Literary studies: fiction Books

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

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

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Book SynopsisA LONG THE KROMMERUN offers a selection of the best papers delivered at the XXIV International James Joyce Symposium hosted by Utrecht University, the Netherlands, June 2014. The essays offer fresh insights into Joyce and De Stijl aesthetic movement which originated in the Netherlands, Joyce’s (language) politics, his use of multilingualism and dialects, and, by way of close readings and genetic approaches of Finnegans Wake, the intricate ways Joyce communicates with his readers. Contributors: Boriana A. Alexandrova, Stephanie Boland, Austin Briggs, Tim Conley, Catherine Flynn, Philip Keel Geheber, Robbert-Jan Henkes, Maria Kager, Katherine O’Callaghan, So Onose, David Pascoe, Sam Slote, David Spurr, and Dirk Van Hulle.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Dandy Paradoxes” David Pascoe The Machine Aesthetic in Joyce and De Stijl David Spurr From Dowel to Tesseract: Joyce and De Stijl from “Cyclops” to Finnegans Wake Catherine Flynn “A Great Future Behind Him”: Revisiting John F. Taylor’s Speech in “Aeolus” Revisited So Onose Bloom’s Dream Cottage and Crusoe’s Island: Man Caves Austin Briggs Joyce Among the Cockneys: The East End as Alternative London Stephanie Boland Babababblin’ Drolleries and Multilingual Phonologies: Developing a Multilingual Ethics of Embodiment through Finnegans Wake Boriana A. Alexandrova Wonderful Vocables: Joyce and the Neurolinguistics of Language Talent Maria Kager Felicitating the Whole of the Polis in Finnegans Wake Sam Slote Assimilating Shem into the Plural Polity: Burrus, Caseous, and Irish Free State Dairy Production Philip Keel Geheber “Behush the Bush. Whish!”: Silence, Loss, and Finnegans Wake Katherine O’Callaghan Waking “for an equality of relations” Tim Conley The Three Fates of the Finnegans Wake Notebook Research Robbert-Jan Henkes The Worldmaker’s Umwelt: The Cognitive Space between a Writer’s Library and the Publishing House Dirk Van Hulle List of contributors

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

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

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Book SynopsisIn Marie Darrieussecq ou voir le monde à neuf, Colette Trout offers the first study in French of the novelist’s works, highlighting the innovative and transgressive nature of her writing that fearlessly deconstructs the clichés which paralyze our thinking. Dans Marie Darrieussecq ou voir le monde à neuf, Colette Trout offre la première étude en français des textes de l’écrivaine, soulignant les qualités novatrices et transgressives de son écriture qui déconstruit les clichés paralysant notre pensée.Table of ContentsPréface du directeur de la collection Remerciements Introduction : Dire autrement Chapitre un : La venue à l’écriture Chapitre deux : L’écriture de la perte et du vide Chapitre trois : Le corps dans tous ses états Chapitre quatre : Les zones du fantastique et de « l’entre-deux » Chapitre cinq : Déconstruire les clichés Conclusion : Voir le monde à neuf

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

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Book SynopsisIn Jacques Réda: Being There, Almost, Aaron Prevots studies the work of this major contemporary French writer since the 1950s—poetry, novels, literary essays, short prose, jazz histories. He particularly examines Réda’s explorations of place, including how the ‘world’s energy’ becomes the ideal dancing partner, poetry incarnate in one’s arms. Réda embodies ‘being there, almost’ because he wanders with great wisdom yet renounces any glory in this metaphorical dance. He aligns us with the outer world’s rhythms and time’s passage. Fleeting waves of perception create a voluptuous, unified whole. In considering the arc of Réda’s works from 1952-2015, Aaron Prevots locates a progression from post-Baudelairean flânerie to commemoration of childhood, classical antiquity, fellow writers, jazz, physics, swing, theology, and trains.Trade Review"Prevots offre une vision panoramique de la biographie et de l’oeuvre de Réda, témoignant ainsi d’une connaissance étendue sur le sujet. Il fait aussi bien référence à des souvenirs d’enfance de l’auteur pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale qu’à ses réflexions contemporaines sur la science et le capitalisme. Il examine aussi des textes venant de toutes les époques et de tous les genres. De plus, Prevots démontre une maîtrise approfondie des thèmes, du style et des réflexions de l’écrivain dans les nombreuses lectures rapprochées qu’il entreprend." - Aurélie Van de Wiele, French Review, 91.4.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The World’s Sweep, Breadth, and Spark 1. Early Prose and Poetry: Toward an Expansive Voice 2. Writing Travel: Poetic Circulation 3. Trains and Circulation: Amplified ‘Phenomenal Flow’ 4. Youth Past and Present: Prismatic Childhood Identity 5. The Poet as Music Critic: Swing and Jazz 6. ‘Floating Bridges’: Ancient and Modern Influences Conclusion: Being There, Almost Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe trial of Dmitri Karamazov embodies Dostoevsky’s general legal and moral philosophy. This book explains and critically analyses such notions as the rule of law, the adversary system of adjudication, the principle of universal moral responsibility, the plausibility of unconditional love, and the contours of human nature. The ballast for conclusions about all these ideas is an understanding of the relationship between individuals and their communities.

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Book SynopsisThe controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme, issue, or work; and relates aspects of Ford’s writing, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. Ford is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and Parade’s End, which Anthony Burgess described as ‘the finest novel about the First World War’, Samuel Hynes has called ‘the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman’, and which was adapted by Tom Stoppard for the acclaimed 2012 BBC/HBO television series, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall. The twelve essays in this volume, Ford Madox Ford’s Cosmopolis, focus directly on the internationalism so important to Ford, and bring out three main ideas. First, his lifelong commitment to an international vision of literature and culture. Second, ‘Cosmopolis’ also refers to Ford’s experiences of the particular cosmopolitan cities he lived in: London, Paris, New York. Third, the idea that his lifelong experience of Paris in particular informed and shaped his writing. Ford’s Cosmopolis is thus not only an ideal city or state open to such cosmopolitan exchange. It is also a mode of writing which invents forms and styles to render the experience of such hybridity, diversity, fluidity, and tolerance. Contributors are: Alexandra Becquet, Helen Chambers, Martina Ciceri, Laurence Davies, Claire Davison, Annalisa Federici, Georges Létissier, Caroline Patey, Andrea Rummel, Max Saunders, Rob Spence, Martin Stannard, George Wickes, Joseph Wiesenfarth.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface MAX SAUNDERS Introduction CAROLINE PATEY Paris Fluctuat… Ford Madox Ford’s Urban Psychogeography GEORGES LETISSIER The City, the Self and the Real-and-Imagined: Ford Madox Ford and Paris ANDREA RUMMEL Converging Orbits: Ford Madox Ford, Russian Paris and the Motifs of Expatriation MARTINA CICERI ‘Beautiful and Instructive’: Ford Madox Ford’s Encounter with Popular Culture ROB SPENCE Dissolving Views, or, the Lives of ‘Bad, Mad Bosphorus’ LAURENCE DAVIES The transatlantic review and the Nouvelle Revue Française – between Tradition and Modernity: The Ford-Larbaud-Joyce Connection ANNALISA FEDERICI ‘Adventures of the Soul Among Masterpieces’: Ford and France (Anatole) MAX SAUNDERS ‘Le Traducteur E. M. (une Femme)’: Conrad, the Hueffers and the 1903 Maupassant Translations HELEN CHAMBERS Quartet with Variations: Ford Madox Ford, Stella Bowen, Jean Rhys, Jean Lenglet JOSEPH WIESENFARTH What Hemingway Learned from Ford GEORGE WICKES Ford and Biala: A Bohemian Life MARTIN STANNARD Ford Madox Ford NATHAN ASCH (Edited by Alexandra Becquet) Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis collective essay examines the violence, both present and past, inherent in the act of interpreting texts produced in Early Modern Europe, during the trials of the Spanish Inquisition and in accusations of witchcraft or libertinage, and their resistance to it. Le livre analyse la violence qu’exerce, hier et aujourd’hui, l’interprétation sur des textes produits dans le cadre de procès en Inquisition, pour sorcellerie ou libertinage (Europe, XVIe et XVIIe siècle). Il interroge le sens de la résistance qu’ils opposent à cette violence.Table of ContentsIntroduction : Lectures contraintes, entre histoire et littérature - Anne Duprat L’interprétation à tout prix ? Le Manuel des inquisiteurs ou le « meurtre de l’âme » - Anne-Marie Gonzalez-Raymond « Regards braqués » : le texte face à l’Inquisition, entre dénonciation et dissimulation - Béatrice Perez Parole de diable : les « cavillations » de l’Inquisition d’Espagne dans l’Histoire de l’Inquisition d’Espagne de Reginaldus Gonsalvius Montanus (1567) - Mathilde Bernard Apprendre à dépeindre l'ennemi. Livres d'emblèmes produits par le collège de Clermont à Paris entre 1590 et 1592 - Florence Buttay Récit de vie et historiographie contrainte. L’écriture de la Ligue par Nicolas Lefèvre de Lezeau - Laurence Giavarini et François-Xavier Petit Protocole de la violence. Théophile ou le texte en procès - Christine Noille « Et si le diable mentait ? ». L’échec de l’affaire de la possession à Nancy (1621-1622) - Sophie Houdard Une parole sous contrainte : le discours de l’échafaud. A propos des affaires Troilo Savelli (Rome, 1592) et Nathaniel Butler (Londres, 1657) - François Lecercle

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Book SynopsisThe volume explores diverse aspects of French-language travel writing. Arranged chronologically by topic, the essays cover the medieval Anglo-Norman story of the Irish traveller Saint Brendan's fantastical visit to hell; the sixteenth-century French expeditions to Florida; the seventeenth-century Dernières découvertes dans l’Amérique septentrionale de M. de la Sale mises au jour par le chevalier Tonti, 1697; the eighteenth-century Histoire générale des voyages by l’abbé Prévost; the eighteenth-century Impressions d' Orient et d'Arabie written in French by the Polish count Waclaw Seweryn Rzewuski; nineteenth-century tales of travel in Algeria by the orientalist painter Eugène Fromentin; early twentieth-century travel narratives by the modernist Blaise Cendrars; the 1936 visit to the Soviet Union by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and André Gide, odyssean thematics in the late twentieth-century work of Nobel prize winner Patrick Modiano; the thematics of nomadism in the twentieth-century writing of Albert Memmi, and the thematics of travel in works by Bernard Ollivier, Rachid Bouchareb, Fatou Diome, Christine Montalbetti, Marie Ndiaye and Emmanuel Lepage.

