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 Series: Routledge - Speed up your Language Skills Date published: 2009 Author Javier Muňoz-Basols Author Marianne David Author Olga Néňez-Piňeiro Content description: Speed Up Your Spanish is a unique and innovative resource that identifies and explains the common errors which cause confusion for students of Spanish. Suitable both for classroom use or self-study, Speed Up Your Spanish is the ideal resource for all intermediate learners of Spanish wishing to refine their language skills. From false friends to idiomatic expressions, each of the nine chapters focuses on a grammatical category where English speakers typically make mistakes. Full explanations are provided throughout with clear, comprehensive examples enabling students to learn from their mistakes and gain an in-depth understanding of Spanish grammar and usage. Pages: 270 ISBN 13: 978-0-415-49332-1 Publisher: Routledge Publisher URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415493321/
 Series: SVEC Volume: 2011.4 Date published: Apr 2011 Original author: Marian Hobson Editor/Translator Kate Tunstall Editor/Translator Caroline Warman Content description: Marian Hobson's work has made a seminal contribution to our understanding of the European Enlightenment, and of Diderot and Rousseau in particular. Hobson's distinctive approach is to take a given text or 'problématique' and position it within its intellectual, historical and polemical context. From close analysis of the underlying conceptual structures of literary texts, she offers a unique insight into the vibrant networks of people and ideas at work throughout Europe, and across disciplinary boundaries. This book presents her most important articles in a single volume, translated into English for the first time, making the detail of these debates accessible to everyone. Pages: 366 ISBN 10: 9780729410113 Publisher: SVEC
 The Paget Toynbee Lectures Date published: 2011 Editor Martin McLaughlin Content description: Oxford University's Paget Toynbee Fund has sponsored a number of significant initiatives on Dante in recent years, first a series of Lectures starting in the mid-1990s, and more recently a number of conferences. This volume gathers together some of the most important Paget Toynbee Lectures. Named after the great medieval scholar of the first half of the twentieth century, they were delivered by major Dante experts of our time, such as John Barnes, Peter Hawkins, Lino Leonardi, Emilio Pasquini, and the late Michelangelo Picone and Peter Armour. The topics range from Armour's trilogy of lectures on the topics of exile, friendship and poverty in Dante to key questions such as Dante and Ovid, Dante and history, and Dante and evil. Pages: 200 ISBN 13: 9781900755993 Publisher: Legenda Publisher URL: http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781900755993
 Date published: 2009 Translator Martin McLaughlin Publisher: Penguin
 Date published: 2011 Translator Martin McLaughlin Publisher: Penguin
 Dante lirico e etico Date published: 2010 Editor Zygmunt G. Baranski Editor Martin McLaughlin Content description: This book presents the proceedings of the fifth and final meeting of the International Dante Seminar. The papers, given by some of the leading international scholars of the poet - from Italy, the UK and the USA - address four major topics of particular concern to present-day Dante studies: Dante as a lyric poet; Dante as an ethical poet; Dante and the Eclogues; and Dante in nineteenth-century Britain. These topics reflect both areas which are currently the subject of heated critical debate (several new editions of the lyric poems have recently appeared or are in preparation, and the ethical dimension of Dante's works is very much under discussion) and areas which are long overdue a reassessment (Dante's remarkable revival of Latin pastoral poetry, and the extraordinary British contribution to Dante studies in the nineteenth century). As this set of conference proceedings makes clear, in Dante and in his legacy, ethics and poetry are inseparable. Pages: 260 ISBN 13: 9781906540043 Publisher: Legenda Publisher URL: http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781906540043
 Series: Routledge - Developing Writing Skills Date published: 2011 Author Javier Muňoz-Basols Author Yolanda Pérez Sinusía Author Marianne David Content description: Developing Writing Skills in Spanish provides intermediate and advanced level students with the necessary skills to become competent and confident writers in the Spanish language. With a focus on writing as a craft, Developing Writing Skills in Spanish offers a rich selection of original materials including narrative texts, expository essays, opinion pieces and newspaper articles. Each chapter covers a specific kind of writing and is designed to help tackle the material in small units. The book aids students in crafting clear, coherent and cohesive manuscripts by means of guided practice and step-by-step activities. Pages: 384 ISBN 13: 978-0-415-59083-9 Publisher: Routledge Publisher URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415590839/
 Date published: 2011 Editor Marianne David Editor Javier Mu�oz-Basols Content description: Diasporas – from the Greek verb speiro (to sow) and the preposition dia (over), signifying ‘dispersion of seeds’ – seem to be integral to the human condition, existing as far back as recorded history and surely before that. Originally used to refer to Greek settlers and colonizers in the Mediterranean, and later adopted by the Hebrews to speak of their own exiled people, the term ‘diaspora’ evolved over time to denote myriads of diverse displacements, forced as well as voluntary. This book examines diasporas in the context of globalization as they exist today and with an eye to the future. Each chapter represents a distinct point of view and brings a particular understanding, theoretical or practical, to bear on the diaspora narrative. Each one emphasizes the specificity of diaspora to culture, place and moment, its multi-faceted and interdisciplinary nature, and the significance of how identity is negotiated within the triadic space of self, home and ‘host’ nation. Taken together in this volume they function as a ‘conversation’ about the process of trying to define and re-define the elusive, unstable concept of diaspora with its diverse and evolving forms. Pages: 285 ISBN 13: 978-1-84888-064-1 Publisher: Inter-Disciplinary Press Publisher URL: https://www.interdisciplinarypress.net/online-store/diversity-and-recognition/defining-and-re-defini
 Series: Methuen Drama Student Editions Date published: 2009 Original author: Bertolt Brecht Editor Tom Kuhn Editor Charlotte Ryland Editor John Willett Publisher: A & C Black
 : vzlet i padenie sovetskogo mal'chika-geroya Comrade Pavlik, the Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero Date published: 2009 Author Catriona Kelly Author Irina Smirenskaya Content description: The Russian translation of a study of the notorious boy hero Pavlik Morozov (1918-1932), who is supposed to have been murdered after he denounced his own father. The book examines the development of the myth, for example in the secret police file relating to the murder, and in press reports and books for children published between 1932 and the present day. The Russian edition contains a new preface and extra illustrations Pages: 312 ISBN 10: 978-5-86793-654-9 Publisher: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Review), Moscow
 Date published: Jun 2011 Editor Ian Maclachlan Editor Sean Gaston ISBN 13: 9781441152756 Publisher: Continuum Publisher URL: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=157630
 Date published: Dec 2007 Author Carolin Duttlinger Content description: Throughout his life, Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of modern life. Kafka's personal engagement with the medium - as a keen viewer and collector of photographs as well as an amateur photographer - is reflected in his writings, which explore photography from a variety of different perspectives By far the most frequently and extensively discussed visual medium in Kafka's texts, photography is paradigmatic of his relationship to visuality more generally. This study not only explores photography's recurrence as a theme within his texts but it is also the first to take systematic account of Kafka's use of photographs as literary source material. Kafka and Photography presents one of the most important modern writers from an entirely new perspective; it sheds new light on familiar works and uncovers unexplored aspects of Kafka's engagement with his time and context. Its detailed textual analyses are set against a richly documented historical context which illustrates Kafka's interest in contemporary culture through a range of visual material taken from public as well as private sources - some of which has only recently become available. As this book demonstrates, photography had a profound impact on Kafka's literary imagination and as such helps to explain the mesmerizing intensity of enigmatic visual detail which is a hallmark of his narratives. Pages: 288 ISBN 10: 0199219451 ISBN 13: 978-0199219452 Publisher: Oxford University Press
 Gender, Genealogy, and the Politics of Authorship in 20th-Century Portuguese Women's Writing Date published: Apr 2011 Author Hilary Owens Author Claudia Pazos Alonso Publisher: Bucknell University Press
 Power and Knowledge: Libraries and Book-Collecting in the Age of the Count-Duke of Olivares Date published: Jun 2011 Editor Oliver Noble Wood Editor Jeremy Lawrance Editor Jeremy Roe Content description: http://www.ceeh.es/coleccion.cfm?idCatPubli=243&idPublicacion=697 Pages: 536 ISBN 13: 978-84-15245-18-6 Publisher: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica Publisher URL: http://www.ceeh.es
 N/A Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture Date published: Oct 2009 Author Georgina Paul Content description: A study of gender as a culturally symbolic category in the German literature of the post-1945 period (to 1990), looking at how both male and female authors deploy gender symbolism in their works and identifying as the underlying issue how subjectivity (since the Enlightenment defined by male-cnnoted characteristics) is (re-)conceived. Pages: 257 ISBN 10: 1-57113-423-9 ISBN 13: 978-1-57113-423-3 Publisher: Camden House Publisher URL: http://www.camden-house.com/
 Series: Oxford Modern Languages Monographs Date published: 2008 Author Helen Swift Publisher: Oxford University Press Publisher URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199232239.do
 Enquête sur une énigme The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi Series: PUF, Les Littéraires Date published: 2010 Author Richard Scholar Author Thomas Constantinesco Content description: The first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. The book describes the rise and fall of the expression as a noun and as a topic of debate, examines its cluster of meanings, and uncovers the scattered traces of its 'pre-history'. Pages: 284 Publisher: Presses universitaires de France
 Series: The Past in the Present Date published: 2010 Author Richard Scholar Content description: A literary companion to the thought of Montaigne's Essais offering a bold new image of Montaigne as a writer committed to the adventure of free-thinking. Pages: 229 ISBN 13: 978-1-906165-21-5 Publisher: Peter Lang Publisher URL: www.peterlang.com/
 Series: Royal Musical Association Monographs Volume: 18 Date published: Dec 2009 Author Philip Ross Bullock Content description: Philip Ross Bullock looks at the life and works of Rosa Newmarch (1857-1940), the leading authority on Russian music and culture in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. Although Newmarch's work and influence are often acknowledged - most particularly by scholars of English poetry, and of the role of women in English music - the full range of her ideas and activities has yet to be studied. As an inveterate traveller, prolific author, and polyglot friend of some of Europe's leading musicians, such as Elgar, Sibelius and Janácek, Newmarch deserves to be better appreciated. On the basis of both published and archival materials, the details of Newmarch's busy life are traced in an opening chapter, followed by an overview of English interest in Russian culture around the turn of the century, a period which saw a long-standing Russophobia (largely political and military) challenged by a more passionate and well-informed interest in the arts Three chapters then deal with the features that characterize Newmarch's engagement with Russian culture and society, and - more significantly perhaps - which she also championed in her native England; nationalism; the role of the intelligentsia; and feminism. In each case, Newmarch's interest in Russia was no mere instance of ethnographic curiosity; rather, her observations about and passion for Russia were translated into a commentary on the state of contemporary English cultural and social life. Her interest in nationalism was based on the conviction that each country deserved an art of its own. Her call for artists and intellectuals to play a vital role in the cultural and social life of the country illustrated how her Russian experiences could map onto the liberal values of Victorian England. And her feminism was linked to the idea that women could exercise roles of authority and influence in society through participation in the arts. A final chapter considers how her late interest in the music of Czechoslovakia picked up and developed these themes in the context of interwar Europe. Pages: 208 Publisher: Ashgate Publisher URL: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754666622
 Voyages réels, voyages imaginaires et discours démonologiques (XVe-XVIIe s.) Travelling With the Devil Series: Imago Mundi Date published: 2008 Editor Thibaut Maus de Rolley Editor Grégoire Holtz Content description: Du XVe au XVIIe siècle, les démons sont sans cesse en voyage. Ils entraìnent dans cet incessant mouvement leurs disciples et leurs victimes, que ce soit dans les pages des romans ou dans celles des traités de démonologie. Á ces voyages proprement diaboliques, où le diable est agent et compagnon du voyage, s'ajoutent ceux que les voyageurs effectuent de leur propre chef dans des terres habitées par les démons. Car si le diable est partout, il a ses lieux de prédilection, et cette géographie diabolique évolue au rythme des Grandes Découvertes et de la colonisation des nouvelles terres. Le voyage avec le diable n'est pas alors réservé aux sorcières et aux victimes du Malin : il s'offre aussi au lecteur des relations de voyage, qui sans se déplacer parcourt le monde d'un diable á l'autre, des démons brásiliens á Bouddha, des Indes orientales á Terre-Neuve. Cet ouvrage invite á découvrir la nouvelle carte du monde diabolique qui se dessine á la Renaissance, et á comprendre comment la figure du démon devient alors un vecteur pour dire l'altérité. Pages: 328 Publisher: Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne
 Date published: Apr 2009 Author Peter Mackridge Content description: This is a history of the language controversy that has occupied and empassioned Greeks for over two hundred years. It begins in the late eighteenth-century when a group of Greek intellectuals sought to develop a new, Hellenic, national identity alongside the traditional identity supplied by Orthodox Christianity. The ensuing controversy focused on the language, fuelled on the one hand by a desire to develop a form of Greek that expressed the Greeks' relationship to the ancients, and on the other by the different groups' contrasting notions of what the national image so embodied should be. The purists wanted a written language close to the ancient. The vernacularists - later known as demoticists - sought to match written language to spoken, claiming the latter to be the product of the unbroken development of Greek since the time of Homer. Peter Mackridge explores the political, social, and linguistic causes and effects of the controversy in its many manifestations. Drawing on a wide range of evidence from literature, language, history, and anthropology, he traces its effects on spoken and written varieties of Greek and shows its impact on those in use today. He describes the efforts of linguistic elites and the state to achieve language standardization. Pages: 385 ISBN 10: 978-0-19-921442-6 hb ISBN 13: 978-0-19-959905-9 pb Publisher: Oxford University Press Notes: Paperback published Nov. 2010
