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Book SynopsisLetters from Khartoum is a partial biography of Scottish educator, D.R. Ewen, who taught English Literature at the University of Khartoum from the time of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium through to Independence and the October 1964 Revolution. The administrative history of the then unified nation – North (Middle Eastern) and South (African) – makes the Sudan a unique setting to explore the workings of colonial education. The purpose of teaching English literature there was to remake the Muslim Sudanese of the North as the proxy agents of British culture who would administrate the first independent nation in Africa. But Ewen also was remade in the process – by his relationships with his students and colleagues, and by his own teaching innovations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on the Text Historical Nomenclature List of Figures  Introduction  1951 – Native Quarter  1952 – Crossing the Bar  1953 – Serpent’s Tooth  1954 – Assassins at the Tea Party  1955 – Mutiny  1956 – Crisis  1957 – Birds over the Bottomless Lake  1958 – An End to Democracy  1959 – Bogged on the Runway  1960 – The Year of Africa  1961 – Cold War  1962 – Backwater Paradise  1963 – The Widening Gyre  1964 – Revolution  1965 – Leaving  Afterword  A Who’s Who of Ewen’s Sudan  Works Cited  Index

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Book SynopsisCombining anatomies of textual examples with broader contextual considerations related with the social, political and economic developments of post-Mao China, Xiaoping Wang intends to explore newly emerging social and cultural trends in contemporary China, and find the truth content of Chinese society and culture in the age of global capitalism. Through in-depth textual analyses covering a variety of media, ranging from fiction, poetry, film to theoretical works as well as cultural phenomena which mirror social and cultural occurrences and reflect the present ideological proclivities of the Chinese society, this study offers timely interpretations of China in the age of globalization, its political inclinations, social fashions and cultural tendencies, and provides thought-provoking messages of China’s socio-economic and political reality.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Mapping the Multivalence of Contemporary Chinese Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism  1 Post-New Period, Postmodernism and Postsocialism  2 Raymond Williams’ Three Cultures and the Chinese Variations  3 Structural Outline of the Five Features part 1: The Structure of Feeling of the Traditional Socialist Era 1 A Lyrical Poet in the Era of Postsocialism: On Some Motifs of Fanken Chen’s Poems  1 Attachment to a “Cultural China” and Yearning for a “Political China”  2 A Heroic Complex with the Plebeian Consciousness  3 The Motifs of Patriotism and Homesickness  4 Affective Economy and the Spiritual World of the Socialist Era  5 Conclusion 2 On the Historical-Cultural Connotations of “Chinese New Poetry”: Fu Tianhong’s Poems as a Case-Study  1 The Formation of the Rebellious Personality and Critical Consciousness  2 Pioneering Spirit, Perseverance and the Desire for Freedom  3 Critique of the Alienation of a Commercialized Society  4 Historical Retrospection and Social Activities  5 Conclusion part 2: The Historical Consciousness of the New Liberal Humanism 3 Anatomizing China’s “Avant-Garde Fiction”: Articulating Historical Experience in Formal Experimentation  1 Ma Yuan: The Dispersion of Meaning during Secularization  2 Ge Fei: Disintegration and Dispersion of the Subject  3 Yu Hua: Historical Projection of a Post-Revolutionary Secular Society  4 Su Tong: Retrospection on Revolution by the New Bourgeois Class  5 Conclusion 4 Sampling the “New Historical Fiction”: White Deer Plain as a Representative Text of New Historicism  1 A Patriarchal Clan System Consisting of Master-Slave Relationships  2 The Opening of the Gate of Desire  3 Three Rebels Fighting against Existing Institutions  4 Three Political Forces: An Incomprehensive Representation  5 A Rebel’s Tragic Ending and the Incompleteness of History  6 The Textual Blankness and the Vacancy of Political Belief  7 “Cultural-Psychological Structure” and the Culturalist Mentality  8 Historical Revisionism and New Historicist Fiction  9 Conclusion part 3: From Post-Revolutionary Passion to Postmodern Consumerism 5 Two Kinds of Bildungsroman: On the Avant-Garde Films of China’s Sixth-Generation Auteurs  1 Dirt (1992): A Bildungsroman of Youth in the Early 1990s  2 The Making of Steel (1997): Why Could the Steel Not Be Successfully Made?  3 Conclusion 6 “Postmodern” Love Stories: Articulating the Self-Consciousness of the Entrepreneurial Class in China’s Pop Cinema  1 A Hedonistic and Yuppy Life Philosophy: Romance on Lushan Mountain 2010 as a Tale of China’s Entrepreneurial Class  2 Nihilists and the Pragmatic Principle: So Young (2013) as a Symptomatic “Youth Film” part 4: Middle Class Tastes and Intellectual Trends 7 Making a Historical Fable: The Narrative Strategy of Lust, Caution and Its Social Repercussions  1 A Précis of the Surface Plotline  2 Projection of Social Institutions in Historical Representation  3 Displacement of Party Politics by Sexual Politics  4 Appropriation of Historical Allegory through Identity Deconstruction  5 Conclusion  6 Coda 8 Social Democracy or Neoliberal Freedom? Globalization and Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Thought  1 Dialectics of Postmodernism and (Post-)Nationalism  2 Cooperation of Neo-Statism and “Corporatism”  3 Conflicts between New Left and New Right  4 Outcry for New Socialism and the Urge for Neoliberal Capitalism  5 Conclusion part 5: Cultural Identity and Subjectivity in the Age of Global Capitalism 9 The Exploration of “Cultural Politics” and Its Crossroads: On the Discussions of “Chinese Identity” in the Era of Globalization  1 Why to Take German Thinkers as the Object of Research?  2 Totality and the Dialectics of Historical Materialism  3 The Dialectic between Universality and Particularity  4 Cultural Diversity and Pluralism  5 How to Transcend the Nation-State System and Rebuild Continuity?  6 What is Cultural Politics?  7 Tensions and Dilemmas: Whose Cultural Politics?  8 Conclusion 10 Establishing the Subjectivity of Modern Chinese Culture: Zhou Ning’s Research as a Case Study  1 Critique of Sinologism and Modern Academic Institutions  2 From “Study of the Chinese Image in the West” to “Cross-Cultural Study”  3 The Problems of “Self-Orientalization” and “Universal Value”  4 The Pitfalls of Genealogical Study and Culturalist Mentality  5 Exploring the Subjectivity of Modern Chinese Culture  6 Conclusion Conclusion: In Search of the Renaissance of China’s Socialist Culture Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Conscious Theatre Practice: Yoga, Meditation, and Performance, Lou Prendergast charts a theatre research project in which the notion of Self-realisation and related contemplative practices, including Bikram Yoga and Vipassana meditation, are applied to performance. Coining the term ‘Conscious Theatre Practice’, Prendergast presents the scripts of three publicly presented theatrical performances, examined under the ‘three C’s’ research model: Conscious Craft (writing, directing, performance; Conscious Casting; Conscious Collaborations. The findings of this autobiographical project fed into a working manifesto for socially engaged theatre company, Black Star Projects. Along the way, the research engages with methodological frameworks that include practice-as-research, autoethnography, phenomenology and psychophysical processes, as well immersive yoga and meditation practice; while race, class and gender inequalities underpin the themes of the productions.

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Book SynopsisIf you want to know how globalisation affects literary studies today this is the book for you. Why has world literature become so hotly debated? How does it affect the study of national literatures? What does geopolitics have to do with literature? Does American academe still set an example for the rest of the world? Is China taking over? What about European literature? Europe’s literatures? Do “minor” European literatures get lost in the shuffle? How can authors from such literatures get noticed? Who gains and who loses in an age of world literature? If those are questions that bewilder you look no further: this book provides answers and leaves you fully equipped to dig deeper into the fascinating world of world literature in an age of geopolitics.Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgments  1 Mapping World Literature  2 Worlding World Literature  3 Why World Literature Now?  4 Major/Minor in World Literature  5 Major and Minor Players in World Literature  6 Victor Klemperer Saves Europe through Weltliteratur  7 Brussels as Transnational Node for World Literature  8 Larger than Holland: J. Slauerhoff and World Literature  9 Adventures of Mark Twain in World Literature  10 Caribbean Exile into World Literature  11 Anglo-Phone Literature as Global Literature  12 Re-orient  13 Wither European Literature? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCette première monographie consacrée à l'œuvre d’Esther Tellermann met en lumière, à travers des textes de 1999-2019 dont le lyrisme décentré s’ouvre à l’Autre, un regard novateur sur des réalités intérieures et extérieures, l’intime du monde, l’Histoire et l’intertextualité. This first book-length study of Esther Tellermann’s œuvre highlights her innovative approach to inner and outer realities, in texts from 1999-2019 whose decentered lyricism foregrounds ritual and reverie while engaging in dialogue with fellow writers.Table of ContentsRemerciements Abréviations Introduction : énigme, prière, identité 1 Se souvenir, réconcilier : les psaumes détournés de Guerre extrême (1999) 2 Prier, soulager : le chant des morts musical d’Encre plus rouge (2003)  1 Réflexivité, poétologie, profondeur  2 Séries d’images et polysémie  3 Polyphonie, intersubjectivité, éthique 3 Parler la terre : rites et rêverie dans Terre exacte (2007) 4 Consoler, nommer, réparer : l’expérience sensible dans Contre l’épisode (2011)  1 Donner voix aux disparus à travers la pluie consolatrice  2 Nommer : relier  3 Réparer 5 Ouvrir les mots, ouvrir les morts : dialectiques celaniennes dans Sous votre nom (2015)  1 Inventer  2 Naviguer et ouvrir 6 Étreindre le temps, repriser la parole, déployer l’âme : Le Troisième (2013) et Éternité à coudre (2016)  1 Étreindre le temps : Le Troisième  2 Déployer de nouveau l’âme : Éternité à coudre 7 Veiller, accompagner : traces reverdyennes dans Avant la règle (2014), Carnets à bruire (2014) et Un versant l’autre (2019) 8 Aviver, restituer, reconstruire : Un versant l’autre (2019) et l’accueil de l’Autre  1 Repartir  2 Appeler  3 Coudre  4 Brûler Conclusion : alliances, résonances, trajectoires Bibliographie Index

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

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Book SynopsisUn libro que supera los lugares comunes sobre Filipinas para relatar cómo se reflejó el proceso de construcción nacional en su literatura en español entre dos colonizaciones, la española y la estadounidense, décadas después de las emancipaciones latinoamericanas. A book that goes beyond the commonplaces about the Philippines to tell how nation-building struggles were reflected in its Spanish-language literature between two colonizations, Spanish and American, decades after the Latin American emancipations.Table of ContentsSobre los autores VII Introducción: La cultura letrada hispanofilipina y el desafío de la modernidad  Rocío Ortuño Casanova y Axel Gasquet Parte I: Políticas del costumbrismo en la literatura filipina 1 Filipinas, a través de la mirada de los costumbristas peninsulares y filipinos  Mignette Marcos Garvida 2 El espejo del costumbrismo: costumbre, conocimiento y autonomía en las obras de Pedro Paterno y José Rizal  William Arighi 3 El Otro del Otro: los chinos en las novelas de José Rizal como el “Oriente” de las Filipinas  Ignacio López-Calvo PARTE II: El papel de la prensa 4 Marcelo H. Del Pilar: periodismo y propaganda en La Solidaridad  Eugenio Matibag 5 La Redención del Obrero, Isabelo de los Reyes y la introducción del socialismo en Filipinas  Álvaro Jimena 6 “Ábranse paso las letras españolas”: sentimientos literarios de los colaboradores españoles, americanos y filipinos de la revista Día Filipino (1913–1914)  Ericson Borre Macaso 7 El Bello Sexo y La Ilustración Española: los primeros periódicos dedicados a las mujeres  Cecilia Quirós Cañiza Parte III: Cosmopolitismo 8 Desencuentros con la modernidad: en la temprana literatura hispanofilipina de viajes (1870–1906)  Jorge Mojarro 9 La modernidad agónica en los cuentos de Manuel Bernabé  Axel Gasquet 10 “El pentagrama ultrajado”: irrupción del Jazz en la cultura hispanofilipina  Miguel Ángel Feria Parte IV: La filipinas moderna 11 Max Factor, bermellón en los labios y sangre en las uñas: cine y sufragismo en Enrique K. Laygo  Beatriz Álvarez Tardío 12 Mujer modelo y modelos de mujer: el discurso femenino y feminista en la modernidad hispanofilipina  Irene Villaescusa Illán 13 La carrera de Cándida de Guillermo Gómez Windham: crónica de la desaparición del mundo hispanofilipino  Emmanuelle Sinardet Índice

