-2009) and Eva Frankfurther (1930-1959) Sarah MacDougall 13. Female Fate or: Alma Wittlin’s Quest for Democracy Hadwig Kraeutler 14. Women Gardeners and Garden Architects from Vienna, in Austria and in Exile Ulrike Krippner and Iris Meder 15. Marginalised Voices ‒ Women in Irish Exile Gisela Holfter 16. Does Gender Matter? Reflections on the Role of Gender in Women’s Oral History Narratives Bea Lewkowicz Index

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Book SynopsisLondon post-2010 in British Literature and Culture explores cultural and literary representations of London since around 2010 and focuses on a period in which a string of celebratory national and global media events, but also riots and anti-capitalist protests have cemented London’s status as a paradigmatic world city. This collection of articles brings together a wide variety of topics, such as the 2011 London riots, the London Olympics of 2012, royal festivities, the Tube anniversary, memorials, and London in recent novels and blockbuster films. The contributions look at the way in which cultural and literary texts articulate competing versions of the contemporary city, oscillating between either supporting or subverting the hegemonic narrative of London as a place of cosmopolitan harmony and inclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects twenty-two major essays by Werner Wolf published between 1992 and 2014, which have contributed to establishing ‘intermediality’ as an internationally recognized research field, providing a widely accepted typology of the field and opening intermedial perspectives on areas as varied as narratology, metareferentiality and iconicity.Table of ContentsContents Preface  Walter Bernhart Part I: Intermediality: Theory and Typology 1 Intermedialität als neues Paradigma der Literaturwissenschaft? Plädoyer für eine literaturzentrierte Erforschung der Grenzüberschreitungen zwischen Wortkunst und anderen Medien am Beispiel von Virginia Woolfs “The String Quartet” [1996] 2 Towards a Functional Analysis of Intermediality: The Case of Twentieth-Century Musicalized Fiction [2002] 3 Intermedialität – ein weites Feld und eine Herausforderung für die Literaturwissenschaft [2002] 4 Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Übertragung literaturwissenschaftlicher Terminologie auf Gegenstände der Kunstwissenschaft: Überlegungen zu einem Weg interdisziplinärer Verständigung am Beispiel von ‘Erzählsituationen’ und ‘Metafiktion’ [2007] 5 The Relevance of Mediality and Intermediality to Academic Studies of English Literature [2008] 6 Intermedialität und mediale Dominanz: typologisch, funktionsgeschichtlich und akademisch-institutionell betrachtet [2010] 7 Intermedialität: Konzept, literaturwissenschaftliche Relevanz, Typologie intermedialer Formen [2014] Part II: Literature-Music Relations 8 Can Stories Be Read as Music? Possibilities and Limitations of Applying Musical Metaphors to Fiction [1992] 9 Musicalized Fiction and Intermediality: Theoretical Aspects of Word and Music Studies [1999] 10 "Willst zu meinen Liedern deine Leier drehn?": Intermedial Metatextuality in Schubert’s “Der Leiermann” as a Motivation for Song and Accompaniment and a Contribution to the Unity of Die Winterreise [2001] 11 Language and/or Music as Man’s 'Comfort'? Beckett’s Metamedial Allegory Words and Music [2005] 12 Metafiction and Metamusic: Exploring the Limits of Metareference [2007] 13 Metamusic? Potentials and Limits of ‘Metareference’ in Instrumental Music: Theoretical Reflections and a Case Study (Mozart’s Ein musikalischer Spaß) [2010] Part III: Transmedial Narratology 14 Das Problem der Narrativität in Literatur, bildender Kunst und Musik: Ein Beitrag zu einer intermedialen Erzähltheorie [2002] 15 Narrative and Narrativity: A Narratological Reconceptualization and its Applicability to the Visual Arts [2003] 16 Narrativity in Instrumental Music? A Prototypical Narratological Approach to a Vexed Question [2008] 17 Narratology and Media(lity): The Transmedial Expansion of a Literary Discipline and Possible Consequences [2011] 18 Framings of Narrative in Literature and the Pictorial Arts [2014] Part IV: Miscellaneous Transmedial Phenomena 19 Intermedial Iconicity in Fiction – Tema con variazioni [2003] 20 Metalepsis as a Transgeneric and Transmedial Phenomenon: A Case Study of the Possibilities of ‘Exporting’ Narratological Concepts [2005] 21 Mise en cadre – a Neglected Counterpart to mise en abyme: A Frame-theoretical and Intermedial Complement to Classical Narratology [2010] 22 Wiederholung bzw. Ähnlichkeit in der (Sprach-)Kunst als sinnstiftende formale Selbstreferenz [2014] Sources Bibliography of Publications on Intermediality by Werner Wolf Index

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Book SynopsisBLAST at 100 makes an original contribution to the understanding of a major modernist magazine. Providing new critical readings that consider the magazine’s influence within contexts that have not been acknowledged before – in the development of Irish and Spanish literature and culture in the twentieth century, for example, as well as in the areas of cultural studies, performance studies and the scholarship of teaching and learning – BLAST at 100 reconsiders the magazine’s complex legacy. In addition to situating the magazine in new and often unexpected contexts, BLAST at 100 also offers important new insights into the work of some of its most significant contributors, including Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Rebecca West. Contributors are: Philip Coleman, Simon Cutts, Andrzej Gąsiorek, Angela Griffith, Nicholas E. Johnson, Kathryn Laing, Christopher Lewis, J.C.C. Mays, Kathryn Milligan, Yolanda Morató, Nathan O’Donnell, Alex Runchman, Colm Summers, Tom WalkerTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors 1 Introduction: ‘Storm from the North’  Nathan O’donnell and Philip Coleman Part 1: Textual and Contextual Re-Readings 2 BLAST Then and Now: With Expletive of Whirlwind  Andrzej Gąsiorek 3 Soillure, Bomb Blasts, and Volcanic Chaos: Reading the Poetry of Blast  Alex Runchman 4 Am I a Vorticist ?: Re-Reading Rebecca West’s Indissoluble Matrimony and BLAST  Kathryn Laing 5 BLAST and the Canon: Exploring Lewis’s ‘A Review of Contemporary Art’  Kathryn Milligan Part 2: Blast and Ireland 6 Our More Profound Pre-Raphaelitism: W.B. Yeats, Aestheticism and BLAST  Tom Walker 7 Springs of Creation: BLAST and Irish Art  Nathan O’donnell 8 Visualising To-morrow: An Irish Modernist Periodical  Angela Griffith Part 3: Enemy of the Stars Reconsidered 9 Beyond Nietzsche: Savage Worship in Enemy of the Stars  Christopher Lewis 10 Enemy of the Stars in Performance  Nicholas E. Johnson and Colm Summers Part 4: Critical and Creative Legacies 11 Lewis-Pound-Mcluhan, BLAST and COUNTERBLAST: Connections, Comparisons, and Some Personal Reflections  J.C.C. Mays 12 Recreating BLAST in Spanish: Composition, Editing, Translation, and Annotation  Yolanda Morató 13 BLAST in the Classroom  Philip Coleman 14 The Collective Work in the Critical Mode: Afterword  Simon Cutts Index

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Book SynopsisIn Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a comprehensive collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in popular media of the modern era (19th-21st centuries). These media include theatrical plays, cinematic representations, Television drama, popular newspapers or journals, poems and outdoor festivals. For the first time in Classical Reception Studies, ancient Jewish literature and imagery are included in the discussion. The focus of the volume is both the continuity and variance between ancient and modern sets of values, which appear in the new interpretations of the ancient stories, figures and protagonists.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture  Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice Part 1: Re-enacting Ancient Virtues and Vices Section 1: Staging Ancient Virtues and VicesThe House of Atreus as a Reflection of Contemporary Evil: Performance Reception and The Oresteia  Lisa Maurice 2 Thornton Wilder’s The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun  Hanna Roisman 3 Herodotus on Stage: The Modern Greek Play “Candaules’ Wife” by Margarita Liberaki  Ariadne Konstantinou Section 2: Screening Ancient Virtues and Vices 4 Can You Dig It? Heroes and Villains from Xenophon’s Anabasis to Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979)  Eran Almagor 5 Hercules’ Choice: Virtue, Vice and the Hero of the Twentieth-century Screen  Emma Stafford 6 Deconstructing Oedipus: Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite and the Classical Tradition  Anna Foka 7 Caligula and Drusilla in the Modern Imagination  Emma Southon 8 “Salome, Nice Girl”: Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Hollywood Biblical Vamp  Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9 Representations of the Christian Female Virtue in Roman Film Epics: The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Quo Vadis (1951)  Panayiota Mini Part 2: Ancient Virtues and Vices in the Modern World Section 2: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Greece 10 Philip, Alexander and Macedonia: Between Greek Virtue and Barbarian Pleasure  Maria Pretzler 11 From Giscard d’Estaing to Syntagma Square: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Greece in the Debate on Greece’s eu membership  Luca Asmonti 12 The Great God Pan Never Dies!  Aggeliki Koumanoudi Section 2: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Jewish Existence 13 In These Days, in That Season: The Nationalization of the Maccabees  David M. Schaps 14 A Double Edged Sword—The Power of Bar-Kosibah: From Rabbinic Literature to Popular Culture  Haim Weiss 15 What Has Rome to Do with Jerusalem? The Reception of Turnus Rufus and Rabbi Akivah in the Talmud and in Contemporary Israel  Gabriel Danzig Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSince the tumultuous events of 1989/1990, writers, cultural practitioners and academics have responded to, reconstructed and reflected upon the process and enduring impact of German reunification. This bilingual volume provides a nuanced understanding of the literature and culture of the GDR and its legacy today. It explores a broad range of genres, combines perspectives on both lesser-known and more established writers, and juxtaposes academic articles with the personal reflections of those who directly experienced and engaged with the GDR from within or beyond its borders. Whether creative practitioners or academics, contributors consider the broader literary and intellectual contexts and traditions shaping GDR literature and culture in a way that enriches our understanding of reunification and its legacy. Contributors are: Deirdre Byrnes, Anna Chiarloni, Jean E. Conacher, Sabine Egger, Robert Gillett, Frank Thomas Grub, Jochen Hennig, Nick Hodgin, Frank Hörnigk, Therese Hörnigk, Gisela Holfter, Jeannine Jud, Astrid Köhler, Marieke Krajenbrink, Hannes Krauss, Reinhard Kuhnert, Katja Lange-Müller, Corina Löwe, Hugh Ridley, Kathrin Schmidt.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Figures The Enduring Legacy of GDR Literature and Culture: An Introduction  Jean E. Conacher, Deirdre Byrnes and Gisela Holfter Part 1: Responding “Like a Dream”: Film, Fears, Fantasies and Nightmares of the Wende  Nick Hodgin “Wir alle blicken jetzt auf uns zurück”: Revisiting the Portrayal of the Wende in Botho Strauß’s Drama Schlußchor  Marieke Krajenbrink Rückblick auf die Grenzfallgedichte: Volker Brauns Weg vom „Nachruf“ (1990) zur dramatischen Dichtung „Demos“ (2015)  Anna Chiarloni Capturing the Zeitgeist: On Human Experience and Personal Historiography in Helga Königsdorf’s 1989 oder Ein Moment Schönheit  Jean E. Conacher „Wir waren die Geschichte“: Erinnerungen an die DDR und den Herbst 1989 in zwei kinder- und jugendliterarischen Texten  Corina Löwe Part 2: Reconstructing “Nach einem Lenz, der sich nur halb entfaltet”: Aspects of the Reception of Uwe Johnson’s Ingrid Babendererde  Hugh Ridley Gillett and Köhler Tarzan im zerborstenen Rückspiegel: Gedächtnis und Gedenken bei Adolf Endler  Robert Gillett and Astrid Köhler Zwischen Kyffhäuser und Plattenbau: Rückblicke und Vergangenheitskonstruktionen in Hörspielen und Features von Jens Sparschuh  Frank Thomas Grub The Radio Transcending Boundaries and Historical Narratives in Lutz Seiler’s Poetry and in his Novel Kruso  Sabine Egger Part 3: Reflecting Frank Hörnigks Erinnerungen an die Neuformierung der Berliner Wissenschaftslandschaft nach 1989  mit einer Einführung von Jochen Hennig „Es war, als hätte man eine große Käseglocke von uns genommen“  Reflexionen von Kathrin Schmidt Theater in einem uneinig vereinigten Land  Reflexionen von Reinhard Kuhnert „Es wird vieles verklärt und nostalgisch geschönt oder scherzhaft verharmlost“  Reflexionen von Katja Lange-Müller (Selbst)kritischer Rückblick auf den Umgang mit der DDR-Literatur – und Plädoyer für deren Aktualität  Reflexionen von Hannes Krauss „Der Schlüssel liegt im kleinen Engagement“  Jeannine Jud im Gespräch mit Therese Hörnigk Index