 Date published: 2010 Author Toby Garfitt Pages: 784 ISBN 10: 978-2-84418-170-1 Publisher: La Part Commune (Rennes) Publisher URL: www.lapartcommune.com
 Series: Cultural Interactions: studies in the relationship between the arts Date published: Sep 2010 Editor Carole Bourne-Taylor Content description: collection of essays covering a wide range of fields, including literature, architecture, philosophy and musicology. The purpose is to bring to the fore the intertwining of modernism and phenomenology. Pages: 390 ISBN 10: 978-3-03911-409-2 Publisher: Peter Lang
 Eine kleine Geschichte der Aufklärung Series: Beck'sche reihe Volume: 1935 Date published: 2009 Author Jim Reed Content description: A short history of the German Enlightenment Pages: 245 Publisher: Beck
 Edited and Translated with an Introduction by... Series: Penguin Classics Date published: 2009 Original author: Friedrich Hölderlin Translator Charlie Louth Translator Jeremy Adler Publisher: Penguin
 Translated, Edited and with Notes and an Afterword by... Series: Penguin Classics Date published: 2011 Original author: Rainer Maria Rilke Translator Charlie Louth Publisher: Penguin Notes: Introduction by Lewis Hyde
 Vol 45 No 2 (Spring 2010) Date published: 2010 Guest Editor Charlie Louth Pages: 176 ISBN 13: 978-0-902400-94-8 Publisher: Agenda and Editions Charitable Trust
 Series: Continuum Literary Studies Date published: Nov 2009 Author Nikolaj Lubecker Content description: Taking as its point of departure the notion of community in mid-twentieth century French literature and thought, this ambitious study seeks to uncover the ways in which Breton, Bataille, Sartre and Barthes used literature and art to engage with the question of reconceptualizing society. In exploring the relevance these writings hold for contemporary debates about community, Lubecker argues for the continuing social importance of literary studies. Throughout the book, he suggests that literature and art are privileged fields for confronting some of the anti-social desires situated at the periphery of human rationality. The authors studied put to work the concepts of Thanatos, sado-masochism and (self-)sacrifice; they also write more poetically about man's attraction to Silence, the Night and the Neutral. Many sociological discourses on the question of community tend to marginalize the drives inherent within these concepts; Lubecker argues it is essential to take these drives into account when theorising the question of community, otherwise they may return in the atavistic form of myths. Moreover if handled with care and attention they can prove to be a resource. Pages: 188 ISBN 10: 9780826438300 Publisher: Continuum Publisher URL: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=133791&SubjectId=997&Subject2Id=1580
 Date published: Jun 2011 Author Patrick McGuinness Publisher: Seren
 Series: Trends in Medieval Philology Volume: 18 Date published: 2010 Editor Almut Suerbaum Editor Manuele Gragnolati Content description: The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are central to the volume: the role of ritual speech acts; the way in which authorship can be seen as created within medieval texts rather than as a given category; finally, phenomena of voice, created and situated between citation and repetition, especially in forms which appropriate and transform literary tradition. The volume encompasses articles by historians and musicologists as well as literary scholars. It spans European literature from the West (French, German, Italian) to the East (Church Slavonic), vernacular and Latin; it contrasts modes of liturgical meditation in the Western and Eastern Church with secular plays and songs, and it brings together studies on the character of ‛voice' in major medieval authors such as Dante with examples of Dante-reception in the early twentieth century. Pages: 319 ISBN 10: 978-3-11-022246-3 ISSN: 1662-443X Publisher: De Gruyter Publisher URL: http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/li/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110222463-1
 Date published: Jul 2011 Author Kate Tunstall Content description: Blindness and Enlightenment presents a reading and a new translation of Diderot's Letter on the Blind. Diderot was the editor of the Encyclopédie, that Trojan horse of Enlightenment ideas, as well as a novelist, playwright, art critic and philosopher. His Letter on the Blind of 1749 is essential reading for anyone interested in Enlightenment philosophy or eighteenth-century literature because it contradicts a central assumption of Western literature and philosophy, and of the Enlightenment in particular, namely that moral and philosophical insight is dependent on seeing. Kate Tunstall's essay guides the reader through the Letter, its anecdotes, ideas and its conversational mode of presenting them, and it situates the Letter in relation both to the Encyclopedie and to a rich tradition of writing about and, most importantly, talking and listening to the blind. Pages: 256 ISBN 10: 9781441119322 Publisher: Continuum Publisher URL: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=136684&SntUrl=152549
 Date published: 2010 Author Patrick McGuinness Publisher: Carcanet
 Date published: 2007 Author Jonathan Thacker Content description: Spain's artistic Golden Age produced Cervantes's great novel, Don Quijote, the sublime poetry of Quevedo and Góngora, and nurtured the prodigious talent of Velázquez, and yet it was the theatre that captured the imagination of its people. Men and women of all social classes flocked to the new playhouses to see and hear the latest offerings of their favourite dramatists, and to be seen and heard. As well as dealing with the lives and major works of the most significant playwrights of the period – Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Miguel de Cervantes, Calderón de la Barca – the Companion focuses on other aspects of the growth and maturing of Golden Age theatre, reflecting the interests and priorities of modern scholarship. These include: the sixteenth-century origins of the comedia nueva; the lesser-known dramatists, including women playwrights; life in the theatre; the Corpus Christi street theatre and minor genres; performance studies; and the critical reception of the drama. The Companion also includes a guide to comedia versification, a full bibliography and advice on further reading. Pages: 223 ISBN 13: 9781855661400 Publisher: Tamesis Publisher URL: www.boydellandbrewer.com
 Constructions of Sanctity Series: Oxford German Studies Volume: 39.2 Date published: 2010 Guest Editor Almut Suerbaum Guest Editor Annette Volfing Pages: 112 ISSN: 0078-7191 Publisher: Maney
 Date published: 2008 Editor Johnathan Thacker Editor Alexander Samson Content description: A Companion to Lope de Vega brings together work by leading international scholars on the life and writing of Lope de Vega Carpio, the 'fénix de los ingenios', a 'monstruo de la naturaleza' as he was described by his rival Miguel de Cervantes. Spain's foremost Golden Age playwright was also a major artist in prose and poetry, genres also covered by the Companion. The chapters evaluate current critical debates and issues in Lope de Vega studies, as well as providing new readings of key texts. The volume attempts to do justice to the variety, profusion and originality of Lope's output, outline the contours of his reputation as an artist in literary history as well as firmly contextualising his life and work. The variety of critical perspectives reflects the liveliness of debate surrounding this enduringly popular figure whose drama has enjoyed a renaissance in theatres around the globe recently. Pages: 384 ISBN 13: 9781855661684 Publisher: Tamesis Publisher URL: www.boydelland brewer.com
 Series: Castalia Didáctica Volume: 65 Date published: 2010 Original author: Fernando de Rojas Editor Juan-Carlos Conde Editor Marta Haro Content description: A scholarly edition of Fernando de Rojas' Celestina, one of the masterpieces of Spanish literature. Especially suited for undergraduate students. Pages: 569 ISBN 13: 978-84-9740-380-1 Publisher: Madrid: Editorial Castalia Publisher URL: www.castalia.es Notes: Second edition (first edition published in 2002)
 Estudios bibliográficos y literarios sobre lírica castellana del siglo XV Series: Instrumenta Bibliologica Date published: 2007 Author Juan-Carlos Conde Author Víctor Infantes Content description: A collection of bibliographical and codicological studies on different manuscripts and incunabula containing Spanish poems written in the 15th century. Pages: 285 ISBN 13: 978-84-7635-708-8 Publisher: Madrid: Arco / Libros Publisher URL: http://www.arcomuralla.com/Arco/Shop/default.asp
 Date published: 2008 Editor Almut Suerbaum Editor Burkhard Hasebrink Editor Annette Volfing Content description: The volume publishes the porceedings of the 19th Anglo-German Colloquium, held in Oxford. The contributions explore the phenomenon of interior space in medieval German literature. The focus on inner space unites two topical areas of cultural anthropology: space as a structural paradigm, and the focal differentiation between the categories of "inner" and "outer". The literature of medieval Germany, in staging such interior space in a variety of ways, poses questions about difference, liminality, and transgression, and thus allows abstract concepts and processes to be articulated: in a culture otherwise dominated by that which is present and visible, inner space conveys notions of psychological, cosmological or textual order. Pages: 452 ISBN 10: 978-3-484-10811-0 Publisher: Niemeyer (de Gruyter) Publisher URL: http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/li/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783484108110-1 Notes: 4th editor: Hans-Jochen Schiewer
 Series: Papers of the MHRS / Publications of MIMSS Volume: 67 / 1 Date published: 2010 Editor Juan-Carlos Conde Content description: The volume contains seven studies on the work of the Spanish scholar Ramón Menéndez Pidal in which his scientific legacy is appraised on the different fields it encompassed. It is the first publication of the Magdalen Iberian Medieval Studies Seminar Pages: 169 ISBN 10: 090223871X ISSN: 1460051X Publisher: London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London Publisher URL: http://www.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/hispstudies/mhrs/pmhrs/
 Series: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century Volume: 2009:03 Date published: Mar 2009 Author Nathalie Ferrand Pages: 282 Publisher: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
 Date published: May 2011 Editor Natalie Ferrand Pages: 386 Publisher: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
 Date published: Jul 2011 Author Edward Nye Content description: The eighteenth-century 'ballet d'action' was innovative, moving, difficult, sometimes bizarre and often controversial. This study does justice to the distinctive hybrid nature of this theatrical form by taking a comparative approach, using contemporary literature and literary criticism, music, mime and dance from a wide range of English and European sources. Pages: 344 ISBN 10: 1107005493 ISBN 13: 978-1107005495 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publisher URL: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6427445/?site_locale=en_GB
 Series: Oxford World's Classics Date published: Apr 2008 Original author: Montesquieu Editor Andrew Kahn Editor Margaret Mauldon Content description: The Persian Letters is a major classic of European literature by a thinker who had a huge influence on the Enlightenment and in the USA on the founding fathers. Through the observations of his two Persian travellers in Europe, Montesquieu asks fundamental questions about human nature, social structures, customs and institutions. It is also a witty, inventive satire, a fusion between travel literature and the epistolary genre. Pages: 320 ISBN 13: 978-0-19-280635-2 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publisher URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780192806352.do?keyword=andrew+kahn&sortby=bestMatches
 Date published: Sep 2008 Author Andrew Kahn Pages: 416 Publisher: Oxford University Press
 Heterodoxy in German Literature, 1750-1800 Series: igrs books Volume: 1 Date published: 2011 Author Kevin Hilliard Content description: The book describes the way in which German writers in the period responded to the crisis of orthodox forms of religious belief. The heterodox types of the freethinker, the libertine and the Schwärmer (dissenter, heretic, enthusiast) are at the centre of attention. Authors discussed include Klopstock, Lessing, Wieland, Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin and Novalis. Pages: 290 ISBN 13: 978-0-85457-225-0 Publisher: Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
 Series: SVEC Volume: 2010:11 Date published: Nov 2010 Editor Andrew Kahn Content description: Fourteen chapters by historians, art historians and literature specialists treat representations of the private during the Enlightenment period in France, England, Russia and Italy. Pages: 346 ISBN 13: 978-0-7294-1003-8 Publisher: Voltaire Foundation Publisher URL: http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/www_vf/default.ssi
 Date published: Nov 2009 Editor Stephen Parkinson Editor Cláudia Pazos Alonso Editor T.F. Earle Content description: This companion volume offers an introduction to European Portuguese literature for university-level readers. It consists of a chronological overview of Portuguese literature from the twelfth century to the present day, supplemented by substantial essays centred on major authors, genres or periods and a study of the history of translations. It does not attempt an encyclopaedic coverage of Portuguese literature, but provides essential chronological and bibliographical information on all major authors and genres, with more extensive treatment of key works and literary figures, and a particular focus on the modern period. It is unashamedly canonical rather than thematic, in its examination of central authors and periods, without neglecting female writers. In this way it provides basic reference materials for students beginning the study of Portuguese literature, and for a wider audience looking for general or specific information. Pages: 222 ISBN 13: 9781855661943 Publisher: Tamesis Publisher URL: www.boydell.co.uk Notes: Review in hispanic research journal, Vol. 11 No. 3, June, 2010, 274–78 'Portuguese literature is neither invisible nor absent from the international landscape. We just need to look for it more attentively.' Patricia Odber de Baubeta's closing remark in her survey of English translations of Portuguese literature also functions, albeit perhaps unintentionally, as the best justification for the recently published volume on Portuguese literature. Irrespectively of how remarkable a publication it is in terms of selection of texts and contributions, and in spite of that, its greatest value is arguably its groundbreaking character, in providing Portuguese literature with the visibility and attention it both longed for and required. Students (undergraduates and postgraduates), lecturers, and interested readers, particularly those who do not speak the language, now have access to an essential tool for an approach to Portuguese literature which is both rigorous and accessible, insightful, and informative by a high-profile group of contributors. The volume, proposing to be a 'friendly and accessible guide', certainly does correspond to what it set out to be: neither a dictionary nor a history, rather a volume providing essential information on key authors and works which covers a time span of approximately eight hundred years. Its 'unashamedly canonical' approach can certainly be understood, given the proposed nature of the volume, and it will prove to be particularly useful for teaching purposes (whether to follow or to challenge such a