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Book SynopsisEditors Robert Reid and Joe Andrew present eleven contributions by international scholars which highlight Tolstoi’s influence on his contemporaries and posterity through his fiction and thought. A figure of Tolstoi’s intellectual stature has naturally inspired an impressive range of responses. These encompass stage versions of his novels (War and Peace and Resurrection), communes founded in his name, and translations which have sought to capture the essence of his works for successive generations. Tolstoi is also compared in this volume with his contemporaries in chapters on Dostoevskii, Veselitsakaia, Rozanov and Elizabeth Gaskell. The reader of this work will gain new and unique insights into an unparalleled genius of world literature, especially into his immense cultural reach which continues to this day. Contributors: Carol Apollonio, Katherine Jane Briggs, Elena Govor, Nel Grillaert, Susan Layton, Cynthia Marsh, Henrietta Mondry, Richard Peace, Alexandra Smith, Olga Sobolev, Willem Weststeijn, Kevin Windle.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Tolstoi’s Continuum of Influences  Robert Reid 1 Does the Translation Matter?  Carol Apollonio 2 Feeling and Contradiction in Tolstoi’s What Is Art?  Richard Peace 3 Tolstoi in the Work of Tolstoi  Willem G. Weststeijn 4 Dostoevskii’s Zosima and Tolstoi’s Father Sergius: Literary Representations of Starchestvo  Nel Grillaert 5 Tolstoi and Lidiia Veselitskaia’s Mimi at the Spa: The Fin de Siècle Tourist Adulteress  Susan Layton 6 Legitimate and Illegitimate Children: Rozanov’s ‘Indecent Proposal’ to Tolstoi  Henrietta Mondry 7 Tolstoi’s Resurrection on the Russian Stage  Olga Sobolev 8 The Dreamer and the Destroyer: Two Unconventional Tolstoians and Their Impact in Australia  Elena Govor and Kevin Windle 9 Reconfiguring the Empire through Performance: Petr Fomenko’s 2001 Production of Tolstoi’s War and Peace  Alexandra Smith 10 Bridging Cultures? John McGahern’s The Power of Darkness  Cynthia Marsh 11 Elizabeth Gaskell, Tolstoi and Dostoevskii  Katherine Jane Briggs Index

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Book SynopsisPostcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literary criticism in response to global, regional, and local environmental transformations brought about by climate change. It builds upon, and extends, previous studies in postcolonial ecocriticism to demonstrate how the growing awareness of human-caused global warming has begun to permeate literary consciousness, praxis and analysis. The breadth of the volume’s coverage – the diversity of its focal locations, cultures, genres and texts – serves as a salient reminder that, while climate change is global, its impacts vary, effecting peoples from place to place unequally, and often in accordance with their particular historical experience of colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well as their ongoing marginalisations. “Demonstrating the urgency of invoking novel epistemological approaches combining the scientific and the imaginative, this book is a “must read” for those concerned about the present and potential impacts of climate change on formerly colonised areas of the world. The comprehensive and illuminating Introduction offers a crucial history and current state of postcolonial ecocriticism as it has been and is addressing climate crises.” - Helen Tiffin, University of Wollongong “The broad focus on the polar regions, the Pacific and the Caribbean – with added essays on environmental justice/activism in India and Egypt – opens up rich terrain for examination under the rubric of postcolonial and ecocritical analysis, not only expanding recent studies in this field but also enabling new comparisons and conceptual linkages.” - Helen Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London “The subject is topical and vital and will become even more so as the problem of how to reconcile the demands of climate change with the effects on regions and individual nations already damaged by the economic effects of colonisation and the subsequent inequalities resulting from neo-colonialism continues to grow.” - Gareth Griffiths, Em. Prof. University of Western AustraliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors and Editors Dear Matafele Peinam,   Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner 1 Introduction Climate Change as Critical Reading Practice   Russell McDougall, John C. Ryan and Pauline Reynolds 2 “The Imagining of Possibilities” Writers as Activists   Geoffrey V. Davis 3 River Writing Culture, Law and Poetics   Chris Prentice 4 Which Island, What Home? Plantation Ecologies and Climate Change in Australia and Nauru   Paul Sharrad 5 Island Life and Wild Time Crossing into Country in Tim Winton’s Island Home   Stephen Harris 6 Islands Within Islands Climate Change and the Deep Time Narratives of the Southern Beech   John C. Ryan 7 Refashioning Futures with Sargassum A Caribbean Poetics of Hope   Kasia Mika and Sally Stainier 8 “Kāne and Kanaloa Are Coming” Contemporary Hawaiian Poetry and Climate Change   Craig Santos Perez 9 Monsoonal Memories and “the Reliable Water” Reading Climate Change in Selected Malaysian Literature   Agnes S. K. Yeow 10 Aswan High Dam and Haggag Oddoul’s Stories from Old Nubia Redefining the Line between Immediate Catastrophe and Slow Violence   Amany Dahab 11 Caring for the Future Climate Change, Kinship and Inuit Knowledge   Renée Hulan 12 Fictional Representations of Antarctic Tourism and Climate Change To the Ends of the World   Hanne E.F. Nielsen 13 Ice Islands of the Anthropocene The Cultural Meanings of Antarctic Bergs   Elizabeth Leane Index

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Book SynopsisSerial killers are popular-culture icons, selling books, movies and podcasts in every country in the world. This innovative and timely book uses methods in Media and Cultural Studies to analyse why global audiences are mesmerised by representations of serial killing. Unique in its transnational case studies, it addresses serial murder through a new perspective of the “serial spectator.”   Trade Review"Brill's dynamic peer-reviewed series Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature has since the mid-1990s been publishing monographs and edited collections on a range of subfields within the capacious field of comparative literature. The nearly 100 scholarly monographs published as part of Textxet engage rigorously with theories of literature, world literature, and literature and thought from around the globe, frequently from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. Soon to be fully digitized and accessible, Textxet has contributed significantly to the study of comparative literature, broadly conceived, in Europe and North America, and to literature studies more broadly, particularly in the discipline's many emerging subfields. Publishing the work of both established scholars and recent Ph.D.'s, Textxet gives scholars of all generations a platform for sharing their best work, and inspiring vigorous scholarly conversations" --Karen Thornber, Harvard University, USA, author of Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care(2020)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: The Spectacle of Serial Violence in Global Literature and Media Part 1 Seriality of Violence 1 Abattoir Elegantiarum: Fashion Victimology and Hannibal’s Grand Designs  Seth Wilder 2 Eat, Sleep, Read, Repeat: Excess and Enjoyment in Tomie  Shweta Khilnani 3 Caught in Observation: Sublime tableaux morts in Female Serial Killer Narratives  Natalia Igl Part 2 Moral Panics and Murderous Sublime 4 “The Horror in Whitechapel”: Sensational Journalism in the Jack the Ripper Murders  Chen F. Michaeli 5 (Wo)Mens Rea: The Strange Case of Anne Perry and Murder of/for/by Women  Anhiti Patnaik 6 A Poetics of Restlessness: The House That Jack Built and the Conventions of Serial Killer Fiction  Luciano Cabral and Pedro Sasse Part 3 Transnational Evil of Banality 7 Murder and Meaning: The Ordinariness of Violence in Memories of Murder  Reza Pourmikail 8 Lurid and Unlimited: Interpreting Bateman’s Banality in American Psycho  Patrick Lawrence 9 The Digital Banal and Sublime Justice in Chinese Internet Literature  Lina Qu Part 4 Spacetime of Violence 10 “Blood on the Snow”: Nordic Noir as a Fantasy Travelog  Elana Gomel 11 “Le immagini ti guardano”: The Gallery City in the Giallo Genre of Italian Cinema  Peter Vorissis 12 Santusthi and Jodidar through Serial Killing in Raman Raghav 2.0  Aratrika Das Conclusion: Healing through Horror in a Pandemic—The Editors in Dialogue  Anhiti Patnaik and Elana Gomel

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Book SynopsisParler de l’infini est une entreprise impossible. Oui, mais nous savons qu’à l’impossible nul n’est tenu. Alors, allons-y, voyageons à travers les multiples cultures qui enrichissent notre planète ; tissons un lien théorique entre les littératures du monde ; abordons les conditions qui nous permettent de nous syntoniser les uns avec les autres. Talking about infinity is an impossible task. Yes, but we know that no one is bound to the impossible. So, let’s go and travel through the multiple cultures that enrich our planet; let’s weave a theoretical link between the literatures of the world; let's talk about the conditions that allow us to tune into each other.Table of ContentsRemerciements Liste de figures Notes 1 Infinies ouvertures  1 L’art du zoom selon monsieur et madame Eames  2 De la vie des araignées  3 Le street art ou comment faire le mur  4 Le timbre-poste et les circulations miniatures  5 Le mouvement éternel de ces espaces infinis 2 Apories focales  1 Illusions d’optique  2 Qui est je?  3 Le point de vue de l’araignée  4 Another Brick in the Wall  5 Culture et aporie 3 Bibliothèques alternatives  1 Imago Mundi  2 Le bréviaire des occasions perdues  3 Les sources de La Fontaine  4 La langue d’Esope  5 Le Singe de Wu Cheng’en 4 Asymétries planétaires  1 L’Unesco, le globe et la planète  2 Les indicateurs symboliques d’un oubli  3 L’oligopole à frange est-il un monstre marin ? La littérature de l’Afrique subsaharienne face au marché global  4 L’oligopole à frange et le cinéma: un remake  5 Grandeur et misère de la traduction  6 La mise à l’Index 5 Mécaniques universelles  1 La bataille des paradigmes  2 Born translated?  3 L’orchestique des mondes  4 La world literature à l’épreuve de l’infini culturel  5 Littérature-monde et déclosion  6 L’universalisme culturel ou la régionalisation du monde 6 Musées inachevés  1 Bild ou les musées inachevés  2 L’Atlas Mnémosyne, la topographie anecdotée du hasard et le musée du roman  3 L’infini et le je-ne-sais-quoi  4 Contiguïtés hétérotopiques  5 Que faire ? Qu’y faire ? Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisThe viscerally haunting and politically disturbing Painted Bird, the most famous novel by the Polish-American writer, Jerzy Kosinski, finally receives a long overdue fresh scientific perspective: a truly insightful study of linguistic and cultural controversy in translation against the benchmark of a tailor-made iron-clad methodology of such concepts as involved culture, detached culture and the universe of the opus. The study presents the kaleidoscopic cross section of renditions into as many as thirteen languages, making it a pioneering elaboration of a macrocosm of the afterlife of a translated novel and a tour de force of comparative translation studies. The dark contents of the work, heavily loaded with political and moral issues, vulnerable to shifts and refractions in the process of translation, have been analysed, unaffected by ideological sway, debunking any persistent myths about Kosinski’s harrowing work.

