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Memories Of Colonisation In Medieval And Modern Castile - Rereading And Refashioning Al-Andalus

by Rebecca De Souza

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 Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its overlap with contemporary formations of collective identity, race, and nation. It presents a series of close readings of neomedievalist literary works that look back to the socioeconomic apogee of al-Andalus, the tenth-century Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century. These works rewrite what has become known as the story of the siete infantes de Lara, although it is their Andalusi half-brother, Mudarra, who takes centre stage from the early modern period on.In its earliest form, it is a story of a weak, conflictual county of Castile, dependent socioeconomically and morally upon Andalusi intervention. This book therefore traces how a story of Castilian weakness is repeatedly rewritten once the reverse colonial dynamic had taken hold and Castile had begun conquering al-Andalus. Memories of Colonisation asks why Mudarra and the infantes continue to reappear in medieval chronicles, from the Estoria de EspaA a to lesser-known regional historiography, early modern ballads, comedias, and nineteenth-century Romantic poetry and prose. By examining how each of these texts remember tenth century Iberia's fluid geographical and interracial boundaries, it explores how they support or challenge dominant contemporary discourses of collective identity, race, and nation; from the neogothic aspirations of thirteenth-century Castile to the antisemitism of fifteenth-century Toledo, expansion in the Mediterranean, the Islamophobia of the morisco expulsion, and the partisan manipulation of al-Andalus under nineteenth century liberalism.As the first study of the development of Spanish neomedievalism, it explores how this serves as a productive, prescient discourse of cultural memory through which chroniclers, poets, playwrights, and authors can look forward. It questions the inevitability of Christian-Castilian colonial hegemony by invoking a narrative of Christian Iberia's own subjugation by a superior Umayyad Caliphate. It also explores how each text exposes the task of reconstructing historical memory in the present and thereby challenges the notion of a stable, incontestable past for Castile and Spain.
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Memories Of Colonisation In Medieval And Modern Castile - Rereading And Refashioning Al-Andalus

by Rebecca De Souza

~~82,14€~~ 73,93€ 10% OFF

 Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its overlap with contemporary formations of collective identity, race, and nation. It presents a series of close readings of neomedievalist literary works that look back to the socioeconomic apogee of al-Andalus, the tenth-century Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century. These works rewrite what has become known as the story of the siete infantes de Lara, although it is their Andalusi half-brother, Mudarra, who takes centre stage from the early modern period on. In its earliest form, it is a story of a weak, conflictual county of Castile, dependent socioeconomically and morally upon Andalusi intervention. This book therefore traces how a story of Castilian weakness is repeatedly rewritten once the reverse colonial dynamic had taken hold and Castile had begun conquering al-Andalus. Memories of Colonisation asks why Mudarra and the infantes continue to reappear in medieval chronicles, from the Estoria de Espana to lesser-known regional historiography, early modern ballads, comedias, and nineteenth-century Romantic poetry and prose. By examining how each of these texts remember tenth century Iberia's fluid geographical and interracial boundaries, it explores how they support or challenge dominant contemporary discourses of collective identity, race, and nation; from the neogothic aspirations of thirteenth-century Castile to the antisemitism of fifteenth-century Toledo, expansion in the Mediterranean, the Islamophobia of the morisco expulsion, and the partisan manipulation of al-Andalus under nineteenth century liberalism. As the first study of the development of Spanish neomedievalism, it explores how this serves as a productive, prescient discourse of cultural memory through which chroniclers, poets, playwrights, and authors can look forward. It questions the inevitability of Christian-Castilian colonial hegemony by invoking a narrative of Christian Iberia's own subjugation by a superior Umayyad Caliphate. It also explores how each text exposes the task of reconstructing historical memory in the present and thereby challenges the notion of a stable, incontestable past for Castile and Spain.
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Relational Responses To Trauma In Twenty-First-Century French And Spanish Women'S Writing