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Book SynopsisThis volume highlights humour’s crucial role in shaping historical re-visions of the long nineteenth century, through modes ranging from subtle irony, camp excess, ribald farce, and aesthetic parody to blackly comic narrative games. It analyses neo-Victorian humour’s politicisation, its ideological functions and ethical implications across varied media, including fiction, drama, film, webcomics, and fashion. Contemporary humour maps the assumed distance between postmodernity and its targeted nineteenth-century referents only to repeatedly collapse the same in a seemingly self-defeating nihilistic project. This collection explores how neo-Victorian humour generates empathy and effective socio-political critique, dispensing symbolic justice, but also risks recycling the past’s invidious ideologies under the politically correct guise of comic debunking, even to the point of negating laughter itself. "This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally." - Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, AustraliaTrade Review"This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally." – Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia “Kohlke & Gutleben’s collection of essays is a valuable addition to the existing research on neo-Victorian fiction and culture, particularly as it is the first work dealing with irony, humour and comedy in neo-Victorianism. Moreover, most chapters included in the book offer interpretations of neo-Victorian cultural texts that have so far enjoyed little scholarly attention. The introduction authored by the editors is especially significant, as it provides an overview of the ideological tensions inherent to neo-Victorian fiction and the role humour plays in this genre, which is innovative in the field of neo-Victorian studies. Its fresh perspective on the ideological agendas and incongruities of neo-Victorian fiction is particularly inspiring for further research in neo-Victorianism and postmodernism.” -Barbara Braid, Institute of English, Szczecin University, in European Journal of Humour Research Vol.6, No. 3, pp.113-118 (2018)Table of ContentsWhat’s So Funny about the Nineteenth Century? Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben PART I Humour and Metanarratives 1. Parody after Providence: Christianity, Secularism, and the Form of Neo-Victorian Fiction Miriam Elizabeth Burstein 2. Neo-Victorian Killing Humour: Laughing at Death in the Opium Wars Marie-Luise Kohlke 3. ‘Bleak Hilarity’ in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty Dana Shiller 4. Drainage in a Time of Cholera: History and Humour in Matthew Kneale’s Sweet Thames Michael L. Ross PART II Humour and Gender 5. Looking at Victorian Fashion: Not a Laughing Matter Margaret D. Stetz 6. Neo-Victorian Feminist History and the Political Potential of Humour Tara MacDonald 7. Good Vibrations: Hysteria, Female Orgasm and Medical Humour in Neo-Victorianism Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts 8. “People keep giving me rings, but I think a small death ray might be more practical”: Women and Mad Science in Steampunk Comics Dru Pagliassotti PART III Humour and Postmodernism: 9. “Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!”: The Neo-Victorian Novel-as-Mashup and the Limits of Postmodern Irony Megen de Bruin-Molé 10. Camp Heritage: Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm as Neo-Victorian Heritage Spectacle Christophe Van Eecke 11. Laughing (at) Freaks: “Bending the tune to her will” in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus and Rosie Garland’s The Palace of Curiosities Saverio Tomaiuolo 12. The Dog Days of Empire: Black Humour and the Bestial in J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur Ryan D. Fong Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDans Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains, Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François examine les moyens par lesquels les littératures francophones émergentes nous amènent à penser autrement les violences du monde contemporain. In Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains, Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François examines the ways by which emerging Francophone literatures help readers rethink the dynamics of violence in our contemporary world.Trade Review"The scope of the study is impressive. It ranges across geographical locations including Algeria, Belgium, Canada, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Iran, Madagascar, Martinique, Mauritius, and Morocco to identify a new generation of writers whose work develops a poetics to account for the crisis in the representation of violence and breaks with established aesthetic values. [...] Not only does the author carefully trace the evolution of contemporary concepts of violence and their thematic and formal manifestations in the works studied, but he draws from an impressive body of philosophical, sociological, and literary work to examine the aesthetic and ethical strategies of representation that the contemporary proliferation of violence in fiction has inspired." - Charlotte Baker, in French Studies 72-3, July 2018 "Jean-François’s book paves the way for novel theoretical approaches to questions of aesthetics and ethicality, offering compelling evidence of a transoceanic literary phenomenon underwriting the contemporary francophone novel." - Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland, Modern Language Review, January 2018. "La pensée d'Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François montre toute sa force et son acuité en interrogeant la question cruciale de la violence, de la façon de la comprendre, d'en rendre compte et de la représenter, ainsi que des implications éthiques de cette représentation qui se pose, à chaque jour de notre présent et d'une actualité internationale tourmentés, avec plus de force." - Valérie Magdelaine-Andrianjafitrimo, Nouvelles études francophones, 32.2, 2017. "In amove that differentiates his work from those of other scholars working on la francophonie, Jean-François does not work exclusively from a postcolonial approach, even as he weaves it throughout his analysis. He incorporates theories from a variety of other disciplines, such as philosophy and psychoanalysis. In addition, he divides his chapters thematically, rather than geographically, resulting in his decentering of the texts to create an analytical network of encounters, ruptures, and continuities. [...] Jean-François’s monograph is a useful resource for scholars meditating on literary and historical violence, particularly given its exhaustive line of inquiry. Scholars interested in broader questions of poetics and the contemporary will also benefit from the insights offered by this study." - Nanar Khamo, French Review, 92.2.Table of ContentsRemerciements Introduction Repères fictionnels et marqueurs ethnographiques Inscriptions spatiales Identités meurtrières Repères contextuels et situationnels Irreprésentables violences Spectacularisation de la violence Violences et perversions sexuelles Entre bourreau et victime : les acteurs de la violence Les causes de la violence Du désir au pouvoir Pulsion et agressivité De la cruauté à la jouissance L’écriture comme contre-violence De la résistance à la révolte Écrire par devoir de mémoire : éthique du témoignage et violence mémorielle L’innommable et la recréation linguistique La langue de la violence Poétiques subversives Poétiques de l’extrême et écritures des limites Sensibilités baroques : expérimentations génériques et thématiques Hybridité narrative et questionnements métatextuels Écritures postcoloniales et localisations culturelles Conclusion Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisWhat can translations reveal about the global reception of any authorship? In Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian: The Challenges of Literary Translation, Marie Nedregotten Sørbø compares two novels and six translations of them. The discussion is entirely in English, as all Norwegian versions are back-translated. This study therefore lends itself to comparisons with other languages, and aims to fill its place as one component in a worldwide field of research; how Jane Austen is understood and transmitted. Moreover, this book presents a selection of pertinent issues for any translator, including abbreviation and elaboration, style and vocabulary, and censorship. Sørbø gives vivid examples of how literary translation happens, and how it serves to interpret and refashion literature for new readerships.Trade Review"What I so enjoyed about this book was the way it made me think about the genius of Austen’s language. [...] This book gives the close reader of Austen so much to ponder and discuss. [...] this excellent book really should be on the shelf of anybody serious about their Austen. I loved accompanying Jane Austen on her fascinating travels in Norway. Well written, thought-provoking and intriguing, this is a book I can highly recommend." - Susannah Fullerton, Sensibilities, Vol 56. June 2018, pp. 96-100 “Sørbø’s section dealing with what she calls ‘Old-fashionedness as deliberate construction’ is fascinating, and will be of great interest to those who – like me – have no knowledge of the Norwegian language.” "[…]There are interesting anecdotes to be found […] about cultural transformations, and how England’s Jane crosses borders, anecdotes that would delight a general reader, and indeed viewers of televised Austen adaptations. For the scholarly market, Sørbø’s book, in particular, deserves to be read by those interested in reception history, as well as in literary translation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries more broadly. We have by no means heard the last word on translating Austen [….] proffers useful ways forward for future research.” -Gillian Dow, University of Southampton in Translation and Literature, Edinburgh University Press, Vol. 29, Part 2, Summer 2020, pp.266-271Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Jane Austen Travels 1 Austen Goes to Norway 2 Cuts and Simplifications 3 Additions and Elaborations 4 Blunder 5 Shades and Nuances 6 A Sense of Style 7 Wanted and Unwanted Repetitions 8 Choice and Repertoire of Words 9 Foreign or Domestic? 10 Irony 11 Censorship 12 Amending the Love Story Conclusion Appendix 1: Jane Austen’s Anonymity in Nineteenth-century Translations Appendix 2: Timeline: Jane Austen’s Presences and Absences in Norwegian Contexts Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAleksis Kivi (1834-1872) is Finland’s greatest writer. His great 1870 novel The Brothers Seven has been translated 59 times into 34 languages. Is he world literature, or not? In Aleksis Kivi and/as World Literature Douglas Robinson uses this question as a wedge for exploring the nature and nurture of world literature, and the contributions made by translators to it. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of major and minor literature, Robinson argues that translators have mainly “majoritized” Kivi—translated him respectfully—and so created images of literary tourism that ill suit recognition as world literature. Far better, he insists, is the impulse to minoritize—to find and celebrate the minor writer in Kivi, who “sends the major language racing.”