canon), while it also does not fail to provide valuable historical and literary contextualization for those interested in authors who, for obvious reasons, are not featured in the book. The selection of authors and works is representative, but even periods which, for one reason or another, do not feature canonical writers as such, or whose writers are sacrifi ced to the necessarily selective logic of a companion, are adequately addressed. Nevertheless, given the comprehensive character of the volume, albeit necessarily selective, the interested reader can be confident of finding crucial information on whichever period, genre, and related authors s/he may be interested in. The piercing and thought-provoking chronological overview provided by Helder Macedo alone is a reason for acquiring the volume, as it also sets the tone for a standard of quality in the ensuing chapters which will most certainly not disappoint the most demanding of readers, as it articulates the necessary introductory character with perceptive and innovative observations. The featuring of suggestions for further reading is welcomed in a volume that has abstained from making extensive use of references and of traditional Portuguese critical terms, making it a very accessible, as well as enthralling, read. That the volume ends with a survey of translations into English is both practical and laudable. Fortunately, particularly for most advanced readers, the volume caters for more than it sets out to, as most chapters acknowledge but also supplement the 'humanist tradition' focused on 'individual achievement' which is central to the volume. Most chapters will concentrate on one particular author, but will nevertheless address other contemporary authors and works, akin or contrasting, which guarantees that a balanced view of different periods is achieved. Clive Willis's juxtaposition of The Lusiads with other works of Portuguese expansion provides a suitable example. Even though some chapters logically provide almost exclusively historical and literary contextualization, this nevertheless proves essential for the understanding of Portuguese literature as a whole, and some refreshing and innovative insights as to what concerns the Portuguese literary milieu (and what has been traditionally left out in the study of the period) are expounded there. Vanda Anastácio's chapter on the eighteenth century is a case in point. Helena Carvalhão Buescu's analysis of Almeida Garrett as founder of modern Portuguese literature is a masterfully woven argumentation, with significant and thought provoking implications, but one which is nevertheless delivered in elegantly accessible style. If the enlightening views on Luís de Camões and sixteenth-century lyric poetry, not to mention the famously neglected Cantigas, are certainly welcome, the last three chapters of the book, concentrating on literary production under the New State dictatorship (Phillip Rothwell), women writers up to 1974 (Hilary Owen and Cláudia Pazos Alonso), and writing after the revolution (Mark Sabine and Claire Williams), are something to be celebrated. The critical reassessment presented in these chapters, particularly in the two final chapters, certainly does more than simply introduce the reader to authors and works in Portuguese literature, but rather addresses some of the fundamental contradictions and forces at play in modern and contemporary Portuguese literature, without neglecting the informative character of the volume. 'Writing after the Dictatorship' immerses the reader in the intricate web of relations and movements of cultural production, a feature which will make it extremely valuable for anyone trying to cope with the understanding of contemporary Portuguese fiction, providing a comprehensive and overarching vision which provides a strong conclusion to this analysis of authors and works. As an important by-product, this volume lays the ground for new teaching and research, which have often suffered from the lack of an accessible yet rigorous anthology, apart from providing a valuable tool for those who have a comparative interest in Portuguese literature but without knowledge of the Portuguese language. Even while acknowledging the additional importance of this volume as a first step towards Brazilian and African literature (which, as the editors rightly claim, demand separate treatment), one must stress the importance it will have for the study of Portuguese literature and 'Lusophone' literature in general, given the new challenges that lie ahead. While the main aim of A Companion to Portuguese Literature — to provide a literary and historical contextualization and an introduction to Portuguese literature — is supremely achieved, the volume would benefit from more frequent instances of textual analysis. The chapters on Medieval Galician-Portuguese lyric (Rip Cohen and Stephen Parkinson) and on lyric poetry in the sixteenth century (T.F. Earle) are fine examples of how stimulating this articulation between text and context can be. The importance of this volume for the present and the future of Lusophone studies, for students and scholars alike, cannot be overestimated. Queen Mary, University of London Rui Miranda
 Date published: Jun 2011 Editor Xon de Ros Editor Geraldine Hazbun Content description: After an introductory survey of the development of women’s studies in the context of Spain, this volume presents twenty-one original essays by leading scholars from Britain, the United States, Spain and Mexico, which explore women’s roles in the cultural production of their time, offering new insights into women’s agency and representation in the cultural heritage of Spain. Their authors engage in literary criticism as well as historical analysis, sociological investigation and interdisciplinary exploration, describing, analyzing and documenting a range of women’s experiences in Spain from medieval times to the twenty-first century. Given the historical span, as well as the range of approaches and disciplines in women’s studies, the editors’ decision has been to give the contributors a free hand to write on the topic of their choice within their area of expertise. The result is a collective work in accordance with an established feminist tradition. The essays are variously concerned with texts, discourses, everyday life and visual culture, and the approaches incorporate current developments in feminist research, theory and practice. Some contributors opted for a survey of an area which has already received critical attention, extending its scope or considering it from a different perspective, whilst others present altogether new material, testing methodological and theoretical boundaries. The reader will find in this collection of essays a good range of models for scholarship and a sound insight into the main issues and recent critical debates in the field of women’s studies, showing its possibilities within the Spanish context and opening up avenues for further research. It will serve both as an introduction to the subject and as a vibrant record of the present state of research, as well as a stimulus to future debate within this field into the twenty-first century. Pages: 410 Publisher: Tamesis/ Boydel & Brewer Notes: Contents: •Female Foundations in the Libro de Alexandre and Poema de Fernán González (Geraldine Coates, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford) •Desire and Transgression in the Feminine Voice of Early Popular Lyric (Mariana Masera, Universidad Autónoma de México) •From Virgin Martyr to Holy Harlot: Female Saints in the Middle Ages and the Problem of Classification (Andrew M. Beresford, University of Durham) •Choosing and Testing Spouses in Medieval Exemplary Literature (Louise M. Haywood, Trinity Hall, Cambridge) •Through Women's Eyes:The Appropriation of Male Discourse by Three Medieval Women Authors (Nieves Baranda, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia UNED) •Intellectual, Contemplative, Administrator:Isabel de Villena and the Vindication of Women (Rosanna Cantavella, Universitat de València) •Anatomies of a Saint: The Unstable Body of Teresa de Avila (Georgina Dopico-Black, New York University NYU) •Women's Artistic Production and their Visual Representation in Early Modern Spain (Carmen Fracchia, Birkbeck College London) •The Baroque and the Undead: Carnal Knowledge in the Novellas of María de Zayas y Sotomayor (Margaret Greer, Duke University) •Distinct Drama? Female Dramatists in Golden Age Spain (Alexander Samson, University College London UCL) •Conversations from a Distance: Spanish and French Eighteenth-century Women Writers (Mónica Bolufer, Universitat de València) •What They Saw: Reflections on Difference and the Visual in Nineteenth-Century Spain (Lou Charnon-Deutsch, State University of New York.) •Luxurious Borders: Containment and Excess in Nineteenth-Century Spain. (Alison Sinclair, University of Cambridge). •Politics and Feminist Writing in Spain (Joyce Tolliver, University of Illinois, Urbana) •Women as Cultural Agents in Spanish Modernity (Susan Kirkpatrick, University of California, San Diego) •The Theatricalized Self: Women Artists in Masquerade from the 1920s to the Present (Roberta Ann Quance, The Queen’s University of Belfast) •Gender and Change: Identity and Reform in the Second Spanish Republic (Frances Lannon, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford) •Invisible Catalan(e)s: Catalan Women Writers and the Contested Space of Home (Helena Buffery, University of Cork, and Laura Lonsdale, The Queen’s College University of Oxford) •The Mother and the Nation:Reading Women’s Autobiographies from the 1970s to the Present (Xon de Ros, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford) •Tropes of Freedom: Spectacular Eroticism and the Spanish New Woman on-Screen (Jessamy Harvey, Birkbeck College London) •Almódovar’s Others: Spanish Women Film-makers Masquerade, and Maternity (Jo Evans, University College London)
 Date published: May 2011 Author Wes Williams Content description: A new account of the interconnectedness of history, medicine, politics, myth, and literature in early modern culture, focussing on the ways in which monsters give particular force, colour, and shape to the imagination; the image at its centre is the triangulated picture of Andromeda, Perseus and the monster, approaching. The book charts the process of sustained and distinctive change in the cultural significance of the monstrous from the mid-sixteenth century to the late seventeenth. It is structured as a series of close readings, supported by the exploration of a wide range of texts and images, from many diverse fields, which all concern themselves with illicit coupling, unarranged marriages, generic hybridity, and the politics of monstrosity. It includes original readings of major works of French literature by Montaigne, Rabelais, Ronsard, Pascal, Corneille, and Racine. Pages: 360 ISBN 10: 978-0-19-957702-6 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publisher URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199577026.do Notes: The book is illustrated throughout, with 36 black-and-white halftones.
 Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History by Terence Cave Date published: 2009 Original author: Terence Cave Editor Wes Williams Editor Neil Kenny Content description: Retrospectives brings together substantially revised versions of studies written by Terence Cave since 1970: together they constitute a searching methodological investigation of the practice of reading past texts. How do our ways of reading such texts compare with those practised in the periods when they were written? How do we distinguish between what a text meant in its own time and what it has come to mean over time? And how might reading provide access to past experiences? The book's epicentre is early modern French culture, but it extends to that culture's ancient Greek and Roman models, its European contexts, and the afterlives of some of its themes, from Pascal via George Eliot to Angela Carter. Pages: 210 ISBN 13: 9781905981953 Publisher: Legenda Publisher URL: http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781905981953
 Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage, 1250-1700 Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions Volume: 140 Date published: 2007 Author Palmira Brummet Author Wes Williams Content description: This collection examines a wide range of travel texts, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, both to question the divergence between the 'midddle ages' and the 'early modern' and to assess the modes, themes, and ethnologies of travel writing. It demonstrates the enduring nature of the itinerary, the variant forms of witnessing (including imaginary maps), the crafting of sacred space as a cautionary tale, and the use of the travel narrative to represent the transformation of the authorial self. Focusing on European pilgrims and other travelers to the expansive East, from the soft architecture of Timur's tent palaces in Samarqand to the ambiguities of sexual identity at the Mughul court, these essays reveal the possibilities for cultural translation as travelers of varying experience and attitude confront remote and foreign (or not so foreign) space. Pages: 332 ISBN 13: 9789004174986 ISSN: 1573-4188 Publisher: Brill Publisher URL: http://www.brill.nl/book-travels-genre-ethnology-and-pilgrimage-1250-1700 Notes: 19 colour plates and 30 b/w illustrations
 Date published: Dec 2010 Author Alexis Tadie Author Wes Williams Author Richard Scholar Content description: The contributors to this volume demonstrate the significant role that fiction plays in early modern European culture, not only in a variety of its literary genres, but also in its formation of philosophical ideas, political theories, and the law. The volume explores these uses of fiction in a series of interrelated case studies, ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the French Revolution and examining the work of, among others, Montaigne, Corneille, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, and Diderot. It asks: Where does fiction live, and thrive? Under what conditions, and to what ends? It suggests that fiction is best understood not as a genre or a discipline but, instead, as a frontier: one that demarcates literary genres and disciplines of knowledge and which, crucially, allows for the circulation of ideas between them. Pages: 172 ISBN 13: 978-1-4094-0865-9 Publisher: Ashgate Publisher URL: http://www.ashgatepublishing.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=480&title_id=10186&ed Notes: Includes 4 b&w illustrations
 Date published: 2009 Author Richard Scholar Author Wes Williams Author Kate Tunstall Content description: If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone? 'Pre-histories and afterlives' explores methods that have emerged in recent work by Terence Cave, to offer new ways of shaping the stories we tell of the past and the analyses we offer. In this volume, a dialogue emerges with these two new critical methods, exploring their uses in a range of contexts, disciplines, languages and periods. The contributors are Terence Cave, Marian Hobson, Anna Holland, Neil Kenny, Mary McKinley, Richard Scholar, Kate E. Tunstall, and Wes Williams. Pages: 162 ISBN 13: 97819059819 Publisher: Legenda
 Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Date published: Dec 2010 Author John O'Brien Author Wes Williams Author Richard Cooper Content description: An accessible account of Rabelais' major works and the contextual information and conceptual tools needed to understand the author and his world. The most up-to-date book on Rabelais to be designed specifically for English-speaking audiences, the Companion is intended to enable a broad spectrum of readers both to appreciate and to enjoy Rabelais. With a detailed guide to further reading and a chronology, and with all quotations given in translation, this is an ideal guide for students and scholars of French and comparative literature. Pages: 192 ISBN 13: 9780521687287 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publisher URL: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2711758/?site_locale=en_GB Notes: Also available in hardback: 9780521867863; and online.
