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Thinking Intermediality
Identity, Ethics and Aesthetics
Av François Giraud, Marion Schmid
Häftad, 2026
755 kr
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‘This book excellently advocates for considering intermediality not just as a hybrid form, but as a mode of critical thinking that emerges from versatile aesthetic strategies capable of intertwining multiple perspectives on complex issues and cultural connections in our world. A unique contribution …
Formless
Ways In and Out of Form
Av Patrick Crowley, Paul Hegarty
Häftad, 2005
859 kr
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The papers in this volume challenge the concept of form and aim to set out, explore and develop different theories and examples of ‘the formless’. In so doing, they raise questions of form, and notions of formlessness (as distinct from something called ‘the formless’). The starting point for many …
Epistolary Muse
Women of Letters in England and France, 1652–1802
Häftad, 2017
1075 kr
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Epistolary fiction was in full flower during the period from 1652 to 1802, featuring the masterworks of Guilleragues, Richardson, Rousseau and Laclos. This study traces the development of the art of letter-writing and familiar correspondence and its adaptation by women writers into a remarkable …
«Fausts» of Gérard de Nerval
Intertextuality, Translation, Adaptation
Häftad, 2018
956 kr
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Gérard de Nerval’s French translations of Goethe’s Faust are key works in Franco–German cultural relations, but they have often been mythologized. This book presents a nuanced view of works that continue to be the principal conveyors in France of arguably the foremost work of German literature. …
Voices of Dissent
Interdisciplinary Approaches to New Italian Popular and Political Music
Häftad, 2020
887 kr
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This book is an interdisciplinary analysis of an art form that is crucial to the understanding of Italian contemporary society: political music from the 1960s to today. The musical activities of left-wing and right-wing bands and singer-songwriters reveal deep rifts in a country which, even today, …
Symphonie der Worte
Musikalisierung von Fiktion in ausgewaehlten Werken Irène Némirovskys
Häftad, 2021
820 kr
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Das umfangreiche Werk der in Auschwitz umgekommenen Autorin Irène Némirovsky erlebt seit der posthumen Veröffentlichung ihres unvollendeten Romanepos Suite française sowie dessen prompter Auszeichnung mit dem Prix Renaudot eine internationale Renaissance. Die detaillierten Romanentwürfe und …
Pleasure in/of the Text
About the Joys and Perversities of Reading
Av Fabien Arribert-Narce, Fuhito Endo m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
711 kr
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Reading is a peculiar kind of experience. Although its practice and theory have a very long tradition, the question of aesthetic pleasure is as perplexing as ever. Why do we read? What exactly thrills us in the text? One of the most prominent scholars having addressed these questions in the …
Existentialist Comics
«Bande Dessinée» and the Art of Ethics
Häftad, 2021
783 kr
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Comics have great potential to depict an almost infinite range of themes, questions and lives. But what about their ability to express and interpret philosophical concepts? How can we differentiate between the representation of theoretical concepts in and of themselves, and the impact of comics …
Entre mélancolie et connaissance; Réception créatrice de Proust en Italie
Häftad, 2023
997 kr
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Proust voyait dans la multiplicité des interprétations engendrée par la réception des œuvres littéraires, leur seule possibilité de survie dans le temps. Loin d’être un monument figé dans le temps, la Recherche ne cesse de résonner dans la parole de nouvelles générations, tout en se laissant …
Gesture in French Post-New Wave Cinema
Av François Giraud, Hugues Azérad m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
727 kr
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«This fascinating study of gesture makes an original contribution to film studies through the persuasive insights it offers into the significance of gesture in its different manifestations in post-New Wave cinema. Meticulous analysis of an eclectic choice of examples and compelling meditations on …
Hear the Tap, Feel the Scratch
The Transgressive Intimacy of ASMR
Häftad, 2026
614 kr
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How do digital experiences shape intimacy? What role do sensory stimuli play in creating connections across virtual spaces? ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response), a growing cultural and media phenomenon, invites us to reconsider the ways intimacy, care and relaxation are nurtured through …
Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text
With and Beyond Roland Barthes
Av Fabien Arribert-Narce, Alex Watson
Häftad, 2023
755 kr
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«This volume locates itself neatly in the growing collection of publications on intermediality by relating such practices to Roland Barthes. Barthesian motifs and writerly concerns are found within a variety of intermedial practices, as the analysis moves, historically and globally, across visual, …
L’Écrivain cartographe
Pour une nouvelle rhétorique de l’espace chez Proust
Häftad, 2026
837 kr
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En quoi la Recherche peut-elle être appréhendée comme une entreprise cartographique ? Ce livre propose de relire le grand roman du Temps et, plus largement, l’ensemble de l’œuvre de Marcel Proust sous cet angle inédit. Bien plus qu’une simple provocation, cette approche privilégiant l’analyse …
She’s Leaving Home
Women’s Writing in English in a European Context
Häftad, 2011
622 kr
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This collection of essays, written by scholars from all over Europe, explores the cultural meanings of women leaving home. Although all the chapters analyse writings in English, the volume aims to put the narrative element of home-leaving into a European context by investigating travel in various …
Making Sense
For an Effective Aesthetics- Includes an original essay by Jean-Luc Nancy
Av Lorna Collins, Elizabeth Rush
Häftad, 2011
603 kr
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This volume of texts and images has evolved from papers given at the inaugural Making Sense colloquium, which was held at the University of Cambridge in September 2009. The chapters collected here reflect the multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary sense made at this event, which became something …
Nomadic Literature
Cees Nooteboom and his Writing
Häftad, 2013
878 kr
