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Del 33 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Mothers and Masters in Contemporary Utopian and Dystopian Literature
AvMary Elizabeth Theis,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
909 kr
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Because advances made by science and technology far outstripped improvements in human nature, utopian dreams of perfect societies in the twentieth century quickly metamorphosed into dystopian nightmares, which undermined individual identity and threatened the integrity of the family. Armed with technological and scientific tools, totalizing social systems found in literature abolish the distinction between public and private life and thus penetrate and corrupt the very core of all utopian blueprints and visions: the education of future generations. At the heart of the family, mothers as parents transmit their diverse cultural traditions while socializing their children and thus compete with ideologically driven systems that usurp their role as educators. Mothers and Masters in Contemporary Utopian and Dystopian Literature focuses, therefore, on the thematic importance of this and other maternal roles for generic metamorphosis: the shift to dystopia invariably is signaled by the inversion of traditional maternal roles. The longevity of the utopian-dystopian literary tradition and persistence of the maternal model of human relationships serve as points of reference in this post-modern age of relative cultural values. Meta-utopian exploration of this thematic tension between utopia and dystopia reminds us that «no place» may not be home, but we need to keep going there.
Del 40 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Demythification in the Fiction of Miguel Delibes
AvYaw B Agawu-Kakraba,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 1996
580 kr
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Del 9 - Caribbean Studies
Miraculous Weapons
Revolutionary Ideology in Caribbean Culture
AvJoy A. I. Mahabir,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2003
755 kr
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To revolutionary Caribbean artists who support liberation struggles, their works are «miraculous weapons», in Aimé Césaire’s poetic words. Pan-Caribbean and interdisciplinary in scope, this unique and original book analyzes a heterogeneous body of progressive texts: novels, poetry, visual art, and music, as well as the form that assembles them all – the Caribbean Carnival. By exploring the social, political, intellectual, and cultural complexity of the Caribbean, Joy A. I. Mahabir presents a new and compelling perspective on Caribbean studies that responds to and challenges recent work in this field.
Del 134 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Staging Subversions
The Performance-within-a-Play in French Classical Theater
AvKimberly Cashman,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
945 kr
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Staging Subversions: The Performance-within-a-Play in French Classical Theater defines a new type of metadrama using Le Tartuffe as its paradigm and explores the complex, ambiguous, and enlightening relationships that metadrama maintains with the social and political orders. While metadramatic scenes are most often concerned with theater itself, the performance-within-a-play adopts an important function in the play’s plot, and, consequently, in the social world of the play. The performance-within-a-play is particularly associated by the classical playwrights with the family structure, with the class system, with women’s social roles, and with the politics of absolutism.
Del 139 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Hoelderlin and Blanchot on Self-Sacrifice
AvJoseph Suglia,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
924 kr
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A scene of self-sacrifice can never be staged or secured. The work of Friedrich Hölderlin, arguably one of the most profound writers of the German Enlightenment, supports this idea in fascinating ways. Much of Hölderlin’s critical reception, however, has the poet saying the exact opposite. Joseph Suglia counters the dominant critical reception of Hölderlin’s Empedokles fragments, which would transform the tragic hero’s experience of mortality into a project that would be accomplished in the name of the transcendent reconciliation of disparate spheres. This book also focuses on a densely detailed consideration of the work of the great French critic and literary artist, Maurice Blanchot, whose own treatment of self-sacrifice exists in closer proximity to Hölderlin’s than the former appears to recognize. For Blanchot, it is argued, self-sacrifice is «a sacrifice that is an engagement with, in, and for language, a sacrifice that is both madness and mystery».
Del 143 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Maupassant’s Fiction and the Darwinian View of Life
AvLaurence A. Gregorio,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
802 kr
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The Naturalists wrote from a «scientific» point of view, and no science had more currency in society in the late nineteenth century than Darwin’s theory of evolution. Until now, this motif in Guy de Maupassant has escaped critical attention. Maupassant’s Fiction and the Darwinian View of Life examines evolutionary theory in the literature in a way accessible to students of literature and science alike. It first explains the theoretical basis and Maupassant’s affinity for it, then studies one short story, «La Ficelle», in its entirety, proposing a new and interesting interpretation based on evidence read through a Darwinian lens.The remaining chapters organize a lively Darwinian reading of Maupassant according to topics such as natural selection, heredity, and materialism. The book shows that Darwinism and the economic variety of Social Darwinism figure significantly in Maupassant’s fiction. It is a must for students and teachers of Naturalism and Darwinism across the liberal arts.
Del 53 - Francophone Cultures & Literatures
Illegitimate Children of the Enlightenment
Anarchists and the French Revolution, 1880-1914
AvC. Alexander McKinley,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
786 kr
