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Dependendo da época e do lugar, os mapas fictícios desempenharam uma variedade de papéis. Eles representaram mundos virados de cabeça para baixo, satíricos, críticos ou utópicos; eles diluíram a distinção entre o mundo do livro e o do leitor; eles alimentaram a razão e os sonhos, mesmo além da letra do texto. Viajando de obra em obra, Roger Chartier oferece neste ensaio uma nova abordagem da mobilidade das ficções e de suas interpretações.

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called'the literature of science'– and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called'the literature of science'– and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called'the literature of science'– and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

The most celebrated baseball writer of our time has selected his favorite pieces from the last forty years to create Once More Around the Park, a definitive volume of his most memorable work. Mr. Angell includes writing never previously collected as well as selections from The Summer Game, Five Seasons, Late Innings, and Season Ticket. He brings back the extraordinary games, innings and performances that he has witnessed and written about so astutely and gracefully—“The Interior Stadium,” on the complex attractions of baseball; “In the Country,” on a friendship that began with a fan letter and took him far from the big stadiums and big money; “The Arm Talks,” on contemporary pitching strategy and the arrival of the split-finger delivery; and many others. Mr. Angell's conversations with past and present players and managers, scouts and coaches, rookies and Hall of Famers enhance his own expertise and critical appreciation, which define him as the game's most useful and ardent fan. “Angell resembles a pitcher with pinpoint control. As a chronicler of the game, he's in a class with Ring Lardner and Red Smith.”—Newsweek.“Angell's perceptions are fresh, vivid, and uncannily accurate.... Only a fan who cares this much could observe so carefully and write so eloquently.”—San Francisco Chronicle. “A triumph of art and grace.”—Chicago Tribune Book World.'In the course of a well-lived century, he established himself as...baseball's finest, fondest chronicler.'—The New Yorker

In these three studies, hinging on an unusual theme, Roger Sale examines three very different writers: an impassioned novelist, a wry and witty literary critic, and a donnish teller of apparently old-fashioned romances that have achieved a cult following today. Many people assume that heroism is dead because the heroic styles of past ages no longer exist. Roger Sale contends that this assumption is accompanied by other beliefs that are part of what he calls the Myth of Lost Unity (a variation on the myth of the Golden Age): a sense that the world was once'whole'but in recent centuries has gradually disintegrated; a feeling that the human condition is now lost or alienated or drifting; and a conviction that the proper response to life is resignation, cynicism, or despair. Sale reminds us that Lawrence, Empson, and Tolkien all came to believe in the major features of the Myth of Lost Unity. Each, however, replied to what seemed his—and our fate—and defied the implications of the myth, achieving a community as a badge of that defiance. Sale's exploration of their separate merits reveals how their heroism made them alike. The strength of Modern Heroism lies in the formidable critical powers Sale exercises in his three variations on its theme. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Malgré le succès jamais démenti de ses Chants de la Tassaout et notre récente réédition des Derniers Fils de l'ombre, l'œuvre de René Euloge demeure mal connue. C'est pourquoi nous avons décidé d'offrir à un plus large public des textes qui seraient restés sans cela d'accès difficile, mais constituent pourtant des archives de première main sur la nommée pacification du Maroc, au cours des années 1920 et 1930. L'auteur, volontairement aux premières loges de ces évènements, nous lègue ici de précieux témoignages anthropologiques, qu'il tient à nous présenter non comme des documents bruts, mais aussi comme de véritables pages littéraires empathiques, méritant de figurer dans le riche corpus des littératures francophones de l'ère coloniale. Nous parlerons alors d'observation participante.

Michel Butor, Éric Chevillard, Michel Deguy, Patrick Grainville, Louise Lambrichs, Hubert Lucot, Bernard Noël, Christian Prigent, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Denis Roche, Paul Louis Rossi, Jean-PhilippeToussaint et Tanguy Viel : autant de figures de la poésie et du roman des xxe et xxie siècles avec qui Roger-Michel Allemand dialogue ici. Les échanges portent en particulier sur leurs sources d'inspiration, les caractéristiques de leurs créations et leur investissement personnel dans l'écriture.