 Exchanges in Poststructuralism Series: Crosscurrents Date published: Apr 2011 Author Gerald Moore Content description: Through readings of figures including Marcel Mauss and Claude Levi-Strauss, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Politics of the Gift argues that what we understand as philosophical poststructuralism emerges from a renegotiation of philosophy's relation to politics and economics in twentieth-century France. It shows how this renegotiation was enforced by the rise of social sciences, such as anthropology and psychoanalysis, which created a crisis in philosophers' sense of their own legitimacy, forcing them to move beyond the traditional hierarchy of the academic disciplines. Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
 Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece Series: Studies in Comparative Literature Volume: 11 Date published: Mar 2007 Author Dimitris Papanikolaou Content description: Between 1945 and 1975, in both France and Greece, literature provided the aesthetic criteria, cultural prestige and institutional basis for what aspired to be a higher form of popular song and the authentic representative of a national popular music. Published poems were set to popular music, while critical discourse celebrated some songwriters not only for being 'as good as poets' but for being 'singing poets' in their own right. This challenging and stimulating study is the first to chart the parallel cultural processes in the two countries from a comparative perspective. Bringing together cultural studies with literary criticism, it offers new angles on the work of Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré, Jacques Brel, Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hadjidakis and Dionysis Savvopoulos. Pages: 196 ISBN 13: 9781904350620 Publisher: Legenda Publisher URL: http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781904350620
 Date published: 2010 Author Clare Connors Content description: "What is the pervasive character of the world? The answer is force." But, as Heidegger asks next: "What is force?" Connors sets out to answer this question, tracing a genealogy of the idea of force through the writings of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida. These thinkers try to pin down what force is, but know too that it is something which cannot be neutrally described. Their vigorously literary writings must therefore be read as much for the stylistic and rhetorical ways in which they render force's powerful elusiveness as for the content of their arguments. And it is perhaps literature, rather than philosophy, which best engages with force. Certainly, for Connors, these philosophical positions are foreshadowed in remarkable detail by Shakespeare's Henry V - a play shot through with forces, imaginary, military, rhetorical and bodily. Pages: 158 ISBN 13: 9781906540722 Publisher: Legenda Publisher URL: http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781906540722
 Date published: 2010 Editor Robert Pyrah Editor Marius Turda Content description: Twenty years after the fall of Communism, scholarship on East Central Europe has adopted mainstream western methodologies, but remains preoccupied with a narrow range of themes. Nationalism, identity, fin- de-si�cle art and culture, and revisionist historiography dominate the field to the detriment of other subjects. Using a variety of lenses - literary, political, linguistic, medical - the authors address a conspectus of original themes, including Jewish literary life in interwar Romania; the Galician 'Alphabet War'; and Saxon eugenics in Transylvania. These case studies transcend their East Central European context by engaging with conceptually broad questions. This volume additionally contains a comprehensive Introduction and topical Bibliography of use to students and teachers, resulting in one of the most creative collections of studies dealing with East Central Europe to date. This volume has its roots in an interdisciplinary seminar at the University of Oxford, bringing together emerging and established scholars, with the explicit aim of broadening the study of this region, its history and culture beyond the established paradigms. Robert Pyrah, a Junior Research Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, is a specialist on theatre and cultural politics in the post-Habsburg context; Marius Turda is founder of the International Working Group on the History of Race and Eugenics based at Oxford Brookes University. Re-Contextualising East Central European History was published with the support of the The Berendel Foundation, and was launched at the Foundation's inaugural conference in Oxford on 9 September 2010. Pages: 178 ISBN 13: 9781906540876 Publisher: Legenda Publisher URL: http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781906540876
 Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism Series: Research Monographs in French Studies 29 Date published: 2010 Author Anna Kemp Content description: In recent years, the figure of the Muslim Woman has loomed large over mainstream feminist debate in France. Cast alternately as a Frenchwoman-in-the-making or a veiled threat, the Muslim Woman has become emblematic of France's relationship to those identified as its cultural others. But throughout these debates, and in spite of their scale and passion, one view has been glaringly absent: the view of French Muslim women themselves. Drawing on sociological, polemical and literary writings, this thoughtful and wide-ranging study examines the unacknowledged colonial roots of French feminist discourses on Islam and femininity, before bringing to light examples of French Muslim women's writing and activism that suggest alternative ways of being both French and a feminist. Pages: 156 ISBN 13: 9781906540265 Publisher: Legenda Publisher URL: http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781906540265
 Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook Volume: 5 Date published: Sep 2011 Editor Karen Leeder Editor Laua Bradley Publisher: Camden House
 Series: German Monitor Volume: 69 Date published: 2007 Editor Karen Leeder Publisher: Rodopi
 Date published: 2010 Editor Karen Leeder Editor Robert Vilain Publisher: Wallstein
 Date published: 2010 Editor Karen Leeder Editor Robert Vilain Publisher: CUP
 Date published: 2011 Original author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger Translator Karen Leeder Publisher: Upper Westside Philosophers Press
 Series: Modern French Identities Volume: 83 Date published: Oct 2009 Editor Anna-Magdalena Elsner Editor Peter Collier Editor Olga Smith Content description: Memory has always been crucial to French literature and culture as a means of mediating the relationship between perception and knowledge of the individual coming to terms with his identity in time. Relatively recently, memory has also emerged as the key force in the creation of a collective consciousness in the wider perspective of French cultural history. This collection of essays offers a fresh evaluation of memory as both a cultural and an individual phenomenon in modern and contemporary French culture, including literature, cinema and the visual arts. 'Anamnesia', the book's title, develops the Aristotelian concept of anamnesis: recollection as a dynamic and creative process, which includes forgetting as much as remembering, concealment as much as imagination. Memory in this extremely diverse range of essays is therefore far from being presented as a straightforward process of recalling the past, but emerges as the site of research and renegotiation, of contradictions and even aporia. Pages: 359 ISBN 10: 9783039118465 ISBN 13: 978-3039118465 Publisher: Peter Lang Publisher URL: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=50
 Date published: 2011 Editor Karen Leeder Editor Chris Young Editor Michael Eskin Publisher: de Gruyter
 The GDR - Twenty Years After Series: Special Edition of Oxford German Studies Volume: 38.3 Date published: Nov 2009 Editor Karen Leeder Publisher: Oxford German Studies Publisher URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/ogs
 Translation and Mediation Date published: May 2011 Author Jennifer Higgins Content description: Between 1880 and 1940, English responses to French poetry evolved from marginalised expressions of admiration associated with rebellion against the 'establishment' to mainstream mutual exchange and appreciation. The translation of poetry underwent a simultaneous evolution, from attempts to produce definitive renderings to definitions of translation as an ongoing, generative process at the centre of literary debate. This study traces the impact of French poetry in England, via a wide range of translations by major poets of the time as well as renderings by now-forgotten writers. It explores poetry and translations beyond the limits of the usual canon, and identifies key moments of influence, from late nineteenth-century English homages to Victor Hugo as a liberal icon, to Ezra Pound re-interpreting Charles Baudelaire for the twentieth century.
ISBN 13: 9781907625060 Publisher: Legenda Publisher URL: http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781907625060
 How Novels and Critics Compare Date published: May 2011 Author Catherine Brown Content description: Comparison underlies all reading. Readers compare words to words, and books to all the other books which they have read. Some books, however, demand a particular comparative effort - for example, novels which contain parallel plot lines. In this ambitious and important study Catherine Brown compares Daniel Deronda with Anna Karenina and Women in Love in order to answer the following questions: why does one protagonist in each novel fail whilst another succeeds? Can their failure and success be understood on the same terms? How do the novels' uses of comparison compare to each other? How relevant is George Eliot's influence on Lev Tolstoi, and Tolstoi's on D. H. Lawrence? Does Tolstoi being a Russian make this a 'comparative' literary study? And what does the 'comparative' in 'comparative literature' actually mean? Criticism is combined with metacriticism, to explore how novels and critics compare.
ISBN 13: 9781906540814 Publisher: Legenda Publisher URL: http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781906540814
 El legado de Maria Blanchard Primitivism and Modernism Date published: Dec 2007 Author Xon de Ros Pages: 238 Publisher: Peter Lang Publisher URL: http://peterlang.com
 Passions of the soul in late twentieth-century French thought Date published: Nov 2011 Author Christina Howells Content description: This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan, Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected connections, Christina Howells draws together the work of prominent thinkers from the fields of phenomenology and existentialism, religious thought, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, focussing in particular on the relations between body and soul, love and death, desire and passion. From Aristotle through to contemporary analytic philosophy and neuroscience the relationship between mind and body (psyche and soma, consciousness and brain) has been persistently recalcitrant to analysis, and emotion (or passion) is the locus where the explanatory gap is most keenly identified. This problematic forms the broad backdrop to the work's primary focus on contemporary French philosophy and its attempts to understand the intimate relationship between subjectivity and mortality, in the light not only of the 'death' of the classical subject but also of the very real frailty of the subject as it lives on, finite, desiring, embodied, open to alterity and always incomplete. Ultimately Howells identifies this vulnerability and finitude as the paradoxical strength of the mortal subject and as what permits its transcendence. Subtle, beautifully written, and cogently argued, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars interested in contemporary theories of subjectivity, as well as for readers intrigued by the perennial connections between love and death. Pages: 263 ISBN 10: 978-0-7456-5274-0 ISBN 13: 978-0-7456-5275-7 Publisher: Polity Press Publisher URL: http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745652740 Notes: REVIEWS: "This book constitutes a magisterial study in its scope, the number of authors and perspectives studied, and the exactness and profundity of its aims. It goes as far as possible today in interrogating the supposed distinction between mind and body or between life and death (two couples in parallel and chiasmatic opposition). It′s not a question of dissolving this double difference, but of thinking of it as the self-difference within a single ′subject′. This thought is crucial at a time when there is a danger of bodies becoming things and of death becoming insignificant. Christina Howells′s journey is a powerful, rousing and passionate one: we must join her!" Jean-Luc Nancy, The European Graduate School "Christina Howells′s book approaches in an original way contemporary French thought by focusing on the intertwining of love and death, of body and soul, of passion and pain. By rigorously analysing several famous thinkers, but also less well-known authors, such as Gabriel Marcel or the psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu, she brings to light unexpected correspondences and fertile aporias, and introduces the reader to the richness and diversity of current continental thinking." Jacob Rogozinski, Strasbourg University "With wisdom, passion and great care, Christina Howells opens a world of understanding - from the ancient Greeks to contemporary neuroscience - to reveal modern French thought as a vital ally in our attempts to understand embodied existence. One of those rare books that help us think more deeply and feel more intensely, it is a magnificent achievement." Martin Crowley, Queens′ College, University of Cambridge
 : Studien Zu Einer Dominikanischen Predigtsammlung Aus Dem Umkreis Meister Eckharts Date published: Nov 2009 Editor Nigel Palmer Editor Burkhard Hasebrink Editor Hans-Jochen Schiewer Pages: 271 ISBN 10: 3484108150 ISBN 13: 978-3484108158 Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag
 Date published: 2007 Original author: Clarice Lispector Co-ordinator Claire Williams Content description: Entre maio de 1968 e outubro de 1969, já consagrada na literatura brasileira, Clarice Lispector manteve uma seção na revista Manchete, onde publicava entrevistas com figuras importantes da cultura do país. Sob um título condizente com o de boa parte de sua obra - 'Diálogos Possíveis com Clarice Lispector', a seção trazia um pouco do mundo dos amigos da escritora, que discorriam sobre diversos temas, pontuados com observações da especialíssima repórter, que voltou às entrevistas em fins de 1976, na revista 'Fatos e Fotos - Gente', na qual permaneceu até outubro do ano seguinte, dois meses antes de morrer. Algumas das conversas de Clarice estão em 'Entrevistas - Clarice Lispector' que, mais do que contar a vida e as opiniões de personalidades como Nelson Rodrigues, Ferreira Gullar, Emerson Fittipaldi, Oscar Niemeyer e Vinícius de Moraes, revelam muito da escritora e do comportamento da época. Pages: 232 ISBN 10: 853252088x ISBN 13: 9788532520883 Publisher: Rocco Notes: Preface by Claire Williams
 Betrayal and Collective Identity in Early Spanish Epic, Chronicle, and Drama Series: Monografias A Volume: 281 Date published: Nov 2009 Author Geraldine Coates Content description: Treacherous Foundations is the first sustained study of the theme of treachery in the founding myths of the Iberian Peninsula. It considers literary versions, in epic, chronicle and theatre, of the legends of Fernán González, Bernardo del Carpio and King Sancho II from medieval and early modern Spain and compares the representation of treachery across two critical periods in Spanish history, assessing its political, ideological, and cultural function. Pages: 246 Publisher: Tamesis. Boydell & Brewer
 Appropriations, Manipulations and Rewritings in the Twentieth- and Twenty-first Centuries Series: Cultural Inquiry Volume: 2 Date published: 2011 Editor Manuele Gragnolati Editor Fabio Camilletti Editor Fabian Lampart Content description: After almost seven centuries, Dante endures and even seems to haunt the present. Metamorphosing Dante explores what so many authors, artists and thinkers from varied backgrounds have found in Dante's oeuvre, and the ways in which they have engaged with it through rewritings, dialogues, and transpositions. By establishing trans-disciplinary routes, the volume shows that, along with a corpus of multiple linguistic and narrative structures, characters, and stories, Dante has provided a field of tensions in which to mirror and investigate one's own time. Authors explored include Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, Andr Gide, Derek Jarman, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, James Joyce, Wolfgang Koeppen, Jacques Lacan, Thomas Mann, James Merrill, Eugenio Montale, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Cesare Pavese, Giorgio Pressburger, Robert Rauschenberg, Vittorio Sereni, Virginia Woolf. Pages: 414 ISBN 10: 3851326172 ISBN 13: 978-3851326178 Publisher: Turia + Kant Publisher URL: http://ci.ici-berlin.org/volumes/327
 Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity Date published: 2010 Editor Manuele Gragnolati Editor Sara Fortuna Editor Jürgen Trabant Content description: Dante's conception of language is encompassed in all his works and can be understood in terms of a strenuous defence of the volgare in tension with the prestige of Latin. By bringing together different approaches, from literary studies to philosophy and history, from aesthetics to queer studies, from psychoanalysis to linguistics, this volume offers new critical insights on the question of Dante's language, engaging with both the philosophical works characterized by an original project of vulgarization, and the poetic works, which perform a new language in an innovative and self-reflexive way. In particular, "Dante's Plurilingualism" explores the rich and complex way in which Dante's linguistic theory and praxis both informs and reflects an original configuration of the relationship between authority, knowledge and identity that continues to be fascinated by an ideal of unity but is also imbued with a strong element of subjectivity and opens up towards multiplicity and modernity. The contributors include Zygmunt Barański, Emma Bond, Gary Cestaro, Sara Fortuna, Stefano Gensini, Carlo Ginzburg, Manuele Gragnolati, Giulio Lepschy, Laura Lepschy, Bettina Lindorfer, Elena Lombardi, Franco Lo Piparo, Lino Pertile, Giorgio Pressburger, Irène Rosier-Catach, Francesca Southerden, Mirko Tavoni, and Jürgen Trabant. Pages: 200 ISBN 10: 1906540780 ISBN 13: 978-1906540784 Publisher: Legenda Publisher URL: http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781906540784
 Date published: 2009 Editor Manuele Gragnolati Editor Sara Fortuna Content description: "Aracoeli" (1982) was the last novel written by Elsa Morante (1912-85), one of the most significant Italian writers of the twentieth century. The journey, both geographical and memorial, of a homosexual son in search of his dead mother is a first-person narrative that has puzzled many critics for its darkness and despair. By combining scholars from different disciplines and cultural traditions, this volume re-evaluates the esthetical and theoretical complexity of Morante's novel and argues that it engages with crucial philosophical and epistemological questions in an original and profound way. Contributors explore the manifold tensions staged by the novel in connection with contemporary philosophical discourse (from feminist/queer to political theory to psycho-analysis) and authors (such as Emilio Gadda, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Pedro Almodovar). "The Power of Disturbance" shows that by creating a 'hallucinatory' representation of the relationship between mother and child, "Aracoeli" questions the classical distinction between subject and object, and proposes an altogether new and subversive kind of writing. ISBN 10: 1906540500 ISBN 13: 978-1906540500 Publisher: Legenda Publisher URL: http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781906540500 Notes: http://www.ici-berlin.org/publication/187
 The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present Volume: 20 illustrations Date published: 2010 Author Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly Content description: A regiment of women warriors strides across the battlefield of German culture - on the stage, in the opera house, on the page, and in paintings and prints. These warriors are re-imaginings by men of figures such as the Amazons, the Valkyries, and the biblical killer Judith. They are transgressive and therefore frightening figures who leave their proper female sphere and have to be made safe by being killed, deflowered, or both. This has produced some compelling works of Western culture - Cranach's and Klimt's paintings of Judith, Schiller's Joan of Arc, Hebbel's Judith, Wagner's Brünnhilde, Fritz Lang's Brünhild. Nowadays, representations of the woman warrior are used as a way of thinking about the woman terrorist. Women writers only engage with these imaginings at the end of the 19th century, but from the late 18th century on they begin to imagine fictional cross-dressers going to war in a realistic setting and thus think the unthinkable. Pages: 312 ISBN 13: 978-0-19-955823-0 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publisher URL: www.oup.com
 Series: Women and Death Volume: 2 Date published: 2009 Editor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly Editor Sarah Colvin Content description: Warlike women are a recurring phenomenon in German literature and culture since 1500. Amazons, terrorists, warrior women -- this volume of essays by leading scholars from the UK and Germany analyzes ideas and portrayals of these figures in the visual arts, society, media, and scholarship, always against the backdrop of Germany's development as a culture and as a nation. The contributors look for patterns in the historical portrayal of warlike women, asking the questions: What cultural signals are sent when women are shown occupying men's spaces by dressing as warriors or in men's clothing? What can legitimize the woman who bears arms? From what is the erotic potential of images linking women and violence derived? Have recent feminist thought and political developments changed representations of warlike women? Pages: 313 ISBN 13: 9781571134004 Publisher: Camden House Publisher URL: www.camden-house.com
 Date published: 2012 Author Nicola Gardini Content description: Cinquantadue libri, uno per ogni settimana dell'anno, scelti tra i classici italiani letti (o che bisognerebbe leggere) nelle scuole e presentati in ordine alfabetico. Si va da Leopardi a Fenoglio, da Machiavelli a Elsa Morante; compaiono romanzi, novelle, poesie, testi teatrali e teorici. A ognuno dei titoli selezionati, Nicola Gardini affianca un breve saggio, scritto appena dopo aver terminato la lettura del libro (una rilettura, certo, ma - precisa l'autore - fatta «come se leggessi la prima volta»). Svincolato dalle categorie rigide della storia letteraria, il catalogo Per una biblioteca indispensabile mira invece a costruire una sorta di mappa in cui ogni testo è in relazione con altri testi, per affinità o per contrasto, e Gardini ci svela sapientemente differenze e analogie, richiami nascosti e collegamenti inaspettati. «Componendo queste pagine, - scrive l'autore nell'Introduzione, - mi sono impegnato ad agire da modello; a comportarmi da "lettore semplice", colui che da solo, con la sua memoria e la sua sensibilità, si mette all'opera, senza ricorrere ad altra autorità che quella del libro letto. Pensavo, quando cominciavo a delineare i primi abbozzi, all'individuo umano (uomo o donna, giovane o vecchio) che, ritrovatosi un classico tra le mani, si senta in dovere di capirne l'importanza; e si domandi come comportarsi. Un classico, si sa, è quasi sempre preceduto dalla sua fama. Ciò che dice ha finito per includere discorsi che altri hanno già pronunciato sulla sua forma e sui suoi contenuti o si è ridotto addirittura al solo senso di quei discorsi. Quante volte i critici sono letti piú degli autori che criticano! Vizio non solo italiano, d'altra parte. Io, in queste pagine, ho voluto considerare certi classici come se la loro importanza spettasse prima di tutto a me accertarla, a me - intendo - 'lettore semplice'. In base a quello che pare a me? No, il mio parere non sarebbe di per sé un criterio sufficiente: in base all'importanza che – certo, secondo me – quei classici dimostrano di avere all'interno di una data tradizione. Ho subito detto che volevo rinunciare agli schemi della storia letteraria, e cosí ho fatto. Ma non ho minimamente detto - né potrei mai dirlo - che la lettura dei libri non debba poggiare su una base storica. Per me questa base storica, che considero imprescindibile, è rappresentata appunto dalla tradizione, cioè dalle parentele che i libri, nel tempo e nelle piú svariate maniere, contraggono gli uni con gli altri. La lettura è il tempo in cui la tradizione, per cosí dire, viene allo scoperto. Ogni libro, pur creando in via di principio, nel momento in cui viene letto, un suo spazio assoluto, in realtà dialoga con altri libri. Nessun bravo scrittore scrive senza pensare, consciamente o no, a quello che altri hanno scritto prima di lui. Ebbene, il "lettore semplice" – se è all'altezza del suo compito – si accorge dei collegamenti, delle somiglianze e delle differenze, e le fa diventare parte della sua avventura. Per una biblioteca indispensabile presume che i libri di cui parla formino un insieme, si richiamino l'un l'altro come i singoli membri di un corpo vivente, percorso dallo stesso sangue. La tradizione è un dato di fatto, non un artificio come la storia letteraria (di cui, non a caso, molti altri paesi, pur essendo ricchi di letteratura, sono privi). I libri, insomma, importano all'interno di un sistema di relazioni, si implicano a vicenda. Solo all'interno della tradizione si può stabilire l'importanza – il valore umano e linguistico – del singolo libro. Solo leggendo un secondo libro, si capirà meglio il valore del primo». Il risultato di questo approccio è un catalogo originale e rappresentativo di una letteratura di pensiero e impegno civile, la prova che la cultura letteraria, al pari di quella scientifica, è in grado di migliorare la vita umana, educando a una maggiore conoscenza di sé e degli altri. «Volevo scrivere un libro sull'Italia migliore, - scrive ancora l'autore, - avendo chiara cognizione di quella peggiore; e cercare nel passato, per amore della vita, perché la vita è piú nel passato che nel presente, com'è stato detto; e parlare di letteratura, ma fuori dagli schemi falsificanti della storia letteraria. […] Questo catalogo presenta una letteratura italiana anticonvenzionale, non quella degli "ismi", delle scuole e delle correnti, non quella – piú per ostinazione degli interpreti che degli scrittori - formalistica, retriva e provinciale che i manuali continuano a confezionare; bensí una letteratura magnanima, europea, laica, piena di spirito, di protesta, in cui trionfano la ragione critica, l'osservazione delle cose, il rispetto del pensiero, l'educazione della mente e del cuore, la condanna dei pregiudizi, la coscienza storica, l'immaginazione filologica, il senso dell'antichità, il dispregio del materialismo, l'antiautoritarismo, lo studio della società, la cura della giovinezza, la brama di letture, la voglia di giustizia, la sete di libertà; una letteratura curiosa e varia, in cui la ricerca linguistica non è amatoriale mania, calligrafismo, bellettrismo, ma uno strumento dell'intelligenza contestatrice e dell'impegno civile, un’indagine implacabile del rapporto tra parola e vita. Ecco l'Italia migliore che cercavo». Publisher: Einaudi Publisher URL: http://www.einaudi.it
 Date published: Apr 2010 Author Nicola Gardini Content description: Rinascimento provides a reassessment of the notion of "Renaissance" and a definition of what should be intended by this term, which all sorts of temporal/geographical extensions, nationalistic agendas and semantic metaphorizations have reduced over the centuries to an empty container of most disparate ideas and hypotheses. Pages: 320 Publisher: Einaudi
 Date published: Apr 2009 Author Nicola Gardini Content description: A memoir of my academic life prior to my move to Oxford. A provocative book, full of reflections on the sense of literature and the importance of the humanities, which stirred a great deal of polemic in Italy Publisher: Feltrinelli
 Series: Meridiani Date published: 2009 Editor Nicola Gardini Editor Anna Ravano Content description: An edition of Ted Hughes's Selected Poems in Italian - fully annotated. With a long introductory essay, an extensive bibliograghy and a chronology (written by Anna Ravano) Publisher: Mondadori
 Borges, A Life Date published: 2011 Author Edwin Williamson Content description: This is the Brazilian edition of BORGES, A LIFE (Viking Penguin, 2004), the first biography to encompass the entire span of the life and work of Jorge Luis Borges. Pages: 657 ISBN 10: 978-85-359-1827-4 Publisher: Companhia Das Letras Notes: BORGES, A LIFE has been translated into Spanish (Seix Barral, 2006)and four other languages.
 Date published: 2009 Author Edwin Williamson Content description: A one-volume history of Latin America, with chapters on cultural history, first published in 1992. This revised and updated edition assesses the impact of globalization as well as other key developments since 1990, including the rise of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia. Pages: 705 ISBN 10: 978-0-141-03475-1 Publisher: Penguin Books
 Date published: Jul 2011 Editor Michael Abecassis Editor Gudrun Ledegen Editor Karen Zouaoui Content description: The first part of this volume, "La Francophonie ou l'eloge de la diversite", is devoted to "Francophone cinema, between Bollywood and Hollywood". What in particular does Francophone cinema have to offer compared with American or Indian cinema? What more does Francophone cinema have to offer? What genres does it prefer? For what audience? The second part deals with the promotion of diversity in Francophone countries, taking into consideration the cultural aspects of Francophonie in the 21st century, the linguistic description of systems in contact, tracing the historical stages which have led to the creation of this locus of cultural diversity, and focusing finally on university cooperation and Franco-British scientific research. This book brings together contributions by outstanding authors who gathered in Oxford in October 2010 at the Maison francaise, including: Gudrun Ledegen: Sociolinguist, lecturer in linguistics at the University of La Reunion. She specialises in contact between French and Creole in La Reunion. Louis-Jean Calvet: Professor of the University of Provence. In collaboration with the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, he works on language policy, particularly the struggle to maintain linguistic diversity. Bernard Cerquiglini: Rector of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie. An eminent linguist and specialist on the French language, Cerquiglini is known as the "Professor" from TV5 Monde's "Merci Professeur!". Philippe Lane is the Cultural Attache at the French Embassy in London. The discussion is complemented by contributions by Karine Chevalier, Amelie Hien and Alou Keita, Gaelle Planchenault, Maryse Bray and Helene Gill, Alena Podhorna-Policka and Anne-Caroline Fievet. Pages: 194 ISBN 10: 978-1-4438-2934-2 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press Publisher URL: www.csp.co
 a travers l'histoire, l'ecole et la presse Series: Modern French identities Volume: 93 Date published: Jan 2010 Editor Michael Abecassis Editor Gudrun Ledegen Content description: Les articles publiés dans le présent volume regroupent les communications du colloque de l'AFLS qui a eu lieu du 3 au 5 septembre 2008 á l'Université d'Oxford.
Ce livre traite de l'aspect phonologique d'une variété de français, de sa grammaire, de son vocabulaire tout comme des aspects dialogiques et polyphoniques du langage, en adoptant une perspective synchronique ou diachronique. Les auteurs se focalisent ainsi sur l'histoire du français parlé, de la langue française en contact, ou encore de la problématique de la variation ou du fait générique en FLE et FLS ; pour divers domaines linguistiques ou par l'analyse de discours appliquée á la presse (discours entrecroisés, discours politique). Cette publication présente comme trame la voix véhiculée par l'histoire, celle qui s'exprime dans la salle de classe ou encore qui résonne dans la presse. Pages: 364 ISBN 10: 978-3-0343-0170-1 br Publisher: Peter Lang Publisher URL: http://www.peterlang.com
 en parlant, en ecrivant Volume: 94 Date published: Jan 2010 Editor Michael Abecassis Editor Gudrun Ledegen Content description: Les articles publiés dans le présent volume regroupent les communications du colloque de l'AFLS qui a eu lieu du 3 au 5 septembre 2008 à l'Université d'Oxford. Ce livre s'intéresse au français sous toutes ses formes et dans toutes ses représentations, dans des corpus de français oral comme écrit. Sont ainsi passées au crible la morpho-syntaxe du français parlé, la graphie dans les SMS et dans les productions régionales, la prononciation, la syntaxe et la sémantique. La réflexion s'oriente sur les traits propres aux différentes variétés géographiques et stylistiques du français non seulement en métropole (patois, dialectes, régionalismes) mais dans tout l'espace francophone (variétés d'Europe, d'Amérique du Nord, d'Afrique, créoles). Cet ouvrage présente les faces orale et écrite du français, ses volets syntaxique et sémantique, ainsi que toute la variation en francophonie dont il peut jouir. Réunissant les contributions d'éminents conférenciers pléniers : Joëlle Gardes Tamine (Université de Paris 4), Ambroise Queffélec (Université de Provence) et Mortéza Mahmoudian (Université de Lausanne), ainsi que de chercheurs de renom international, d'enseignants et d'étudiants, l'ensemble de ces contributions réuni dans cet ouvrage apporte une représentation fort complète de l'évolution du français et de son statut au début du 21ième siècle. Pages: 471 ISBN 10: ISBN 978-3-0343-0171 Publisher: Peter Lang Publisher URL: http://www.peterlang.com
 Series: Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies Date published: 2008 Author Jennifer Yee Content description: Over the nineteenth century France built up an empire second only to Britain's, and the literary tradition in which it dealt with its colonial 'Others' is often understood in terms inspired by Edward Said's description of orientalism as a Western projection over and will to govern the Orient. Yet some exotic literature disturbs such simple categorization, offering glimpses of colonial resistance, critique of imperialist hegemony, or a blurring of the boundaries between the Self and the Other. Pointing towards a series of ways in which the imperialist will to govern the Other is subverted in the nineteenth century, this volume gives detailed case studies of key works by Chateaubriand, Hugo, Flaubert and Segalen. Pages: 124 ISBN 13: 978-1-905981-51-9 Publisher: MHRA/Maney Publisher URL: www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/Legenda/
 Date published: Jul 2010 Author Jane Hiddleston Content description: This book explores the relation between poststructuralist thought and postcoloniality, and identifies in that interaction the expression of a particular anxiety concerning the form of theoretical writing. Many so-called poststructuralist thinkers, such as Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Barthes, Kristeva and Spivak, have turned their attention at some point in their career towards questions either of postcolonialism, or of cultural domination and difference. For all these thinkers, however, a reflection on such questions has generated a sense of unease concerning the assumed neutrality of theoretical discourse, and the inevitable subjective or autobiographical investments of the writing self. The book argues that this anxiety betrays an unprecedented lucidity concerning the particular challenges of writing about ourselves and others at a time of postcolonial upheaval. 'A thorough, well-researched and well-written piece of scholarship. Though it covers a lot of ground, and deals with six notoriously complex and prolific thinkers, the overall project is impressively focused and coherent. This is clearly an accomplished piece of work, and it will be a valuable addition to the growing literature on the topic.' Professor Peter Hallward, Middlesex University Pages: 207 ISBN 13: 9781846312304 Publisher: Liverpool University Press Publisher URL: http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3954
 Date published: Mar 2009 Author Jane Hiddleston Content description: Postcolonialism offers challenging and provocative ways of thinking about colonial and neocolonial power, about self and other, and about the discourses that perpetuate postcoloninal inequality and violence. Much of the seminal work in postcolonialism has been shaped by currents in philosophy, notably Marxism and ethics. Understanding Postcolonialism examines the philosophy of postcolonialism in order to reveal the often conflicting systems of thought that underpin it. In so doing, the book presents a reappraisal of the major postcolonial thinkers of the twentieth century. Pages: 202 Publisher: Acumen
 Date published: 2011 Author James Naughton Content description: Third edition of this textbook of Czech for beginners Pages: 456 ISBN 13: 978-0-415-49631-5 Publisher: Routledge
 Barcelona, Catalonia. A view from the inside Date published: Feb 2011 Original author: Matthew Tree Translator Sílvia Xicola-Tugas Translator Lluís Bosch Pascual Content description: "'Com explicar aquest país als estrangers' is a selection of articles and lectures already published in English over the last ten years, most of them involving desperate attempts to explain different aspects of what it is like to live in Catalonia, what Catalonia is - from the author's point of view, at least - what is going on in Catalonia in terms of writing, money, possible independence, and so on. Some of the articles are simply about unusual personal experiences whose only connection with Catalonia is that they took place there." (Matthew Tree, http://www.matthewtree.cat/index.php?&idioma=eng) Pages: 208 ISBN 13: 978-84-664-1359-6 Publisher: Columna Edicions Publisher URL: http://www.columnaedicions.cat/ca/llibre/com-explicar-aquest-pais-als-estrangers_13632.html Notes: This book is in Catalan.
 Gesammelte Gedichte Other Paths Series: Edition Milo Volume: 25 Date published: Oct 2010 Original author: H. G. Adler Editor Katrin Kohl Editor Franz Hocheneder Content description: H.G. Adler was born in 1910 in Prague as the son of German-Jewish parents. He was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942, and from 1944 to other camps including Auschwitz. After the War, he emigrated to Britain and spent the rest of his life in London, where he died in 1988. He initially became known mainly for his authoritative sociological works on Theresienstadt and National Socialist racial policy and practice. In recent years, his novels have been gaining a higher profile, and Panorama and Eine Reise (The Journey) have recently appeared in translations by Peter Filkins to considerable acclaim. Adler himself regarded his poetry as his main life’s work, though only one third was published in his lifetime with small publishers. He wrote poems throughout his life, working with the poetic tradition from the 17th century onwards, especially Klopstock, Hölderlin and Alfred Mombert. He engaged closely with post-war developments, responding to them and resisting them in highly personal ways. He collected and revised his poems assiduously, even during the Theresienstadt period, dating the revisions, structuring the poems in cycles, and eventually organising them in nine unbound volumes of typescript. His collected poems are here published in complete form for the first time, with a brief critical apparatus, and an afterword that provides a brief introduction to the different phases of his poetic work. Pages: 1198 ISBN 10: 978-3-85435-624-0 Publisher: Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt Publisher URL: http://www.drava.at/
 Date published: Nov 2009 Author Ritchie Robertson Content description: This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations; it relies heavily on intertextual allusion to other works, on narratorial irony, on the sympathetic and sometimes libertine presentation of sexual relations, and on a range of satirical devices. It includes well-known texts (Pope's Dunciad, Byron's Don Juan, Heine's Atta Troll) and others which are little known (Ratschky's Melchior Striregel, Parny's La Guerre des Dieux). It owes a marked debt to Italian romance epic (especially Ariosto). The study places these texts in the literary context of the decline of serious epic, which helped mock epic to flourish, and of the 'Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes' which questioned the authority of Homer's and Virgil's epics; and it relates their substance to contemporary debates about questions of religion and gender. Pages: 448 ISBN 10: 0199571589 ISBN 13: 9780199571581 Publisher: Oxford University Press USA Publisher URL: http://www.oup.com/us/?view=usa
 Formen und Funktionen in der deutschen Literatur The Role of Metaphor in German Poetics Date published: 2007 Author Katrin Kohl Content description: The study examines the significance of metaphors in the process of literary communication, focusing especially on the ways in which authors conceptualise their writing and project themselves and their works in the public domain. The approach to metaphor is grounded in cognitive linguistics, and the framework of debate for German poetics is established with reference to the classical canon. The role of conceptual metaphors in German poetics is investigated in three main sections, focusing on the anthropological universals that facilitate communication across time and different literary cultures; the role of tradition and the structures that create communal identities; and 'moments' in German literary history ranging from the 9th-century monk Otfrid to the internet project "neudichte.de". One purpose of the project is to demonstrate that concepts such as 'breaks', 'thresholds' and 'autonomy' in German literary historiography are normative metaphors motivated by specific interests and traditions rather than timeless truths, and that the metaphors of literary scholarship require ongoing reconfiguration if they are to be responsive to developments in literature. Pages: 754 ISBN 10: 978-3-11-018628-4 Publisher: de Gruyter Publisher URL: www.degruyter.com
 Metaphor Series: Sammlung Metzler Volume: 352 Date published: 2007 Author Katrin Kohl Content description: The book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of metaphor and other tropes. It outlines different theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of metaphor from antiquity to the present, focusing especially on classical sources (Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian) and cognitive linguistics. The practical use of metaphor is discussed with respect to a variety of disciplines, ranging from literature and philosophy to the social sciences and sciences. While the bulk of the book is concerned with metaphor as the central trope, there are brief sections on the main related terms such as metonymy, allegory and symbol. The discussion of examples is intended to eludicate distinctions in the terminology. The aim of the book is to show how metaphor works at the interface between cognition and language, structuring our thinking about the world we inhabit and enabling effective communication and creative activity. Pages: 186 ISBN 10: 3-476-10352-8 ISBN 13: 978-3-476-10352-9 Publisher: J.B. Metzler Verlag Publisher URL: www.metzlerverlag.de
 Third Edition Date published: Jun 2011 Author Katrin Kohl Author Martin Durrell Author Gudrun Loftus Content description: This workbook is aimed mainly at university students, and it is designed to support work with Hammer's German Grammar and Usage, 5th edition, by Martin Durrell. The chapters move systematically through the main areas of German grammar and offer a maximally wide range of types of exercise. Straightforward gap-filling and transformation exercises are designed to practise the application of rules, and more complex exercises from authentic sources give a sense of the ways in which those rules work in the context of day-to-day communication. Open-ended 'Projects' encourage independent study and analysis. Pages: 256 ISBN 10: 9781444120172 Publisher: Hodder Education Publisher URL: www.hoddereducation.co.uk