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The early years of Third French Republic (1880-1914) saw multiple political factions vying for the legacy of the French Revolution. This book examines one of those factions, the anarchist movement, and the role played by the French Revolution in its political thought and action. The French Revolution became a vital, if not well recognized, tool of the anarchist movement to popularize and legitimize its revolutionary activity while engaged in a struggle with other political forces of the Republic to claim ownership over the Revolutionary heritage. The anarchists of the Third Republic wrote histories of the Revolution that reflected their own political orientation. They asserted themselves as part of the intellectual tradition of the Enlightenment, which they believed had helped spark the Revolution. The anarchists appropriated the music and popular culture of the French Revolution in their own propaganda. Moreover, they orchestrated revolutionary action and political theatre on the day most associated with the Revolution, July 14. In the Revolution, the anarchists saw glimmers of hope, precursors to their own movement, as well as an effective means to present their message to a wider audience as they also offered models for others to imitate.
Del 167 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Color del Romanticismo
En Busca de un Arte Total
AvCarlos Miguel-Pueyo,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Spanska, 2008
700 kr
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Por primera vez en la historia de los estudios sobre Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, El color del romanticismo presenta un nuevo punto de vista basado en un doble analisis comparativo: por un lado, entre el romanticismo aleman, en la persona de Novalis, y el espanol, en la persona de Becquer; y por otro lado, entre literatura y pintura, pues ambos escritores usan el color, especialmente el azul, como instrumento pictorico que les sirve a ambos para solucionar la insuficiencia lingueistica de la que parece adolecer la literatura romantica europea. A la zaga de los teoricos del color decimononicos, principalmente Goethe y su libro Zur Farbenlehre (Hacia una teoria de los colores), de 1810, el estudio semantico del uso del color azul en ambos poetas permite una clasificacion entre usos oniricos y no oniricos de dicho color, que situa a Becquer en un mas apropiado lugar en el panorama de los romanticos europeos.
Del 61 - Francophone Cultures & Literatures
Rewriting of History in Postcolonial Francophone Literatures
AvMohammed Hirchi,Michael G Paulsonm. fl.
Inbunden, Franska, 2017
1 247 kr
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Dans ce livre, qui s’inspire en partie du travail de Hayden White, je discuterai la relation entre le discours narratif et la représentation historique et littéraire selon l’approche critique de quatre écrivains contemporains d’expression française, Abdelkebir Khatibi (Maroc), Edouard Glissant (Martinique), Yves Valentin Mudimbé (République Démocratique du Congo) et Assia Djebar (Algérie). Une lecture attentive de leurs œuvres romanesques et théoriques me suggère que le discours narratif n’est pas une forme neutre dont la fonction est la représentation du monde extérieur, mais plutôt une activité qui se développe selon des choix d’ordre ontologique et épistémologique qui ont des implications idéologiques. Je maintiendrai que l’écriture de ces auteurs soulève des questions concernant la légitimité du discours colonial et son incapacité à signifier la subjectivité du subalterne. Ces questions s’inscrivent dans le cadre d’une tentative de redéfinir l’histoire et la culture de leurs sociétés d’origine. Cette redéfinition consiste à briser les barrières séparant la fiction et l’histoire en faisant recours à une écriture métafictionnelle où on a une cohabitation des genres.
Del 213 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Identity Trouble
Fragmentation and Disillusionment in the Works of Guy de Maupassant
AvEva Yampolsky,Michael G. Paulsonm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 385 kr
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In this book, Eva Yampolsky explores the questions of identity, illusion and suicide in the works of Guy de Maupassant. Utilizing a historical context which stimulated numerous social, technological and scientific transformations and developments during the 19th century, Dr. Yampolsky identifies two defining aims.Firstly, she examines the various figures of the double, such as visual representations of the subject through painting, mirror reflection, generational proximity and resemblance, and the relation between self-perception and social norms. She seeks to show the complex and often conflicting relation between the individual and society, and more specifically the attempts and frequent failures to manipulate, control and embody a unique definition of self. This divergence between the social norms, such as class, profession, gender and honor, and the characters’ notion of self is what drives the narrative. Secondly, Eva Yampolsky analyzes the consequent psychological turmoil, madness and even suicide of many Maupassantian characters. This impossible task of embodying an identity that is sole and unique, as it is lived and perceived by the subject and others, in most short stories and novels leads to the characters’ disillusionment and, in a great number of texts, violence or suicide. This book draws on the social, political and economic revolutions that redefined the individual. New forms of visual representation and communication, namely with the invention of photography and the developments of the press, bring forth questions of authenticity, doubling, and a new distinction between private and public spheres. Finally, the birth of psychiatry at the turn of the 19th century and the emergence of new disciplines, such as sociology and psychoanalysis, inscribe passions, illusions and suicide in new discursive and disciplinary frameworks. These transformations and developments are pervasive and, in many cases, explicit in Maupassant’s work, influences that have aided and nourished the literary analysis of his texts.
Del 222 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Métamorphoses des rôles et statuts par les écritures féminines
AvCécile Gouard,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
772 kr