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Book SynopsisThis pathbreaking collection explores a new concept in world literature studies. Going beyond the binary opposition of “major” and “minor” literatures, the ultraminor encompasses the literatures of smaller but vibrant regional and linguistic communities. Using cases as varied as the literatures of Malta, Mauritius, and the Faroe Islands, contemporary Nahuatl novels, Kafka in Prague, and Shakespeare in Naples, the ten essays in this volume take up questions of scale and circulation, the interplay of languages and dialects, and ultraminor writers’ resistance to translation and their reliance on it. Ultraminor World Literatures will be of interests to students and scholars of comparative and world literature and to anyone concerned with the ongoing life of unique cultural communities around the world.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Defining the Ultraminor  Bergur Rønne Moberg and David Damrosch At the Margins of the Minor: Rethinking Scalarity, Relationality, and Translation  Andrea Bachner Francophone Acadian Literature as an Ultraminor Literature: The Case of Novelist France Daigle  Andrea Cabajsky Third-Wheel Literatures: A Multilingual World Seen through Contemporary Nahua Literature  Matylda Figlerowicz Semitic and Latin Elements in the Language and Literature of Malta  Oliver Friggieri The Ultraminor to Be or Not to Be: Deprivation and Compensation Strategies in Faroese Literature  Bergur Rønne Moberg Life in a Dead Language: Modern Sanskrit as an Ultraminor Literature  Matthew Nelson The Rainbow Isle and the City of Rain: Foreigners in Mauritian and Norwegian Ultraminor Genre Fiction  Rashi Rohatgi Global Masterpieces and Italian Dialects: Shakespeare in Neapolitan and vicentino  Elisa Segnini Ultraminor Literature in a Major Language: An Indian Way of Thinking the Case of Chemmeen in Malayalam  Bhavya Tiwari The Archeology of Minor Literature: Towards the Concept of the Ultraminor  Veronika Tuckerová

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Book SynopsisThis literary analysis of the representation of ‘Gypsies’ in juvenile literature is unique in its comparative scope, as well as in the special attention to rare pre-1850 narratives, the period in which juvenile literature developed as a specific genre. Most studies on the subject are about one national literary tradition or confined to a limited period. In this study Dutch, English, French and German texts are analysed and discussed with reference to main academic publications on the subject. Emphasis is on the rich variation in narrative presentations, rather than on an inventory of images or prejudices. An important topic is the fundamental difference between early English and German narratives. Important because of the wide dissemination of German stories.Table of ContentsList of illustrations A Book about Tales, Tales That Do Things Introduction 1 Subject, Sources and Approach 2 Representation and Symbolism: An Analysis Referring to Dutch Narratives  1 Introduction  2 The Beginning: Some Translations  3 Stealing Children or Stealing Gypsies?   3.1 Crossing the Border   3.2 Who May Cross the Border?   3.3 The Border   3.4 Differences in Social Status and the ‘Intermediate Period’   3.5 The Character of the Intermediary   3.6 The Temptation  4 Why are Gypsies in Juvenile Literature Thieves of Children?  5 Xenophobia and Compassion  6 Conclusion 3 Intermezzo: How an Enduring German Religious Tale Changed into a ‘gypsy-tale’: Translation and Enculturation of Von Schmid’s Heinrich von Eichenfels (1817) 4 Gypsies in English Juvenile Literature  1 Introduction  2 Gypsies and “Englishness”   2.1 Introduction  3 Early Representations of gypsies (1787–1849)   3.1 Tales from the Late Eighteenth Century   3.2 The Early Nineteenth Century: Illustrated Moral and Instructive Texts   3.3 The Early Nineteenth Century: Literary Tales  4 The Victorian Age   4.1 Some Approaches   4.2 Textual gypsies as Presented in Victorian Children’s Literature  5 Conclusion 5 German Juvenile gypsy-Literature  1 Introduction  2 Early Nineteenth-Century German gypsy-tales  3 Some Post-1860 Tales  4 Conclusion 6 French Juvenile Literature  1 Introduction  2 Some Pre-1860 Texts  3 After 1860  4 Conclusion 7 Concluding Observations  1 Some Initial Reflections  2 Some Thoughts on Contemporary Interpretation  3 Analysis and Evaluation/Interpretation of Texts (and Authors)  4 A Literary Approach: Some Recurrent Themes  5 The Literary Traditions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPascale Casanova’s World of Letters and Its Legacies proposes a wide-ranging appraisal of the work, influence and intellectual profile of a major figure in the humanities and social sciences, from sociology to literary theory and criticism. Both a tribute to the life and work of Pascale Casanova and a critical examination of the dissemination of her theoretical ideas around the world and in fields as diverse as world literature, comparative literature, translation studies, and the sociology of literature, the essays selected here are signed by leading scholars in these disciplines including David Damrosch, Claire Ducournau, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Tiphaine Samoyault and Jing Tsu among others.Table of Contents1 Introduction  Gisèle Sapiro and Delia Ungureanu 2 Critical Writing: The Value and Cost of Pascale Casanova’s Combative Ethos  Claire Ducournau 3 Preface to the 2008 Edition of La République mondiale des lettres  Pascale Casanova; translated by David Damrosch 4 La République mondiale des lettres in the World Republic of Scholarship  David Damrosch 5 Reading Pascale Casanova’s World Republic of Letters in Eastern Europe  Magdalena Răduță; translated by Oana Fotache-Dubălaru 6 Heralded Heroes  Mads Rosendhal Thomsen 7 Pascale Casanova’s Exiles  Laurent Jeanpierre 8 Samuel Beckett and the World Republic of Letters  Thirthankar Chakraborty 9 For a Theory of Relay Translations  Tiphaine Samoyault; translated by Paul Chouchana 10 Linguistic Areas of Literature: Between the World and the Nations  Tristan Leperlier 11 A Rare Pearl Passed from Hand to Hand: Cosmopolitan Orders and Pre-modern Forms of Literary Domination  Michiel Leezenberg 12 When Literary Relations End  Jing Tsu 13 Prizing Francophonie into Existence: The Usurpation of World Literature by the Prix des Cinq Continents  Madeline Bedecarré

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume provides a comparative exploration of corresponding concepts of the abyss in various languages and cultures. Fourteen chapters investigate ancient cultures such as Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Old Norse, but also more contemporary American, African and Asian languages, such as Hawaiian, Umbundu, Chinese and Khasi, as well as European languages, such as German, Estonian, English, French, Polish and Russian. The book combines ethnolinguistics with history of ideas, literature, folklore, religion and translation, based on the conviction that language and our linguistic concepts give evidence of and shape our ideas about the world and about ourselves.Trade Review"Brill's dynamic peer-reviewed series Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature has since the mid-1990s been publishing monographs and edited collections on a range of subfields within the capacious field of comparative literature. The nearly 100 scholarly monographs published as part of Textxet engage rigorously with theories of literature, world literature, and literature and thought from around the globe, frequently from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. Soon to be fully digitized and accessible, Textxet has contributed significantly to the study of comparative literature, broadly conceived, in Europe and North America, and to literature studies more broadly, particularly in the discipline's many emerging subfields. Publishing the work of both established scholars and recent Ph.D.'s, Textxet gives scholars of all generations a platform for sharing their best work, and inspiring vigorous scholarly conversations" --Karen Thornber, Harvard University, USA, author of Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care(2020)Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Abyss as a Concept for Cultural Theory, and German Abgrund: The Ambivalence of the Human  Marko Pajević Part 1 Ancient Cultures 1 Praising God’s Creation in the Abyss: tǝhōm in Biblical and Apocalyptic Literature  Urmas Nõmmik 2 The Origins of the ἄΒυσσος in Greek  Janika Päll 3 The Birth of the Abyss in the Rigveda  Sven Sellmer 4 Before the Creation in Old Norse Mythology—Empty Abyss or Crowded Place  Daniel Sävborg Part 2 American, African and Asian Cultures 5 Hānau ka Pō: The Abyss in Hawaiian Thought  Michael David Kaulana Ing 6 The Void Against Transparency: Translating the Abyss into Umbundu  Iracema Dulley 7 Abyss, Chaos, and Emptiness. A Journey to the Depths of the Chinese Intellectual Tradition  Lisa Indraccolo 8 The Abyss in the Indigenous Khasi Worldview: The Search for Traditional Models  Margaret Lyngdoh and Laur Järv Part 3 European Cultures 9 Journey to the North: The Experience of the Abyss in Mythology and Philosophy  Jaanus Sooväli and Hasso Krull 10 An Exploration of the Meaning and Usage of Abyss in English  Violeta Stojicić 11 In Search of Abyssos in Contemporary French Through Lexical Pathways  Arkadiusz Koselak-Marechal 12 The Abyss in Polish  Adam Głaz 13 The Doubling of Bezdna: Notes on the Russian Poetic Concept of Abyss  Roman Leibov

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Book SynopsisThe relationship between Conrad’s Malay fiction and colonialism is a prominent subject of commentary now, and has been for some time. Most scholars would point to Chinua Achebe’s important article “An Image of Africa” as the initiation into the interest in Conrad and colonialism, but if fact decades previously, Florence Clemens had begun this conversation in her ground-breaking commentary on Conrad’s Malay fiction. At the time Florence Clemens was writing, almost nothing had been written on the Conrad’s colonial world, and for many years her work thus was relatively unknown and relatively difficult to obtain. However, Clemens’ work is significant, and its appearance in Brill’s Conrad Studies series now makes this important study readily available to scholars.

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Book SynopsisGeorg Brandes (1842-1927) was one of the leading literary critics in Europe of his time. His Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature (1872-1890) was a foundational text to the field of comparative literature and extolled by Thomas Mann as the “Bible of the young intellectual Europe at the turn of the century.” Georg Brandes eventually developed into a truly global public intellectual, living by his pen and public lectures. On the eve of World War I, he was one of the most sought-after commentators, vigorously opposing all conflicting factions. This book seeks to understand Brandes’ trajectory, to evaluate Brandes’ significance for current discussions of literary criticism and public engagement, and to introduce Brandes to an international audience. It consists of 15 original chapters commissioned from experts in the field.Trade Review“Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity.” This is what our editors wrote in the introduction of the 200th jubilee volume Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (2019). The past volumes in this series provide a look into the history of Comparative Literary Studies of the last three decades. Having started with ‘classical’ literary studies, the series opened to contemporary approaches such as migration studies, memory studies, and human-animal studies. Thus, it is ready for its future. Norbert Bachleitner, Universität Wien, Austria - Juliane Werner, Universität Wien, AustriaTable of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction “A Master of Productive Criticism”   Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen and Lasse Horne Kjældgaard Part 1 The Comparatist 1 The Fox and the Stork Georg Brandes and the Institutionalization of Comparative Literature   Ben Hutchinson 2 Georg Brandes and the History of Emotions   Anders Engberg-Pedersen 3 Sexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandes’ Comparative Writings   Sophie Wennerscheid 4 Georg Brandes and the Writing of Typological Literary History   Lasse Horne Kjældgaard 5 “The Prose of Life” Brandes and the Concept of the Prosaic   Annegret Heitmann 6 “Bringing the Foreign Closer to Us” Cross-Cultural Literary Matchmaking in Georg Brandes’ Letters   Julie K. Allen Part 2 The Public Intellectual 7 The Pétroleuse and the Prophet Georg Brandes and the Making of an Intellectual   Torben Jelsbak 8 The Southern Prism of the Northern Breakthrough Georg Brandes and Italy   Stefan Nygård 9 Brandes – Ibsen Rethinking the Modern Breakthrough   Narve Fulsås 10 Between Deification and Rejection Georg Brandes as an Ambivalent Public Figure in the German-Speaking World   Monica Wenusch 11 The Domesticated European? Georg Brandes’ Impressions of Russia and his Russian Reception   Birgitte Beck Pristed 12 “The Universal Struggle for World Renown” Georg Brandes’ Global Literary Strategies   Jens Bjerring-Hansen 13 Georg Brandes’ Erasure of Jewishness and Cosmopolitanism in his Later Writings   Søren Blak Hjortshøj 14 “The Slaughter of the Youth of Europe” Georg Brandes and the Young Generation in The World at War   Martin Zerlang 15 Brandes after Nietzsche Aristocratic Radicalism vs. Human Rights   William Banks Index