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Book SynopsisRepresenting Wars from 1860 to the Present examines representations of war in literature, film, photography, memorials, and the popular press. The volume breaks new ground in cutting across disciplinary boundaries and offering case studies on a wide variety of fields of vision and action, and types of conflict: from civil wars in the USA, Spain, Russia and the Congo to recent western interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the case of World War Two, Representing Wars emphasises idiosyncratic and non-western perspectives – specifically those of Japanese writers Hayashi and Ooka. A central concern of the thirteen contributors has been to investigate the ethical and ideological implications of specific representational choices. Contributors are: Claire Bowen, Catherine Ann Collins, Marie-France Courriol, Éliane Elmaleh, Teresa Gibert, William Gleeson, Catherine Hoffmann, Sandrine Lascaux, Christopher Lloyd, Monica Michlin, Guillaume Muller, Misako Nemoto, Clément Sigalas.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction Part 1: The Spectacle of War 1 Deconstructing the Spectacle of War? Brian de Palma’s Redacted, Nick Broomfield’s Battle for Haditha, Paul Haggis’s In the Valley of Elah and the Iraq War  Monica Michlin 2 The War in Images: The Poetics of Plasticity in Juan Benet’s Herrumbrosas lanzas  Sandrine Lascaux and Trans. Claire Bowen 3 The Second World War Seen from the Balcony: Representations of the Spectacle of War in the French Post-War Novel  Clément Sigalas Part 2: At a Distance from War 4 The “Comic Opera” of the Allied Intervention in Russia: Off-Staging War in William Gerhardie’s Early Novels  Catherine Hoffmann 5 Margaret Atwood’s Representation of Modern and Imaginary Warfare  Teresa Gibert 6 Memory Keeping and Visual Narratives of Commemoration: Representing Interned Japanese Americans during World War ii  Catherine Collins Part 3: Bringing the War Home 7 Martha Rosler, an American Artist at War with War  Éliane Elmaleh 8 Conflicting Documentary Strategies and Italian Counter-propaganda in the Spanish Civil War  Marie-France Courriol 9 Revisiting the Congo’s Forgotten Wars: Jean Lartéguy’s Les Chimères noires and the Secession of Katanga  Christopher Lloyd 10 “A Boy and His Dog…”: The War in Afghanistan and Storytelling  Claire Bowen Part 4: Experiencing War and Bearing Witness 11 Aphonic Images: Aurality and Silence in Civil War Photography  William Gleeson 12 Profiles of War by Hayashi Fusao: A Writer’s Approach to War  Guillaume Muller 13 Ōoka Shōhei’s Democratization of the Self  Misako Nemoto Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Man Who Crucified Himself is the history of a sensational nineteenth-century medical case. In 1805 a shoemaker called Mattio Lovat attempted to crucify himself in Venice. His act raised a furore, and the story spread across Europe. For the rest of the century Lovat’s case fuelled scientific and popular debates on medicine, madness, suicide and religion. Drawing on Italian, German, English and French sources, Maria Böhmer traces the multiple readings of the case and identifies various 'interpretive communities'. Her meticulously researched study sheds new light on Lovat’s case and offers fresh insights on the case narrative as a genre - both epistemic and literary.Trade Review“Overall, Böhmer’s study contributes broadly to scholarship on epistemic genres and specifically to our understanding of the role of case histories in the history of psychiatry.” Alexandra Bamji (University of Leeds), Bull. Hist. Med., 2020, Vol. 94 (3), 527-528 pp. “Maria Böhmer’s The Man Who Crucified Himself is an important contribution to many convergent fields: the history of medicine, and especially surgery; nineteenth century Italian history; the history of medical communication; and, last but not least, the history of one crucial textual genre in medicine, the case, as defined by Gianna Pomata for the early modern period. […] The book is an exciting reading for specialists, but it can also be fruitfully used in the classroom, to illustrate the multiple layers and diverse adventures and uses of medical narratives in the long nineteenth century.” Maria Conforti (History of Medicine and Bioethics, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy), Journal of the History of Medicine, Vol. 75 (3), 2020, 346-347 pp.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Man Who Crucified Himself 2 The Storia della crocifissione as an Epistemic Genre 3 Making the Case Travel. Translation, Media, Reading 4 Professional Readings: Religion 5 Professional Readings: Madness 6 Professional Readings: Suicide 7 Popular Readings: Moral Education and Literary Entertainment Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPaul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry is the first book in years that attends to the entire oeuvre of the Irish-American poet, critic, lyricist, dramatist and Princeton professor from his debut with New Weather in 1973 up to his very recent publications. Ruben Moi’s book explores, in correspondence with language philosophy and critical debate, how Muldoon’s ingenious language and inventive form give shape and significance to his poetry, and how his linguistic panache and technical verve keep language forever surprising, new and alive.Trade ReviewIt is thorough and smart, theoretically savvy and deeply engaged with practical readings of the poems. It will add to the critical work that has already been written on Muldoon and be of great use to both the general reader and the academic one. [Jefferson Holdridge], Wake Forest UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 New Weather 2 Mules 3 Why Brownlee Left 4 Quoof 5 Meeting the British 6 Madoc 7 The Annals of Chile 8 Hay 9 Moy Sand and Gravel 10 Horse Latitudes 11 Maggot 12 One Thousand Things Worth Knowing Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments, editors Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack have brought together essays on literary Modernism that uncover medieval themes and tropes that have previously been “unattended”, that is, neglected or ignored. A historical span of a century is covered, from musical modernist Richard Wagner’s final opera Parsifal (1882) to Russell Hoban’s speculative fiction Riddley Walker (1980), and themes of Arthurian literature, scholastic philosophy, Irish legends, classical philology, dream theory, Orthodox theology and textual exegesis are brought into conversation with key Modernist writers, including T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, W. B. Yeats, Evelyn Waugh and Eugene Ionesco. These scholarly investigations are original, illuminating, and often delightful.Trade Review"Cusack and Marshall’s collection is a very useful one that will help provide scholarly discussion on the topic of modernism by reinforcing the idea that modernist aesthetics reach just as much into the ancient past as they do into the future." - Kristen Marangoni, Tulsa Community College, in: Literature & Aesthetics 19 (1), 2019Table of ContentsForeword Notes on Contributors Introduction Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack Wagner's Parsifal: Christianity, Celibacy, and Medieval Brotherhood as Ideal in Modernity Carole M. Cusack Fergus Mac Róich: Yeats' Damaged Mystic Joseph A. Mendes Ezra Pound's Medieval Classicism: The Spirit of Romance and the Debt to Philology Jonathan Ullyot Marcel Proust on Erotic Dreams and Oneiric Knowledge Gro Bjørnerud Mo The Aristotelian Crescent: Medieval Arabic Philosophy in the Poetics of Ezra Pound Mark Byron Between the "Machinery of Transcendence" and the "Machinery of War": The Unattended Moments of Eugene Ionesco Octavian Saiu "Melancholy Matters": Robert Burton and Samuel Beckett Rina Kim Whoroscope: Samuel Beckett's Medieval Machine Holly Phillips Lancelot and Guinevere in the Inter-War Period: The Medievalisms of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust and Ezra Pound's Canto vi Anna Czarnowus Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker: The Eusa Story and Other Blipful Figgers Chris Ackerley Index

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Book SynopsisAppearing in an era of rapid change in the printing and publishing industries, James Joyce’s Ulysses exploited and exemplified those industries to the degree that the book can be seen as a virtual museum of 1904 media. Publishing in Joyce's “Ulysses”: Newspapers, Advertising and Printing, edited by William S. Brockman, Tekla Mecsnóber and Sabrina Alonso, gathers twelve essays by Joyce scholars exploring facets of those trades that pervade the substance of the book. Essays explore the book’s incorporation of mass-market weekly magazines, contemporary advertising slogans, newspaper clippings, the “Aeolus” episode’s printing office and the varied typographic styles of successive editions of Ulysses. Placing Joyce’s work in its historical milieu, the collection offers a fresh perspective on modern print culture. Contributors are: Sabrina Alonso, Harald Beck, William S. Brockman, Elisabetta d'Erme, Judith Harrington, Matthew Hayward, Sangam MacDuff, Tekla Mecsnóber, Tamara Radak, Fritz Senn, David Spurr, Jolanta Wawrzycka.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 George Newnes’s Most Entertaining Publication  Judith Harrington 2 Bloom, the Dandy, the Nymph and the Old Hag: Tit-Bits and Photo Bits, Reflections of the Victorian Press in James Joyce’s Ulysses  Elisabetta d’Ermes 3 Types of News Events  Fritz Senn 4 Newspapers, Print, Language: Steganography in Joyce  Jolanta Wawrzycka 5 Classified Advertising in Joyce>  David Spurr 6 “But Who Was Gerty?” Intertextuality and the Advertising Language of “Nausicaa”  Matthew Hayward 7 Advertising in Ulysses  Sabrina Alonso 8 “Aeolus” – A Sightseeing Tour  Harald Beck 9 “Aeolus”, Interrupted: Heady Headlines and Joycean Negotiations of Closure  Tamara Radak 10 The Self-Reflexive Text of “Aeolus”  Sangam MacDuff 11 “Clio’s Clippings”: From Newspaper to Press Cutting  William S. Brockman 12 The Ineluctable Modernity of the Visible: The Typographic Odyssey of Ulysses in Interwar Print Culture  Tekla Mecsnóber Index