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Métamorphoses des rôles et statuts par les écritures féminines offre une analyse de la façon dont les romans féminins et la littérature non romanesque défient le statut légal et les rôles sociaux imposés aux citoyennes féminines françaises et francophones, à travers les institutions et les pratiques juridiques, depuis le XVIII ème siècle jusqu’au XX ème siècle. Pour présenter ces défis, Cécile Gouard se concentre sur la détermination des femmes à rechercher l’égalité des droits civiques, en dénonçant les effets du code napoléonien qui les a réduites au statut légal de mineures. Dr Gouard affirme que les romancières féminines, en particulier, ont dénoncé les inégalités sociales et familiales afin de permettre à toutes les femmes l’accès aux études supérieures et à des carrières jusqu’alors réservées aux hommes. Ce faisant, ces écrivaines ont défié les modèles d’éducation qui, pendant longtemps, avaient privilégié les ordres patriarcaux. Ces femmes ont ainsi lutté contre les lois archaïques qui interdisaient contraception et avortement. Dr Gouard montre comment ces écrivaines ont tenté de détruire le mythe bourgeois du couple conjugal, en appelant à des alliances consensuelles qui confèrent aux femmes une pleine égalité. Au final, à travers ces textes qui appellent à la fin du patriarcat et des modèles de féminité préjudiciables, l’auteure ouvre une perspective nouvelle sur les lois et statuts actuels.
Del 231 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
José de Acosta’s «De procuranda Indorum salute»
A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru
AvGregory J. Shepherd,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 104 kr
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José de Acosta’s De procuranda Indorum salute: A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of late-sixteenth-century Peru exposes the philosophical and legal underpinnings of Spain's colonial policies. As this book analyzes José de Acosta’s De procuranda Indorum salute, one of the most important treatises of the colonial period, it explores influences and intentions and reveals context and subtext. Comprehensive in its appraisal of Acosta’s intellectual achievement, this book is essential for scholars and students of this early period of Christian and European expansion in the Americas. Not only does Gregory J. Shepherd examine Acosta’s missionary manual against the controversial backdrop of Las Casas and Sepúlveda, but he also reconstructs the political atmosphere surrounding Toledo’s massive and intrusive transformation of Andean life. Most importantly, this text carries out a thorough study of the ideologies – Christian, Jesuit, and European – underlying Acosta’s appeal for political, social, and ecclesiastic reform.
Del 65 - Francophone Cultures and Literatures
Georges Henein, Poète francophone d'Égypte
Préface de Cristina Boidard-Boisson
AvEvelyne M Bornier,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Franska, 2015
921 kr
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Georges Henein, poète francophone d’Égypte apporte une contribution manifeste à la discipline des études littéraires francophones et comble un grand vide dans le domaine encore à peine exploré de la francophonie au Moyen Orient. Cet ouvrage met en lumière la vie et l’œuvre de Georges Henein, l’un des pères du surréalisme égyptien, souvent comparé à André Breton. Un premier chapitre analyse l’empreinte historique, littéraire et culturelle laissée par la France sur l’Égypte, de l’expédition de Bonaparte aux années 1960. Un second volet montre comment le mouvement surréaliste français a pris racine dans le pays du Levant au cours des années 1920 et étudie ses effets sur la littérature égyptienne avant la crise de Suez. Le troisiLe troisième et dernier chapitre est consacré à une analyse de textes choisis et tente de définir le projet poétique et l’orientation politique de l’auteur. Cette réflexion montre également en quoi les textes d’Henein sont une contribution majeure à la littérature française et francophone et pourquoi ils méritent une place centrale dans le canon littéraire du 20e siècle. Cet ouvrage s’adresse à un large public international et interdisciplinaire. Chercheurs, professeurs et étudiants, mais aussi non-spécialistes trouveront dans ce livre une source leur permettant de se familiariser avec le mouvement surréaliste francophone en Égypte, ainsi qu’Henein, ses œuvres, et son époque. Un nombre encore limité d'études ont été publiées dans le domaine de la littérature francophone d’Égypte et beaucoup de ses auteurs restent largement inconnus du grand public. C’est à cette lacune que cet ouvrage tente de remédier. English summary: Georges Henein, French poet of Egypt provides a clear contribution to the discipline of the French literary studies and fills a void in the still barely explored area of the Francophonie in the Middle East. This book highlights the life and work of Georges Henein, one of the fathers of the Egyptian surrealism, often compared to André Breton.
Del 66 - Francophone Cultures & Literatures
Algerian Literature
A Reader’s Guide and Anthology
AvAbdelkader Aoudjit,Michael G. Paulsonm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 477 kr
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The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical overview of the literature from the early twentieth century to the present, introduces Algerian authors, and provides selections from a wide range of their writings, many translated here for the first time. It begins with an overview chapter that charts the evolution of Algerian literature and puts it in its proper historical context, followed by five thematic chapters: decolonization and cultural affirmation, the War of Independence, modernization and its discontents, emigration, and history. The chapters begin with introductions on the themes under discussion and the selections are preceded by biographies of the authors, as well as detailed summaries of the larger works from which they are extracted. Finally, each chapter concludes with a bibliography and sources for readers seeking additional information and insight. The selections included in Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology have been carefully chosen to reflect the richness and diversity of Algerian literature. Accordingly, they are extracted from various literary genres: novels, plays, and poems. Furthermore, they are from works that belong to different literary movements: realism, modernism, and postmodernism. The variety and the outstanding quality of the selections, along with the superb introductions, summaries, and biographies make Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology an ideal text for courses in Algerian, Francophone, and world literature courses. It will also be of interest to general readers outside the classroom who want to broaden their literary horizons.
Del 245 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
