Literary studies: fiction Books

Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length critical study of the three Virgilian works to be published in English for twenty years. It examines in detail the thematic design and intent of the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, and documents the development of their political, moral and poetic pessimism. It presents the interrelationship of the three texts, their intertextuality, as integral to their meaning. The book is in three main parts - 'Pastoral Meditation', 'Didactic Paradox', 'Epic Vision' - corresponding to the three Virgilian works. A brief introductory chapter is concerned with questions of method and the problem of Virgil misread. A chief focus of the book is Virgil's preoccupation with the relationship between poetry, art - art's values, perceptions, visions - and the political/historical world, and the changing nature of Virgil's attitude to the socio-moral responsibilities of Rome. The evolution of Vergil's presentation both of Roman imperium and of man's place in nature and history is carefully delineated. With close scrutiny of the language, imagery, structures and design of the three texts and of their verbal and thematic interrelationship, the book offers a substantial reassessment of the major political, psychological and moral ideas of Virgil's poetic oeuvre. An intricate and persuasive picture emerges of Virgil's intellectual and poetic development and a radically new conception of Virgil's image of himself as poet. The provision of translations makes the book accessible to the Latinless reader.

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Book SynopsisThis detailed literary and rhetorical analysis of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo treats the poem as a unified work of art in which sophisticated poetic craftsmanship is put to the service of serious ethical thought. By means of parallels from Homer, Hesiod, and other Homeric hymns, as well as from later epideictic poetry and prose, the author seeks to show that the poet of the Hymn follows a coherent ''program'' whose intention is to praise Apollo from his birth on humble Delos to his establishment in a position of glory at Delphi. At the same time, the ''Delian'' and ''Pythian'' portions of the hymn are linked by a complex network of ideas bearing on the ethos of Apollo and the nature of his Delphic oracle. The study takes into account previous scholarship on the Hymn and provides appendices on ''The Question of Unity'' and ''The Cosmological Hierarchy and Apollo's Timai''.

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Book SynopsisThe language of early Greek epic, exemplified primarily by Homer, contains numerous descriptions of inner states and uses a specific vocabulary to do so. Scholars understand these descriptions in a general way; but the precision of the expressions remains a mystery. In this work, one of the most important of these words, thumos, is examined in each of its contexts. This synchronic formulaic analysis is carried out according to the contexts of thumos: the cognitive/intellectual, the emotional, and the physical. Two additional contexts, deliberation and motivation, are discussed separately. Within the discussion of each context, the functional synonyms of thumos, particulary phren/phrenes, and other frequent associates of thumos, are examined. Thumos has associations with words relating to winds and storms, a fact which helps clarify its significance in all contexts. Because this work is a discussion of thumos in all contexts, and also contains an appendix of the relevant passages, it should be useful to scholars engaged in research on Homeric vocabulary.Trade Review'This is a book to be savoured and savoured at leisure.' Greece and Rome, 1991.

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Book SynopsisThe first modern study of Nicholas of Lyra. A Franciscan teacher at the University of Paris, Nicholas (d. 1349) was an immensely important biblical commentator whose works influenced generations of scholars including Luther. Famed for his knowledge of Hebrew learning, as well as of the Latin Fathers, Nicholas was also highly conscious of interpretative method and of the Bible as literary artefact. In his massive Postillae, Nicholas commented on the entire Bible according to both literal and spiritual senses. This masterpiece is the basis for fifteen essays which cover major biblical books, examining them in a variety of ways, such as interpretative history, theology, and even political theory. They illuminate the remarkable range of Nicholas' thinking, his impressive scholarship, and his Franciscan evangelism. A major study of a key medieval writer. Contributors include: Philippe Buc, Mary Dove, Theresa Gross-Diaz, Deeana Copeland Klepper, Philip D.W. Krey, Frans van Liere, Kevin Madigan, Corrine Patton, Michael A. Signer, Lesley Smith, and Mark Zier.Trade Review'In their welcome collection of essays on the Franciscan biblical exegete Nicholas of Lyra (1270-1349), Philip Krey and Lesley Smith seek to address those issues that have recently sparked interest in this scholar in several areas of medieval studies.' Ruth Nisse, The Journal of Religion.Table of ContentsAbbreviations and short titles Contributors Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. Creation, Fall and Salvation: Lyra's Commentary on Genesis 1-3, Corrine Patton 2. The Rewards of Faith: Nicholas of Lyra on Ruth, Lesley Smith 3. The Literal Sense of the Books of Samuel and Kings: from Andrew of StVictor to Nicholas of Lyra, Frans van Liere 4. The Book of Kings: Nicholas of Lyra's Mirror of Princes, Philippe Buc 5. What's a Good Soldier to Do? Scholarship and Revelation in the Postills on the Psalms, Theresa Gross-Diaz 6. Literal Senses in the Song of Songs, Mary Dove 7. Vision and History: Nicholas of Lyra on the Prophet Ezechiel, Michael A. Signer 8. Nicholas of Lyra on the Book of Daniel, Mark Zier 9. Lyra on the Gospel of Matthew, Kevin Madigan 10. The GospelTruth: Nicholas of Lyra on John, Lesley Smith 11. ‘The Old Law Prohibits the Hand and Not the Spirit’: The Law and the Jews in Nicholas of Lyra’s Romans Commentary of 1329, Philip D.W. Krey 12. The Apocalypse Commentary of 1329: Problems in Church History, Philip D.W. Krey 13. Nicholas of Lyra and Franciscan Interest in Hebrew Scholarship, Deeana Copeland Klepper Bibliography Indices Index of Names Index of Places Index of Subjects Index of Scriptural References

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Book SynopsisHerodotus’ Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and ‘archaic’, the Histories are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary, religious, moral and social influences, but actively contributing to the great debates of their time. Their reliability as historical and ethnographic accounts, a matter of controversy even in antiquity, is being debated with renewed vigour and increasing sophistication. This Companion offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of all these current approaches to Herodotus’ remarkable work.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of texts that traditionally have been excluded from the main corpus of the ancient Greek novel and confined to the margins of the genre, such as the Life of Aesop, the Life of Alexander the Great, and the Acts of the Christian Martyrs. Through comparison and contrast, intertextual analysis and close examination, the boundaries of the dichotomy between the “fringe” vs. the “canonical” or “erotic” novel are explored, and so the generic identity of the texts in each group is more clearly outlined. The collective outcome brings the “fringe” from the periphery of scholarly research to the centre of critical attention, and provides methodological tools for the exploration of other “fringe” texts.

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Book SynopsisOnly recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in ways not possible earlier the complexity of women’s experiences in the inner quarters and their varied responses to challenges facing state and society. Writing in many genres, women engaged with topics as varied as war, travel, illness, love, friendship, female heroism, and religion. Drawing on a library of newly digitized resources, this volume's eleven chapters describe, analyze, and theorize these materials. They question previous assumptions about women’s lives and abilities, open up new critical space in Chinese literary history and offer new perspectives on China’s culture and society. “This volume rewrites the history of Chinese women’s literature by taking a truly inter-disciplinary (instead of merely multi-disciplinary) approach. In so doing, it ends up illuminating the centrality of writing women to the social, political, and intellectual lives of the Chinese empire from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.” Prof. Dorothy Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University, author of Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (California, 2005).Trade Review“This volume rewrites the history of Chinese women’s literature by taking a truly inter-disciplinary (instead of merely multi-disciplinary) approach. In so doing, it ends up illuminating the centrality of writing women to the social, political, and intellectual lives of the Chinese empire from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.” Prof. Dorothy Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University, author of Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (California, 2005). '..this volume is a most welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship on women and women's writing in the late imperial era. The essays are uniformly well researched and well written and unusually well cohesive in mutually reinforcing the argument for the social and political significance of women's writings long before the May Fourth Movement.' Paul S. Ropp, Clark University, China Review International, 18 (2011)

