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

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Book SynopsisThe imaginary as a critical concept originated in the twentieth century and has been theorized in diverse ways. It can be understood as a register of thought; the way we interpret the world; the universe of images, signs, texts, and objects of thought. In this volume, it is explored as it manifests itself in encounters between the verbal and the visual. A number of the essays brought together here explore the transposition of the imaginary in illustrations of texts and verbal renditions of images, as well as in comic books based on paintings or on verbal narratives. Others analyze ways in which books deal with film or television and investigate the imaginary in digital media. Special attention is paid to the imaginary of places and the relationship of the imaginary with memory. Written in English and French, these contributions by European and American scholars demonstrate the various concerns and approaches characteristic of contemporary scholarship in word and image studies.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION SUMMARIES RÉSUMÉS TRANSPOSITIONS OF THE IMAGINARY IN WORD AND IMAGE: ILLUSTRATIONS TRANSPOSITIONS DE L’IMAGINAIRE EN TEXTE ET IMAGE: ILLUSTRATIONS Caroline Marie (Re-)Imaging the Imaginary of a Children's Story by Virginia Woolf: Nurse Lugton… through the Prism of Three Illustrators Eric T. Haskell Twentieth-Century Illustrations of Baudelaire's "La Mort des amants" Philippe Kaenel L’Illustration abstraite au XXe siècle: un paradoxe lessingien? TRANSPOSITIONS OF THE IMAGINARY IN WORD AND IMAGE: VERBALIZATIONS TRANSPOSITIONS DE L’IMAGINAIRE EN TEXTE ET IMAGE: VERBALISATIONS Nataliya Lenina L'Ekphrasis dans le roman de Georges Rodenbach Bruges-la-Morte Simone Grossman Textes et images dans L’Atelier des apparences Alexandra Catana The Play of Supports in the Poetics of Christian Dotremont RE-IMAG(IN)ING WORDS AND IMAGES IN THE COMIC BOOK RÉIMAGINER TEXTES ET IMAGES DANS LA BANDE DESSINÉE Lynn Bannon La Peinture par la bande: le cas de l’album citationnel Lucky Luke: l’artiste peintre France Lemoine The Representation of the Ineffable: Proust in Images Évelyne Deprêtre Une mélancolie mesurée: de Proust à Heuet Jean-Louis Tilleuil La Bande dessinee et ses imaginaires hegemoniques ou phagocytes: le cas de Gemma Bovery de Posy Simmonds THE IMAGINARY AND THE SCREEN: BOOKS, MOVIES, TELEVISION L’IMAGINAIRE ET L’ÉCRAN: LIVRES, FILMS, TÉLÉVISION Françoise Sammarcelli Haunted Places: Screening the Imaginary in A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This by Robert Coover Sonia Lagerwall Through the Looking-Glass with Chloe Delaume: The Imaginary of Television Read by the Autofictional Novel Arcana Albright To View or Not to View? Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Televisual Imaginary IMAGINARIES IN DIGITAL MEDIA IMAGINAIRES DANS LES MÉDIAS NUMÉRIQUES Jan Baetens et Fred Truyen Le Portrait de l’écrivain: une mythologie pérenne? Anaïs Guilet Vers une littérature cyborg: l’hybridation médiatique du texte littéraire Caroline Bem Text as Image in the Digital Age: A Formalist Reading of Polyvore Sets THE IMAGINARY AND MEMORY L’IMAGINAIRE ET LA MÉMOIRE Liliane Louvel Suaires blancs et noirs, imag(inair)es en negatif: quand l’image “revient” comme empreinte et trace Claire Gheerardyn Iconoclasme textuel: mettre en mots le monument pour mieux le briser Maryse Ouellet Pour un imaginaire du présentisme: images du temps chez Claudio Parmiggiani et Hannah Arendt THE IMAGINARY OF PLACES L’IMAGINAIRE DES LIEUX Jorgelina Orftla On Art History and Meta-Images: Art Reproductions, Site Photographs, and Cezanne's Art Nathalie Roelens La Ville et ses prosopopées fabuleuses Eleonora Diamanti Detournement et magnification de l’imaginaire urbain dans les discours sociaux CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTEURS INDEX

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

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Book SynopsisEmpires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kicking. From heritage tourism and costume dramas to theories of the imperial idea(l): empire sells. Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires presents innovative scholarship on the lives and legacies of empires in diverse media such as literature, film, advertising, and the visual arts. Though rooted in real space and history, the post-empire and its twin, the post-imperial, emerge as ungraspable ideational constructs. The volume convincingly establishes empire as welcoming resistance and affirmation, introducing post-empire imaginaries as figurations that connect the archives and repertoires of colonial nostalgia, postcolonial critique, post-imperial dreaming.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations BARBARA BUCHENAU AND VIRGINIA RICHTER: Introduction: How to Do Things with Empires CONCEPTUALIZING EMPIRES, MAPPING EMPIRES ALFRED HIATT: Maps of Empires Past MAYANNAH N. DAHLHEIM: (Re)Writing History: Pankaj Mishra, Niall Ferguson, and the Definitions of Empire RAINER EMIG: The Hermeneutics of Empire: Imperialism as an Interpretation Strategy KERSTIN KNOPF: Exploring for the Empire: Franklin, Rae, Dickens, and the Natives in Canadian and Australian Historiography and Literature EVA–MARIA MÜLLER: Teaching the Empire: Lessons About (In)Dependence: Teacher Figures as Metonyms for the Australian Nation DIFFERENT IMAGINARIES: COMPARING EMPIRES DONNA LANDRY: The Ottoman Imaginary of Evliya Ҫelebi: From Postcolonial to Postimperial Rifts in Time ELENA FURLANETTO: “Imagine a Country Where We Are All Equal”: Imperial Nostalgia in Turkey and Elif Shafak’s Ottoman Utopia SILKE STROH: British (Post)Colonial Discourse and (Imagined) Roman Precedents: From Bernardine Evaristo’s Londinium to Caesar’s Britain and Gaul EVA M. PÉREZ: “As if Empires Were Great and Wonderful Things”: A Critical Reassessment of the British Empire During World War Two in Louis de Bernières’ Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Mark Mills’ The Information Officer and Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans (POST)EMPIRE IMAGINARIES IN HISTORICAL MEDIA ANNE–JULIA ZWIERLEIN: Travelling through (Post-)Imperial Panoramas: British Epic Writing and Popular Shows, 1740s to 1840s JUDITH RAISKIN: “No One Belongs Here More Than You”: Travel Ads, Colonial Fantasies, and American Militarism TIMO MÜLLER: The Bonds of Empire: (Post-)Imperial Negotiations in the 007 Film Series CONTESTED IMAGINARIES, PERILOUS BELONGING CECILE SANDTEN: Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood: Othello, the Jews of Portobuffole, and the Post-Empire Imaginary ELSIE CLOETE: Johannesburg Zoologica: Reading the Afropolis Through the Eyes of Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City KARSTEN LEVIHN–KUTZLER: Toxic Terror and the Cosmopolitanism of Risk in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People MICHAEL MEYER: Something is Foul in the State of Kerala: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things JANA GOHRISCH: Conflicting Models of Agency in Andrea Levy’s The Long Song (2010) Notes on the Contributors and Editors Index

