Literary studies: fiction Books
Brill Réalités pseudonymes
Book SynopsisÀ travers le prisme du nom propre et sa référentialité, Réalités pseudonymes explore la trame de la réalité dans la littérature et les arts à l’heure où les sociétés glissent de modalités analogiques à des modalités numériques de la médiation. Through the lens of the proper name and its referential mechanisms, Réalités pseudonyms explores the fabric of reality in French literature and arts as societies shift from analog to digital modalities of mediation.Table of ContentsContents Remerciements Table des illustrations Liste des abbreviations Introduction 1 Réalités troublées – Samuel Beckett 1 Noms en série (Watt) 2 La deixis impossible et le naufrage du sujet 2.1 « Sans noms propres pas de salut » : le nom, le sujet (L’Innommable) 2.2 Permutations (Pas) 3 Le nom propre, zone d’inintelligibilité 3.1 Le nom enclavé – Pochade radiophonique 3.2 Le nom propre, « zone dangereuse » au carrefour de la communication ? – Quad 2 Réalités suspendues – Édouard Levé 1 La réalité à l’index : actualiser la virtualité (Gros plan sur le nom) 1.1 Un art de la référence 1.2 Distorsion de la référence 1.3 Distorsion de la signification 1.4 Travail de la matérialité 2 Virtualiser l’actualité. (Disparition du nom propre) 2.1 Pragmatique de l’image de presse 2.2 Pragmatique de l’archétype 2.3 Illimitation référentielle et mise en question de la référentialité 3 L’aleph : identité, temporalité, virtualité 3.1 Nom propre et preuve d’existence 3.2 Enjeux de la signature « pré-posthume » (Œuvres) 3.3 Nom propre et matrice archivistique : le vertige documentaire d’Autoportrait 3.4 Je et Tu en miroir : Suicide 3.5 Excursus sur le suicide 3 Réalités virtuelles 1 Renaud Cojo – Réalités potentielles 1.1 Pragmatique du nom propre schizophrène 1.2 Un hétéronyme sur une autre scène 1.3 Pseudonyme et possibilité 1.4 Pronom propre, pronom commun 1.5 « Qui dit ‘je’ ?» 2 Invader – Réalités anonymes 2.1 Territorialiser la carte ; cartographier le territoire 2.2 Anonymats 4 Coda – Réalités silencieuses Bibliographie Index
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Brill Women’s Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers: Renée Erdős, Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Minka Czóbel, Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi, Anna Lesznai
Book SynopsisIn Women’s Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers, Anna Menyhért presents the cases of five women writers whose legacy literary criticism has neglected or distorted, thereby depriving succeeding generations of vital cultural memory and inspiration. A best-selling novelist and poet in her time, Renée Erdős wrote innovatively about women's experience of sexual love. Minka Czóbel wrote modern trauma texts only to pass into literary history branded, as a result of ideological pressure in communist times, as an 'ugly woman'. Ágnes Nemes Nagy, celebrated for her ‘masculine’ poems, felt she must suppress her ‘feminine’ poems. Famous writer’s widow Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi’s autobiographical writing tackles the physical challenges of girls' adolescence, and offers us a woman’s thoughtful Holocaust memoir. Anna Lesznai, émigrée and visual artist, wove together memory and fiction using techniques from patchworking and embroidery.Trade Review“The result is a fascinating reading about important stations in the selected writers' lives and careers along with Menyhért’s well-reflected challenging of their existing place in the Hungarian literary canon and her convincing arguments for the place they deserve in that very same canon. She undertakes this re-evaluation not only for the sake of demonstrating the shortcomings and narrow-mindedness of the existing canon but also to offer herself and other women writing today some literary predecessors of their own gender they can build on, both in terms of language and literary imagery and technique, and from whom they can take their inspiration. She demonstrates, against the oft-reiterated argument (by both male and some female literary critics and writers) that there is only one literature irrespective of the author’s gender, that gender matters, and that it matters to a very important degree when it comes to who is allowed entry into the canon and who, and why, is pushed to its margins or altogether out of it.” - Agatha Schwartz, University of Ottawa Canada, in Hungarian Cultural Studies Vol. 14 2021 pp. 260-263Table of ContentsForeword: a Writer in Search of Her Foremothers emsp;Nadezhda Alexandrova and Suzan van Dijk Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Translator’s Note 1 A Tradition of One’s Own emsp;1 A Tradition of Forgetting emsp;2 Canons and Sinking Streams emsp;3 Women’s Literature emsp;4 My Own Say emsp;5 From Room to Room, All the Way to My Own Room emsp;6 A Portrait Gallery on the Museum’s Postcard 2 Between Love and the Canon: Renée Erdős (1879–1956) emsp;1 Author’s House: Closed emsp;2 Private Life – Literary Life emsp;3 Woman Writer at the Journal Future emsp;4 The Woman Writer’s Chances emsp;5 Voices in the Novels emsp;6 Fracture emsp;7 Success in Her Time emsp;8 Contemporary Reviews emsp;9 The Label of Erotic Lady Author emsp;10 Female Voice, Female Verse emsp;11 The Author’s House Is Open 3 In the Canon with Secrets: Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922–1991) and the Women’s Literary Tradition emsp;1 The Weeping Poetess emsp;2 Secret Poems and the Writing of Literary History emsp;3 The Female Poet and Objective Poetry emsp;4 Woman’s Room, Woman’s Landscape, Woman’s Body emsp;5 Self-Liquidation and Recognition emsp;6 A Woman’s Role emsp;7 Statue and Mask emsp;8 Women’s Poetic Tradition emsp;9 Entering the Room emsp;10 Epilogue 4 No Canon for Otherness - The Witch: Minka Czóbel (1854–1943) emsp;1 The Enigmatic Monographer emsp;2 The Mysterious Bob emsp;3 Detective Work emsp;4 Painting a Portrait emsp;5 Writing between the Lines emsp;6 Ugly, Ugly, Not Fit for the Canon emsp;7 Contemporary Views of Minka Czóbel emsp;8 The Feminist Witch emsp;9 The Otherness of the Witch emsp;10 Loss of Control emsp;11 Perversion, Horror, Revenge, Web emsp;12 Boundaries, Mirrors emsp;13 Reading the Witch 5 Mirror, Body, Trauma - a Writer’s Wife at the Edge of the Canon: Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi (1885–1967) emsp;1 To Big Girls about Little Girls emsp;2 Widow, Pigeonholed: the Writer’s Wife emsp;3 Female Reading emsp;4 Body emsp;5 Mirror emsp;6 Women’s Holocaust Memoirs emsp;7 Trauma: Persecutors and Persecuted emsp;8 Setting the Stage for Death emsp;9 Connections: Ilona Harmos, Minka Czóbel, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ágnes Nemes Nagy emsp;10 The Writing Woman emsp;11 Sitting Down at the Writing Desk 6 Museum, Cult, Memory - Locked in the Canon: Lesznai (1885–1966) emsp;1 Memory’s Volunteers emsp;2 The Well- Known Woman Writer emsp;3 Museum, Cult, Memory emsp;4 Dusting Off a Novel emsp;5 Belatedness and Renewal emsp;6 Threads and Patterns emsp;7 Female Figures emsp;8 A Father’s Blessing emsp;9 The Novel that Remembers emsp;10 Nižný Hrušov – Memory’s Tou Apendix 1 List of Poems and Their Translators Apendix 2 A List of Titles of Works Referred to in English and in Hungarian Bibliography Index
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Brill Le retentissant destin de Georges Darien à la Belle Époque: Vie et oeuvre d'un écrivain réfractaire
Book SynopsisDans Le retentissant destin de Georges Darien à la Belle Époque, Aurélien Lorig s’intéresse à la vie et à l’œuvre d’un écrivain réfractaire peu connu. Avant d’être Darien, celui qui a pour patronyme Adrien est communément décrit comme un anarchiste et un marginal. En réalité, c’est un homme de lettres passionnant. L’ouvrage retrace le parcours d’un auteur plein de paradoxes, mais toujours fidèle à ses convictions individualistes. Malgré l’hostilité de ses contemporains, Darien croit au pouvoir des mots et pratique une écriture assassine où éthique comme esthétique replacent indéniablement l’écrivain dans le jeu fin-de-siècle des héritages et des lignages. De manière convaincante, Aurélien Lorig nous fait redécouvrir l’œuvre de Darien, laquelle pourrait inspirer les combats individuels, collectifs et sociaux d’aujourd’hui. In Le retentissant destin de Georges Darien à la Belle Époque, Aurélien Lorig studies the life and the work of a little known, refractory author. Before he was Darien, the writer whose real surname was Adrien, is usually described as an anarchist, and an outcast. He actually was a fascinating man of letters. This essay recounts the journey of an author who, in spite of his numerous paradoxes, has always been true to his individualist values. In spite of his contemporaries' hostility, Darien believed in the power of words, and he practiced a murderous writing, in which ethics and aesthetics undeniably place the writer in the fin-de-siècle legacy and lineage game. Convincingly, Aurélien Lorig helps us to rediscover Darien's work, which could inspire us for individual, collective, and social nowadays struggles.Table of Contents Note liminaire Table des illustrations Introduction 1 Récit des Origines 1 Enfance petite-bourgeoise. Les germes de la révolte 2 Choisir la vie contre l’école et l’armée 3 Le refus de l’ordre des lettres. D’Adrien à Darien 4 Résonances romanesques 2 Penser un projet 1 Inspiration balzacienne et cycles romanesques 2 Sensibilité anarchiste 3 Refus du naturalisme 4 Écrire vrai et vécu 3 Écrire contre. Le travail de la fiction 1 Biribi, un premier roman pétard 2 Bas les cœurs !, un récit inoffensif ? 3 Le Voleur, un récit hors-la-loi 4 Bombes à retardement et intrigues pétaradantes 4 Les institutions et leurs représentants 1 Le modèle bourgeois 2 La machinerie politique 3 La monstrueuse Église de Rome 4 Le monde littéraire 5 Organiser le combat et la contestation 1 Face au militarisme revanchard. Ironie et coopération internationale 2 Les guérillas de Darien. Un journalisme de combat 3 Prises de position féministes 6 Un homme de conviction 1 Rêver l’individu 2 De la terre à la propriété du sol 3 Défendre l’idée d’un impôt unique 7 Turbulences 1 Remous éditoriaux 2 Remous éditoriaux 3 L’écriture des Pharisiens, modèle du genre réfractaire 8 Excès rhétoriques 1 Homéopathie de la surenchère par l’image 2 Exhibition de la ménagerie fin-de-siècle 3 Des animaux aux hommes. Un monde moralement à l’envers 9 Désillusions 1 Échecs et frustrations. Le cas de L’Épaulette 2 1914-1918. Le silence et les bombes 3 Les Parques semblent en avoir décidé ainsi … 10 Héritages et lignages 1 Éthique de la désobligeance. Bloy et Darien 2 Fraternités réfractaires. Vallès et Darien 3 Militantisme anarchiste. Mirbeau et Darien 4 La révolte en partage. Fèvre et Darien Conclusion Annexes Résumés des œuvres de Darien Résumés des œuvres de Mirbeau Références bibliographiques
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Brill Mathias Énard et l’érudition du roman
Book SynopsisLes romans de Mathias Énard connaissent un succès qui ne se dément pas. Ce volume cherche à éclairer les modalités narratives qui permettent à l’auteur de transformer l’érudition en roman, mais aussi à situer son œuvre dans le contexte littéraire actuel. The novels of Mathias Énard have become instant classics. This volume seeks to shed light on the narrative modalities that allow the author to transform erudition into a novel, but also to situate his work in the current literary context.Table of ContentsListe de sigles et d’abréviations Biobibliographies Introduction Markus Messling, Cornelia Ruhe, Lena Seauve, Vanessa de Senarclens L’œuvre de Mathias Énard, les Incultes et le roman contemporain français : Regards croisés Wolfgang Asholt et Dominique Viart Partie 1: De l’orientalisme La nuit palmyréenne Sarga Moussa Ni roman historique, ni roman à thèse : Comment lire Boussole ? Stephanie Bung Les narrateurs dans Zone et Boussole : Typologie, érudition et enjeux socio-politiques et humanistes Marie-Thérèse Oliver-Saïdi Boussole, ou le romantisme de Mathias Énard Markus Messling Partie 2: De l’écriture savante au roman Les écrits universitaires apocryphes de Boussole : Représentations du savoir académique dans la fiction romanesque Luc Vallat et Antoine Vuilleumier Représentations et usages de l’érudition chez Mathias Énard Victor Toubert L’érudit insomniaque et veilleur : ou Boussole en roman de formation ? Vanessa de Senarclens Partie 3: Zone et ses intertextes Soleil des cous coupés : La Zone selon Apollinaire et Énard Claudia Jünke Zones archaïques modifiées : Énard entre épopée antique et avant-garde Niklas Bender Zone : Une « dialectique négative » de la conscience ? Markus A. Lenz Un cénotaphe littéraire pour les morts sans sépulture : Mathias Énard en thanatographe Cornelia Ruhe Partie 4: Horizons de la narration « Un pied dans le jour et l’autre dans la nuit » : Sur la création d’un savoir alternatif dans Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d’éléphants Sara Izzo « Pas encore mort » : L’alcool, la nostalgie et la Russie chez Mathias Énard Diana Mistreanu Rue des voleurs – réseaux, routes et circulation : Ou comment repenser la Méditerranée ? Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner À la recherche d’un monument : Mémoire et oubli dans Tout sera oublié de Mathias Énard et Pierre Marquès Lena Seauve Partie 5: Coda Du whisky pour les écrivains autochtones Mathias Énard Index des noms Index des œuvres de Mathias Énard citées
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Brill Vorstufen des Exils / Early Stages of Exile
Book SynopsisExile is usually defined as the time one lives elsewhere, involuntarily separated from home. However, exile can also be conceptualized more broadly as a process already starting at home, while traveling into exile and/or before arriving in the place of exile. This volume sheds detailed light on those early stages of exile. Exil wird gewöhnlich als die Zeit definiert, in der man unfreiwillig getrennt von der Heimat anderswo lebt. Exil kann aber weiter gefasst auch als Prozess begriffen werden, der bereits in der Heimat, unterwegs und/oder vor der Ankunft im Exilland anfängt. Dieser Band geht den Vorstufen des Exils detailliert nach.