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Book SynopsisTwilight Histories explores the relationship between nostalgia and the Victorian historical novel, arguing that both responded to the turbulence brought by accelerating modernisation. Nostalgia began as a pathological homesickness, its first victims seventeenth-century soldiers serving abroad. Only gradually did it become the sentimental memory we understand it as today. In a striking parallel to nostalgia’s origin, the historical novel emerged in the tumultuous early-years of the nineteenth century, at a time when the Napoleonic Wars once again set troops on the move, creating a new wave of homesick soldiers. In the historical novels of Gaskell, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy, nostalgia offered a language in which to describe the experience of living through changing times as a homesickness for history.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction  1 Nostalgia  1.1 Origins of “Nostalgia” and What Came Before  1.2 Nostalgia for a Place: Local and Global  1.3 Nostalgia for a Time  1.4 Return: Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia  1.5 Belated Nostalgias  2 Writing History in Changing Times  3 The Historical Novel: Nostalgic Fictions in Times of Change  3.1 The Napoleonic Wars and Historical Fiction  3.2 History and Biography: Novels of the Recent Past  3.3 History and Fiction in Historical Fiction  3.4 Structures of Desire: The Nostalgic Historical Novel  4 Chapters 1 Sylvia’s Lovers and the Press Gang  1 The Art of Forgetfulness  2 Homesickness and the Press-Ganged Soldier in Sylvia’s Lovers (1863)  2.1 Napoleon, Nostalgia, and the Historical Novel  2.2 Readability and Forgetfulness  2.3 Leave-Taking 2 Thackeray’s Homesick Soldiers  1 Wavering Heroes and the Middle Way  2 Walter Scott and Intertextuality  3 Nostalgia as a ‘Swiss Disease’: Exiles and Homesick Soldiers  4 Autobiography  5 Battlefields in Historical Fiction 3 George Eliot’s Foregone Conclusions 4 Charles Dickens’s Iron Times 5 Strangers in Wessex  1 Belated Nostalgia and Regional Fiction: A Time and a Place  2 Hardy’s English Peasants  2.1 The Return of the Native: What Is Doing Well?  3 Itinerant Workers: Metaphors of Roots, Migrancy and Labour  3.1 The Mayor of Casterbridge: A Man Must Live Where His Money Is Made  4 Consuming Nostalgia: A Poeticised Pathology  4.1 Historical Fictions: Authentic and Inauthentic Pasts  5 Between History and Memory: The Dorsetshire Labourer and the Homesick Soldier Conclusion  1 Why Don’t We Take Nostalgia Seriously Anymore?  2 Subjectivity and ‘Good’ History  3 Politics and Ideology  4 Imagination and Environment Appendix 1: Images Appendix 2: Unpublished Mss Transcriptions Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFigures de l’excès chez Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes et Marina de Van by Dominique Carlini Versini compares and contrasts the images of the excessive body that run through the narratives of contemporary French women writers and filmmakers. Figures de l’excès chez Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes et Marina de Van de Dominique Carlini Versini interroge et compare les images du corps excessif qui traversent les récits d’autrices et de réalisatrices contemporaines françaises.Table of ContentsRemerciements Liste de figures Abréviations Introduction : Excès et frontières du corps  1 Le corps excessif comme objet de représentation : regards critiques  2 Le corps dans la société française contemporaine  3 Penser l’excès  4 Du corps excessif au corps-frontière  5 Dépasser les frontières du corps genré Partie 1: La peau multidimensionnelle Introduction à la Partie 1 1 Métamorphoses de la peau dans Truismes  1 La peau miroir et lieu du toucher mortifère  2 Dépasser la peau  3 La peau tactile 2 Traverser la peau dans Rétention et Dans ma peau  1 La peau et le(s) sens  2 Franchir la limite  3 Délire fécal dans Rétention  4 Le corps intime  5 Fantasme du corps sans frontières  6 Conclusion Partie 2: Outrance et outrage du corps genré Introduction à la Partie 2 3 Le genre comme mascarade dans Les Jolies Choses  1 Apprendre la féminité  2 Le corps objet  3 De l’objectification à la violence 4 Le corps excessif de la jeune fille dans Clèves  1 « Les avoir »  2 « Le faire » et « le refaire »  3 Violence et désir 5 Le corps dans tous ses excès dans Baise-moi  1 Excès de l’objectification  2 Résistance des corps  3 Baise-moi : entre texte et film  4 Conclusion Partie 3: Corps spectral, corps excessif ? Introduction à la Partie 3 6 Le corps hanté dans Ne te retourne pas  1 Crise de la reconnaissance  2 Dispositif du spectre  3 Défiguration et hantise  4 Troubles dans la parenté 7 Matérialité de la hantise dans Bref séjour chez les vivants  1 La hantise viscérale : fantôme et mémoire  2 Approche haptique du spectre  3 Conclusion : corps textuel et corps filmique

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Book SynopsisThe 2019 congress of the International Comparative Literature Association attracted many hundreds of scholars from all around the world to Macau. This volume contains a modest selection of papers to discuss the four hottest fields of the discipline: the future of comparison, the position of national and diaspora literature in the context of globalization, the importance of translation, and the concepts of world literature. The contributions cover huge geographical and cultural areas, but pay special attention to the connections between Western (both American and European) and Asian (especially Indian and East-Asian) literatures. The literatures of the world might be different but they are also connected.Table of ContentsPreface Part 1 Comparative Literature 1 Introduction  Ning Wang 2 Aphorism in Modern Japanese Literature: Elements for a Brief History of the Reception of a Foreign Literary Genre  Marie-Noëlle Beauvieux 3 Female Narrative as a Strategy in Kingston’s and Amy Tan’s Fiction  Aimin Cheng 4 Between Waves and Trees: Digital Humanities and Comparative Reading of Texts  Bernard Franco 5 Two Faces of A.K. Hasheem in Colombo: Intelligent Tourist Agents Navigating the Waves of Anglo-Japanese Relations  Yorimitsu Hashimoto 6 Performance as Act: A New Trend in Intercultural Theatre Studies  Chengzhou He 7 Germinal and Minas De San Francisco: Journey(s) of “Disquiet” to the Center of the Earth and the Human in Émile Zola and Fernando Namora  Odete Jubilado 8 The Drama Thunderstorm by Cao Yu and Its Presentation in South Korea  Linjie Niu and Lyu Xin Part 2 National Literatures and Diaspora Literature 9 Introduction  Anfeng Sheng 10 The Progressive Movement and Some Aspects of the Debate over Bangla Poetry  Kunal Chattopadhyay 11 A Study on Novels Dealing with Japanese-Korean Romances or Marriages during the Late Japanese Colonial Period  Huiying Liu 12 The Role of Poetry and Voice of the Oppressed: Bengali and Telugu  Prabuddha Ghosh 13 Spatial Narrative in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan  Xiaoye Dong 14 Experience-Oriented Reading of Literature versus Literary Criticism  Anders Pettersson 15 Queering the Brazilian White Patriarchal Home: An Improbable Room/ a Deauthorized Voice  Rita Terezinha Schmidt 16 Culinary Representations of Vitality and Heroism in Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum  Mingwen Xiao 17 Embodying the Chimera: Cultural Identity and Gazing in Amy Tan’s the Hundred Secret Senses  Chunfang Yi Part 3 Translation Studies 18 Introduction  Yifeng Sun 19 Translating the Untranslatable: Foreign Otherness and Cross-Cultural Readability A Case Study of Wang Rongpei’s Translation of The Peony Pavilion  Kexin Du 20 “Nature” in Wordsworth’s Poems Translated in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan  Ching-Wen Wu 21 The Influence of Translated Poetry on the Occurrence of Modernity in Modern Chinese Poetry  Hui Xiong Part 4 World Literature 22 Introduction  Lucia Boldrini 23 Literature: A World History—the View from Europe  Theo D’haen 24 Responsiveness to Comparison  Fatima Festić 25 Hungarian Literature as World Literature  Péter Hajdu 26 “Cosmopolitics”: Derrida on Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty  Nick Mansfield 27 A Triple Configuration: Comparative Literature, World Literature, and Single-Language Literature  Harish Trivedi 28 China and World Literature Studies: Re-Orient?  Theo D’haen Index

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Book SynopsisUsing Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation and Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Secret History of Costaguana, this book asks you to serve as the jury on euro-modernism, specifically the canonical texts Camus’s The Stranger and Conrad’s Nostromo. The book reveals the extent to which euro-modernist aesthetics was culpable in rationalising colonialism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1 Intertext and Influence  2 Women and Euro-Modernism 1 Gendered Historiography and Colonial Euro-Modernist Aesthetics  1 Access to History  2 Tropes in History and Narrative  3 Whose History  4 “Plot” and History  5 Gender and History in the Novels  6 Conclusion 2 Difference across Colonial/Post-Colonial Authorship 3 Euro-Modernist and Post-Colonial Masquerades  1 The Detective Story  2 Female Absence and Presence  3 Male Absence and Presence  4 The Post-Colonial Detective  5 The Crime  6 The Modernist Masquerade  7 Woman and Genre  8 Woman and Big History  9 Doubles  10 Colonial and Post-Colonial Romance 4 The Aesthetics and Literary Politics of Commodities 5 Geography and the Gendering of Place Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWith the looming water scarcity on earth, what better challenge than word and image studies to provide new understanding to this fluid element, and to address its philosophical, mythographic, semiotic, artistic stakes? Avec la pénurie d’eau qui menace la planète, quel meilleur défi que les études texte et image pour apporter une nouvelle compréhension à cet élément fluide, et aborder ses enjeux philosophiques, mythographiques, sémiotiques et artistiques ?Table of ContentsAcknowledgments / Remerciements List of Figures / Liste des illustrations Contributors / Contributeurs Introduction  Nathalie Roelens Part 1: Imaginaries and Rites / Imaginaires et rites 1 Gaston Bachelard, quelle poétique de la mer dans L’Eau et les Rêves ?  Jean-Jacques Wunenburger 2 L’immersion n’est pas la lustration De la purification à la conversion  Jacques Athanase Gilbert 3 Entre le ciel et les eaux La Vierge, la mer et la figure de la sirène dans la prédication, la poésie et l’iconographie au vice-royaume du Pérou  Cécile Michaud Part 2: Geographies and Politics / Géographies et politiques 4 Pour une approche hydrocritique du genre épique Les Lusiades de Camões comme méta-épopée de l’eau  Armand Erchadi 5 La mer dans l’imaginaire politique européen depuis Fénelon ou la pensée d’une impossible frontière  Daphné Vignon 6 Traverser l’Atlantique à la Renaissance et au Grand Siècle La poétique du franchissement transocéanique dans le genre viatique  Nicolas Hebbinckuys 7 Describing the Ocean and the Journals of Eighteenth-Century Pacific Exploration  Daniel Gane Part 3: Landscapes and Waterscapes / Paysages et rivages 8 « Le dessein d’un jardin autant délectable et d’utile invention » L’évocation des jeux d’eau dans quelques recueils descriptifs à la Renaissance ou l’art de la nature joueuse  Pouneh Mochiri 9 “Where Monsters Wander in the Foamy Paths” The Chaotic Waterscape of William Blake’s The Four Zoas  Camille Adnot 10 The River of Life Drawing Lessons from Thomas Cole in Images and Words  Véronique Plesch 11 La Mer du Nord sous la plume de Maurice Carême et dans les esquisses de Henri-Victor Wolvens  Ágnes Tóth 12 La laisse de mer comme image émergente de l’histoire naturelle  Ana Lía Gabrieloni Part 4: Water on Screen / L’eau à l’écran 13 Espaces anthropophages : une archéologie culturelle fluviale ? Assimilation et restitution identitaire dans Macunaíma de Mário de Andrade (1928) et Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (1969)  Nicolas Piedade 14 Nouvelles Vagues Images of Time in the Works of Godard and Rohmer  Kathleen Maxymuk Part 5: Installations 15 Shipwreck with Spectator Claudio Parmiggiani’s Oeuvre as a Journey through Time, Space and Ruins  Vega Tescari 16 Life Is a River in a Constant State of Flux Isabelle Krieg’s Curriculum (2004/2008)  Fabiana Senkpiel 17 Drip Drip Drip Intercede The Leaky Thresholds of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault  Ashley Mason Index