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Book SynopsisNarrating Life explores the relationship between literature, science and the arts and the way in which they are informed by the process of narrating life. More specifically, it asks: how do literature, science and the arts affect and are affected by the emergence of a critical culture of biopolitics and its rhetorical figurations? Its topicality for literary and cultural studies lies therefore in its exploration of the question: to what extent could narratives of life (or life-writing) be understood as a special practice through which to access the contemporary discussion about biopolitics with its strategies of immunity, mutation, and contagion. The individual contributions address these questions through focusing on new forms of life writing in traditional and new media, science writing and artistic and critical creative practice. In doing so, they also explore and redraw the boundaries between fictional and factual experimental practices. Contributors: Amelie Björck, Elisabeth Friis, Holly Henry, Stefan Herbrechter, Tom Idema, Moritz Ingwersen, Cristina Iuli, Tanja Nusser, Angela Rawlings, Manuela Rossini, Dorion Sagan, Laura Shackelford, Amalie Smith, Marianne Sommer, Steve Tomasula, David Wagner, Jeff Wallace, Dominik Zechner.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments 1 - Stefan Herbrechter, Narrating(-)Life – In Lieu of an Introduction 2 - Fiction: David Wagner, Life/Lives Narrating Life in Literature 3 - Elisabeth Friis, In my core I have the strange impression that I don’t belong to the human species: Clarice Lispector’s Água viva as Life Writing? 4 - Holly Henry, Charting Solar Systems, Exoplanets and Earth 2.0 5- Tom Idema, Species Encounters: O. Butler Meets Haraway Meets Deleuze and Guattari 6 - Moritz Ingwersen, Solid-State Fiction: J.G. Ballard and the Crystallization of Life 7 - Cristina Iuli, Dissonance, Data, and DNA: Aesthetics, Biopolitics and Transgenic Music in Richard Powers’ Orfeo 8 - Tanja Nusser, “Chromosomal cuties”, “fembots”, “chatty cyber trio” or “cantankerous clones”? Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Film Teknolust 9 - Manuela Rossini, Submarine Experiments with Human Lives by Christoph Ransmayr – a Waterman Narrates 10 - Laura Shackelford, In Toxicating Languages of Bioinformatic Circulation: Poetics and Other “Smallwork” in The Flame Alphabet 11 - Jeff Wallace, Life Beyond “Critique”: Murakami after Latour 12 - Dominik Zechner, Aporias of Survival: Kafka’s Alien Incursion 13 - Fiction: Steve Tomasula, The Atlas of Man (If by Man We Also Mean Woman) Narrating Life in Science 14 - Amelie Björck, Linear Time and Revolutionary Time: Humans, Apes, and Temporality in Scientific and Literary Narratives 15 - Angela Rawlings, Ecolinguistic Activism: How and Why to Rite 16 - Dorion Sagan, Death Writing: A Bestiary of the Biological Real 17 - Marianne Sommer, Experimenting with Bones 18 - Coda: Amalie Smith, The Sponge Diver or Bodies on the Seabed Notes on Contributors Index

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

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Book SynopsisDans Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones, Michał Obszyński étudie les enjeux esthétiques et idéologiques qui sous-tendent les principaux textes manifestaires et programmatiques publiés aux Caraïbes francophones depuis le début du XXe siècle jusqu’à nos jours. In Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophone, Michał Obszyński examines the aesthetic and ideological issues underlying the main manifestoes and programmatic texts published in the French speaking Caribbean since the early twentieth century to the present.Trade Review"Il est difficile de rendre justice, en quelques pages, à un ouvrage si complet et riche, surtout en ce qui concerne le choix judicieux et innovateur du corpus,qui n’est pas seulement focalisé sur les textes le plus célèbres, mais qui déniche de petites perles manifestaires de la Caraïbe, comme par exemple l’Enracinerrance (2001) de Jean‑Claude Charles. Un autre aspect à retenir concerne les analyses de Michał Obszyński, qui s’attachent aux moindres détails et qui font surtout preuve d’une grande habilité comparative." - Sara del Rossi, in: Romanica Silesiana (2016) "On recommandera l’ouvrage de M. Obszyński pour son double intérêt : par sa précision et son organisation à la fois chronologique et géographique, il constitue un manuel clair, pratique et accessible que l’on consultera avec profit pour ses analyses détaillées des textes théoriques, support fondamental de contextualisation des œuvres littéraires caribéennes. La dimension d’ensemble de l’ouvrage présente d’autre part une réflexion plus globale, à la fois comparatiste et transnationale, sur les littératures francophones caribéennes. L’ouvrage, qui s’achève par une invitation à un dépassement de l’espace dans lequel se circonscrivait l’étude des manifestes, permet enfin une remise en perspective des problématiques esthétiques et politiques des littératures francophones caribéennes au sein de la République mondiale des lettres." - Marine Cellier, « Un siècle de manifestes : projets littéraires & enjeux politiques en Caraïbe francophone », in: Acta fabula, vol. 18, n° 7 (Septembre 2017) "Michal Obszyński’s Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones : En/jeux idéologiques et poétiques offers an excellent chronological account and analysis of texts whose overt intention has been to seek “affirmation and worldly respect” [...] by putting forth theories of aesthetics, ethics, and/or identity. Obszyński emphasizes the constant push and pull between the need for European affirmation, on one hand, and the desire to better articulate an ethos that expresses itself aesthetically, and that rids itself of the need for European recognition, on the other. The major contributions of Obszyński’s study are: 1) its inventory and analysis of scholarly production in French from university milieus in the Caribbean, France, and Québec, work that is often ignored by scholars working in the English-based academy; 2) its establishment of criteria to assess the rhetorical devices through which a text asserts an ethical agenda; and 3) its consideration of more contemporary texts, such as the two iterations of Pour une littérature-monde (2007), within a longer French (and in-French but non-Hexagone) tradition of the literary manifesto." - Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, in: Journal of Haitian StudiesTable of ContentsRemerciements Introduction Chapitre I : L’écrit manifestaire : théorie et axes d'analyse La généalogie du manifeste littéraire Le manifeste littéraire « canonique » Les « quasi-manifestes » L’impact de la réception Les axes d’analyse Le manifeste en tant que discours persuasif Le texte manifestaire et son contexte social La question du champ littéraire L’internationalisation du champ littéraire Le manifeste littéraire et l’engagement Chapitre II : De l’assimilation culturelle à la prise de conscience identitaire Vers l’affirmation d’un « monde noir » Domaine haïtien Pour une légitimité politico-littéraire : un discours de l’entre-deux Défense de la nation et de la race Entre la francophilie et l’art pur : la génération de La Ronde (1898-1902) Un manifeste de la modernité : La Revue indigène (1927-1928) Le programme de l’indigénisme haïtien : Ainsi parla l’oncle (1928) de Jean Price-Mars Le manifeste du noirisme haïtien : Les Griot s (1938) Vers une solidarité supranationale : Bois-d’ébène (1945) de Jacques Roumain Le surréalisme haïtien : l’art et la révolution Domaine franco-antillais Sous le signe de l’assimilation René Maran et La Préface de Batouala (1921) Pour une solidarité des Noirs : La Revue du monde noir (1931-1932) Un manifeste antibourgeois : Légitime défense (1932) Les premières conceptions de la négritude : L’Étudiant noir (1935) Une révolution poétique : Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (1939) d’Aimé Césaire Vers une pensée archipélique : Tropiques (1941-1945) La poésie au service du discours manifestaire : « En guise de manifeste littéraire » (1942) d’Aimé Césaire Un « quasi-manifeste » de la négritude : Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française (1948) de Léopold S. Senghor Orphée noir de Jean-Paul Sartre et la critique de la négritude Les apories de la négritude : Peau noire, masques blancs (1952) de Frantz Fanon Chapitre III : Entre l'hybridité et les pièges de l'identité Domaine haïtien Pour l’autonomie de la littérature haïtienne : « Du réalisme merveilleux des Haïtiens » (1956) de Jacques-Stephen Alexis La littérature face à la dictature : Haïti littéraire et le spiralisme Le transit québécois Contre la pureté : Théories caraïbes (1996) de Joël Des Rosiers Échapper au spectre du pays natal : « L’Enracinerrance » (2001) de Jean-Claude Charles Une approche diasporique de l’écriture migrante : Repérages (2001) d’Émile Ollivier Domaine franco-antillais L’antillanité d’Édouard Glissant Une dissidence suspecte : Éloge de la créolité (1989) Vers une pensée relationnelle : Poétique de la relation (1990) et Traité du Tout-monde (1997) d’Édouard Glissant Vers une créolité ouverte : Écrire en pays dominé (1997) de Patrick Chamoiseau Épilogue : les voix franco-caribéennes dans Pour une littérature-monde (2007) Conclusion Bibliographie Abstract Index Table des matières

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

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Book SynopsisRadical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity, edited by Dunja M. Mohr and Birgit Däwes, explores the intersections between narrative disruption and continuity in post-9/11 narratives from an interdisciplinary transnational perspective, foregrounding the transatlantic cultural memory of 9/11. Contesting the earlier notion of a cataclysm that has changed ‘everything,’ and critically reflecting on American exceptionalism, the collection offers an inquiry into what has gone unchanged in terms of pre-9/11, post-9/11, and post-post-9/11 issues and what silences persist. How do literature and performative and visual arts negotiate this precarious balance of a pervasive discourse of change and emerging patterns of political, ideological, and cultural continuity?