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Book SynopsisIn A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke Xiaoli Yang offers a conversation between the Chinese soul-searching found in Haizi’s (1964–1989) poetry and the gospel of Jesus Christ through Luke’s testimony. It creates a unique contextual poetic lens that appreciates a generation of the Chinese homecoming journey through Haizi’s poetry, and explores its relationship with Jesus Christ. As the dialogical journey, it names four stages of homecoming—roots, vision, journey and arrival. By taking an interdisciplinary approach—literary study, inter-cultural dialogue and comparative theology, Xiaoli Yang convincingly demonstrates that the common language between the poet Haizi and the Lukan Jesus provides a crucial and rich source of data for an ongoing table conversation between culture and faith.Trade Review"This book is a masterpiece not only on Haizi studies, but also on cross-cultural studies and comparative theology, with original contributions to these fields of study. (...) Through literary studies, intertextual and intercultural dialogue, and comparative theology, this book creatively and insightfully uses a unique set of cultural and poetic lenses to unfold a dialogue between the contemporary Chinese poet Haizi and the Gospel of Luke's Jesus beyond time and space." Chen Yongtao, Professor of Theology and Chinese Christian Studies, Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, in: Chinese version, p. xiii. "Yang’s trailblazing book demonstrates her ability to enrich the intellectual conversation between theology and culture. (...) Yang’s book benefits scholars and students in various disciplines, including World Christianity, Intercultural Studies, and Spiritual Formation. She also offers profound insights on land and identity that will enrich postcolonial conversations. Yang brilliantly discerns the parallels and systematically ascertains the points of resonance between soul-searching and spiritual hunger.", Susangeline Patrick, Nazarene Theological Seminary, in: International Bulletin of Mission ResearchVolume 46.3 (2022). "But now and then something appears that gives one hope that things can change and the theological conversation might connect to things people deeply care about. One such event is the recent publication of Xiaoli Yang’s Dialogue between Haizi’s poetry and the Gospel of Luke (2018). (...) it is in the rereading of Luke’s Gospel in the light of Haizi’s poetry, that Yang, who is a poet herself, breaks open the different textures of [these] soteriological paths.", William Dyrness, Fuller Theological Seminary, in: Exchange Volume 51 (2022). "Yang presents an equally skillful exegetical analysis of the Gospel of Luke, gesturing toward Jesus Christ’s ministry as dynamic conversation partner that is resonant with Haizi’s search. (...) Altogether, the beauty of Yang’s work is in the way she is able to dance between the registers of academic analysis and spiritual formation." - Easten Law, , in: China Source, 16 March 2022. "This is a singular book. I do not recall reading another that weaves together poetry and literary analysis, biblical studies, photographs, philosophy, philology, intercultural studies, and theology. It is remarkable! " — Daryl Ireland, Boston University, in: International Review of Mission (2021) Volume 110.1. "The fruitfulness of Yang’s engagement with Haizi should cause us to wonder, if we are going to give leadership to the church in a secular age, whether we should attend more to the poets of our times. Could it be that in reading the poets—not just religious poets—we will be able to get past the distraction of our age and find a way to attend to the inner sensibilities of the human soul in this time and in this place?" — Gordon T. Smith, Ambrose University, in: Wisdom from Babylon (IVP, 2020) "It is a publication that deserves to be widely read by scholars and students alike; it offers a unique contribution to contemporary Chinese interaction with the Gospel." — Randall Prior, University of Divinity, Melbourne, in: Mission Studies (2020) Volume 37.1 "This could turn out to be one of the most significant books in Missiology published in 2018." — Larry Nemer, Yarra Theological Union, in: Australian Journal of Mission Studies (2019) Volume 13.2 "This is no mere correlationist project wherein Haizi provides the questions and Luke(‘s Jesus) responds. Instead, there is a dizzying multi-directionality through which various chasms – East-West, Yin-Yang, ancient-contemporary, modern-postmodern, rural-urban, terrestrial-cosmic, poetic-philosophical, symbolic-discursive, epistemological-ontological, immanence-transcendence – are bridged, irreversibly through the Dao of Haizi’s suicide and ultimately through the way of Jesus’ cross. Yang herself emerges as poet giving profound expression to the contemporary global (dis)location, as prophet naming and diagnosing its instable homelessness, and as priest mediating the possibility of a fresh gospel homecoming precisely in and through the desolation of late modernity’s interface with the post-Mao Chinese soul. The word Dialogue in the title is too modest; be forewarned of the tremors this book will unleash to those who think philosophy and theology are mostly discursive Western undertakings." — Amos Yong, Professor of Theology & Mission, Fuller Seminary "A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke is a welcome contribution to the field of intercultural theology. It skillfully employs together four lenses for hermeneutical reading – the historical, literary, philosophical, and religious — to see freshly Luke and the message of Jesus, now heard along with the poetry of Haizi (1964-1989), a voice still new in the West. Drawing poetry into the work of intercultural learning, Xiaoli Yang also brings new resources from the Chinese context into theological reflection, giving new substance to the ideals and practices of an Asian Christian theology. Comparative theologians too will enjoy learning from Yang’s methods and purposes, broadening our repertoire for the work of interreligious theological learning today." — Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, Harvard University "This book offers us an insight into the souls of the contemporary Chinese genuine intellectuals, who have lost their cultural and spiritual home. Through the unique approach combining literary study, intercultural dialogue and comparative theology, Ms. Yang helps us get to such a highland, where we could see clearly the home way of an honest genius poet who committed suicide but never ‘died’, and more importantly, see why millions of Chinese people today are struggling to leave their homeland for new home in foreign land, and for the heavenly home to be with Jesus Christ." — He Guanghu, Professor of Religious Studies, Renmin University of China "Historical events claim our attention and can generate a desire to rethink our own philosophical stance. Haizi agonized over social realities of his day through his poetry and ultimately through suicide. This is a fascinating yet tragic personal revelation. The advantage of this tragedy is that it opens up for the reader an opportunity to reflect on one’s own ideas. Dr Xiaoli Yang’s book provides some assistance in this by outlining how one can dialogue with Haizi’s poetry and compare the thinking with another historical figure, Jesus, who also challenged attitudes of the day and finally was killed for his revelations." —David Claydon, OAM; previous International Director of the Lausanne Movement; author & theological lecturerTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Haizi: The Poet Who Never ‘Dies’   Introduction   Definitions and Limitations   Two Decades of Research on Haizi (1989–2016)   Methodology   Personal Perspectives   Summary Part 1: Roots 2 Haizi: Beyond Homelessness   Introduction   Creation Myth   Songs of the Homeland   Summary 3 Jesus: Quest for Home   Introduction   The Roots of Humanity   The Identity   A Home Beyond Borders   The Homeless Homeland   Summary Part 2: Vision 4 Haizi: Returning Home—Chinese Huijia   Introduction   A Cultural Premise—The Etymology   Xiangchou   The Movement towards Homecoming   The Ethics of Home   Summary 5 Jesus: the Hospitality of God   Introduction   Casting the Vision   Table Fellowship   Summary Part 3: Journey 6 Haizi: Seeking a Home   Introduction   Poetic Adoption from the Greeks   Learning from the Quest of Modern Movements   Returning Home—Hui   Summary 7 Jesus: Embodying the Kingdom   Introduction   The Movement of the Journey   The Way of the Cross   The Way of Brokenness   Summary Part 4: Arrival 8 Haizi: The Death of a Poet   Introduction   The Task of a Poet   Songs of Death   Self-Surrender   Summary 9 Jesus: Passion to Embrace   Introduction   The Radical Openness of God   The Radical Vulnerability of God   Summary Conclusion Afterword Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOn the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture offers a polyphonic account of mutual interpenetrations of literature and new media. Shifting its focus from the personal to the communal and back again, the volume addresses such individual experiences as immersion and emotional reading, offers insights into collective processes of commercialisation and consumption of new media products and explores the experience and mechanisms of interactivity, convergence culture and participatory culture. Crucially, the volume also shows convincingly that, though without doubt global, digital culture and new media have their varied, specifically local facets and manifestations shaped by national contingencies. The interplay of the common subtext and local colour is discussed by the contributors from Eastern Europe and the Western world. Contributors are: Justyna Fruzińska, Dirk de Geest, Maciej Jakubowiak, Michael Joyce, Kinga Kasperek, Barbara Kaszowska-Wandor, Aleksandra Małecka, Piotr Marecki, Łukasz Mirocha, Aleksandra Mochocka, Emilya Ohar, Mariusz Pisarski, Anna Ślósarz, Dawn Stobbart, Jean Webb, Indrė Žakevičienė, Agata Zarzycka.Trade Review“The newly edited book On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture: Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe by Irene Barbara Kalla, Patrycja Poniatowska and Dorota Michuƚka presents eye-opening research and literary experiments that are largely foreign to literary studies in Southeast Asia.” - Florence Toh Haw Ching, Ikhlas Abdul Hadi, Australian International Academic Centre AU in International Journal of Education & Literacy Studies, 2018 pp. 187-188.Table of ContentsIntroduction  Barbara Kalla, Patrycja Poniatowska and Dorota Michułka Part 1: From the Centre to the Fringes and Back Again 1 Two Ends and One Beginning: Notes on the Future of Writing in the Post-Medial Context  Mariusz Pisarski 2 Digital Literature, Deinosis and Haptic Reading  Barbara Kaszowska-Wandor 3 Edgar Allan Poe’s Adventures in Convergence Culture  Agata Zarzycka 4 The Book and the Tablet as Media of Children’s Literature: A Ukrainian Case  Emilia Ohar 5 Literary Experiments with Automatic Translation: A Case Study of a Creative Experiment Involving King Ubu and Google Translate  Aleksandra Małecka and Piotr Marecki 6 Helping Ourselves Out of the Margins: Handbooks for Creative Writing as a Tool for Analyzing Literary Dynamics  Dirk de Geest Part 2: Games: Where Narratives (Do Not) Fear to Tread 7 The Witcher Adventure (Board) Game in The Witcher Transmedia Universe  Aleksandra Mochocka 8 Playing the Future History of Humanity: Situating Fallout 3 as a Narratological Artefact  Dawn Stobbart 9 Storytelling in the Age of Digital Media The Netwars – Out of Control Transmedia Project – A Case Study  Łukasz Mirocha 10 The Pitfalls of Narration: Call of Juarez: Gunslinger  Justyna Fruzińska Part 3: The Literary, the Digital and Their Social (Dis)Contents 11 Alice and Paddington: Digital Migrants from Book to Film  Jean Webb 12 Futures of Copyright: Literature as a Medium of Legal Change  Maciej Jakubowiak 13 Consumers of Popular Culture or Demanding Dictators? The Lithuanian Case  Indrė Žakevičienė 14 Product Placement Novels as a Literary Margin  Anna Ślósarz 15 Book Blogosphere on the Polish Internet  Kinga Kasperek 16 “Children of Our Age”: Digital Media and the Lie of Literature  Michael Joyce

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Book SynopsisTeaching Modernist Anglophone Literature features fresh classroom approaches to teaching modernism, with an emphasis on pedagogy grounded in educational theory and contemporary digital media tools. It offers techniques for improving students’ close reading, critical thinking/writing, and engagement with issues of gender, race, class, and social justice. Discussions are raised of subjectivity, perception, the nature of language, and the function of art. Innovative project ideas, assignments, and examples of student work are offered in a special annex. This volume fills a gap in higher education pedagogy uniquely suited to the experimental nature of modernism. Madden and McKenzie’s inspiring volume can steer the teaching of modernist literature in creative, new directions that benefit both teachers and students. Contributors are: Susan Hays Bussey, William A. Johnsen, Benjamin Johnson, Mary C. Madden, Laci Mattison, Precious McKenzie, Susan Rowland, and Kelsey Squire.