£98.40
Brill Témoignage et littérature d’après Auschwitz
Book SynopsisDans Témoignage et littérature d’après Auschwitz, Fransiska Louwagie réunit des études critiques provenant de deux centres de gravité de la littérature de la Shoah et des camps nazis, alliant, dans un riche panorama, les œuvres des témoins-survivants et celles des générations d’après. In Témoignage et littérature d’après Auschwitz, Fransiska Louwagie brings together two key areas of Holocaust literature, offering a rich panorama of both testimony and second generation writing.Trade Review"Avec Témoignage et littérature d’après Auschwitz, Fransiska Louwagie nous prouve que la question de l’écriture sur l’extermination nazie, qu’elle soit le fruit des témoins ou d’écrivains issus des générations postérieures, est toujours d’actualité." - Maxime Decout, Diacritik, octobre 2020. "En dehors de tout jugement normatif quant à la légitimité de ces textes, F. Louwagie rend compte de leur littérarité. Elle s’efforce de penser la coupure d’Auschwitz en tant que rupture culturelle, en revenant de surcroît sur la singularité de chacune des œuvres de son corpus, qu’elle inscrit comme « pied de touche » (TL, 2) de cette brisure. Elle ausculte la manière dont cette littérature questionne ses propres moyens et ses formes, en articulant les dimensions éthiques et esthétiques de l’écriture." - Graziella de Matteis, Acta fabula, vol. 22, n° 1, janvier 2021. "Louwagie met [...] l’accent sur la nécessité de rendre compte des actes testimoniaux dans leur diversité et du caractère situé et sélectif de la parole critique [...]" - Murielle El Hajj, Questions de communication 38, 2020. "[...] une tentative opportune et importante de combler la pénurie d'études de la littérature de la Shoah dans la langue française." - Helena Duffy, Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis, 2021. "Dans le corpus sans cesse croissant d’études concernant la Holocaust literature, on ne manque ni de monographies ni d’études théoriques. Par contre, ce qui est rare, ce sont les études qui parviennent à concilier ces deux approches. Fransiska Louwagie a relevé ce défi en rédigeant un ouvrage qui, à partir d’une série d’études monographiques, interroge les soubassements théoriques de cette littérature. Une autre originalité de cet ouvrage est que son corpus embrasse et la littérature testimoniale (les écrits des survivants des camps ou de la cache) et celle des générations d’après, ou la littérature postmémorielle (des auteurs nés après les événements). […] Bref, cet ouvrage écrit dans un style limpide est à conseiller pour les spécialistes tout autant que pour les étudiants et les lecteurs intéressés." - Annelies Schulte Nordholt, Relief, Vol. 15, no 2, 2021.Table of ContentsRemerciements 1 Introduction : Témoignage et littérature d’après Auschwitz 1 Enjeux du corpus 2 Œuvres-témoignages 3 La littérature des générations d’après 4 Plan du livre Partie 1: Œuvres-témoignages 2 L’espèce humaine et le scandale du monde 1 Une connaissance infinie 2 La conscience irréductible 3 Une vérité simple 4 L’humanisme en question 5 Témoignage et écriture 3 André Schwarz-Bart, l’inconsolé 1 Retour sur une légende 2 La fin de Dieu : chronique d’une mort annoncée 3 Le manuscrit trouvé à Yad Vashem 4 Piotr Rawicz : l’éclaboussure de la survie 1 « Un chef-d’œuvre confidentiel » 2 L’histoire de la queue 3 La grandeur cosmique du peuple juif 4 Le tiers espace 5 Sauver les débris 5 Jorge Semprun : réécrire Buchenwald 1 Tous ces fils et tous ces ils 2 Conversations sur l’Ettersberg 3 Œdipe et Narcisse face à la mort 4 Un regard fraternel 6 Imre Kertész et le chant du cygne 1 L’absence de destin 2 Jeu de rôle et devoir éthique 3 La dictature du père et le scandale d’Auschwitz 4 L’apocalypse et la littérature 5 Le Vilain Petit Canard et le Prix Nobel Partie 2: Littérature des générations d’après 7 Une fois pour toutes : W ou le souvenir d’enfance de Georges Perec 1 Une histoire d’enfance 2 Doubles et faussaires 3 Le divin enfant 4 La guerre, les camps 5 De W à X 6 La malignité de l’homme 8 Raymond Federman : surfictions de l’Impardonnable Énormité 1 Règles du jeu 2 Un traître à la cause 3 Une double critique culturelle 4 Ni misère, ni merveille 9 Henri Raczymow : par-delà les murailles 1 Un passé imaginé 2 Les murs de Jéricho 3 Œdipe nécrophore 4 Le Petit Poucet 10 L’écriture « extime » de Gérard Wajcman 1 L’Interdit 2 L’absence et l’extime 3 L’irreprésentable 11 Michel Kichka : Deuxième génération 1 Le rôle catalyseur de Maus 2 Silences et souffrances d’une famille exemplaire 3 Un témoin monumental 4 Autobiographie d’une génération 5 Le dialogue des zèbres Partie 3: Conclusion 12 Écrire après l’apocalypse 1 Sur les traces de l’apocalypse 2 Défis mémoriels 3 Au bout de l’écriture Bibliographie 1 Œuvres 2 Entretiens d’auteur et interventions critiques 3 Études Index
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Brill James Joyce and the Arts
Book SynopsisJoyce’s art is an art of idiosyncratic transformation, revision and recycling. More specifically, the work of his art lies in the act of creative transformation: the art of the paste that echoes Ezra Pound’s urge to make it new. The essays in this volume examine various modalities of the Joycean aesthetic metamorphosis: be it through the prism of Joyce engaging with other arts and artists, or through the prism of other arts and artists engaging with the Joycean aftermath. We have chosen the essays that best show the range of Joycean engagement with multiple artistic domains in a variety of media. Joyce’s art is multiform and protean: influenced by many, it influences many others.Trade Review“Joyce and the Arts makes a positive contribution to describing, theorising and generally appreciating the multifarious ways that Joyce’s art engages with and is engaged by creative fields, addressing the important whys and hows of Joycean influence on the arts.” - Clinton Cahill Manchester Metropolitan University UK, in James Joyce Broadsheet Vol. 119 2021 p. 2Table of Contents Abbreviations List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Endlessly Inartistic Portraits Sam Slote Part 1: Joycean “Re-tailorings” 1Sartor ResartusReanimatus: The “Reversionary” Art of James Joyce, the Re-tailor Tiana M. Fischer Part 2: Visual Art 2 Portraits of the Artist David Spurr 3 “His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery”: Towards an Indirect Social Efficacy of Joyce’s Attitude to Mistakes – Through (Beuys’) Art Responding to Joyce Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes Part 3: Music 4 The Dysgenic Music of James Joyce: Joyce as Disablist Modernist Composer inFinnegans Wake John Morey 5 Sound Art? Trying to Make “soundsense” of the “sensesound” in Finnegans Wake Thomas Gurke 6 The Art of Reading a Musical Novel: Literary Audiation and the Case of James Joyce Katherine O’Callaghan 7 Static Crooning Consciousness Expansion: Musical Undergrounds Respond to James Joyce Derek Pyle Part 4: TV and Film 8 On the Stream of Consciousness and “Camera-Eye” in the Works of James Joyce and Thomas Wolfe Adam James Cuthbert 9 James Joyce and François Truffaut: Stylistic Correspondences Between Literature and Cinema Sara Spanghero 10 Nostalgia and the Kiss of Ulysses in Twin Peaks Damon Franke Part 5: Hybridity of Visual and Textual Images 11 “Our eyes demand their turn”: The Materiality of the Joycean Image & Illustrations of Finnegans Wake Yaeli Greenblatt 12 The Logic of the Doodles in Finnegans WakeII.2 Sangam MacDuff 13 Columban Texts and Joyce’s “book of kills” (FW 482.33): The Limits of a Palaeographer’s View in Finnegans Wake Anne Marie D’Arcy Part 6: Joyce “Receptionated” (FW 370.18) 14 “Patrick What-Do-You-Colm”: Reading Joyce with Padraic Colum John McCourt Index
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Brill Imperial Middlebrow
Book SynopsisThe collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, takes middlebrow studies further in two ways. First, it focuses on the role middlebrow writing played in the popularisation and dissemination of imperial ideology. It combines the interest in the wider function of literature for a colonial society with close scrutiny of the ideological and socio-economic contexts of writers and readers. The essays cover the Girl’s Own Paper, fiction about colonial India including its appearance in Scottish writing, the West Indies, the South Pacific, as well as illustrations of Haggard’s South African imperial romances. Second, the volume proposes using the concept of the middlebrow as an analytical tool to read recent Black and Asian British as well as Nigerian fiction.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Cross-colonial Encounters and Expressions of Power in Middlebrow Literature and Culture, 1890–1940 and the Present Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch A Girl’s Own Empire? Imperialism and the Girl’s Own Paper, 1880 to 1903 Jochen Petzold Picturing Africa: Illustration in the Allan Quatermain Adventure Fictions of H. Rider Haggard Kate Holterhoff “Cramful of snakes and ghosts”: B.M. Croker’s Anglo-Indian Ghost Stories Christoph Singer “An artificial little community which has climbed eight thousand feet out of the world to be cool”: Sara Jeanette Duncan, Simla, and Middlebrow Aesthetics Samuel Caddick Imagining the British West Indies in Middlebrow Fiction Jana Gohrisch “Intimacies of complicity and critique”: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Victoria Cross’s Imperial Fiction Cornelia Wächter Cross-colonial Encounters and Cultural Contestation in Somerset Maugham’s “Rain” Victoria Kuttainen Revising the Romance: Depictions of Biracial Women and Mixed Marriage in Anglo-Indian Popular Fiction Melissa Edmundson “A small seasoning of curry-powder” in A.J. Cronin’s Hatter’s Castle Robert Wirth Sidelining Racism and Discrimination – Recent British Black and Asian Fiction Gesa Stedman Middlebrow 2.0: The Digital Affect and the New Nigerian Novel Hannah Pardey Index
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Brill A Poetic History of the Oceans: Literature and Maritime Modernity
Book SynopsisWhat is the ocean’s role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements with the sea? In order to answer these questions, Søren Frank covers an impressive range of material in A Poetic History of the Oceans: Greek, Roman and Biblical texts, an Icelandic Saga, Shakespearean drama, Jens Munk’s logbook, 19th century-writers such as James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Jules Michelet, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Jonas Lie, and Joseph Conrad as well as their 20th and 21st century-heirs like J. G. Ballard, Jens Bjørneboe, and Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen. A Poetic History of the Oceans promotes what Frank labels an amphibian comparative literature and mobilises recent theoretical concepts and methodological developments in Blue Humanities, Blue Ecology, and New Materialism to shed new light on well-known texts and introduce readers to important, but lesser-known Scandinavian literary engagements with the sea.Trade Review“This is a book that deserves to be read for its ambitions. Based on his comprehensive reading close to erudition within the field of maritime literary studies, Søren Frank sets out to reframe the somewhat marginalised genre of the maritime novel, yet also other forms of prose as well as visual material. With a detailed argument for the symptomatic significance of the maritime perspective in literary history the author zooms in on three dimensions […] His overall aim is to incorporate the so-called blue ecology as an integral part of the otherwise terrestrial focus that dominates today's preoccupation with ecological issues in art, culture and politics.” - Svend Erik Larsen, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, DK in Orbis Litterarum, 2022 "Combining a capacious vision of the long history of oceanic narratives in Western culture with incisive analysis of recent scholarship in the “blue humanities,” A Poetic History of the Oceans provides an excellent overview of oceanic literature and culture. At this book’s core lies a brilliant reading of Moby-Dick as model for four distinct historical iterations of Western imaginations of the sea. In reading Melville’s novel as simultaneously theocentric, anthropocentric, technocentric, and geocentric, Frank shows how this American classic opens onto global vistas. Beyond an innovative analysis of the English-language canon, however, this book also brings Scandinavian writers and texts forward into their rightful places as oceanic pioneers. The introduction of figures such as Jens Munk, Jonas Lie, Martin Andersen Nexø, and Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen suggests how much scholars and readers can learn from this book." - Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John's University, New York, USA “A Poetic History of the Oceans has compelling qualities: a fascinating topic, incredible erudition, an innovative, wide-ranging approach, and a seductive, reader-friendly style. The quality of the scholarship is remarkable, both concerning the works examined and the thinkers and literary critics that are consulted and cited. Given the superb treatment of the topic, the wealth of information, and the theoretical insights, Frank’s book could very well become a classic in its field.” - Thomas Pavel, Professor of Romance Languages, Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, USATable of Contents< Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Embarking with Martin Andersen Nexø 1.1 The Strait of Gibraltar 1.2 Transition and Simultaneity 1.3 Maritime World Pictures 2 Amphibian Comparative Literature on a Terraqueous Globe 2.1 The Forgotten Sea 2.2 Revision, Actualization, Crisis 2.3 Saltwater Literatures 2.4 Geographical Scales 2.5 Historical Timelines 2.6 Blue Ecologies 2.7 Method and Structure 1 History 1 Theocentrism 1.1 The Biblical Tradition 1.2 The Greek-Roman Tradition 1.3 “The Seafarer” 2 Anthropocentrism 2.1 “The Saga of the Greenlanders” 2.2 Luís Vaz de Camões 2.3 William Shakespeare 2.4 Jens Munk 2.5 Daniel Defoe 2.6 James Fenimore Cooper 3 Technocentrism 3.1 Jules Michelet 3.2 Jonas Lie 3.3 Joseph Conrad 4 Geocentrism 4.1 Nostalgia or Dystopia 5 The Four World Pictures in Moby-Dick 5.1 Historical Time and Broad Present 5.2 Theocentrism 5.3 Anthropocentrism 5.4 Technocentrism 5.5 Geocentrism 2 Rhythm 1 The Maritime between Homelessness and Homeliness 2 Rhythmanalysis at Sea 3 Cosmic and Cultural Rhythms at Sea 4 External and Internal Rhythms 5 Rituals 6 Internal Arrhythmia 7 Knowledge, Teaching, Writing 3 Technology 1 The Shipwreck of the São João in 1552 2 Technology, Literature, and the Ocean 3 Martin Heidegger’s Technologies 4 Don Ihde and Technological Forms of Experience 5 Technology in Typhoon 5.1 Sail and Steam 5.2 Steamship Experiences in Typhoon 6 Science and Technology in Vingt mille lieues sous les mers 6.1 The Making of a New Literary Profile and a Novel 6.2 Science Adventure Fiction 6.3 Progress and Mastering 6.4 Vraisemblance 6.5 Ambiguities 6.6 Apollonian Order, Dionysian Fertility 4 Materiality 1 Immersion in the Dissolve in Leviathan 2 Forces of Sea and Abyss in Les Travailleurs de la mer 2.1 Humans and Things 2.2 Vital Materialism 2.3 Endings and Narrators 2.4 Fooling and Receiving Mercy 2.5 Cosmography of Work 5 Anthropocene 1 Coal in Wales, Whales at the Pole 2 The Anthropocene 3 Anthropocene Aesthetics 3.1 Time, Discontinuity, Probability 3.2 Space, Discontinuity, Nation-State 3.3 Human, Humans, Non-Humans 4 Exceptionalism, Growth, and Stock in En hvalfangerfærd 5 Psychohydrographies of Cataclysm in The Drowned World 5.1 Science Fiction and the Anthropocene 5.2 Surrealism and the Anthropocene 6 Empire of Thalassa in Havbrevene 6.1 Evolution, Devolution 6.2 Icarus, Bruegel, and the Echo Chamber of Reception 6.3 Life, but not Human 6.4 Anthropomorphism Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill “Your friend if ever you had one”– The Letters of Sylvia Beach to James Joyce
Book SynopsisThis is the first-time publication of long-lost letters by a crucial figure in modernist publishing. Carefully edited and extensively contextualised, they document Beach’s unwavering, all-embracing support for Joyce’s art by publishing his controversial Ulysses in Paris in 1922 and other efforts such as getting fragments of Work in Progress published. They also reveal her difficulties with his uncompromising and demanding personality, as it is vividly illustrated in the Frankfurter Zeitung affair. The edition moreover includes all extant letters to Paul Léon, her successor after their break-up following severe disagreements over the American edition of Ulysses. Joyceans and scholars of modernism will find this an indispensable resource for further research.