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Book SynopsisThis volume sheds new light on how today’s peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized in a context of rapidly advancing globalization. Focusing on peripheral spaces, mobilities and aesthetics, it presents critical readings of, among others, Indian caste quarters, the Sahara, the South African backyard and European migration, as well as films, novels and artworks about marginalized communities and repressed histories. Together, these readings insist that the peripheral not only needs more visibility in political, economic and cultural terms, but is also invaluable for creating alternative perspectives on the globalizing present. Peripheral Visions combines sociological, cultural, literary and philosophical perspectives on the periphery, and highlights peripheral innovation and futurity to counter the lingering association of the peripheral with stagnation and backwardness.Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present, Esther Peeren, Hanneke Stuit and Astrid Van Weyenberg Part 1: Theorizing the Peripheral A Grammar of Peripheralization: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, Mireille Rosello The Infra-Periphery and Global Circuits of Symbolic Capital Accumulation, Paulina Aroch-Fugellie Fragments in Relation: Trajectories of/for an Unbound Europe, Sudeep Dasgupta Peripheral Worldscapes in Circulation: Towards a Productive Understanding of Untranslatability, Doro Wiese Part II: Peripheral Spaces The Center of All Concerns at the Periphery of the World: The Sahara Desert from a Nomadic Perspective, Luca Raineri Cast(e)ing Life: The Experience of Living in Peripheral Caste Quarters, Durgesh Solanki The South African Backyard as a Very Local Peripheral Space, Ena Jansen Part III: Peripheral Mobilities Mobile Peripheries? Contesting and Negotiating Peripheries in the Global Era of Mobility, Magdalena Ślusarczyk and Paula Pustułka “Repairing Europe”: A Critical Reading of Storytelling in European Cultural Projects, Astrid Van Weyenberg The Rise of the Peripheral Subject: Questions of Cultural Hybridity in the Greek “Crisis”, Evangelia Mademli Part IV: Peripheral Aesthetics Remains to be Un/Seen: Envisioning the Disappeared in Willie Doherty’s Ancient Ground and Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light, Paula Blair Shaping “Common Places”: Post-Soviet Narratives beyond Anti-Utopia in Ksenia Buksha’s The Freedom Factory and Igor Saveljev’s Tereshkova is Flying to Mars, Ksenia Robbe The Heterotopic Closet: Spectral Presences and Otherworlds in La Revue Monstre and Michael James O’Brien’s Interiors, Matthieu Foucher Contributors Name Index

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

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Book SynopsisIn Encountering Ability, Scott DeShong considers how ability and its correlative, disability, come into existence. Besides being articulated as physical, social, aesthetic, political, and specifically human, ability signifies and is signified such that signification itself is always in question. Thus the language of ability and the ability of language constitute discourse that undermines foundations, including any foundation for discourse or ability. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s theory of primary differentiation and Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of ethical relationality, Encountering Ability finds implications of music, theology, and cursing in the signification of ability, and also examines various literary texts, including works by Amiri Baraka and Marguerite Duras.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Signification of Ability 1. Metaphysics of Ability: The Nature of Performance 2. On the Origin of (Human) Ability: Language, Possibility, and Ethics 3. The Nightmare of Health: Approaching Disability 4. Dis/ability in Black and White: The Relationality of Political Ability 5. Ability as Response and Irresponsibility: Dialogue and Struggle 6. Denatured Criticism: Ethics, Violence, Improvisation between Levinas and Baraka 7. Encountering Dis/ability in the Work of Marguerite Duras Notes Works Cited About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisRecent narrative fiction and film increasingly exploit, explore and thematize the embodied mind, revealing the tenacity of a certain brand of humanism. The presence of narratively based concepts of personal identity even in texts which explore posthuman possibilities is strong proof that our basic understanding of what it means to be human has, despite appearances, remained mostly unchanged. This is so even though our perception of time has been greatly modified by the same technology which both interrupts and allows for the rearrangement of our experience of time at a rate and a level of ease which, until recently, had never been possible. Basing his views on a long line of philosophers and literary theorists such as Paul Ricoeur, Daniel Dennett and Francisco Varela, Escobar maintains in The Persistence of the Human that narrative plays an essential role in the process of constituting and maintaining a sense of self. It is narrative’s effect on the embodied mind which gives it such force. Narrative projects us into possible spaces, shaping a temporary corporeality termed the “meta-body,” a hybrid shared by the lived body and an imagined corporeal sense. The meta-body is a secondary embodiment that we inhabit for however long our narrative immersion lasts – something which, in today’s world, may be a question of milliseconds or hours. The more agreeable the meta-body is, the less happy we are upon being abruptly removed from it, though the return is essential. We want to be able to slip back and forth between this secondary embodiment and that of our lived body; each move entails both forgetting and remembering different subject positions (loss and recuperation being salient themes in the works which highlight this process). The negotiation of the transfer between these states is shaped by culture and technology and this is something which is precisely in flux now as multiple, ephemeral narrative immersion experiences are created by the different screens we come into contact with.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Human, Consciousness and Its Temporality Humanism Human Freedom What Makes One Human? Consciousness Daniel Dennett on Consciousness: The Human as Virtual Machine Temporality, Consciousness and Ethics Immersion and Framing: The Experience of Film and Literature Embodied Drafts 2 Testing the Human: Trauma, Memory and Consciousness Trauma and the Temporality of the Self Memento The Spectral Past Self Memory, Identity and Ethics Rendering Pain Visible in Memento 3 The Phantom Limb: Specters, Trauma, and Meta-body Meta-body The Body Artist Projecting the Self into a Different Emptiness Erasing the Self You are Made out of Time Recovering the Self The Bird and the Strand of Hair Sous le sable Water Time Lets Fall Its Drop Meta-body in Sous le sable Naissance des fantômes 4 Survival: Human and Posthuman The Temporality of the Paralyzed Body Starting with “I” Correcting the Past Destroying the Self to Save It Posthuman Consciousness Parfit on Transpersonal Survival Postpersonal Identity The Absent Machine The Machine Speaks Involuntary Immortality The Recuperative Project Self-possession Conclusion Pain and the Clean Slate The Other Penetrating / Occupying the Self Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUn Jésus postmoderne offers a thorough analysis of forty contemporary French novels depicting the life of Jesus. This study shows how these novels reflect recent advances in biblical exegesis and respond to today’s debate on fundamentalism and secularism. Un Jésus postmoderne propose une analyse détaillée de quarante romans français contemporains portant sur la vie de Jésus, romans qui reflètent les progrès de l’exégèse biblique mais aussi le débat actuel sur le fondamentalisme et la laïcité.Trade Review"[...] Un Jésus postmoderne passe en revue une quarantaine de récits français contemporains afin d’interroger la présence de la figure du Christ au sein des textes littéraires oscillant entre le roman et la biographie. Faisant preuve d’une grande érudition et mettant à profit une connaissance extrêmement vaste des différents évangiles, des débats théologiques, de la littérature française contemporaine et de la critique littéraire, l’auteur interroge le regain d’intérêt pour la figure christique surtout à partir des années 80 et examine tour à tour les facteurs qui en sont responsables : l’édition critique de plusieurs évangiles apocryphes, les travaux des historiens, les découvertes archéologiques de manuscrits, comme ceux de la Mer Morte, etc. - Rachel Bouvet, Religiologiques, août 2017 (http://www.religiologiques.uqam.ca/recen_2017/2017_BThibault.htm) "Les travaux de Bruno Thibault démontrent clairement le maintien de l'attrait exercé par la figure christique sur les écrivains contemporains. Un attrait que l'essayiste justifie, à juste titre, par la fascination du public pour les évangiles apocryphes [...], par les nombreuses publications consacrées à la recherche exégétique et historique [...], par les découvertes archéologiques liées aux origines du christianisme [...], et par un net détachement des religions traditionnelles, en Occident, depuis les années 1970. Thibault offre au lecteur de mieux comprendre en quoi le Messie séduit, aujourd'hui, les écrivains." - Katherine Rondou, Cahiers Internationaux de Symbolisme, 2018.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapitre 1: Deux récritures de la vie de Jésus Chapitre 2: Points de vue narratifs et enjeux idéologiques : Jésus et la question juive Chapitre 3: Points de vue narratifs et enjeux idéologiques : Jésus et la condition féminine Chapitre 4: Le Christ au seuil du nouveau millénaire Chapitre 5: Limitation de Jésus-Christ Chapitre 6: L’exil et le royaume Chapitre 7: Jésus mangé à toutes les sauces Conclusion