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Book SynopsisIn American Migrant Fictions: Space, Narrative, Identity, Sonia Weiner focuses on novels of five American migrant writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who construct spatial paradigms within their narratives to explore questions of linguistic diversity, identities and be-longings. By weaving visual techniques within their narratives (photography, comics, cartography) authors Aleksandar Hemon, G.B. Tran, Junot Díaz, Boris Fishman and Vikram Chandra convey a surplus of perspectives and gesture towards alternative spaces, spatial in-between-ness and transnational space.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: The Spatial Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Transligualism 1 Double Visions and Aesthetics of the Migratory: Aleksandar Hemon’s Lazarus Project 2 Cohesive Fragments: G.B. Trans’s Graphic Memoir Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey 3 Shape Shifting and the Shifting of Shapes: Migration and Transformation in Junot Díaz’s Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 4 “Weathering the Divide Between There and Here”: In-between Spaces in Boris Fishman’s A Replacement Life 5 Translation and Transcreation in Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring Rain Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJames Joyce and Genetic Criticism presents contemporary scholarship in genetic criticism and Joyce studies. In considering how evolutionary themes enhance the definition of the genetic method in interpreting texts, this volume presents a variety of manuscript-based analyses that engage how textual meaning, through addition and omission, grows. In doing so, this volume covers a wide-range of topics concerning Joycean genetics, some of which include Joyce’s editorial practice, the forthcoming revised edition of Finnegans Wake, the genetic relationship between Giacomo Joyce and Ulysses, the method and approach required for creating an online archive of Finnegans Wake, and the extensive genesis of “Penelope”. Contributors are: Shinjini Chattopadhyay, Tim Conley, Luca Crispi, Robbert-Jan Henkes, Sangam MacDuff, Genevieve Sartor, Fritz Senn, Sam Slote, Dirk Van Hulle.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction: James Joyce and Genetic Criticism: Genesic Fields  Genevieve Sartor 1 Revision Revisited  Tim Conley 2 The at Wickerworks and the Case for Mute Authorisation  Robbert-Jan Henkes 3 Editing the Wake’s Genesis: Digital Genetic Criticism  Dirk Van Hulle 4 Correcting Joyce: Trial and Error in the Composition of Ulysses  Sam Slote 5 What Genetics Can Do: Linking II.2 and iv of Finnegans Wake  Genevieve Sartor 6 Giacomonic Oxen: Avant-texte or Intertext?  Shinjini Chattopadhyay 7 The Genesis of “Penelope” in Manuscript  Luca Crispi 8 Joyce’s Revelation: “The Apocalypse of Saint John” at Cornell  Sangam MacDuff 9 Opsigenetic Touches in Ulysses: Ithacan Correlatives  Fritz Senn Index

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Book SynopsisIn Earth and Mind : Dreaming, Writing, Being Michael Bishop examines the very recent work of nine major contemporary French and Francophone writers : Yves Bonnefoy, Jacqueline Risset, Salah Stétié, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, André Velter, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Jean-Claude Pinson and Jacques Dupin. The issue of writing’s complex relation to the experience of the earth is of central pertinence, involving questions of dreaming, voice, figurativity, emotion, desire, revolt, metaphysics, meaning, poiein and being. Discussion entails close reading of works as well as broad contextualisation and a sensitivity to interrelevancies from writer to writer. Bishop’s book is intended as a companion to his 2014 Dystopie et poïein, agnose et reconnaissance. Seize études sur la poésie française et francophone contemporaine.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Biographical Note 1 Yves Bonnefoy, La Grande Ourse: Voice, Consciousness, Presence, Naming 2 Jacqueline Risset, Les Instants: Epiphany, (Un)groundedness, Trial, Desire 3 Salah Stétié, L’Être: Embodiment, Void, Unfiguredness, Uraeus 4 Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Le Livre des Suppliques: Hauntedness, Vigilance, Fable, Circularity 5 Tahar Ben Jelloun, Que la Blessure se Ferme: Light, Love, Passion, Paradox 6 André Velter, L’amour Extrême: Absoluteness, Relativity, Fury, Marvel 7 Marie-Claire Bancquart, Tracé du Vivant: Primordiality, Rites, Question, Rebirth 8 Jean-Claude Pinson, Alphabet Cyrillique: Dailiness, Autobiopoiesis, Freedom, Resistance 9 Jacques Dupin, Le Grésil: Ubac and Adret, Individuation and Pleroma A Few Closing Remarks Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMedicine and Maladies explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France. Eleven essays by specialists in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture probe the acts of writing, reading, and viewing corporeal afflictions across the works of medical practitioners, surgeons, pharmacists, novelists, and artists. Tracing scientific discourse in literary narratives and signalling references to fiction in medical texts, the contributions to this interdisciplinary volume invite us to rethink the relationship between the humanities and the medical sciences.

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Book SynopsisEsotericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams situates the life and fiction of the Inkling Charles Williams in the network of modern occultism, with special focus on his initiatory experiences in A.E. Waite’s Fellowship of the Rosy Cross. Aren Roukema evaluates fictional projections of magic, kabbalah, alchemy and ritual experience in Williams’s seven novels of supernatural fantasy. From this specific analysis, he develops more broadly applicable approaches to the serious expression of religious experience in fiction. Roukema shows that esoteric knowledge has frequently been blurred into fiction because of its inherent narrativity and adaptability, particularly by authors already attracted to the syncretism, multivalence and lived fantasy of the modern occult experience.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Through the Portal  Williams and the Occult: Some Discursive Complications  Encountering the Occult in Williams’s Fiction: A Literary/Historical Method 1 Life and Times: Christian Occultism in Modern England  A Life in Myth  “But about This Reality of Yours …”  The “Dead Master”  Arthur Edward Waite  Occult Imagination and the Secret Tradition  Constructing a Cordon Sanitaire  Christian Occultism 2 The Fellowship of the Rosy Cross: A Modern Occult Experience  Masonic Rosicrucianism  The Paths of the Tree of Life  The F.R.C. and the Golden Dawn: The Adeptus Minor Rituals 3 Fiction and Experience  The Unbearable Lightness of Fiction  Fantastic Narratology: The Liminality of Esoteric Knowledge  The Novels—Intrusions of the Supernatural  The Gothic Occult  In the Network of Occult Fiction  The Novels of an Adeptus Exaltatus  “The End of Desire”—The Discovery of the Higher Self  Occult Fiction, Occult Life 4 Kabbalah: Charles Williams and the Middle Pillar  A.E. Waite and Modern Occult Kabbalah  Becoming Shekinah: Charles Williams and the Middle Pillar  The Greater Trumps  Kabbalistic Eros and Romantic Theology 5 The High-Priestess: Charles Williams and Modern Magic  Magic in the West  The “High-Priestess of Heaven”  Ritual Semiotics and the Magical Imagination 6 A Magical Life in Fiction  Active Imagination  Active Will  The Way of P’o-lu  Art Magic: Sex, Poetry, Consciousness  Reanimation: Enchantment and Empowerment  Interpretive Drift: The Development of a Modern Christian Magic 7 The Transmutation of Charles Williams: Spiritual and Literary Alchemy  From Metallurgy to Particle Physics: A Brief History of Alchemy  Influences: Lee, Waite, Atwood  Rosicrucian Alchemy  The Great Work in Fiction  A Literary Alchemist Epilogue: The Coagulation of Belief Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant, A Critical Anthology, Robert Myers and Nada Saab provide a sense of the variety and complexity of political theater produced in and around the Levant from the 1960s to the present within a context of wider discussions about political theater and the histories and forms of performance from the Islamic and Arab worlds. Five major playwrights are studied, ʿIsam Mahfuz, from Lebanon; Muhammad al-Maghut and Saʿd Allah Wannus, from Syria; Jawad al-Asadi, from Iraq, Syria and Lebanon; and Raʾida Taha, from Palestine. The volume includes translations of their plays The Dictator, The Jester, The Rape, Baghdadi Bath and Where Would I Find Someone Like You, ʿAli?, respectively.

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Book SynopsisPuisant dans la psychologie et la suicidologie, cet ouvrage de Michèle Bacholle examine comment des récits d’écrivains français contemporains endeuillés après suicide exposent le rôle de la famille et de l’Histoire dans ce deuil particulier and comment l’écriture permet une restructuration de soi. Using sources in psychology and suicidology, Michèle Bacholle’s book examines how contemporary French writers, survivors of another person’s suicide, use their narratives to underline the influence of family and History in this specific kind of mourning, and how writing enables self-restructuration.