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Book SynopsisThe first monograph published in English on Ihara Saikaku’s fiction, David J. Gundry’s lucid, compelling study examines the tension reflected in key works by Edo-period Japan’s leading writer of ‘floating world’ literature between the official societal hierarchy dictated by the Tokugawa shogunate’s hereditary status-group system and the era’s de facto, fluid, wealth-based social hierarchy. The book’s nuanced, theoretically engaged explorations of Saikaku’s narratives’ uses of irony and parody demonstrate how these often function to undermine their own narrators' intermittent moralizing. Gundry also analyzes these texts’ depiction of the fleeting pleasures of love, sex, wealth and consumerism as Buddhistic object lessons in the illusory nature of phenomenal reality, the mastery of which leads to a sort of enlightenment.

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Book SynopsisLiban. Mémoires fragmentées examine l’anamnèse de la guerre civile libanaise telle qu’articulée dans la production culturelle des années 2000-2015. Calargé postule que cette production tente de combler le vide discursif crée par l’absence d’un récit officiel de l’histoire contemporaine. Liban. Mémoires fragmentées examines how cultural production has revived the collective memory of the Lebanese (un)civil war and attempted to fill a gaping void in the national historical narrative by defying and critiquing the politics of forgetting pursued by post-war leadership.Table of ContentsIntroduction Pour contextualiser notre propos : la guerre, avant et après 1. De la multiplicité des causes du conflit 2. Survol rapide de la guerre : un tableau changeant et des alliances instables 3. La fin de la guerre : quel bilan 4. Plus ça change… plus ça empire ? Les mémoires de la guerre et la production culturelle 1. En guise de préambule 2. Traumatismes, amnésie et mémoires : quelle(s) H/histoire(s) raconter ? 3. De la multiplicité (des expressions) de la mémoire 4. Découpage thématique La mémoire traumatique : parcours féminins dans un pays en feu Face-à-face avec les blessures du passé : La Levée des couleurs de Ramy Zein En funambule sur la ligne de démarcation : de quel côté la victime, de quel côté l’assassin ? Fragments d’histoires d’une guerre au quotidien : le corps de la ville dans le récit d’une vie Conclusion De la présence (spectrale) du passé : la mémoire en palimpsestes de Beyrouth La mémoire des lieux pratiqués : Beyrouth dans Histoire de la grande maison de Charif Majdalani L’ancien centre-ville de Beyrouth : spectre ou hétérotopie ? Conclusion Les enfants de la guerre : une mémoire qui (se) cherche Souvenirs d’enfance : la guerre au quotidien Mémoire des lieux et lieux de mémoire. Beyrouth : une obsession où l’on se perd Conclusion La mémoire contestataire : pour une conscience citoyenne Le corps féminin comme lieu où s’écrit l’histoire dans La Malédiction de Hyam Yared Une fenêtre sur l’enfer : la violence au quotidien dans Balle perdue de Georges Hachem Conclusion Conclusion. Et maintenant, on va où ? Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisIn A Sense of the City, Gala Maria Follaco examines Nagai Kafū’s (1879-1959) literary construction of urban spatialities from late Meiji through the early Shōwa period. She argues that Kafū’s urban critique was based on his awareness of the cultural sedimentation of the cityscape and of the complex relationship that it bore with the historical framework of modern Japan. With the overall aim to define Kafū’s position within pre-war Japanese literature, Follaco touches upon key issues such as memory, class difference, and language ideologies; draws connections between his sojourn abroad and strategies of “mapping” the city of Tokyo in his literature; and takes into account works previously understudied, including his biography of Washizu Kidō and his photographs.Trade Review“A Sense of the City is the first coherent study of Kafu which places the centrality of the city in his writings at the forefront. Overall, [it] is a complex and timely book, calmly written, unfashionable in theme, and thought provoking. Follaco’s investigation of Kafu’s notion of the urban and the narrative functions with which he charged it breaks new ground.” -Evelyn Shulz, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, in The Journal of Japanese Studies, Volume 46, Number 1, Winter 2020, pp. 239-244Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction Part 1: Abroad 1 Shanghai 2 Tacoma, Seattle, Kalamazoo 3 New York 4 Lyon, Paris Part 2: Tokyo 5 Dealing with the Other 6 Rhetoric of Places 7 Deletion, Ingenuousness, Memory 8 An Intimate Cartography Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Black South African Autobiography After Deleuze: Belonging and Becoming in Self-Testimony, Kgomotso Michael Masemola uses Gilles Deleuze’s theories of immanence and deterritorialization to explore South African autobiography as both the site and the limit of intertextual cultural memory. Detailing the intertextual turn that is commensurate with belonging to the African world and its diasporic reaches through the Black Atlantic, among others, this book covers autobiographies from Peter Abrahams to Es’kia Mphahlele, from Ellen Kuzwayo to Nelson Mandela. It proceeds further to reveal wider dimensions of angst and belonging that attend becoming through transcultural memory. Kgomotso Michael Masemola successfully marshalls Deleuzean theories in a sophisticated re-reading that makes clear the autobiographers’ epistemic access to wor(l)ds beyond South Africa.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Nomadic Routes of Black South African Autobiography 1 Topologies of Collocation: The Problematic of Representation in Black South African Autobiography 2 Of Belonging and Becoming: Black Atlantic Cultural Memory in the Early Autobiographies of Peter Abrahams and Es’kia Mphahlele 3 The ‘Worldliness’ of the Wilderness Text: The Aporetic Experience of Exile in Mphahlele’s The Wanderers and N. Chabani Manganyi’s Mashangu’s Reverie 4 Between the Double Temporality of Tinseltown and Sophiatown: Cultural Memory in Miriam Makeba’s Makeba: My Story and Bloke Modisane’s Blame Me on History 5 The Individuated Collective Utterance: Lack, Law, and Desire in the Autobiographies of Ellen Kuzwayo and Sindiwe Magona 6 Demonstrating the Democratic Ideal in the Idea of Aporetic Autobiography: Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom and Mamphela Ramphele’s A Life Conclusion: Autobiography All the Same? The Assemblage of Cultural Memory, the Semblance of History, and the Dissemblance of the Other Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWriting London and the Thames Estuary is an ambitious study of place and identity which resonates deeply against the troubled politics of contemporaneity. Drawing on a broad range of cultural materials including novels, film, theatre, tourist literature, topography, chorology and sociological writing, Len Platt traces the making of the estuary as margin by a metropolis that has been dependent on this region, sometimes for its very survival. Drawing on writers and artists ranging from Middleton, Defoe, Pepys, Dickens, Conrad and T.S. Eliot through to such contemporary figures as Iain Sinclair, Nicola Barker, Tracy Emin and Billy Childish, Platt offers a fascinating insight into the formation of ‘estuary grotesque’, the social dismissal out of which post-Brexit politics have emerged to such controversy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Chorography—Antiquarianism and the Epistemology of Place 2 ‘Inconstant Rabble’—Renaissance Dramas, Queenborough, Political Imaginaries 3 War Stories, 1667–1942 4 Estuary Gothic and the Modern Metropolis 5 Estuarine Sociology and the Making of an Underclass 6 ‘Eating Gull since Friday’—Estuary Grotesque, Seaside Noir 7 The Estuary Writes Back Postscript—Post Brexit Select Bibliography Index of People Index of Subjects and Places

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Book SynopsisWhat became of representations of the Battle of Waterloo evoked by a plethora of texts (history books, memoirs, novels, poetry, theater) for two hundred years? « La Chose de Waterloo » strives to understand the mechanisms of this phenomenon. « La Chose de Waterloo » veut comprendre ce qu’est devenue la célèbre bataille au fur et à mesure de ses multiples évocations (livres d’histoire, Mémoires, roman, poésie, théâtre) qui en précisent et en brouillent le souvenir tout à la fois.Table of ContentsRésumés et notices sur les auteurs VII Introduction  Damien Zanone Dire la bataille. Balzac, Stendhal, Hugo et les autres…  Jacques Neefs Waterloo et moi : morceaux de mémoire, morceaux de bravoure  Damien Zanone La fabrique du vécu : écrire Waterloo depuis 1815  Boris Lyon-Caen Héroïsme et écriture de soi. Devenir Lady De Lancey à Waterloo  Nathalie Saudo-Welby Retour sur le choix de Stendhal : le point de vue sur Waterloo dans La Chartreuse de Parme  Catherine Mariette Waterloo et Victor Hugo : genèse poétique  Jean-Marc Hovasse Waterloo, digression et insémination dans Les Misérables  Nicole Savy Waterloo lieu de mémoire, ou Hugo “témoin à distance” de la bataille  Claude Millet Le style symbolique de l’historien. Waterloo dans Les Misérables  Philippe Dufour Détours du désenchantement. Edgar Quinet et la chute de Napoléon  Jean-Marc Largeaud La poésie sur-le-champ (de bataille). Waterloo vu de part et d’autre de la Manche  Catriona Seth Waterloo ou le tourment national de Prudens Van Duyse, poète flamand  Michael Rosenfeld Échos de Waterloo dans la littérature de la Grande Guerre  Pierre Schoentjes Trois ou cinq chevaux morts sous lui … Variations Waterloo au commencement du XXIe siècle  Tiphaine Samoyault Merde à l’Histoire : Waterloo ou le déni du réel  Alain Vaillant Bibliographie Index des noms de personnes