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Book SynopsisRégis Lefort envisage le phénomène de renversement, que ne cesse de convoquer Bernard Vargaftig dans son œuvre, comme une esthétique poétique, comme l’identité même du poème. Commençant par le dernier vers et remontant jusqu’au premier, le poète creuse la langue du poème pour en identifier la source. Régis Lefort investigates how the phenomenon of reversal, present throughout the writing of Bernard Vargaftig, constitutes a poetic aesthetic and the very identity of the poem. Beginning with the last line and working back to the first, the poet burrows deep into the language of the poem to identify its source.Table of ContentsTable des matières Remerciements Table des reproduction 1 Introduction: Esthétique du renversement 2 L’homme, l’œuvre 3 On n’y comprend rien 4 Bruna la lumière 5 L’énigme, le réel 6 Du silence à la convergence 7 L’enfance et son sillage 8 Les mots du poème 9 Espace, temps, distance. De la vitesse à l’image impossible 10 Le compagnonnage avec les peintres 11 S’orienter dans la lecture de: Un récit 12 Conclusion: Rester dans l’énigme du vivant 13 Entretien avec Bruna Zanchi Vargaftig 14 Photographies 15 Anthologie Bibliographie Index

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisThe present age of omnipresent terrorism is also an era of ever-expanding policing. What is the meaning — and the consequences — of this situation for literature and literary criticism? Policing Literary Theory attempts to answer these questions presenting intriguing and critical analyses of the interplays between police/policing and literature/literary criticism in a variety of linguistic milieus and literary traditions: American, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and others. The volume explores the mechanisms of formulation of knowledge about literature, theory, or culture in general in the post-Foucauldian surveillance society. Topics include North Korean dictatorship, spy narratives, censorship in literature and scholarship, Russian and Soviet authoritarianism, Eastern European cultures during communism, and Kafka’s work. Contributors: Vladimir Biti, Reingard Nethersole, Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, Sowon Park, Marko Juvan, Kyohei Norimatsu, Péter Hajdu, Norio Sakanaka, John Zilcosky, Yvonne Howell, and Takayuki Yokota-Murakami.Trade Review“Policing Literary Theory is a timely contribution to a field under attack and a university system that is in shambles and it usefully interrogates some of the causes of this situation through the effective metaphor of a crime-scene drama.” - Sean Braune, Brock University, in: Feminisms. Materialists, Transdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches 4.1 (2018) pp. 132-143Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Editors’ Introduction Part 1: Theories of Policing in Literature and Literary Criticism 1 After Theory: Politics against the Police?  Vladimir Biti 2 Theory Policing Reading or the Critic as Cop: Revisiting Said’s The World, the Text, and the Critic  Reingard Nethersole 3 Le cercle carré: On Spying and Reading  Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu Part 2: Case Studies 4 Dear Leader! Big Brother!: On Transparency and Emotional Policing  Sowon S. Park 5 The Charisma of Theory  Marko Juvan 6 Within or beyond Policing Norms: Yuri Lotman’s Theory of Theatricality  Kyohei Norimatsu 7 The Oppressive and the Subversive Sides of Theoretical Discourse  Péter Hajdu Part 3: Policing Literary Theory across the World 8 Roman Nikolayevich Kim and the Strange Plots of His Mystery Novellas  Norio Sakanaka 9 Kafka, Snowden, and the Surveillance State  John Zilcosky 10 The Genetics of Morality: Policing Science in Dudintsev’s White Robes  Yvonne Howell 11 In Lieu of a Conclusion: Policing as a Form of Epistemology – Three Narratives of the Japanese Empire  Takayuki Yokota-Murakami Index

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Book SynopsisArt and Science in Word and Image investigates the theme of ‘riddles of form’, exploring how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently between art, literature and the sciences. Using the impact of evolutionary biologist D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form on Modernist practices as springboard into the theme, contributors consider engagements with mysteries of natural form in painting, photography, fiction, etc., as well as theories about cosmic forces, and other fields of knowledge and enquiry. Hence the collection also deals with topics including cultural inscriptions of gardens and landscapes, deconstructions of received history through word and image artworks and texts, experiments in poetic materiality, graphic re-mediations of classic fiction, and textual transactions with animation and photography. Contributors are: Dina Aleshina, Márcia Arbex, Donna T. Canada Smith, Calum Colvin, Francis Edeline, Philippe Enrico, Étienne Février, Madeline B. Gangnes, Eric T. Haskell, Christina Ionescu, Tim Isherwood, Matthew Jarron, Philippe Kaenel, Judy Kendall, Catherine Lanone, Kristen Nassif, Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira, Eric Robertson, Frances Robertson, Cathy Roche-Liger, David Skilton, Melanie Stengele, Barry Sullivan, Alice Tarbuck, Frederik Van Dam.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: On Growth and Form, I: Engagements with D’Arcy Thompson’s Biomorphism in Word and Image Forme et croissance, I: Le Biomorphisme selon D’arcy Thompson à l’épreuve du texte et de l’image  1 Riddles of Form: D’Arcy Thompson in Word and Image  Matthew Jarron  2 The Influence of D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Formon the British Painters of the St. Ives School: The View from Russia  Dina Aleshina Part 2: On Growth and Form, Ii: Exploring Spirals in Nature, Literature and Art Forme et croissance, Ii: La Spirale dans la nature, la littérature et les arts  3 Beyond Formalism: Spirals in Photography from Steichen to Weston  Philippe Kaenel  4 Profondeur et relief de la spirale chez Marcel Duchamp  Márcia Arbex et Philippe Enrico  5 Stone Spirals and Retro Fiction: Tracy Chevalier, Joan Thomas, and Mary Anning  Catherine Lanone Part 3: The Scientific Imagination and Spacetime Visions Imaginaire scientifique et représentations de l’espace-temps  6 A Man of Vision: Robert Duncan Milne’s Scientific Fiction and Cinematic Time  Barry Sullivan  7 Wars of the Worlds: H.G. Wells’s Ekphrastic Style in Word and Image  Madeline B. Gangnes  8 “Space and Time, Sublimated”: Science in Balla, Boccioni, Cendrars, and Survage  Eric Robertson Part 4 Avant-gardening: (Horti)cultural Frontiers Past and Present Jardins et paysages: Des frontières (horti)culturelles hier et aujourd’hui  9 Diary of a Scotch Gardener: Thomas Blaikie, Travel Writing, and the Construction of Monceau and Bagatelle  Donna T. Canada-Smith  10 Reading Eden’s Riddles: Words in the Landscape, Texts in the Garden  Eric T. Haskell  11 Thomas Telford’s Tour in the Highlands: Shaping the Wild Landscape through Word and Image  Frances Robertson Part 5: Palimpsestuous Histories: Excavating Time in Visual Art and Writing Histoires palimpsestueuses: Formes écrites et formes visuelles de l’exploration temporelle  12 Burnsiana  Calum Colvin  13 The Art of Adriana Varejão: A Challenge to Brazilian Official History  Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira  14 Les Palimpsestes de Tom Phillips  Francis Edeline  15 Uncovering the Self: Explorations of Recovery in J.L. Carr’s A Month in the Country  Melanie Stengele Part 6: (Typo)graphic Poetry Poésie (typo)graphiqu  16 Warblers and Wild Strawberries: Rewards for Looking in the Works of Moschatel Press  Alice Tarbuck  17 New Forms for New Explorations and Experiences  Cathy Roche-Liger  18 Mapping the Text: A Practice-Led Analysis of the Creative Interfaces between Typography and Text  Tim Isherwood and Judy Kendall Part 7: Riddles of the Ninth Art: Exploring Adaptation in Graphic Novels Énigmes du neuvième art: L’Adaptation dans les romans graphiques  19 Trollope and Millais: Words and Images That Illustrate Each Other  David Skilton  20 Adapting as a Form of Remediation: A Benjaminian Perspective  Frederik Van Dam Part 8: Intermedial Circuits (Re)Charging Texts through Images and Images through Text Parcours intermédiaux: (Re)lectures croisées du texte et de l’image 21 Exploring the World with Rockwell Kent’s Candide: Intermedial Translation, Paratextual Framing, and Iconographic Landscape  Christina Ionescu  22 Manufacturing Wonder: Animating Pictures in Steven Millhauser’s Fiction  Étienne Février  23 Duane Michals: “Photographing Nothing”  Kristen Nassif Index