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Brill Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011
Book SynopsisDarwin’s idea has been called the best idea anyone ever had. In Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011 Nicholas Saul offers the first representative account of German literary responses to Darwinian evolutionism from Raabe and Jensen via Ernst Jünger and Botho Strauß to Dietmar Dath. Often identified with National Socialist ideology and hence notably absent from the public sphere after 1945, Darwinian thought is in fact shown to be distorted though the lens of Social Darwinism and bionationalist organicism. As Nicholas Saul shows, literature has been the main agent in public discourse for challenging such illiberal presentations, and there is a common thread of salvific individualism which leads to the new legitimacy of Darwinian discourse today.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction. Two Cultures? 1 Realism. Darwinism into Literature: First Responses by Raabe and Jensen 1 Narrative Threads and Literary Anthropology in the Service of Life: Raabe’s Drei Federn 2 Writing Inheritance and Change in Jensen’s Das Erbtheil des Blutes 2 Fin de siècle. Darwinism and Literature, or Literature and Darwinism? Nordau, Haeckel, Bölsche 1 Darwinism Overwrites Art: Nordau’s ‘Evolutionistische Ästhetik’, Entartung and Krankheit des Jahrhunderts 2 Nature as Artist: Haeckel’s ‘Darwinism’ in the Natürliche Schöpfungs-Geschichte 3 Darwin as Poet in the Great Chain of Genius: Bölsche’s Aesthetic Relecture of Darwinism 3 Weimar I. Ernst Jünger’s Evolutionism between the vita activa and the vita contemplativa 1 Introduction: Biography and Research 2 In Stahlgewittern: War, Nature, Technology, Writing 3 Sturm: War, Darwinism, Vitalism, Writing Again 4 Publicistic Writing as Action. Spengler: Life as Politics, Vitalistic Fascism 5 Das Abenteuerliche Herz: Vitalistic Science 6 Der Arbeiter: Life Is Politics. The Whole and the Parts. Freedom and Necessity 7 Retreat into Contemplation: Literature. Continuities 8 Darwin and Spengler Evolved. Legacies 4 Weimar II. Evolutionism and Space in Hans Grimm 1 ‘… ein beseligter Aufnehmer’: Cornelius Friebott’s Poetic-Homiletic Education as National Seer 2 Darwin, Space, Word: Anthropogeography from Malthus, Ratzel, Naumann, Haushofer and Hildebrand to Grimm 5 Postmodernism. Time’s Arrow, System and Aesthetic Redemption: Evolutionism in Botho Strauß 1 Introduction. Biography and Research 2 Literature and/as Evolution. Copying and Rewriting the Script in Rumor 3 Evolutionist Aesthetics, Culture and Society: Copying and Rewriting in Paare, Passanten and Der junge Mann 4 System Theory, Evolutionary Aesthetics and Self: Der junge Mann, Beginnlosigkeit, and Die Fehler des Kopisten 6 Wende und Ecoliterature. Gradualism and Saltationism: The Uses of Evolutionism in Judith Schalansky and Franz Hohler 1 ‘Was waren schon Romane?’ Darwinian Gradualism in Der Hals der Giraffe 2 ‘… niemand weiß, wie es weitergehen soll’. Saltationism and Emergence in ‘Die Rückeroberung’ and Der neue Berg 7 Posthumanism. Failure and Reinvention of the Human in Dietmar Dath Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination: Early Modern to Late Modern
Book SynopsisLiterary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination: Early Modern to Late Modern is a wide-ranging, inter- and transdisciplinary approach grounded in the twin rigors of theory and history, which, through close readings of authors from Edmund Spenser to Olga Tokarczuk, and through considered discussions of the ideologies of walking and mapping, in performance art and cultural representation, assesses and analyses the significance of maps to literary texts, and which examines the ways in which the literary maps imaginary and real worlds. Together, the essays demonstrate convincingly the close relationship between text, map and culture.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Monika Szuba and Julian Wolfreys 1 The Poet, Voyager, and Cartographer Are ‘of Imagination All Compact’ Crossing the Borders of Early Modern Poetry and Cartography Małgorzata Grzegorzewska 2 Fragmented Body versus Cartographic Representation The Early Modern Subject and the Marlovian Transgressors Klaudia Łączyńska 3 Marcus the Magnificent Closure and Resolution in Joël Dicker’s The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair Tom Ue 4 ‘To Deploy an Errant Eye’ Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘Early Modern’ Fantasia Julian Wolfreys 5 The Mapping of Empire in Hilary Davies’ “Imperium” Jean Ward 6 Mapping and Unmapping the World Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky versus Unmapping Memory. Looking for Hildegard of Bingen by Desmond Graham Olga Kubińska and Wojciech Kubiński 7 Charting Milan in Central Asia Lombard Maps and Asian Toponymy in Luciano Erba’s Poetry Samuele Fioravanti 8 A ‘Monolithic Map/ of We Know Not What’ Alec Finlay’s Chorographic Poetics Monika Szuba 9 Unseeable Maps The Experience of Space in the Blind Walk Performance Izabela Zawadzka 10 Maps, Literature, and Law’s Idiocy Literary Tropes as Incentive, Ground and Veil for Taking the Commons Frans-Willem Korsten 11 Mapping the Sacramental Inner Circle by Jerzy Peterkiewicz Aleksandra Słyszewska 12 Camino (Hyper)Real California’s Cartographic Imaginations Grzegorz Welizarowicz Index
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Brill Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts
Book SynopsisAn effective tool for reading postcolonial con/texts, ideology also provides a matrix to grasp the world, enabling collective political action. This interdisciplinary volume reflects that each position is subject to asymmetrical power relations, with critiques of ideological manifestations occurring in intersecting cultural, social, and political configurations.
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Brill The Thousand and One Nights: Sources and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Science
Book SynopsisThe Thousand and One Nights does not fall into a scholarly canon or into the category of popular literature. It takes its place within a middle literature that circulated widely in medieval times. The Nights gradually entered world literature through the great novels of the day and through music, cinema and other art forms. Material inspired by the Nights has continued to emerge from many different countries, periods, disciplines and languages, and the scope of the Nights has continued to widen, making the collection a universal work from every point of view. The essays in this volume scrutinize the expanse of sources for this monumental work of Arabic literature and follow the trajectory of the Nights’ texts, the creative, scholarly commentaries, artistic encounters and relations to science. Contributors: Ibrahim Akel, Rasoul Aliakbari, Daniel Behar, Aboubakr Chraïbi, Anne E. Duggan, William Granara, Rafika Hammoudi, Dominique Jullien, Abdelfattah Kilito, Magdalena Kubarek, Michael James Lundell, Ulrich Marzolph, Adam Mestyan, Eyüp Özveren, Marina Paino, Daniela Potenza, Arafat Abdur Razzaque, Ahmed Saidy, Johannes Thomann and Ilaria Vitali.Table of ContentsContents Avant-propos Aboubakr Chraïbi Preface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Part 1: The Sources of the Thousand and One Nights 1 Dans l’atelier des Mille et une nuits Ulrich Marzolph 2 Reshaping the Frame Story of the Thousand and One Nights The Coherence of Prologue and Epilogue in the Earliest Existing Arabic Mss Johannes Thomann 3 Les manuscrits des Mille et une nuits au Maroc Ahmed Saidy 4 Redécouverte d’un manuscrit oublié des Mille et une nuits Le manuscrit de James Anderson Ibrahim Akel Part 2: Galland’s Translation and the Eighteenth Century 5 Métissage and the Literary Field of the French Enlightenment The Impact of Galland’s Translation of the Arabian Nights Anne E. Duggan 6 Genie in a Bookshop Print Culture, Authorship, and ‘The Affair of the Eighth Volume’ at the Origins ofLes Mille et une nuits Arafat Abdur Razzaque Part 3: The Nights, World Literature, and the Arts 7 Eugénie et les deux rêveurs Abdelfattah Kilito 8 Subtile influence des Mille et une nuitsdans le Rimbaud des Illuminations Rafika Hammoudi 9 Callida Junctura Richard F. Burton’s Transtextual 1001 Nights and the Source of Its Poetry Michael James Lundell 10 Sacred and Profane Love in the Arabian Nights Nūr al-Dīn ibn Bakkār vs. Nūr al-Dīn ibn Ḫāqān William Granara 11 Hārūn Al-Rašīd, the Arabian Nights, and Politics on the Arabic Stage, 1850s–1920s Adam Mestyan 12 Alfred Faraǧ’s Arabian Nights Ongoing Experimentation in Arabic Theatre Daniela Potenza 13 The Reception of One Thousand and One Nights in Polish Contemporary Literature Magdalena Kubarek 14 Italian Nights Three Twentieth-Century Examples of Reception (Vittorini, Pasolini, Calvino) Marina Paino 15 L’héritage des Mille et une nuitschez Michel Ocelot Ilaria Vitali Part 4: The Nights, the Humanities, and the Sciences 16 American Nights The Introduction and Usage of theArabian Nights within the US’s Print Modernity Rasoul Aliakbari 17 Jacqueline Kahanoff on the Margins of A Thousand and One Nights Daniel Behar 18 Healing by Exempla Political Therapy in theNights’ Hypertext Dominique Jullien 19 The Devil in the Details, or, Economics in Thousand and One Nights Eyüp Özveren Index
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Brill The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East
Book SynopsisThe Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East by Antony Goedhals offers radical rereadings of a misunderstood and undervalued Victorian writer. It reveals that at the metaphysical core of Lafcadio Hearn’s writings is a Buddhist vision as yet unappreciated by his critics and biographers. Beginning with the American writings and ending with the essay- and story-meditations of the Japanese period, the book demonstrates Hearn’s deeply personal and transcendently beautiful evocations of a Buddhist universe, and shows how these deconstruct and dissolve the categories of Western discourse and thinking about reality – to create a new language, a poetry of vastness, emptiness, and oneness that had not been heard before in English, or, indeed, in the West.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Text and Conventions Adopted 1 A Metaphysics of Buddhism and Its History in the West Introduction Core Issues Outlined: the Letters of George Milbry Gould and Basil Hall Chamberlain Dr George Milbry Gould Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain Hearn’s Reception in the West The Existing Scholarship on Hearn’s Buddhism The Advent of Buddhism to the West The European Discovery of Buddhism in ‘British’ India Buddhism a Radical Metaphysic Buddhism a Construct, a Story Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia (1879) Conclusion 2 Biographical and Critical Studies of Hearn Introduction The ad hominem Nature of Biographical and Critical – ‘Bio-critical’ – Works on Hearn The Bio-critical Memes of Hearn Studies Biographies and Bio-critical Works on Hearn Elizabeth Bisland’s Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (1906) George Milbry Gould’s Concerning Lafcadio Hearn (1908) Hearn’s Work Denigrated by Attacking the Man Hearn’s Ancestry and Vision Attacked Hearn’s going ‘Fantee’ and his Abandonment of a Loving Father-God George M. Gould Collection of Hearniana: a Testimony to Obsession and Fearfulness The History of Gould’s Encounter with Hearn and Gould’s Deprecation of Hearn on Grounds of Defective Vision Hearn is ‘the Poet of Myopia’ Gould’s Fatherly Theism God as ‘Biologos’ Creating out of Dead Matter the Garden of the World ‘Karma’: a Tale Told for its Teller Post-Gould, pre-World War I Critical Biographies of Hearn Joseph De Smet’s Lafcadio Hearn: l’Homme et l’œuvre (1911) and Edward Thomas’s Lafcadio Hearn (1912) Nina Kennard’s Lafcadio Hearn (1912) Yone Noguchi’s Lafcadio Hearn in Japan (1910) Setsuko Koizumi’s Reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn (1918), Kazuo Koizumi’s Father and I: Memories of Lafcadio Hearn (1935), and Re-Echo (1957) Critical Biographies of Hearn Written between the Two World Wars Edward Larocque Tinker’s Lafcadio Hearn’s American Days (1924) Jean Temple’s Blue Ghost: A Study of Lafcadio Hearn (1931) and Oscar Lewis’s Hearn and His Biographers: The Record of a Literary Controversy (1930) Hearn – An Interpreter of Buddhism Kenneth Kirkwood’s Unfamiliar Lafcadio Hearn (1936) Critical Biographies of Hearn Written after World War II Vera McWilliams’s Lafcadio Hearn (1946) Orcutt William Frost’s Young Hearn (1958) Elizabeth Stevenson’s The Grass Lark: A Study of Lafcadio Hearn (1961) The Dorothea McClelland Papers Critical Biographies of Hearn in the 1960s and 1970s Albert Mordell’s Discoveries: Essays on Lafcadio Hearn (1964) Beongcheon Yu’s An Ape of Gods: The Art and Thought of Lafcadio Hearn (1964), Arthur Kunst’s Lafcadio Hearn (1969), and Kenneth Rexroth’s The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (1977) Contemporary Biographies of Hearn Paul Murray’s Fantastic Journey: The Life and Literature of Lafcadio Hearn (1993) Jonathan Cott’s Wandering Ghost: The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn (1991) Robert Rosenstone’s Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan (1988) Conclusion 3 Buddhism in the American Writings and ‘Seeking the Orient at Home’ Introduction Hearn’s First Encounters with Buddhism Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia Atheism and Individual Responsibility in The Light of Asia Causation, Karma, Reincarnation, and the Interrelation of all Phenomena in The Light of Asia Buddhism a Revisioning of ‘the Self’ Buddhism a Revisioning of the Problem of Death Hearn’s Buddhism Ontological, not Moralistic Articles about Buddhism The Times-Democrat a ‘Buddhist Newspaper’, an ‘Infidel sheet’ ‘The People We Send Missionaries To’ ‘The World’s Worships’ ‘What Buddhism Is’ ‘Recent Buddhist Literature’ Articles about the Hindu-Buddhist Matrix and Other ‘Oriental’ Subjects ‘Edwin Arnold’s New Book’ The ‘Neo-Buddhism of the Theosophists’ Herbert Spencer’s ‘Synthetic Philosophy’ and Buddhism Hearn’s Translations of Buddhist Stories and His Neo-Buddhist Fictions Stray Leaves From Strange Literature ‘The Legend of the Monster Misfortune’ ‘A Parable Buddhistic’ ‘Pundari’ ‘Yamaraja’ ‘The Lotus of Faith’ Hearn’s ‘fantastics’ and Ghost Stories: Meditations on Love and Death Background to the ‘fantastics’ ‘When I was a Flower’ ‘A Dead Love’ ‘His Heart is Old’ ‘Hereditary Memories’ ‘Metempsychosis’ ‘The Undying One’ ‘The Story of Ming-Y’ Hearn’s Cosmic ‘fantastics’ ‘Subhadra’ ‘The Life of Stars’ and ‘The Destiny of Solar Systems’ ‘The great “I-Am”’ and ‘A Concord Compromise’ Conclusion 4 Japan and the ‘Romance of Reality’ Introduction ‘Popular’ or ‘Lower’ Buddhism ‘From the Diary of an English Teacher’ ‘The Writings of Kōbōdaishi’ and ‘Jizō’ ‘A Pilgrimage to Enoshima’ ‘At the Market of the Dead’, ‘By the Japanese Sea’, and ‘From Hōki to Oki’ Shinto ‘Bon-Odori’ and ‘The Household Shrine’ Individual Observations of Reality: Hearn’s Buddhist Meditations ‘My First Day in the Orient’ The ‘Shock of Emptiness’ ‘From a Traveling Diary’ ‘In the Twilight of the Gods’ Three Central Essay-Meditations The ancestors, karma ‘The Idea of Preëxistence’ ‘Some Thoughts About Ancestor-Worship’ ‘Nirvana: A Study in Synthetic Buddhism’ Three Central Story-Meditations ‘Dust’ ‘The Stone Buddha’ ‘In Yokohama’: closing the cycle of the ‘Buddhist papers’ The Buddhist Writings of the Last Years ‘Insect-Studies’ ‘Story of a Fly’, ‘Fireflies’, ‘Gaki’, ‘Kusa-Hibari’, and ‘Mosquitoes’ Stories with Buddhist Settings ‘Within the Circle’ ‘The Story of a Tengu’ ‘A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu’ ‘Fragment’ and the Fenollosas Ernest Fenollosa’s Attack on Hearn in The Atlantic Monthly Oneness ‘A Drop of Dew’ ‘Of Moon-Desire’ The Paradise of Possible Worlds Time-Travel and Ghost Stories ‘The Reconciliation’ ‘The Story of Itō Norisuké’ Conclusion 5 Conclusion Bibliography Hearn’s Writings Secondary Texts Index