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Book SynopsisThis multi-authored volume, by an authoritative team of international scholars, examines the transmission of Ciceronian rhetoric in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, concentrating on the fortunes, in particular, of the two dominant classical rhetorical textbooks of the time, Cicero’s early De inventione, and the contemporary ‘pseudo-Ciceronian’ Rhetorica ad Herennium. The volume is unprecedented in range and depth as a presentation of the place of classical rhetoric in medieval culture, and will serve to revise views of a period seen until recently as largely indifferent to the values of ‘eloquence’. The main body of the volume is composed of a series of ground-breaking studies of the relationship between Ciceronian rhetoric and a wide range of intellectual traditions and cultural practices, including dialectic, law, conduct theory, memory, poetics and practical composition teaching, preaching, ars dictaminis, and political oratory. Also included are important contextualizing essays on the commentary tradition of the Ciceronian juvenilia, on the textual history and manuscript transmission of Cicero’s rhetorical works, and on the Latin and vernacular traditions of Ciceronian rhetoric in Italy. The volume concludes with an annotated appendix of illustrative texts containing extracts from the commentary tradition on Ciceronian rhetoric, most of which have not been previously available in print. Originally published in hardcoverTable of ContentsList of Contributors Abbreviations Preface PART ONE: ORIGINS, DEFINITIONS, NATURE, AND DIFFUSION 1. The Medieval and Early Renaissance Study of Cicero’s De inventione and the Rhetorica ad Herennium: Commentaries and Contexts, John O. Ward Appendix: Catena Glosses on the De inventione of Cicero and the Pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium from the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 2. Reading Between the Lines: The Textual History and Manuscript Transmission of Cicero’s Rhetorical Works, Ruth Taylor-Briggs 3. Ciceronian Rhetoric in Late Medieval Italy: The Latin and Vernacular Traditions, Virginia Cox Appendix: Ciceronian Rhetoric in the Vernacular in Italy, 1260–1500 PART TWO: INFLUENCES AND INTERRELATIONSHIPS: CONTEXTS FOR THE UTILIZATION OF THE CICERONIAN RHETORICAL JUVENILIA AND THEIR COMMENTARY TRADITION 4. Ciceronian Rhetoric and Ethics: The Conduct Literature and ‘Speaking Well’, Mark D. Johnston 5. Ciceronian Rhetoric and Dialectic, Karin Margareta Fredborg 6. Ciceronian Rhetoric and the Law, Hanns Hohmann 7. Rhetorical memoria in Commentary and Practice, Mary Carruthers 8. The Ciceronian Rhetorical Tradition and Medieval Literary Theory, Rita Copeland 9. Latin Composition Textbooks and Ad Herennium Glossing: The Missing Link?, Martin Camargo Appendix 1. Ancient and Medieval Rhetorical Texts Discussed Appendix 2. ‘Rhetorical Colors’ Treated in the Works Discussed Appendix 3. Treatments of a Sample Figure (repetitio) Compared Appendix 4. Ancient Rhetorics Cited or Quoted in Tria sunt Ch. 12 (Worcester Cathedral, Chapter Library MS Q.79, fols 143v–50r) 10. Poetics, Narration, and Imitation: Rhetoric as ars aplicabilis, Päivi Mehtonen 11. Medieval Thematic Preaching: A Ciceronian Second Coming, Margaret Jennings 12. The Rhetorical Juvenilia of Cicero and the artes dictaminis, Gian Carlo Alessio 13. Communication, Consensus, and Conflict: Rhetorical Precepts, the ars concionandi, and Social Ordering in Late Medieval Italy, Stephen J. Milner Appendix: Examples of zibaldoni Containing Sample Orations and Other Rhetorically Related Material Appendix: The Commentaries in Action, Virginia Cox and John O. Ward Appendix 1. The Preface to Victorinus’ De inventioneCommentary Appendix 2. The Preface to the Ad Herennium Gloss by Alanus (of Lille?) from MS London B.L. Harley 6324 Appendix 3. The Preface to the Ad Herennium Commentary by Guarino da Verona Appendix 4. The Doctrine of insinuatio, or ‘the indirect opening’ Appendix 5. The tertium genus narrationis Appendix 6. Attitudes towards Antiquity: The Gloss on the Lucius Saturninus Episode (Ad Herennium 1.12.21, the legal status of definition) Appendix 7. Attitudes towards Antiquity: the color demonstratio (elocutio) Bibliography of Primary Sources Cited Bibliography of Secondary Works and Editions Index of Manuscripts Index of Persons and Titles General Index

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Book SynopsisBalzac et consorts. Scénographies familiales des conflits historiques dans le roman du XIXe siècle analyse la façon dont le microcosme familial tel que le roman du XIXe siècle le met en scène reflète les principaux conflits historiques de l’époque. Balzac et consorts. Scénographies familiales des conflits historiques dans le roman du XIXe siècle offers an account of the way in which novels show the impact of historical events on the private sphere of intimacy through specific « scenographies ».Table of ContentsPascale Auraix-Jonchière : Avant-propos Introduction Jean-Philippe Luis : La famille comme objet historique en histoire moderne et contemporaine I. Quand il est question du père Marion Mas : Le père et l’héritière dans le roman balzacien Mireille Labouret : Bi-polarité des figures parentales dans La Comédie humaine Suzel Esquier : La relation au père dans le roman stendhalien Anne Rouhette : « El Desdichado » : pouvoir patriarcal, patrimoine et identité dans The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830), de Mary Shelley Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar : La France révolutionnaire, théâtre de l’intime : Un conte de deux villes de Charles Dickens (1859) Thierry Poyet : Les pères chez Maupassant : du parricide symbolique à une modernité de l’impossible dépassée II. L’impossible filiation, entre interruption et compensation François Kerlouégan : D’un château l’autre : famille et idéologie dans Mauprat de George Sand Céline Bricault : La circularité du récit : auto-transmission de l’Histoire dans Le Chevalier Des Touches de Barbey d’Aurevilly Pascale Auraix-Jonchière : L’Ensorcelée de Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly : une histoire de sang ou l’impossible filiation Jean-Christophe Valtat : Le rêve des ancêtres : Aurélia et Peter Ibbetson III. Déchéances et discordances Alex Lascar : Conflit de générations, entre tradition et modernité, autour de la mésalliance dans le roman français (1825-1850) Fabienne Bercegol : La destruction de l’idylle familiale dans les fictions de Chateaubriand Claude Schopp : Les familles dans Le Drame de la France d’Alexandre Dumas Maria Makropoulou : Une vie ou le destin tragique d’une famille et d’une classe sociale Éléonore Reverzy : Dynasties naturalistes. Zola historien de la longue durée Claudie Bernard : Fin de race, fin de siècle : Le Crépuscule des dieux d’Élémir Bourges Épilogue Roland Le Huenen : Pérégrinations d’une paria de Flora Tristan : entre déshérence et légitimité

