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«The authors in this inspiring volume focus on the socially transformative potential narrative has to shape understandings of albinism in Africa. Scholars and activists, they reflect on how traditio……続きを見る

Si « l’ostentation des corps sanglants, souffrants et macabres semble constituer l’une des caractéristiques de la littérature et des arts européens du XVIe siècle et XVIIe siècle », liée en partie à……続きを見る

À l’heure où se banalisent les discours féministes et, avec eux, une conception universelle de l’émancipation　; à l’heure où les questions de différence et d’intégration deviennent cruciales pour p……続きを見る

Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin explores what Afropolitanism does. Mobile people of African descent use this term to address their own lived realities creatively……続きを見る

This study of a novel by William T. Vollmann offers a port of entry into his fiction. Like other titles from his planned «Seven Dreams» collection, The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel. Foll……続きを見る

The Edwardian era is often romanticised as a tranquil period of garden parties and golden afternoons in which everyone knew their place and nobody questioned the order of things. The reality, howeve……続きを見る

Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent ……続きを見る

Comment allier inspiration, tradition, culture et invention, d’un côté, et grain de jouissance, Réel, rature et manuscrit, de l’autre. La roue de l’écriture, machine inventée par l’auteur, aide à co……続きを見る

Mothers and mothering are significant features of contemporary women’s writing in France and mothers are narrators and key protagonists in nearly all Marie NDiaye’s novels and short stories. These m……続きを見る

This is the first book to analyse the Mozambican modern ghost story, establishing the genre’s unique characteristics, situating it in a transnational context, and distinguishing it from other supern……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

«In this insightful book, Stephanie Homer interrogates how different genre conventions (memoir, autobiographical fiction and novels) influence the representation of the Kindertransport. Her theoreti……続きを見る

Questioning hegemonic masculinity in literature is not novel. In the nineteenth century, under the July Monarchy (1830ー1848), several French writers depicted characters who did not conform to gende……続きを見る

During the Victorian period, naturally wet spaces – marshland, rivers and the sea – were construed as feminised loci, articulating contrasted visions of Woman as the angelic Undine or the demonic Si……続きを見る

La présence des femmes dans le champ de l’Histoire littéraire belge francophone est déjà le fait d’écrivaines du XIXe siècle (Robertsart, Gravière, Bervoets, Nizet, Van Rysselberghe, etc.). Il faut ……続きを見る

«Thinking Through Relation brings together an outstanding collection of essays that explore the diverse ways in which works of art and aesthetic experience generate a richness of relation which esca……続きを見る

Este libro explora la obra Mishle he-‘arav [Los dichos de los árabes], un texto sapiencial en hebreo, probablemente escrito en Provenza en la primera mitad del siglo XIII. Sus cincuenta capítulos co……続きを見る

The British context has been a controversial area for those involved in Irish literature and Irish studies. Behind the present volume lies a search for a view from which the frame of the British con……続きを見る

Poldowski (Irène Dean Paul née Wieniawska) 1879–1932 was the youngest daughter of the celebrated violinist/composer, Henryk Wieniawski. The only member of her family to follow her father into the mu……続きを見る

Is it really a man’s world? At a time when masculinity is being challenged, this book explores the links between reading and writing and how they have historically been associated with masculine pri……続きを見る

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 thril……続きを見る

Cette étude a été conçue comme un voyage en terre inconnue. Les trois autrices choisies étaient déjà considérées en Irlande et dans le monde, comme représentatives de la littérature irlandaise de la……続きを見る

«In this important comparative study, Polly Galis provides an illuminating – and frank – examination of the feminist tensions inherent in the inclusive and often transgressive modalities of female s……続きを見る

Deals in a comprehensive, but succinct way with poets who wrote of sex and love. It covers Greek and Roman poets, the Troubadours of Provence and also Chaucer and Shakespeare, who wrote briefly abou……続きを見る

Au sommaire de ce livre, les œuvres de cinq écrivains que l’on rapproche rarement. L’Algérien Rachid Boudjedra, le Belge Henry Bauchau, l’Ivoirien Ahmadou Kourouma, le Marocain Driss Chraïbi et le Q……続きを見る

Renaissance England was marked by a pervasive culture of courtesy. The research hypothesis of this book is that verbal courtesy, for historical and social reasons involving social mobility and the c……続きを見る

Les travaux rassemblés dans cet ouvrage étudient la représentation ou l’imaginaire muséographique d’écrivains de la fin du XIXe siècle à l’époque contemporaine. Ils interrogent la manière dont la ré……続きを見る

«Murderous Mothers is both an homage to and a critical reflection on the multiple Medea figures that populate late twentieth-century German literature. Claire Scott artfully demonstrates how feminis……続きを見る

«With its meticulous documentation, this multifaceted volume brings a range of individual lives and networks to the fore, outlining their inestimable contributions to British culture. It is an inspi……続きを見る

«In Timeless Joyce, Asun López-Varela offers a holistic, dense, and substantial approach to the study of Ulysses, in commemoration of its publication centenary. The author manages to tackle multiple……続きを見る