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Book SynopsisStoried Island presents the rich and diverse world of texts composed on the island of Java, Indonesia. It analyses Javanese texts not studied to date, reassess texts studied by earlier generations of scholars, and broadly rethinks and remaps major dimensions of Javanese literature, inviting comparison with literary cultures from across the globe.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Acknowledgments List of Figures and Maps A Note on Orthography and Transliteration Abbreviations Introduction  Ronit Ricci 1 Rediscovering Islam in Javanese History  M.C. Ricklefs 2 Stepping on a Wulu: Minor Characters and Narrative Possibilities in the Sĕrat Cĕnthini  Tony Day 3 Better to Touch the Heart: Performing Sufi Songs (Suluk) in the Sĕrat Cĕnthini  Nancy K. Florida 4 The Hamza Affect: Feeling as a Moving Force in the Asian-Islamic Epic  Bernard Arps 5 Sunan Bonang’s Teaching: Ethical Sufism in Sixteenth-Century Java  Yumi Sugahara 6 Situated Prophethood: Reading the Serat Ambiya in Nineteenth-Century Java  Ronit Ricci 7 Where Is Mecca? Or, Map and Territory: Reflections from Java  Verena Meyer 8 Words of Power and Wisdom: Credible Authorities and Reliable Sources in the Sĕrat Nitik Sultan Agung  Els Bogaerts 9 On the Wrong Side of History   Key Episodes in the Sĕrat Rama and the Panji Paniba  Willem van der Molen 10 Rethinking Categorization in Javanese Literary History: Some Reflections on a Fin-de-Siècle Memoir by Raden Sasrakusuma  Edwin P. Wieringa Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisAvant-Garde Translation is a playful ensemble that celebrates creativity in all things translation by taking you on a journey to the cutting edge of translation practice and theory. Through a refreshing mix of essay forms, from scholarly study to practical translation toolkits, Avant-Garde Translation explores territories as diverse as children’s picturebooks, multilingual poems, and visual artworks, and proposes various translation strategies such as audio-visual collages, ninja invisibility, and collaboration with invented translators. The spirited and provocative contributions intervene in the field of translation studies to shake up the status quo: by highlighting the critical and creative connections between thought and practice, the book shows how literary translation can be an exploratory playground for radical transformation.Trade Review“The Approaches-series follows the developments of contemporary translation studies from its real beginnings in the 1970s up to the present day. It does so in a completely open and free manner, with full attention to the many aspects of a phenomenon that is a barometer both for the contacts in our own society and those with other societies – as well as for how people think, talk and act interculturally, in good times and in bad times.” -Ton Naaijkens, Utrecht University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Translation Needs an Avant-Garde  Alexandra Lukes 2 The Avant-Garde of Translating and Blaise Cendrars’s “Académie Médrano”: A Set of Reflections and Translations  Clive Scott 3 Say It in Splayn Words, Splain It in Sane Worse  Erik Bindervoet and Robbert-Jan Henkes 4 The Non-existent Translators of Fernando Pessoa  Matías Battistón, Ana Laura Paolini, Gerardo Supino and Norberto Magenta 5 Outranspo in Conversation with Contemporary Art: From Haroldo de Campos to a Curatorial Practice of Intersemiotic Translation  Pablo Martín Ruiz 6 To Erre Is Calque: The Uses and Abuses of Calque in Avant-Garde Translation  Lily Robert-Foley 7 Prismatic Translation 2.0: A (Potential) Future for Avant-Garde Translation  Conor Brendan Dunne 8 “Now Open the Box”: Translating Avant-Garde Picturebooks  Audrey Coussy 9 Reading a Multilingual Poem: A Practice in Avant-Garde Translation?  Alexandra Lukes 10 An Alphabet of Avant-Garde Perspectives on World Literature and the Translator’s (In)visibility  With an Avant-Garde Translation of Walter Benjamin’s “Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers”  Douglas Robinson Index of Names

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Book SynopsisIn Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms, Anna-Leena Toivanen combines mobilities research, postcolonial literary studies, and theories of cosmopolitanism to explore the representations and often complex intertwinements of different mobility practices and cosmopolitanisms in contemporary Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1 Mobility and Cosmopolitanism: Complex Relations, Shortcomings, and Unease  2 Mobilities, Representation, and the Literary Form  3 Outline of the Book and Chapter Summaries PART 1 Trouble in the Business Class 1 Anxious Mobilities of Afropolitans avant la lettre Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story  1 Automobility: Undecidedness in the Streets of Accra  2 Hotels as In-between Spaces  3 Transnational Business Class Travel: Afropolitans avant la lettre  4 Conclusion: Freedom of Movement? 2 The Hotel as a Space of Transit in Sefi Atta’s and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Short Stories  1 Atta’s Hotel: A Chronotope of Hypermobility, Inequality, and Unbelonging  2 Adichie’s Hotel Room: Adulterous Space between the Domestic and the Public  3 Conclusion: Being in Transit, Longing for Home 3 Uneasy ‘Homecoming’ in Alain Mabanckou’s Lumières de Pointe-Noire  1 Returnee: A Tourist-Native  2 Nostalgia and Loss  3 Returned Gazes, Unbalanced Dialogues  4 Blind Spot behind the Camera: La blanche  5 Conclusion: Problematics of a Business Class Return PART 2 Budget Travels, Practical Cosmopolitanisms 4 New Technologies and Communication Gaps in Novels by Liss Kihindou, Véronique Tadjo, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  1 Formal Matters: The Mobile Poetics of Communication Technologies  2 Technological Advances – From Letters to Email and Skype  3 Creating Distance: Communication Gaps  4 Conclusion: Ruptured Dialogues and Unbalanced Cosmopolitanisms 5 Everyday Urban Mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson’s Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou’s Tais-toi et meurs  1 Cartographies of Paris  2 Débrouillardise Cosmopolitanism: Survival in a New Environment  3 Peripheral Dead Ends  4 Conclusion: Managing the Metropolis through Mobility 6 European Peripheries and Practical Cosmopolitanism in Fabienne Kanor’s Faire l’aventure  1 Peripheries and the Dream of “la grosse Europe”  2 Débrouillardise Cosmopolitanism: Limits and Potentials  3 Conclusion: Out of Reach? Centres and Cosmopolitan Ideals PART 3 Abject Travels of Citizens of Nowhere 7 Failing Border Crossings and Cosmopolitanism in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North  1 Cosmopolitanism as an Active Engagement  2 Instances of Anti-cosmopolitanism  3 Non-dialogue and Linguistic Nonconformity  4 Parodying the Afropolitan  5 Abject Unbelonging  6 Conclusion: Cosmopolitanism’s Breakdown 8 Arrested Clandestine Odysseys in Sefi Atta’s “Twilight Trek” and Marie NDiaye’s Trois femmes puissantes  1 Erased Identities  2 Tropes of Mobility: Shoes, Trucks, and Boats  3 Sand and Sea: The Slavery Parallel  4 Conclusion: Precarious Journeys 9 Zombie Travels J. R. Essomba’s Le Paradis du nord and Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore  1 Tropes of Zombifying Mobilities: Hiding, Confinement, Dehumanisation, and Darkness  2 Not Feeling It: Lost Selves, Lost Emotions  3 Europe and the Failures of Cosmopolitanism  4 Eliminating the Zombie  5 Conclusion: The Poetics of Zombification Coda Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is the role of literature in our global landscape today? How do local authors respond to the growing worldwide power of English and the persisting effects of the colonial systems that paved the way for globalization today? These questions have often been approached very differently by postcolonialists and by students of world literature, but over the past two decades, a developing dialogue between these divergent approaches has produced robust scholarship and sometimes fractious debate, as issues of language, politics, and cultural difference have come to the fore. Drawing on a wide variety of cases, from medieval Wales to contemporary Syria and Australia, and on works written in Arabic, Basque, English, Hindi, and more, this collection explores the mutual illumination that can be gained through the interaction of postcolonial and world literary perspectives.

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Book SynopsisAn important task for scholars of cultural studies and the humanities, as well as for artistic creators, is to refigure the frames and concepts by which the world as we know it is kept in place. Without these acts of refiguration, the future could only ever be more of the (violent) same. In close dialogue with literary and cinematic works and practices, the essays of this volume help refigure and rethink such pressing contemporary issues as migration, inequality, racism, post-coloniality, political violence and human-animal relations. A range of fresh perspectives are introduced, amounting to a call for intellectuals to remain critically engaged with the social and planetary.Trade Review"I started reading the Cross/Cultures series in my PhD days and have never stopped. Some of postcolonial studies’ most talented established and emerging scholars have published their research here. The series has also staged some of the liveliest intellectual debates in the field. Long may its work continue!" - Claire Chambers, University of York "Active since 1990, Cross/Cultures is a cutting-edge book series covering the whole range of the colonial and post-colonial experience across the English-speaking world as well as the literatures and cultures of non-anglophone countries. The series accommodates both studies by single authors and edited critical collections.” - Bénédicte Ledent, Université de Liège and Delphine Munos, Université de Liège "Marking the rapid expansion of colonial and postcolonial studies over the past three decades, Cross/Cultures has the reputation for high quality research into the dynamics of anglophone cultural production world-wide. With its outstanding publication record, this vibrant series is indispensable for all scholars working in the field." - Janet M. Wilson, University of NorthamptonTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction   Amanda Minervini, Amelie Björck, Omri Grinberg and Amrita Ghosh Part 1 Films as Sites of Transformation 1 Migratory Aesthetics Proximity and Mutuality   Mieke Bal 2 Inequality and Contemporary World Cinema   Andreas Jacobsson 3 Haider Rewriting Shakespearean Ghosts into Postcolonial Specters in Kashmir   Amrita Ghosh Part 2 On Ethical Readings and Subversions 4 Reading as Imaginative Resistance Negotiating the Censor in J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country   Sunayani Bhattacharya 5 Reader as Witness Rethinking Perpetrators of Political Violence through Contemporary Literature   Cassandra Falke Part 3 Planetary Connections Human and the Animal 6 Decolonizing Animals A Surface Reading of Wisława Szymborska’s Poem “Bruegel’s Two Monkeys”   Amelie Björck 7 Globalization and Critical Animal Studies   Dominick LaCapra   Coda It’s Time to Go Outside: A Dialogue with Dominick LaCapra   Amanda Minervini Index