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the staggering popularity of early-twentieth-century Russian detective serials. Traditionally maligned as “Pinkertonovshchina,” these appropriations of American and British detective stories featuring Nat Pinkerton, Nick Carter, Sherlock Holmes, Ethel King, and scores of other sleuths swept the Russian reading market in successive waves between 1907 and 1917, and famously experienced a “red” resurgence in the 1920s under the aegis of Nikolai Bukharin. The book presents the first holistic view of “Pinkertonovshchina” as a phenomenon, and produces a working model of cross-cultural appropriation and reception. The “red Pinkerton” emerges as a vital “missing link” between pre- and post-Revolutionary popular literature, and marks the fitful start of a decades-long negotiation between the regime, the author, and the reading masses.Trade Review"Boris Dralyuk’s Western Crime Fiction Goes East is an impressive and enormously enjoyable piece of literary and cultural analysis; [it] provides fascinating insights into the evolution of Russian-Soviet popular culture and is a significant and striking addition to the current critical focus on cross-cultural crime fiction." - Lee Horsley, Lancaster University (http://www.crimeculture.com/?page_id=4215) "The Red Pinkerton, long limited to walk-on parts in Soviet cultural studies, is finally the star of its own monograph. Prior research into this unique subgenre of Soviet pulp fiction has been insightful but frustratingly piecemeal. [...] Boris Dralyuk’s definitive survey of the ‘Russian Pinkerton craze’ consolidates, expands and enhances recent scholarship through a wideranging, engrossing investigation of early twentieth-century sources. " - Muireann Maguire, University of Exeter, in: Slavonic and East European Review 92 no. 3 "By the early 1930s the effort to generate communist alternatives to boulevard serials was widely judged to have been a failure, despite a few notable exceptions and the production of films from them […] Despite their failure, however, Dralyuk asserts that the experiment should not be written off as a simple curiosity of the NEP era. Arguing that parody is a means of engaging with, while separating from, an artistic progenitor, he sees the red Pinkertons as a critical stage in the evolution of socialist realism rather than as a literary dead end. […] Dralyuk has presented a well-researched and entertaining analysis that redeems the red Pinkerton as an important, albeit unsuccessful, episode in Soviet cultural history. " - T. Clayton Black, Washington College, in: The NEP Era: Soviet Russia 1921-1928 vol. 7 "Western Crime Fiction Goes East is an ambitious and wide-ranging work, but an eminently readable one [...] a highly readable book for general academic audiences, its appeal will likely be greatest among those with more than a passing interest in revolutionary Russian culture and literature. 'Western Crime Fiction Goes East' may not resolve the ongoing and often contentious relationship between genre and ideology, but the intriguing historical example it presents has the potential to inspire wider applications and further investigations into the subject." - Zachary Hoskins, University of Missouri – Kansas City, in: Journal of Popular Culture, February 2014 "В своем полном увлекательных отступлений повествовании Дралюк использует историю "пинкертоновщины" как повод, дающий возможность воссоздать целостную картину изучаемой эпохи. "Так никогда и не признанный официальной критикой жанр, резюмирует Дралюк, оказывается исключительно плодотворным, хотя и забытым звеном в истории популярной советской лите-ратуры, и этой книгой автор возвращает ему заслуженное место в отечественной культуре. " - М. Костионова/M. Kostionova, in: Новое литературное обозрение [New Literary Observer], June 2014 (full review text: http://www.nlobooks.ru/node/4861)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abstract Introduction Chapter 1 – “As Many Street Cops as Corners”: Displacing 1905 in the Pinkertons Chapter 2 – A Terrible Vengeance: The “Avenger Detective” in Russia Chapter 3 – Slumming Littérateurs and Starving Students The Pinkertons’ Purported Authors Chapter 4 – The Persistence of Pinkertons: Reception Before and After the Revolution Chapter 5 – The Red Pinkerton’s Rise: Bukharin and the Komsomol Chapter 6 – How the Mess Was Mended: Marietta Shaginian and Red Pinkertonism Chapter 7 – The Novel, the Film, and the Kinoroman: Parody and the Decline of the Red Pinkerton Chapter 8 – The Question of Genre and the Pinkertons’ Legacy Bibliography

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

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Book SynopsisDid the first generation Holocaust writers not warn us against the risks of imagination? Does it not create an illusion that the unimaginable can be imagined, the unrepresentable represented? Clearly this warning has not been taken up by David Grossman. Fully embracing imagination’s power, his novel See under: Love offers a profound reflection on how the twenty-first century can assume the heritage of the Shoah and remember the ‘unmemorable’ in a proper way. The essays in this volume reflect on this one novel, though each from its own angle. Focusing on one single novel shows the surplus value of a multispectral reflection on one central problem, in this case the allegedly inconceivable and unspeakable nature of the Shoah.Table of ContentsThe Contributors Introduction, Marc De Kesel & Katarzyna Szurmiak Summary of the Novel, Jan Ceuppens Quod Vide, or the Displacement of Meaning In the Narrative Construction of Love, Dany Nobus Guerrilla War with Words. The Language of Resistance to the Shoah, Olga Kaczmarek Grossman’s White Room and Schulzian Empty Spaces, Katarzyna Szurmiak The Laugh of a God Who Doesn’t Exist, Marc De Kesel The Perpetrator, Bettine Siertsema Diasporic Remarks, Dirk De Schutter The Holocaust’s Muses – On Voices, Appropriation and Misappropriation in Grossman’s Novel and W.G. Sebald’s Prose Fiction, Jan Ceuppens The Novel Form and the Timing of the Nation, Pieter Vermeulen Torag, Dolgan, Ning, Gyoya, Orga - Diaspora Under the Sign of Salmon, Ortwin De Graef On Some Adornean Catchwords, Erik Vogt Bibliography Index

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

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Book SynopsisThis volume highlights the wealth of medieval storytelling and the fundamental unity of the medieval Mediterranean by combining in a comprehensive overview popular eastern tales along with their Greek adaptations and examining Byzantine love tales, both learned and vernacular, alongside their Persian counterparts and the later adaptations of Western romances.

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Book SynopsisA History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture is the first publication, in any language, that is dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture in its entirety, from the early empire to the twentieth century. The volume includes twenty-five essays dedicated to a broad spectrum of topics from postal transmission to letter calligraphy, epistolary networks to genre questions. It introduces dozens of letters, often the first translations into English, and thus makes epistolary history palpable in all its vitality and diversity: letters written by men and women from all walks of life to friends and lovers, princes and kings, scholars and monks, seniors and juniors, family members and neighbors, potential patrons, newspaper editors, and many more. With contributions by: Pablo Ariel Blitstein, R. Joe Cutter, Alexei Ditter, Ronald Egan, Imre Galambos, Natascha Gentz, Enno Giele, Natasha Heller, David R. Knechtges, Paul W. Kroll, Jie Li, Y. Edmund Lien, Bonnie S. McDougall, Amy McNair, David Pattinson, Zeb Raft, Antje Richter, Anna M. Shields, Suyoung Son, Janet Theiss, Xiaofei Tian, Lik Hang Tsui, Matthew Wells, Ellen Widmer, and Suzanne E. Wright.Trade Review"These self-serving quibbles aside, however, this volume provides a splendid introduction to the world of Chinese letters, in all its complexity and diversity. Brill (and the editor!) should be particularlycommended for the meticulous production. The care taken to provide Chinese text for all translations; the usefully annotated bibliography; and especially the magnificent illustrations (many in color) of ancient wooden letters, delicately painted stationery, and letter manuscripts all wonderfully enhance the volume’s aesthetic and scholarly value. One hopes this book will inspire many others scholars to turn attention to the study of Chinese letters." - Beverly Bossler, University of California, Davis, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.1 (2018)