Textos de Los «Lieder» de Richard Strauss
Enfoque Poético-Musical
AvCristina Alfonso Von Matuschka,Michael G Paulsonm. fl.
Inbunden, Spanska, 2017
1 763 kr
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Esta obra es una verdadera composición artística, que cuida el ritmo del lenguaje con un léxico erudito. Y si bien parte de un examen científico minucioso, el mundo interior y creativo de la autora traduce su prosa con dinámica ágil y atractivos ejemplos poético-musicales.
Articula dos sistemas semánticos: la poesía y la música, vinculados íntimamente en un todo indivisible, el Lied. En el marco de la Literatura Comparada es una propuesta original por el tratamiento exhaustivo e interrelacionado de los dos lenguajes artísticos.
Considerada en su momento una tesis sobresaliente, se constituye ahora en la primera publicación en idioma español de la obra completa para canto y piano de Richard Strauss (1864–1949), dedicada al género Lied.
El compositor escogió para sus Lieder una variada paleta de autores y poemas que abarca un período amplísimo de la lírica alemana (desde el comienzo del S. XVIII hasta el S. XX), siendo J. W. von Goethe (1749–1832) la figura central y Leitmotiv.
La metodología innovadora diseñada por la autora toma como base la teoría métrica de Horst Frank (1993) y la acentual de Christian Wagenknecht (reeditado en el 2007) vislumbrándose, en algunos pasajes, su juicio crítico con respecto a la opinión de especialistas y biógrafos.
El libro presenta el corpus completo de poesías en su idioma original, el alemán. Destinado a lectores cautivados por la poesía y la música, se constituye sobre todo en una herramienta esencial para músicos que quieran conocer texto y contexto de este tipo de repertorio.
Del 251 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
Lenguaje, Poesía Y Sentido
AvTamara Alvarez-Detrell,Michael G Paulson
Inbunden, Spanska, 2018
1 110 kr
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Lenguaje, poesía y sentido presenta al lector una colección de ensayos sobre las relaciones e intersecciones que se pueden establecer entre el lenguaje y la expresión artística. Los nueve ensayos comprendidos en esta edición exploran este tópico y surgen de una variedad de autores y pensadores con diferentes trasfondos académicos e investigativos: literatura, filosofía y lingüística. Hay aproximaciones a la poesía y al pensamiento de Pablo Picasso (Mallén y Gutiérrez Rexach), así como a la poesía de Eduardo Espina (Mallén), a la obra poética de Octavio Paz (Luque), el lenguaje fílmico de Luis Buñuel (González Barrios), la semiótica peirceana (Ramírez Suárez), la concepción del sentido en la cuentística de Conrad (Gutiérrez Rexach), el misticismo y la religión en Henri Bergson (Canting Plaza) y el pensamiento disidente en cuatro escritoras latinoamericanas: Agustini, Storni, Lair y de Burgos (Martell).
Del 249 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Studies in the Translations of Juan Ramón and Zenobia Jiménez
AvCharlotte Ward,Michael G. Paulsonm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 302 kr
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The translations by Juan Ramón Jiménez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because many of them were published under the name of his wife, Zenobia Camprubí Aymar, along with many of his poems. Close analysis of the style, along with personal letters and diaries, reveals his significant participation in these works. The translations were a crucial source of psychological and financial support during the long exile from Spain after the Civil War. Other elements in the process were the Nobel-winners Rabindranath Tagore, William Butler Yeats, and André Gide. Intertextual incorporations from Shakespeare, the King James Bible, Rubén Darío, and Ezra Pound are noteworthy, as Juan Ramón and Zenobia maneuvered between the Symbolist and Imagist poetic movements, experimenting with different theories of translation, from Dryden to Jakobson. As Jiménez constantly revised his own work, hitherto unpublished annotations prove important to understanding this journey.
Del 67 - Francophone Cultures & Literatures
Réhabilitation d’un poète haïtien
Etzer Vilaire
AvWedsly Turenne Guerrier,Michael G. Paulsonm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 227 kr
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Le poète Etzer Vilaire (1872–1951) a fait l’objet de nombreuses critiques de la part des intellectuels car son œuvre s’écarte de la conception dominante de la poésie haïtienne adossée à une politique ouverte et une place importante accordée à la “couleur locale” et à la langue créole, en tant qu’incarnation d’une conscience raciale et nationale. Je défends la thèse selon laquelle de tels rejets renforcent une conception idéologique et contraire à l’histoire de la poésie haïtienne. Celle-ci est incompatible avec la vision et le projet esthétiques de Vilaire qui visent à élever le statut d’Haïti comme nation et à démontrer la qualité de sa littérature à l’étranger. Mon étude de Vilaire revêt un certain intérêt, car l’auteur a été en grande partie méprisé et négligé par de nombreux critiques littéraires. Alors qu’il est considéré comme un poète mineur, j’établis que Vilaire a fait preuve d’innovation, au sens où il s’est écarté des canons de la littérature haïtienne traditionnelle. Il a introduit de nouveaux sujets, notamment en poésie, et ravivé le rôle du poète. Étant donné qu’il a bousculé la tradition littéraire haïtienne, certains critiques ont condamné son œuvre à laquelle ils dénient toute place dans la littérature haïtienne. Dans ce travail, j’aborde cette controverse au sujet de son œuvre et démontre, via l’analyse de ses poèmes, qu’il reflète les idées de son temps et la préoccupation de ses prédécesseurs. Mes recherches mettent également l’accent sur le fait que Vilaire n’était pas uniquement un poète, mais également une figure politique. Et c’est en tant que poète et homme politique qu’il a défendu son pays, sa race et a mis au défi ses collègues de s’engager sur cette voie. Je souligne le fait que, contrairement à d’autres auteurs contemporains de son époque, la notion de religion a modelé le contenu de son travail. Enfin, je démontre que Vilaire a été une personnalité influente dans la littérature haïtienne. Au nom de ses conceptions littéraires, de sa perception de la langue française et de sa tentative de défense de sa race, il a été un précurseur du mouvement de la négritude. Ce livre sera utile aux chercheurs et lecteurs qui s’intéressent à la poésie francophone, à la politique, et à la religion.