On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, The New Criterion has brought together a plump chrestomathy of essays demonstrating its range and acuity as America's foremost review of culture and the arts. With contributions by Bruce Bawer, Anthony Daniels, Denis Donoghue, Joseph Epstein, John Steele Gordon, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Hill, Donald Kagan, Roger Kimball, Heather Mac Donald, Myron Magnet, Andrew C. McCarthy, David Pryce-Jones, Andrew Roberts, Alexander McCall Smith, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Keith Windschuttle, and many others, this collection of fifty essays brings you the best of the best: incisive cultural criticism, scintillating historical analysis, and robust commentary about the way we live now. Edited by Roger Kimball, this spiritual Baedeker is a timely repository of timeless writing about the figures, controversies, and challenges that define our life in the 2020s.

Mathilde n'est pas la mieux connue des oeuvres d'Eugène Sue mais mérite bien qu'on la redécouvre. Écrite en collaboration avec Félix Pyat, la pièce offre une image des dangers que représente pour la France de Louis-Philippe et Guizot l'importance accordée à l'argent et à la mobilité sociale. Le scélérat riche, pervers et froidement cynique qu'est Lugarto, métis brésilien venu s'installer dans la bonne société française, est un monstre qu'il était, et est encore, permis de condamner comme une caricature irrecevable de l'homme noir, mais qu'une bonne partie du public théâtral de l'époque prenait en haine puisqu'il représentait le règne immoral de l'argent. D'autres choisissaient d'en rire, exagérant plus encore les traits détestables du traître pour en faire une parodie. Nous offrons le drame sérieux et sa version parodique dans ce volume ainsi que de nombreux comptes rendus.

Finalist for the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies In The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, Roger A. Sneed illuminates the interplay of Black religious thought with science fiction narratives to present a bold case for Afrofuturism as an important channel for Black spirituality. In the process, he challenges the assumed primacy of the Black church as the arbiter of Black religious life. Incorporating analyses of Octavia Butler's Parable books, Janelle Monáe's Afrofuturistic saga, Star Trek's Captain Benjamin Sisko, Marvel's Black Panther, and Sun Ra and the Nation of Islam, Sneed demonstrates how Afrofuturism has contributed to Black visions of the future. He also investigates how Afrofuturism has influenced religious scholarship that looks to Black cultural production as a means of reimagining Blackness in the light of the sacred. The result is an expansive new look at the power of science fiction and Afrofuturism to center the diversity of Black spirituality.

« Moeurs coloniales. Esquisses » est un texte inédit de Mme Letellier. Cette oeuvre, publiée dans Le Journal des femmes entre le 5 janvier et le 23 mars 1833, est une des condamnations les plus percutantes qui soient de la société esclavagiste de Pointe-à-Pitre. Le fait que l'histoire ait été réimprimée dans la Revue des colonies entre août et décembre 1835 souligne son importance et confirme son intérêt. La Falaise-blanche, texte d'Eugène Chapus, met en scène la vie sur une plantation de la Guadeloupe et une chasse au « nègre marron ». La nouvelle figure dans le recueil Titime? histoires de l'autre monde, ouvrage publié en 1833 auquel collabore aussi le Réunionnais Victor Charlier. Contrairement à Mme Letellier, Chapus, Guadeloupéen de naissance, est un auteur de la littérature coloniale, sportive et mondaine bien connu en son temps et aujourd'hui.

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives—cinematic, photographic, and literary—produced by, with, or about refugees and migrants. The book explores refugee journeys, asylum-seeking, trafficking, and deportation as well as territorial displacement, the architecture of occupation and settlement, and border separation and violence. The large-scale movement of people from the global South to the global North is explored through the perspectives of the new mobilities paradigm, including the fact that, for many of the displaced, waiting and immobility is a common part of their experience. Through critical analysis drawing on cultural studies and literary studies, Roger Bromley generates an alternative “map” of texts for understanding displacement in terms of affect, subjectivity, and dehumanization with the overall aimof opening up new dialogues in the face of the current stream of anti-refugee rhetoric.

This is the first major study in English of the work of the French novelist, essayist, journalist, poet and ‘chansonnier'Pierre Mac Orlan (1882-1970). It assesses Mac Orlan's contribution to the post-1918 phenomenon of intellectual disillusionment and disorientation which was termed the ‘nouveau mal du siècle', or ‘inquiétude'. Although he has largely been ignored by critics thus far, Mac Orlan was part of mainstream French literary production and a major exponent of ‘inquiétude'. Where he differs from his contemporaries is in his subject matter, in his use of sociological, rather than abstract, intellectual material. His expression of ‘inquiétude'encompasses: ‘le fantastique social'; adventure; marginality; ‘le cafard'; and sadistic sexuality. His originality lies in his invention of ‘le fantastique social', in his constant use of certain techniques, as well as the subject matter, of German Expressionism via the depiction of the disturbing landscape of the modern city, post-1918 inflation and decadence, prostitutes and criminals, doomed adventurers, the mystery of modern technology, and in the expression of a morbid interest in sexual violence. This volume will be of particular interest to students of inter-war French literature and thought.