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the complex aesthetic, cultural, and memory politics of urban representation and reconfiguration in neo-Victorian discourse and practice. Through adaptations of traditional city tropes – such as the palimpsest, the labyrinth, the femininised enigma, and the marketplace of desire – writers, filmmakers, and city planners resurrect, preserve, and rework nineteenth-century metropolises and their material traces while simultaneously Gothicising and fabricating ‘past’ urban realities to serve present-day wants, so as to maximise cities’ potential to generate consumption and profits. Within the cultural imaginary of the metropolis, this volume contends, the nineteenth century provides a prominent focalising lens that mediates our apperception of and engagement with postmodern cityscapes. From the site of capitalist romance and traumatic lieux de mémoire to theatre of postcolonial resistance and Gothic sensationalism, the neo-Victorian city proves a veritable Proteus evoking myriad creative responses but also crystallising persistent ethical dilemmas surrounding alienation, precarity, Othering, and social exclusion.Trade Review“Like the previous volumes in the “neo-Victorian series” edited by Kohlke and Gutleben, this collection includes stimulating and thought-provoking analyses not only of novels but also of various (and diverse) movies, non-literary texts, architectural projects, and other artistic works, offering readers a comprehensive view of neo-Victorian negotiations with various notions of the city. This critically solid volume is a rewarding reading experience for all those who are interested in the multiple and subtle ways through which our nineteenth-century relatives inhabit our spaces, and still continue to live with and in us.” - Saverio Tomaiulo, in: RSV – Revista di Studi Vittoriani, Vol. 40 (2017) pp. 130-137 “Since the so-called ‘spatial turn’, cultural geography has become one of the most vibrant fields in cultural studies, with approaches ranging from a Benjamin-inflected urban phenomenology to approaches in urban sociology, media geography, psychogeography, cultural architecture, etc. The volume offers unique insights into both the contemporary and the Victorian urban mentality, thus contributing significantly both the Urban Studies and Neo-Victorian Studies circuits. The well-written and well-structured essays are informed by expert knowledge of relevant texts across media borders, and portray the neo-Victorian take on Victorian cities as fascinating, ever-changing palimpsest of historical narratives and practices.” – Prof. Dr. Eckart Voigts, TU BraunschweigTable of ContentsContents Troping the Neo-Victorian City: Strategies of Reconsidering the Metropolis, Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben PART I: Capitalising on the Palimpsestic City 1. Making and Unmaking ‘Marvellous Melbourne’: The Colonial City as Palimpsest in Neo-Victorian Fiction and Non-Fiction, Kate Mitchell 2. Neo-Victorian Cities and the Ramifications of Global Capitalism in Ayeesha Menon’s Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Nathalie Vanfasse 3. Re-imagining the Victorian Flâneur in the 1960s: The London Nobody Knows by Geoffrey Fletcher and Norman Cohen, Isabelle Cases 4. ‘Part Barrier, Part Entrance to a Parallel Dimension’: London and the Modernity of Urban Perception, Julian Wolfreys PART II: Gothicising the Metropolitan Deathscape 5. Vulnerable Visibilities: Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous Victorian Metropolis, Jean-Michel Ganteau 6. Mapping Gothic London: Urban Waste, Class Rage and Mixophobia in Dan Simmons’s Drood, Mariaconcetta Costantini 7. Neo-Victorian Cities of the Dead: Contemporary Fictions of the Victorian Cemetery, Susan K. Martin 8. Londons under London: Mapping Neo-Victorian Spaces of Horror, Paul Dobraszczyk PART III: Romancing the Commodified Metropolis 9. A Strangely Mingled Monster: Gender and Spatial Transgression in the Hardcore Metropolis of Paul Thomas’s Jekyll and Hyde, Laura Helen Marks 10. Steampunking New York City in Kate and Leopold, Margaret D. Stetz 11. The Ship and the Gun: The Perversity of Neo-Victorian Belfast in Glenn Patterson’s The Mill for Grinding Old People Young, Barry Sheils 12. Adaptive Re-Use: Producing Neo-Victorian Space in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Ho Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThrough a comparison with theatrical performance the argument develops that in both theatre and fiction the concepts of performance and performativity transform classical Indian mythic poetics. In the mythic symbiosis of performance and storytelling in Indian tradition, myth becomes a liberating space of consciousness, where rigid categories and boundaries are transcended.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Metamorphoses of the Self on the Border between ‘East’ and ‘West’ Chapter ONE. Writing in English: A Performative Act in Contemporary Indian Fiction Chapter TWO. Changes and Challenges in the Novel Form: From Myth to Performance to Nomadic Textuality Chapter THREE. Intercultural Epic in Performance: Peter Brook and Girish Karnad Chapter FOUR. Reperformed Traditions: Indian Theatre and Its Contemporary Avatars Chapter FIVE. Repositioning Scheherazade: From Storytelling to Performance in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children Chapter SIX. Storying the Fatwa: From The Satanic Verses to Haroun and the Sea of Stories Chapter SEVEN. Migrant Identity Performance Politics in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses Chapter EIGHT. Writing the Unspoken: Exclusion and Arundhati Roy’s Écriture Féminine in The God of Small Things Chapter NINE. Performances of Marginality in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things Chapter TEN. Postmodern Scheherazades between Storytelling and the Novel Form: Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring Rain Chapter ELEVEN. Performance, Performativity and Nomadism in Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring Rain Conclusion Bibliography Index

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

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

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Book SynopsisGreece and Rome have long featured in books for children and teens, whether through the genres of historical fiction, fantasy, mystery stories or mythological compendiums. These depictions and adaptations of the Ancient World have varied at different times, however, in accordance with changes in societies and cultures. This book investigates the varying receptions and ideological manipulations of the classical world in children’s literature. Its subtitle, Heroes and Eagles, reflects the two most common ways in which this reception appears, namely in the forms of the portrayal of the Greek heroic world of classical mythology on the one hand, and of the Roman imperial presence on the other. Both of these are ideologically loaded approaches intended to educate the young reader.Trade Review"As a whole, The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature: Heroes and Eagles is a useful contribution to classical reception studies and an excellent piece of work. (...) This is an exciting area of study and the field is in desperate need of more of it to produce truly revolutionary scholarship. More books, more conferences, and more edited volumes like this one." Krishni Burns, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.05.26.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Children, Greece and Rome: Heroes and Eagles Part 1 - Classics and Ideology in Children’s Literature 1 Classics, Children’s Literature, and the Character of Childhood, from Tom Brown’s Schooldays to The Enchanted Castle Elizabeth Hale 2 ‘Time is only a mode of thought, you know’: Ancient History, Imagination and Empire in E. Nesbit’s Literature for Children Joanna Paul 3 (De)constructing Arcadia: Polish Struggles with History and Differing Colours of Childhood in the Mirror of Classical Mythology Katarzyna Marciniak Part 2 - Ancient Mythology, Modern Authors 4 The Metanarrative of Picture Books: ‘Reading’ Greek Myth for (and to) Children Barbara Weinlich 5 Reading the Fiction of Video Games Mary McMenomy 6 From Chiron to Foaly: The Centaur in Classical Mythology and Fantasy Literature Lisa Maurice 7 Classical Memories in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia Niall W. Slater Part 3 - Classical Mythology for Children 8 Men into Pigs: Circe’s Transformations in Versions of The Odyssey for Children Sheila Murnaghan 9 Chasing Odysseus in Twenty-First Century Children’s Fiction Geoffrey Miles 10 The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Retellings of Myth for Children Deborah H. Roberts Part 4 - Ancient Rome for Children 11 The “Grand Tour” as Transformative Experience in Children’s Novels about the Roman Invasion Catherine Butler 12 “Wulf the Briton”: Resisting Rome in a 1950s British Boys’ Adventure Strip Antony Keen 13 Bridging the Gap between Generations: Astérix between Child and Adult, Classical and Modern Eran Almagor Bibliography Index