Del 252 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Volery and Venery in the French Wars of Religion
AvDeborah N. Losse,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 099 kr
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Volery and Venery in the French Wars of Religion is the first book-length study to provide an analysis of literary and cultural texts through the lens of people’s perspectives on hunting in the context of the French Wars of Religion. Court poets such as Jodelle and Ronsard highlight the central role of the king in the hunt. The study examines cynegetic scenes and attitudes toward hunting in the works of Sebastian Brant, Erasmus, Rabelais, Jodelle, Ronsard, Ceppède, Montaigne, and Aubigné. An effort is made to relate the artistic representation of the hunt to the details of the hunt presented in the hunting manuals of Du Fouilloux, De Thou, Franchières, and Arcussia, among others. At a time when the monarchy needed to reflect stability and continuity, the figure of the king dominates cynegetic exercise.Losse argues that hunting remained a major preoccupation in France in spite of the disruptions and violence caused by the Wars of Religion. The analysis examines some basic questions about hunting in early modern France. How did religious affiliation affect attitudes toward hunting? Did the violence of the Wars of Religion change how people viewed cruelty to animals? Falconry and large game hunting offer a perspective from which to view the cultural and political life leading up to and through the Wars of Religion.Historians of the hunt, students of early modern Europe, and graduate students in cultural studies or anthropology will find the work to provide a unique perspective on political and social institutions. Museums of hunting will find this book vital to their mission of instructing modern audiences on the centrality of hunting to aristocratic life.
Del 253 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Theme of the Plague in Italian Letters
AvVincenzo Traversa,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 524 kr
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Several poetic and prose compositions in early Italian literature contain references to the bubonic plague and other illnesses that were used in the language both literally and metaphorically. The first detailed description of a plague epidemic, however, was written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the introduction to The Decameron. It is a precise and dramatic view of the physical, social, and medical conditions of Florence during the epidemic of 1348. The Theme of the Plague in Italian Letters follows the subsequent developments, both in poetic and prose works, until the time of the plague of Milan of 1630. With the report of Giuseppe Ripamonti and other writers, the plague became not only a medical issue but also a topic involving the laws of the time as they appear in the trials of the presumed untori (spreaders of the disease). A combination of faith, fear, and superstition led the legal officials and the populace to imagine that the plague was a divine punishment and was deliberately spread by individuals of criminal nature. Arrests and trials involving interrogations and the use of merciless physical tortures (a legitimate procedure in Europe at that time) brought about a formidable reaction led by early humanitarians, such as Cesare Beccaria and Pietro Verri, who determined the eventual changes in the laws and legal procedures. The Plague of Milan of 1630 by Giuseppe Ripamonti, the treatise by L. A. Muratori Del Governo della Peste, 1720, and several interventions contributed to a series of radical changes that appeared in the works of Alessandro Manzoni, such as The Betrothed and The History of the Pillar of Infamy that are discussed in part or in full in this study.
Del 254 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
Gautier, Au Carrefour de l'Âme Romantique Et Décadente
AvMercedes Montoro Araque,Michael G Paulsonm. fl.
Inbunden, Franska, 2018
1 398 kr
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Ce livre analyse l'œuvre de Th. Gautier.
Del 255 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Reflexive Writing and the Negotiation of Spanish Modernity
Autobiography and Fiction in Terenci Moix's Novels
AvArthur J. Hughes,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 259 kr
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Covering nine major works of Catalan writer Terenci Moix, Reflexive Writing and the Negotiation of Spanish Modernity: Autobiography and Fiction in Terenci Moix’s Novels places Moix’s fictional prose against the backdrop of his autobiographical novels, thus highlighting the importance of the author’s daily life experiences and their transmutation into the virtuality of fiction. This study, the first to look at Moix’s works in both Catalan and Castilian, and in both autobiography and fiction, contests the implicit critical perspective that examines this period using the dichotomies of modernity/postmodernity and autobiography/fiction. It proposes Spanish modernity as a unique phenomenon that produces a distinctive personality as a result of the tensions of the period. Arthur J. Hughes’s examination of Moix’s modernity forces a new look at the notion of Spanish postmodernity usually assumed to be a result of the transition to democracy after the death of Franco, providing a new perspective on the separation of autobiographic and fictional genres that argues for the reflection of one in the other.
Del 30 - Caribbean Studies
Exégesis del tambor
Apuntes para una poética caribeña
AvEsther I Rodríguez-Miranda,Michael G Paulsonm. fl.
Inbunden, Spanska, 2020
1 413 kr
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Este estudio presenta una visión innovadora sobre los estudios de literatura comparada caribeña. La autora presenta conexiones nunca antes vistas sobre el desarrollo político, social y cultural de la primera mitad del siglo XX en Haití y Puerto Rico. Rompe las barreras idiomáticas para presentarle al lector las conjeturas que se pueden trazar entre las obras poéticas de Jacques Roumain y Luis Palés Matos.
Tenemos ante nosotros una contribución a los estudios literarios y de identidad del Caribe. Se retoman las metáforas de Kamau Brathwaite y Édouard Glissant para ejemplificar la unión caribeña, a través del desarrollo poético y estético de los poetas (Roumain y Palés).
El texto también aporta a la continuación de los estudios africanos y su relación con el Caribe (que no se limita al francófono o al hispano). Hay un estudio minucioso de la herencia africana en el contexto caribeño y una revalorización moderna del pasado colonial.