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Book SynopsisFor the writers and artists in In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing, contemporary Muslim American identity is neither singular nor fixed. Rather than dismiss the tradition in favor of more secular approaches, however, all of the figures here discover in Muhammad’s revelation resources for affirming such uncertainty. For them, the Qur’anic notion of a divine “sign” validates creation, even that creativity born of contrasting if not competing assumptions about identity. To develop this claim, individual chapters in the book discuss Muslim faith in the work of poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Kazim Ali, Tyson Amir and Amir Sulaiman; novelists Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, and Willow Wilson; illustrator Sandow Birk; playwright Ayad Akhtar; and the online record of the 30 Mosques in 30 Days project.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction—Words Beneath Words 1 Traveling with an American Qur’an: Sandow Birk and the Thirty Mosques in Thirty Days Project  1 Plurality Across 30 Mosques  2 Everyday Bonds: Living Muslim Lives in America  3 Assembling the Stories of 30 Mosques  4 Sandow Birk and Scenes for an American Qur’an  5 Bending Borders in an American Qur’an  6 Tradition as a Ritual Process of Communication 2 “Learning to Pray All Over”: The Body in Mohja Kahf’s Poetry and Fiction  1 Marvelous Women  2 The Language of the Body  3 (Un)moored  4 Just Being 3 “Are You A Muslim or Will You Love?” Dropping the Veil in Kazim Ali’s Writing  1 The Body in Space  2 Patterns in and of the Body 4 Begun in Mystery: Ayad Akhtar’s Fiction and Drama  1 Visible Lives, Invisible Hands  2 The Invisible Hand  3 Akhtar’s Islam  4 Faith and the Body  5 Disgraced 5 “Sometimes I Feel Me”: Between Faith and Resistance in the Poetry of Blackamerican Islam  1 Amir Sulaiman  2 Blueprint 6 Where Hope Begins: The Intertextual Worlds of Rabih Alameddine  1 Intertextual Violence and Identity  2 Violence, Identity, Hope Conclusion—“Half In, Half Out”: Willow Wilson and Ms. Marvel to the Rescue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLiterature as Document considers the relationship between documents and literary texts in Western Literature of the 1930s. More specifically, the volume deals with the notion of the “document” and its multifaceted and complex connections to literary “texts” and attempts to provide answers to the problematic nature of that relationship. In an effort to determine a possible theoretical definition, many different disciplines have been taken into account, as well as individual case studies. In order to observe dynamics and trends, the idea for this investigation was to look at literature, taking its practices, its factual-looking and concrete applications, as a point of departure – that is to say, then, starting from the literary object itself.Trade Review“Literature as Document dimostra quanto il testo letterario sia centrale nella definizione del nostro rapporto col passato, e quanto il suo ruolo di documento sia flessibile e aperto a nuove tipologie di indagini per le quali i saggi contenuti nel libro già provvedono a gettare solide basi.” - Simone Marsi, Università di Parma, IT in Between, Vol. 11 2021 pp. 376-381 "Insgesamt bietet der Band interessante und gut durchdachte Studien zu sowohl etablierten, als auch unbekannten Werken der 1930er Jahre." - Isabelle Geising, Universität des Saarlandes (Germany), in: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch Vol.61 2020 pp. 378-380 "In conclusione, Literature as Document dimostra quanto il testo letterario sia centrale nella definizione del nostro rapporto col passato, e quanto il suo ruolo di documento sia flessibile e aperto a nuove tipologie di indagini per le quali i saggi contenuti nel libro già provvedono a gettare solide basi." - Simone Marsi, l’Università di Parma (Italy), in Between Vol. XI.22 2021 pp. 376-381 "Doordat alle auteurs in deze bundel een vergelijkbare methodologie hanteren, namelijk tekstanalyse, krijgt de lezer gaandeweg oog voor allerlei dwarsverbanden tussen literaire teksten en documenten die eerder verborgen bleven. Het zijn allemaal doorwrochte, intelligent geschreven studies die het spectrum van onderzoek over deze periode op een zinvolle wijze verbreden en verdiepen door aandacht te besteden aan de verhouding tussen fictie en werkelijkheid. De studies werpen bovendien een nieuwe blik op de periode van het modernisme, omdat de gekende technieken van collage en montage in deze bundel ook met andere informatiedragers dan tekst worden verbonden, zoals met beeld en geluid. De grootste winst van deze bundel is wel dat deze verrassende invalshoeken aanzetten tot het lezen en herlezen van de besproken werken." - Janneke Weijermars, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands), in: Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde Vol. 136.1 2020Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Positions and Roles of Literary “Documents”: Textual Games and the Creation of Hybrids Sarah Bonciarelli, Anne Reverseau and Carmen Van den Bergh PART 1 Sketching the Document 1 The Difference between “Document” and “Monument” Remo Ceserani 2 A Re-evaluation of Documentary Tendencies in Neue Sachlichkeit Gunther Martens and Thijs Festjens PART 2 Revisiting the Cornerstones 3 Characters as Social Document in Modernist Collective Novels: the Case of Manhattan Transfer Antonio Bibbò 4 Documenting Berlin in the Twenties: War Neurosis and Inflation in Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz Stijn De Cauwer and Sven Fabré 5 Building up a “Glasshouse” in Nadja: Documenting the Surrealist Way of Life Nadja Cohen PART 3 Experimental Writings 6 The “Essence of Things” and Their Decomposition: the Use of Montage in Dino Terra’s Metamorfosi Achille Castaldo 7 Tardy Presents: Embodied Agency in the “Documental” Poetry of Benjamin Péret and Antonio Porchia Piet Devos and Gys-Walt Van Egdom PART 4 Generic Transfers 8 “Madrid está cerca”: Spanish Civil War Radio Poetry Robin Vogelzang 9 “Documentary” Aspects in Umberto Barbaro’s Literary and Cinematographic Practice Fabio Andreazza 10 Plot Placement and Literary Plot: How Economic Context Becomes Part of Literature Toni Marino

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Book SynopsisIn Franco-Maghrebi Artists of the 2000s: Transnational Narratives and Identities Ramona Mielusel offers an account of the way how young artists (writers, filmmakers, actors, singers, photographers, contemporary migrant artists) of Maghrebi origin residing in France during the last twenty years (2000-2016) contest French “national identity” in their work. Mielusel's interest lies in analyzing the impact that these “minor” artists and their chosen genres have on mainstream cultural productions. She argues that constant displacement and changes in political, social and cultural contexts have significantly transformed the dynamics that govern the relationship between the center (Metropolitan France) and the periphery (its Others). Most importantly, she seeks to position their work in the field of transnationalism, which has dominated postcolonial studies and cultural studies in the past decade.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: National Identity and Contemporary France  1 The French Nation in the Twenty-First Century and the Transnational Trend  2 France and Its “Others”  3 The Rise and Shine of Franco-Maghrebi Artists 1 Franco-Maghrebi Literature in Transnational France  1 Today’s Franco-Maghrebi Writers  2 Women’s Voices: Faïza Guène and Saphia Azzeddine  3 Male Voices: Rachid Djaïdani and Abdellah Taïa 2 The Franco-Maghrebi Movies: from the Margin to the Mainstream  1 The Evolution of Franco-Maghrebi “Road Movies” in the European Context  2 The Transformative Experiences of the Main Characters in Ten’ja, The Great Journey, and Monsieur Ibrahim  3 Franco-Maghrebi Women and the French Telefilms  4 Yamina Benguigui’s Aïcha 3 Franco-Maghrebi Actors and the Stand-Up Performances  1 The Beginnings and the Evolution of Franco-Maghrebi Stand-Up Comedy in France and Its Influences  2 The Phenomenon Called Jamel Debbouze, or Jamelmania  3 Gad Elmaleh: a Story “sans Tambours”  4 The Maghrebi Women Stand-Up Paradox 4 The Hip-Hop Culture of the Republic  1 The Evolution of the Hip-Hop Culture in France  2 The New Artists in a New Decade and Their Astonishing Mainstream Success: Médine, Sinik, Abd Al Malik, and Kery James  3 The Female French Rappers in a “Man’s Man’s World” (James Brown) 5 Franco-Maghrebi Visual Arts: the New Ways of Visualizing Diversity  1 Artistic Perspectives on the (Un)veiling of the Body: Majida Khattari, Body and Veil  2 The Franco-Maghrebi Artists’ Video Installations and Photographic Journeys of (Self)Discovery: Bruno Boudjelal’s Jours intranquilles (2009) Conclusion Bibliography and Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisWith Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth, Memory, Leo Courbot offers the first research monograph entirely dedicated to a comprehensive reading of the verse and prose works of Fred D'Aguiar, prized American author of Anglo-Guyanese origin. “Postcolonial” criticism, when related to the history of the African diaspora, regularly inscribes itself in the wake of Sartrean philosophy. However, Fred D'Aguiar's both typical and untypical Caribbean background, in addition to the singularity of his diction, call for a different approach, which Leo Courbot convincingly carries out by reading literature in the light of Jacques Derrida and Édouard Glissant's less conventional sense of the intrinsically metaphorical and cross-cultural nature of language.Table of ContentsPreface: Reading Fred D’Aguiar Acknowledgements General Introduction: Caribbean Orphic Part 1: Tropicality: Fred D’Aguiar’s Poetry Introduction to Part 1 1 Tropical (Re)Visions (of Mythology) 2 (An)amnesic Waters 3 3Chronot(r)opes Partial Conclusion: Resisting Entropy Part 2: Orphanhood: Fred D’Aguiar’s Novels Introduction to Part 2 4 Literate Slaves 5 Orphic Orphans General Conclusion: Vatic Environmentalism and the Politics of Tropicality Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLiterary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China contributes to the “literary turn” in the study of Chinese Christianity by foregrounding the importance of literary texts, including the major genres of Chinese Christian literature (novels, drama and poetry) of the late Qing and Republican periods. These multifarious types of texts demonstrated the multiple representations and dynamic scenes of Christianity, where Christian imageries and symbolism were transformed by linguistic manipulation into new contextualized forms which nurtured distinctive new fruits of literature and modernized the literary landscape of Chinese literature. The study of the composition and poetics of Chinese Christian literary works helps us rediscover the concerns, priorities, textual strategies of the Christian writers, the cross-cultural challenges involved, and the reception of the Bible.Trade Review"The book’s greatest asset is its ability to draw on multiple fields to show the migration, translation, and reinterpretation of stories and images between China and the West. Lai’s deep knowledge of several fields, including biblical exegesis and interpretation, translation studies, Chinese folk religion, and more, are reflected in his analyses. (...) This is a valuable contribution to the field, both summarizing and enhancing the ongoing “literary turn” in the study of Christianity in modern China. The various chapters serve as compact case studies in translation and crosscultural interaction and are useful for both research and teaching purposes." Steven Pieragastini, Loyola Marymount University, Journal of Jesuit Studies 6 (2019).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations  1 Introduction: Literary Turn in the Study of Chinese Christianitybr/>  2 Empire Re-mapped: Image of Britain in Karl Gützlaff’s Novels  1 Westerners/British not “Barbarians”  2 Trading, not “tribute paying”  3 Britain: The “Supreme Nation”  4 Britain upholding the orthodoxy  5 Factors behind Gützlaff’s constructed British image  3 Bible in Fiction: Chinese Protestant Novels of the Late Nineteenth Century  1 Fictional Transformation of Biblical Biographies: Yuese jilüe (Brief Biography of Joseph, 1852)  2 Harmonization and Contextualisation of Gospel Accounts: Zhengdao qimeng (Enlightening the Right Way, 1864)  3 Displacement of Biblical Mythology: Qu mo zhuan (Story of Demon Banishing, 1895)  4 Bible on Stage: Chinese Catholic Dramas of the Republican Period  1 Moralistic and Religious Agenda of Chinese Catholic Literature  2 Dramatizing the Biblical Narratives  3 Edifying and Entertaining Dimensions of Two Joseph Dramas  4 Drama Performance and Communal Transformation  5 Saints Re-membered: Chinese Dramatization of Martyrdom  1 Dramatizing the Martyrdom Stories  2 Martyrdom Narratives of the Maccabees  3 Resolving the Moral Conflict of Martyrdom  6 Popular Reception: Chinese Folk Imagination of Christianity  1 Heavenly Family in Hong Xiuquan’s Dream Vision  2 Image of Jesus in Anti-Christian Pamphlets  3 Journey to Hell in Chinese Catholic Novel  4 Afterlife in Chinese Spiritual Songs  5 Revelation of Jesus in Daoist Planchette Writings  7 Poetic Inspiration: Biblical Imageries in Modern Chinese Poetry  1 The Bible as Devotional Inspiration for Bing Xin  2 The Bible as Ideological Inspiration for Zhou Zuoren  3 The Bible as Archetypal Inspiration for Mu Dan  8 Pilgrims Re-progressed: Christian Interpretation of The Journey to the West  1 Mahayana Christianity and Buddhist Trinity  1.1 Julai as Christ, the Incarnate God  1.2 Kwanyin as the Holy Spirit  2 Huen Chwang as Apostle Paul  3 The Pilgrim’s Progress of Nestorianism  4 “Multi-religious” Kingdom of God  9 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome Kaspar Thormod examines how visions of Rome manifest themselves in artworks produced by international artists who have stayed at the city’s foreign academies. Structured as an alternative guide to Rome, the book represents an interdisciplinary approach to creating a dynamic visual history that brings into view facets of the city’s diverse contemporary character. Thormod demonstrates that when artists successfully reconfigure Rome they provide us with visions that, being anchored in a present, undermine the connotations of permanence and immovability that cling to the ‘Eternal City’ epithet. Looking at the work of these artists, the reader is invited to engage critically with the question: what is Rome today? – or perhaps better: what can Rome be?Table of ContentsPreface by Mieke Bal Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Inventory of Artists Introduction: International artists in Rome  1 Roman Historiography  2 Foreign Academies and International Artists  3 The Contemporary  4 Close Engagement with Artworks  5 Comments on the Sources 1Institutions: Making the Foreign Academies in Rome  1 Transforming the Locale  2 Institutional Critique  3 Making Institutions 2Sites: Negotiating the Spectacle of Rome  1 Defamiliarisation Strategies  2 Projections  3 Globalised Landscapes  4 Reconfiguring Roman Sites 3People: Portraying the Romans  1 Visitors and Locals  2 Inmates and Partners  3 Double Portrait  4 The Potential of Contemporary Portraiture 4History: Re-envisioning Roman Narratives  1 Material Matters  2 Machines, Gods and Ghosts  3 Touching at a Distance  4 Twisted Narratives  5 Critical Reflections on Historical Narratives 5Art: Creating a Rome of One’s Own  1 Spoliation  2 Copiously Copied  3 Critical Re-stagings  4 New (After)Life Epilogue: Rome Maps Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConrad’s Drama: Contemporary Reviews and Observations collects both book reviews and performance reviews of Conrad’s three plays: The Secret Agent, One Day More, and Laughing Anne. These reviews and observations show how Conrad’s plays were received by his contemporaries. More than this, however, Conrad’s Drama reveals the larger conversations surrounding his plays: the state of British drama in the early 20th century, the role the drama critic has in a play’s reception, and the difficulty most fiction writers experience in trying to write for the stage. No other reference work exists for those studying Conrad’s plays, and this volume should prove to be an indispensable reference work for those working on this topic. Conrad’s Drama received an Honorable Mention in the Joseph Conrad Society of America’s Adam Gillon Book Prize in Conrad Studies for books published 2018-2020.Trade Review"To say that for Conradians Peterson's [sic] edition will be an essential source in their investigation of Conrad’s oeuvre seems an obvious compliment, but it will also be an invaluable tool in the hands of theatre historians and theoreticians, a precious guide to the twentieth-century tensions and discussions on art, aesthetics and sense of humour, as well as on politics. This book makes its readers ponder why Conrad’s plays were appreciated in the States and disregarded in Germany, why the context so vivid to the recalled critics disappears from the contemporality of twenty-first-century perspective, and why the interpretation of the female characters in Conrad’s plays differs so drastically between reviews—ranging from omission and neglect to placing them at the heart of the drama." - Anna M. Szczepan-Wojnarska, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Poland, in Yearbook of Conrad Studies Vol. 14, 2019 pp. 123–124 "John G. Peters has done a brilliant job in collating the reviews and observations of Conrad’s drama, exploring their reception both as works on the page and on the stage. The fact that the volume is over 450 pages long makes us realise how important this ‘obscure’ aspect of Conrad’s oeuvre truly is." - Richard J. Hand, The Conradian, 2021 "John Peters has meticulously assembled a collection of reviews and observations on Joseph Conrad’s contributions to theatre that will be welcome to scholars and students undertaking investigations in this area and may also deserve the attention of those who contemplate developments and trends in criticism." - Michael John DiSanto, Joseph Conrad Today, Fall 2021