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Book SynopsisHow did German composers brand their music as Venetian? How did the Other fare in other languages, when Cabeza’s Relación of colonial Americas appeared in translations? How did Altdorf emblems travel to colonial America and Sweden? What does Virtue look like in a library collection? And what was Boccaccio’s Decameron doing in the Ethica section? From representations of Sophie Charlotte, the first queen in Prussia, to the Ottoman Turks, from German wedding music to Till Eulenspiegel, from the translation of Horatian Odes and encyclopedias of heraldry, these essays by leading scholars explore the transmission, translation, and organization of knowledge in early modern Germany, contributing sophisticated insights to the history of the early modern book and its contents.Trade Review“Chloe has been conceived since 1984 as a book series of the journal Daphnis for in-depth interdisciplinary research on German literature and culture of the early modern period (14th-18th centuries). The series also deals with the relations of German literature to the European cultures of this period and phenomena of cultural transfer from a comparative perspective. The volumes, edited by renowned guest editors, explore thematically focused new fields of research, bundle the latest findings on important authors of the period and preserve the cultural heritage of this time through innovative renegotiations.” - Ulrich Seelbach, University Bielefeld, GermanyTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Mara R. Wade Part 1: Transitions, Translations, Transformations 1 From Villain to Jokester: The Early Reception of the Ulenspiegel Figure  Peter Hess 2 The Year 1663: Exploring Ambiguities in a Pamphlet about the Turk (Erasmus Francisci, 1627–1694)  Gerhild Scholz Williams 3 The Translation of Horace’s Odes by Andreas Heinrich Bucholtz  Victoria Gutsche 4 Cabeza de Vaca’s (Mostly) Non-Iberian Offspring: Images of the “Other” in (Some of) the Other European Accounts  Dwight E. Raak TenHuisen Part 2: At Court and in Town: Text, Sound, and Image 5 Toward a Definition of Royalty: Images of Sophie Charlotte, First Queen in Prussia  Sara Smart 6 German Nuptial Music in the Seventeenth Century: Sound in Service of the Sacred  Janette Tilley 7 Emblematic Virtues: The Orations for Ferdinand Carl and Sigismund Franz, Archdukes of Tirol  Cornelia Niekus Moore 8 The Concept of Heraldry in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century German-Speaking Territories as Seen through the Lens of Printed Wappenbücher  Kathleen Smith 9 Emblems in Motion: From the Altdorf Academy and the Nürnberg Town Hall to Sweden and the Colony of Pennsylvania  Mara R. Wade Part 3: The Organization of Knowledge: Case Studies from the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 10 “Mit vielen Concepten und sittlichen Lehren unterspickt”: Bibliographic Approaches and the Ethics of Early Modern Literature  Matthias Roick 11 Venice without Venice: Traces of Italian Printed Music in German Manuscripts during the Thirty Years’ War  Jason Rosenholtz-Witt 12 Why Is Boccaccio’s Decameron in the Ethica Section of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel?  Enrica Zanin Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection focuses on the specific issue of controversy as a cross-sectional aspect of contemporary children’s and YA literature, in a spectrum stretching from national experiences, to explore the impact of specific historical, economic and social environments on the rise of controversies; to inter-national exchanges in which controversies are generated specifically by the interactions between cultures; to international contexts that deal with controversies relevant on a global scale. By adopting controversy as an adjustable lens for a joined consideration of literary themes, narrative or aesthetic solutions, translation choices, publishing and marketing decisions, and discursive practices, the volume establishes a diversified collection of chapters that offers new insight into functions of children’s and YA literature in contemporary culture.Trade Review"The essays in this volume contain impactful, useful, and innovative new approaches to each of the different controversies covered. As a whole, these essays contribute to ongoing discussions in the field, and the essays will also serve individually as vector points for new conversations in the field." - Roberta Seelinger Trites, Illinois State UniversityTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Controversy and Children’s Literature: Introduction  Agata Zarzycka, Mateusz Świetlicki and Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska Part 1 (G)Local Controversies 1 Controversy on the Children’s Book Market in Poland and Its Cultural and Social Background  Bożena Hojka and Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska 2 Coming Out: LGBTQ+ Topics and Polish Young Adult Literature  Monika Woźniak 3 Being Controversial in Scandinavia: An Iconotextual Analysis of Selected Norwegian and Danish Picturebooks  Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska 4 Political vs. Personal: Gender-Role Formation in the Works of Ukrainian Female Children’s Writers in the 1930s  Snizhana Zhygun 5 The Controversial Truth: Postmemory and the Great Terror in Yulia Yakovleva’s The Raven’s Children and Eugene Yelchin’s Breaking Stalin’s Nose  Sylwia Kamińska-Maciąg 6 Controversies over the Holocaust and the Greek Civil War: Painful Memories in Greek Children’s Books  Meni Kanatsouli 7 Trauma Representation and Aestheticization in North American Young Adult Holocaust Literature  Talia Crockett Part 2 Transcultural Controversies 8 Boys’ Friendship or Something More? Re-Examining Janusz Korczak’s King Matt the First and Its English Translations  Joanna Dybiec-Gajer 9 Annotated Editions as a Misappropriation of the Author’s Voice and of Children’s Reading: Some Polish Editions of Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault  Barbara Kaczyńska 10 Beguiling Bygones and Relapses into Barbarism: Censoring Old Children’s Literature in the Netherlands  Charlotte van Bergen 11 Controversies of Authentic Adolescent Realism in Isabel Quintero’s Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (2014) and Louise O’Neill’s Asking For It (2015)  Jennifer Mooney 12 “I’m Not a Teapot”: The Controversy of (Post)Humanity in Selected Novels by Neal Shusrerman  Anna Bugajska 13 “Behind the Bars, No World”: Brecht Evens’ Panther as an Ironic Response to Children’s Literature  Katarzyna Smyczyńska 14 Two-Dad Families in Children’s Nonfiction Picturebooks  Angela Yannicopoulou 15 The Children’s Literature Scholar as a Two-Headed Creature (Lofting and Damrosch)  Anna Czabanowska-Wróbel Index of Persons

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Book SynopsisThe works and biography of Heinrich von Kleist have fascinated authors, artists, and philosophers for centuries, and his enduring relevance is evident in the emblematic role he has played for generations. Kleist’s prose works remain “utterly unique” seventy years after Thomas Mann described their singular appeal, his dramas remain “disturbingly current” four decades after E.L. Doctorow characterized their modernity, and twenty-first century readers need not read far before finding the unresolved questions of the current century in Kleist. Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Aesthetic Legacies explores examples of Kleist’s impact on artistic creations and aesthetic theory spanning over two centuries of seismic metaphysical crises and nightmare scenarios from Europe to Mexico to Japan to manifestations of the American Dream.Table of ContentsForeword: Interrogating Kleist? Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Artistic and Aesthetic Legacies of Heinrich von Kleist  Jeffrey L. High and Carrie Collenberg-González Kleist and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit  Valerio Rocco Lozano Operatic Reception of Kleist’s Das Käthchen von Heilbronn: From Holbein’s Stage Adaptation to the Operas of Hoven, Lux, and Reinthaler  Glen Gray Stranger than Fiction: Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig on Goethe, Kleist, and the Struggle with the Daemon  Elaine Chen Brecht, Kleist, and the Early GDR: The Berliner Ensemble’s Playbill for Der zerbrochne Krug (1952) and Its Renegotiation of Formalism, Realism, and Cultural Heritage  Markus Wessendorf Penthesilea and Her Sisters: Visualizing the Feminine in the German Cultural Imagination of the 1970s and 1980s  Seán Allan Victories of Insurrection: Heinrich von Kleist, Aleksandr Bek, and Heiner Müller  Wolf Kittler Coetzee and Kafka with Kleist (and Job): Debating the ‘Kohlhaasian Solution’  Tim Mehigan Film Adaptations of Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas: On Triage, Recasting, and Restructuring  Sophia Clark and Jeffrey L. High An Earthquake in Chile in Mexico: Juan Villoro on Kleist  Craig Epplin The Vanishing Point: Heinrich von Kleist, Frank Stella, and the American Dream  Carrie Collenberg-González Righteous Rebels: Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas and Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan  Cassio de Oliveira Kleist in Yoko Tawada’s Works  Susan C. Anderson Index of Names Index of Kleist’s Works

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Book SynopsisExploring the metamorphoses of the body in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade as a crucial aspect of the genre’s ideologies, Castaway Bodies offers focused readings of intriguing, yet often forgotten, novels: Peter Longueville’s The English Hermit (1727), Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins (1751) and The Female American (1767) by an anonymous author. The book shows that by rewriting the myths of the New Adam, the Androgyne and the Amazon, respectively, these novels went beyond, though not completely counter to, the politics of conquest and mastery that are typically associated with the Robinsonade. It argues that even if these narratives could still be read as colonial fantasies, they opened a space for more consistent rejections of the imperial agenda in contemporary castaway fiction.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1 The Castaway’s Body in Robinson Crusoe and Its Visual Afterlives 2 Peter Longueville’s The English Hermit (1727) and the Myth of the New Adam 3 Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins (1751): Mythical Androgyny and Evolutionary Hybridisation 4 The Female American (1767): a Failed Amazon Coda: Castaway Bodies in the Counter-Canonical Robinsonade  1 The Elemental Body in Michel Tournier’s Friday  2 Conquering the Body in Olga Tokarczuk’s “The Island”  3 Re-Reading the Amazonian Myth in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors transform center-periphery relationships to the former metropolises of Romance literatures of the Americas and Africa? What are the consequences of various deperipheralization contexts and processes for poetics? Using theoretical sections and case studies, this book surveys and investigates the limits of globalization. Through explorations of the intercultural dynamics, the aesthetic contributions of former peripheries are examined in terms of the transformative nature of peripheries on centralities.Trade Review"Brill's dynamic peer-reviewed series Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature has since the mid-1990s been publishing monographs and edited collections on a range of subfields within the capacious field of comparative literature. The nearly 100 scholarly monographs published as part of Textxet engage rigorously with theories of literature, world literature, and literature and thought from around the globe, frequently from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. Soon to be fully digitized and accessible, Textxet has contributed significantly to the study of comparative literature, broadly conceived, in Europe and North America, and to literature studies more broadly, particularly in the discipline's many emerging subfields. Publishing the work of both established scholars and recent Ph.D.'s, Textxet gives scholars of all generations a platform for sharing their best work, and inspiring vigorous scholarly conversations" --Karen Thornber, Harvard University, USA, author of Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care(2020)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction  Petr Kyloušek 1 What Is the Center and What Is the Periphery?  Petr Kyloušek Part 1 Processes of Deperipheralization 2 What Does Deperipheralization Refer to?  Petr Kyloušek 3 American Francophone Literature: Quebec, Martinique, Haiti  Petr Kyloušek 4 The Deperipheralization of Spanish Latin America  Daniel Vázquez Touriño 5 Surviving the Borderlands: Living Sin Fronteras, Becoming a Crossroads: The Deperipheralization of the Chicano/a Cultural/Literary Space  Markéta Riebová 6 The Long Journey of Brazilian Literature toward Autonomy: The 19th Century  Eva Batličková 7 The Search for the Singularity of Brazilian Literature in the 20th Century  Zuzana Burianová 8 The Shared History of Maghreb Countries  Míla Janišová 9 French Africa: A Colonial Victory or a Moral One?  Vojtěch Šarše 10 Sub-Saharan African Literature in French from the 1980s to the Present: The Symbolic Year 1980 as an Aesthetic and Thematic Turn  Petr Vurm 11 Angola and Mozambique  Silvie Špánková Part 2 Centralities Introduction to Part 2: Centralities  Petr Kyloušek 12 Paris—Centrality as an Initiator of Deperipheralization  Petr Dytrt,Eva Voldřichová Beránková 13 Innovation and Networks in the Spanish Novel of the 1960s: Juan Goytisolo  José Luis Bellón Aguilera 14 From Migrant Literature to Contemporary Literature of Transcultural Italy: Forms and Effects of a Strategic Marginality  Chiara Mengozzi Part 3 Case Studies Introduction to Part 3: Case Studies  Petr Kyloušek 15 “Lâche pas la patate”: French Language Cultures in Louisiana  Daniel Paul Sampey 16 The Creolization of Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique) and René Depestre (Haiti): Language and Center-Periphery Relationship  Milena Fučíková 17 Abdelkébir Khatibi: The Labyrinth of Language  Míla Janišová 18 Biculturation, Bilingualism and Orality in the Deperipheralization of Cuban-American Literature  Marta Hudousková 19 The Caribbean Diaspora and the Construction of Thirdspace in Josefina Báez’s Performative Text Levente No. Yolayorkdominicanyork  Martina Bařinová 20 Gloria Anzaldúa: Opening up Space at the Border  Markéta Riebová 21 Rui Knopfli, a Nomad between Babylon and Sion  Silvie Špánková 22 The Literary Production of Minority Groups in Contemporary Brazilian Literature  Zuzana Burianová 23 Finding Dialogue through Translation: Literature by Brazilian Indigenous Authors  Eva Batličková, Caroline Ivanski Langer 24 From the Desert to the Indigenous Utopia, from the Literary Periphery to the Center The Adventures of China Iron as a Case of the Internationalization of Peripheral Literatures  Eva Lalkovičová 25 Conclusion  Petr Kyloušek Index