La doctora Rodríguez-Miranda logra establecer las uniones estéticas y temáticas que tienen estos dos poetas y así ampliar el debate cultural caribeño sobre el espacio y los componentes de identidad de los antillanos.
La obra es una gran aportación a los estudios culturales y literarios. Sirve como excelente texto para cursos graduados de literatura caribeña, estudios culturales y de raza.
Del 257 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
Parecidos razonables
Relaciones entre literatura y filosofía para el siglo XXI
AvTamara Alvarez-Detrell,Michael G Paulson
Inbunden, Spanska, 2022
1 114 kr
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Parecidos razonables. Relaciones entre literatura y filosofía para el siglo XXI atiende a la transformación de las relaciones entre literatura y filosofía desde mediados del siglo XX hasta la actualidad. Este libro cubre perspectivas teóricas y filosóficas relevantes (teoría de las emociones, el concepto de extrañamiento, política de la literatura, filosofía del lenguaje, feminismo, marxismo, giro espacial, nuevos materialismos), al tiempo que ofrece ejemplos de aplicación a un corpus de textos literarios concreto. Esto es, este volumen combina rigor teórico, un panorama actual de las relaciones entre filosofía y literatura, y una aplicación de dichas teorías a la lectura crítica de obras literarias. Es, por este motivo, que Parecidos razonables es de utilidad tanto para los investigadores especialistas en el área como para su uso en el aula.
Del 258 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
Errances et Cohérences dans les anamorphoses et les trompe-l'oeil en France
enjeux et pouvoirs de 1470-1600
AvMartine Sauret,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Franska, 2022
935 kr
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Le livre Errances et Cohérences dans les anamorphoses et les trompe-l'oeil en France: enjeux et pouvoirs de 1470-1600 propose d'étudier le phénomène artistique et intellectuel du trompe-l'oeil et de l'anamorphose à ses débuts en France entre la fin du xve et le xvie siècle.
Bien que connus en Italie et en Espagne, ces deux courants artistiques, qui s'épanouissent à la Renaissance entre le Nord et le Sud du monde méditerranéen sont souvent passés inaperçus en France au fil des siècles.
Les deux projections soulignent un changement dans les représentations graphiques de la décoration, des ornements et de leur utilisation traditionnelle dans les écrits ou les livres. En se concentrant sur les châteaux français tels que Écouen, Tanlay ou Anet, l'école de Fontainebleau, Gargantua de Rabelais (1532–1534), les architectes français Philippe de l'Orme, Androuet du Cerceau, la narration de la première exploration de la Floride par le Français René Goulaine de Laudonnière et ses premières illustrations du graveur Jacques Le Moynes De Morgues reprise et distordue par Théodore de Bry, des imprimeurs tels que Geoffroy Tory dans son Champ fleury (1529), le livre examine les deux mouvements qui se complètent et trahissent ce qu'ils semblent articuler. L'ouvrage explore le sens de l'interaction entre les artistes et aborde le début d'un genre autonome pour l'écriture, la peinture et la sculpture avec l'émergence de relations historiques complexes des pratiques de l'époque. Le détournement des codes, apprécié par les humanistes et les artistes, indique leur aptitude au jugement critique et utilise une rhétorique de la déviance. Un impressionnant croisement d'images et de textes qui ne sont pas faits pour décorer, simuler ou consoler, mais pour agir, émouvoir le lecteur et nous donner accès à leur profondeur.
"While many readers are familiar with the Italian Renaissance, and particularly with the fundamental work of Leonardo da Vinci, this book delves into the Renaissance as it took shape in France. The author details the history of— and play on— perspective as it came to affect works of architecture, sculptures, paintings, maps, stained- glass windows, and literature in France. The exploration of perspective through trompe- l’oeil revolutionized knowledge itself, as the author so aptly describes as she weaves together the intellectual developments that were happening in the world, and in France, at this time. With the rediscovery of ancient texts on mathematics, ways of seeing became vivified and renewed in the years between 1470 and 1600. Here, the author details the historic invitation to explore further the absolute certitude or givenness of man’s position in the world. For a wonderful exploration of the way that distance, angles, proportion, light, and the viewer’s position play on our very notion of space, this book is an excellent guide to the advances that were made during the French Renaissance. These advances in our ways of seeing can still be visited in modern- day France, if not in person then in the wonderful selection of photos and images that the author provides for readers to study."
— Domenica Newell-Amato, Editor, Content Editing Lab, LLC
Del 233 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
I'm Henry IV, I Am
Henry IV of France in Selected Works of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
AvMichael G. Paulson,Tamara Alvarez-Detrell
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
946 kr
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This book focuses on Henry IV of France as he is presented in selected works by Voltaire, Alfred de Vigny, Alexandre Dumas père, and George Sand. The book depicts King Henry from his earliest years until his assassination, and shows how Henry was a dominant figure in life and an overwhelming figure as a memory in the minds of his descendants and his subjects. Special mention is made of the St. Bartholomew’s Day’s Massacre, the conquest of the throne, the Edict of Nantes, the religious conversions, and the ladies and multiple offspring of King Henry.This book will be of interest to students of both nineteenth-century French literature and sixteenth-century French history courses, as a text or as a supplement.
Del 22 - Caribbean Studies
Fragmented Caribbean Empire
Social, Political and Cultural Influences
AvJerome Teelucksingh,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
946 kr