Cent cinquante ans après la mort de Mélanie Waldor (1796- 1871), femme trop souvent réduite au modèle d'Adèle dans une pièce d'Alexandre Dumas dont elle fut la maîtresse, l'ensemble de son oeuvre n'est toujours pas bien connu. Nous proposons de faire découvrir ici un petit nombre de textes de Waldor dont l'action se passe au moins en partie dans un cadre colonial. Ces textes nous transportent à l'île Maurice, en Martinique, au Mexique et à Madagascar, mettant toujours ces sites lointains en rapport avec la France métropolitaine. Ce volume comprend aussi deux textes de Waldor sur les femmes auteures et deux lettres inédites qui éclairent ses rapports avec d'autres personnalités de son époque.

Alors même que la tendance est de frôler cette grande question de la réception de l'oeuvre négro-africaine sous le coup de procès en anachronisme, Konan Roger Langui relance le débat, cette fois, semble-t-il, pour trancher. L'opposition de nature entre oralité et écriture est pour lui suffisante pour attester d'une différence elle aussi de nature dans l'approche conceptuelle des imaginaires négro-africains et les théories et méthodes occidentales ou russo-slaves qui questionnent le texte littéraire aujourd'hui.

La Guadeloupe 1790. Un créole et un mulâtre, devenus amis inséparables sous l'égide des idéaux républicains, sont de retour aux îles. Cette fraternité peut-elle survivre dans une société coloniale et esclavagiste? Les Créoles ou La Vie aux Antilles explore l'écart entre les idées des Lumières et leur applicabilité dans une Guadeloupe parcourue par les soulèvements des Noirs esclaves. Publié en 1835 alors que le débat sur l'esclavage et les relations interraciales resurgit en France, le roman est encore d'actualité aujourd'hui lorsque nous réinterrogeons les ramifications historiques des inégalités raciales.

Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 1847–1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century.It discusses key themes and practices of Duval's vision and production, relative to the wider historic social, cultural and economic environments in which her work was made, distributed and read, identifing Duval as an exemplary radical practitioner.The book interrogates the relationships between the practices and the forms of print, story-telling, drawing and stage performance.It focuses on the creation of new types of cultural work by women and highlights the style of Duval's drawings relative to both the visual conventions of theatre production and the significance of the visualisation of amateurism and vulgarity.Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist establishes Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

Ce collectif interroge dans une perspective transdisciplinaire les formes et les figurations de la peur ainsi que ses mécanismes d'administration. La peur y est ainsi analysée non seulement comme objet esthétique et référent cognitif structurant les savoirs divers mais aussi comme outil de propagande politique. Les différentes contributions explorent les champs des vulnérabilités sociales, la crise des frontières ainsi que les impasses de la modernité culturelle avec ses problématiques bioéthiques et technoscientifiques.

Academic attention to science fiction and fantasy began in 1958, when the Modern Language Association scheduled its first seminar on science fiction at its New York meeting. Over the years science fiction emerged as a popular subject that achieved critical attention and acceptance as an academic discipline. A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies, originally published in 1977, is designed to provide the reader – whether they be scholar, teacher, librarian, or fan – with a comprehensive listing of the important research tools that have been published in the United States and England through 1976. The volume contains over 400 selected, annotated entries covering both general and specialized sources, including general surveys, histories, genre studies, author studies, bibliographies, and indices, which span the entire range of science fiction and fantasy scholarship.

This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of trauma for African literatures. Kurtz argues that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literatures is in fact a productive exercise, and furthermore that the benefits of this exercise include not only what it can do for African literature, but also what it can do for trauma studies. He makes the case for understanding trauma healing within the larger project of peacebuilding, with an emphasis on the transformative potential of what he terms the African moral imagination as embodied in the creative work of its writers. He offers readings of selected works by Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chimamanda Adichie, and Nuruddin Farah as case studies for how African literature can influence our understanding of trauma and trauma healing. This will be a valuable volume for those with interests in current trends and developments in trauma studies, African literary studies, postcolonial studies, and memory studies.