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Brill Neo-Victorian Biofiction: Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Historical Subjects
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the many paradoxes of neo-Victorian biofiction, a genre that yokes together the real and the imaginary, biography and fiction, and generates oxymoronic combinations like creative facts, fictional truth, or poetic truthfulness. Contemporary biofictions recreating nineteenth-century lives demonstrate the crucial but always ethically ambiguous revision and supplementation of the historical archive. Due to the tension between ethical empathy and consumerist voyeurism, between traumatic testimony and exploitative exposé, the epistemological response is per force one of hermeneutic suspicion and iconoclasm. In the final account, this volume highlights neo-Victorianism’s deconstruction of master-narratives and the consequent democratic rehabilitation of over-looked microhistories.Table of Contents Contributors Taking Biofictional Liberties: Tactical Games and Gambits with Nineteenth-century Lives Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben Part 1: Truths and Post-Truths 1 “Who in the world am I?”: Truth, Identity and Desire in Biofictional Representations of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell Charlotte Boyce 2 Fakery and Historical Figures in the Flashman Papers Matthew Crofts 3 Biofictional Author Figures and Post-authentic Truths Roberta Gefter Wondrich 4 The Silence and the Roar: Resonant Encounters with George Eliot Laura Savu Walker Part 2: Forms of Otherness and (Re-)Othering 5 Us and Them? Joseph Merrick in Neo-Victorian Children’s Fiction Helen Davies 6 The Vivisectionist’s Tale: Auto/Biographical Voice and the Queer Fictions of Empire in Ann Harries’s Manly Pursuits Jeanne Ellis 7 Biofiction and Différance: Tracing Threads of (Neo-) Victorian Women Travellers in the Amelia Peabody Emerson Series Stacey L.Kikendall 8 Biofiction Goes Global: Richard Flanagan’s Wanting, Dickens, and the Lost Child Catherine Lanone Part 3: After-Lives of Fame and Infamy 9 Polymath Revisited: Cross-lighting R.F. Burton between Cultural Passing and Steampunk Action Sylvia Mieszkowski 10 (Re)Tracing Charlotte Brontë’s Steps: Biofiction as Memory Text in Michèle Roberts’sThe Mistressclass Sonia Villegas-López 11 Julia Margaret Cameron and Archival Imagination: Materiality and Subjectivity in Biofictions of a Victorian Photographer Lucy Smith 12 Musical Madness: Biofictional Performances of the Lizzie Borden Murders Marc Napolitano Index
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Brill Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre: Exotisme et établissement français aux Îles (1625-1671)
Book SynopsisDans Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre, Christina Kullberg propose une étude de l’établissement français aux Antilles et une analyse théorique de l’exotisme à travers une lecture critique de l’histoire naturelle et morale du missionnaire dominicain Du Tertre. In Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre, Christina Kullberg offers a study of the French early colonization in the Caribbean and a theoretical analysis of exoticism through a critical reading of Dominican missionary Du Tertre’s natural and moral history of the region.Table of ContentsRemerciements Liste des Illustrations Introduction 1 « Visite des Sauvages aux François » 2 Théoriser l’exotisme 3 Un discours colonial et un effet textuel 4 Penser l’exotisme antillais au XVIIe siècle Partie 1: Hérodote des îles 1 Du Tertre – vie, œuvre et mission 1 Du manuscrit aux éditions 2 Les dominicains aux Îles 3 Du Tertre et la bibliothèque antillaise 2 Écrire sur les Antilles 1 Instruire 2 Plaire 3 L’Histoire générale des Antilles et la relation de voyage Partie 2: Revoir le paradis 3 Réinventer la découverte 1 Aux confins de l’ancien et du nouveau 2 Une rencontre par étapes 4 Les seuils du paradis 1 Encadrer les descriptions 2 Paratextes internes 5 Un paradis colonial 1 Construire un paradis 2 Des esclaves au paradis 6 Le jardin et l’écriture 1 L’écriture naturaliste 2 Double nature Partie 3: Dramatiser l’établissement 7 Faire corps avec l’étranger 1 Le voyageur – une interface 2 Jeux de passage 8 Le corps de l’autre 1 Portrait des Autochtones et des esclaves 2 Voir la nudité 3 Le corps en spectacle 9 Corps touchants, corps transgressifs 1 Le cannibale français 2 Confrontations sur la scène de l’archipel 10 Membres de la famille coloniale 1 Pères de famille 2 La voix touchante de l’autre Conclusion Bibliographie Index
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Brill Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations: Texts and Histories
Book SynopsisEastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations: Texts and Histories is a product of east-west studies crossed with adaptation studies: it goes beyond evaluation of cultural interactions and discussion of forms and manners of adaptation. This volume brings together critical discourses from various cultural locales which have developed from and thrived on the notion of “East meets West” or “West meets East”. The 10 chapters trace and investigate cross-, trans- or multi-cultural interpretations of fictional and non-fictional narratives that feature people and events in cities and regions which thrive, or have thrived, as East-West hubs, thereby expounding multiple layers of relationship between source texts and new texts. An allegorical play, The Three Ladies of Macao, premièred in December 2016, is now published as appendix in this volume.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Katrine K. Wong 1 “A Being … from a Different World”: Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity Patricia P. Chu 2 Maritime Links, Imperialism, and Diaspora in the Ibis Shilpa Daithota Bhat 3 Utopia and History: Os Lusíadas (Camões) and Uma viagem à Índia (G. Tavares) Helena Carvalhão Buescu 4 “Orientalism from within” in Goa: Local Textual Production in Light of the Legal and Administrative Framework of the Overseas Populations Everton V. Machado 5 Present Absences: the East in the Story of a Port Town on the Western Coast of the Black Sea Onoriu Colacel 6 Pragmatism and Politics Intertwined: the West, the East, the Suez Crisis, and Inter/national Hegemony in James Graham’s Eden’s Empire Önder Çakirtas 7 A Dog of Flanders: of Triumphant Heroes and Heroic Losers Etienne Boumans 8 Yeats, Noh Theatre, and the Traditions of Asia Matthew Gibson 9 David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face in Postracial Times Keith Appler 10 Imagining Robert Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London in Macao Katrine K. Wong Appendix: The Three Ladies of Macao (2016) Katrine K. Wong Index
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Brill Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction: A Study of Female Victims, Perpetrators and Detectives
Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of crime novels written over the last decade, Binder emphasises the genre’s feminist potential and critically maps its political work at the intersection of gender and race. Her study challenges the perception of crime fiction as a trivial genre and shows how, in South Africa at least, it provides a vibrant platform for social, cultural and ethical debates, exposing violence, misogyny and racism and shedding light on the problematics of law and justice for women faced with crime.Trade Review“Die vorliegende Analyse zeigt auf, dass der südafrikanische Kriminalroman sich als Plattform für eine soziale, kulturelle und ethische Debatte versteht.” - Thomas Przybilka, BoKAS – Bonner Krimi Archiv Sekundärliteratur Germany, in Der Krimi-Tipp Sekundärliteratuur Vol. 71 2021 pp. 5-6Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Choice of Texts and Approach 2 Post-Transitional Literature 3 Post-Transitional Crime Fiction and Crime Discourse 4 Post-Transitional Gender Conflicts 5 Preview of Chapters 1 The Female Victim 1 The Female Victim: Introduction 2 Boniswa Sekeyi and Lulu: Witnesses of Systemic and Sexual Violence in Penny Lorimer’s Finders Weepers 3 Resisting Arrest: Amahle Matebula, Female Victim in Malla Nunn’s Blessed Are the Dead 4 Serial Female Victimhood: Margie Orford’s Clare Hart Series 5 The Female Victim: Conclusion 2 The Female Perpetrator 1 The Female Perpetrator: Introduction 2 Mike Nicol’s Femme Fatale Sheemina February: Empowered Female Agent or Symptom of Male Fears? 3 Jassy Mackenzie’s Renegade Detective Jade de Jong: Exploring Femininity and Justice 4 Angela Makholwa’s Black Widow Society: Collective Female Terror against Gender Norms 5 The Female Perpetrator: Conclusion 3 The Female Detective 1 The Female Detective: Introduction 2 Not That Kind of Cop: Michéle Rowe’s Detective Constable Persy Jonas 3 Not What South Africans Expect: Hawa Jande Golakai’s Investigator Vee Johnson 4 Renegade Contained: Charlotte Otter’s Investigative Journalist Maggie Cloete 5 The Female Detective: Conclusion Conclusion Works Cited Index
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Brill Proust et le rire
Book SynopsisCe volume comporte un dossier sur les dimensions du rire dans la Recherche : sociologique, esthétique, imaginaire et affective. Ensuite, des études sur Proust et Gracq, sur Proust ‘veilleur de nuit’, le pouvoir et ses emblèmes et sur la critique génétique combinée avec l’astrophysique. This volume includes a special on the functions of laughter in the Recherche: its sociological, aesthetic, imaginary and affective functions; otherwise there are articles on Proust and Gracq, Proust’s sleepless nights, on power and its emblems and on genetic readings combined with astrophysics.Table of ContentsListe des auteurs Introduction Partie 1: Études réunies par Franc Schuerewegen, Sabine van Wesemael et Sjef Houppermans Marcel in Wonderland Alain Vaillant L’Autodérision dans A la recherche du temps perdu Sabine van Wesemael Iles Rieurs en chair et en os Sjef Houppermans Comment ne pas rire vulgairement en se moquant des écrivains qu’on aime (ou qu’on n’aime pas) ? – sur les pastiches Paul Aron Retrouver le rire d’Albertine Karen Haddad Brèves notes sur l’humour proustien Franc Schuerewegen L’ironie dans À la recherche du temps perdu : le système de la mention-écho Bérengère Moricheau-Airaud Rire et folie chez Proust : le cas du baron de Charlus Anne-Aël Ropars Des rieurs à la limite de la folie, de la volupté et de la mort : les intermittences du rire chez Proust Thanh-Vân Ton That Intermezzo 22 variations sur un thème de Marcel Proust Ruud Verwaal Partie 2: Mélanges Le pouvoir et ses emblèmes: ordre totémique et ordre des castes dans la société selon Marcel Proust Didier Hurson Critique génétique et astrophysique le hors-temps proustien et la physique depuis Einstein Philippe Willemart Le paysage chez Proust et Gracq : poésie contre philosophie ? Dominique Defer Veilleurs de toutes les nuits du monde Mathieu Jung Partie 3: Comptes rendus Yasué Kato, L’Évolution de l’univers floral chez Proust De La Bible d’Amiens à La Recherche du temps perdu Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar Par Philippe Blay, Jean-Christophe Branger et Luc Fraisse, Marcel Proust et Reynaldo Hahn. Une création à quatre mains Manet van Montfrans Marcel Proust, Adaptation et dessin de Stéphane Heuet Sjef Houppermans Bulletin Marcel Proust, No 67 Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar Bulletin Marcel Proust, N 68 Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar Bulletin d’Informations Proustiennes, no. 48/b> Manet van Montfrans
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Brill Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui: A New Ulysses