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In A Fragmented Caribbean Empire, Jerome Teelucksingh examines some of the personalities and organizations that are often overlooked in analysis of the Caribbean region and its diaspora, and in particular the Indo-Caribbean presence in literature, migration and politics. Most of the existing scholarship on the Caribbean has tended to overlook this and other ethnic, religious and cultural minorities. The author utilizes interviews and delves into diverse archival sources to create a paradigm of a region with a rich historical past and a promising future. Research on indentureship and migration to North America and Britain elucidates the strong transnational ties between the Caribbean and other regions of the world, and shows how the Caribbean can be conceptualised as a global ‘empire’. Behind this lies the author’s unwavering conviction that the Caribbean should be acknowledged as important and given its rightful place in global history.
Del 256 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Zárate
AvEduardo Blanco,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 147 kr
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The protagonist of the novel Zárate, Santos Zárate was a historical figure. A Venezuelan highwayman with a stronghold in the forest of Güere, he terrorized the valleys of Aragua for some twelve years. The action of the novel takes place in 1825, a few years after Venezuela had sealed its independence from Spain by defeating the Spanish forces at the Battle of Carabobo (June 24, 1821). At this time, General Francisco José de Paula Santander was vice president of the Gran Colombia, the conglomerate of Colombia and Venezuela that had fought Spain for its freedom. General José Antonio Páez governed the Venezuelan region, with his headquarters in Valencia. The entire nation readied itself to confront the great scourge of the times—the terrible and feared marauders that sowed apprehension and terror among the residents of the valleys of Aragua.There is in the novel the exaltation of an elite agrarian way of life, idyllic, edenic, that contrasts vividly with the violence of life in the llanos and, especially, with the activities of the highwaymen. Moreover, there is a delicate love story that develops pari passu with the official activities of the main protagonists. The development of the female characters may seem a bit quaint for today’s tastes, though they are beautiful and carefully drawn. An irrepressible humor, at times subtle, pervades the entire novel.
Del 69 - Francophone Cultures and Literatures
(S')Écrire dans l'entre-deux
Récits de femmes d'ici et d'ailleurs
AvMariana Ionescu,Michael G Paulsonm. fl.
Inbunden, Franska, 2023
1 033 kr
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Cet ouvrage propose d’explorer la problématique de l’entre-deux dans les écrits de plusieurs écrivaines françaises et francophones « d’ici et d’ailleurs », en particulier dans les récits (auto)biographiques. En tant qu’outil herméneutique, l’entre-deux permet de mieux identifier et interpréter les ruptures et les jonctions possibles entre différents systèmes de pensée (philosophique, historique, etc.) et pratiques d’écriture à l’époque contemporaine.
Chacun des cinq chapitres porte principalement sur un type particulier d’entre-deux–générique, spatio-temporel, mémoriel, gastronomique et scriptural–sans pour autant se limiter à la représentation d’un seul d’entre eux. La traversée (réelle ou imaginaire) de cet espace insaisissable engendre toujours de nouvelles significations qui émergent à travers des formes narratives hybrides, révélant le potentiel des interstices à créer du sens grâce aux rencontres et aux échanges qui s’y produisent.
Tout au long de ce livre surgissent trois questions récurrentes : (1) quelle manière d’habiter le monde illustrent les récits où l’entre-deux est source de souffrances, mais aussi de richesse et de renouveau identitaire ? (2) quelle place accorder aux histoires individuelles dans l’éclairage de la grande Histoire ? (3) quel rapport entretiennent les femmes avec leur écriture qui se situe entre le questionnement de l’être et du monde?
Ce livre est destiné principalement à un public universitaire qui s’intéresse à la littérature contemporaine d’expression française, aux études des femmes et de genre et aux études culturelles.
Del 259 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence
Francophone Jewish Poetry of the Shoah, 1939–2008
AvGary D. Mole,Tamara Alvarez-Detrellm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 033 kr
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In this groundbreaking study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah, Gary D. Mole engages with an extensive corpus of poetry by more than forty poets, all of whom were active after the war in France, Belgium, Switzerland, or Quebec but who came originally from Eastern Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East. Some were adolescents or adults during the war, either in hiding, interned or deported, first-hand witnesses to the Nazi persecution of European Jews. Others were hidden children, survivors writing of their buried traumatic experiences many years later. And a second-generation born after the war became postmemory proxy witnesses. Broadly chronological in approach, the book places the poetry in its various social, political, and historical contexts, underlines the specific geographical locations of the authors, and offers close thematic, formal, stylistic, and linguistic readings of the selected texts, highlighting some of the major aesthetic and ethical problems raised. Lucidly written, this book throws critical light, for scholars and nonspecialists, on a rich and unjustly neglected corpus, arguing convincingly for its inclusion in current debates on French-language literary representations of the Shoah and more widely in what is commonly referred to as "Holocaust Poetry.""Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence is a comprehensive, lucid, and erudite study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Holocaust. Unlike the work of English-language Holocaust poets, French-language verse has been until now largely ignored. By ensuring that Francophone Jewish poets are finally heard, Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence constitutes an important scholarly intervention in the study of Holocaust literature."—Helena Duffy, Professor of French, University of Wrocław, Poland"An astonishing, comparative, comprehensive, and powerful scan of the various forms of poetic writing in French about the Shoah, never presented in this scope before, by authors belonging to a large variety of national and cultural backgrounds, providing the foundation of texts to be considered in future scholarship on poetry of the Shoah in other languages."—Thomas Nolden, Professor of Comparative Literary Studies, Wellesley College, Mass