Here friends of Anthony W. Johnson honour him as a re-embodiment of the polymathic artist-scholar figure once observable in Ben Jonson, on whom he has done some of his most distinctive work. Part I of the book reflects his strong grounding in English literature and culture of the seventeenth century, with essays, not only on Ben Jonson, but also on university drama, on grammar school drama, and on humanist literary taste. Part II responds to his pioneering flights of culture-imagological time-travel to other periods, with essays on riddles through the ages, on Matthew Arnold's doubts about Homeric pictorialism, and on anciently comic elements in George Gissing's urban fiction. Part III celebrates his importance, both as scholar and artist, for the present day, with essays extending imagological analysis to the singer Nick Drake, to the avant-garde Danish poet Morten Søkilde, and to Sean S. Baker's film Tangerine, plus a climactic celebration of Johnson's own performances on solo violin and guitar as augmented by self-recording.

No Western scholar has contributed as much to the study of modern Arabic narrative as has Roger Allen. His doctoral dissertation was the very first Oxford D.Phil. in modern Arabic literature, completed in 1968 under the supervision of Mustafa Badawi. That same year, he took a position in Arabic language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania, the oldest professorial post in Arabic in the United States. Roger Allen has been phenomenally prolific: fifty books and translations, two hundred articles and counting-on Arabic language pedagogy, on translation, on Arabic literary history, criticism and literature. He is also one of the most decorated and acclaimed translators of Arabic literature. The present volume brings together sixteen of Roger Allen's articles on modern Arabic narrative, with a focus on genre, translation and literary history, and features analyses of the works of Rashid Abu Jadrah, Bensalem Himmich, Yusuf Idris, Naguib Mahfouz, and Tayeb Salih.

First published in 1966, this book is contributed to by authors who share an interest in the literary uses of language. The book gives a close analysis of the language of literature contributed to by critics and linguists, examining linguistic theory and poetry, and as part of this the rhythm and metre of English poetry is deconstructed. Language and its emotive structure is analysed, while the middle chapters of the book address the interaction of linguistic dimensions. Two medievalist scholars conclude the volume, giving a well-rounded examination to the broad and complex study of literary style in the English language. This book is suitable for students and scholars concerned with English literature and linguistics.

This title was first published in 2001. Challenging conventional approaches to the delivery of sustainable'social protection'to the elderly in developing countries (DCs) and assessing their implications, this work discusses the appropriateness of the public management of funded systems in DCs with relatively large formal sectors. The combination of social assistance approaches to social protection for the elderly facilitates the formation of an original unbiased'pensions in development'approach. Arguing for expeditious implementation of non-contributory tax (or aid) financed universal old-age'pensions'provision in all DCs and advocating industry flexibility and inclusivity, the book provides a treatment of a growing issue in worldwide development.

Steampunk is more than a fandom, a literary genre, or an aesthetic. It is a research methodology turning history inside out to search for alternatives to the progressive technological boosterism sold to us by Silicon Valley. This book turns to steampunk's quirky temporalities to embrace diverse genealogies of the digital humanities and to unite their methodologies with nineteenth-century literature and media archaeology. The result is nineteenth-century digital humanities, a retrofuturist approach in which readings of steampunk novels like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine and Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings collide with nineteenth-century technological histories like Charles Babbage's use of the difference engine to enhance worker productivity and Isabella Bird's spirit photography of alternate history China. Along the way, Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities considers steampunk as a public form of digital humanities scholarship and activism, examining projects like Kinetic Steam Works's reconstruction of Henri Giffard's 1852 steam-powered airship, Jake von Slatt's use of James Wimshurst's 1880 designs to create an electric influence machine, and the queer steampunk activism of fans appearing at conventions around the globe. Steampunk as a digital humanities practice of repurposing reacts to the growing sense of multiple non-human temporalities mediating our human histories: microtemporal electricities flowing through our computer circuits, mechanical oscillations marking our work days, geological stratifications and cosmic drifts extending time into the millions and billions of years. Excavating the entangled, anachronistic layers of steampunk practice from video games like Bioshock Infinite to marine trash floating off the shore of Los Angeles and repurposed by media artist Claudio Garzón into steampunk submarines, Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities uncovers the various technological temporalities and multicultural retrofutures illuminating many alternate histories of the digital humanities.