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisChina’s Literary Cosmopolitans offers a comprehensive introduction to the literary oeuvres of Qian Zhongshu (1910-98) and Yang Jiang (b. 1911). It assesses their novels, essays, stories, poetry, plays, translations, and criticism, and discusses their reception as two of the most important Chinese scholar-writers of the twentieth century. In addition to re-evaluating this married couple’s intertwined literary careers, the book also explains why they have come to represent such influential models of Chinese literary cosmopolitanism. Uncommonly well-versed in Western languages and literatures, Qian and Yang chose to live in China and write in Chinese. China’s Literary Cosmopolitans argues for their artistic importance while analyzing their works against the modern cultural imperative that Chinese literature be worldly. Christopher Rea (Ph.D., Columbia) is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (California, 2015), co-editor of The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65 (ubc Press, 2015), and editor of Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays by Qian Zhongshu(Columbia, 2011).Trade Review"[T]his edited volume makes a crucial contribution to the fields of Chinese studies and literary studies by offering a new model for theorizing cosmopolitanism outside a Eurocentric paradigm, built on meticulous analyses of Qian’s and Yang’s works. […] China’s Literary Cosmopolitans will be an indispensable text for scholars seeking to investigate the relationship between the provincial and the cosmopolitan, the particular and the universal, literature and politics, and the nation and the world." Inhye Han, Ewha Womans University, MCLC Resource Center Publication (September, 2016) "论文集的出版将助力海内外学者重新审视这两位学者型作家对中国文学和世界文学的重大贡献，助推他们的作品在西方的译介、传播与研究。第一次将钱锺书、杨绛定位于“文学世界主义者”，从全新的角度评价他们对中国文学和世界文学做出的突出贡献。第一次在英语世界相对完整地研究杨绛的作品，是海外杨绛研究的扛鼎之作。第一次较为系统地、别出心裁地出版钱锺书、杨绛研究的论文集，给海内外钱锺书、杨绛研究吹来一缕清风。" 余承法, 中南民族大学, 当代作家评论 (2016年2期) Yu Chengfa, South-Central University for Nationalities, Contemporary Writers Review (March, 2016) “[This volume] brings the English-language scholarship on both authors up to date. At the same time it is a useful tool and stepping stone to more studies about the fascinating works of Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu.” Monika Motsch, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies, 64.2, December 2016 "China’s Literary Cosmopolitans offers both a valuable introduction to two outstanding cultural figures, and innovative scholarship on aspects of their work which have previously received less scholarly attention." Richard King, University of Victoria, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 90, No. 1 (March 2017) "These essays illumine their very influential contributions to the development of Chinese literary and cultural forms and their lifelong negotiations with their changing audiences about the positions they could occupy and the work they could do...Rea and his colleagues have woven together many threads of a narrative about the course this pre-eminent Chinese literary couple charted over nearly eight decades of risks and challenges." Ellen Soullière, Massey University, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies (June 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction: All the World’s a Book, Christopher Rea Acknowledgements 1.Yang Jiang’s Wartime Comedies; Or, the Serious Business of Marriage, Amy D. Dooling 2. “Passing Handan without Dreaming”: Passion and Restraint in the Poetry and Poetics of Qian Zhongshu, Wang Yugen 3.Self-Deception and Self-Knowledge in Yang Jiang’s Fiction, Judith M. Amory 4.How to do Things with Words: Yang Jiang and the Politics of Translation, Carlos Rojas 5. Guanzhui bian, Western Citations, and the Cultural Revolution, Ronald Egan 6.The Pleasures of Lying Low: Yang Jiang and Chinese Revolutionary Culture, Wendy Larson 7.The Institutional Mindset: Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang on Marriage and the Academy, Christopher Rea 8.“All Alone, I Think Back on We Three”: Yang Jiang’s New Intimate Public, Jesse Field 9.The Cosmopolitan Imperative: Qian Zhongshu and “World Literature,” Theodore Huters All Will Come Out in the Washing, Christopher Rea Appendix: Works in English by Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis collection addresses broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the framework of vernacular cosmopolitanism. With a common anthropological focus, the essays map literary and artistic practices involving cross-cultural transactions shaped by social forces, institutions, and the multiple mediations of the imagination. Some essays are based on community-based fieldwork, while all encompass an affective immersion in the places we inhabit, and the claims these make on the body’s intelligibility. The authors consider the role of artists, writers, and literary scholars as cultural actors in a variety of settings, grassroots, regional, trans-regional, and global. Topics include: the role of social and cultural activism; the problematic dimensions of national belonging; the plurality of knowledge-systems and inter-language environ-mental learning in South Africa; the vernacular imagination in Papua New Guinea Anglophone fiction; pulp fiction and chick lit in India; transformative artistic motifs of Australia’s nomadic Tiwi community; life writing as a reconfiguring of postcolonial or cosmopolitan paradigms; southern African supernatural belief-systems and the malign magic of the global economy; Canadian First Nations literature read against the struggle for self-determination by India’s castes and scheduled tribes; feral animals in relation to the indigenous exotic; and the imbrication of the vernacular, national, colonial, and cosmopolitan in perceptions of homecoming in the eastern Mediterranean. The collection as a whole thus provides manifestations of poesis in relation to theory and praxis and articulates perspectives that expand, challenge, strengthen, and renew the potential for growth in contemporary world literature and culture.Trade Review"Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination is an impressive collection for its recondite arguments and relevant case studies of translational transcultural exchange that collectively endeavour to reconfigure the vernacular and the cosmopolitan. In sum, it expands and challenges cosmopolitan’s post-Enlightenment positioning and embrace of hybridity, transculturalism, and citizenship in relation to the vernacular, while McDougall’s concluding integrationist angle moves the debate into another, related realm of enquiry. This excellent scholarly volume is a tribute to its ACLALS editors and contributors and a worthy successor to others in the Cross/Cultures series." - Janet Wilson (University of Northampton), Recherche littéraire, literary research 34, Summer 2018.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements STEPHANOS STEPHANIDES AND STAVROS S. KARAYANNI: Introduction: Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination:The Intimate Estrangement of Homecoming GEOFFREY V. DAVIS: Doing the Right Thing: ACLALS, Social Change, and Cultural Activism ELSIE CLOETE: “There’s a Meat Down There”: An Essay on English and the Environment in Africa DIANA WOOD CONROY: Vernacular Patterns in Flux: Mirroring Change in an Aboriginal Workshop, Tiwi Designs, Northern Australia FELICITY WOOD: Wealth-Giving Mermaid Women and the Malign Magic of the Market: Contemporary Oral Accounts of the South African mamlambo “Travelling Knowledges”: ‘Practising’ DEBASH REE DATTARAY: Indigenous Literatures in the Indian University PADMI NI MONGIA: What About Shobhaa Dé? Indian Pulp Fiction Meets Indian Writing in English PAUL SHARRAD : “Ghem pona wai?”: Vernacular Imaginations in Contemporary Papua New Guinea Fiction PAUL STEWART: Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee: Narrative Power and the Postcolonial VICTOR J. RAMRAJ : Language and Perception: Reinstating the Individual in Postcolonial Literary Studies RUSSELL MCDOUGALL: Indigenous Exotic: Cosmopolitan Dingoes and Brumbies NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

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Book SynopsisThis number of Marcel Proust Aujourd’hui, ‘Swann at 100/Swann à 100 ans’, brings together fifteen articles, in English and French, that approach Du côté de chez Swann from various perspectives: reception studies, thematic and stylistic studies, cultural and intellectual history. Ce numéro de Marcel Proust Aujourd’hui, ‘Swann at 100/Swann à 100 ans’ regroupe quinze articles, en anglais et en français, traitant de Du côté de chez Swann sous plusieurs perspectives : réception, thématique, stylistique, histoire culturelle et intellectuelle.Table of ContentsAdam Watt: Préface William C. Carter: Mon livre me venait de Swann Edward J. Hughes: « Cette ignorance si envahissante » : Oblivion, Posterity, Art Thomas Baldwin: Félix Guattari’s Swann Margaret E. Gray: Freud, Proust, and Bowie: Swann Fétichiste Adam Watt: Swann 1913 : entre « Le roman d’aventure » et « Le Sacre du printemps » de Jacques Rivière Anna Magdalena Elsner: « Un état nerveux dont je n’étais pas responsable »: Medical and Moral Language in the drame du coucher Marion Schmid: Proust’s Choreographies of Writing : A la recherche du temps perdu and the Modern Dance Revolution Anne Simon: Les lignes de fuite de Swann Luc Fraisse: En quoi consisterait l’écriture d’un « roman bergsonien » ? Cynthia Gamble: Du côté de chez Swann : a spectrum of critical responses in 1913 Nathalie Aubert: Proust et le paysage dans Du côté de chez Swann Jennifer Rushworth: Proust, Hahn, and the Art of Song Brigitte Mahuzier: Albertine’s Futuristic Gastronomy Erika Fülöp: Proust’s Imperfect: Rhythms of the Recherche Gareth H. Steel: Proust tomorrow?

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

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Book SynopsisKathryn Ambrose offers a new approach to the Woman Question in mid- to late-nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature. Using a methodological framework based on feminist theory and post-structuralism, she provides a re-vision of canonical texts (such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, Effi Briest, Fathers and Children and Anna Karenina) alongside lesser-known works by Emily and Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. Her exploration of the semiotics of barriers – as opposed to the established approach of the semiotics of space – makes for a rewarding reading of this period of literature and establishes new cross-cultural and literary connections between the three countries.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter 1: Brontë or Bell? Identity as Barrier in the Works of Charlotte and Emily Brontë Chapter 2: George Eliot and the “Superfluous Woman”: A Subtle Means of Protest? Chapter 3: Women in Theodor Storm: The Opposition of Conformity and Otherness Chapter 4: From Sleeping Beauty to Career Woman: The Development of Women’s Roles in Theodor Fontane Chapter 5: Turgenev and the Woman Question: Layering Barriers Chapter 6: Tolstoy, Women and Barriers: Inflexible Closedness Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together fourteen articles that reappraise the productivity of Stoker’s Dracula and the strong influence it still exerts on today’s generations. The volume explores various multimodal and multimedia adaptations of the book, by critically examining its literary, cinematic, theatrical, televised and artistic versions. In so doing, it reassesses the origins, evolution, imagery, mythology, theory and criticism of Gothic fiction and of the Gothic (sub)culture. The volume is innovative in that it congregates various angles to the Gothic phenomenon, providing an overview of the interdisciplinary relationships between different cultural, artistic and creative reworkings of the Gothic in general and of Stoker’s legacy in particular.Trade Review“Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts is an interdisciplinary collection of articles put together by Isabel Ermida that focuses on the development of the vampire figure from its early inception as a literary personage and a representation of the demonic East European Other in the eyes of Victorian society to its ever-evolving symbolism in contemporary fiction, film, and other media. […] the analytical framework and overview of the ever-evolving vampire literature that this collection offers is an important contribution to Gothic (and Dracula) studies as a field, and will be beneficial to scholars, students, and those who have a general interest in the vampire figure or the Gothic genre as a whole” - Svitlana Krys and Andrew Malmquist, MacEwan University, in: H-Russia, H-Net Reviews, October 2016Table of ContentsGothic Old and New: Introduction Isabel Ermida PART I - Gothic Spaces, or the (De)Colonization of a Genre “The Son of the Vampire”: Greek Gothic, or Gothic Greece? Álvaro García Marín The Old and New Dracula Castle:
The Poienari Fortress in Dracula Sequels and Travel Memoirs Marius-Mircea Crișan Dracula Orientalized Raphaella Delores Gomez Empire, Monsters and Barbarians: Uncanny Echoes and Reconfigurations of Stoker’s Dracula in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians Rogers Asempasah Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood: An Antomy of the American Gothic Carlos Azevedo PART II - Multimodal Representations of the Gothic – From the Screen to the Stage and the Arts Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931): The Vampire Wears a Dress Coat Dorota Babilas Aurally Bloodcurdling: Representing Dracula and His Brethren in BBC Radio Drama Leslie McMurtry “Land of Apparitions”: The Depiction of Ghosts and Other Supernatural Occurrences in the First Gothic Plays Eva Čoupková Gothic Architecture, Castles and Villains: Transgression, Decay and the Gothic Locus Horribilis Fanny Lacôte PART III - Postmodern Gothic – Identity Transformations of the Vampire Postmodern Gothic: Teen Vampires Joana Passos Vampires “On a Special Diet”: Identity and the Body in Contemporary Media Texts Lea Gerhards Forever Young, Though Forever Changing:
Evolution of the Vampire Maria Antónia Lima Who’s Afraid of Don Juan? Vampirism and Seduction Maria do Carmo Mendes Destroying and Creating Identity: Vampires, Chaos and Society in Angela Carter’s “The Scarlet House” Inês Botelho Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be accounted for? Why has it become such a deeply ingrained habit of thought that is still being so effectively mobilized in Western discourses? The twenty essays in this volume revisit well-known and obscure chapters in barbarism's genealogy from new perspectives and through contemporary theoretical idioms. With studies spanning from Greek antiquity to the present, they show how barbarism has functioned as the negative outside separating a civilized interior from a barbarian exterior; as the middle term in-between savagery and civilization in evolutionary models; as a repressed aspect of the civilized psyche; as concomitant with civilization; as a term that confuses fixed notions of space and time; or as an affirmative notion in philosophy and art, signifying radical change and regeneration. Proposing an original interdisciplinary approach to barbarism, this volume includes both overviews of the concept's travels as well as specific case studies of its workings in art, literature, philosophy, film, ethnography, design, and popular culture in various periods, geopolitical contexts, and intellectual traditions. Through this kaleidoscopic view of the concept, it recasts the history of ideas not only as a task for historians, but also literary scholars, art historians, and cultural analysts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Christian Moser and Maria Boletsi. Introduction I. Setting the Terms: Conceptual and Cultural Histories of Barbarism François Hartog. Barbarians: From the Ancient to the New World Markus Winkler. Towards a Cultural History of Barbarism from the Eighteenth Century to the Present II. Barbarian Configurations in Classic, Medieval, and Early Modern Settings Daniel Wendt. Laughing (at the) Barbarians: On Barbarism and Humor in Homer and Herodotus Clara Strijbosch. On the Evil Side of Creation: Barbarians in Middle Dutch Texts Paul J. Smith. Naked Indians, Trousered Gauls: Montaigne on Barbarism III. Barbarism and/in Enlightenment Thought, Aesthetics, and Literature Peter Vogt. The Conceptual History of Barbarism: What Can We Learn from Koselleck and Pocock? Reinhard M. Möller. Sublime Barbarism? Affinities between the Barbarian and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics Madeleine Kasten. Staging the Barbarian: The Case of Voltaire’s Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet le prophète IV. Barbarism and the Constitution of Society: Literary Challenges to Evolutionary Models Christian Moser. Liminal Barbarism: Renegotiations of an Ancient Concept in (Post-)Enlightenment Social Theory and Literature Steven Howe. “The Seat of the Young, Loving Feelings, thus Delusionally, Barbarically – ”: Barbarism and the Revolutionary State in Heinrich von Kleist’s Penthesilea Tim Albrecht. Trusting Barbarians? Franz Grillparzer’s The Golden Fleece and the Challenge to the Mythography of Empire V. Barbarism and/in Modernity Elke Brüggen and Franz-Josef Holznagel. Des künic Etzelen man – The Huns and their King in Fritz Lang’s Classic Silent Film Die Nibelungen and in the Nibelungenlied Georgios Sagriotis. Barbarians and Their Cult: On Walter Benjamin’s Concept of New Barbarism Anna-Maria Valerius. Barbarians betwixt and between: Figurations of the Barbarian in Elfriede Jelinek’s The Children of the Dead VI. Barbarism in Contemporary Art and Popular Culture Heidi Denzel de Tirado. The Limes Mexicanicus or the ‘Barbarians at the Gate’: The Depiction of ‘Southern Invaders’ in American Film of the Twenty-First Century Marjan Groot. Writing Designed Anxieties on Barbarism, Ornament, Taste, and Bio-Design Gerlov van Engelenhoven and Looi van Kessel. Organizing Cultuur?Barbaar!: Some Problems of Creating Concepts through Art VII. The Politics of Barbarism Nikos Patelis. Ultimi Barbarorum: Eloquence and Subjectivity in Twenty-First-Century Social Movements Maria Boletsi. Waiting for the Barbarians after 9/11: Functions of a Topos in Liminal Times Terry Eagleton. The Politics of Barbarism The Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisJean-Jacques Rousseau écrivain polémique analyse le rôle, la force et le retentissement des conflits autour des œuvres et de la personne de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. L’examen de ces querelles révèle un autre Rousseau : un écrivain polémique, auteur de différends. Jean-Jacques Rousseau écrivain polémique analyzes the ways in which Rousseau’s career was constructed in a constant engagement with the practice of polemics and refutation in the fields of politics, religion, and philosophy.Trade Review"Le livre d’Ourida Mostefai se fait l’écho d’une double tradition des Lumières dont on appréciera le renouvellement: celle de Michel Launay à laquelle elle renvoie par son titre, et celle d’Ernst Cassirer qu’elle prolonge par sa méthodologie. Son texte a en commun avec ces deux traditions une approche totalisatrice et minutieuse d’une thématique abordée secondairement par ses illustres prédécesseurs, à savoir les ‘différents mécanismes polémiques’ (p. 12) déclenchés par l’œuvre et la vie de cette forte tête qu’est Rousseau. Approche totalisatrice mais aussi entreprise de réception, Mostefai sollicite à nouveaux frais la critique rousseauiste qui a su éclairer l’un ou l’autre des aspects de ce dispositif polémique complexe." - Catherine Labro in French Studies, 72-1, January 2018.Table of ContentsPREFACE : Les enjeux des conflits des Lumières CHAPITRE I : Les infortunes de la célébrité : les paradoxes de la réception critique de Rousseau CHAPITRE II : Querelles ouvertes et dissimulées : le conflit entre Rousseau et les Philosophes CHAPITRE III : De la dispute philosophique à la querelle publique : le dialogue entre Voltaire et Rousseau CHAPITRE IV : Polémiques autour de la censure et de la condamnation d’Émile et du Contrat social CHAPITRE V : Disputes sur l’image de Rousseau : les enjeux politiques des portraits de l’écrivain ÉPILOGUE : Querelles autour de Jean-Jacques Rousseau dans la Révolution BIBLIOGRAPHIE TABLE DES ILLUSTRATIONS INDEX

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

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Book SynopsisIn this first monograph on E. T. A. Hoffmann and opera, Francien Markx examines Hoffmann’s writings on opera and the challenges they pose to established narratives of aesthetic autonomy, the search for a national opera, and Hoffmann’s biography. Markx discusses Hoffmann’s lifelong fascination with opera against the backdrop of eighteenth-century theater reform, the creation of national identity, contemporary performance practices and musical and aesthetic discourses as voiced by C. M. von Weber, A. W. Schlegel, Heine, and Wagner, among others. The book reconsiders the traditional view that German opera followed a deterministic trajectory toward Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk and reveals a cosmopolitan spirit in Hoffmann’s operatic vision, most notably exemplified by his controversial advocacy for Spontini in Berlin.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prelude Prologue: German Musical Drama and the Emerging Public Sphere Hamburg – Leipzig – Weimar and Gotha – The National Theater Projects – Mannheim – Vienna – Berlin – E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Theatrical and Operatic Experiences – Evaluating Hoffmann’s Contribution(s) to Opera ACT I. NARRATING OPERA (CRITICISM) FOR THE ALLGEMEINE MUSIKALISCHE ZEITUNG (Berlin, Bamberg, Leipzig/Dresden, 1808-1814) Chapter One Ritter Gluck: On The Art of Judging Opera The Power of Anecdotes – Querelle des Gluckistes et des Piccinnistes. Christoph Willibald Gluck in the French Press – Gluck in the German Press – E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Views on Gluck – Ritter Gluck: A Response to Forkel – Narrating Gluck’s Public Image – Berlin: An Operatic Backwater – A Tale Illuminated by Music – Ritter Gluck: Towards a New Aesthetics of Opera Chapter Two Don Juan: Reflections on (Performing) Mozart’s Don Giovanni E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Don Juan and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni – Contemporary Performance Practices – E. T. A. Hoffmann and Mozart’s Don Giovanni – Restaging Don Giovanni – Approaches to Mozart – Mozart’s Score and Donna Anna’s Secret – Reflections on Donna Anna’s Role - A Tale Inspired by Music Chapter Three Poet and Composer: Operatic Insights of an Insider Turbulent Times – The Dialogue Der Dichter und der Komponist – Theoretical Discourse: The Poet (A. W. Schlegel) and the Composer (E. T. A. Hoffmann) – How Not to Write a Libretto: Der Opern-Almanach des H[er]rn A. v[on] Kotzebue – Musical Practice – Der Dichter und der Komponist: A Program for Romantic Opera? – A Word to the Composer: Über einen Ausspruch Sachini’s – Der Dichter und der Komponist and the Future of German Opera – The Poet and the Composer: Hoffmann’s Own Creative Production ACT II. BACK IN BERLIN: BALANCING ACTS AS ARTIST AND CRITIC (1814-1822) Prelude: Brühl and the Berlin Theater Chapter Four ‘Patriotic Acts’: Undine on the Berlin Stage ossia Accomplishments of a Trio (Fouqué, Hoffmann, and Schinkel) Preparing the Stage – Fouqué’s Undine – The Staging of Hoffmann’s Undine – Voices of the Critics – Carl Maria von Weber’s Review of Undine for the AMZ – Weber and the German Ideal – Romantic Ideal versus Reality – Dénouement Chapter Five Berlin Reviews I: Dramaturgisches Wochenblatt and Vossische Zeitung Reviews of 1815 – Reviews of 1816 – Envisioning the Future: Visions of a Realist – Contributions for the Vossische Zeitung: Reviewing a Befriended Reviewer – Hoffmann’s Final DW Contribution: Die Kunstverwandten or the Joys and Sorrows of Producing an Opera – Art Beyond Boundaries: Towards a Universal Operatic Style Chapter Six Berlin Reviews II: Standing up for Spontini A Parisian in Berlin – Hoffmann’s Warm Welcome – Briefe über Tonkunst in Berlin. Erster Brief – Hoffmann’s Remaining Berlin Reviews – Zufällige Gedanken or Ritter Gluck Revisited – Spontini’s Opera Olimpie – Hoffmann’s Translation of Olimpie – Hoffmann’s Last Review: Nachträgliche Bemerkungen über Spontinis Oper Olympia – Further Observations on Hoffmann’s Last Review Chapter Seven Falling Silent: The Freischütz Controversy A Tumultuous Première – Contemporary Letters and Comments – ‘Made in Germany’ or An Opera’s Success Story – Reflections on Hoffmann’s Silence Postlude Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAustralian Fiction as Archival Salvage examines key developments in the field of the Australian postcolonial historical novel from 1989 to the present. In parallel with this analysis, A. Frances Johnson undertakes a unique study of in-kind creativity, reflecting on how her own nascent historical fiction has been critically and imaginatively shaped and inspired by seminal experiments in the genre – by writers as diverse as Kate Grenville, Mudrooroo, Kim Scott, Peter Carey, Richard Flanagan, and Rohan Wilson. Mapping the postcolonial novel against the impact of postcolonial cultural theory and Australian writers’ intermittent embrace of literary postmodernism, this survey is also read against the post-millenial ‘history’ and ‘culture wars’ which saw politicizations of national debates around history and fierce contestation over the ways stories of Australian pasts have been written.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on Style Introduction: Making and Unmaking the Postcolonial Historical Novel 1 Genre Memory: Australian Historical Novels in Context Postcolonial Provocations: Old and New Approaches to Genre Intercultural Representation: Intergeneric Strategies in Eugene’s Falls and Beyond 2 Intertextuality and the Postcolonial Novel of History Recent Explorations of Intertextuality and Heteroglossia: The Influence of Benang and That Deadman Dance Theories of Intertextuality and the Postcolonial Context Intertextuality and Intercultural Subjectivity: Australian Contexts 3 Elision and Engagement: Writing Indigeneity in Post-Bicentennial Historical Novels New Speech Genres: Portrayals of Indigeneity in White Writing 1989–2000 Out of the Impasse? Re-thinking Intercultural Engagement and Subject-Positions 4 Postmodern Rats in the Ranks: The Novelist and the Historian as Raiders of the Colonial Archive The Trouble with History: Scaling the Archive Ideology and Politics: A Background to the History Wars The Novelist in the Archive: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River Trilogy and Kim Scott’s Benang and That Deadman Dance White-Gloved Border Police: Archival Custody and the Protection of History Whose Treasure? Clendinnen’s Reef and the Wreck of the Postcolonial Novel 5 Speaking in Tongues: The Novelist as Historiographic Fool Historiographic Metafiction as Postmodern, Postcolonial Intervention Metafictional Conceits in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang and Robert Drewe’s Our Sunshine Metafictional Tactics in Eugene’s Falls Focalization and Radical Polyphony in Recent Postcolonial Historical Novels Learning from Scott and Carey: Polyphony, Translation, and Mistranslation in the Postcolonial Novel 6 Writing South of South: Extinction Discourse in Novelizations of Tasmanian Colonial Pasts Roving History: Intercultural Representation in the Novels of Rohan Wilson Eden Unsettled: Parody and Post-Gothicism in Matthew Kneale’s English Passengers Richard Flanagan’s Gould’s Book of Fish: History and Story in the Postmodern Acquarium Conclusion: Beyond the Dry Dock Appendix 1: Postcolonial/Post-Colonial Debates in Context Appendix 2: Lessons in ‘The Lost Garden’: A First-Contact Tasmanian Historical Novel in Progress Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe Fictional World of Javier Marías offers a fresh perspective on the narrative universe of one of Spain’s most distinguished contemporary authors. In order to establish the origin and meaning of uncertainty in his fiction, this book presents interpretations of a range of issues inherent to Marías’s canon, in particular those related to the nature of language. With the relationship between language and uncertainty at its heart, this study considers the use of foreign languages, translation, and the effect of silence through an analysis of: Todas las almas (1989), Corazón tan blanco (1992), Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (1994) and Tu rostro mañana (2002-2007).

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Book SynopsisSherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, revisits a classic, twentieth-century American text. Scholars from around the world share their intrepretations and shed new light on Anderson’s contribution to Modernism and his legacy to later writers. They look closely at gender relations, masculinity, place, the nature of community, and the elusive American Dream.Table of ContentsIntroduction Precious McKenzie Small Town to City and Back Again: The Re-figuring and Loss of the American Dream in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio Josephene Kealey Winesburg, Elsewhere: George Willard and the Literary Formalization of Obsession in Small-Town America and Abroad Daniel Davis Wood Failed Adventures and Imagined Communities in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio David T. Humphries Speaking of Manhood in Winesburg, Ohio William M. Etter Sherwood Anderson’s Legacy to Contemporary American Writing Rachel Luria Sherwood Anderson and the Contemporary Short-Story Cycle Jennifer J. Smith Publishing Sherwood Anderson’s “Group of Tales”: The Textual Presentations of the Winesburg Stories and the Modernist Legacy of Winesburg, Ohio Matthew James Vechinski “Crude and Broken Forms” in America: Avant-Garde and Modernist Affinities in Winesburg, Ohio Stamatina Dimakopoulou About the Authors Index

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

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Book SynopsisThe notion of ‘landlines’ intimates communication, and is a fairly safe bet as far as most of the writing offered here, critical and creative, is concerned. In a way, of course, the metaphor is a rearguard action, and blows up in one’s face, as it were, suggesting as it does a system of telephonic communication that is no longer typical of Africa, which is at the forefront of cellphone culture. On the more positive side, it is hoped that ‘landlines’ evoke traditional values, permitting the endorsement of communicative standards that are higher than those fostered by the ‘etherial’ chaos of cyberspace. The essays included are overwhelmingly concerned with Nigeria (productive power-house of the continent), covering such writers as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Vincent Egbuson, Buchi Emecheta, D.O. Fágúnwà, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Femi Osofisan (two articles), Wole Soyinka, and Ahmed Yerima. The Nigerian novel (four articles) is roughly matched by studies of Nigerian dramatists (five articles). Also offered are three essays on fiction from outside Nigeria, by Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana), J.M. Coetzee (South Africa), and Marie NDiaye (France), and a treatment of the poetry of Jack Mapanje (Malawi). A further, wide-ranging essay, on cityscapes, discusses novels from Cameroon, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Kenya, as well as paintings from Equatorial Guinea and public placarding in Accra. Social awareness, a firm sense of history and traditional culture, the contemporary challenges of gender and identity-politics, and the perennial theme of endemic corruption are themes that underpin all of the contributions to Matatu 47. Matatu has traditionally fostered the publication of creative writing, and the present issue is no exception, featuring as it does poetry from Trinidad, a play from Nigeria, and short stories from Burundi, Ghana, and Nigeria. The volume closes with in-depth reviews of books on Yorùbá proverbs, Chinua Achebe, and transnational literature. Contributors are: E.B. Adeleke, Tony E. Afejuku, Sophia Akhuemokhan, Niyi Akingbe, Sunday Victor Akwu, Félix Ayoh’Omidire, Dele Bamidele, Gilbert Braspenning, Clare Counihan, Jane Duran, Summer Edward, Pelumi Folajimi, Fausat M. Ibrahim, Isaiah U. Ilo, Ayodele S. Jegede, Mahrukh Khan, Adele King, Adebayo Mosobalaje, Dorothy Odartey–Wellington, H. Oby Okolocha, Harry Olufunwa, Owojecho Omoha, Wumi Raji, Marie–Thérèse Toyi, Flora A. Trebi–Ollennu, Kenneth Usongo, and Lendzemo Constantine Yuka.Table of ContentsEditor’s Preface Essays: JANE DURAN - Emecheta, Culture, and The Bride Price H. OBY OKOLOCHA AND LENDZEMO CONSTANTINE YUKA - Neologism and Dual Gender Status: The Socio-Political Implications of Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia WUMI RAJI - In Place/Out of Place: Crossings and Cross-Cultural Connections in Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s In Dependence DELE BAMIDELE AND SUNDAY VICTOR AKWU - Bourgeois Politics and Ideology in Vincent Egbuson’s Womandela ADEBAYO MOSOBALAJE - The Transition from a Mythopoeic to a Populist Aesthetic in Selected Political Plays of Wole Soyinka TONY E. AFEJUKU AND E.B. ADELEKE - Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre: The Example of Femi Osofisan PELUMI FOLAJIMI - Incorporating the Audience into Performance: Femi Osofisan’s Once Upon Four Robbers HARRY OLUFUNWA - Resident Aliens: Identity-Politics in the Drama of Ahmed Yerima DOROTHY ODARTEY–WELLINGTON - Fictional and Street Narratives: The Textual Scaffolding of Contemporary African Cities FAUSAT M. IBRAHIM AND AYODELE S. JEGEDE - Naturalism and Health in Fágúnwà’s Novels OWOJECHO OMOHA - Memory and Poetry: Imagining the Present to Reconnect the Past in The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison by Jack Mapanje CLARE COUNIHAN - Childless Mothers and Motherless Children: Fantasies of Postcolonial Reproduction in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency MAHRUKH KHAN - Motherhood and the Measure of Truth in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron ADELE KING - La Question de différence dans l’œuvre de Marie NDiaye Creative Writing: SUMMER EDWARD - Five Poems MARIE–THÉRÈSE TOYI - The Voice of Pigmies ISAIAH U. ILO - A Night Longer: A Short Play SOPHIA AKHUEMOKHAN - Medicine for Joy FLORA A. TREBI–OLLENNU - Oversized Coat Reviews

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Book SynopsisLe processus de création dans l’œuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio propose une étude des étapes du travail créateur dans les romans, essais et nouvelles de Le Clézio, prix Nobel de littérature 2008. Le processus de création dans l’œuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio is a study of the phases of the process of literary creation in the novels, essays and short stories of Le Clézio – 2008 Nobel laureate for literature.Trade Review"En combinant la perspective d'Anzieu et celle de Deleuze, cette étude apporte un éclairage nouveau sur la 'crise créatrice' de Le Clézio au seuil des années 1960 et rend compte de la cohérence de sa trajectoire ultérieure." Nouvelles études francophones 31.2, 2016.Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Trajectoires du saisissement créateur II. Chocs et surgissements de l’inspiration III. Expériences du monde : transfigurations du vécu dans la fiction-création IV. Rencontres et décollages créateurs V. Créations-ritournelles Conclusion Bibliographie choisie Index

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