by Hannie Lawlor

~~77,29€~~ 69,56€ 10% OFF

 Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing offers new insight into what it means to write relational lives. It broadens the parameters of existing discussions in terms of geography as well as genre, drawing together two literatures whose prominence in life-writing theory to date could hardly be more different: while French women's writing has long been at the centre of international discussions of autobiography, the relative invisibility of Spanish women's writing remains striking. The dialogue that thus underpins this study, between diverse twenty-first-century case studies and broader approaches to life-writing, shines a light on what is gained from inviting different voices into the discussion. These narrative projects challenge longstanding critical assumptions in autobiography studies and trauma theory about how writers can and should represent the multiple perspectives that are at the heart of intergenerational stories. In exploring the narrative solutions that these texts propose in response to the ethical questions they navigate, this book shows that writing relational lives rests on far more than the mere recounting of a shared history. 'Relating' in these texts, it proposes, is an act embedded in the telling of the story. It is a mode of testifying together to traumatic experience, one that reveals a powerful preoccupation in contemporary women's life-writing practice with making more audible the many voices and versions that go unheard.
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Complicity In Fin-De-Sia*Cle Literature

by Helen Craske

~~88,34€~~ 79,51€ 10% OFF

 Complicity in Fin-de-siA*cle Literature examines late-nineteenth century French understandings of literature as a morally collusive medium, which implicates readers, writers, and critics in risquA(c) or illicit ideas and behaviour. It considers definitions of complicity from the period's evolving legal statutes, critical debates about literary 'bad influence', and modern theories of reader response, in order to achieve a deeper understanding of how cultural production of the period forged relationships of implication and collusion. While focusing on fin-de-siA*cle French culture, the book's theoretical discussions provide a new terminology and conceptual framework through which to analyse literary influence and reception, applicable to different historical periods and national settings. Interdisciplinary in nature, the study draws on methods associated with close reading, literary history, law and literature studies, cultural studies, and sociology of literature. Each of the book's chapters highlights how particular literary themes or techniques encouraged readers' identification with transgression and facilitated alternative forms of solidarity. The analysis draws on a range of case studies from different media forms, including: Naturalist, Decadent, and psychological novels, biographically revealing fiction ('romans A clef'), little magazines ('petites revues'), and saucy magazines ('revues lA(c)gA*res'). Texts written by well-known literary figures--such as A mile Zola, Octave Mirbeau, and Rachilde--appear alongside previously overlooked periodical and archival sources. The book's varied corpus reveals the widespread appeal of risquA(c) topics and illicit solidarity across the literary spectrum.
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Doctor-Patient Relationship And The Nineteenth-Century French Novel

by Sarah Jones

~~77,29€~~ 69,56€ 10% OFF

 The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the nineteenth-century French novel, notably in the words of Balzac, Sand, Stendhal, and Zola. It argues that the doctor-patient relationship is represented in these novels as a site of interpersonal negotiation wherein the meaning of medical authority, embodied experience, and the spectre of illness and pain are mediated and reimagined. This book highlights how the doctor-patient relationship is often idealized by the novel, wherein the doctor is characterised as a both dedicated to his patients and local community, as well as being a God-like master of life, death, and medical knowledge. The volume suggests that the doctor-patient encounter is often depicted as a separate, although inherently related, concept that undermines this idealisation of medical relationships. The doctor-patient encounter thereby questions the hegemonic power of medical practitioners over their patients by pointing towards how novels depict patients as resisting and even manipulating their doctors. The book identifies and explores other important themes within the doctor-patient relationship such as the medical gaze (regard mA(c)dical), power relationships, and the use of embodied metaphor. In particular, the book highlights how the doctor-patient relationship is often a confrontation between scientific knowledge and the experience of gender and disability. The book's conceptual framework is derived from the critical medical humanities, and the volume revitalises and reframes the doctor-patient relationship by considering the intrinsic slippage between idealised relationships and critical encounters. The book uses close readings of its corpus to understand how medical practice is debated and undermined concurrently with its idealisation. It places literary works within a new historical context by reading across novels within their medical and scientific context, and situates them for the first time in the intellectual context of the critical medical humanities. The book points forward to how nineteenth-century French novels can reform how the critical medical humanities views the medical relationship, and the potential impact on real-world patients.
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Doctor-Patient Relationship And The Nineteenth-Century French Novel