Book SynopsisIn Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui: A New Ulysses, Elizabeth Sabiston analyses the dominant theme of transcultural migration, or immigration, in Hédi Bouraoui’s fiction. His protagonists reflect his passion for endless travel, and are Ulysses-figures for the postmodern age. Their travels enable them to explore the “Otherness of the Other,” to understand and “migrate” into them. Bouraoui’s World Literature is rooted in the traversées of his characters across a number of clearly differentiated regions, which nonetheless share a common humanity. The ancient migrations of Ulysses, fuelled by violence and war, are paralleled to the modern displacements of entire cultures and even nations. Bouraoui’s works bridge cultures past and present, but they also require the invention of language to convey a postmodern world in flux.Trade Review"Transculturel Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui est une œuvre dense de 214 pages, constituée de 12 chapitres selon un ordre chronologique. Les quatre premierssont exclusivement consacrés à la trilogie: Cap Nord, Les Aléas d’une Odyssée, et Méditerranée à voile toute. Elizabeth Sabiston y analyse l’essence de la migration telle que l’imagine Hédi Bouraoui à partir de l’Odyssée d’Homère, et qu’il appelle lui-même ‘Emigressence’. Il est relativement aisé de relever les multiples prises de position d’un auteur, dès lors que l’exil, ce va-et-vient sans fin entre identité et altérité, devient matière à littérature, qu’il se nourrit de souvenirs longtemps enfouis, et qu’il se confond tout naturellement avec la vie." - Rafik Darragi, Leaders.com « Promenade avec Elizabeth Sabiston dans les romans d’Hédi Bouraoui …………………………………………… La valse endiablée des styles pour la ronde des cultures Tant d’autres ancrages l’Italie à bras ouverts et le Canada Le narratoème explose le conteur est magicien Quand parle la tour les jumelles se font pierres que la vie éteint Ancien monde ou Amériques nous sommes tous voyageurs » - Georges Chapouthier, C.R.N.S., poète. Paris, FranceTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Hédi Bouraoui’s Cap Nord: Mythopoeia and the Quest for Language 1 North and South: the New Hannibal 2 A Ulyssean Quest 3 Islands and the Quest for Language 4 Female Mentors: Saadia and Safia 5 Albert Lacouture and Tante Souad: Written and Folkloric Traditions 6 Manhattan Island: English and the New World 7 Voices from Beyond the Grave: Father and Mother 8 Sardinia: the Journey Begins 9 Descent into the Underground 10 Women and Islands 11 A Storytelling Festival 12 Sicily: the Crossroads 13 Mama Lucia and the Word of the Father 14 A Return and a New Departure: towards the Mother 3 Penelope Liberated: the Female Quest in Les Aléas d’une Odyssée 1 Part 1 Corsica: the Mother Discovered 2 Part 2 Le Dit de Pénélope: Laura at the Helm 4 Adventures of a Young Man: the Initiation of Télémaque in Méditerranée à voile toute 1 Première Partie Hanniballade à Majorque 2 Deuxième Partie Le Marcheur de Malte Télémaque Takes the Reins 5 Sept portes pour une brûlance: Mad Love and Poetic Creation 1 The Mystic Number Seven 2 The Frame Tale 3 The Female Narrator: Shifting Ientities 4 The Language of the Heart 5 The Battle of the Sexes 6 Corsica and the Homeric Frame 7 The Death of Love, the Birth of Art 8 The Reader’s Seduction 6 Berber Girl in Paris: Illusions Lost and Faisances Found 1 The Title: Colonizer and Colonized 2 Structure: Triangularity and Circularity 3 Paean to the Southwest 4 Adventures of a Book 5 Tassadit: Berber Girl as Storyteller 6 Culture Shocks: French Realism, Berber Arabesques 7 “Famille, je te hais !” 8 The Americanization of Ariane: a Parallel Failure 9 The Cultural Revolution of May ’68 and Its Aftermath 7 La Réfugiée (Lotus au Pays du Lys): a Transgeneric Poetic Voyage 1 The Epic and the Language of Flowers 2 Private and Public Spheres: DorBoa’s Family and Laos 3 DorBoa in France: Paradise or Purgatory? 4 Refugee versus Immigrant: Issues of Free Choice 5 DorBoa Cultivates Her Garden … and Language 6 DorBoa and Politics 7 DorBoa and the Worship of Idols 8 Culture Shocks and French Xenophobia 9 “Lotus in Africa”: Buddhist Meets Muslim 10 DorBoa’s Dark Side: the Serpent in the Garden 11 Ritual and the Daily Routine 12 Innocence in a Fallen World 13 A “Traversée” of Cultures 8 Puglia with Open Arms: Otherness Embraced 9 Wandering Words: Tracing the Ulyssean Cycle in Le Conteur 1 Circles and Cycles: Canada and the Mediterranean 2 Living Words versus Technology 3 Politics and Language 4 Fiction and Language 5 Written and Oral Traditions: a Dialectic 6 The “Real” versus the Fictive 7 Frederick II and Samy: a Role Model 8 Let the Conteurs Speak: Male and Female 9 Italy Comes to Canada 10 Les Jumelles de l’oncle Sam: Immigration and American Women 1 Female Towers and Patriarchal Dominance 2 Peggy Windley: in Memoriam 3 Freedom and the Defrocked Nun 4 Saïd: from Naïf to Sage 11 Beyond the New Novel: Faisance, Narratoème, “Slice of Life” 1 Mutante, la Poésie: a Retrospective 2 Nomadivivance I: towards the Future 3 Orbit’Luire Maremma: “Seize the Day” 12 Conclusion Works Cited/Consulted Primary Texts Secondary Texts Index
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Brill Romanciers fin-de-siècle
Book SynopsisL’ouvrage propose de réfléchir sur la richesse de la création romanesque de l’époque crépusculaire en réunissant quatorze contributions consacrées aussi bien aux classiques qu’aux auteurs rarement étudiés. Nous y (re)découvrons Casanova, Darien, d’Herdy, Tinan, Bloy, Céard, Mirbeau, Lorrain, Louÿs, Vivien, Rachilde, Mendès, Huysmans, Fleischmann. The work offers a reflection on the richness of the novels created in the fin-de-siècle period by bringing together fourteen contributions devoted both to the classics and to the rarely studied authors (Casanova, Darien, d'Herdy, Tinan, Bloy, Céard, Mirbeau, Lorrain, Louÿs, Vivien, Rachilde, Mendès, Huysmans, Fleischmann).Trade Review"Naturalistes, décadents, anarchistes ou symbolistes, les romanciers fin-de-siècle se livrent à une quête du rare et de l’étrange, luttent contre les angoisses et les chimères, cherchent à briser, voire dépasser les limites du roman. Ce bel opuscule propose de réfléchir à la richesse de la création romanesque de l’époque crépusculaire en compilant quatorze contributions consacrées aussi bien aux classiques qu’aux auteurs rarement étudiés, voire méconnus." - Cahiers Octave Mirbeau, n° 28, 2021, p. 344-345. "À travers diverses approches et sous l’égide de deux animateurs incontournables du domaine comme Marie-France de Palacio (« Nonce Casanova : les Faces (désespérées) de l’Être ») et Jean de Palacio (« Le somptuarisme de la décrépitude : sur un roman d’Hector Fleischmann »), dont les études encadrent l’ouvrage, les articles rassemblés illustrent la variété et l’ampleur d’un corpus – les romans fin-de-siècle – qui a encore bien des secrets à dévoiler." - Giovanna Devincenzo, Studi di letteratura francese, 2021.Table of ContentsAvant-propos Notes sur les contributeurs 1 Nonce Casanova : les Faces (désespérées) de l’Être Marie-France de Palacio 2 Georges Darien : un anarchiste sous le signe de la décadence Aurélien Lorig 3 Un mystère emblématique : le cas Luis d’Herdy (1875-1902) Manon Raffard 4 Jean de Tinan écrivain « nègre » à l’ombre de Willy Fabrizio Impellizzeri 5 Léon Bloy et l’envers de la sécularisation Yoann Chaumeil 6 Variations sur le thème de la déconstruction dans l’œuvre romanesque d’Henry Céard Federica D’Ascenzo 7 Octave Mirbeau romancier : les paradoxes d’une écriture entre deux siècles Marie-Bernard Bat 8 La Maison Philibert de Jean Lorrain : entre réalisme et décadence Noëlle Benhamou 9 Artistes de la vie : les femmes créatrices chez Rachilde Anita Staroń 10 Une femme m’apparut de Renée Vivien : paroxysme ou parodie fin-de-siècle ? Camille Islert 11 Poétique d’une passion fin-de-siècle : l’eros marmoréen dans Aphrodite de Pierre Louÿs Julie Moucheron 12 Dédoublement, séduction et idéal chez Catulle Mendès Warren Johnson 13 Le dandy fin-de-siècle en proie à la névrose : les (més)aventures de Jean des Esseintes dans À rebours de Joris-Karl Huysmans Edyta Kociubińska 14 Le somptuarisme de la décrépitude : sur un roman d’Hector Fleischmann Jean de Palacio Index
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Brill Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English: The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies
Book SynopsisEmpowerment as a concept is making its impact on the field of literary studies. This volume shows its intricate relation to contemporary fiction in English with a broad range of approaches such as feminist, transcultural, and intersectional studies and dealing with genres as diverse as dystopia, science fiction, TV adaptations, the historical novel and immigrant fiction.Table of Contents Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction Empowering Contemporary Fiction Ralf Hertel and Eva-Maria Windberger PART 1 Dystopian Fiction, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Literature Feminist Fiction and Forms of Empowerment Sarah Dillon Reclaiming Didacticism Empowerment and the Representation of Science in Genetic Fiction Paul Hamann-Rose Empowering the Reader and the Viewer Strategies of Empowerment in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones Britta Maria Colligs PART 2 Stories and Histories 'The Power to Liberate' Telling Tales of the Contemporary Past Peter Childs Of Memory Boxes and Rhizomatic Structures Strategies of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s ‘Über-book’ Eva-Maria Windberger The Empowering Allohistorical? Some Questions on a Stochastic Borderline David Malcolm PART 3 Transcultural Perspectives Xiaolu Guo’s Empowering Fictions Ralf Hertel Empowerment through Multiple Voices Culture, Media, and Identity in Eddie Huang’s Fresh Off the Boat Eleanor Ty Of Monkey Kings and Fox Ladies Intersectionality, Empowerment, and Myth in Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony Diana Thiesen
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Brill Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford: A Study in
Book SynopsisWhen Joseph Conrad died in 1924, Ford Madox Ford immediately published a memoir of his involvement with Conrad at which Conrad's widow took offense. The ensuing "controversy" left Ford with a lasting reputation for "unreliability" which Morey examines in detail, uncovering evidence that substantiates most of Ford's claims. Morey's judicious assessment of the literary friendship and interdependence between two remarkable writers is a much-needed addition to studies of Conrad and Ford.
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Brill Les écritures de l'image par Jean-Philippe Toussaint: Expérimentation et sémentation au XXIe siècle
Book SynopsisDans cet ouvrage Claire Olivier s’intéresse à la manière dont l’écrivain, cinéaste, photographe et plasticien Jean-Philippe Toussaint, expérimente la puissance des images pour composer en ce début du XXIe siècle une œuvre singulière fondée sur des relations transesthétiques. In this book, Claire Olivier analyses how the writer, filmmaker, photographer and plastic artist Jean-Philippe Toussaint experiments with the power of images to create, in the 21st century, a singular work based on transaesthetic relationships.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Abréviations Introduction 1 Perspectives Critiques 2 Parcours 1 Études au(x) miroir(s) 1 Nouvelles images spéculaires 2 Autoportraits 3 Œuvres réfléchies 2 Entrée(s) en matière(s) 1 Composés eidétiques 2 Chimères eidétiques 3 Anamorphoses 3 Mises en œuvre 1 Jonctions 2 Co(n)figurations 3 Orchestration Conclusion Bibliographie Indice
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Brill Samuel Beckett dans les marges du surréalisme: Ou l’écriture du rocking chair
Book SynopsisLonguement, la question de la productivité du mouvement surréaliste français sur l’œuvre de Samuel Beckett fut débattue, polarisée entre rejet et acceptation péremptoire. Cette possible influence trouve un point d’appui important dans Samuel Beckett dans les marges du surréalisme, découvrant une œuvre faite de reprises et d’emprunts de la poésie surréaliste. Par un dépouillement attentif des archives beckettiennes incluant correspondance, cahiers préparatoires et publications en revue, Bernard-Olivier Posse propose une méthode philologique mêlant analyse littéraire et perspective sociologique propice à reconsidérer la posture auctoriale de Samuel Beckett. The question of how influential the French surrealist movement has been on the work of Samuel Beckett has been debated for a long time but the answers were only made of peremptory oppositions : either rejection or acceptation. Samuel Beckett dans les marges du surréalisme aims to demonstrate the (ambiguous) way Beckett works with surrealist poetry by a play of quotations which are always repeated, always altered. Based on research on Beckettian archives such as his correspondence, preparatory notes and publications in journals, this book combines literary analysis and sociological perspective in order to understand how Beckett deals with his self-representation as a writer.Table of ContentsListe d’abréviations des œuvres de Samuel Beckett 1 Introduction 2 La méthodologie à l’estomac 1 Lecture surréaliste de Proust, lecture proustienne du surréalisme 2 Dream of Fair to Middling Women en exemple 3 Les traductions surréalistes de Beckett : du supplément à la défiguration 3 Le « less », l’objet et l’« objectless » 1 « A shape that matters » : pour une poétique du « -less » 2 « Chess game » ou « less game » : Murphy 3 « Aimant l’amour », ou le principe de falsification 4 ‘Wordshed’, ‘misdiagnosed’ et ‘indifférence’ : Beckett et la poésie 4 Transition hors et dans transition 1 Watt ou l’asile verbal : interlude littéraire 2 Interlude pictural : le surréalisme, l’hystérie et l’indéterminé 5 Mythe du dédoublement de l’origine de l’œuvre beckettienne 1 Le mythe de la double origine de l’œuvre beckettienne 2 ‘Intercessions’ selon Samuel Beckett 6 Conclusion : Beckett ou l’écriture du rocking chair Bibliographie 283 Index 295
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Brill Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures: Women’s Speculative Fiction in Contemporary Japan
Book SynopsisSexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures explores how contemporary Japanese female speculative fiction writers have challenged historical inequalities of sex, gender difference, and family roles by imagining alternative worlds where sexes are fluid and childbearing crosses the boundaries of male/female, biological/bioengineered, and human/nonhuman.