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Cees Nooteboom (born 1933) is a writer of fiction, poetry and travel literature. Translated into at least thirty-four languages, his work raises important questions about the mobility of literary texts and invites a new theoretical approach, for to read Nooteboom straightforwardly as a Dutch author …
Songbirds on the Literary Stage
The Woman Singer and her Song in French and German Prose Fiction, from Goethe to Berlioz
Av Julia Effertz, Peter Collier
Häftad, 2015
786 kr
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This interdisciplinary study, situated at the cross-section of music, literature and gender, examines the woman singer and her song as a literary motif in French and German prose fiction from the 1790s to the mid-nineteenth century. Through selected case studies, this diachronic history of motifs …
Les Espaces du Livre / Spaces of the Book
Supports et acteurs de la création texte/image (XXe–XXIe siècles) / Materials and Agents of the Text/Image Creation (20th–21th Centuries)
Häftad, 2015
1311 kr
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L’étonnante diversité des possibilités esthétiques offertes par le livre comme support matériel de la fin du XIXe siècle aux expérimentations les plus contemporaines, est au cœur de la réflexion proposée dans ce livre. La page, le feuillet et le livre, l’écran aussi, débordent le cadre du codex et …
«Keeping the Sources Pure»
The Making of George Mackay Brown
Av Sabine Schmid, Peter Collier
Häftad, 2003
1043 kr
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This volume assesses the literary stature of George Mackay Brown by contextualising his prose and his poetry within twentieth-century British and European literary practices and traditions of thought. Challenging the typecasting of Brown as ‘Orkney writer’, the book links him with European …
Lingua Barbara or the Mystery of the Other
Otherness and Exteriority in Modern European Poetry
Av Johanna M. Buisson, Peter Collier
Häftad, 2012
1043 kr
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This book explores the multifaceted concepts of otherness, barbarism and exteriority. Is encountering the ‘Other’ still possible in a world in which we all have become rootless, disconnected and strangers, alienated from the outside world and from ourselves? Does the question of ‘Otherness’ still …
After Intimacy
The Culture of Divorce in the West since 1789
Av Karl Leydecker, Nicholas White
Häftad, 2007
981 kr
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Divorce is a conspicuous character trait of modernity, commonly portrayed in texts and on screen, with its moral and social rationalisation firmly rooted in Enlightenment and Romantic thought. The aim of this volume is to bring into focus this contemporary cultural fascination by assembling the …
Writing on the Move
Albert Londres and Investigative Journalism
Av Walter Redfern, Peter Collier
Häftad, 2004
991 kr
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Albert Londres (1884-1932) was a much-translated French investigative journalist, distinguished by the application of humour to serious reporting. His journalistic coverage was extremely wide (Europe, Soviet Russia, the Middle East, the Far East, Africa, South America), as were his themes: war, …
Understanding Our Selves
The Dangerous Art of Biography
Av Susan Tridgell, Peter Collier
Häftad, 2004
941 kr
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Modern Western biography has become one of the most popular and most controversial forms of literature. Critics have attacked its tendency to rely on a strong narrative drive, its focus on a single person’s life and its tendency to delve ever more deeply into that person’s inner, private …
European Intertexts
Women’s Writing in English in a European Context
Av Patsy Stoneman, Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce
Häftad, 2005
1021 kr
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European Intertexts is the first fruit of an ongoing collaborative study aiming to challenge the isolationism of much critical work on English literature by exploring the interdependence of English and continental European literatures in writing by women. While later volumes will deal with specific …
Identity and Cultural Translation: Writing across the Borders of Englishness
Women’s Writing in English in a European Context
Av Ana Gabriela Macedo, Margarida Pereira
Häftad, 2005
981 kr
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The papers collected in this volume include a selection of those presented at a conference which took place at the University of Minho, Portugal, in July 2001 held under the auspices of the project European Intertexts: a Study of Women’s Writing in English as Part of a European Fabric. The …
Re-reading Pío Baroja and English Literature
Av Katharine Murphy, Peter Collier
Häftad, 2004
961 kr
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This volume investigates a broad range of structural connections between PThis volume investigates a broad range of structural connections between Pío Baroja’s early fiction and the novels of his contemporaries in England and Ireland, with prominence given to Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, E. M. …
Depicting Desire
Gender, Sexuality and the Family in Nineteenth Century Europe: Literary and Artistic Perspectives
Häftad, 2005
951 kr
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This volume gathers together articles by leading international scholars of nineteenth-century culture in Europe. The contributions were originally presented at the conference ‘Textual Intersections in the Nineteenth Century: European Literatures, Histories and Arts’ held at Cardiff University in …
Surrealism
Crossings/Frontiers
Häftad, 2006
921 kr
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This collection of essays, inspired by André Breton’s concept of the limites non-frontières of Surrealism, focuses on the crossings, intersections and margins of the surrealist movement rather than its divides and exclusion zones. Some of the essays originated as papers given at the colloquium …
Laughter and Power
Av John Parkin, John Philllips
Häftad, 2006
920 kr
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Laughter and power are here examined in a variety of contexts, ranging from the satires of Renaissance Humanism through to the polemics of contemporary journalism. How do the powerful use laughter as a cultural weapon which reinforces their position? How do the powerless use laughter as a last …
Borges and Dante
Echoes of a Literary Friendship
Av Humberto Núñez-Faraco, Peter Collier
Häftad, 2006
674 kr
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This study examines three main aspects of Jorge Luis Borges’s reading of Dante Alighieri, namely, poetic language, ethics and love. It attempts to reveal the ways in which Borges’s interests in these issues manifested themselves in his appropriation of Dante and gained prominence within his work as …