by Sarah Jones

~~77,29€~~ 69,56€ 10% OFF

 The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the nineteenth-century French novel, notably in the words of Balzac, Sand, Stendhal, and Zola. It argues that the doctor-patient relationship is represented in these novels as a site of interpersonal negotiation wherein the meaning of medical authority, embodied experience, and the spectre of illness and pain are mediated and reimagined. This book highlights how the doctor-patient relationship is often idealized by the novel, wherein the doctor is characterised as a both dedicated to his patients and local community, as well as being a God-like master of life, death, and medical knowledge. The volume suggests that the doctor-patient encounter is often depicted as a separate, although inherently related, concept that undermines this idealisation of medical relationships. The doctor-patient encounter thereby questions the hegemonic power of medical practitioners over their patients by pointing towards how novels depict patients as resisting and even manipulating their doctors. The book identifies and explores other important themes within the doctor-patient relationship such as the medical gaze (regard medical), power relationships, and the use of embodied metaphor. In particular, the book highlights how the doctor-patient relationship is often a confrontation between scientific knowledge and the experience of gender and disability. The book's conceptual framework is derived from the critical medical humanities, and the volume revitalises and reframes the doctor-patient relationship by considering the intrinsic slippage between idealised relationships and critical encounters. The book uses close readings of its corpus to understand how medical practice is debated and undermined concurrently with its idealisation. It places literary works within a new historical context by reading across novels within their medical and scientific context, and situates them for the first time in the intellectual context of the critical medical humanities. The book points forward to how nineteenth-century French novels can reform how the critical medical humanities views the medical relationship, and the potential impact on real-world patients.
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The Design Of Montaigne'S Essais

by Vittoria (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Centre For The Study Of The Renaissance, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Centre For The Study Of The Renaissance, University Of Warwick) Fallanca

~~109,50€~~ 98,55€ 10% OFF

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 This book offers a reading of Montaigne's Essais through the prism of visual art, chiefly the notion of 'design' (dessein), in both its sixteenth-century meanings and its modern usages. In tracing the range of dessein, the book foregrounds the importance of the visual and the spatial in Montaigne's writing, recasting the Essais in a new light.
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Laurence Sterne And His Readers In Early Soviet Russia - The Secret Order Of Shandeans

by Peter (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow In Comparative Literature, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow In Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University Of London) Budrin

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 This volume explores the early Soviet reception of Laurence Sterne. By reconstructing individual readerly encounters set within wider biographical, cultural, and institutional contexts, it analyses Sterne's reception as a reflection of the larger history of the survival of intellectual autonomy in early Soviet Russia.
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Relational Responses To Trauma In Twenty-First-Century French And Spanish Women'S Writing

by Hannie Lawlor

~~77,29€~~ 69,56€ 10% OFF

 Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing offers new insight into what it means to write relational lives. It broadens the parameters of existing discussions in terms of geography as well as genre, drawing together two literatures whose prominence in life-writing theory to date could hardly be more different: while French women's writing has long been at the centre of international discussions of autobiography, the relative invisibility of Spanish women's writing remains striking. The dialogue that thus underpins this study, between diverse twenty-first-century case studies and broader approaches to life-writing, shines a light on what is gained from inviting different voices into the discussion. These narrative projects challenge longstanding critical assumptions in autobiography studies and trauma theory about how writers can and should represent the multiple perspectives that are at the heart of intergenerational stories. In exploring the narrative solutions that these texts propose in response to the ethical questions they navigate, this book shows that writing relational lives rests on far more than the mere recounting of a shared history. 'Relating' in these texts, it proposes, is an act embedded in the telling of the story. It is a mode of testifying together to traumatic experience, one that reveals a powerful preoccupation in contemporary women's life-writing practice with making more audible the many voices and versions that go unheard.
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Sadean Intertext And Aesthetics In Samuel Beckett'S Works

by Elsa (Independent Researcher, Independent Researcher) Baroghel

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 This book explores the connections between Samuel Beckett and the Marquis de Sade, two iconic authors whose legacies had a profound impact on the intellectual and cultural landscape of the 20th century.
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The Goncourt Brothers And The Language Of Etching - Prints, Process, Prose

by Rachel (Curator, Janet Turner Print Museum And Director Of Galleries, California State University) Skokowski

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 The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their work.
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Russian Theatre At The Margins Of High Putinism

by Alex (Visiting Researcher, Visiting Researcher, Karazin Kharkiv National University) Trustrum-Thomas

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 Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism traces the development of fringe theatre in Russia over the course of the second decade of the twenty-first century.
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Memories Of Colonisation In Medieval And Modern Castile - Rereading And Refashioning Al-Andalus

by Rebecca (Lecturer In Spanish And Latin American Studies, Lecturer In Spanish And Latin American Studies, University Of Stirling) De Souza

~~125,72€~~ 113,15€ 10% OFF

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 Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its imbrications with contemporary formations of collective identity, race, and nation.
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Relational Responses To Trauma In Twenty-First-Century French And Spanish Women'S Writing

by Hannie (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Somerville College) Lawlor