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Book SynopsisIn Women’s Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers, Anna Menyhért presents the cases of five women writers whose legacy literary criticism has neglected or distorted, thereby depriving succeeding generations of vital cultural memory and inspiration. A best-selling novelist and poet in her time, Renée Erdős wrote innovatively about women's experience of sexual love. Minka Czóbel wrote modern trauma texts only to pass into literary history branded, as a result of ideological pressure in communist times, as an 'ugly woman'. Ágnes Nemes Nagy, celebrated for her ‘masculine’ poems, felt she must suppress her ‘feminine’ poems. Famous writer’s widow Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi’s autobiographical writing tackles the physical challenges of girls' adolescence, and offers us a woman’s thoughtful Holocaust memoir. Anna Lesznai, émigrée and visual artist, wove together memory and fiction using techniques from patchworking and embroidery.Trade Review“The result is a fascinating reading about important stations in the selected writers' lives and careers along with Menyhért’s well-reflected challenging of their existing place in the Hungarian literary canon and her convincing arguments for the place they deserve in that very same canon. She undertakes this re-evaluation not only for the sake of demonstrating the shortcomings and narrow-mindedness of the existing canon but also to offer herself and other women writing today some literary predecessors of their own gender they can build on, both in terms of language and literary imagery and technique, and from whom they can take their inspiration. She demonstrates, against the oft-reiterated argument (by both male and some female literary critics and writers) that there is only one literature irrespective of the author’s gender, that gender matters, and that it matters to a very important degree when it comes to who is allowed entry into the canon and who, and why, is pushed to its margins or altogether out of it.” - Agatha Schwartz, University of Ottawa Canada, in Hungarian Cultural Studies Vol. 14 2021 pp. 260-263Table of ContentsForeword: a Writer in Search of Her Foremothers emsp;Nadezhda Alexandrova and Suzan van Dijk Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Translator’s Note 1 A Tradition of One’s Own emsp;1 A Tradition of Forgetting emsp;2 Canons and Sinking Streams emsp;3 Women’s Literature emsp;4 My Own Say emsp;5 From Room to Room, All the Way to My Own Room emsp;6 A Portrait Gallery on the Museum’s Postcard 2 Between Love and the Canon: Renée Erdős (1879–1956) emsp;1 Author’s House: Closed emsp;2 Private Life – Literary Life emsp;3 Woman Writer at the Journal Future emsp;4 The Woman Writer’s Chances emsp;5 Voices in the Novels emsp;6 Fracture emsp;7 Success in Her Time emsp;8 Contemporary Reviews emsp;9 The Label of Erotic Lady Author emsp;10 Female Voice, Female Verse emsp;11 The Author’s House Is Open 3 In the Canon with Secrets: Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922–1991) and the Women’s Literary Tradition emsp;1 The Weeping Poetess emsp;2 Secret Poems and the Writing of Literary History emsp;3 The Female Poet and Objective Poetry emsp;4 Woman’s Room, Woman’s Landscape, Woman’s Body emsp;5 Self-Liquidation and Recognition emsp;6 A Woman’s Role emsp;7 Statue and Mask emsp;8 Women’s Poetic Tradition emsp;9 Entering the Room emsp;10 Epilogue 4 No Canon for Otherness - The Witch: Minka Czóbel (1854–1943) emsp;1 The Enigmatic Monographer emsp;2 The Mysterious Bob emsp;3 Detective Work emsp;4 Painting a Portrait emsp;5 Writing between the Lines emsp;6 Ugly, Ugly, Not Fit for the Canon emsp;7 Contemporary Views of Minka Czóbel emsp;8 The Feminist Witch emsp;9 The Otherness of the Witch emsp;10 Loss of Control emsp;11 Perversion, Horror, Revenge, Web emsp;12 Boundaries, Mirrors emsp;13 Reading the Witch 5 Mirror, Body, Trauma - a Writer’s Wife at the Edge of the Canon: Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi (1885–1967) emsp;1 To Big Girls about Little Girls emsp;2 Widow, Pigeonholed: the Writer’s Wife emsp;3 Female Reading emsp;4 Body emsp;5 Mirror emsp;6 Women’s Holocaust Memoirs emsp;7 Trauma: Persecutors and Persecuted emsp;8 Setting the Stage for Death emsp;9 Connections: Ilona Harmos, Minka Czóbel, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ágnes Nemes Nagy emsp;10 The Writing Woman emsp;11 Sitting Down at the Writing Desk 6 Museum, Cult, Memory - Locked in the Canon: Lesznai (1885–1966) emsp;1 Memory’s Volunteers emsp;2 The Well- Known Woman Writer emsp;3 Museum, Cult, Memory emsp;4 Dusting Off a Novel emsp;5 Belatedness and Renewal emsp;6 Threads and Patterns emsp;7 Female Figures emsp;8 A Father’s Blessing emsp;9 The Novel that Remembers emsp;10 Nižný Hrušov – Memory’s Tou Apendix 1 List of Poems and Their Translators Apendix 2 A List of Titles of Works Referred to in English and in Hungarian Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture: Bengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Samarpita Mitra studies literary periodicals as a particular print form, and reveals how their production and circulation were critical to the formation of a Bengali public sphere during the turn of the twentieth century. Given its polyphonic nature, capacity for sustaining debates and adaptability by readers with diverse reading competencies, periodicals became the preferred means for dispensing modern education and entertainment through the vernacular. The book interrogates some of the defining debates that shaped readers’ perspectives on critical social issues and explains how literary culture was envisioned as an indicator of the emergent nation. Finally it looks at the Bengali-Muslim and women’s periodicals and their readerships and argues that the presence of multiple literary voices make it impossible to speak of Bengali literary culture in any singular terms.Trade Review'Samarpita Mitra’s well-researched exploration of these transformative elements plugs an important gap in historical literature on the cultural politics of modernity and nationalism in Bengal.(...) She argues that the Bengali public sphere was at once democratic and exclusionary, rendering a single, homogeneous literary culture impossible. Instead, she foregrounds the polyphonic nature of this domain, where women’s journals, Bengali Muslim literary periodicals, journals of various caste groups, and district journals jostled for space with the mainstream periodicals, all feeding into multiple, intersecting literary spheres, coexisting as well as competing with each other. Such nuanced unpacking of an archive, while clearly demonstrating the unevenness of the evolving class ideologies and identities of the indigenous middle classes, has a sobering effect on the usual paeans sung to the supposedly ‘transformative’ subjective agency of an educated and enlightened Bengali middle class. Periodicals, as Mitra shows, were catalysts of “social change and self-cultivation” and, in this sense, their roles went far beyond serving as mere “reflections” of contemporary social life, which is how scholars have tended to see them so far. In mediating imaginative explorations into social life as well as in opening up latent possibilities of change, the periodicals became agents of change in the same society that spawned them. This is a remarkable academic accomplishment, for which Mitra deserves our praise.' - The Telegraph, Kolkata.

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Book SynopsisJoyce’s art is an art of idiosyncratic transformation, revision and recycling. More specifically, the work of his art lies in the act of creative transformation: the art of the paste that echoes Ezra Pound’s urge to make it new. The essays in this volume examine various modalities of the Joycean aesthetic metamorphosis: be it through the prism of Joyce engaging with other arts and artists, or through the prism of other arts and artists engaging with the Joycean aftermath. We have chosen the essays that best show the range of Joycean engagement with multiple artistic domains in a variety of media. Joyce’s art is multiform and protean: influenced by many, it influences many others.Trade Review“Joyce and the Arts makes a positive contribution to describing, theorising and generally appreciating the multifarious ways that Joyce’s art engages with and is engaged by creative fields, addressing the important whys and hows of Joycean influence on the arts.” - Clinton Cahill Manchester Metropolitan University UK, in James Joyce Broadsheet Vol. 119 2021 p. 2Table of Contents Abbreviations  List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors  Introduction: Endlessly Inartistic Portraits   Sam Slote   Part 1: Joycean “Re-tailorings” 1Sartor ResartusReanimatus: The “Reversionary” Art of James Joyce, the Re-tailor   Tiana M. Fischer   Part 2: Visual Art 2 Portraits of the Artist   David Spurr 3 “His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery”: Towards an Indirect Social Efficacy of Joyce’s Attitude to Mistakes – Through (Beuys’) Art Responding to Joyce   Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes   Part 3: Music 4 The Dysgenic Music of James Joyce: Joyce as Disablist Modernist Composer inFinnegans Wake   John Morey 5 Sound Art? Trying to Make “soundsense” of the “sensesound” in Finnegans Wake   Thomas Gurke 6 The Art of Reading a Musical Novel: Literary Audiation and the Case of James Joyce   Katherine O’Callaghan 7 Static Crooning Consciousness Expansion: Musical Undergrounds Respond to James Joyce   Derek Pyle   Part 4: TV and Film 8 On the Stream of Consciousness and “Camera-Eye” in the Works of James Joyce and Thomas Wolfe   Adam James Cuthbert 9 James Joyce and François Truffaut: Stylistic Correspondences Between Literature and Cinema   Sara Spanghero 10 Nostalgia and the Kiss of Ulysses in Twin Peaks   Damon Franke   Part 5: Hybridity of Visual and Textual Images 11 “Our eyes demand their turn”: The Materiality of the Joycean Image & Illustrations of Finnegans Wake   Yaeli Greenblatt 12 The Logic of the Doodles in Finnegans WakeII.2   Sangam MacDuff 13 Columban Texts and Joyce’s “book of kills” (FW 482.33): The Limits of a Palaeographer’s View in Finnegans Wake   Anne Marie D’Arcy   Part 6: Joyce “Receptionated” (FW 370.18) 14 “Patrick What-Do-You-Colm”: Reading Joyce with Padraic Colum   John McCourt  Index

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Book SynopsisIn André du Bouchet: Poetic Forms of Attention, Emma Wagstaff provides the first book-length study in English of this major poet of the second half of the twentieth century. She shows how Du Bouchet’s rigorous and innovative creative and critical writing advances our understanding of attention. Du Bouchet is known as a post-war poet of the natural world and the space of the page. Far from just a solitary writer, however, he engaged with others through his work as editor, critic, and translator, and his involvement in the protests of May 1968. Emma Wagstaff shows how his writing demonstrates nuanced attention to language, time, nature, and art, and incites a ‘slow’ response on the part of the reader.Trade Review“This study’s author establishes an intriguing closeness to and slight distance from her peers, grounding her arguments in recent criticism while indicating where she is inclined to agree or disagree. […] we continually learn essentials about Du Bouchet while entering as possible the mindset corresponding to specific works and to his overall poetic project. […] The critical apparatus offers a reliable guide, as does the laudable overall intentionality. The author communicates to a broad audience, structures the study meaningfully as regards primary sources, shows with precision how texts shape perception, progresses toward examination of art writing (134–55) and the process of life writing (158–92), consistently incorporates important thinkers and academics, and provides English translations at all junctures. The diverse analyses concerning awareness of form, attentiveness to time, and appreciation for people and things in the outer world are compelling. This monograph of lasting value facilitates access to Du Bouchet’s writings and eloquently demonstrates his oeuvre’s ongoing relevance.” - Aaron Prevost, French Review, May 2022.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 Du Bouchet and his Poetic Context 2 Du Bouchet’s Contributions to the Review l’Éphémère  1  L’Éphémère and the Twentieth-Century French Literary Review  2  L’Éphémère and  3 ‘« Sous les pavés, la plage » Notes du [ ] mai 1968’  4 The Form of l’Éphémère 3 Poetry and Pauses  1 The Material World  2 Time in the Texts  3 Forms of Temporal Attention  4 ‘Soutiré à un futur’ 4 Tensions and Translation  1 Foreignness and Relation  2 ‘Notes sur la traduction’  3 ‘Lit de neige’ 5 Criticism and Slowness  1  Du Bouchet critic  2 Art Writing  3 Du Bouchet’s Slow Art Writing  4  De plusieurs déchirements dans les parages de la peinture 6 A Life Writing  1 Autobiography and Projects  2 Rewriting the Carnets  3 Rewriting Published Texts  4 ‘À l’arrêt’ Conclusion  1  A Note on Translation  2 Poetry’s Role? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDestination for artists and convalescents, playground of the rich, site of foreign allure, the French Riviera has long attracted visitors to its shores. Ranging through the late nineteenth century, the Belle Epoque, the ‘roaring twenties’, and the emancipatory post-war years, Rosemary Lancaster highlights the contributions of nine remarkable women to the cultural identity of the Riviera in its seminal rise to fame. Embracing an array of genres, she gives new focus to feminine writings never previously brought together, nor as richly critically explored. Fiction, memoir, diary, letters, even cookbooks and choreographies provide compelling evidence of the innovativeness of women who seized the challenges and opportunities of their travels in a century of radical social and artistic change.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Part 1: Art and Illness 1 Marie Bashkirtseff’s Quest for Glory: the Nice Years and After  Epilogue 2 ‘Ordered South’: Katherine Mansfield in Menton  Epilogue Part 2: High Life on the Riviera 3 Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo  Epilogue 4 Bronislava Nijinska: The Ballets Russes Years  Epilogue 5 The Riviera and the Rich: Rebecca West’s The Thinking Reed (1936)  Epilogue Part 3: The Mediterranean Idyll 6 Rebirth in Saint-Tropez: Colette’s Break of Day  Epilogue 7 An Invented Childhood: Honoria Murphy in Antibes  Epilogue 8 Flavours of the South: the Culinary Revolutions of Elizabeth David and Julia Child  Epilogue Selective Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCultural Pearls from the East offers fascinating insights into Muslim-Arab culture and the evolution of its intellectual nature and literary texts from early Islam to modern times. The textual analysis of largely unexplored literary works and chronicles that epitomize this volume highlight the affinity between culture, society, and politics, exploring these issues from both thematic and comparative perspectives. Among the topics examined in depth: Arabic poetry of warfare at the dawn of Islam; medieval poems about venerated sites and saints; Ottoman and Egyptian chronicles portraying the socioreligious landscapes of Egypt and the Fertile Crescent under the Ottoman Empire and in the shadow of growing European encroachment; and Arab-Jewish literature dealing with suppression, exile, and identity. Contributors: Ghaleb Anabseh, Albert Arazi, Meir M. Bar-Asher, Peter Chelkowski, Geula Elimelekh, Sigal Goorj, Jane Hathaway, Meir Hatina, Yair Huri-Horesh, Amir Lerner, Menachem Milson, Gabriel M. Rosenbaum, Joseph Sadan, Yona Sheffer, Norman (Noam) A. Stillman, Ibrahim Taha, Michael Winter, Eman Younis

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Book SynopsisWhen Joseph Conrad died in 1924, Ford Madox Ford immediately published a memoir of his involvement with Conrad at which Conrad's widow took offense. The ensuing "controversy" left Ford with a lasting reputation for "unreliability" which Morey examines in detail, uncovering evidence that substantiates most of Ford's claims. Morey's judicious assessment of the literary friendship and interdependence between two remarkable writers is a much-needed addition to studies of Conrad and Ford.

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Book SynopsisWith this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural construction and literary representation of national, usually European characters. Consisting of an instructive introduction and 21 articles, the book relates this sub-field of comparative literature to contemporary political developments and enriches it with new interdisciplinary, transnational, intersectional, and intermedial perspectives. The contributions offer [1] a reconsideration and update of the field’s methods, genres, and theoretical frames; [2] trans-/post-national, migratory, and marginalized perspectives beyond the European nation-state; [3] insights into geopolitical dichotomies such as Orient/Occident; [4] intersectional approaches considering the entanglements of national images with notions of age, class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity/race; [5] investigations of the role of national images in visual narratives and music.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: New Perspectives on Imagology  Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie and Gianna Zocco Part 1: Reconsidering the European Conception of Imagology and Its Peripheries: Methods, Genres, Theoretical Frames 1 Enmity, Identity, Discourse: Imagology and the State  Joep Leerssen 2 Axiological Foundations of Imagology  Davor Dukić 3 Toward a Production-Oriented Imagology  Ulrike Kristina Köhler 4 Imagology and the Analysis of Identity Discourses in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Travel Writing by Charles Dickens and Karl Philipp Moritz  Sandra Vlasta Part 2: Imagology beyond and across the European Nation-State: Trans-/Postnational, Migratory, and Marginalized Perspectives 5 The Fall of the Berlin Wall Transnational: Images and Stereotypes in Yadé Kara’s Selam Berlin and Paul Beatty’s Slumberland  Gianna Zocco 6 Immigration and Imagology, or Nationalisms Abandoned  Manfred Beller 7 Transnationalizing National Characterization: Meta-Images and the Centre-Periphery Dynamics in Spain and the South Slavic Region  Josip Kešić Part 3: Of Orient/Occident and Other Geopolitical Dichotomies: Imagology and Its Systems of Cultural Mappings 8 Between Orient and Occident: The Construction of a Postimperial Turkish Identity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Novel Huzur  Johanna Chovanec 9 European Ethnotypes in Chinese Words: The Translation and Negotiation of Some Western National Characters in Early Nineteenth-Century China  Federica Casalin 10 A Study on The Travel Journal and Pictures: Li Danlin’s Image of Foreign Lands and Cultures  Zhu Wenjun 11 “I have gotten used to the whites, but I tremble before the blacks!”: Fashioning Colonial Subjectivities in The Brave Rabbit in Africa  Kristína Kállay 12 The Myth of the Orient in Flaubert’s Voyage en Égypte and Bachmann’s Das Buch Franza  Walter Wagner Part 4: Intersectional Approaches to Imagology: The Multiple Entanglements of Ethnotypes 13 Categories, Stereotypes, Images, and Intersectionality  Martina Thiele 14 Nationality as Intersectional Storytelling: Inventing the Parisienne  Maria Weilandt 15 A “Jezebel” or a Further “Madwoman in the Attic” in Caroline Lee Hentz’s The Planter’s Northern Bride  Karin Andersson 16 Images of Bosniac Women in Contemporary Antiwar Films: An Intersectional Analysis of Victim Feminism in Grbavica and In the Land of Blood and Honey  Ivana Drmić Part 5: Imagology Intermedial: Beyond the Literary Text 17 National Images in Visual Narratives: The (Re)Presentation of National Characters in the Flemish Comic Series Suske en Wiske  Christine Hermann 18 #JeSuisAmatrice: Identity through a Landscape of Wounds; Toward a Geo-Imagology  Daniel Brandlechner 19 Singing the Dutch: An Extended Imagological Approach to Constructions of “Dutchness” in Late Eighteenth-Century Political Songs  Renée Vulto 20 “… the first singer, a born German”: Notions of Nationality as a Field of Conflict in Operatic Music of the 1770s  Andrea Horz 21 Blurring Stereotypes: “Aus dem Leben eines Tonkünstlers” as a Medium of Italian Musical Character around 1800  Carolin Krahn Index