In The Language of Literature, first published in 1971, Roger Fowler argues that the vitality and centrality of the verbal dimension of literature, and, read as a whole, the papers in this collection imply a consistent point of view on language in literature. The author focuses on the continuity of language in literature with language outside literature, on its cultural appropriateness and adjustment, and on its power to create aesthetic patterns and to organise concepts, to make fictions. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory.

Sarah Roger investigates Jorge Luis Borges's development as an author in light of Franz Kafka's influence, and in consideration of Borges's relationship with his father, Jorge Guillermo Borges (Borges père, a failed author). Borges believed that much of Kafka's writing derived from his personal experiences, particularly his relationship with his father. This book looks at how reading Kafka helped Borges mediate and make productive use of his own relationship with his father, and it offers a thorough analysis of Borges père's writing, which is supplemented by an appendix that reprints Borges père's poetry for the first time. Borges and Kafka also provides extensive analysis of Kafka's presence in Borges's critical writing, his translations, and the stories that he modelled on Kafka. Particular attention is paid to the concepts that Borges identified as Kafka's obsessions: subordination, infinity, and hierarchical relationships, which Borges referred to as the'patria potestad.'Roger's analysis is accompanied by an annotated bibliography documenting every mention of Kafka in Borges's writing and a list of every Kafka text Borges read. Kafka's influence is especially evident in the stories where Borges was openly imitating Kafka--'La lotería en Babilonia'(1941),'La biblioteca de Babel'(1941), and'El Congreso'(1971)--but it features throughout Ficciones. Reading Borges's writing in light of his interest in Kafka demonstrates his focus not just on the individual's subordinate place in an infinite hierarchy but also on the repercussions these circumstances had for a struggling author like Borges, who was seeking to define himself through his writing.

This book, first published in 1987, differs from many other ‘dictionaries of criticism'in concentrating less on time-honoured rhetorical terms and more on conceptually flexible, powerful terms. Each entry consists of not simply a dictionary definition but an essay exploring the history and full significance of the term, and its possibilities in critical discourse. This title is an ideal basic reference text for literature students of all levels.

Zum ersten Mal liegt mit der Biographie August Wilhelm Schlegels (1767–1845) eine umfassende Würdigung dieser herausragenden Persönlichkeit der deutschen und europäischen Romantik vor. Roger Paulin, ein renommierter Kenner dieser Epoche, zeichnet versiert und kurzweilig die Lebensgeschichte dieses vielseitig interessierten und talentierten ›Kosmopoliten der Kunst und Poesie‹ nach: Schlegel war Poet, Übersetzer zahlreicher Sprachen, Literaturkritiker und Wissenschaftler und wirkte vielfach als Initiator neuer Strömungen und Denkrichtungen. Gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder Friedrich, mit dem er die avantgardistische Zeitschrift Athenaeum herausgab, gilt er als Initiator der literarischen Romantik. Besonders bekannt wurde er durch die Übersetzung von Shakespeares Werken: Zum ersten Mal wurde Shakespeare durch ihn und seine Frau Caroline in Versform in eine fremde Sprache übertragen. Paulin eröffnet mit seiner fulminanten Biographie faszinierende Einsichten in das Leben und Werk eines Universalgenies und sein namhaftes Milieu und zeichnet zugleich das Panorama einer Epoche.

Reflecting current trends in scholarly analysis of evil and the feminine, the chapters contained in Re-visiting Female Evil focus upon various ‘re-interpretations'of evil femininities as a cultural signifier of agency, transgression and crisis, re-interpreting them through rewriting of ‘other'stories, hermeneutic re-interpretations of ancient/classical texts, and revised film/ stage adaptations. These papers illustrate how gendered cultural myths of women's intrinsic connection to evil still persist in today's patriarchal society, though in variant and updated forms. Mischievous, beguiling, seductive, lascivious, unruly, carping, vengeful and manipulative – from the Disney princess to the murderous Medea, these authors grapple with our understanding of what it is to be and do ‘evil', exploring the possible sources of the fear and hatred of women and the feminine as well as their continual fascination and appeal, and how these manifest in a range of'real life'and fictional narratives that cross times, cultures and media.