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

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Book SynopsisIn this volume collaborators from different universities all over the world explore a wide variety of methods for the study of literature as cultural memory. In literature, the past may be (re)constructed in various ways and in very diverse forms. This immediately raises the question as to how one can describe and inventory the various discourses and metadiscourses of historical representation. In what sense can the rhetoric of literary historiography itself contribute to literature's function as cultural memory? Which methods of analysis are most appropriate for describing specific text types or genres as cultural memory? What have been the pragmatic uses and the ethical merits of the stability and continuity that literature has often provided for European, American, Asian and African cultures? What are the dilemmas they create for our teaching at the end of the twentieth century? To all these questions, a wide range of scholars here tries to find answers. In thorough and highly original contributions, they not only address theoretical problems, but also engage themselves in practical analyses of specific works.Table of ContentsMETHODS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURAL MEMORY AND LITERATURE. K. DE WET: Dialogues Generated by Pivotal Figures in Literary Systems: A Systemic Approach to the Study of Literature. B. KEUNEN: Cultural Thematics and Cultural Memory: Towards a Socio-cultural Approach to Literary Themes. C. LEITERITZ: Histoire des concepts. Méthode d’investigation de la littérature comme mémoire culturelle. J. PIETERS: Literature and the Anamnesis of History. M. GRABAR: The Hermeneutics of Propaganda: The Violent Silencing of Reason in Literary and Scientific Hermeneutics. N.A. ANDERSON: The Identification of Generically Distinctive Strategies in Dramatic Communication: An Interdisciplinary Approach. M. SEXL: Literature as a Medium by which Human Experience can be Transmitted. M. SPIRIDON: Entre l’herméneutique et la théorie de la lecture: la part du lecteur dans le fonctionnement de la mémoire littéraire. PERIODIZATION AND CANON FORMATION. P. CORNEA: Canon et bataille canonique. G.C. KALMAN: Ways of Representing Discontinuous Memories: Re-arranging the Canonical Order by Breaking with Classical Literary Historiography. F. SINOPOLI: Antithesis and Comparison: Two Rhetorical Figures in the Study of Literature as Cultural Memory. D. SARINJEIVE: The More Things Change... —A Review of Post-apartheid English Studies. M. HIRAI: Tanizaki and Lawrence (or East and West): The Paradox of Love between Mother and Son. C. TANG: Writing World History: The Formation of Colonial Thinking at the Threshold of Modernity. NARRATION AND MEMORY. L. HUTCHEON: Irony, Nostalgia and the Postmodern. M. SCHMITZ-EMANS: Literature as Metahistory—Narratology as Reflection upon History. B. VAN DEN BOSSCHE: Myth as Literature, Literature as Myth: Some Remarks on Myth and Interpretation of Literary Texts. R. GÖRLING: Remembering the Forgetting: Trauma, Cultural Memory and Performance Art. C. DE LAILHACAR: Fragments of Fictional Memory as Building Blocks of Identity. M. STEELE: The Problematics and Politics of Cultural Memory: The Theoretical Dilemmas of Said’s Culture and Imperialism. G. WEISZ: Shamanism and Its Discontents. CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE TEXT. R.W. MÜLLER-FARGUELL: Awakening Memory: Freud and Benjamin. C. UHLIG: Memory and Appropriation: Shakespeare in Aesthetic Thought. W.D. MELANEY: Joyce and Metaphoric Excess: Ulysses as a Work of Plenitude. S. MONTES: La mémoire dans Dubliners de Joyce. Sémiotique et processus culturels. O. HEYNDERS: Literature as Cultural Memory: Paul Celan’s Reading of Emily Dickinson. J.T. DORSEY: African History in American Plays: August Wilson. G. TVERDOTA: Il faut être absolument grec! E. MACPHAIL: In the Wake of Solon. Memory and Modernity in the Essays of Montaigne. M. MEKE: Ecriture romanesque et dramaturgique comme mémoire culturelle: l’exemple de Bernard B. Dadié. INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES. J. ŠKULJ: Literature as a Repository of Historical Consciousness: Reinterpreted Tales of Mnemosyne. M.-B. FANTIN-EPSTEIN: Miklos Hubay—Hector Berlioz: la mémoire transfigurée. S. RIBEIRO DE OLIVEIRA: Musical Comedy and Cultural Memory in Brasil: Chico Buarque’s Transcultural Reading of John Gay’s The Beggar Opera and Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera. M. BERTHOMIER: Debussy/Berg: deux petits morts de l’opéra au début de XXe siècle. D. MEROLLA: Beyond Oral and Written Literatures: Oral, Written, Audio-Visual Media, and Literary Space.

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Book SynopsisIn response to the silence that continues to shroud Austria’s historical past, Austrian literature after 1950 wants to retrace an untold history that left its marks in mental schemata and cultural clichés. The question how literature can refer to the facts silenced by a political unconscious, the question of literary reference and reality description, lies at the core of Austrian literature since the 1950’s. This book traces the development of contemporary Austrian fiction from the 1950s to the 1990s, showing how the Vienna Group’s literary reductionism led to gesture of mere pointing in happening and performance. While strongly indebted to the experimental techniques of the Vienna Group, later Austrian authors such as Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Peter Rosei, and Gerhard Roth employ literary forms and extra-literary media prone to the indexical in an attempt to cut through the net of linguistic and cultural clichés, alluding to the microfascisms latent in common percepts, and indexing a reality that eludes plain description.Trade Review"…much food for thought…" - in: Gegenwartsliteratur, Vol. 4 (Fall 2005) "…Silenced Facts offers a provocative general thesis, and a series of sensitive and subtle readings…" - in: Austrian Studies, Vol. 12 (2004) "…eine eindrückliche Studie…" - in: Modern Austrian Literature, Vol. 36, No. 3/4 (2003)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction I Fragmentation, Montage II Anti-Autobiography III Detecting the Untold IV Indices of the Real: Photography and Literature Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEncounters with the Other brings together a range of eighteenth-century texts in which the exploration of lingua incognita figures as a prominent topos . Drawing mostly on a corpus of French texts, but also including a number of works in English, Martin Calder attempts to realign well-known texts with more canonically marginalized works. The originality of the perspectives offered by this book lies in the comparative reading of works not previously conjoined. Encounters with otherness are marked by a transgression of the limits of language, occurring when language becomes alien or unfamiliar. Alterity may take various forms: a foreign language, a familiar language marked by the traits of foreignness, something unrecognizable as language, or even one’s own language breaking down, as in madness. Unfamiliar language may be produced by a foreigner, by a child who cannot yet speak, in extreme cases by something unrecognizably human, in all cases by an agency somehow marked by difference. Narratives of encounters with otherness have written into them narratives of the discovery of the self. Implicitly informed by the reading techniques associated with literary theory, Encounters with the Other offers an insightful commentary on issues surrounding colonialism, cultural difference, gender and the importance of language to identity. Martin Calder’s work challenges certain Eurocentric notions and exposes the problematic links between Enlightenment rationality and colonial expansion. This book is of interest both to undergraduate students and to academic researchers, and to a more general readership concerned with understanding the relationship between Europe, the ‘West’ and a wider world.Trade Review”…a delightful book. It is a composition of the best in the humanities and the social science traditions. It is worth our attention, and I invite you to make it part of your intellectual and cultural diet.” in: The European Legacy, Vol. 10, 2005Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on Quotations and Translations Introduction Chapter One: The Speciousness of Origins Chapter Two: The Infant Other: Feral Children and Civil Children Chapter Three: Tropic Alterities / Tropical Territories: Lingual Colonialism in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe Chapter Four: Fantasy and Infantilization: The Abbé Prévost’s Histoire d’une Grecque moderne Chapter Five: Language and Self-Affirmation in Françoise Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne Conclusion Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisIn Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World War, Raphaël Ingelbien examines how issues of nationhood have affected the works and the reception of several English and Irish poets – Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill and Seamus Heaney. This study explores the interactions between post-war English poets and the ways in which they transformed or misread earlier poetic visions of England – Romantic, Georgian, Modernist. It also traces often neglected but crucial links between their troubled poetics of Englishness and Seamus Heaney’s poetry of Irish nationhood. This radically intertextual approach takes issue with influential accounts of post-war poetry that have drawn on postcolonialism. Instead of being made to reflect contemporary agendas, the poetics of nationhood are here considered in all their textual and ideological complexity, and restored to the historical, intellectual and literary contexts which postcolonial emphases on identity often play down or simplify. Whereas critics in post-devolution Britain increasingly use texts to debunk or promote specific versions of national identity, this study interrogates the very terms in which the debate has been conducted. Its metacritical analyses expose the contradictions of identity politics, and its intertextual readings help re-draw the map of post-war poetry in Britain and Ireland.Trade Review"…alert textual analyses…" - in: PN Review, Vol. 29, No. 5 (May-June 2003) "illuminating emphasis upon philology…" - in: Symbiosis - A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations (April 2004) "…most notable about his study is his alertness tot eh ways in which poetry plays a role in deconstructing, […] rather than simple registering national identity." - in: Year’s Work in English Studies, Vol. 82.5 (2003)

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Book SynopsisDer Band Literaturvermittlung um 1900 enthält neun Fallstudien, in denen an ausgewählten Beispielen die Voraussetzungen, Prozesse und Ergebnisse der Literaturvermittlung in den deutschen Sprachraum hinein untersucht werden. Als Ausgangssprachen/-literaturen werden das Jiddische, das Skandinavische, das Niederländische, das Französische und das Englische erfaßt; inhaltlich geht es um die anglo-irische Literatur, die Literatur des Ostjudentums, die flämisch-niederländische Literatur, Kontakte und Begegnungen von Vertretern dieser literarischen Systeme, Aufnahmevoraussetzungen im deutschen Sprachraum, Mechanismen der Anverwandlung und Übersetzung, die Etablierungsversuche von fremdsprachlich originierenden literarischen Figuren (wie Pierrot und Dandy) sowie um die Begegnung von Literaturvermittlern in fremdkultureller Umgebung.Trade Review”…eine interessante und vielfältige Themenauswahl…” in: Jahrbuch der Richard-von-Schaukal-Gesellschaft 5/6, 2001/2003, pp. 89-92Table of ContentsEinleitung Joachim FISCHER: “Märchen aus Irlands Gauen” Irisches und dessen Vermittlung im Kaiserreich Gabriele von GLASENAPP: “Eine neue und neuartige Epoche” Ostjüdische Literatur in deutsch-jüdischen Zeitschriften und Almanachen vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg Leopold R. G. DECLOEDT: Kontakte zwischen niederländisch- und deutschsprachigen Autoren Persönliche Bekanntschaften und Begegnungen um die Jahrhundertwende Florian KROBB: “– denn Begriffe begraben das Leben der Erscheinungen” Über einen Versuch, den Dandy in die deutsche Literatur einzubürgern Claudia GIRARDI: Pierrotdichtungen im deutschen Sprachraum um 1900 Sabine STRÜMPER-KROBB: Zwischen Naturalismus und Impressionismus Marie Herzfeld als Vermittlerin skandinavischer Literatur Robert HALSALL: Zur Kierkegaaredrezeption Hermann Brochs Judith BENISTON: Claudel als Dichter der Ekstase L’Annonce faite à Marie im deutschen Sprachgebiet Stefanie Stockhorst:Populäre Kulturvermittlung nach 1900 Selbst- und Fremdbilder in den Reiseberichten von Hanns Heinz Ewers