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Book SynopsisThis co-edited volume offers new insights into the complex relations between Brussels and Vienna in the turn-of-the-century period (1880-1930). Through archival research and critical methods of cultural transfer as a network, it contributes to the study of Modernism in all its complexity. Seventeen chapters analyse the interconnections between new developments in literature (Verhaeren, Musil, Zweig), drama (Maeterlinck, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal), visual arts (Minne, Khnopff, Masereel, Child Art), architecture (Hoffmann, Van de Velde), music (Schönberg, Ysaÿe, Kreisler, Kolisch), as well as psychoanalysis (Varendonck, Anna Freud) and café culture. Austrian and Belgian artists played a crucial role within the complex, rich, and conflictual international networks of people, practices, institutions, and metropoles in an era of political, social and technological change and intense internationalization. Contributors: Sylvie Arlaud, Norbert Bachleitner, Anke Bosse, Megan Brandow-Faller, Alexander Carpenter, Piet Defraeye, Clément Dessy, Aniel Guxholli, Birgit Lang, Helga Mitterbauer, Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Silvia Ritz, Hubert Roland, Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Sigurd Paul Scheichl, Guillaume Tardif, Hans Vandevoorde.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Note on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction  Brussels 1900 Vienna: Cultural Transfers 1880–1930   Piet Defraeye, Helga Mitterbauer and Chris Reyns-Chikuma PART 1 Staging Modernisms 1 The Power of Retheatricalization and Depersonalization  Maurice Maeterlinck and Hugo von Hofmannsthal   Anke Bosse 2 Viennese Theatre Critics on Viennese Maeterlinck Productions   Sigurd Paul Scheichl 3 Arthur Schnitzler and Theatre in Belgium: 1900–1930   Piet Defraeye PART 2 Transpositions 4 Literary Exchanges from Vienna to Brussels 1880–1920   Hubert Roland 5 Stefan Zweig as a Mediator and Translator of Emile Verhaeren’s Poetry   Norbert Bachleitner 6 Concepts of Exoticism in Brussels and Vienna around 1900   Szilvia Ritz 7 Parallel Campaigns of Cultural Renewal  Art Nouveau, Robert Musil, and The Man Without Qualities   Aniel Guxholli PART 3 Transformations 8 Belgian Artists and the Secessionist Battle for Modern Art   Inga Rossi-Schrimpf 9 Another Modernity? Viennese Art Criticism and the Reception of Belgian Arts and Architecture around 1900   Sylvie Arlaud 10 Fernand Khnopff, a Painter Columnist in the Viennese Press  A London–Vienna Connection via Brussels   Clément Dessy 11 Kinderkunst between Vienna and Brussels 1900  Child Art, Primitivism, and Patronage   Megan Brandow-Faller 12 Between Brussels and Vienna  Frans Masereel’s Transnational Wordless Narratives   Chris Reyns-Chikuma PART 4 Resonances 13 Arnold Schoenberg, La Jeune Belgique, and the Dialectics of (Viennese) Modernism   Alexander Carpenter 14 Parallels and Intervals  Violinists Intersecting with Modernity   Guillaume Tardif PART 5 Café and Psyche 15 About Well-Lit Hullaballoos and Suffocating Air  Senses in the Brussels and Viennese Cafés at the Fin-de-Siècle   Hans Vandevoorde 16 Psychoanalysts Through Translation? Julien (Johan) Varendonck (1879–1924) —— Anna Freud (1895–1982)   Birgit Lang Index

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Book SynopsisIn den letzten Jahren sind zahlreiche deutschsprachigen Texte erschienen, die von AutorInnen ost- und südosteuropäischer Herkunft verfasst wurden. Dieses bereits als „Osterweiterung der deutschsprachigen Literatur“ und „eastern turn“ bezeichnete Phänomen zeugt von einer Diversifizierung der Gegenwartsliteratur, die sich mit einem Label wie ‚Migrationsliteratur‘ nicht mehr ausreichend fassen lässt. Gibt es in den entsprechenden Texten spezifische Schreibweisen und Perspektiven und wie ist dies mit deren Rezeption vermittelt? Damit stellt sich zugleich aber die Frage nach dem Status einer Herkunftzuweisung wie ‚Osteuropa‘. Der Band versammelt Beiträge, die diese Fragen unter theoretischen Aspekten, im Hinblick auf die Positionierungen der AutorInnen im literarischen Feld und auf Dynamiken des Buchmarkts sowie in einzelnen Fallstudien untersuchen. In the last years numerous German-language texts written by authors of Eastern and Southeastern European origin appeared. This phenomenon, already referred to as the "eastward expansion of German-language literature" and the "eastern turn", indicates a diversification of contemporary literature that can no longer be adequately captured by a label such as “migration literature”. Are there specific writing styles and perspectives in these texts and how is this mediated with their reception? At the same time, however, this raises the question of the status of an attribution of origin such as 'Eastern Europe'. This volume brings together contributions that examine these questions in theoretical perspective, with regard to the positioning of authors in the literary field and to book market dynamics, as well as in individual case studies.

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Book SynopsisGloria Maité Hernández offers an engaging critical review of scholarly works on Spanish mystical literature during the twentieth and early twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. Bringing together for the first time an ample variety of sources, and letting the scholars’ own voices be heard, this study asks how their writings were influenced by their particular notions about mysticism and Spain’s relationship with the Orient. A thematic survey like this one illustrates how ideas are created and re-created throughout time, resulting in the production of a more diverse scholarship. Readers will be enriched with a renewed sense of disciplinary awareness.Table of ContentsThe Scholarship on Spanish Mystical Literature Through an Orientalist Lens  Gloria Maité Hernández Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Mysticism and Orientalism  2 The Scholarship on Spanish Mystical Literature Pre-1942  3 Scholarship on Spanish Mystical Literature: 1942 and the Next Two Decades  4 The Scholarship on Spanish Mystical Literature: The Turn of the Century  Conclusions: The Scholarship on Spanish Mystical Literature: Its Present and Future List of Works Cited General Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGeorges Perec et ses lieux de mémoire est la première étude monographique sur le projet longtemps inédit de Lieux, vaste et passionnant ensemble de textes, de photographies et de documents par lequel Perec visait à ancrer son autobiographie dans l’espace urbain. Georges Perec et ses lieux de mémoire is the first book length monography about Perec’s Lieux project, a vast and fascinating body of texts, documents and photographs by which Perec aimed to anchor his autobiography in urban space.Trade ReviewBlog d'Annelies Schulte Nordholt sur son nouveau livre: https://www.leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl/articles/georges-perec-and-his-sites-of-memoryTable of ContentsPréface IX List of Illustrations XI AbréviationsIII Introduction Partie 1: Lieux dans tous ses états 1 Genèse et devenir du projet  1 Premier état du projet : une « ethnographie » des lieux parisiens  2 Une lettre programmatique  3 Lieux dans Espèces d’espaces  4 « Nouveau programme de travail sur vingt ans »  5 Lieux après Lieux 2 Lectures critiques de Lieux  1 Une lecture ‘autobiographique’  2 Une lecture ‘sociologique’  3 Lectures oulipiennes  4 Lectures de Lieux et l’art de la mémoire Partie 2: Microlectures 3 Gaités  1 Gaité comme un lieu de substitution : topographies du souvenir  2 Organiser la mémoire de Gaité  3 La constitution d’un lieu de mémoire : habiter, manger, boire  4 Le lieu vécu par l’écriture et le cinéma  5 Guetter Gaité  6 Épuiser Gaité ?  7 La rue comme texte : le travail citationnel dans les Gaité Réels 4 Joie et mélancolie d’une archive urbaine  1 Lieux et les théories contemporaines de l’archive  2 Saint-Honoré Souvenirs : archiver le passé ?  3 Saint-Honoré Réels : archiver le présent  4 La matérialité de l’archivage : les enveloppes 5 La photographie dans Lieux  1 Continuité et différence avec les photographies de La Clôture  2 Tentative d’épuisement d’une rue ?  3 Décentrage, troncation, saturation  4 Echappées de vue, absence de présence humaine et dégradation  5 Grilles, carrés, clôture 6 Autour de la rue Vilin  1 Vilin Réels : écrire la disparition d’une mère et de la judéité  2 Vilin Réels : écrire la disparition d’une rue  3 Les Vilin Réels comme cartographie d’un lieu  4 Les Vilin Souvenirs Partie 3: Éclairages sur les Souvenirs 7 Lieux. Une œuvre (de) rhétorique  1 Perec avec et au-delà de Roland Barthes  2 L’Inventio : lieux communs et topique  3 Une Dispositio potentielle ?  4 Elocutio : l’ekphrasis d’un lieu parisien  5 Memoria  6 Conclusion 8 Le travail de la mémoire dans les Souvenirs  1 Où ? La mémoire des espaces  2 Quoi ? La mémoire des choses  3 Qui ? La mémoire des noms et des personnes  4 Comment ? La mémoire des (micro-)événements 9 Les lieux de l’écriture  1 Les lieux d’écriture des premières œuvres : Italie et Les Errants  2 Franklin-Roosevelt : « lieux d’une fugue », lieux d’écriture, lieux de tournage  3 Le métadiscours interne de Lieux : stratégie d’évitement ou aspect structurel au projet ?  4 Les lieux du « champ littéraire » de Perec Conclusion Bibliographie Index des noms de personnes

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