In his highly theorised and original book, Roger Ebbatson traces the emergence of conceptions of England and Englishness from 1840 to 1920. His study concentrates on poetry and fiction by authors such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Richard Jefferies, Thomas Hardy, Q, Rupert Brooke and D.H. Lawrence, reading them as a body of work through which a series of problematic English identities are imaginatively constructed. Of particular concern is the way literary landscapes serve as signs not only of identity but also of difference. Ebbatson demonstrates how a sense of cultural rootedness is contested during the period by the experiences of those on the societal margins, whether sexual, national, social or racial, resulting in a feeling of homelessness even in the most self-consciously'English'texts. In the face of gradual imperial and industrial decline, Ebbatson argues, foreign and colonial cultures played a crucial role in transforming Englishness from a stable body of values and experiences into a much more ambiguous concept in continuous conflict with factors on the geographical or psychological'periphery'.

New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice is an edited collection that captures the cutting edge of British jazz studies in the early twenty-first century, highlighting the developing methodologies and growing interdisciplinary nature of the field. In particular, the collection breaks down barriers previously maintained between jazz historians, theorists and practitioners with an emphasis on interrogating binaries of national/local and professional/amateur. Each of these essays questions popular narratives of jazz, casting fresh light on the cultural processes and economic circumstances which create the music. Subjects covered include Duke Ellington's relationship with the BBC, the impact of social media on jazz, a new view of the ban on visiting jazz musicians in interwar Britain, a study of Dave Brubeck as a transitional figure in the pages of Melody Maker and BBC2's Jazz 625, the issue of ‘liveness'in Columbia's Ellington at Newport album, a musician and promoter's views of the relationship with audiences, a reflection on Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Eric Hobsbawm as jazz critics, a musician's perspective on the oral and generational tradition of jazz in a British context, and a meditation on Alan Lomax's Mr. Jelly Roll, and what it tells us about cultural memory and historical narratives of jazz.

Twenty-two leading experts on early modern drama collaborate in this volumeto explore three closely interconnected research questions. To what extent didplaywrights represent dramatis personae in their entertainments as forming, orfailing to form, communal groupings? How far were theatrical productions likelyto weld, or separate, different communal groupings within their target audiences?And how might such bondings or oppositions among spectators have tallied withthe community-making or -breaking on stage? Chapters in Part One respond toone or more of these questions by reassessing general period trends in censorship,theatre attendance, forms of patronage, playwrights'professional and linguisticnetworks, their use of music, and their handling of ethical controversies.In Part Two, responses arise from detailed re-examinations of particular playsby Shakespeare, Chapman, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Cary, Webster, Middleton,Massinger, Ford, and Shirley. Both Parts cover a full range of early-Stuarttheatre settings, from the public and popular to the more private circumstancesof hall playhouses, court masques, women's drama, country-house theatricals,and school plays. And one overall finding is that, although playwrights frequentlystaged or alluded to communal conflict, they seldom exacerbated such divisivenesswithin their audience. Rather, they tended toward more tactful modes ofaddress (sometimes even acknowledging their own ideological uncertainties) sothat, at least for the duration of a play, their audiences could be a communitywithin which internal rifts were openly brought into dialogue.

Jane Austen's England was littered with remnants of medieval religion. From her schooling in the gatehouse of Reading Abbey to her visits to cousins at Stoneleigh Abbey, Austen faced constant reminders of the wrenching religious upheaval that reordered the English landscape just 250 years before her birth. Drawing attention to the medieval churches and abbeys that appear frequently in her novels, Moore argues that Austen's interest in and representation of these spaces align her with a long tradition of nostalgia for the monasteries that had anchored English life for centuries until the Reformation. Converted monasteries serve as homes for the Tilneys in Northanger Abbey and Mr. Knightley in Emma, and the ruins of the'Abbeyland'have a prominent place in Sense and Sensibility. However, these and other formerly sacred spaces are not merely picturesque backgrounds, but tangible reminders of the past whose alteration is a source of regret and disappointment. Moore uncovers a pattern of critique and commentary throughout Austen's works, but he focuses in particular on Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Sanditon. His juxtaposition of Austen's novels with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts rarely acknowledged as relevant to her fiction enlarges our understanding of Austen as a commentator on historical and religious events and places her firmly in the long national conversation about the meaning and consequences of the Reformation.

Vers la fin du mois de mai 1660, à l'hôtellerie des Deux anges, située dans la plus grande rue de Saint-Jean de Luz, il y avait grand tumulte... La cloche du dîner venant de sonner, chaque convive allait occuper à table sa place habituelle dans la salle basse, quand tout d'un coup un courrier basque entra au milieu de la cour en faisant claquer son fouet de façon à étourdir l'assemblée. Il précédait un coche de belle apparence, d'où l'on vit descendre bientôt deux gentilshommes français tout poudreux, arrivant de Saint-Sébastien, où le roi d'Espagne se tenait alors. Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.

Cette anthologie regroupe des récits de rencontres, publiés pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle, véridiques pour la plupart, littéraires par ailleurs, avec les tirailleurs dits sénégalais. On les voit d'abord en Afrique ; on les découvre nombreux au moment de la Grande Guerre et la variété des réactions donne lieu à des relations très diverses, sympathiques, en général soucieuses de comprendre. Aux textes en prose, dont des espèces de proto-B.D., s'ajoutent quelques poèmes et de nombreuses illustrations.

L'informe est devenu l'une des identités remarquables du roman et s'impose comme la grille de (re)lecture de la création et de la critique. Les écrivains, en rançonnant l'impureté, en étirant infiniment le corps textuel, en recourant à des pratiques insolites et inédites, produisent une écriture informelle qui informe le roman africain, en raison de la normalisation du phénomène. L'identité des/dans les nouvelles africaines s'affranchit constamment de la tyrannie de la forme. Paradoxalement, une synonymie de fait entre la forme et l'informe s'installe.

This book is about the career and academic legacy of Mustafa Badawi who transformed the study of Modern Arabic Literature in Western academe in the second half of the 20th century. During the decades after his appointment in Oxford in 1964, he communicated to students and the wider public the extent to which this literature is such a vibrant component of global culture, freeing it from the more traditional approaches of academic Orientalism. The first section of the book is largely biographical as it describes Badawi's early life and career in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean city of Alexandria. It also assesses his role as a public intellectual in the Arab World and the West, and considers the manner in which his initial career as a scholar of English literature affected his teaching and research in Arabic and also his role as a translator. The second section provides examples of the work of eminent scholars in the field who are adding to Badawi's heritage, in some cases in areas of work which were developed under his tutelage.

Both critic and writer, Stendhal has now become established as one of realism's founding fathers. Dr Pearson's book maps out, for the first time, the critical reception of Stendhal's two most widely read novels, The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma since their publication in 1830 and 1839 respectively. In part one he provides generous samples of the most important nineteenth-century responses to the novels, almost all of them translated into English for the first time. Part two presents a full range of the most authoritative and influential readings since 1945, which illustrate a wide variety of critical approaches.

For decades, French writer, editor, and publisher Roger Grenier has been enticing readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between the art of living and the work of art. Under Grenier's wry gaze, clichés crumble, and offbeat anecdotes build to powerful insights. With Palace of Books, he invites us to explore the domain of literature, its sweeping vistas and hidden recesses. Engaging such fundamental questions as why people feel the need to write, or what is involved in putting one's self on the page, or how a writer knows she's written her last sentence, Grenier marshals apposite passages from his favorite writers: Chekhov, Baudelaire, Proust, James, Kafka, Mansfield and many others. Those writers mingle companionably with tales from Grenier's half-century as an editor and friend to countless legendary figures, including Albert Camus, Romain Gary, Milan Kundera, and Brassai,. Grenier offers here a series of observations and quotations that feel as spontaneous as good conversation, yet carry the lasting insights of a lifetime of reading and thinking. Palace of Books is rich with pleasures and surprises, the perfect accompaniment to old literary favorites, and the perfect introduction to new ones.

This book looks at the way theatre works in order to make'space for living'. It provides the means to help one feel more deeply, think more clearly, relate more personally, by giving audiences and actors the opportunity to rehearse their roles within a setting which is imagined, but to make use of feelings and thoughts which are real. This book extends the territory explored by Peter Brook in The Empty Space. It adds a new psychological dimension: recognising that not only do we ourselves make space for theatre, but it is also true that theatre makes space for us -- a'space for living'. Roger Grainger looks in turn at the different kinds of space theatre creates, using written sources and the spoken testimony of actors and members of the audience. The author's own discoveries as a professional actor give passion and immediacy to the acting/audience participation opportunities these insights provide. Based on genuine experience of, and love for, the theatre, this book does not present plays solely as literature but as particular kinds of theatrical experience. In so doing the author breaks new ground in theatre studies and provides actors and audience with tools that promote'hands-on'knowledge and experience of the human value of drama and theatre.

Con este texto, Roger Bartra inauguró el III simposio del libro electrónico, realizado el 10 de septiembre de 2010 en el Museo de Antropología e Historia de la ciudad de México. Roger Bartra, compartió con los asistentes a dicha ponencia -y ahora con los lectores de este ebook- una profunda reflexión sobre la lectura, la escritura, la memoria humana y las memorias externas, además del tan connotado dilema del libro impreso contra el libro electrónico. El autor hace un breve pero puntual recorrido por las ideas que han configurado la percepción generalizada de la memoria y la escritura, dando un veredicto justo sin dejarse llevar por juicios parciales sobre los aportes de lo que él llama'memorias externas artificiales'(libros impresos y electrónicos, memorias digitales, etc.). Dichos soportes, que acumulan nuestra memoria, cifrada en conocimiento adquirido y transmitido, han posibilitado el avance científico y cultural de nuestras sociedades. Sin el registro teórico, artístico, fotográfico, y demás actividades culturales, sería muy difícil para nosotros saber y razonar a partir de conceptos fundamentales como la libertad, la tecnología, la democracia y demás conceptos que nos permiten y permitieron configurar nuestros modos de vida.

Radikal und innovativ: William Blakes Werk hat nichts von seiner Faszination verloren und nimmt bis in die Gegenwart hinein Einfluss auf Kunst und Popkultur. Seine prophetischen Schriften entfalten im Zusammenspiel mit den visionären Illuminationen noch heute jene »souveräne Gewalt«, die ihnen einst von Georges Bataille zugeschrieben wurde. Die Wechselwirkung von Schrift und Bild setzt Blake in seiner Dichtung gezielt ein, um zu zeigen, dass Politik in ihrem Kern religiös ist. Damit stellt er sich demonstrativ gegen die offizielle Programmatik der politischen Theorieentwürfe des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts. Statt von Säkularisierung erzählen Blakes literarische Prophetien von den Ursprüngen gesellschaftlicher Macht und von den gemeinsamen Anfängen der staatlichen und epistemischen Ordnungen. Dabei führt Blake die Institutionen Kirche, Ehe, Schule und Militär als Mechanismen zur Repression des Menschen vor, die auf gleichen Prinzipien beruhen.

Dans la veine théorique qui postule que la modification des médias infléchit et transforme la littérature d'une époque, ce livre tente de cerner les mécanismes et les figures produits par l'intrusion des médias dans les textes littéraires francophones, principalement africains.

This book presents the manuscript of the original poem, from the Ireland Blackburne MS. The composition is from some time between the late 14th and late 15th century. Originally published in 1984, this book introduces the manuscript with historical details and discussion of its language, structure and sources, including a bibliography of related studies. After the poem is a comprehensive notes section and glossary.

At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the Contemporary, in contrast, aims to provide through twelve essays evidence of the way in which the literature of the 1990s is constantly engaging in questions of memory and history and the representation of time in the present day.The essays in the book survey theories of temporality from various cultural and philosophical standpoints, and represent critics writing from feminist, postcolonial and `queer'perspectives discussing literature in `our time'. The collection addresses such central issues as the politics of memory, colonial legacies, women's time, racial and sexual identities in the 1990s, and covers a wide range of contemporary authors, works and issues, some of which are treated for the first time. Among the contemporary works discussed are the prize-winning books Graham Swift's Last Orders, Anne Michaels'Fugitive Pieces, and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres.While discussing some of the most significant novels of the 1990s, this collection also offers a diverse yet cohesive critique of the millennial leanings of much `postmodernist'criticism, which it argues should be replaced by more variously nuanced engagements with literature and the contemporary.

This is the first book-length history of the range of seventeenth-century English prose writing. Roger Pooley's study begins with narrative, ranging from the fiction of Bunyan and Aphra Behn to the biographical and autobiographical work of Aubrey and Pepys. Further sections consider religious prose from the hugely influential Authorised Version to Donne's sermons, the political writing of figures as diverse as Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Marvell, cornucopian texts and the writings of the new scientists from Bacon to Newton. At a time when the boundaries of the `canon'are being increasingly revised, this is not only a major survey of a series of great works of literature, but also a fascinating social history and a guide to understanding the literature of the period as a whole.