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Brill Literary Performances of Post-Religious Memory in the Netherlands: Gerard Reve, Jan Wolkers, Maarten ’t Hart
Book SynopsisThis book offers an in-depth study of iconic literary narratives and images of religious transformation and secularisation in the Netherlands during the 1960s and 1970s. Jesseka Batteau shows how Gerard Reve, Jan Wolkers and Maarten ’t Hart texts and performances can be understood as instances of religious and post-religious memory with a broad public impact. They contributed to a widely shared perspective on the Dutch religious past and a collective understanding of what secularisation consists of. This uniquely interdisciplinary approach combines insights from literary studies, memory studies, media studies and religious studies and traces the complex dynamics of the circulation of memory and meaning between literary texts, mass media and embodied performances within a post-religious society.Trade Review“Batteau eindigt haar boek met een beschouwing over Lale Gül die zich verzet tegen haar islamistische opvoeding en komt zo ook weer terug bij Rushdie. Het boek geeft een mooi beeld van de naoorlogse morele veranderingen in de Nederlandse samenleving.” - In Utrecht University, October 2021Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Cultural Memory, the Author and Post-Religious Identity 1 Cultural Memory: A Constructivist Definition 2 Performing Memory: Embodiment, Repertoire and the Scenario 3 Literature and Memory: Mediations, Mimesis and Rhetoric 3.1 Representing Memory in Literature: Rhetoric and Techniques 4 The Author as Figure of Memory 5 Autobiographical Interpretation 6 (Post-)Religious Memory 2 Cultural and Religious Transformations in the Netherlands 1 Secularisation and Religious Transformation 1.1 Religious and Ideological Communities before 1960 1.2 Seculariation and Religious Transformation after 1960 1.3 Transformation and Modernisation within the Churches 1.4 Sexuality as Index of Secularisation in the Netherlands 2 Mass Media, Religion and ‘The Sixties’ 2.1 Images and Narratives of Secularisation/Religious Transformation 2.2 ‘The Sixties’ as Extended Media Event 2.3 The Provo’s: 1965–1967 3 Shifting Parameters in the Literary Domain 3.1 Literature and Authorship before 1960 3.2 Authorship after 1960 3.3 Approach 3 (Dis)playing the Roman Catholic Tradition: Gerard Reve 1 Introduction 2 First Hints of Reve’s Religiosity (1947–1962) 2.1 Reve’s Debut and the ‘Apotheosis’ 2.2 First Mention of Reve’s Religiosity: ‘Ja, ik ben een christen’ 3 Literary Confession and the Appropriation of Religious Discourse (1963–1966) 3.1 First Volume of Letters: Op weg naar het einde (1963) 4 The Staging of the (Post-)Religious (1966–1969) 4.1 Reve’s Conversion 4.2 The Blasphemy Trial as an Enactment of Religious Transformation 4.3 Theatricality and Reve’s ‘Consecration’ in the Allerheiligste Hart-Church 4.4 ‘Fag-Church’: Public Responses to the ‘New Church-Service’ 5 Restagings (1970–2006) 5.1 Exhaustion of the Provocative Function 5.2 Reve as Figure of Memory 5.3 The Death of an Icon 5.4 Conclusion 4 Processing the Protestant Past: Jan Wolkers 1 Introduction 2 Autobiographical Framing, Affect and the Protestant Past (1963) 2.1 First Encounters with Wolkers’ Protestant Past 2.2 Confessional Prose and ‘afrekening’: Representing a Post-Religious Generation 2.3 The Bible and Two Modes of Remembrance 2.4 Memorable Reading I: Mutilation, Death and Decay 2.5 Memorable Reading II: Sex 3 Wolkers’ Authorial Persona in Interviews (1963–1964) 3.1 Authorial Confirmation of the Autobiographical 3.2 Gerard Reve versus Jan Wolkers 3.3 Representing the Body of the Author: Affect and Repertoire 4 Post-Protestant Memory: Terug naar Oegstgeest (1965) 4.1 Farewell to the Father: De hond met de blauwe tong (1964) 4.2 Constructing a Post-Protestant Identity: Terug naar Oegstgeest (1965) 4.3 Performing Post-Protestant Memory in the Media 5 Sexuality as Vehicle of Identity 5.1 Turks Fruit (1969) 5.2 The Transformation of Wolkers’ Image 6 The persistence of the Protestant past 6.1 Condensing Post-Protestant Identity 6.2 The Death of an Icon 6.3 Conclusion 5 Embodying Post-Protestant Identity: Maarten ’t Hart 1 Introduction 2 Is the Religious Past Really Past? (1971–1977) 2.1 ‘Wolkers in a Jacket’: Plugging into an Existing Narrative of Ex-Protestantism 2.2 Autobiographical Readings: Het vrome volk (1974) 2.3 Authorial Confirmation of the Autobiographical: Interviews (1975–1976) 2.4 Repetition and ‘Materialised Gossip’: Mammoet op zondag (1977) 3 A Post-Protestant Scenario: Een vlucht regenwulpen (1978) 3.1 Een vlucht regenwulpen (1978, Novel): Establishing a Post-Protestant Scenario 3.2 Een vlucht regenwulpen (1981, Film): Remediating the Scenario 4 Post-Protestant Performances: Embodiments and Materialisations (1979-present) 4.1 Repertoire and ‘Specialist Knowledge’ 4.2 Gender and the Protestant past: the ‘Maartje’-Episode 4.3 Space and Materiality: Maassluis as lieu de mémoire 5 Identification and Contestation in the Orthodox Protestant milieux de mémoire 5.1 Liberal or Orthodox: Maarten ’t Hart as Medium of Protestant Self-Reflection 5.2 Interpretation as Counter-Memory: Literary Critic Hans Werkman 5.3 Reaffirmation and Reinterpretation of Doctrine: Protestant Theology 5.4 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Original Quotations (Dutch) Index
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Brill Georges Perec et ses lieux de mémoire: Le projet de Lieux
Book SynopsisGeorges Perec et ses lieux de mémoire est la première étude monographique sur le projet longtemps inédit de Lieux, vaste et passionnant ensemble de textes, de photographies et de documents par lequel Perec visait à ancrer son autobiographie dans l’espace urbain. Georges Perec et ses lieux de mémoire is the first book length monography about Perec’s Lieux project, a vast and fascinating body of texts, documents and photographs by which Perec aimed to anchor his autobiography in urban space.Trade ReviewBlog d'Annelies Schulte Nordholt sur son nouveau livre: https://www.leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl/articles/georges-perec-and-his-sites-of-memoryTable of ContentsPréface IX List of Illustrations XI AbréviationsIII Introduction Partie 1: Lieux dans tous ses états 1 Genèse et devenir du projet 1 Premier état du projet : une « ethnographie » des lieux parisiens 2 Une lettre programmatique 3 Lieux dans Espèces d’espaces 4 « Nouveau programme de travail sur vingt ans » 5 Lieux après Lieux 2 Lectures critiques de Lieux 1 Une lecture ‘autobiographique’ 2 Une lecture ‘sociologique’ 3 Lectures oulipiennes 4 Lectures de Lieux et l’art de la mémoire Partie 2: Microlectures 3 Gaités 1 Gaité comme un lieu de substitution : topographies du souvenir 2 Organiser la mémoire de Gaité 3 La constitution d’un lieu de mémoire : habiter, manger, boire 4 Le lieu vécu par l’écriture et le cinéma 5 Guetter Gaité 6 Épuiser Gaité ? 7 La rue comme texte : le travail citationnel dans les Gaité Réels 4 Joie et mélancolie d’une archive urbaine 1 Lieux et les théories contemporaines de l’archive 2 Saint-Honoré Souvenirs : archiver le passé ? 3 Saint-Honoré Réels : archiver le présent 4 La matérialité de l’archivage : les enveloppes 5 La photographie dans Lieux 1 Continuité et différence avec les photographies de La Clôture 2 Tentative d’épuisement d’une rue ? 3 Décentrage, troncation, saturation 4 Echappées de vue, absence de présence humaine et dégradation 5 Grilles, carrés, clôture 6 Autour de la rue Vilin 1 Vilin Réels : écrire la disparition d’une mère et de la judéité 2 Vilin Réels : écrire la disparition d’une rue 3 Les Vilin Réels comme cartographie d’un lieu 4 Les Vilin Souvenirs Partie 3: Éclairages sur les Souvenirs 7 Lieux. Une œuvre (de) rhétorique 1 Perec avec et au-delà de Roland Barthes 2 L’Inventio : lieux communs et topique 3 Une Dispositio potentielle ? 4 Elocutio : l’ekphrasis d’un lieu parisien 5 Memoria 6 Conclusion 8 Le travail de la mémoire dans les Souvenirs 1 Où ? La mémoire des espaces 2 Quoi ? La mémoire des choses 3 Qui ? La mémoire des noms et des personnes 4 Comment ? La mémoire des (micro-)événements 9 Les lieux de l’écriture 1 Les lieux d’écriture des premières œuvres : Italie et Les Errants 2 Franklin-Roosevelt : « lieux d’une fugue », lieux d’écriture, lieux de tournage 3 Le métadiscours interne de Lieux : stratégie d’évitement ou aspect structurel au projet ? 4 Les lieux du « champ littéraire » de Perec Conclusion Bibliographie Index des noms de personnes
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Brill Javier Marías: 50 años de literatura (1971-2021): Nuevas visiones
Book SynopsisLos más importantes estudiosos de la obra de Javier Marías reunidos en un volumen para reevaluar su narrativa de modo novedoso y original a los cincuenta años. Un libro indispensable para cualquier interesado en la obra del autor español más destacado. The most important scholars of Javier Marías’s literature undertake a novel and original re-assessment of his work marking half a century of prose narratives. An indispensable collection of essays for anyone interested in the work of this outstanding Spanish author.Table of Contents1 “Allí donde las historias no imponen su tiranía” Santiago Bertrán y Alexis Grohmann Parte 1: Circunstancias de una literatura global 2 Javier Marías, escritor de escritores Maarten Steenmeijer 3 Javier Marías como agente intercultural: el ejercicio del cosmopolitismo literario Álvaro Marín García 4 Cervantes y Marías a los treinta y tres: el Quijote de Wellesley Rafael Bonilla Cerezo Parte 2: Recursos y perspectivas de la narración 5 La imagen heurística en las novelas de Javier Marías Elide Pittarello 6 Mutual Exclusion and epoché: Uncertainty in Javier Marías’s Recent Fiction Marta Pérez-Carbonell 7 Parresia, retórica y el arte de disimulación: tres lecturas de “Menos escrúpulos” Heike Scharm Parte 3: Usos y valores del texto literario 8 Javier Marías y el elogio del secreto Isabel Cuñado 9 La ética de la visión en Javier Marías: Tu rostro mañana o la filosofía del “distinguir de personas” de Julián Marías Santiago Bertrán 10 El suicidio en Todas las almas y Corazón tan blanco Daniela Omlor Parte 4: Contextos y convergencias 11 Contrapuntos serio-cómicos en las novelas de Javier Marías José María Pozuelo Yvancos 12 Cine e imaginación visual en las novelas de Javier Marías Carmen María López López 13 Imágenes de vida, enfermedad y muerte: filmaciones, fotos y cuadros en los cuentos de Javier Marías Rebeca Martín 14 Four Quartets de T. S. Eliot como señal de anagnórisis en Berta Isla Antonio Candeloro Parte 5: Epílogo 15 Translating Javier Marías Margaret Jull Costa 16 Por no bajar la persiana todavía Javier Marías Índice
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Brill Tolstoi: Art and Influence
Book SynopsisEditors Robert Reid and Joe Andrew present eleven contributions by international scholars which highlight Tolstoi’s influence on his contemporaries and posterity through his fiction and thought. A figure of Tolstoi’s intellectual stature has naturally inspired an impressive range of responses. These encompass stage versions of his novels (War and Peace and Resurrection), communes founded in his name, and translations which have sought to capture the essence of his works for successive generations. Tolstoi is also compared in this volume with his contemporaries in chapters on Dostoevskii, Veselitsakaia, Rozanov and Elizabeth Gaskell. The reader of this work will gain new and unique insights into an unparalleled genius of world literature, especially into his immense cultural reach which continues to this day. Contributors: Carol Apollonio, Katherine Jane Briggs, Elena Govor, Nel Grillaert, Susan Layton, Cynthia Marsh, Henrietta Mondry, Richard Peace, Alexandra Smith, Olga Sobolev, Willem Weststeijn, Kevin Windle.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Tolstoi’s Continuum of Influences Robert Reid 1 Does the Translation Matter? Carol Apollonio 2 Feeling and Contradiction in Tolstoi’s What Is Art? Richard Peace 3 Tolstoi in the Work of Tolstoi Willem G. Weststeijn 4 Dostoevskii’s Zosima and Tolstoi’s Father Sergius: Literary Representations of Starchestvo Nel Grillaert 5 Tolstoi and Lidiia Veselitskaia’s Mimi at the Spa: The Fin de Siècle Tourist Adulteress Susan Layton 6 Legitimate and Illegitimate Children: Rozanov’s ‘Indecent Proposal’ to Tolstoi Henrietta Mondry 7 Tolstoi’s Resurrection on the Russian Stage Olga Sobolev 8 The Dreamer and the Destroyer: Two Unconventional Tolstoians and Their Impact in Australia Elena Govor and Kevin Windle 9 Reconfiguring the Empire through Performance: Petr Fomenko’s 2001 Production of Tolstoi’s War and Peace Alexandra Smith 10 Bridging Cultures? John McGahern’s The Power of Darkness Cynthia Marsh 11 Elizabeth Gaskell, Tolstoi and Dostoevskii Katherine Jane Briggs Index
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Brill Les relations entre autrices en France et en Italie (1770-1840): « Soutenir la cause des femmes auteurs »
Book SynopsisAu cœur d’un contexte culturel et politique explosif en France et en Italie (1770-1840), les autrices mènent ensemble un combat pour construire une communauté et une cause commune, à travers leurs réseaux ou relations et ce, avant l'essor des mouvements féministes organisés. Within an explosive cultural and political context in France and Italy (1770-1840), this book chronicles the struggle women authors faced in establishing a community and a common cause, through networks and relationships amongst themselves, before the rise of organized feminist movements.Table of ContentsTable des matières Avant-propos Liste des Figures, tableaux et cartes Liste d’acronymes Note sur les citations et traductions 1 Les autrices en genre et en nombre : une communauté en construction 1 Siècle des femmes, siècle des autrices ? 2 Rivales, sœurs, agentes ? Pour une analyse féministe et imbriquée des relations entre autrices 3 Vers une (pré)histoire des féminismes ? 4 Problématiser les relations entre autrices : qui, où, quand, quoi et comment ? 5 Survol des chapitres 2 Débats sur les autrices et généalogies littéraires : une conjugaison au passé, au présent et au futur 1 De la querelle des femmes aux « bas-bleus » : l’autorat féminin contesté 2 Mettre en valeur pour légitimer 3 Appels à l’action : de la défense des autrices à l’émulation 4 Appels à la prudence : vers un repli stratégique 5 Conclusion 3 De l’exception à l’émulation 1 Discours masculins sur l’exceptionnalité féminine en milieu littéraire 2 Catalogues de femmes (soi-disant) illustres : une nuisance pour la cause de l’autorat féminin ? 3 Des devancières sources d’émulation 4 Appeler les collègues à refuser le paradigme de l’exceptionnalité 5 Conclusion 4 Comprendre, prévenir et traiter les dissensions entre autrices 1 Les rivalités en contextes aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles : spécificités du marché et permanences des discours 2 Prévenir et aplanir les dissensions, en dénoncer les sources 3 Quand prévenir ne suffit plus : gestion des dissensions publiques 4 Conclusion 5 Nations en construction, impacts sur les relations 1 Échanges internationaux 2 Échanges intranationaux : gloire nationale, gloire genrée ? 3 Conclusion 6 « La partie n’est pas égale entre nous » : cohésions et divisions 1 Classe socio-économique 2 Opinions politiques et religieuses 3 Relations avec les hommes et avec le milieu littéraire mixte 4 Relations familiales 5 ge et célébrité 6 Générations littéraires, ou les romantiques en réseaux 7 Conclusion 7 La cause des femmes (autrices) aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles : conclusions et épilogue 1 Les relations entre autrices : une nécessité, des défis associés 2 France et Italie : convergences et divergences 3 « J’étais alors seule contre tous, et vous serez aujourd’hui puissamment secondée » Annexe 1: Correspondances entre autrices Annexe 2: Informations bio-bibliographiques sur les autrices Annexe 3: Bibliothèques et fonds d’archives visités Annexe 4: Citations originales en italien Annexe 5: Cartes et précisions géopolitiques Bibliographie
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Brill The Western Reinvention of Chinese Literature, 1910-2010: From Ezra Pound to Maxine Hong Kingston
Book SynopsisDuring much of China’s tumultuous 20th century, May 4th and Maoist iconoclasts regarded their classical literary heritage as a burden to be dislodged in the quest for modernization. This volume demonstrates how the traditions that had deeply impressed earlier generations of Western writers like Goethe and Voltaire did not lose their lustre; to the contrary, a fascination with these past riches sprouted with renewed vigour among Euro-American poets, novelists, and other cultural figures after the fall of imperial China in 1911. From Petrograd to Paris, and from São Paolo to San Francisco, China’s premodern poetry, theatre, essays, and fiction inspired numerous prominent writers and intellectuals. The contributors survey the fruits of this engagement in multiple Western languages and nations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Stephen Roddy and Zong-qi Cai 1 Walter Benjamin’s China William Cheung 2 The Chinese Written Character and the Reinvention of Western and Chinese Poetry: Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound Xiaohui Zhang and Zong-qi Cai 3 A Semiopoetic Reimagination of Concreteness: Chinese Ideograms in Haroldo de Campos Inez Zhou 4 A Poet-Knight-Errant Traveling North: Three Russian Poets’ Translations of Li Bai Xiaolu Ma 5 Robert Hans van Gulik and the Reinvention of Chinese Detective Fiction Yunte Huang 6 Rethinking Pearl S. Buck and Tanci Fiction Yu Zhang 7 Transcultural, Transmedial Reinvention: Shuihu zhuan 水滸傳 (Water Margin) from Chinese Classic to Italian Comic Art Martina Caschera 8 A Post-Orientalist Turn: Pascal Quignard, Michèle Métail, and China Xiaofan Amy Li 9 Global South Feminisms in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Patricia Galvão’s Industrial Park Ana Paulina Lee 10 Sino-Pacifism: China in the Peace Work(s) of Maxine Hong Kingston, Kenneth Rexroth, & Lou Harrison Stephen Roddy Index
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Brill Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community
Book SynopsisIn Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community, Raphaël Lambert explores the notion of community in conjunction with literary works concerned with the transatlantic slave trade. The recent surge of interest in both slave trade and community studies concurs with the return of free-market ideology, which once justified and facilitated the exponential growth of the slave trade. The motif of unbridled capitalism recurs in all the works discussed herein; however, community, whether racial, political, utopian, or conceptual, emerges as a fitting frame of reference to reveal unsuspected facets of the relationships between all involved parties, and expose the ramifications of the trade across time and space. Ultimately, this book calls for a complete reevaluation of what it means to live together.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Slave Trade and Racial Community: Tamango and Roots 2 Patriotism and Political Communities: Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage 3 Community as Utopia: Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger 4 Rethinking the Slave Trade/Rethinking Community: Édouard Glissant’s “Relation” and Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Being-with” Conclusion Works Cited Index
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Brill Identités françaises: Banlieues, féminités et universalisme
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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Brill Vorstufen des Exils / Early Stages of Exile
Book SynopsisExile is usually defined as the time one lives elsewhere, involuntarily separated from home. However, exile can also be conceptualized more broadly as a process already starting at home, while traveling into exile and/or before arriving in the place of exile. This volume sheds detailed light on those early stages of exile. Exil wird gewöhnlich als die Zeit definiert, in der man unfreiwillig getrennt von der Heimat anderswo lebt. Exil kann aber weiter gefasst auch als Prozess begriffen werden, der bereits in der Heimat, unterwegs und/oder vor der Ankunft im Exilland anfängt. Dieser Band geht den Vorstufen des Exils detailliert nach.
