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I, Daniel - An Illegitimate Reading Of Jacques Derrida'S «Envois»

by Jeremy Stewart

~~59,63€~~ 53,67€ 10% OFF

 <P>«How to become Jacques Derridas reader? By letting his texts engender you. Such a birth is taken literally by Jeremy Stewart, who proves by algebra that he is the authors bastard son. In this wonderful, intense, witty, and gripping exercise in autotheory, deconstruction meets autofiction with a vengeance.»</P> <P>(Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, American Academy of Arts and Sciences)</P> <P>«With <I>I, Daniel</I>, Jeremy Stewart offers a reading, both rigorous and adventurous, of Envois, one of Jacques Derridas most fascinating works. Unfolding and refolding the text around a blind spot in the philosophers journey, seeking to recognize in the twists and turns of this variously encrypted text the traces of an unutterable filiation, he takes us with him into the labyrinth, losing ourselves to better find ourselves. Through his personal commitment, Jeremy Stewart gives this close reading its full legitimacy, with the name Daniel playing the role of <I>révélateur</I>, in the photographic sense of the term.»</P> <P>(Benoît Peeters, author of <I>Derrida: A Biography</I>)</P> <P></P> <P>Jacques Derridas book <I>The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond</I> (1987) has often been read in purely philosophical terms. Derrida, alluding to Freuds talk of «theoretical fiction,» describes the opening section («Envois») as a «project for a «fiction.» «Envois» (that is, «sendings») takes the form of hundreds of postcards to an unnamed lover.</P> <P></P> <P>Enter a figure called «Daniel.» In some ways, he resembles Derridas unrecognized third son. In others, he resembles the author; this books creative-critical approach thus turns scandalously personal. In addressing literary questions, it draws on dreams, faith, the authors middle name, and a testimony to illegitimacy.</P> <P></P> <P>One of «Envois» key conceits is that it is «the preface to a book [] not [yet] written.» Taking, as cues, fleeting references to the biblical book of Daniel and George Eliots novel <I>Daniel Deronda</I>, «Envois» is read as a preface not so much to an unwritten book as to the text that is the name «Daniel.»</P>
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Decolonizing The Literary Imagination - Dialogue And The Postcolonial Encounter

by Ambra Guarnieri

~~59,63€~~ 53,67€ 10% OFF

 <P>What do we mean by dialogue? What can the use of dialogue tell us about a text, its author, and the larger cultural or political climate of the authors production? </P> <P>This book examines the notion of dialogue adapted from the work of Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin, who elaborated a critical methodology for interpreting the EastWest postcolonial encounter. His concept is further complicated by issues of race, gender, class, nationality, and ethnic and religious identity that proliferate in such contexts and serves to reconfigure the power dynamics that characterize these encounters.</P> <P>This study explores dialogue in a selection of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century ethnography, fiction, and travel writing by authors as diverse as Laura Bohannan, Ryszard Kapuciski, Amitav Ghosh, V. S. Naipaul, and Zadie Smith, set in Africa, India, and Europe. These dialogues are viewed through the lenses of phenomenology, history, the philosophy of language, and postcolonial theory. The book also explores how these writing genres have evolved over time in correspondence with crucial historical transitions.</P>
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Thinking Through Relation - Encounters In Creative Critical Writing

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 <P>«<I>Thinking Through Relation</I> 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 escapes the straightjackets of rigid disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Clearly demonstrating the creative potential of critical writing, these essays are a fitting tribute to the creativity, originality and subtlety of Timothy Mathewss scholarly accomplishment and his contribution to our understanding of art and of the aesthetic relation.»</P> <P>(Dr Ian James, University of Cambridge)</P> <P> </P> <P>«This book in honour of Timothy Mathews is much more than a <I>Festschrift</I>. It is a collection of thought-provoking, daring insights into the crucial place of literature and the arts in our world and in our being human. It is an exhilarating multifarious demonstration of how creativity can undo, without for a moment losing intellectual rigour, the disciplinary and academic structures that constrain our thinking. Driven by curiosity and by care love, even the many contributions to the volume show, in their different ways, how criticism can be at its most effective by being at its most imaginative and its least predictable.»</P> <P>(Professor Lucia Boldrini, Goldsmiths, University of London)</P> <P> </P> <P>This book is an offering. It contains eighteen essays in honour of Timothy Mathews, written by leading scholars in the fields of French, Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Creative Critical Writing. These essays examine the power of serendipitous encounter between artists, thinkers and artistic media as well as the importance of creative interjection in the arts and humanities. They advance fresh interpretations of some important figures in twentieth-century European culture Apollinaire, Beckett, Benjamin, Calvino, Dalí, Genet, Nooteboom, Roubaud using modes of reading that are both intellectually brave and open to fragility, intimate as well as critical, at once playful and earnest. They bring texts and artworks into relation in order to amply demonstrate that relation itself is a form of thinking.</P>
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Solace In Oblivion - Approaches To Transcendence In Modern Europe