 Bibliographie critique des 'Divers Travaulx' d'Euchaire Rösslin (1536) - l'Apologie de Louyse Bourg Series: Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance Volume: 421 Date published: 2007 Author Valerie Worth Content description: Renaissance readers were fascinated by everything to do with childbirth, from conception, pregnancy and birth to sterility and monsters. With the coming of printing, France witnessed the appearance of a remarkable number of obstetric treatises. This study charts the successive editions of some thirty works, from the first French translation of Euchaire Rosslin's birthing manual in 1536 to the polemical pamphlet by the royal midwife, Louise Bourgeois, in 1627. Including treatises by Ambroise Paré, Laurent Joubert and Jacques Guillemeau, the volume examines the controversies surrounding the choice to publish in French, at a time when Latin was still the accepted language of formal medical discourse, and analyses debates over such subjects as male and female seed, the length of pregnancy and hermaphrodites. While the texts betray the frequent rivalries between physicians, surgeons and midwives, they also show that the most enlightened authors were concerned above all to reduce the horrific rates of maternal and foetal mortality. It provides a scholarly edition of all the prefaces to these treatises, together with a critical bibliography, a biography and analysis of each author, and some 100 illustrations of woodcuts and title pages. Pages: 496 ISBN 13: 978-2-600-01134-1 Publisher: Droz Publisher URL: http://www.droz.org/
 Political and Cultural Reorientation on the Medieval Frontier Date published: Jan 2009 Author Stephen Lay Content description: Between the late Tenth and the mid Thirteenth centuries Portugal emerged as an independent kingdom with borders that have remained largely unchanged until the present day. This political development took place against the backdrop of a struggle between Christendom and the Islamic world for control over the Iberian Peninsula, but also decisive in the formation of Portugal was a growing European influence being felt throughout the peninsula during these centuries. This cultural influence took the form of direct immigration, growing commercial and social networks, and the transfer of ideas and social mores. Portuguese rulers sought to mediate this European influence to their own advantage. In the twelfth century Afonso Henriques (1128-1185) was able to establish the Portuguese monarchy, but his heirs Sancho I (1185-1211), Afonso II (1211-1223) and Sancho II (1223-1245), found the balance between Iberian reality and European expectation increasingly difficult to maintain. Pages: 344 ISBN 10: 0-230-52561-X ISSN: 978-0-230-52561-0 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publisher URL: http://us.macmillan.com/thereconquestkingsofportugal
 The Lost Words of Amelia Lynd Date published: Jan 2012 Author Nicola Gardini Content description: Novel: Luca's linguistic and literary Bildung in the bleak outskirts of Milan against the background of the hottest political tensions. Pages: 233 Publisher: Feltrinelli
 Essays for David Pattison Series: Colección Támesis, Serie A: Monografías Volume: 264 Date published: 2008 Editor Nigel Griffin Editor Clive Griffin Editor Eric Southworth Content description: Collections of traditional Spanish ballads were made in the early seventeenth century; some recorded directly from singers, others reworked by educated poets. So popular were these that Court poets composed ballads of their own. Most Spanish poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries circulated in manuscript among a small coterie of wits and fellow poets, and it often contains references to contemporary events and people, sideswipes at institutions and individuals, and allusions to other writings of the time. The modern reader has to know about the people and events criticized and lampooned, and everything from municipal by-laws to contemporary painting can prove helpful. The traditional popular associations of the ballad also led to many poets combining in their poems the language of the street alongside that of polite society and the schoolroom. This volume discusses some of the problems encountered by anglophone students and teachers of literature when they turn to the Golden-Age ballad and offers informed guidance on how such poems might be read. The nine poems discussed have been chosen with such difficulties in mind and a strophe-by-strophe prose translation is provided for each, followed by a detailed critical analysis. Edited by NIGEL GRIFFIN, CLIVE GRIFFIN, ERIC SOUTHWORTH and COLIN THOMPSON Other contributors: OLIVER NOBLE-WOOD, JOHN RUTHERFORD, RONALD TRUMAN. All of Oxford University. Reviews Undoubtedly, this is a meticulously researched work. Great effort has been put forth consulting Covarrubias, the Diccionario de Autoridades, and each poet's oeuvre to unravel the seemingly endless double entendres, bringing to light the subtle nuance of each word, making this a valuable resource for those interested in the Spanish ballad. HISPANIA It is impossible to come away from this book without a deeper appreciation of the skill of Lope, Góngora, Quevedo and Polo. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Pages: 281 ISBN 13: 978-1-85566-172-1 Publisher: Boydell & Brwer Publisher URL: www.boydellandbrewer.com
 Printing-Workers, Heresy, and the Inquisition in Spain during the 16th Century Date published: 2009 Author Clive Griffin Content description: Although the history of the book is a booming area of research, the journeymen who printed books in the sixteenth century have remained shadowy figures because they were not thought to have left any significant traces in the archives. Clive Griffin, however, uses Inquisitional documents from Spain and Portugal to reveal a clandestine network of Protestant-minded immigrant journeymen who were arrested by the Holy Office in Spain and Portugal in the 1560s and 1570s at a time of international crisis. A startlingly clear portrait of these humble men (and occasionally women) emerges allowing the reconstruction of what Namier deemed one of history's greatest challenges: 'the biographies of ordinary men'. We learn of their geographical and social origins, educational and professional training, travels, careers, standard of living, violent behaviour, and even their attitudes, beliefs, and ambitions. "...a complex and richly layered vignette of sixteenth-century life...a wonderful book: meticulous, insightful and penetrating; the best sort of archival scholarship." (Times Literary Supplement) Pages: 422 ISBN 13: 978-84-7895-255-7 Publisher: Ollero & Ramos Publisher URL: www/olleroyramos.com
 Date published: Sep 2011 Editor Toby Garfitt Pages: 256 ISBN 13: 978-2-84418-236-4 Publisher: La Part Commune (Rennes) Publisher URL: www.lapartcommune.com Notes: http://www.lapartcommune.com/correspondances/produit-correspondance-1927-1969-332-10434.html
 L'écriture du voyage aérien - la Renaissance Elevations: Writing the Aerial Voyage in the Renaissance Series: Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance Volume: 489 Date published: Oct 2011 Author Thibaut Maus de Rolley Content description: Travellers lifted by dreams or ecstatic trances; explorers of moons and celestial paradises; inquisitive minds borne on the wings of curiosity; witches and roving demons; knights surveying the world from the backs of hippogriffs or flying hippopotami: the Renaissance is full of fictions and fantasies about flight, as this original "pre-history" of aerial voyages shows. Bringing out the importance of ancient and medieval traditions, this book ends, rather than starts, with the lunar fictions of the early seventeenth century, the point of departure for most historical work in this area. Maus de Rolley explores French and European Renaissance narrative fiction as well as learned discourses concerned with questions of flight and elevation (cosmology, astronomy, magic, demonology). This dialogue between literature and knowledge reveals the power and reach of Renaissance images of flight and their many tales of elevation, tales that, by definition, produce a "decentering" of the world, allowing it to be captured by the human eye and stimulating the invention of "eccentric" worlds. As consummate fables offering the ultimate test of verisimilitude, these flights of fancy also invite us to reconsider early modern conceptions of literary fiction. Pages: 640 ISBN 10: 978-2-600-01500-4 Publisher: Droz Publisher URL: www.droz.org Notes: Also available in PDF format (www.droz.org)
 Date published: Oct 2011 Editor Philip Bullock Content description: Rosa Harriet Newmarch (1857-1940) was well-known in her lifetime as the leading British authority on Russian music, yet she also enjoyed a long and close friendship with the Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). This edition traces a personal and professional relationship that lasted more than three decades, as documented in more than 130 letters, notes and telegrams currently held in the National Archives of Finland. The correspondence, conducted in a mixture of French and German, reveals the intense friendship between Sibelius and Newmarch, sheds detailed light on Newmarch's contribution to the development of musical life in Britain, and provides some of Sibelius's most intimate commentary on his own works, as well as on those of other composers. This edition contains the complete extant correspondence between Newmarch and Sibelius in English translation, complemented by comprehensive commentaries on the events and personalities referred to, and is prefaced by an extensive introduction outlining Newmarch's definitive role in promoting Sibelius and his music in early twentieth-century Britain. An appendix reproduces a previously unknown programme note that Newmarch wrote for the first British performance of Sibelius's Fourth Symphony. Pages: 312 ISBN 13: 9781843836834 Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Publisher URL: http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewitem.asp?idproduct=13767
 Series: Critical Lives Date published: Sep 2009 Original author: Dominic Moran Content description: Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) is Latin America's best known and, for many, greatest poet. He was also perhaps its most controversial. Adored by readers the world over for the sumptuous love lyrics penned during his early years in his native Chile, and revered by fellow poets and literary critics for the dark, hypnotic verse he composed during his lonely years as a diplomat in the Far East, his later life was marked by an increasingly militant communism, the seeds of which can be traced to his experiences in Spain during the early months of the Spanish Civil War, and which was later reflected in a radically simplified poetic idiom aimed directly at the working masses. Throughout the 1950s and 60s he became a literary torch-bearer for the International Left, and his iconic status at times caused him to turn a blind eye to the ugly Realpolitik implemented in name of the supposedly humanitarian creed to which he so ardently adhered. He spent his final years campaigning to bring socialism to his beloved Chile, but lived just long enough to see his hero Salvador Allende unseated by Augusto Pinochet's bloody coup. Rarely are the life and works of a writer so intimately and dramatically bound up as they were in Neruda's case, and in this study Dominic Moran takes a detailed and often critical look at the relationship between them, focusing as much as on what the poetry sometimes strategically hides about Neruda the creator, the lover and the political proselytiser, as on what it reveals. What emerges is a fascinating if not always flattering picture of one of the most prodigiously gifted but also one of the most equivocal literary figures of the twentieth century. Pages: 221 ISBN 13: 978 1 86189 541 1 Publisher: Reaktion Books Publisher URL: www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
 Cultural and Poetic Practices Series: (Hispanic Studies, Culture and Ideas) Date published: Oct 2011 Editor Benjamin Bollig Editor Arturo Casas Content description: This book, which contains contributions in English and in Spanish, is a collection of essays developed from the meetings of the 'Poetics of Resistance' network in Leeds (2008) and Santiago de Compostela (2009). The volume contains contributions from an international group of researchers and cultural producers, who are committed to the activation, promotion and analysis of counter-hegemonic practices in both the development and transmission of knowledge and the emancipatory tools of cultural production. The essays in the collection are written by scholars, activists and artists from around the world on subjects as diverse as poetry, film, philosophy, literary theory, plastic arts and television. The relationship between cultural production and resistance lies at the heart of the book's concerns. Creativity and its manifestations in art, cultural production and knowledge production are a vital resource for a type of resistance that draws upon the resolve and contribution of the individual to the same degree that it emphasizes the importance of collective reflection and action. The relationship between artistic production, emancipation and resistance therefore cannot be reduced to a commitment to particular ideologies as expressed in art or writing. Rather, the poetics of resistance and emancipation are produced through the negotiation of the subjective and the collective, of reflection and action, and of cultural practices and ideologies. Pages: 409 ISBN 10: 303430160X ISBN 13: 978-3034301602 Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
 Exile, Displacement, Migration Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies Date published: Jun 2011 Author Benjamin Bollig Content description: This book is the first study of the link between exile and poetry link in modern Argentina. Throughout Argentina's history, authors and important political figures have lived and written in exile. Thus exile is both a vital theme and a practical condition for Argentine letters, yet conversely, contemporary Argentina is a nation of immigrants from Europe and the rest of Latin America. Poetry is often perceived as the least directly political of genres, yet political and other forms of exile have impinged equally on the lives of poets as on any group. This study concentrates on writers who both regarded themselves as in some way exiled and who wrote about exile. This selection includes poets who are influential and recognised, but in general have not enjoyed the detailed study that they deserve: Alejandra Pizarnik, Juan Gelman, Osvaldo Lamborghini, Nestor Perlongher, Sergio Raimondi, Cristian Aliaga, and Washington Cucurto. Pages: 304 ISBN 10: 0708323553 ISBN 13: 978-0708323557 Publisher: University of Wales Press
 The Poetic Search for an Argentine Marginal Voice Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies Date published: Apr 2008 Author Benjamin Bollig Content description: This is the first full-length study in English of the work of the highly regarded and influential Argentine poet and anthropologist Néstor Perlongher (1949-92). Perlongher's pioneering work takes on the most dynamic and conflictive themes of modern-day Latin America such as dictatorship, national identity, exile, issues of gender and marginal sexualities, and modern-day esoteric religions; the book analyses and contextualizes his work as well as offering important tools for reading and understanding challenging and experimental poetry. Pages: 256 ISBN 10: 0708321232 ISBN 13: 978-0708321232 Publisher: University of Wales Press
 Antología de Nueva Poesía Saharaui Anthology of New Western Saharan Poetry Series: El Extremo Sur Date published: Jan 2011 Editor Benjamin Bollig Editor Pablo San Martin Content description: Anthology of new poetry in Spanish by Western Saharan authors, with an introduction by the editors. Pages: 96 ISBN 13: 978-987-24042-5- Publisher: Espacio Hudson Publisher URL: http://www.espaciohudson.com/catalogo/antologia-de-nueva-poesia-saharaui.html
 Series: Hispanic Texts Date published: Jan 2007 Original author: Pablo Neruda Editor Dominic Moran Content description: Pablo Neruda's Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (1924) is perhaps the most widely read and best loved book of poetry ever written in Spanish. Its verses can be recited by heart by millions of Latin Americans from every conceivable background and walk of life, and it has acquired the status of a bible for young lovers. Despite its immense popular success, it has received scant attention from scholars, and has often been studied out of context and in a relatively superficial fashion. This new critical edition - the first to include critical notes in English - argues that the book constitutes a critical juncture in the young Neruda's development as a poet, and that the poems are as much painstakingly wrought experiments in style and form as they are outpourings of youthful passion. A detailed introduction in English demonstrates that the Viente poemas represent the culmination of a long and often fraught poetic apprenticeship, significant traces of which can still be found in the poems themselves. This is followed by a series of commentaries which offer close readings of all twenty-one poems, an extensive bibliography, a selected vocabulary, and a list of key rhetorical and metrical terms. Reviews: "With its illuminating introduction and its clear, detailed, and insightful commentaries, Moran's edition of the Veinte poemas serves as an important shift of focus in the study of this iconic collection towards the sort of detailed formal and rhetorical approach which the texts themselves so richly deserve, and should become the standard edition for use by undergraduates, graduates, and researchers alike." Bulletin of Spanish Studies Pages: 203 ISBN 13: 9780719072994 Publisher: Manchetser University Press Publisher URL: www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
 Chrétien de Troyes's 'Perceval', the Continuations, and French Arthurian Romance Series: Gallica Volume: 23 Date published: Jan 2012 Author Thomas Hinton Content description: Chrétien de Troyes's late twelfth-century Conte du Graal has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day. The challenge represented by its unfinished state was quickly taken up, and over the next fifty years the romance was supplemented by a number of continuations and prologues, which eventually came to dwarf Chrétien's text. In one of the first studies to treat the Conte du Graal and its continuations as a unified work, Thomas Hinton considers the whole corpus as a narrative cycle. Through a combination of close textual readings and manuscript analysis, the author argues that the unity of the narrative depends on a balanced tension between centripetal and centrifugal dynamics. He traces how the authors, scribes and illuminators of the cycle worked to produce coherence, even as they contended with potentially disruptive forces: multiple authorship, differences of intention, and changes in the relation between text, audience and book. Finally, he tackles the long-held orthodoxy that places the Perceval Continuations on the margins of literary history. Widening the scope of enquiry to consider the corpus's influence on thirteenth-century verse romances, this study re-situates the Conte du Graal cycle as a vital element in the evolution of Arthurian literature. Thomas Hinton is Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages at Jesus College, Oxford. Pages: 290 ISBN 13: 9781843842859 Publisher: D. S. Brewer Publisher URL: http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewitem.asp?idproduct=13842
 Series: Problemata Literaria Volume: 71 Date published: 2012 Editor Javier Muñoz-Basols Editor Catarina Fouto Editor Laura Soler González Editor Tyler Fisher Content description: Pages: 386 ISBN 13: 978-3-937734-97-2 Publisher: Edition Reichenberger Publisher URL: http://www.reichenberger.de/Pages/plit71.html
 Books by Portuguese Writers Printed Before 1640 in the Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge Date published: 2009 Author Thomas Earle Content description: A bibliographical study of books by Portuguese writers, most of them in Latin, which can be found in the university and college libraries of Oxford and Cambridge. There are more than 2,000 such volumes, all printed before 1640. The heart of the book is a short-title catalogue which lists all the Portuguese books, with information about provenance and date of acquisition. Pages: 323 ISBN 10: 0 901420 57 3 Publisher: Oxford Bibliographical Society
 Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century Date published: 2011 Author Frederique Aít-Touati Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
 Series: NRF Essais Date published: 2011 Author Frederique Aít-Touati Content description: En 1610, en guise d'étrenne, l'astronome Kepler offre á son protecteur Wackenfels la description poétique d'un flocon de neige : parce que sa structure hexagonale est l'une des figures élémentaires de la matière, le flocon révèle celle de l'univers. Du microcosme au macrocosme, cet éloge paradoxal de Kepler est á la fois un genre littéraire á la mode maniériste du temps, et l'un des accès á la compréhension du monde. Entre le tournant copernicien négocié par Kepler et Galilée (la Terre tourne autour du Soleil) et la rupture opérée par Newton (le monde est régi par des lois universelles), la vision directe et les premiers téléscopes ne suffisent pas á l'exploration des lointains. L'inaccessibilité de ces nouveaux objets de la connaissance suppose des techniques d'écriture pour décrire l'invisible et dire l'inconnu des mondes cosmologiques. La fiction joue donc un róle central : en dépassant les limitations du réel observable, elle permet de substituer une nouvelle image mentale du cosmos á l'ancienne, elle forge un point de vue inédit d'où décrire l'univers ; elle fournit á la science les textes les plus efficaces dans la transformation des représentations du cosmos. Cette part oubliée ou méconnue, Frédérique Aít-Touati la retrouve, en s'intéressant justement au XVIIe siècle, siècle du commencement moderne, de la mathématisation du monde, de la magie géométrique, des arts de voler, des voyages lunaires et de l'exploration des merveilles de la nature. Par lá, elle donne matière á penser et á rêver sur une autre façon de concevoir la science. Publisher: Gallimard
 Date published: 2012 Editor Frederique Aít-Touati Editor Anne Duprat Content description: Les anecdota de la science classique - ce que, littéralement, on ne publie pas -, donnent á lire la part secrète d'une histoire faite d'erreurs et de trouvailles fortuites. Marques d'un état provisoire du savoir, elles disent l'humilité d'une science qui laisse voir son statut inachevé, fragmentaire et contingent, et montre ses résultats comme le produit d'une exploration toute humaine. Mais la force des anecdotes réside dans le choc de l'inconnu, dans la fascination de l'inattendu et dans la séduction du discontinu : elles témoignent de l'importance du hasard dans la découverte et mettent en scéne cette " sagacité accidentelle " qu'est la sérendipité. De lá leur fortune, aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, au sein d'une science qui se veut résolument nouvelle, dans ses objets, ses méthodes, ses modes d'exploration et de diffusion. Avant de contribuer au mythe de la science telle que nous le connaissons aujourd'hui, l'anecdote a ainsi servi de laboratoire minuscule á l'écriture d'une histoire naturelle faite de rencontres remarquables entre le génie humain et la nature. C'est ce que s'attachent á montrer les études rassemblées dans cet ouvrage, tiré du colloque consacré en septembre 2009 á New College (Oxford) par F. Aít-Touati et A. Duprat aux anecdotes scientifiques, maillon manquant entre l'exemplum de la Renaissance et le récit expérimental, dans la série des travaux menés par le Centre de Recherche en Littérature Comparée de Paris- Sorbonne sur le rôle joué par les anecdotes dans divers discours de savoir au début de la modernité. Publisher: Peter Lang
 Текст и материалы к творческой истории романа Evgeny Zamiatin: Date published: Dec 2011 Original author: Evgeny Zamiatin Editor Julie Curtis Editor Marina Iur'evna Liubimova Content description: Zamiatin's anti-utopian novel "We" (1920) was acknowledged by George Orwell as one of the inspirations for his own "1984", and was banned in the USSR until 1988. Based on a unique typescript found in an American archive, this is the first scholarly edition of the text in the original Russian. The edition not only establishes for the first time the authentic text of "We", but is accompanied by extensive textual and scholarly analyses. Pages: 600 ISBN 10: 978-5-98846-063-3 Publisher: 'Mir', (St Petersburg)
 Texts and Normativity in the German Middle Ages Series: XX. Anglo-German Colloquium Date published: Oct 2012 Editor Elke Brüggen Editor Franz-Josef Holznagel Editor Sebastian Coxon Editor Almut Suerbaum Content description: This book investigates how German-language texts from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era helped to form collective and individual identities through their handling of social norms. Using case studies, the contributors analyze the shaping of norms for different text types, social groups, and genders. They also define the scope allowed by the literature for discussing, establishing, and questioning expectations regarding social action. ISBN 13: 978-3-11-028010-4 Publisher: De Gruyter Publisher URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/181675
 Literaturbetrieb im spätmittelalterlichen Straßburg Writing and Reading in an Urban Context: Literary Life in Late Medieval Strasbourg Series: Kulturtopographie des alemannischen Raums 4 Date published: Nov 2012 Editor Stephen Mossman Editor Nigel F. Palmer Editor Felix Heinzer Content description: The studies and selected texts in this volume focus on literary and cultural life in Strasbourg during the late middle ages. The compendium might be regarded as a "cultural topography" of the southwestern portion of the German-speaking realm during this period. It explores the connections between book production, urban culture and lives of religious devotion. ISBN 13: 978-3-11-030058-1 Publisher: De Gruyter Publisher URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/186017
 Series: Romans de chevalerie de la Renaissance Volume: 6 Date published: Oct 2012 Original author: Jean Maugin Editor Richard Cooper Content description: Published in Paris by the editors of Amadis de Gaule, Le Premier Livre de l'histoire et ancienne cronique de Gérard d'Euphrate presents the reader with a mock -heroic cock tail of love-affairs, dramatic abductions, battles, witchcraft, and entanglements, and a mix of popular style, rhetorical bravado, and oriental exoticism. Pages: 640 ISBN 13: 978-2-8124-0806-9 Publisher: Classiques Garnier Publisher URL: http://www.classiques-garnier.com/
 Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature Series: Russian Transformations: Literature, Thought, Culture Volume: 4 Date published: Nov 2012 Author Muireann Maguire Content description: Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited in their fiction traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism. Pages: 331 ISBN 13: 9783034307871 Publisher: Peter Lang Publisher URL: www.peterlang.com
 Russian 20th-century Gothic-fantastic tales Date published: Nov 2012 Translator Muireann Maguire Content description: A collection of eleven Gothic-fantastic Russian short stories from the early twentieth century, including previously untranslated tales by Mikhail Bulgakov and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. Through the traditional Gothic repertoire of ghosts, insanity, obsession, retribution and terror, they convey the turbulence and dissonance of life in Russia in these years. Pages: 223 ISBN 13: 9780946162802 Publisher: Angel Classics Publisher URL: www.angelclassics.com Notes: Also forthcoming with The Overlook Press, NY (April 2013)
 Derrida Blanchot Beckett des Forêts Klossowski Laporte Series: Faux titre Volume: 384 Date published: Dec 2012 Author Ian Maclachlan Content description: Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Marking Time presents an innovative account of literary time, in which the temporality and ontology of the literary are seen to be essentially intertwined. Individual chapters trace the stakes of this view of time for the status and 'economy' of the literary text across five 20th-century writers in French whose work is characterized by a fundamental and searching self-questioning: Maurice Blanchot, Samuel Beckett, Louis-René des Forêts, Pierre Klossowski, and Roger Laporte. A final chapter draws on these analyses to develop an inherently unstable figure of 'saving time', which has important repercussions for how we conceive of literary value. Pages: 213 ISBN 10: 9042036095 ISBN 13: 978-9042036093 Publisher: Rodopi Publisher URL: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=FAUX+384
 The Return to the Story Date published: 2010 Author Simon Kemp Content description: The French novel’s “return to the story” in the last decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is has been widely acknowledged in literary scholarship. But is this assessment accurate? With French Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, Simon Kemp looks at the work of five contemporary writers—Annie Ernaux, Pascal Quignard, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, and Patrick Modiano—in the context of the current French literary scene, and examines how far they pursue the innovations of their predecessors and just how far they have turned their backs on the era of experiment. Pages: 213 Publisher: University of Wales Press
 Ensayos sobre la poesía argentina contemporánea Poetic Activism: Essays on Contemporary Argentine Poetry Date published: Apr 2013 Author Ben Bollig Content description: A selection of essays on Argentine poetry from the 1950s to the present day, focussing on the relationship between literary creation and political commitment. Pages: 136 ISBN 10: 978-987-1904--2-0 Publisher: Espacio Hudson Publisher URL: www.espaciohudson.com
 Date published: 2013 Author Javier Muňoz-Basols Author Elisa Gironzetti Author Yolanda Pérez Sinusía Content description: This book uses authentic materials from Spain and Latin America and presents a variety of communicative situations and strategies to enhance the student’s oral expression in Spanish at an advanced level (C1-C2). Topics include: 1. El mundo en tus manos (current affairs); 2. Un día de cine (visual arts); 3. Periodismo sin fronteras (journalism); 4. Música para mis oídos (music); 5. A ciencia cierta (science and technology); 6. ¿Trabajar para vivir o vivir para trabajar? (work environment); 7. La literatura también está en la calle (literature and society); 8. Curarse en salud (health and nutrition); 9. Tanto tienes, tanto vales (economy); and 10. El que ríe último... (humor and entertainment). Pages: 172 ISBN 13: 978-84-7711-797-1 Publisher: Edelsa Publisher URL: http://www.edelsa.es/catalogo_Adebate.php
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