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Book SynopsisThe question of memory intrigues us more and more as industrialized societies move further and further away from the written word. In the past the role of memory was integral to literary history, precise mnemonics served as the support systems for erudition, and Mnemosyne was mother of the Muses. The group Oulipo, born in reaction to the Surrealists, proposes, invents, and applies novel literary constraints. Using memory, and best of all conscious memory, as a theoretical starting point, the implications of writing under constraint are analyzed. First, writing under constraint is viewed as a new mnemonics; second, the spiritual component of such a practice is shown to redefine a notion of inspiration; third, constraints and their relationship with games and society is highlighted; finally the manner in which they build a literary consciousness is studied through the lenspiece of contemporary neurobiological research. For the first time the work of the group Oulipo, and the member’s emphasis on the function of literature, is placed in historical, cultural, and philosophical context.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Memory and Oulipian Constraints Chapter 2: The Soul of Oulipo’s Formalism Chapter 3: Games, the Oulipian Sonnet, and the Court of Charles d’Orléans Chapter 4: Consciousness, Constraints, and Cosmology Conclusion

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Book SynopsisÀ l’aube de notre jeune XXIe siècle, la critique génétique se trouve enfin en mesure de faire le point sur son passé et de tracer les grandes lignes de son avenir : qu’est-elle susceptible d’apporter à d’autres approches critiques telles que la sociologie, l’intertextualité et l’herméneutique ? Comment modifie-t-elle notre compréhension des œuvres littéraires, ainsi que notre conception du texte ? Pourquoi, trente ans après son émergence dans le paysage critique, continue-t-elle à susciter la méfiance, voire l’hostilité dans les milieux universitaires ? Quelles seront ses pistes d’investigation et problématiques futures ? Quelles nouvelles voies les technologies comme l’hypertexte et les hypermédias ouvrent-elles en matière d’édition et de pédagogie ? Voilà quelques-unes des questions que se sont posées les auteurs du présent volume, spécialistes en critique génétique et en critique littéraire de part et d’autre de la Manche et de l’Atlantique. Illustrant l’activité courante du généticien et soulevant d’importantes questions théoriques, cet ouvrage se veut bilan de la discipline autant que panorama de ses possibles. Dans cette double perspective, il se propose d’évaluer l’état présent des études génétiques, de déterminer leur spécificité parmi les différentes approches critiques du texte, ainsi que d’apprécier l’aptitude de la génétique à réorienter, voire à renouveler la critique littéraire. Résolument interdisciplinaires, les travaux présentés examinent les grands débats qui ont eu lieu à l’intérieur de la discipline et à ses frontières, comparent des cas de genèse s’échelonnant du XVIe au XXe siècle, et tentent d’évaluer les acquis de la critique génétique et son impact sur la théorie et la pratique littéraires.Table of ContentsTable des figures Contributeurs Introduction 1. Les études génétiques aujourd’hui et demain Louis HAY: Critique génétique et théorie Littéraire: quelques remarques Almuth GRÉSILLON : « Nous avançons toujours sur des sables mouvants. » Espaces et frontières de la critique génétique Joseph JURT : Génétique textuelle et génétique sociale William MARX : Les résistances théoriques à la critique génétique 2. Le chantier génétique Éric Le CALVEZ : Génétique scénarique : les scénarios de la scène du fiacre dans Madame Bovary Nathalie MAURIAC-DYER : Proust entre deux textes: réécriture et « intention » dans « Albertine disparue » David NOTT : La difficile gestation de La Truite de Roger Vailland Brian STIMPSON : Au commencement fut la fin : l’écriture en devenir chez Valéry et Duras 3. Hypertexte/Hypermédia Thomas BARTSCHERER : La naissance d’Hyper enfanté par l’esprit de la critique génétique Tony WILLIAMS : Avant-texte, intertexte, hypertexte : l’épisode du Club de l’Intelligence dans L ’Éducation sentimentale Domenico FIORMONTE et Cinzia PUSCEDDU : Temps, texte, machines. Représenter le processus d’écriture sur le Web Pascal MICHELUCCI : La réation virtuelle 4. Enjeux de l’écriture, enjeux théoriques : penser la création ? Daniel FERRER : Quelques remarques sur le couple intertextualité-genèse Paul GIFFORD : L ’herméneutique et la création en acte Robert PICKERING : La génétique entre singularité et pluralité de ses possibles heuristiques Entretien avec Jean-Marc TERRASSE : Marie Darrieussecq : « Comment j’écris » 5. L ’Œuvre, l’écriture, la création : vocations et avenir des études génétiques Table ronde Bibliographie générale

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Book SynopsisWhile rejecting a conception of literature as moral philosophy, or a device for imparting particular morals to the reader through exemplary characters and plots, Maryse Condé has displayed throughout her writing career a strong valorization of literature as ethical critique. This study examines her singular approach to literary commitment as a critical reworking of aesthetic models and modes of interpretation. Focusing on four dominant problematics in Condé’s work—history and globalization in La Belle Créole and Moi, Tituba sorcière...noire de Salem, intertextuality and reception in La migration des cœurs and Célanire cou-coupé, trauma and subjectivity in En attendant le bonheur and Desirada, community and ethics in Traversée de la mangrove and Histoire de la femme cannibale—this analysis proposes to elucidate how, and to what ends, Condé engages, and alters, approaches to reading, staging the problematic, yet pragmatic, need to read well. This hermeneutic imperative foregrounds the need to engage with texts, to cannibalize texts while recognizing their fundamental opacity and inexhaustibility, their resistance to the reader’s interpretive habits.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Interpreting through Example Chapter 1. Reading History: The Example of the Past after Globalization Chapter 2. Rusing with the Canon: Insolent Imitation, Parodic Intertextuality Chapter 3. Writing Violence: Collective Traumas, Singular Pasts Chapter 4. The Cannibal Reader: Digesting the Other, Interpreting Community Conclusion. Comme un Indien Tupinamba... Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this wide ranging collection of essays, eleven literary scholars and creative writers examine authorship and authority in relation to the production and reception of cultural texts. Ranging in time from the Renaissance to the era of digital publishing, the essays invite us to reconsider the influential theories of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu for our understanding of writers such as Philip Sidney, Thomas Hardy, Laura Riding, W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and J.M. Coetzee. Shedding new light on authority’s complex role in the generation of cultural meaning, the essays will be of interest to students and teachers of literary history and critical theory alike.Table of ContentsStephen DONOVAN, Danuta FJELLESTAD and Rolf LUNDÉN: Introduction: Author, Authorship, Authority, and Other Matters I: Theoretical Considerations Stephen B. DOBRANSKI: The Birth of the Author: The Origins of Early Modern Printed Authority James CHANDLER: Foucault and Disciplinary Authority Jeremy HAWTHORN: Authority and the Death of the Author Bo G. EKELUND: Authority and the Social Logic of Recognition: Poetics, Politics and Social Theory II: Practising Authorship Jerome MCGANN: The Life of the Dead: Laura Riding and the History of Twentieth-Century Poetry Anna LINZIE: “Between Two Covers with Somebody Else”: Authority, Authorship, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Stephen DONOVAN: In the Papers: Hardy, Joyce, and the Modernist Moment Susan JONES: Knowing the Dancer: Modernism, Choreography, and the Question of Authority Michael TITLESTAD: Unsettled Whiteness: The Limits of Allegory in Three South African Novels III: Authors On Authority Michael JOYCE: Authorship as Re-placement Ann FISHER-WIRTH: The Authority of Poetry Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book aims at offering a broad survey of the encounter between word and image studies and anthropology and to demonstrate the mutual benefits of this dialogue for both disciplines in the three fields of the image (Marin), the social history of writing (Petrucci), and memory (Yates). The themes discussed by the contributors to this volume, all specialists in their field, highlight each in their specific field one or more aspects of the agency of both text and image. Bridging the gap between the Anglo-Saxon and the Latin research traditions, this bilingual volume focuses on three major questions: What do we do with texts and images? How do texts and images become active cultural agents? And what do texts and images help us do? Contributions cover a wide range of topics and disciplines (from visual poetry to garden theory and from ekphrasis to new media art), and represent therefore the best possible overview of what cutting-edge analysis in word and image studies stands for today.Table of ContentsBéatrice Fraenkel: Introduction Summaries/Résumés Efficacy of Premodern Words and Images/Efficacité des mots et images prémodernes Isabelle Saint-Martin: L’image “Bible des pauvres”, du postulat grégorien au mythe romantique, l’efficacité d’un argument fondateur Corneliu Dragomirescu: La production d’un sens nouveau: images et rubriques face au texte dramatique dans les manuscrits médiévaux Massimo Leone: (In)efficacy of Words and Images in Sixteenth-Century Franciscan Missions in Mesoamerica: Semiotic Features and Cultural Consequences Eric T. Haskell: Versailles and Its Others: Efficacy and the Arts in the Absolutist Agenda James J. Yoch: Royal Inefficacy: Pastoral Subversions in the Scenes of Versailles Efficacy of Words and Images in Literature/Efficacité des mots et images en littérature Maria Ignez Mena Barreto: L’impact de la représentation iconique dans l’économie de l’écriture autobiographique de Stendhal Serge Linares: Après Mallarmé: l’héritage du Coup de dés dans l’avant-garde poétique française des années dix Anna Estera Mrozewicz: Ekphrasis in the Presence of the Image: Inger Christensen on Painting and Jørgen Leth on Film Matthijs Engelberts: Showing/Telling: The Social and Medial Context of a Malleable Notion Efficacy and Space/Efficacité et espace Thomas Golsenne: L’intensification du lieu: la puissance expressive de la saturation ornementale Shigeru Oikawa: Efficacités de la caricature: Georges Bigot et le salon des beaux-arts à l’Exposition intérieure de Kyoto en 1895 Kate Kangaslahti: Absence/Presence: The Efficacy of Text, Image, and Space at the 1937 Exposition internationale Danielle Leenaerts: L’œuvre comme dispositif réflexif dans l’art d’Alfredo Jaar, de 1979 à 1986 Dangerous Efficacy/Dangereuse éfficacité Bernward Schmidt: La censure dans l’image—des images de la censure: l’Index des livres interdits Bernard Vouilloux: De l’efficacité des images érotiques à l’efficience érotique des œuvres Stéphane Lojkine: Érotique de l’effondrement scénique: efficacité sadienne de l’image William Olmsted: Improper Appearances: Censorship and the Carriage Scene in Madame Bovary Lauren S. Weingarden: Manet’s Realism and the Erotic Gaze: Photography, Pornography, and Censorship Contributors/Contributeurs Index.

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