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Brill Kosinski’s Novel The Painted Bird in Thirteen Languages
Book SynopsisThe viscerally haunting and politically disturbing Painted Bird, the most famous novel by the Polish-American writer, Jerzy Kosinski, finally receives a long overdue fresh scientific perspective: a truly insightful study of linguistic and cultural controversy in translation against the benchmark of a tailor-made iron-clad methodology of such concepts as involved culture, detached culture and the universe of the opus. The study presents the kaleidoscopic cross section of renditions into as many as thirteen languages, making it a pioneering elaboration of a macrocosm of the afterlife of a translated novel and a tour de force of comparative translation studies. The dark contents of the work, heavily loaded with political and moral issues, vulnerable to shifts and refractions in the process of translation, have been analysed, unaffected by ideological sway, debunking any persistent myths about Kosinski’s harrowing work.
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Brill Venantius Fortunatus and Gallic Christianity: Theology in the Writings of an Italian Émigré in Merovingian Gaul
Book SynopsisA wandering “Orpheus among the barbarians,” a lively flatterer of the powerful and an appreciator of good food and pleasant company: the sixth-century poet Venantius Fortunatus is known to us today for being all these things. Yet in the Middle Ages people knew and loved “Fortunatus the priest:” a man of the Church and a teacher of Christian dogma. This book for the first time looks at this other side of Fortunatus’ character through the lens of what he wrote when he was bishop of Poitiers at the end of his life: two sermons and a hymn to the Virgin Mary. Here you will encounter something unexpected: Bishop Fortunatus the stern yet skillful preacher of Augustinian grace and Chalcedonian orthodoxy.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Religious Writings of Venantius Fortunatus 2 The Composition of the Final Two Books of the Carmina 3 The Purpose of the Sermons in the Carmina 4 Outline of the Book 1 The Expositio Symboli: Religious and Literary Context 1.0 Introduction to the Expositio symboli 1.1 The Symbol in Italy and Gaul 1.2 Symbol Sermons in Italy and Gaul 1.3 Rufinus and His Summarizers 1.4 Conclusion 2 The Expositio symboli of Rufinus of Aquileia and the Expositio symboli of Venantius Fortunatus 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Venantius Fortunatus and Rufinus of Aquileia Compared 2.2 The Medieval Reception of the Expositio symboli 2.3 Conclusion 3 Background to the Expositio orationis dominicae 3.0 Introduction 3.1 The Sources of the Expositio orationis dominicae 3.2 The Content of the Expositio orationis dominicae 3.3 The Authenticity of the Expositio orationis dominicae 3.4 Conclusion 4 The Expositio orationis dominicae of Venantius Fortunatus and the Semi-Pelagian Controversy 4.0 Introduction 4.1 The Pelagian and Semi-Pelagian Controversies in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries 4.2 The Semi-Pelagian Controversy in Sixth-Century Gaul 4.3 The Freedom of the Will in the Expositio orationis dominicae 4.4 The Augustinianism of Venantius Fortunatus, Compared with Gregory of Tours 4.5 Conclusion 5 Venantius Fortunatus and the Three Chapters Controversy 5.0 Introduction 5.1 The Second Council of Constantinople (553) and the Three Chapters Controversy 5.2 Venantius Fortunatus and the Three Chapters Schism 5.3 The Christology of the Carmina 5.4 The Panegyric Ad Iustinum iuniorem imperatorem et Sophiam Augustos and the Three Chapters Controversy 5.5 Conclusion 6 Vision of A Chalcedonian Christendom: The In laudem sanctae Mariae of Venantius Fortunatus 6.0 Introduction 6.1 The Authenticity of the In laudem sanctae Mariae 6.2 Content and Structure of the In laudem sanctae Mariae 6.3 The Sources of the In laudem sanctae Mariae 6.4 The Vision of the In laudem sanctae Mariae: A United Chalcedonian Christendom 6.5 Conclusion Conclusion Appendix: In laudem sanctae Mariae: Text, Translation and Sources Bibliography Index of Biblical Citations General Index
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Brill Robert van Gulik and His Chinese Sherlock Holmes: The Global Travels of Judge Dee
Book SynopsisIn the post-war mid-century Robert van Gulik produced a series of stories set in Imperial China and featuring a Chinese Judge: Judge Dee. This book examines the author’s unprecedented effort in hybridising two heterogenous crime writing traditions – traditional Chinese gong’an (court-case) fiction and its Anglo-American counterpart – bringing to light how his fiction draws elements from these two traditions for plots, narrative features, visual images, and gender representation. Relying on research on various sources and literary traditions, it provides illumination of the historical contexts, centring on the cultural interaction and connectedness that occurred during the multidirectional global flows of the Judge Dee texts in both western and Chinese markets. This study contributes to current scholarship on crime fiction by questioning its predominantly Eurocentric focus and the divisive post-colonial approach often adopted in accessing works concerning foreign peoples and cultures.Trade Review"Brill's dynamic peer-reviewed series Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature has since the mid-1990s been publishing monographs and edited collections on a range of subfields within the capacious field of comparative literature. The nearly 100 scholarly monographs published as part of Textxet engage rigorously with theories of literature, world literature, and literature and thought from around the globe, frequently from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. Soon to be fully digitized and accessible, Textxet has contributed significantly to the study of comparative literature, broadly conceived, in Europe and North America, and to literature studies more broadly, particularly in the discipline's many emerging subfields. Publishing the work of both established scholars and recent Ph.D.'s, Textxet gives scholars of all generations a platform for sharing their best work, and inspiring vigorous scholarly conversations" --Karen Thornber, Harvard University, USA, author of Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care(2020)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1 Anglophone Crime Fiction and Diversified Ethnicity 2 Global Crime Fiction 3 Orientalism, Hybridity, and Globalisation 1 A Man of Three Lives: Life, Scholarship and Judge Dee Fiction 1 Sources of Biographical Information 2 Early Years and Education 3 Diplomatic Career 4 A Man of Letters and Scholarship 5 Judge Dee as Biographical Writing: Diplomacy, Scholarship, and Fiction 2 Gong’an Literature: A Literary Tradition 1 Gong’an Literature in the Song and Yuan Dynasties (960–1368) 2 Gong’an in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) 3 Gong’an in the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) 4 Narrative Pattern: Story Recycling 3 Globalising Judge Dee: Halved Translation and Hybridised Narrative 1 Van Gulik’s Adaptation: Translation and Creation 4 The Globalised Judge Dee: Hybridised Representation of Gender and Sexuality 1 Gendering Crime Fiction: The Classic and the Hard-Boiled 2 Representing the Male: Hybridised Detective Hero and Authorial Identification 3 Representing the Female: Hybridised Eroticism 4 The Combined Male Gaze: Scopophilic, Voyeuristic, and Sadistic 5 Localising the Global: Judge Dee Returns Home and the Chinese Translations 1 Introducing Western Detective Fiction: The First Tidal Wave 2 Translating Western Detective Fiction: The Second Tidal Wave and the Translation of Van Gulik’s Judge Dee Series 3 Localised Rewriting: The Influence of Ideologies 4 Localised Rewriting: The Dominant and the Personalised Poetics Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Conrads European Context
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Brill Twilight Histories: Nostalgia and the Victorian Historical Novel
Book SynopsisTwilight Histories explores the relationship between nostalgia and the Victorian historical novel, arguing that both responded to the turbulence brought by accelerating modernisation. Nostalgia began as a pathological homesickness, its first victims seventeenth-century soldiers serving abroad. Only gradually did it become the sentimental memory we understand it as today. In a striking parallel to nostalgia’s origin, the historical novel emerged in the tumultuous early-years of the nineteenth century, at a time when the Napoleonic Wars once again set troops on the move, creating a new wave of homesick soldiers. In the historical novels of Gaskell, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy, nostalgia offered a language in which to describe the experience of living through changing times as a homesickness for history.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction 1 Nostalgia 1.1 Origins of “Nostalgia” and What Came Before 1.2 Nostalgia for a Place: Local and Global 1.3 Nostalgia for a Time 1.4 Return: Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia 1.5 Belated Nostalgias 2 Writing History in Changing Times 3 The Historical Novel: Nostalgic Fictions in Times of Change 3.1 The Napoleonic Wars and Historical Fiction 3.2 History and Biography: Novels of the Recent Past 3.3 History and Fiction in Historical Fiction 3.4 Structures of Desire: The Nostalgic Historical Novel 4 Chapters 1 Sylvia’s Lovers and the Press Gang 1 The Art of Forgetfulness 2 Homesickness and the Press-Ganged Soldier in Sylvia’s Lovers (1863) 2.1 Napoleon, Nostalgia, and the Historical Novel 2.2 Readability and Forgetfulness 2.3 Leave-Taking 2 Thackeray’s Homesick Soldiers 1 Wavering Heroes and the Middle Way 2 Walter Scott and Intertextuality 3 Nostalgia as a ‘Swiss Disease’: Exiles and Homesick Soldiers 4 Autobiography 5 Battlefields in Historical Fiction 3 George Eliot’s Foregone Conclusions 4 Charles Dickens’s Iron Times 5 Strangers in Wessex 1 Belated Nostalgia and Regional Fiction: A Time and a Place 2 Hardy’s English Peasants 2.1 The Return of the Native: What Is Doing Well? 3 Itinerant Workers: Metaphors of Roots, Migrancy and Labour 3.1 The Mayor of Casterbridge: A Man Must Live Where His Money Is Made 4 Consuming Nostalgia: A Poeticised Pathology 4.1 Historical Fictions: Authentic and Inauthentic Pasts 5 Between History and Memory: The Dorsetshire Labourer and the Homesick Soldier Conclusion 1 Why Don’t We Take Nostalgia Seriously Anymore? 2 Subjectivity and ‘Good’ History 3 Politics and Ideology 4 Imagination and Environment Appendix 1: Images Appendix 2: Unpublished Mss Transcriptions Selected Bibliography Index
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Brill Proust et la musique
Book SynopsisLes études sur le rôle de la musique dans l’œuvre de Proust ont presque toutes un trait en commun : celui de se situer, au moins en partie, dans la recherche musico-littéraire traditionnelle qui relève les allusions, identifie les œuvres auxquelles il est fait référence et cherche à montrer le rôle joué par la musique à l’intérieur du schéma traditionnel d’analyse du roman. Ainsi dans la Recherche les multiples éléments qui composent le thème de la musique se manifestent sous trois aspects différents : la première manifestation musicale et la plus évidente est celle de la musique-art. A ce niveau il faut faire une distinction entre la musique réelle et la musique imaginaire de Vinteuil. Quel rôle jouent les allusions à la musique dans l’action, dans la psychologie des personnages, dans le retour des thèmes, enfin dans la composition de l’œuvre ? Ainsi Proust utilise la musique pour peindre la société. Mais la musique apparaît également en tant que telle dans les récits de concert, notamment la musique de Vinteuil. La deuxième manifestation de l’expérience musicale est celle des sons, des bruits et des voix : la musique naturelle. De nombreuses pages de la Recherche portent l’empreinte des sonorités de la nature et des bruits. Et troisièmement il y la musique née non pas de sensations auditives, mais visuelles, tactiles ou psychologiques : la métaphore musicale. Ces trois aspects sont traités diversement dans le présent recueil. Et comme l’a écrit Marcel Proust : "Il y a pourtant un royaume de ce monde où Dieu a voulu que la Grâce pût tenir les promesses qu’elle nous faisait, descendît jusqu’à jouer avec notre rêve […] : c’est le royaume de la musique." Avec des contributions de Sabine van Wesemael, Sjef Houppermans, Manet van Montfrans, Laurence Miens, Luc Fraisse, Isabelle Perreault, Kaéko Yoshikawa, Manola Antonioli, Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar, Arthur Morisseau, Anne Penesco, Akio Wada, Cédric Kayser, Annelies Schulte Nordholt.Table of ContentsContents Liste des auteurs Introduction Sabine van Wesemael et Sjef Houppermans Partie 1: Proust et la musique Partie 2: Dossier réuni par Sabine van Weesemael et Sjef Houppermans Reynaldo Hahn en sourdine. Échos d’Esther dans À la Recherche du temps perdu Manet van Montfrans Jeux sur la scène de la Recherche Laurence Miens Jusqu’à quel point la Recherche serait-elle un roman wagnérien ? Luc Fraisse Une musique qui « ressemblait à la vie ». La Recherche et la fabrique musicale de la modernité romanesque Isabelle Perreault Proust et les opérettes d’Offenbach. Autour de M. Choufleury restera chez lui le 24 janvier Kaéko Yoshikawa Les ritournelles dans À la Recherche du temps perdu Manola Antonioli Le Spectre de la rose. De la blanche Sonate au rouge Septuor, l’orchestration chromatique vers la vocation Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar Le timbre de la musique de Vinteuil Arthur Morisseau Proust et les « paysages sonores » Anne Penesco Proust à l’écoute de Pelléas et Mélisande Akio Wada Les échos du corps. La dimension intersensorielle du son Cédric Kayser Comment la musique de Beethoven résonne dans A la recherche du temps perdu Sabine van Wesemael Autres musiques Sjef Houppermans COMPTES RENDUS Edward Bizub, Faux pas sur les pavés, Proust controversé. Suivi de Beckett et Quignard à contre-pied Manet van Montfrans A propos de Michel Erman, Marcel Proust, la vie, le temps. Essai (Actes Sud, 2021) ; Jean-Yves Tadié, Proust et la société (Gallimard, coll. Nrf, 2021) ; Nicolas Ragonneau, Proustonomics. Cent ans avec Proust (Le temps qu’il fait, 2021) Annelies Schulte Nordholt Bulletin Marcel Proust, No 69, Publication de la Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar Bulletin d’Informations proustiennes, no 50, Paris, Item Manet van Montfrans