by Robert Cowan

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 <P>We live in an era of global anxiety about rising nationalism, civil and human rights struggles, the ramifications of declining white male hegemony, about driving ourselves and other species toward extinction. So its no surprise that we also seek transcendence of our material circumstances. But exploring the possibilities of transcendence of our materiality whether through religion, philosophy, psychology, or literature is not a new feature of thought, art, or action. This book explores approaches to the immanence-transcendence problem in works of French, German, Italian, and Russian literature and philosophy between 1762 and 2016, in an effort to understand how different thinkers have approached this dynamic. The volume is divided into four "suppression" approaches and four "infliction" approaches, sometimes combining sympathetic source material from different centuries and countries that take complementary stances. While this book takes a skeptical approach as to whether a person can experience sensory comprehension of transcendence of his or her own embodiment, we are clearly in need of literature that provides guidance for our current sociological and psychological circumstances in an effort to help us navigate our global future.</P>
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The Horn Of Africa And Italy - Colonial, Postcolonial And Transnational Cultural Encounters

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 <P>This multidisciplinary volume analyses key themes and topics related to the cultural encounters between Italy and its former colonies in the Horn of Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia). The multi-faceted relations between the Horn of Africa and Italy were initiated during the colonial period but have also been shaped more recently through migration. In eleven chapters by experts in comparative literature, cultural studies, history, migration studies, political philosophy and postcolonial theory, the volume highlights how the legacy of colonialism permeates Italian society as well as influencing the construction of national identities in the Horn of Africa. The analysis of this transnational encounter opens up new possibilities for comparative research and critical synergies in Italian studies, African studies and beyond.</P>
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Politics Of Cross-Cultural Reading - Tagore, Ben Jelloun And Fo In English

by Marion Dalvai

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 With particular attention to the ambivalent position of English as a roadblock to international visibility and as a necessary intermediary for other literary languages, this book underlines the discrepancy between what is read as world literature and what could potentially be read as such.
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Politics Of Cross-Cultural Reading - Tagore, Ben Jelloun And Fo In English

by Dalvai Marion Dalvai

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 With particular attention to the ambivalent position of English as a roadblock to international visibility and as a necessary intermediary for other literary languages, this book underlines the discrepancy between what is read as world literature and what could potentially be read as such.
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Comparative Becomings - Studies In Transition

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 <P>The comparative gesture performs both the act and the question of transition between the terms compared. Understood as an intercultural practice, comparative literature may thus also be understood as both a transitive and a transnational process, creating its own object and form of knowledge as it identifies and analyses lines of relation and exchange between literary cultures. When navigating between languages, the discipline becomes critically engaged with the possibility and methods of such navigation. Interdisciplinary and intermedial versions of comparative studies likewise centre around transitions that may themselves remain under-analysed.</P> <P><BR>This collection of essays, with contributions ranging from medieval literature to digital humanities, seeks to illuminate and interrogate the very diversity of comparative situations, with their attendant versions of comparative discourse. The volume as a whole thereby reflects, however fragmentedly, a field of study that is itself faced with the reality of <EM>transition</EM>. As both a thematic and formal concern in comparative work, transition emerges, within any historical period or other configuration in which it is charted and analysed, as key to the renewed relevance of comparative literary scholarship and study today.</P>
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The Migrantâ€™S Corner - Paradoxes Of Representing Mediterranean Crossings In Italian And French Contemporary Culture

by Caterina Scarabicchi

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 The stories of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe have made the headlines in the news over the last twenty years. This book considers the migrantâ€™s story as portrayed in literature, cinema, museums and festivals in Italy and France, highlighting the complexity of advocating for migrants from a European perspective.
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The Migrants Corner - Paradoxes Of Representing Mediterranean Crossings In Italian And French Contemporary Culture

by Caterina Scarabicchi

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 The stories of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe have made the headlines in the news over the last twenty years. This book considers the migrantÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s story as portrayed in literature, cinema, museums and festivals in Italy and France, highlighting the complexity of advocating for migrants from a European perspective.
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Politics Of Cross-Cultural Reading - Tagore, Ben Jelloun And Fo In English

by Marion Dalvai

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 With particular attention to the ambivalent position of English as a roadblock to international visibility and as a necessary intermediary for other literary languages, this book underlines the discrepancy between what is read as world literature and what could potentially be read as such.
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Solace In Oblivion - Approaches To Transcendence In Modern Europe

by Robert Cowan

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 We live in an era of global anxiety, so itâ€™s no surprise that we also seek transcendence of our material circumstances. This book explores the immanence-transcendence problem in works of French, German, Italian, and Russian literature and philosophy, with the aim of helping us navigate our global future.
Towards A Posthuman Imagination In Literature And Media - Monsters, Mutants, Aliens, Artificial Beings