Michael G. Paulson – författare

Mothers and Masters in Contemporary Utopian and Dystopian Literature

Demythification in the Fiction of Miguel Delibes

Miraculous Weapons

Staging Subversions

Hoelderlin and Blanchot on Self-Sacrifice

Maupassant’s Fiction and the Darwinian View of Life

Illegitimate Children of the Enlightenment

Color del Romanticismo

Rewriting of History in Postcolonial Francophone Literatures

Identity Trouble

Métamorphoses des rôles et statuts par les écritures féminines

José de Acosta’s «De procuranda Indorum salute»

Georges Henein, Poète francophone d'Égypte

Algerian Literature

Textos de Los «Lieder» de Richard Strauss

Lenguaje, Poesía Y Sentido

Studies in the Translations of Juan Ramón and Zenobia Jiménez

Réhabilitation d’un poète haïtien

Volery and Venery in the French Wars of Religion

Theme of the Plague in Italian Letters

Gautier, Au Carrefour de l'Âme Romantique Et Décadente

Reflexive Writing and the Negotiation of Spanish Modernity

Exégesis del tambor

Parecidos razonables

Errances et Cohérences dans les anamorphoses et les trompe-l'oeil en France

I'm Henry IV, I Am

Fragmented Caribbean Empire

Zárate

(S')Écrire dans l'entre-deux

Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence