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This bilingual collection of essays (in English and French) looks at entomology and representations of insects from a scientific, historical, philosophical, literary and artistic viewpoint. The cont……続きを見る

This book deals with the characterization and history of the reaction object construction (ROC), as in Pauline smiled her thanks. The ROC consists of an intransitive verb followed by a nonprototypic……続きを見る

Ce volume propose de mettre en regard divers modèles européens discursifs et/ou textuels. La plupart des rencontres scientifiques de ces vingt dernières années jouent sur les contrastes, or une hist……続きを見る

What is the weight of the social economy? How should we measure it? Throughout the world, cooperatives, non-profit and mutual benefit organizations, foundations and other social enterprises play an ……続きを見る

Die Familiennamen im Gebiet zwischen den Flüssen Maas und Rhein stellen infolge der komplexen politisch-historischen Grenzziehungen und durch ihre Lage in der Kontaktzone zwischen Germania und Roman……続きを見る

Gesellschaften mit starker Einwanderung kennzeichnen vielfältige Formen von Identitätsbildung und das Ringen um politische und zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für……続きを見る

Este volume debate o tema da construção de identidade(s), numa época em que fronteiras e globalização coexistem. Ao longo de onze capítulos, a questão é discutida de um ponto de vista pluridisciplin……続きを見る

Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, re……続きを見る

Concebido como continuación de Entre escritura e Imagen. Lecturas de narrativa Contemporánea (Peter Lang, 2013), este libro se enmarca en el campo del comparatismo (literatura y artes), por cuanto r……続きを見る

This book draws upon genre fiction studies, forensic linguistics, and media studies to investigate the overlap between crime fiction conventions and the writing of missing persons appeals to the pub……続きを見る

Le XVIIIe siècle constitue un moment charnière dans l’histoire du roman français : le genre se diversifie et son public s’élargit, alors même que s’élabore une importante réflexion théorique à son s……続きを見る

Conforme à la majorité des plus récents travaux consacrés à l’hypertextualité, la dernière réévaluation en date de l’histoire du pastiche (Paul Aron, 2008) fait l’impasse sur la littérature du Moyen……続きを見る

Thinking with Words: A Literary Groundwork provides a unique foundational introduction to the depths and glories of literature and its study. It is a book about why literature matters, and why it al……続きを見る

What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts? Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book in……続きを見る

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood, and often unrecognized, geniuses of moral philosophy, but not simply because of their ……続きを見る

This book explores visual political engagement online – how citizens participate in the dynamism of life in society by expressing their opinions and emotions on various issues of democratic life in ……続きを見る

Postmodernism has had its day. Are we now in the era of epimodernism? Reinterpreting the six “memos” that Italo Calvino suggested more than thirty years ago for “the new Millennium”, in this acclaim……続きを見る

Bringing together some of the figures most closely associated with Edward Said and his scholarship, Waiting for the Barbarians looks at Said the public intellectual and literary critic, and his poli……続きを見る

Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie’s female poisoners in the context of Christie’s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an o……続きを見る

Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916), ……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage collectif aborde les aires de divergence et de convergence, les différences et les confluences entre le littéraire et le non littéraire dans la perspective d’une application à la traduct……続きを見る

This book analyses two features of the traditional circus that have come under increasing attack since the mid-20th century: the use of wild animals in performance and the act of clowning. Positioni……続きを見る

Le poète Bouschedy nous conduit dans un labyrinthe où le verbe dit, à travers différentes scansions, la complainte d’un esprit fulminant sa révolte. Il parle d’une Afrique engluée depuis près d’un s……続きを見る

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semiotics. The book that was derived from his teaching, the Course in General Linguistics……続きを見る

Reveals the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood, in which the citizen-subject tends to become representable only as an individual representative of a social identity grou……続きを見る

This book brings together the research findings of contemporary feminist age studies scholars, shame theorists, and feminist gerontologists in order to unfurl the affective dynamics of gendered agei……続きを見る

During the last 300 years circus clowns have emerged as powerful cultural icons. This is the first semiotic analysis of the range of make-up and costumes through which the clowns' performing identit……続きを見る

This monumental book, first published in 1992, represents a major contribution to Sephardic and Hispanic studies as well as to comparative folklore scholarship in a worldwide perspective. After many……続きを見る

Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of 'high art', Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the most provocative and important yet least understood of contempor……続きを見る

Although Habermas has written about the cultural role of literature and about literary works, he has not systematically articulated a literary-critical method as a component of either communicative ……続きを見る