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Book SynopsisLa littérature du XXIe siècle débute avec le triomphe du document, des écritures d’enquête et d’information qui refusent la fiction. Ce volume vise est à inventorier et à comprendre les territoires de la non-fiction, désormais devenu un genre littéraire essentiel. The literature of the 21st century begins with the triumph of the document, the investigative and informative writings that reject fiction. The aim of this volume is to inventory and understand the territories of non-fiction, which has now become an essential literary genre.Table of ContentsTable des Matières Table des illustrations Notes sur les auteurs Introduction  Alexandre Gefen Partie 1 Les précurseurs d’un genre  1 Écrire l’instant. Formes et enjeux de la notation chez Roland Barthes et Georges Perec  Maryline Heck  2 Édouard Levé, entre fiction et non-fiction  Gaspard Turin  3 « Toutes les images disparaîtront ». Sur l’ouverture des Années d’Annie Ernaux  Anne Coudreuse Partie 2 La question du réel  4 Subjectiver le document ?  Claude Pérez  5 Portrait de l’écrivain contemporain en enquêteur. Enjeux formels et épistémologiques de l’enquête  Laurent Demanze  6 L’« exofiction » entre non-fiction, contrainte et exemplarité  Cornelia Ruhe  7 Légitimité et illégitimité des écrivains de terrain  Dominique Viart  8 Récits de la frontière. Sur ce qui fait fiction dans le « roman » de non-fiction  Frank Wagner  9 Littérature contemporaine : un « tournant documentaire » ?  Marie-Jeanne Zenetti  10 Dire le vrai par le faux. Devenirs du « réalisme » contemporain  Morgane Kieffer Partie 3 Expérimentations de l’extrême contemporain  11 Science et non-fiction : Le Chat de Schrödinger  Isabelle Danguy  12 Poétiques de la voix chez Emmanuel Carrère et Olivier Rolin  Yona Hanhart-Marmor  13 L’imitation de Jésus-Christ. Le Royaumed’Emmanuel Carrère et les apories du roman documentaire  Bruno Thibault  14 La guerre civile des noms : histoire/littérature/document. Leçon de Pascal Quignard  Nenad Ivić  15 Valérie Valère et la colère du sujet  Yaelle Sibony-Malpertu Partie 4 Francophonie nord-américaine  16 Petit tour d’horizon du Québec et de sa non-fiction  Sophie Létourneau  17 La trilogie 1984 d’Éric Plamondon. Ou comment rédiger des « épopées non fictionnelles » à l’époque de Wikipédia  Eva Voldřichová Beránková Partie 5 Croisements génériques  18 Éthique, esthétique et politique des théâtres de la non-fiction. Le cas de C’est la viede Mohamed El Khatib  Barbara Métais-Chastanier  19 Recomposer le néo-polar à l’épreuve de la géopolitique. La mobilisation romanesque de la non-fiction dans Pukhtu de DOA  Louis Dubost  20 « Cette conformité organique de nos écrits ». Le ton authentique comme marqueur de la non-fiction  Jean-Luc Martinet Partie 6 Le rapport à l’image  21 Récits d’expérience : raconter et dessiner la maladie  Henri Garric  22 Essai et industries culturelles. L’univers d’Hubert Reeves, du texte à la bande dessinée  Maxime Hureau  23 Se situer pour s’instituer. Le sujet et son territoire dans les écrits sur l’art de Maryline Desbiolles  Dominique Vaugeois Index

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

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Book SynopsisGoethe in 1827 famously claimed that national literatures did not mean very much anymore, and that the epoch of world literature was at hand. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, in the so-called "transnational turn" in literary studies, interest in world literature, and in how texts move beyond national or linguistic boundaries, has peaked. The authors of the 18 articles making up Literary Transnationalism(s) reflect on how literary texts move between cultures via translation, adaptation, and intertextual referencing, thus entering the field of world literature. The texts and subjects treated range from Caribbean, American, and Latin American literature to European migrant literatures, from the uses of pseudo-translations to the organizing principles of world histories of literature, from the dissemination of knowledge in the middle ages to circulation of literary journals and series in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors include, amongst others, Jean Bessière, Johan Callens, Reindert Dhondt, César Domínguez, Erica Durante, Ottmar Ette, Kathleen Gyssels, Reine Meylaerts, and Djelal Kadir. Authors discussed comprise, amongst others, Carlos Fuentes, Ernest Hemingway, Edouard Glissant.

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

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

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Book SynopsisPicturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making American places. Its collected essays epitomize not only how pictures situate us in a specific place, but also how they create a sense of such mutable place-worlds. Understanding photographs as prime sites of knowledge production and advocates of socio-political transformations, a transnational set of scholars reveals how images enact both our perception and conception of American environments. They investigate the power photography yields in shaping our ideas of self, nation, and empire, of private and public space, through urban, landscape, wasteland and portrait photography. The volume radically reconfigures how pictures alter the development of American places in the past, present, and future.Table of Contents List of Figures  Introduction: Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place  Kerstin Schmidt and Julia Faisst 1 From Sewers to Selfies: The Evolution of Photographs into Infrastructure  Mitchell Schwarzer 2 Nowhere, Now Here: Lee Friedlander’s Self Portrait and the National Ground  Shamoon Zamir 3 Photography, Revision, and the City in Henry James’s New York Edition and Alvin Langdon Coburn’s London  Emily Setina 4 Gogol + Nikhil = Nikon? Power, Place, and Photography in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake  Michael Wutz 5 Relations to the Real: The Fugitive Documentary of Stan Douglas and James Casebere  Kerstin Schmidt 6 Waste Landscapes: Photographing the Course of Empire  Miles Orvell 7 Wear Your Shelter: Climate Change Photography and Mary Mattingly’s Nomadographies  Julia Faisst 8 At Home: The Visual Culture of Privacy  Joseph Imorde 9 Pictorialism in the American West and Regionalism Writ-Large  Rachel McLean Sailor 10 The Governing Eye: Heart Mountain through the Lens of War Relocation Authority and Bureau of Reclamation Photographs  Eric J. Sandeen 11 Over Here, Over There, Down Below: American Photographers Confront the Great War  David M. Lubin 12 Remapping the Geography of Class: Photography, Protest, and the Politics of Space in the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign  Katharina Fackler 13 The Power of Place in Holocaust Postmemory Photography  Bettina Lockemann 14 Non-Places: Stone Quarries Near Eichstaett  Hubert P. Klotzeck  Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, the performance and the textual dimension of storytelling is investigated and expanded through a series of multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies that focus upon the materiality and the embodiment of the act of telling.

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisHow to Do Things with Affects develops affect as a highly productive concept for both cultural analysis and the reading of aesthetic forms. Shifting the focus from individual experiences and the human interiority of personal emotions and feelings toward the agency of cultural objects, social arrangements, and aesthetic matter, the book examines how affects operate and are triggered by aesthetic forms, media events, and cultural practices. Transgressing disciplinary boundaries and emphasizing close reading, the collected essays explore manifold affective transmissions and resonances enacted by modernist literary works, contemporary visual arts, horror and documentary films, museum displays, and animated pornography, with a special focus on how they impact on political events, media strategies, and social situations. Contributors: Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Maria Boletsi, Eugenie Brinkema, Pietro Conte, Anne Fleig, Bernd Herzogenrath, Tomáš Jirsa, Matthias Lüthjohann, Susanna Paasonen, Christina Riley, Jan Slaby, Eliza Steinbock, Christiane Voss.Trade Review"The major strengths of How to Do Things with Affects [...] are the multidisciplinary exemplification of a very general schema and the refinement of what exactly is meant by the stylish phrase, 'to restore agency to form.' Scholars working to recuperate literature and art as suitable objects of inquiry in affect studies will find several essays here that bolster that effort. All in all, if something of a formalist turn is underway in affect theory, How to Do Things with Affects [...] is an enriching volume that can serve as an introduction to that turn or an abundant development of it. - Stephanie Amon, Afterimage (2020) 47 (2): 93–96.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Mapping Affective Operations  Ernst van Alphen and Tomáš Jirsa PART 1 Triggering the Affects 1 Reading Irony through Affect: the Non-Sovereign Ironic Subject in C.P. Cavafy’s Diary  Maria Boletsi 2 (An)Aesthetics of Affect: the Case of Hyper-Realism  Pietro Conte 3 Relational Affect: Perspectives from Philosophy and Cultural Studies  Jan Slaby 4 (Nearly) Nothing to Express : Horror : some Tread : a Toroid  Eugenie Brinkema 5 Integrating Affect and Language: Essayism as an Affective Practice in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities  Anne Fleig and Matthias Lüthjohann PART 2 Sensations, Resonances, and Transformations 6 Affective Disfigurations: Faceless Encounters between Literary Modernism and the Great War  Tomáš Jirsa 7 Monstrous Resonances: Affect and Animated Pornography  Susanna Paasonen 8 Reading for Affects: Francis Bacon and the Work of Sensation  Ernst van Alphen PART 3 Affects as Triggers 9 Affectively Effective: Affect as an Artistic-Political Strategy  Mieke Bal 10 Affect Is the Medium  Christiane Voss 11 Et in Academia Ego: Affect and Academic Writing  Bernd Herzogenrath 12 The Arab Spring’s Stranger: the Affective Media Phenomenon of The Girl in the Blue Bra  Christina Riley 13 Affective Exchange in Portraiture: to Follow J. Jackie Baier into the Photographic Dissolve  Eliza Steinbock Name Index

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Book SynopsisSelf-reflection is fundamental for human thinking on many levels. Philosophy has described the mind's capacity to observe itself as a core element of human existence. Political and social sciences have shown how modern democracies depend on society's ability to critically reflect on their own values and practices. And literature of all ages has proven self-reflexivity to be a crucial trait of cultural production. This volume provides the first diachronic panorama of genres, forms, and functions of literary self-reflection and their connections with social, political and philosophical discourses from the 17th century to the present. Far beyond the usual focus on postmodernist opacity, these contributions present a rich tradition of critical transparency: Literary texts that show us what is behind and beyond them.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Read Thyself: Cultural Self-reflection and the Relevance of Literary “Self”-labels  Florian Lippert and Marcel Schmid Reflections on Reflection Autoreferentiality, Autoreflexivity, Selftransparency  Oliver Jahraus – 1600 – 1 Cervantes’s and Unamuno’s Metalepsis Hope Unraveled in Don Quixote: Self-Reflexivity and the Problem of Metalepsis in Cervantes, Unamuno, and Bloch  Konstantin Mierau – 1700 – 2 Hamann’s Latent Parrhesia Intertextual Exploration of the Self in Sokratische Denkwürdigkeiten  Andrea Krauss 3 Klopstock’s Historiography Written out of Time: Inventing What Happened in Klopstock  Kristina Mendicino – 1800 – 4 Kleist’s Performativity Transmission Kleist  Marcel Schmid 5 Mallarmé’s Rhetoric Allegorical Self-Reflexivity in Mallarmé’s Sonnet en-x  Evelyn Dueck 6 Nietzsche’s Masks “Aber ich notire mich, für mich”: Nietzsche and Self-Reflection  Barbara Naumann – 1900 – 7 Celan and the Timeless A Secret Echo Outside of Time: Paul Celan and the Autumn Crocus  Jason Kavett Letter from Paul Celan to Gisèle Celan-Lestrange  Translated by Jason Kavett 8 Pastior’s Poetics The Medium of Poetry  Jörg Kreienbrock – 2000 – 9 Fforde’s Intermediality Books Without Borders: Self-Referentiality and Intermedial Games in Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next Series  Vera Alexander 10 Autobiographies: Kureishi, Miller, Wiebe, Coetzee, and Bechdel Self-Reflexivity in Contemporary English Auto/Biographies  Anne Rüggemeier 11 Brandt’s and Ja, Panik’s Auto-fiction “Only half of what I am saying is true:” Deconstructing Authorial Authority in Contemporary German Literature  Antonius Weixler Index

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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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Book SynopsisCet ouvrage interroge la pratique fréquente du changement de style chez les écrivains français depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, en croisant les approches. À l’époque moderne, avoir du style ne se limite pas à en avoir un seul. This collection addresses the common practice of the change of style among French authors since the end of the nineteenth century, crossing various approaches. During the contemporary period evidencing Style does not simply imply a one-way evidence.Table of ContentsNotices sur les auteurs Introduction : Pour penser l’évolution d’un style d’auteur Partie 1: Angles d’approche 1 Les êtres d’un lieu commun ? Conceptions du style de la fin du XVIIIe siècle au début du XXe siècle  Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gerand 2 Changement de style, changement de maison  Olivier Bessard-Banquy Partie 2: Parcours de polygraphes 3 Portrait d’auteure en démiurge polymorphe : Marguerite Yourcenar  Bruno Blanckeman 4 Les modulations de la représentation de discours dans l’écriture d’Annie Ernaux  Bérengère Moricheau-Airaud Partie 3: Changer la poésie 5 Recommencements poétiques  Serge Linarès 6 Désengagement surréaliste et dégagement d’un style chez René Char  Stéphanie Thonnerieux 7 Les évolutions poétiques de Genet : expérimentations stylistiques et opportunisme littéraire  Élise Nottet-Chedeville Partie 4: L’évolution des romans 8 La prose de Marguerite Duras : des styles à l’idiolecte  Sandrine Vaudrey-Luigi 9 Une rupture dans la continuité : Claude Simon et l’avènement du Nouveau Nouveau Roman  Ilias Yocaris 10 « Autant de départs, autant de styles » ? L’écriture de la phrase chez Michel Chaillou  Pauline Bruley Partie 5: Style d’écriture et style de vie 11 Crise de la foi et crise de l’écriture : mutations du style aphoristique (Barrès, Martin du Gard, Gide)  Stéphanie Bertrand 12 Changer de style, changer de décor, changer de peau : les mutations narratives dans l’œuvre de J. M. G. Le Clézio  Bruno Thibault Partie 6: Solutions de continuité 13 Henri de Régnier : moderne, classique, moderne classique ?  Élodie Dufour 14 Echenoz a-t-il (vraiment) changé de style ?  Stéphane Chaudier 15 Roland Barthes : le regard du caméléon  Claude Coste Index

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Book SynopsisLe Jeu de l’ambiguïté et du mot se propose d’analyser la fonctionnalité littéraire de l’ambiguïté et du jeu de mots chez Apollinaire, Prévert, Tournier et Beckett. Les doubles sens peuvent être à la base de la genèse et de la structuration de leurs œuvres. Le Jeu de l’ambiguïté et du mot focuses on the literary function of the ambiguities and wordplay in the work of Apollinaire, Prévert, Tournier and Beckett. These language games can be the basis for the genesis and structuring of their works.Table of ContentsListe d’illustrations et figures Remerciements 1 Introduction  1 Ambiguïté  2 Ambiguïté intentionnelle  3 Jeu de mots  4 Pour une anatomie de l’ambiguïté intentionnelle et du jeu de mots 2 Le Monostique d’Apollinaire ou les Contorsions d’un vers solitaire  1 Apollinaire et la fonction créatrice des jeux de mots  2 Chantre : intratextualités  3 Chantre : intertextualités  4 Conclusion 3 Jacques Prévert : Le Cheval rouge  1 La méconnaissance  2 La critique  3 Simplicité apparente contre richesse cachée  4 Analyse d’un parangon de la poésie de Prévert : Le Cheval rouge  5 Conclusion 4 Sémiotique et Onomastique dans Le Roi des aulnes de Michel Tournier  1 Introduction  2 L’interprétation des signes  3 De quels signes s’agit-il ?  4 L’onomastique  5 Conclusion 5 Réécriture et « Bricolage » : Gilles & Jeanne de Michel Tournier  1 Introduction  2 Mythographies  3 Gilles & Jeanne  4 Tournier et Bataille (premier intertexte)  5 Tournier et Là-Bas de Huysmans (second intertexte)  6 Tournier et Gilles und Jeanne de Georg Kaiser (troisième intertexte)  7 Tournier et Gilles de Rays. Une grande figure diabolique de Roland Villeneuve (quatrième intertexte)  8 Tournier et La Passion de Gilles de Pierre Mertens (cinquième intertexte)  9 Questions de titre  10 Conclusion  Annexe 6 Aux confins du texte à dire et de la didascalie  1 Introduction  2 Nagg et Nell, Tandem immobile : analyse de quelques effets sonores et visuels dans Fin de partie  3 Le discours didascalique dans En attendant Godot et Pas 7 Conclusion Références bibliographiques Index nominum

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Book SynopsisÉcrivaine inclassable, Hélène Cixous offre une écriture dont les grands thèmes – le père mort, le pays perdu et la mère étrangère –, aux fortes résonances autobiographiques, s’affirment continuellement tout en multipliant les échos poétiques et philosophiques. La question de l’origine, à la fois singulière et plurielle, donne lieu à une écriture-pensée d’une subjectivité qui montre ses enracinements, revisite les lieux et les liens, mais (se) défait aussi des mythes de l’origine. Ce volume se propose d’étudier les marqueurs de la féminité, de l’« algériance » et de la judéité comme les principaux lieux d’interrogation de l’origine, auxquels s’ajoutent la filiation allemande mise en lumière dans les textes les plus récents, Gare d’Osnabrück à Jérusalem et Une autobiographie allemande. Le volume ouvre par un inédit d’Hélène Cixous, « Un legs empoisonné ». Hélène Cixous offers us an unclassifiable oeuvre, the main themes of which - the dead father, the lost country and the foreign mother -, all autobiographically inspired, assert themselves as such while offering the reader continuously new poetical and philosophical insights. The question of origin, either singular or multiple, gives rise to an écriture-pensée of a subjectivity which shows its roots, revisits places and relationships, but also breaks down myths of origin. This collection of essays proposes to study the markers of femininity, “algériance”, Jewishness and, as expressed in Cixous’ latest works of fiction, the German filiation, as the main places of questioning origin. “Un legs empoisonné”, an unpublished text by Hélène Cixous, opens the collection.Trade Review“Whilst very diverse, the contributions all emphasize the return to the impossibility of origins, albeit through different points of focus: the father, the mother, places, Jewish identity and history, among others. What they suggest, particularly given the inclusion of ‘Un legs empoisonné’, is that this alternative inscription of deferred roots, an exploration of the past that generates dialogue and renewed forms of connection, is itself a valuable, if potentially difficult or compromised legacy.” - Kathryn Robson, French Studies, 2021. “Although these returns to familiar topoi might seem to suggest a narrowing focus appropriate to a mature writer, these volume’s scholars have recognized Cixous’s continuing amplification of language, place, and being, a move that confirms that écriture feminine cixousienne continues to overflow with promise for author and readers alike. In short, this collection offers a clarifying understanding of a great author of our time.” - Eilene Hoft-March, Women in French Studies, 2021. “Un très bel ouvrage, partout éloquent et richement pertinent, qui pénètre jusqu’au coeur même d’une très grande oeuvre.” - Michael Bishop, Dalhousie University Canada, in Dalhousie French Studies Vol. 116, 2020 pp. 192-194Table of ContentsTable des matières Sigles et abréviations Notices sur les auteurs  Introduction  Kathleen Gyssels et Christa Stevens  1 Le legs empoisonné  Hélène Cixous  2 Au commencement, toujours, le Paradis : la figure du jardin dans l’œuvre d’Hélène Cixous  Christa Stevens  3 Totems et tabous : les récits d’enfance d’Albert Memmi et d’Hélène Cixous  Kathleen Gyssels  4 Motjuif et maujuif chez Hélène Cixous  Maxime Decout  5 Possible car impossible : paradoxes et complexifications du retour aux origines chez Hélène Cixous  Catherine Phillips  6 « Ce serait autre chose » : Si près ou quels (re)tours ? Enrager la mort  Hervé Sanson  7 Écrire à partir des pertes  Metka Zupančič  8 Osnabrück, Berlin: « villes promises » et villes vécues. Les dessous du dialogue d’Hélène Cixous et Cécile Wajsbrot dans Une autobiographie allemande  Annelies Schulte Nordholt  9 L’Amour de l’orange aussi est politique. Genèse, vision et assimilation dans les œuvres d’Hélène Cixous et de Clarice Lispector  Oriane Petteni

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Book SynopsisThis collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the relevance of borders and bordering as a spatial paradigm in Anglophone studies. It sets out to provide a critical counter-narrative to the 1990s globalization argument of a “borderless” world by insisting on the significant roles borders play. The essays range in subject matter from geography, history, British and American literature to painting and Reggae music and map out different conceptualisations of the border: place, line, process, contact zones, etc. The volume’s cross-border “narrative” serves as a point of communication between the local and the global, between Europe and America, between different literary and artistic genres, thus challenging the divides of geography and literature, between “real” territorial borders and their “fictional” counterparts.Table of Contents Acknowledgments  Notes on Contributors  Introduction: Where to Draw the Line?   Ciaran Ross  Prologue: Borders and the Moment of Bewilderment   Cornelius Crowley Part 1: Lines of Demarcations: Geopolitical Borders and Boundaries  Introduction to Part 1 1 Union, Home Rule and Partition: Irish Borders Mapped and Remapped   Pauline Collombier-Lakeman 2 Delimiting a Utopian Space: The Borders of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in the 19th Century   Marine Bellégo 3 The Historiography of the American West: Frontier(s), Borders, Borderlands   Nathalie Massip 4 The Inner Border: Edward Hopper’s Reimagining the Frontier   Hélène Gaillard 5 Combining a Closed and Open Border in the Terrorism Era: The Example of the Canada/US Border   Pierre-Alexandre Beylier Part 2: Aesthetic Borders and Liminal Space  Introduction to Part 2 6 Borders and Liminal Spaces in 16th-Century Collected Poetry: A Spatial Approach to the Advent of the English Sonnet Sequence in Print   Rémi Vuillemin 7 Plotting a Line: Liminality and Border as Concept and Device in Walter Scott’s Rob Roy(1817)   Matthew Smith 8 The Insular Border as a Fluid Space of Transgression: Treasure Island’s Adventurous Aesthetics   Julie Gay Part 3: Crossing Borders: Considerations of the Other Side  Introduction to Part 3 9 Distant Tongues: The Border Poetics of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha   Amanda Murphy 10 Ex-centrism and Intersections: Crossing the Border in Continental Drift by Russell Banks   Marine Paquereau 11 Reggae Outernational: Borders and Trans/National Identity in Jamaican Popular Music   David Bousquet 12 Navigating the Restless “Boundaries of Migration”: Ruth Padel’s The Mara Crossingas a “Matter-Realist” Exploration of the Border between the Human and the Nonhuman   Maria Tang  Index of Names

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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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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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Book SynopsisThe Culture of Boredom is a collection of essays by well-known specialists reflecting from philosophical, literary, and artistic perspectives, in which the reader will learn how different disciplines can throw light on such an appealing, challenging, yet still not fully understood, phenomenon. The goal is to clarify the background of boredom, and to explore its representation through forgotten cross-cutting narratives beyond the typical approaches, i.e. those of psychology or psychiatry. For the first time this experienced group of scholars gathers to promote a cross-border dialogue from a multidisciplinary perspective.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors emsp;Introduction: Humanities Still Have a Say in Boredom Studies emsp;emsp;Josefa Ros Velasco emsp;emsp;Part 1 Boredom and Society 1 Boredom and the Disciplinary Imaginary emsp;emsp;Elizabeth S. Goodstein 2 The Multitude Strikes Back? Boredom in an Age of Semiocapitalism emsp;emsp;Michael E. Gardiner 3 Boredom: a Political Issue emsp;emsp;George García Quesada 4 About Boredom: Hermeneutic Looks and Existential Analysis in Modernity emsp;emsp;Juan Diego Hernández Albarracín and Carlos Fernando Álvarez González 5 Too Much Time: Changing Conceptions of Boredom, Progress, and the Future among Young Men in Urban Ethiopia, 2003–2015 emsp;emsp;Daniel Mains emsp;emsp;Part 2 Boredom and Literature 6 Immersed in Boredom: the Architecture of Brisbane in Johnno emsp;emsp;Christian Rafael Parreño Roldán 7 The Presence of Literature: Georg Büchner’s Comedy Leonce und Lena emsp;emsp;Wolfram Malte Fues 8 Upper-Class Female Boredom in Marriage in 19th-Century Western Literature as a Manifestation of Socio-Cultural Pressures emsp;emsp;Josefa Ros Velasco and Nancy Provolt 9 Men Walking into Woods. Boredom, Nihilism, and the Characters of Erlend Loe emsp;emsp;Martin Demant Frederiksen Part 3 Boredom and Creativity 10 The Art of Boring (Oneself) emsp;emsp;Jorge Andrés Espinoza Cáceres 11 Perfect Boredom: From Disillusion to Creativity emsp;emsp;Sergio Velasco Caballero 12 A Cartography of Boredom: Reading for Affectivity in Contemporary Poetry emsp;emsp;Kristiine Kikas 13 Boredom and Institutional Critique emsp;emsp;Judy Freya Sibayan emsp;Postface Rhymed Reflections on Boredom emsp;emsp;Francisco Cardoso Gomes de Matos Index

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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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Book SynopsisIn the past years, reflections on Jewish literatures and theoretical and methodological approaches discussed in Comparative Literature have converged. Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures. Transfer, Mediality and Situativity brings together close readings and contextualizations of Jewish literatures with theories discussed in Comparative and World Literature Studies. The contributions are arranged in five chapters capturing central processes, actors and dynamics in the making of literatures, namely Literary Agents, Literary Figures, Writing Voids, Making of Literatures and Perceiving and Creating Languages. The volume seeks to illuminate the interrelations between literary systems, and to highlight Jewish literatures as a prism for encounters on the levels of text, discourse and culture, and their transformative force.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Olaf Terpitz and Marianne Windsperger PART 1 Literary Agents 1 “Folk-lore”, Modernism and Psychoanalysis in the Work of Isaac Bashevis Singer  Aneta Stepien 2 Georg Brandes and the Transnational Vision  Søren Blak Hjortshøj PART 2  Literary Figures 3 Autobiography as an Intermediary between Russian and Yiddish Literature Osip Dymov’s Vos ikh gedenk (Zikhroynes)/What I remember (Memoirs)  Thomas Mikula 4 Nokhem Shtif and His Berlin Feuilletons  Holger Nath 5 Literary Figures of Encounter and Transformation Ambivalences of the “Schlemiel,” the “Schelm” and the “Don Quijote”  Olaf Terpitz PART 3 Writing Voids 6 Narrating the Other, Discovering the Self?  Recuperations of Yugoslav Jewry in Miljenko Jergovic’s Ruta Tannenbaum  Yvonne Zivkovic 7 “There Is No Need for Thriller Novels about Deportation!” The Postwar Reception and Criticism of the ‘Literature of Experience’ in Hungary  Tamás Kisantal 8 Georges Perec’s Writing Space Recherche d’espace perdu  Thomas Nolden PART 4 Making of Literatures 9 Surfaces of Encounter Modern Hebrew Literature and Its Readers in the Early Twentieth Century  Lilah Nethanel 10 A Kulturnation in Verse Yiddish and German Folk Poetry Anthologies in the National Jewish Discourse  Carmen Reichert PART 5 Perceiving and Creating Languages 11 Past Pastries. Remembering and Rewriting Judeo-Spanish Food Names in Contemporary Literatures  Elisabeth Güde Index

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Book SynopsisLe présent volume offre une série d’études de cas sur le phénomène de l’annotation en littérature. Parmi les auteurs étudiés : Balzac, Chateaubriand, Eliot, Mallarmé, Proust. The purpose of Des notes et des textes is to consider the annotation process, by authors, by readers, in a total new way, and with a strong focus on French and francophone literatureTable of ContentsTable des matières Figures Notices biographiques  1 Qu’est-ce qu’une note ? Introduction en dix points  Franc Schuerewegen  2 La littérature est-elle annotable ?  Vincent Jouve  3 Trop de notes. Lire la traduction en notes de bas de page  Anikó Ádám  4 Eliot annotateur de lui-même. A propos des notes de Waste Land  Riccardo Campi  5 Du vrai, du beau, des notes. À propos d’une note de Chateaubriand  Claude Perez  6 Titre à préciser (en note*)  Emmanuel Bouju  7 Annoter / Mani-puler  Nathalie Roelens  8 Corriger sa vie (Genette)  Karen Haddad  9 Problèmes de l’annotation numérique  Andrea Del Lungo  10 De la note en bas de page à la Toile : lecture critique du texte littéraire à l’âge du numérique  Paula Coutinho et Fátima Outeirinho  11 Qu’il en résulte une partition ! Lire, annoter Un Coup De Dés ?  Maria de Jesus Cabral  12 Marges de Chateaubriand. Plaidoyer en faveur des notes des Aventures du dernier Abencérage  Marika Piva  13 Des textes et des notes (lettre à un ami)  Franc Schuerewegen Index

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Book SynopsisExamining the cultural dynamics of translation and transfer, Cultural Transfer Reconsideredproposes new insights into both epistemological and analytical questions raised in the research area of cultural transfer. Seeking to emphasize the creative processes of transfer, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink have invited specialized researchers to determine the role of structures and agents in the dynamics of cultural encounters. With its particular focus on the North, as opposed to the South, the volume problematizes national paradigms. Presenting various aspects of tri- and multilateral transfers involving Scandinavian countries, Cultural Transfer Reconsidered opens perspectives regarding the ways in which textual, intertextual and artistic practices, in particular, pave the way for postcolonial interrelatedness. Contributors: Miriam Lay Brander, Petra Broomans, Michel Espagne, Karin Hoff, Steen Bille Jørgensen, Anne-Estelle Leguy, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Walter Moser, Magnus Qvistgaard, Anna Sandberg, Udo Schöning, Wiebke Röben de Alencar XavierTable of ContentsAuthors’ Biographies Introduction: Reframing the Cultural Transfer Approach  Steen Bille Jørgensen and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink Part 1: Transnational Processes of Cultural Mediation – Dynamic Relation 1 What Are Cultural Transfers? The Russian and Scandinavian Cases  Michel Espagne 2 Cultural Transfers in the Shadow of Methodological Nationalism  Magnus Qvistgaard 3 The Meta-Literary History of Cultural Transmitters and Forgotten Scholars in the Midst of Transnational Literary History  Petra Broomans 4 Representations of Brittany in Norwegian and Finnish Women’s Paintings: How French Realism and Naturalism Took Over Nordic Art and Contributed to Renew Finnish and Norwegian Painting at the End of the 19th Century  Anne-Estelle Leguy Part 2: Aspects of Textual Transfers – Comparison, Intertextuality and Translation 5 Cultural Transfer and Intertextuality: Yambo Ouologuem and the Dynamics of Literary and Cultural Rewriting in the (Post)Colonial African Context  Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink 6 The Cultural Transfer of Genre: The Case of Aphorism in Déwé Gorodé (New Caledonia), Par les temps qui courent  Miriam Lay Brander 7 Textual Transfers and the Poetics of Translation – Literature in Translation, Translation in Literature  Steen Bille Jørgensen Part 3: Perspectives: Types of Distance and Proximity 8 Cultural Transfer and Its Complexities: A Study on Transnational and Transhistorical Mobilities of the Baroque  Walter Moser 9 From Transferts culturels to Transferências culturais: Interdisciplinary and Methodical Dynamics and Translations of the Concept in the Brazilian Context  Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier 10 Relations in a Cultural Triangle: Aspects of Cultural Mediation between Germany, France, and Scandinavia  Karin Hoff, Anna Sandberg and Udo Schöning  Translated by Sabina Fazli Index of Names

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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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Book SynopsisLiu Zaifu 劉再復 is a name that has already been ingrained within contemporary Chinese literary history. This landmark volume presents Anglophone readers with Liu’s profound reflections on Chinese literature and culture at different times. These critical essays deal with cultural criticism and literary theory, literary history, and individual modern and contemporary Chinese writers.Trade Review"From an editorial perspective, the selection of essays and the quality of the translations are very good, and both the volume’s preface (authored by David Der-wei Wang) and introduction (authored by the volume’s co-editors) are excellent. The translators and editors have included in-line Chinese characters for all proper names, titles of texts, and some specialized terminology, and have also added bibliographic footnotes where needed...The present volume offers English-language readers a small sampling of [Liu Zaifu's] formidable body of work." -Carlos Rojas, Duke University, in MCLC Resource Center Publication (Copyright November, 2021)Table of ContentsForeword: “Standing Alone atop the Mountain; Walking Freely under the Sea” Acknowledgments Introduction  Liu Jianmei and Howard Y. F. Choy part 1: Literary History 1 Literary History as Paradox  Translated by Howard Y. F. Choy 2 The End of Modern Chinese Revolutionary Literature  Translated by Steven Day 3 From the Monologic Era to the Polyphonic Era   An Outline of Forty Years of Literary Development in Mainland China  Translated by Ke Wei and Torbjörn Lodén part 2: Cultural Criticism and Literary Theory 4 Traditional Chinese Culture’s Designs on Humanity  Translated by Deirdre Sabina Knight 5 On the Stylistic Revolution of Literary Criticism in the 1980s  Translated by Ann Huss 6 Farewell to the Gods   Contemporary Chinese Literary Theory’s Fin-de-siècle Struggle  Translated by Steven Day 7 Literature Exiling the State  Translated by Torbjörn Lodén 8 The Dimensions of Modern Chinese Literature and Their Limitations  Translated by Eileen J. Cheng part 3: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Writers 9 Lu Xun and Chinese/Foreign Culture  Translated by Alan Berkowitz and Haili Kong 10 Miracle and Tragedy in Modern Chinese Literature   In Honor of Lu Xun’s 120th Birthday  Translated by Lianying Shan 11 Eileen Chang’s Fiction and C. T. Hsia’s A History of Modern Chinese Fiction  Translated by Yunzhong Shu 12 Escape of the Mental Prisoner   In Honor of Gao Xingjian  Translated by Nicole Elizabeth Barnes 13 A Comparative Study of Gao Xingjian and Mo Yan  Translated by Jessica Yeung Postcript: Translation, Quotation, and Expatriation Selected Bibliography Index

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

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