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Book SynopsisInexhaustible Beckett: even as his oeuvre continues to mark today’s literary, dramatic and other arts, the man and artist remain alive in the memories of those who knew him personally. Collected here are conversations with the author recalled by translators, scholars, artists, and theatre and media practitioners drawing on unpublished notes of meetings and uncollected (mostly) correspondence with him. Through the varied lenses of their reminiscences, readers will appreciate Beckett’s remarkable art of letter writing, his conversation punctuated by pregnant pauses, his exceptional humor and talent for friendship, and his punctilious concern for the translations, interpretations, and performance of his works. The readers of this volume will come to share the exhilaration the encounters with Beckett produced in the writers of these memoirs. Inépuisable Beckett… Non seulement son œuvre reste vivante et laisse son empreinte dans la littérature, le théâtre et les arts actuels, mais sa personnalité d’homme et d’artiste continue à marquer ceux qui l’ont connu personnellement. Ce sont les témoignages de plusieurs d’entre eux que nous reproduisons ici. A travers leurs diverses perspectives, le lecteur pourra apprécier cet art épistolaire propre à Beckett, celui de sa conversation ponctuée de silences lourds de sens, son humour exceptionnel ainsi que son talent pour l’amitié, autant que la rigueur pointilleuse qu’il apportait aux traductions, interprétations et mises en scène de ses œuvres. Nous espérons que les lecteurs de ce volume pourront partager l’enchantement ressenti par les auteurs de ces mémoires lors de leurs rencontres avec Beckett.Trade ReviewRhys Tranter has interviewed coeditor Angela Moorjani on this collection which recounts Samuel Beckett’s meetings with scholars, translators, and theatre practitioners (July 2017): https://rhystranter.com/2017/07/12/samuel-beckett-conversation/Table of ContentsContributors / Auteurs Introduction  Angela Moorjani and Danièle de Ruyter Academic Translators Reflecting Happy Years: Translating Beckett with Beckett  Erika Tophoven Reminiscences of a Late Friendship  Antonia Rodríguez-Gago Academics Reminiscing My Conversations with Samuel Beckett  John Fletcher Recollecting Sam-ness and Watt-ness  Angela Moorjani The Many-Body Problem  Kishin Moorjani Partially Purged in Montparnasse  John Pilling On Meeting Samuel Beckett  John O’Brien Memories of Meeting Beckett  Linda Ben-Zvi “For the usual, at the usual”: Meeting Beckett in the Fourteenth Arrondissement  Gerry Dukes Rencontre avec Samuel Beckett  Ahmad Kamyabi Mask Artists and Theatre-, Television-, Radio Practitioners Remembering Remembering (Almost Not Meeting) Beckett  Peter Gidal “Come back soon!”  Anne Madden le Brocquy Quelqu’ un de tellement discret  Bernadette Le Saché Beckett Listens: Sound Production for the 1977 Geistertrio  Konrad Körte Bothering Him with My Questions …  Marek Kędzierski “From one world to another”: Beckett’s Radio Plays  Everett C. Frost Addendum Un après-midi avec Samuel Beckett  Nadia Kamel

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Book SynopsisCounter-revolutionary or wary progressive? Critical apologist for the Stuart and Hanoverian dynasties? What are the political and cultural significances of place when Scott represents the instabilities generated by the Union? Scott's Novels and the Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Place analyses Scott’s sophisticated, counter-revolutionary interpretation of Britain's past and present in relation to those questions. Exploring the diversity within Scott’s life and writings, as historian and political commentator, conservative committed to progress, Scotsman and Briton, lawyer and philosopher, this monograph focuses on how Scott portrays and analyses the evolution of the state through notions of place and landscape. It especially considers Scott’s response to revolution and rebellion, and his geopolitical perspective on the transition from Stuart to Hanoverian sovereignty.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Compromised Authority and Confinement in The Fortunes of Nigel and Woodstock  The Otherness of Scotland in The Fortunes of Nigel  The Political Significance of Locale and Language in Woodstock 2 Governance and Agency in Woodstock and Peveril of the Peak  A Geo-political Mapping of Woodstock  The Centrality of Martindale  Placing Legal and Judicial Sovereignty in Woodstock and Peveril of the Peak 3 Oppression, Justice and Monarchy in Peveril of the Peak and The Heart of Mid-Lothian  Marginalization, Exploitation and Powerlessness in Peveril of the Peak  Cultural Imperialism, Violence and Distance in The Heart of Mid-Lothian 4 Landscaping Justice, Rebellion and Dynastic Failure in The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Waverley and Redgauntlet  A Just Landscape in The Heart of Mid-Lothian  Place and Rebellion in Waverley  Locale and Dynastic Failure in Redgauntlet  Marginalized Sovereignty in Waverley and Redgauntlet 5 The Royal Presence as Locale: Rehabilitating the Stuart and Hanoverian Monarchies  Charles i and Charles ii  Charles Edward Stuart, George ii and George iii Conclusion: Homecoming, Return and Journey’s End Appendix: Sources for Scott’s Characterization of James i Select Bibliography Index

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

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Book SynopsisThe concept of framing has long intrigued and troubled scholars in fields including philosophy, rhetoric, media studies and literary criticism. But framing also has rich implications for environmental debate, urging us to reconsider how we understand the relationship between humans and their ecological environment, culture and nature. The contributors to this wide-ranging volume use the concept of framing to engage with key questions in environmental literature, history, politics, film, TV, and pedagogy. In so doing, they show that framing can serve as a valuable analytical tool connecting different academic discourses within the emergent interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. No less importantly, they demonstrate how increased awareness of framing strategies and framing effects can help us move society in a more sustainable direction.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Framing Nature  Hannes Bergthaller and Peter Mortensen Part 1: Literary Frames 2 Framing in Literary Energy Narratives  Axel Goodbody 3 Narrating in Fluid Frames: Overcoming Anthropocentrism in Zora Neale Hurston’s Early Short Fiction on Rivers  Matthias Klestil 4 320 Million Years, a Century, a Quarter of a Mile, a Couple of Paces: Framing the ‘Good Step’ in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran  Pippa Marland Part 2: History, Politics, and National Frames 5 Ghosts, Power, and the Natures of Nature: Reconstructing the World of Jón Guðmundsson the Learned  Viðar Hreinsson 6 Reframing Sacred Natural Sites as National Monuments in Estonia: Shifts in Nature-Culture Interactions  Ott Heinapuu 7 Animals in Norwegian Political Party Programs: A Critical Reading  Morten Tønnessen 8 Chemical Unknowns: Preliminary Outline for an Environmental History of Fear  Michael Egan 9 Czeching American Nature Images in the Work of Robinson Jeffers and John Steinbeck  Petr Kopecký Part 3: Framing Nature on Screen 10 Black-and-White Telecasting? Water Pollution on Finnish and Estonian Television during the Cold War  Ottoaleksi Tähkäpää and Simo Laakkonen 11 Who’s Framing Whom? Surrealism and Science in the Documentaries of Jean Painlevé  Kathryn St. Ours 12 Cognitivist Film Theory and the Bioculturalist Turn in Eco-Film Studies  David Ingram Part 4: Teaching Frames 13 Framing the Alien, Teaching District 9  Roman Bartosch 14 The Nature Study Idea: Framing Nature for Children in Early Twentieth Century Schools  Dorothy Kass 15 Matter, Meaning, and the Classroom: A Case-Study  Isabel Hoving 16 Postscript: Framing the Environmental Humanities  Hannes Bergthaller and Peter Mortensen

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

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Book SynopsisThe English-speaking world today is so diverse that readers need a gateway to its many postcolonial narratives and art forms. This collection of essays examines this diver¬sity and what brings so many different cul¬tures together. Whether Indian, Canadian, Australasian or Zimbabwean, the stories dis¬cussed focus on how artists render experi¬ences of separation, belonging, and loss. The histories and transformations postcolonial countries have gone through have given rise to a wide range of myths that retrace their birth, evolution, and decline. Myths have enabled ethnic communities to live together; the first section of this collection dwells on stories, which can be both inclusive and exclusive, under the aegis of ‘nation’. While certain essays revisit and retell the crucial role women have played in mythical texts like the Mahābhārata, others discuss how settler colonies return to and re-appro¬priate a past in order to define themselves in the present. Crises, clashes, and conflicts, which are at the heart of the second section of this book, entail myths of historical and cultural dislocation. They appear as breaks in time that call for reconstruction and redefini¬tion, a chief instance being the trauma of slavery, with its deep geographical and cul¬tural dislocations. However, the crises that have deprived entire communities of their homeland and their identity are followed by moments of remembrance, reconciliation, and rebuilding. As the term ‘postcolonial’ sug¬gests, the formerly colonized people seek to revisit and re-investigate the impact of colo¬nization before committing it to collective memory. In a more specifically literary sec¬tion, texts are read as mythopoeia, fore¬grounding the aesthetic and poetic issues in colonial and postcolonial poems and novels. The texts explored here study in different ways the process of mytho¬logization through images of location and dislocation. The editors of this collection hope that readers worldwide will enjoy reading about the myths that have shaped and continue to shape postcolonial communities and nations. CONTRIBUTORS Elara Bertho, Dúnlaith Bird, Marie–Christine Blin, Jaine Chemmachery, André Dodeman, Biljana Đorić Francuski, Frédéric Dumas, Daniel Karlin, Sabine Lauret–Taft, Anne Le Guellec–Minel, Élodie Raimbault, Winfried Siemerling, Laura Singeot, Françoise Storey, Jeff Storey, Christine VandammeTable of ContentsList of Figures Introduction PART ONE: MYTHS OF NATION-BUILDING Woman as Goddess or Woman as Victim? The Role of Women in the Mahābhārata and Chitra Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions BILJANA ÐOR IĆ–FRANCUSK I ‘On a road between two cities’: Relocating the Myths of the Indian Nation in Amit Chaudhuri’s A Strange and Sublime Address (1991) and St Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005) JULIE BELUAU Framing the West: Myth and Art in Yosemite and Yellowstone’s Early Photographs MARIE–CHRIST INE BLIN How to Picket-Fence a Mountain: Myths of Domesticity and Dislocation in Isabella Bird’s Wild West DÚNLAITH BIRD The Tasmanian Tiger: From Extinction to Identity Myth in White Australian Society and Fiction ANNE LE GUELL EC–MINEL PART TWO: DIS/LOCATIONS: CLASHES AND CONFLICTS Migrant Myth: Freedom, Diaspora, and the Black Atlantic WINFR IED SIEMERLING Reworkings of a Literary Myth and Historical Construction: Nehanda (Zimbabwe) ELARA BERTHO Constructing and Deconstructing Myths of British Colonial Identity and Femininity in Mutiny Fiction: Meadows Taylor’s Seeta (1872) and Flora Annie Steel’s On the Face of the Waters (1897) JAINE CHEMMACHERY Novel Myths for a White Australasia: Dealing with the Native in Mark Twain’s Following the Equator FRÉDÉRIC DUMAS Transfiguration of Australian Founding Myths in Patrick White’s Fiction: Voss as an Iconoclastic Reinterpretation of the Explorer Myth CHRI ST INE VANDAMME PART THREE: IMAGINARY DISLOCATIONS: FROM MYTHOPOEIA TO THE RELOCATION OF MYTH “In Vishnu-land what avatar?” Robert Browning and the Empire of Song DANIEL KARLIN Imagined Topographies of the Sundarbans in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide SAB INE LAURET–TAFT Transcending Postcolonial Identity Through Myth: Yann Martel’s Life of Pi FRANÇOISE STOREY & JEFF STOREY Relocating the Mythical Self in Three Māori Novels: Potiki by Patricia Grace, The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera,and the bone people by Keri Hulme LAURA SINGEOT Notes on Contributors and Editors Index