~~100,04€~~ 90,04€ 10% OFF

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 This book breaks new ground in research on contemporary French and Spanish literature and studies on autobiography. Its appeal also extends beyond these fields to trauma and memory studies, and it shines a light on twenty-first-century works that have received little critical attention to date
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Anticolonial Form - Literary Journals At The End Of Empire

by Alexandra Reza

~~82,14€~~ 73,93€ 10% OFF

 Raza examines key literary journals published in French, English, and Portuguese by African writers in Europe in the period of decolonization mainly between 1940 and 1970, to understand how writers understood Empire as a political and cultural structure, and what conceptions of freedom, culture, and society underpinned anti-colonial thinking.
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Anticolonial Form - Literary Journals At The End Of Empire

by Alexandra Reza

~~82,14€~~ 73,93€ 10% OFF

 Raza examines key literary journals published in French, English, and Portuguese by African writers in Europe in the period of decolonization mainly between 1940 and 1970, to understand how writers understood Empire as a political and cultural structure, and what conceptions of freedom, culture, and society underpinned anti-colonial thinking.
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Complicity In Fin-De-Siecle Literature

by Helen (Junior Research Fellow In Modern Languages, Junior Research Fellow In Modern Languages, Merton College, University Of Oxford) Craske

~~113,56€~~ 102,20€ 10% OFF

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 This book examines the representation and creation of shared crime and guilt in late nineteenth-century France: exploring how particular genres--from murder fiction to saucy magazines--encouraged the creation of collusive relationships between writers, readers, and critics.
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Dissident Authorship In Mozambique - The Case Of António Quadros (1933-1994)

by Tom Stennett

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 This book is the first monograph on neglected Portuguese poet and painter AntÃ³nio Quadros (1933-1994). It analyses the question of what it means to be an author in Mozambique through Quadros's quirky literary works, which he published under three pennames, and interrogates Barthes's and Foucault's influential theories on authorship.
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Dissident Authorship In Mozambique - The Case Of António Quadros (1933-1994)

by Tom Stennett

~~67,56€~~ 60,80€ 10% OFF

 This book is the first monograph on neglected Portuguese poet and painter AntÃ³nio Quadros (1933-1994). It analyses the question of what it means to be an author in Mozambique through Quadros's quirky literary works, which he published under three pennames, and interrogates Barthes's and Foucault's influential theories on authorship.
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Anticolonial Form - Literary Journals At The End Of Empire

by Alexandra (Lecturer In Comparative Literatures And Cultures, Senior Lecturer In Comparative Literatures And Cultures, University Of Bristol) Reza

~~120,32€~~ 108,29€ 10% OFF

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 Raza examines key literary journals published in French, English, and Portuguese by African writers in Europe in the period of decolonization mainly between 1940 and 1970, to understand how writers understood Empire as a political and cultural structure, and what conceptions of freedom, culture, and society underpinned anti-colonial thinking.
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The Doctor-Patient Relationship And The Nineteenth-Century French Novel

by Sarah (Learning Designer, Learning Designer, University Of Oxford) Jones

~~94,63€~~ 85,17€ 10% OFF

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 This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medical encounter.
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Moderation And The Mean In The Literature Of Spain'S Golden Age - A Measure For Measure

by Richard Rabone

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 A sustained analysis of the reception of the Aristotelian golden mean in early modern Spanish literature. Studying works of three canonical authors--Garcilaso, CalderÃ³n, GraciÃ¡n--it argues that the ethical credo of moderation was an important part of the classical inheritance on which Golden Age authors frequently drew.
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Moderation And The Mean In The Literature Of Spain'S Golden Age - A Measure For Measure

by Richard Rabone

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 A sustained analysis of the reception of the Aristotelian golden mean in early modern Spanish literature. Studying works of three canonical authors--Garcilaso, CalderÃ³n, GraciÃ¡n--it argues that the ethical credo of moderation was an important part of the classical inheritance on which Golden Age authors frequently drew.
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Dissident Authorship In Mozambique - The Case Of Antonio Quadros (1933-1994)

by Stennett

98,69€ + 10% CARD

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 This book is the first monograph on neglected Portuguese poet and painter AntÃ³nio Quadros (1933-1994). It analyses the question of what it means to be an author in Mozambique through Quadros's quirky literary works, which he published under three pennames, and interrogates Barthes's and Foucault's influential theories on authorship.
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