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Brill Figures de l’excès chez Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes et Marina de Van: Ecrire et filmer le corps-frontière
Book SynopsisFigures de l’excès chez Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes et Marina de Van by Dominique Carlini Versini compares and contrasts the images of the excessive body that run through the narratives of contemporary French women writers and filmmakers. Figures de l’excès chez Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes et Marina de Van de Dominique Carlini Versini interroge et compare les images du corps excessif qui traversent les récits d’autrices et de réalisatrices contemporaines françaises.Table of ContentsRemerciements Liste de figures Abréviations Introduction : Excès et frontières du corps 1 Le corps excessif comme objet de représentation : regards critiques 2 Le corps dans la société française contemporaine 3 Penser l’excès 4 Du corps excessif au corps-frontière 5 Dépasser les frontières du corps genré Partie 1: La peau multidimensionnelle Introduction à la Partie 1 1 Métamorphoses de la peau dans Truismes 1 La peau miroir et lieu du toucher mortifère 2 Dépasser la peau 3 La peau tactile 2 Traverser la peau dans Rétention et Dans ma peau 1 La peau et le(s) sens 2 Franchir la limite 3 Délire fécal dans Rétention 4 Le corps intime 5 Fantasme du corps sans frontières 6 Conclusion Partie 2: Outrance et outrage du corps genré Introduction à la Partie 2 3 Le genre comme mascarade dans Les Jolies Choses 1 Apprendre la féminité 2 Le corps objet 3 De l’objectification à la violence 4 Le corps excessif de la jeune fille dans Clèves 1 « Les avoir » 2 « Le faire » et « le refaire » 3 Violence et désir 5 Le corps dans tous ses excès dans Baise-moi 1 Excès de l’objectification 2 Résistance des corps 3 Baise-moi : entre texte et film 4 Conclusion Partie 3: Corps spectral, corps excessif ? Introduction à la Partie 3 6 Le corps hanté dans Ne te retourne pas 1 Crise de la reconnaissance 2 Dispositif du spectre 3 Défiguration et hantise 4 Troubles dans la parenté 7 Matérialité de la hantise dans Bref séjour chez les vivants 1 La hantise viscérale : fantôme et mémoire 2 Approche haptique du spectre 3 Conclusion : corps textuel et corps filmique
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Brill Literatures of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature: Proceedings of the 22nd Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
Book SynopsisThe 2019 congress of the International Comparative Literature Association attracted many hundreds of scholars from all around the world to Macau. This volume contains a modest selection of papers to discuss the four hottest fields of the discipline: the future of comparison, the position of national and diaspora literature in the context of globalization, the importance of translation, and the concepts of world literature. The contributions cover huge geographical and cultural areas, but pay special attention to the connections between Western (both American and European) and Asian (especially Indian and East-Asian) literatures. The literatures of the world might be different but they are also connected.Table of ContentsPreface Part 1 Comparative Literature 1 Introduction Ning Wang 2 Aphorism in Modern Japanese Literature: Elements for a Brief History of the Reception of a Foreign Literary Genre Marie-Noëlle Beauvieux 3 Female Narrative as a Strategy in Kingston’s and Amy Tan’s Fiction Aimin Cheng 4 Between Waves and Trees: Digital Humanities and Comparative Reading of Texts Bernard Franco 5 Two Faces of A.K. Hasheem in Colombo: Intelligent Tourist Agents Navigating the Waves of Anglo-Japanese Relations Yorimitsu Hashimoto 6 Performance as Act: A New Trend in Intercultural Theatre Studies Chengzhou He 7 Germinal and Minas De San Francisco: Journey(s) of “Disquiet” to the Center of the Earth and the Human in Émile Zola and Fernando Namora Odete Jubilado 8 The Drama Thunderstorm by Cao Yu and Its Presentation in South Korea Linjie Niu and Lyu Xin Part 2 National Literatures and Diaspora Literature 9 Introduction Anfeng Sheng 10 The Progressive Movement and Some Aspects of the Debate over Bangla Poetry Kunal Chattopadhyay 11 A Study on Novels Dealing with Japanese-Korean Romances or Marriages during the Late Japanese Colonial Period Huiying Liu 12 The Role of Poetry and Voice of the Oppressed: Bengali and Telugu Prabuddha Ghosh 13 Spatial Narrative in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Xiaoye Dong 14 Experience-Oriented Reading of Literature versus Literary Criticism Anders Pettersson 15 Queering the Brazilian White Patriarchal Home: An Improbable Room/ a Deauthorized Voice Rita Terezinha Schmidt 16 Culinary Representations of Vitality and Heroism in Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum Mingwen Xiao 17 Embodying the Chimera: Cultural Identity and Gazing in Amy Tan’s the Hundred Secret Senses Chunfang Yi Part 3 Translation Studies 18 Introduction Yifeng Sun 19 Translating the Untranslatable: Foreign Otherness and Cross-Cultural Readability A Case Study of Wang Rongpei’s Translation of The Peony Pavilion Kexin Du 20 “Nature” in Wordsworth’s Poems Translated in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan Ching-Wen Wu 21 The Influence of Translated Poetry on the Occurrence of Modernity in Modern Chinese Poetry Hui Xiong Part 4 World Literature 22 Introduction Lucia Boldrini 23 Literature: A World History—the View from Europe Theo D’haen 24 Responsiveness to Comparison Fatima Festić 25 Hungarian Literature as World Literature Péter Hajdu 26 “Cosmopolitics”: Derrida on Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty Nick Mansfield 27 A Triple Configuration: Comparative Literature, World Literature, and Single-Language Literature Harish Trivedi 28 China and World Literature Studies: Re-Orient? Theo D’haen Index
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Brill Post-colonial Intertexts: Hierarchies of Modernism
Book SynopsisUsing Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation and Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Secret History of Costaguana, this book asks you to serve as the jury on euro-modernism, specifically the canonical texts Camus’s The Stranger and Conrad’s Nostromo. The book reveals the extent to which euro-modernist aesthetics was culpable in rationalising colonialism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Intertext and Influence 2 Women and Euro-Modernism 1 Gendered Historiography and Colonial Euro-Modernist Aesthetics 1 Access to History 2 Tropes in History and Narrative 3 Whose History 4 “Plot” and History 5 Gender and History in the Novels 6 Conclusion 2 Difference across Colonial/Post-Colonial Authorship 3 Euro-Modernist and Post-Colonial Masquerades 1 The Detective Story 2 Female Absence and Presence 3 Male Absence and Presence 4 The Post-Colonial Detective 5 The Crime 6 The Modernist Masquerade 7 Woman and Genre 8 Woman and Big History 9 Doubles 10 Colonial and Post-Colonial Romance 4 The Aesthetics and Literary Politics of Commodities 5 Geography and the Gendering of Place Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Caryl Phillips’s Genealogies
Book SynopsisThematically and structurally, the work of the Kittitian-British writer Caryl Phillips reimagines the notion of genealogy. Phillips’s fiction, drama, and non-fiction foreground broken filiations and forever-deferred promises of new affiliations in the aftermath of slavery and colonization. His texts are also in dialogue with multiple historical figures and literary influences, imagining around the life of the African American comedian Bert Williams and the Caribbean writer Jean Rhys, or retelling the story of Othello. Additionally, Phillips’s work resonates with that of other writers and visual artists, such as Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, or Isaac Julien. Written to honor the career of renown Phillipsian scholar Bénédicte Ledent, the contributions to this volume, including one by Phillips himself, explore the multiple ramifications of genealogy, across and beyond Phillips’s work.
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Brill A Poetic History of the Oceans: Literature and Maritime Modernity
Book SynopsisWhat is the ocean’s role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements with the sea? In order to answer these questions, Søren Frank covers an impressive range of material in A Poetic History of the Oceans: Greek, Roman and Biblical texts, an Icelandic Saga, Shakespearean drama, Jens Munk’s logbook, 19th century-writers such as James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Jules Michelet, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Jonas Lie, and Joseph Conrad as well as their 20th and 21st century-heirs like J. G. Ballard, Jens Bjørneboe, and Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen. A Poetic History of the Oceans promotes what Frank labels an amphibian comparative literature and mobilises recent theoretical concepts and methodological developments in Blue Humanities, Blue Ecology, and New Materialism to shed new light on well-known texts and introduce readers to important, but lesser-known Scandinavian literary engagements with the sea.Trade Review“This is a book that deserves to be read for its ambitions. Based on his comprehensive reading close to erudition within the field of maritime literary studies, Søren Frank sets out to reframe the somewhat marginalised genre of the maritime novel, yet also other forms of prose as well as visual material. With a detailed argument for the symptomatic significance of the maritime perspective in literary history the author zooms in on three dimensions […] His overall aim is to incorporate the so-called blue ecology as an integral part of the otherwise terrestrial focus that dominates today's preoccupation with ecological issues in art, culture and politics.” - Svend Erik Larsen, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, DK in Orbis Litterarum, 2022 "Combining a capacious vision of the long history of oceanic narratives in Western culture with incisive analysis of recent scholarship in the “blue humanities,” A Poetic History of the Oceans provides an excellent overview of oceanic literature and culture. At this book’s core lies a brilliant reading of Moby-Dick as model for four distinct historical iterations of Western imaginations of the sea. In reading Melville’s novel as simultaneously theocentric, anthropocentric, technocentric, and geocentric, Frank shows how this American classic opens onto global vistas. Beyond an innovative analysis of the English-language canon, however, this book also brings Scandinavian writers and texts forward into their rightful places as oceanic pioneers. The introduction of figures such as Jens Munk, Jonas Lie, Martin Andersen Nexø, and Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen suggests how much scholars and readers can learn from this book." - Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John's University, New York, USA “A Poetic History of the Oceans has compelling qualities: a fascinating topic, incredible erudition, an innovative, wide-ranging approach, and a seductive, reader-friendly style. The quality of the scholarship is remarkable, both concerning the works examined and the thinkers and literary critics that are consulted and cited. Given the superb treatment of the topic, the wealth of information, and the theoretical insights, Frank’s book could very well become a classic in its field.” - Thomas Pavel, Professor of Romance Languages, Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, USATable of Contents< Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Embarking with Martin Andersen Nexø 1.1 The Strait of Gibraltar 1.2 Transition and Simultaneity 1.3 Maritime World Pictures 2 Amphibian Comparative Literature on a Terraqueous Globe 2.1 The Forgotten Sea 2.2 Revision, Actualization, Crisis 2.3 Saltwater Literatures 2.4 Geographical Scales 2.5 Historical Timelines 2.6 Blue Ecologies 2.7 Method and Structure 1 History 1 Theocentrism 1.1 The Biblical Tradition 1.2 The Greek-Roman Tradition 1.3 “The Seafarer” 2 Anthropocentrism 2.1 “The Saga of the Greenlanders” 2.2 Luís Vaz de Camões 2.3 William Shakespeare 2.4 Jens Munk 2.5 Daniel Defoe 2.6 James Fenimore Cooper 3 Technocentrism 3.1 Jules Michelet 3.2 Jonas Lie 3.3 Joseph Conrad 4 Geocentrism 4.1 Nostalgia or Dystopia 5 The Four World Pictures in Moby-Dick 5.1 Historical Time and Broad Present 5.2 Theocentrism 5.3 Anthropocentrism 5.4 Technocentrism 5.5 Geocentrism 2 Rhythm 1 The Maritime between Homelessness and Homeliness 2 Rhythmanalysis at Sea 3 Cosmic and Cultural Rhythms at Sea 4 External and Internal Rhythms 5 Rituals 6 Internal Arrhythmia 7 Knowledge, Teaching, Writing 3 Technology 1 The Shipwreck of the São João in 1552 2 Technology, Literature, and the Ocean 3 Martin Heidegger’s Technologies 4 Don Ihde and Technological Forms of Experience 5 Technology in Typhoon 5.1 Sail and Steam 5.2 Steamship Experiences in Typhoon 6 Science and Technology in Vingt mille lieues sous les mers 6.1 The Making of a New Literary Profile and a Novel 6.2 Science Adventure Fiction 6.3 Progress and Mastering 6.4 Vraisemblance 6.5 Ambiguities 6.6 Apollonian Order, Dionysian Fertility 4 Materiality 1 Immersion in the Dissolve in Leviathan 2 Forces of Sea and Abyss in Les Travailleurs de la mer 2.1 Humans and Things 2.2 Vital Materialism 2.3 Endings and Narrators 2.4 Fooling and Receiving Mercy 2.5 Cosmography of Work 5 Anthropocene 1 Coal in Wales, Whales at the Pole 2 The Anthropocene 3 Anthropocene Aesthetics 3.1 Time, Discontinuity, Probability 3.2 Space, Discontinuity, Nation-State 3.3 Human, Humans, Non-Humans 4 Exceptionalism, Growth, and Stock in En hvalfangerfærd 5 Psychohydrographies of Cataclysm in The Drowned World 5.1 Science Fiction and the Anthropocene 5.2 Surrealism and the Anthropocene 6 Empire of Thalassa in Havbrevene 6.1 Evolution, Devolution 6.2 Icarus, Bruegel, and the Echo Chamber of Reception 6.3 Life, but not Human 6.4 Anthropomorphism Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research
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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