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Book SynopsisEthics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction investigates Morrison’s aesthetics in terms of narrative’s ethical import. Morrison’s writing is concerned with ethically debatable issues and it offers a problematic representation of human experiences in African American history. Whilst previous critical studies consider ethics in relation to events in the story, Palladino explores its intersection with aesthetics. Narrativizing the moral law, Morrison’s imperative is to relate the past, and to find ways to tell what is often unspeakable. The quest for ways to narrate horrific facts is a quest for an aesthetics which includes an appeal to the reader and thus necessarily engages with the ethical. This study foregrounds the equivocal as a key feature of narrative ethics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Ethics and Aesthetics, Theories of Intersection 2 Memory, Redemption and Salvation 3 Disembodied Tellers and Delayed Signification 4 Orality and the Ethics of Telling 5 Healing Hands, Harming Hands 6 “Body Talk”: Beloved and Fragmentation Works Cited Index

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

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

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Book SynopsisDans La Miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique, divers artistes contemporains et spécialistes en architecture, littérature ou psychologie clinique s’interrogent sur les nouvelles fonctions ludiques, didactiques, cognitives, artistiques de la miniature depuis le début des années 1960. In La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique, contemporary artists and specialists in architecture, literature and clinical psychology focus on the new playful, cognitive, didactic and artistic functions of the miniature since the early 1960s.Table of ContentsTable des matières Remerciements Liste des Figures Microbiographies des contributeurs Introduction : La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique  Évelyne Thoizet et Isabelle Roussel-Gillet Partie 1 Potentiel cognitif d’une miniature 2 La miniature et l’enfant : perspectives cliniques  Florence Pandit Partie 2 Maison de poupée(s) 3 Les maisons de poupées   Danielle Constantin 4 Du musée au roman de Jessie Burton, une maison miniature comme dispositif esthétique actif  Isabelle Roussel-Gillet Partie 3 « Petits mondes » en littérature 5 Tobie Lolness ou les deux infinis pascaliens revisités à la loupe de la miniaturisation  Laurence Olivier-Messonnier 6 De la miniature au livre monde : La Vie mode d’emploi de Georges Perec  Éléonore Hamaide-Jager 7 Lire « La Vue » de Raymond Roussel, et au-delà  Mathieu Jung Partie 4 Paysages en miniature 8 Entretien avec Didier Massard  Isabelle Roussel-Gillet et Évelyne Thoizet 9 L’Aquascape : un paysage dans l’aquarium  Quentin Montagne 10 Le végétal en miniature dans l’Encyclopédie poétique et raisonnée des herbes de Denise Le Dantec  Rachel Bouvet Partie 5 Questions d’échelle en architecture 11 D’une montagne, l’autre Pensées en forme de saxifrage  Nadja Maillard 12 Du figment au fragment, Miniature et conception architecturale  Églantine Bigot-Doll Partie 6 Mutations technologiques : la miniature à la scène, à l’écran et à l’exposition 13 Rôle de la maquette et transduction dans la peinture scénographique  Entretien avec Camille Courier de Mèré 14 Entre miniaturisme et minimalisme : Maestà d’Andy Guérif  Bruno Thibault 15 L’effet miniature du cinéma à la création plastique récit d’un parcours  Karen Luong 16 Des trous, des petits trous, encore des petits trous  Frédérique Joseph-Lowery Bibliographie générale des œuvres et essais cités Résumés des articles Index

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Book SynopsisDans Clés pour La Disparition de Georges Perec : contrainte, fiction, texte, traduction, mémoire Hermes Salceda propose une lecture globale d’une des plus belles réussites du roman oulipien. In Clés pour La Disparition de Georges Perec : contrainte, fiction, texte, traduction, mémoire Hermes Salceda offers a global reading of one of the most beautiful successes of the oulipian novel.Trade Review"Dans ce livre récent, Hermes Salceda développe avec clarté une présentation des paramètres formels de La Disparition de Perec, et nous offre les moyens d’en saisir les enjeux. [...] Cette excellente étude offre matière à réflexion." - Llewellyn Brown, La Revue des lettres modernes, série Georges Perec 1, 2019, pp. 207-211.Table of ContentsNote de l’auteur Introduction: La lettre, l’histoire, le texte et la mémoire Partie 1: La potentialité de la contrainte : pouvoirs et limites 1 Dynamique du lipogramme et choix du lipogrammatiste  0 Introduction  1 Quelques traits distinctifs de la contrainte  2 La potentialité de la contrainte plutôt que le texte  3 La potentialité du lipogramme  4 Contrainte dominante et contraintes dérivées: quelques remarques sur la genèse de La Disparition  5 Les choix du lipogrammatiste  6 Conclusion 2 Parler et organiser le monde sans E  0 Introduction  1 La langue du lipogramme  2 La mise en fiction des difficultés de l’écriture  3 Conclusion 3 Contrainte et fiction (1) : l’alphabet comme organisateur textuel et générateur de fiction  0 Introduction  1 L’alphabet comme organisateur textuel. D’autres remarques sur la genèse de La Disparition  2 Potentialité du lipogramme et ses effets métatextuels  3 Conclusion 4 Contrainte et fiction (2): la potentialité narrative du lipogramme  0 Introduction  1 Synopsis et organisation générale de l’histoire  2 La dialectique de la contrainte et de la fiction  3 L’atomisation narrative comme thème  4 Conclusion 5 Traduire La Disparition : transposer la potentialité de la contrainte dans une autre langue : stratégies et implications  0 Introduction  1 L’Oulipo et la traduction  2 Théorie de l’écriture sous contrainte et traduction  3 Les différentes attitudes des traducteurs face à La Disparition  4 Traduire La Disparition en espagnol  5 Traduire la potentialité de la contrainte  8 Conclusion Partie 2: La lettre, le texte, la mémoire 6 La Disparition : roman policier ou roman de l’écriture et de la lecture ?  0 Introduction  1 Énigme policière et énigme textuelle  2 Le statut ambigu du « Post-scriptum »  3 Conclusion 7 Contrainte et mémoire  0 Introduction  1 Contrainte et production du sens : les manifestations narratives de la perte du sens  2 Production du sens et reconstruction de la mémoire  3 Parataxe diégétique et cassure biographique  4 Le flottement identitaire  5 La mort, le manque  6 Conclusion 8 La lettre comme triple clé  0 Introduction  1 Écrire blanc sur noir  2 Douglas Haig : le signe et la chair  3 La lettre comme clé de l’énigme  4 La lettre comme facteur de cohésion textuelle  5 La lettre comme clé  6 Le Zahir comme signifiant premier et signifié ultime  7 Conclusion Conclusion générale Annexe 1: La Disparition raconté aux enfants Annexe 2: La Disparition Annexe 3: Manuscrits de La Disparition Bibliographie Index

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

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on one of the main issues of our time in the Humanities and Social Sciences as it analyzes the impact of current global migrations on new forms of living together and the formation of identities and homes. Using a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach the contributions shed fresh light upon key concepts such as ‘hybrid-performative diaspora’, ‘transidentities’,‘ hospitality’, ‘belonging’, ‘emotion’, ‘body,’ and ‘desire’. Those concepts are discussed in the context of Cuban, US-American, Maghrebian, Moroccan, Spanish, Catalan, French, Turkish, Jewish, Argentinian, Indian, and Italian literatures, cultures and religions.Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors Introduction 1 Nomadic Places Cultures and Literatures in Movement ‘Hybrid-Performative Diasporas’ in the Ibero-American-Maghrebian-Morrocan Literature and Culture: the Case of Najat El Hachmi Alfonso de Toro 2 The Diasporic Identity of the Roma People Marta Segarra 3 Epistemological Difficulties in the Development of Civic Identities in Western Education Zvi Bekerman 4 A Discourse of Resistance: Hybridization of Identity and Textuality in Tedio, by Natalio Ohanna Daniel Blaustein 5 Federalism and Diaspora: The Feeling of Belonging and the Diaspora Identity in the Subnational Level of the Country Mauricio Dimant 6 Jewbans in Miami. A Particular Case of Hybrid-Performative Diaspora Sarah Moldenhauer 7 The “Good Migrants”: Issues of Hospitality and Belonging with regard to Sikhs in Mediterranean Europe Pierre Gottschlich 8 Feelings of Threat as a Problem of Religious Identity within Religiously Diverse Societies Gert Pickel and Alexander Yendell 9 The Problem of Belonging in Nina Bouraoui’s Garçon manqué Annegret Richter 10 Diasporic Topographies of Remembrance in New Autobiographical Sephardic Writing Susanne Ritschel 11 Settling In: Migration and Place in Sema Kiliçkaya’s Le royaume sans racines Annedith Schneider 12 Identity Questions in El diablo de Yudis by Ahmed Daoudi Juliane Tauchnitz 13 Writing in Movement: A Poetics of Undecidability? Abderrahman Tenkoul 14 The Berber Cultural Movement in the Maghreb Contemporary Issues in Transnationalism Moha Ennaji 15 The Mara: A Diaspora Sui Generis? Heidrun Zinecker 16 Towards Modes of Shared Emotion: Revisiting the Iberian Diasporas’ Trauma Through the “Captive’s tale” (Don Quixote I, 37–41) Ruth Fine Index

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Book SynopsisIn Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars of literature, history and visual arts look to those spaces Epeli Hau’ofa has insisted are full not empty, asking what it might mean to Indigenise culture. A new cultural politics demands new forms of making and interpretation that rethink and reroute existing cultural categories and geographies. These ‘makers’ include Mukunda Das, Janet Frame, Xavier Herbert, Tomson Highway, Claude McKay, Marie Munkara, Elsje van Keppel, Albert Wendt, Jane Whiteley and Alexis Wright. Case studies from Canada to the Caribbean, India to the Pacific, and Africa, analyse the productive ways that artists and intellectuals have made sense of turbulent local and global forces. Contributors: Bill Ashcroft, Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay, Anne Brewster, Diana Brydon, Meeta Chatterjee—Padmanabhan, Anne Collett, Dorothy Jones, Kay Lawrence, Russell McDougall, Tekura Moeka’a, Tony Simões da Silva, Teresia Teaiwa, Albert Wendt, Lydia Wevers, Diana Wood ConroyTable of ContentsForeword  Albert Wendt Illustrations and Appendices Notes on Contributors and Editors Part 1: Collision, Connection, and Change  1 Textiles from the Sea of Islands  Sacred Heart Nuns and Craft Advisers in Papua New Guinea and Australia  Diana Wood Conroy  2 Reading Across the Pacific, Reorienting “North”  Diana Brydon  3 Nationalism from Below  Folk Nationalist Formations of Mukunda Das  Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay  4 Xavier Herbert’s Enlightenment  The Solomon Islands Nightmare, 1928  Russell McDougall  5 Regime Change Literature and Transitional Justice  Tony Simões da Silva Part 2: Case Studies  6 Laughter and the Indigenous Trickster Aesthetics of Marie Munkara’s Every Secret Thing  Anne Brewster  7 Claude McKay and the Pestilential City  The Metropolis, the Clinic, the Crisis  Anne Collett  8 Bodily Cloth  The Making Process in Artworks by Elsje van Keppel and Jane Whiteley  Kay Lawrence  9 Overseas and Underground  Travel and Travellers in Janet Frame’s Fiction  Dorothy Jones  10 “Indias of the mind”  Maps, Mothers, and Ethnicized Wonder Woman Outfits in Australian–Indian Fiction  Meeta Chatterjee–Padmanabhan  11 Singing the Spiral of Time  Albert Wendt’s The Adventures of Vela  Bill Ashcroft  12 Comparative History in Polynesia  Some Challenges of Studying the Past in the Postcolonial Present  Teresia Teaiwa and Tekura Moeka‘a Afterword  Lydia Wevers

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

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Book SynopsisThis volume includes a special on the functions of money in the Recherche: its sociological, aesthetic, imaginary and affective functions; otherwise there are articles on Proust’s Paris, on decorative arts in the Recherche and on the friendship Proust-De Flers. Ce volume comporte un dossier sur les dimensions de l’argent dans la Recherche : sociologique, esthétique, imaginaire et affective. Ensuite, des études sur le Paris proustien, sur les arts décoratifs dans la Recherche et sur l’amitié Proust-De Flers.Table of ContentsListe des auteurs Introduction Partie 1: Dossier : Proust et l’argent. Etudes réunies par Annelies Schulte Nordholt L’univers de Combray : capital économique / capital esthétique  Yvonne Goga La salade d’ananas et de truffes : offrande de luxe ou supercherie romanesque ?  Luc Fraisse De l’hôtel au bordel : le ballet capitaliste de la Recherche  Clément Paradis Dépenser à outrance. Proust et sa vision chevaleresque du capital  Cristian Micu Payer comptant – Proust et l’argent  Sjef Houppermans L’imaginaire proustien de l’argent au cinéma Citizen Kane, Ludwig et le capital du temps  Thomas Carrier-Lafleur et Guillaume Lavoie Proust capitaliste : le désastre financier source de « capital créatif » ? À propos de Gian Balsamo, Proust and his Banker. In Search of Time squandered  Annelies Schulte Nordholt Annexes Livre de comptes  Patrice Louis Les millionnaires de la Recherche  Patrice Louis Un sou est un sou  Patrice Louis Partie 2: Mélanges Paris et ses passions dans A la Recherche du temps perdu  Michel Erman Proust, les arts décoratifs et les objets japonistes  Marjan Groot Robert de Flers endeuillé : la mort des grand-mères chez Proust  Fillipe Augusto Galeti Mauro Partie 3: Comptes rendus Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar, Marcel Proust – La rosace de Rivebelle  Sjef Houppermans Bulletin Marcel Proust, no 66  Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar Bulletin d’Informations Proustiennes, no. 47  Manet van Montfrans

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Book SynopsisLa pensée sérielle : du Moyen Age aux Lumières, ensemble d’études réunies par Anne-Marie De Gendt et Alicia C. Montoya, se propose d’étudier le phénomène discursif de la série, du Moyen Age à la première modernité. La pensée sérielle : du Moyen Age aux Lumières, a collection of essays edited by Anne-Marie De Gendt and Alicia C. Montoya, proposes to study the discursive phenomenon of the series, from the Middle Ages to early modernity.Trade Review"[…] La Pensée sérielle is impressive in terms of both its overall scope and the detail evident in the individual essays. The editors are to be highly commended for the consistent excellence of this collection from start to finish. This is definitely not a collaborative work that presents just a few outstanding essays surrounded by others that seem more like filler. […] In the final analysis, De Gendt, Montoya, and the contributors have achieved considerable success in their effort to enrich our understanding of serial thinking and the attempt to organize reality from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.” - Beverly J. Evans, State University of New York at Geneseo USA, in Dalhousie French Studies Vol. 118, 2021 pp. 207-211Table of ContentsTable des matières Notices sur les auteurs Introduction  Anne-Marie De Gendt et Alicia C. Montoya Penser la sérialité, de l’Antiquité au XVIIIe siècle  Enrico Nuzzo Partie 1 Pensée sérielle au Moyen Age, de la tradition chrétienne aux listes profanes L’Origine du monde à l’épreuve de la série : variations sur l’hexaëmeron (XIIe-XIIIe siècles)  Emilie Deschellette Les Recueils de distinctions bibliques et leur structure : quelques réflexions  Iolanda Ventura Cithares à géométrie variable dans les exégèses médiévales des Psaumes ou comment la pensée sérielle crée l’instrument de musique  Jean-Marie Fritz  Musica et Natura dans les manuscrits enluminés des XIIIe et XIVe siècles : une pensée sérielle en images ?  Martine Clouzot Les Neuf Preux: vie d’une liste à la fin du Moyen Age  Anne Salamon Partie 2 Nouvelles organisations du savoir profane durant la première modernité Penser l’histoire littéraire au Moyen Age: les listes d’auteurs  Madeleine Jeay Art et Science : le défilé des animaux dans L’Arche de Noé sur le Mont Ararat, peinture de Simon De Myle (1570)  Paul J. Smith Faire l’inventaire des rues, quartiers et types. Conceptions sérielles de la ville dans les représentations de Madrid à la fin du XVIe siècle  Konstantin Mierau Pensée sérielle et pensée encyclopédique : l’esprit de combinaison et l’ordre naturel des idées selon Leibniz et les encyclopédistes  Claire Fauvergue Partie 3 Continuités : Vices et Vertus et l’ordre du monde, du Moyen Age aux Lumières « Venez les bénis ... venez les maudits » : Permanence des listes de vices et de leurs vertus contraires dans la morale occidentale (Moyen Age – première modernité)  Richard G. Newhauser Dame Vice ou Dame Sens? Correspondances sérielles au seuil de la Renaissance  Anne-Marie De Gendt La Pensée sérielle dans le théâtre de Calderón  Didier Souiller Multiplier les vices à l’époque des philosophes : « nature » ou géométrie (Loquet, Sade) ?  Alicia C. Montoya Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers fascinating insights into the concept of diaspora by presenting a portrait gallery of writers highlighting diasporas on Welsh, Mauritian, Palestinian, Circassian Kurdish, British Sikh, Dutch Hindustani, Indian, Tamil and African experiences. Harjinder Singh Majhail and Sinan Dogan present the world of diasporas in interesting portrayals such as Gulnur’s research into Circassian history lying hidden in Yistanbulako elegy, Enaya’s visits into Milwaukee in Wisconsin where Palestinian Muslim women marry outside their religion because of the non-availability of suitable partners in their community and Harjinder Majhail’s sojourns into J. K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy portraying a teenager girl’s brave encounters in British Sikh diaspora. Contributors are Vitor Lopes Andrade, Kimberly Berg, Amenah Jahangeer Chojoo, Gülnur Demirci, Sinan Doğan, Jaswina Elahi, Ruben Gawricharn, Lola Guyot, Nadine Hassouneh, Harjinder Singh Majhail and Enaya Hammad Othman.

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Book SynopsisHow are well-known female characters from the Bible represented in late 20th-century novels? Bertrand shows how biblical women in contemporary literature are given a voice that rests not only on words but also on silences. Exploring the many forms that silence can take, she presents an innovative typology that sheds light on this profoundly meaningful phenomenon.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction  1Setting the Frame. Voices and Silences Part 1: The Silenced Feminine?  2Ambivalent Responses to the Bible  1Listening to the Implicit Dimension of the Bible  2Challenging Women’s Silencing  2.1Dumb Silencing  2.2Garrulous Silencing  2.3Deaf Silencing  3So Many Forms of Silencing to Denounce  1The Demoted, Repressed Feminine: The Wild Girl  2Amputated Subjecthood: The Handmaid’s Tale  3Boarding the Ark of the Refusées: The Book of Mrs Noah  4Beware of the Big Bad Lies: Sisters and Strangers  5The Voiceless Cipher in the Text: The Red Tent  6Battling Against God: Only Human  7Feminist Responses to Women’s Silencing Part 2: Voices Draped in Silences Section 1:Encountering the Other through Silences. Diamant’s the Red Tent and Roberts’s the Wild Girl  4Dinah’s Ode to the Plural Mother  1A Universe of Mothers and Goddesses  2The Bliss and Burden of Silence  2.1In the Image of the (Great) Mother(s)  2.2From Eloquent Silence to Silencing  2.3At One with the Mothers  5Mary Magdalene’s Quest for Identity and God  1Introduction into the Ineffable Divine  1.1A Voluptuous Dissolution of the Self  1.2Ineffable Beauty and Harmony  2Regaining Primeval Wholeness  2.1Sexuality as a Route to the Divine  2.2The Marriage between the Inner Man and the Inner Woman  2.3The Rehabilitation of the Female Divine Principle  2.4Celebrating Life and the Eloquent Silence of Intimacy  3The Harrowing of Hell and Resurrection  3.1Mary Magdalene’s First Trip to the Nether Realm  3.2On the Erroneous Belief in the Bodily Resurrection  3.3Mary Magdalene’s Second Harrowing Scene  4The Voice of Female Dissent  4.1Each of Us Is the Rock  4.2Sailing in and to Silence Section 2:Blurred Voices and Spectral Silences. Roberts’s the Book of Mrs Noah and Diski’s Only Human  6Mrs Noah’s Journey to Creativity  1On the Polyphonic, Silent Use of Epigraphy  1.1Echoing Donne’s Erratic Progress of a Multiform Soul  1.2In the Image of … Donne’s Soul: Outshining Noah’s Ark  1.3Sharing a Playful, Ironic Distance towards Authority  1.4Tempering with Donne’s Voice  2A Great Web of Blurred Voices  2.1Voice Blurring Across Narrative Levels  2.2Blurring within the Main Narrative Level  2.3A Mixture of Chaos and Rhythm Celebrating Plurality  2.4Delivered from Confinement, Delivered through Confinement?  2.5A Heavy Weight to Bear?  2.6Conjugating “To Come”  3Climbing Down Deep Inside, to Spectral Silence  3.1Partying with the Quintessential Silenced  3.2Speaking with(out) the Lost Mother  7Sarai’s Story Game of Competing Voices and Rival Desires  1Voice Blurring in a War of the Wor(l)ds  1.1At the Start, There Is an End  1.2Unidentified Narrative Voice for a Silenced Heroine  1.3Blurred Rival Versions of the Beginning(s)  2Sarai’s Early Encounter with Spectral Silence  2.1Primeval Loss and the Beginning of Desire  2.2The Beginning of the End, and Disappointing New Starts  3Sarai-Abram-God, a Destructive Triangular Desire  3.1When the One Finds Her Own Voice, the Other Finds God’s  3.2Enter I Am That I Am, the Homewrecker: Sarai Nil, God One  3.3The Battle of Wor(l)ds: Sarai One, God One  3.4The Choice of Laughter: Sarai Two, God One Section 3:Reticent Testimonies. Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale and Tennant’s Sisters and Strangers  8Offred’s Reticent Tale of Resistance  1An Introduction to Reticence  2Offred’s Polyphonic Testimony  2.1Dialoguing with the Narratee(s)  2.2Passing On Other Mutinous Female Voices  2.3Offred’s Chatty Discourse with the Maker  3Fighting for a Plurality of Identities and Meanings  3.1Remembering Her Former Selves  3.2Games of Words, Power and Desire with the Commander  3.3Offred as Secret Lover  9The Playfully Reticent Tale of Eve’s Journey  1An Introduction into Grandmother Dummer’s Reticence  2From the Passive Princess to the Demonic Lilith  3Subverting the Extremes: From Harlot to Madonna  4Female Lies and Truths: From Courtesan to Bluestocking Part 3: Closing Silences Voicing Openness  10Passing on the Heroine’s Voice  1Mary Magdalene’s Distrust of Words  2Eve’s Ultimate Subversive Enactment of Female Stereotypes  3Sarai and the Ineffable Human Horror  4Dinah’s Life Beyond the Grave  5The Irreconcilability of Mrs Noah’s Aspirations?  6Offred’s Blurred Voice  11Conclusion  Works Cited  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Fantasies of Self-Mourning Ruben Borg describes the formal features of a posthuman, cyborgian imaginary at work in modernism. The book’s central claim is that modernism invents the posthuman as a way to think through the contradictions of its historical moment. Borg develops a posthumanist critique of the concept of organic life based on comparative readings of Pirandello, Woolf, Beckett, and Flann O’Brien, alongside discussions of Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Marker, Béla Tarr, Ridley Scott and Mamoru Oshii. The argument draws together a cluster of modernist narratives that contemplate the separation of a cybernetic eye from a human body—or call for a tearing up of the body understood as a discrete organic unit capable of synthesizing desire and sense perception.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Carlos van Tongeren offers a profound and innovative reflection on the intersections between comedy and melancholy, through detailed readings of almost twenty novels by key writers of detective fiction in the Spanish-speaking world. En este libro, Carlos van Tongeren ofrece una reflexión profunda e innovadora sobre las intersecciones entre la comedia y la melancolía, a través de una lectura sumisa de una veintena de novelas escritas por figuras clave de la ficción policiaca en el mundo hispanohablante.Table of ContentsAgradecimientos Introducción 1 Comedia y melancolía: planteamientos teóricos  1.1 La melancolía del detective  1.2 Comedia y género policiaco  1.3 Comedia y conceptos aledaños  1.4 Finitud, ingenio y plusvalía 2 La sociedad como espectáculo  Comedia y melancolía en Vázquez Montalbán  2.1 Introducción: trayectoria de la “subnormalidad”  2.2 Caracteres cómicos en la España postdictatorial  2.3 Sátiras a cuarto cerrado  2.4 Teorías de la conspiración, sátiras sin referente  2.5 Conclusiones 3 Trayectorias de la terquedad  Comedia y melancolía en Taibo II  3.1 Introducción: entre la mera y la maravillosa terquedad  3.2 Comedia, melancolía y labor detectivesca  3.3 Representaciones cómicas de la lucha colectiva  3.4 La cómica terquedad de solitarios y solidarios  3.5 Conclusiones 4 Comunidades a flote  Comedia y melancolía en Padura  4.1 Introducción: salidas y retornos a la revolución cubana  4.2 Los personajes de Padura frente a la revolución  4.3 Encuentros y desencuentros en Máscaras  4.4 Comedia y amistad  4.5 Conclusiones 5 A modo de conclusión: encrucijadas mutables Bibliografía Índice

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

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Book SynopsisBeginning with Erich Auerbach’s reflections on the Goethean concept of World Literature, Ottmar Ette unfolds the theory and practice of Literatures of the World. Today, only those literary theories that are oriented upon a history of movement are still capable of doing justice to the confusing diversity of highly dynamic, worldwide transformations. This is because they examine transareal pathways in the field of literature. This volume captures literary processes of exchange and transformation between the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific as well as the interplay of different ways of narrating space and time. Thus, this volume speaks from a fractal point of view and unfolds multiple perspectives. Literatures of the World allows the reader to think in different logical frameworks at the same time, therefore shaping our future on the basis of the diversity of humankind.Table of ContentsContents Preface: Beyond World Literature List of Figures Part 1 Theory – On the Way to a Philology of the Literatures of the World  1 “Mimesis”: Perspectives from Erich Auerbach’s Philology of World Literature toward a Coming Philology of the Literatures of the World In Dante’s World In Auerbach’s World In Woolf’s, Proust’s, and Joyce’s World The World of World History The World of World Literature The World of the Literatures of the World  2 From the Republic of World Literature to a Multilogical Philology of the Literatures of the World World Literature versus National Literature The World of the American World of Expression Life of (and in) World Literature Beyond World Literature: The Literatures of the World On the Multilogical Life of the Literatures of the World Part 2 Vectors – Political and Critical Potentials of Relational Philology  3 Before and after the “Happy Revolution”: Langsdorff, the Berlin Debate on the New World, and Its Impact on Scientific Expeditions Paradigm Shift: Plenty and Pitfalls (Fülle und Fallen) of the First Journeys of Exploration Complementary Epistemology: Seeing, Writing, Traveling Politics of Knowledge: The Berlin Debate on the New World Politics of Opposites: “New” Nature and “Old” Culture  4 Journey/Landscapes: (W)Orte (Words/Places) on the Transit of a Transareal Travel Literature Fleeing Landscapes Nomadic Knowledge Yearned-for Connections Landscapes of Theory Island Landscapes of the Tropics Endings and Beginnings of the Travel Report The Task of the Central Perspective  5 Carnival and Other Catastrophes: Nature as Culture and New Orleans as Global Archipelago On Setting and Un-seating the Opposition of Nature and Culture Political Ecology and Ecology of the Literatures of the World From Sustainability to the Laboratory of Life and the Living On That Which Is Natural in Natural Catastrophes Catastrophe, Festivity, and Carnival Between Continent and Caribbean: Landscapes of Theory New Orleans as Global Archipelago Part 3 Archipelago I – Occidentes-Orientes  6 Roland Barthes or the Multiplication of the East Hexagonal Cartographies European Cartographies Mediterranean Cartographies Far-Eastern Cartographies Multiplied Cartographies  7 The Transareality of the Mediterranean: The Mediterranean as Migratory Space Uruk: Cityscape and Migratory Space The Mediterranean as Island World and Transareal Projection Travel Landscapes between Orient and Occident In Greece: The Mobility of Literary Geography Origins: In the Tension-Field between the Mediterranean and the Caribbean Transit: The “Mid-Land Sea” and the Whole World Part 4 TimeSpaces – On the Life-Knowledge of the Literatures of the World  8 LebensMitte(l) Literatur – Midst of Life, Means of Life: On the Reading of Life as a Means of Living: Considerations in Connection to Honoré de Balzac’s “La Peau de Chagrin” Literatur Leben LebensMittel (Literature Life Means of Life) Leben Lesen Leben-Wollen (Life Reading Desire-to-Live) Leben Lebenswerk Totalität (Life Life’s-Work Totality) Leben-Wollen LebensMitte LebensMittel (Desire-to-Live Middle of Life Means of Living) Leben Lesen Literatur (Life Reading Literature)  9 Unrest as a Driving Force: On Vectoricity and Economy of a Monumental Feeling On the Mechanics of the Unruh(e) On the Dynamics of Unrest On the Maintenance of Unrest On the Choreography of Unrest On the Game of Unrest On the Hellish Paradise of Unrest On the Economy of Depletion in Unrest  10 Lyric as Concentrated Movement: Miniaturization and Archipelagization in Poetry: With the Example of a Poetic Writing without a Fixed Abode by José F. A. Oliver Lyrical Short Forms: Concentrated Movement Nanotheory: Modeling and Miniaturization Lyric Poetry: World-Model and Experimental Space of Origins and Futures Lyric Poetry: Languages beneath Languages This Side of the Digital: Formats of Compressed Movement Part 5 Archipelago II – America(s) Transareal  11 Modernism, Convivence, Postmodernity: On Grafting and “mestizaje” to Transarchipelagic Coexistence in the Americas War and Convivence Grafting, Unity, and Diversity Beyond Grafting, beyond Roots Poetic Perception and Knowledge for Living Further Archipelagos of Knowledge  12 TransArea Studies, TransAndean Studies Transandean Choreographies Transareal Global Histories The Literatures of the World and TransAndean Studies: But What DoesLiterature Know, of What Does It Tell, and of What Is It Capable?  13 Magische Wände/Magic Walls: Biombos, Namban Art, and the Art of Globalization between China, Japan, India, Spanish-America, and Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries Bibliography Register of Names

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Book SynopsisPar sa situation historique, par la variété des expériences qu'il a vécues, Chateaubriand dans les Mémoires d'Outre-tombe semble parfois être pris de vertige : comment affirmer qu'il est bien le même ? La défense de la liberté lui semble être une constante de son identité. Mais ce combat suffit-il à gommer ses contradictions ? N'y a-t-il pas des failles dans le portrait qu'il entend donner de lui-même ? Faut-il les camoufler, ou permettent-elles, au contraire, d'explorer la richesse d'un (ou plusieurs) moi virtuel qui sous-tendrait toute son existence et que cet « autre moi » de l’écrivain ne parvient pas non plus à épuiser complètement ?Table of ContentsTable des matières Abréviations : œuvres de Chateaubriand Le moi trinitaire 1 Le voyageur  1 Navires  2 Jardins  3 Lettres d’un Voyageur 2 Le romancier  1 Ambiguïtés romanesques  2 Nostalgie du romanesque et hésitations génériques  3 Hommage à la nouvelle génération 3 L’homme politique  1 Regard sur l’Ancien Régime et la Révolution  2 Les Discours 4 Œuvres complètes et identité  1 Editer des Œuvres complètes ?  2 L’édition Ladvocat  3 L’édition Sainte-Beuve. Génétique et polémique  4 L’édition Champion Liste des ouvrages cités Index

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Book SynopsisDans Identités françaises, Mame-Fatou Niang interroge la périphérisation et l’identité nationale, à travers l’étude de discours sur les banlieues françaises. L'attention sur des femmes et sur le quotidien illumine des processus qui créent citoyenneté et marginalité dans la France républicaine. In Identités françaises, Mame-Fatou Niang illuminate approaches to marginalization and national identity, through the study of discourses on the French banlieues. The focus on the quotidian and on women interrogate the processes that create citizenship and marginality in republican France.Trade Review"Mame-Fatou Niang’s Identités françaises: Banlieues, féminités et universalisme takes a fresh look at some very well-trod ground: discourses in and about the French banlieues and the place of women in these regions. While previous studies have addressed issues including gender stereotyping and family politics, Niang’s study takes an innovative approach in bringing together novels, films, print media, and online discussions in her interrogation of the many ways women shape--and talk about--their lives in France’s banlieues from the 1980s through today." - Kathryn Kleppinger (The George Washington University), H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 221.Table of ContentsRemerciements Abréviations Introduction 1 Des rodéos des Minguettes à Charlie Hebdo : trente-cinq ans de production médiatique de la banlieue  1 Méthodologie de l’analyse  2 La fabrique des images : médias, banlieues et représentations  3 L’été chaud des Minguettes  4 La crise de l’automne 2005  5 2015 et le tournant Charlie Hebdo  6 La Grande Borne ou la dérive d’une utopie urbaine 2 Une écriture de l’espace au féminin  1 Un conte des temps modernes : l’adolescente et le jeune (loup) de banlieue  2 Lieux et sexuation de l’urbain  3 Écriture et spatialisation du pouvoir 3 De la difficulté d’intégrer ces corps à la République  1 Penser ces textes dans la littérature française  2 Difficultés de dénomination et de classification  3 Fausse autobiographie ou vraie autofiction ? : l’écriture dans Une fille sans histoire  4 Langue et identité (nationale) 4 Mères migrantes et filles de la République : la question de la transmission identitaire  1 Écarts d’identité dans N’ba  2 Histoires de mères, histoires de France  3 Langue et Religion 5 De Bande de filles à Mariannes noires : universalisme et décolonisation des imaginaires  1 Filmer une intersection de marginalités  2 Du désir d’universalisation à la validation de stéréotypes  3 La réception critique de Bande de filles ou la canonisation d’une œuvre problématique  4 Décolonisation des imaginaires et exhortations à l’universel 6 « Replacer les périphéries au centre des productions nationales »  Filmographie Perspectives Bibliographie 303 Index

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Book SynopsisRead an interview with Norbert Bachleitner. In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy ‘take stock’ of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative Literature: What is literature? What is meant by ‘comparative’? Or by ‘world’? What constitute ‘transgressions’ or ‘refractions’? What, ultimately, does being at home in the world imply? When we combine the answers to these individual questions, we might ultimately reach an intriguing proposition: Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity. The volume unites essays on world literature, literature in the context of the history of ideas, comparative women and gender studies, aesthetics and textual analysis, and literary translation and tradition.Trade Review"The volume Taking Stock offers a valuable overview of current trends in comparative literature [...]. Since this book is very broad in scope, nearly any scholar of literature and cultural history will find some topics, approaches, concepts, and references of interest. Given that the collected texts are for the most part, case studies, they can be viewed as heuristic examples as well." -Igor Tyšš, Institute of World Literature SAS, Slovak Republic, in World Literature Studies, Vol. 13 Iss. 2, 2021, pp. 99-101Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Comparative and World Literature 1 Comparative Literature: Being at Home in the World  John A. McCarthy 2 An On/Off Affair. Voltaire in Eighteenth-Century Vienna  Norbert Bachleitner 3 Ludwig Tieck’s Book Collection: the Holdings of the Austrian National Library (önb)  Achim Hölter and Paul Ferstl Part 2 Literature and History (of Ideas) 4 Pride and Conviviality – Pride in Conviviality. The Rise and Recognition of a Prospective Force  Ottmar Ette 5 Enlightened Citizenship in Lessing’s Emilia Galotti and Mozart’s Lucio Silla  Carl Niekerk 6 Good Comrades for Young Readers: the First World War in the Fiction of Boys’ Periodicals in Britain and Germany  Barbara Korte 7 Fighting the ‘Freudian Farce’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Portrayal of America’s Post-War Infatuation with Psychoanalysis  Juliane Werner Part 3 Women and Gender Studies 8 Enlightenment Angst: James Parsons’ A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites  Stephanie M. Hilger 9 Writing the Nation, Writing the Self: Discourses of Identity in Fanny Lewald’s Italienisches Bilderbuch and George Sand’s Un hiver à Majorque  Sandra Vlasta 10 ‘Jewish Mothers’ by Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, and Adriana Altaras  Agnes C. Mueller 11 Theorising Central European Postcoloniality: a Postcommunist Reading of 21st Century Literature from Slovakia  Dobrota Pucherová Part 4 Aesthetics and Textual Analysis 12 Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Ancient Literature?  Werner Wolf 13 Intermediality in Twentieth Century Animal Poetry. Guillaume Apollinaire – Ted Hughes – Durs Grünbein  Annette Simonis 14 Autofiction and Its (Involuntary) Protagonists: A Comparison of Autofictional Novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, Javier Cercas, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Navid Kermani  Stefan Kutzenberger 15 ‘Sometimes things begin with the wrong book’: Images and Intertexts in Darryl Pinckney’s Black Deutschland  Gianna Zocco Part 5 Translation and Tradition 16 Translation, Transmission, Irony: Benoît de Sainte-Maure and the Trope of the Fictional Source Text in Western Literature before Cervantes  Daniel Syrovy 17 Of ‘Conversion’ and ‘Reversal’: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and His Adoptions of Jean Pierre Camus in the Context of the Counter-Reformation, Reform Catholicism, and Jansenism  Christoph Schmitt-Maaß 18 The Romes of Titus Andronicus  Manfred Pfister 19 Towards a Global South Literary Genealogy: M. G. Vassanji and Joseph Conrad as Secret Sharers in The Book of Secrets and Heart of Darkness  Russell West-Pavlov Index

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