by Simona Micali

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 This book explores the rich variety of non-human figures in contemporary science fiction literature and film and considers what these figures tell us about our notions of humankind. The posthuman ultimately comes to serve as the symbol of a revolutionary vision of humanity that embraces a new, more humble way of being and living.
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The Conflict Revisited - The Second World War In Post-Postmodern Fiction

by Marco Malvestio

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 <P>This book traces the development of literary poetics after postmodernism and outlines the most important features of what is defined here as «post-postmodernism». This new literary form simultaneously recovers the characteristics of the traditional novel and abandons the ironic approach of postmodernism, while also retaining some postmodern narrative devices such as autofiction and metafiction. To render the global dimension of this phenomenon, this book focuses on the theme of the Second World War, an increasingly pivotal subject for historical novels in the twenty-first century worldwide. The study analyses the work of a variety of authors from several national literatures, focusing mainly on Roberto Bolaño, William T. Vollmann and Jonathan Littell, and drawing comparison with other authors, such as Rachel Seiffert, Sarah Waters, Laurent Binet, Ian McEwan and Giorgio Falco.</P>
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The Caribbean In Translation - Remapping Thresholds Of Dislocation

by Laëtitia Saint-Loubert

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 This book investigates twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean literatures in translation. Covering English-, French- and Spanish-language texts, the book applies Glissantian relational thinking to the study of translation and literary circulation, challenging coreâ€"periphery models in favour of alternative pathways of cultural exchange.
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The Horn Of Africa And Italy - Colonial, Postcolonial And Transnational Cultural Encounters

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The Good Place - Comparative Perspectives On Utopia - Proceedings Of Synapsis: European School Of Comparative Studies Xi

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 Is utopian literature a dream of harmony and justice or a nightmare of a controlled world with no ambivalence or discretion? Engaging with a wide range of texts from different periods and national traditions, leading scholars rethink â€˜the good placeâ€™ and suggest that utopia, in the realm of fiction, is more than just a philosophical abstraction.
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The Good Place - Comparative Perspectives On Utopia - Proceedings Of Synapsis: European School Of Comparative Studies Xi

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 Is utopian literature a dream of harmony and justice or a nightmare of a controlled world with no ambivalence or discretion? Engaging with a wide range of texts from different periods and national traditions, leading scholars rethink â€˜the good placeâ€™ and suggest that utopia, in the realm of fiction, is more than just a philosophical abstraction.
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Comparative Becomings - Studies In Transition

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 This volume reflects how the field of comparative literary scholarship and study is itself faced with the reality of transition: the included contributions, ranging from medieval literature to digital humanities, highlight the diversity of discourse involved, depicting comparative literature as both a transitive and transnational process.
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Readings In Twenty-First-Century European Literatures

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 Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures brings together analyses of post-2000 literary works from twelve European literatures. Topics include the post-postmodern; the relationship between history, fiction and testimony; and human relations in the twenty-first century, including hypermodernity, ageing, intersexuality and migration.
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Reaching Athens - Community, Democracy And Other Mythologies In Adaptations Of Greek Tragedy

by Margherita Laera

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 This book analyses discourses around community, democracy, origin and Western identity in stage adaptations of Greek tragedy. It addresses the ways in which theatre produces and perpetuates the myth of â€˜classicalâ€™ Greece as the origin of Europe and how this narrative raises issues concerning the possibility of a transnational European community.
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Narrating The Passions - New Perspectives From Modern And Contemporary Literature

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Reaching Athens - Community, Democracy And Other Mythologies In Adaptations Of Greek Tragedy

by Margherita Laera

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 Why do revivals and adaptations of Greek tragedy still abound in European national theatres, fringe stages and international festivals in the twenty-first century? Taking as its starting point the concepts of myth developed by Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes and the notion of the classical outlined by Salvatore Settis, this book analyses discourses around community, democracy, origin and Western identity in stage adaptations of Greek tragedy on contemporary European stages. The author addresses the ways in which the theatre produces and perpetuates the myth of classical Greece as the origin of Europe and how this narrative raises issues concerning the possibility of a transnational European community. Each chapter explores a pivotal problem in modern appropriations of Greek tragedy, including the performance of the chorus, the concept of the obscene and the audience as the <I>demos </I>of democracy. Modern versions of <I>Women of Troy</I>, <I>Hippolytus </I>and <I>Persians </I>performed in Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland and Greece are analysed through a series of comparative case studies. By engaging with the work of prominent theatre-makers such as Mark Ravenhill, Michel Vinaver, Katie Mitchell, Sarah Kane, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Romeo Castellucci, Calixto Bieito and Rimini Protokoll, this volume offers a critique of contemporary democratic Europe and the way it represents itself onstage.

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