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The Environment And Marguerite Yourcenar - Readings Of «Le Labyrinthe Du Monde»

by Rodney Mearns

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 This book is the first full-length study of Marguerite Yourcenar's Le Labyrinthe du monde along environmental lines. Written by the first académicienne more than twenty years after Mémoires dHadrien, the three-volume work was her most ambitious undertaking. Drawing extensively on the rich reserves of Yourcenar scholarship as well as on environmental humanities, this study entails a broad review of time, place and interconnectedness. While Yourcenars work often engages in detail with her parents and their forebears, the analysis here includes a focus on notions such as fragility and vulnerability, qualities common to human beings and to the rest of the natural world. Through a quasi-plot structure and a range of concerns carefully orchestrated and examined, Yourcenar proffers her extensive genealogical heritage as a reading of the global and the modern, opening the way to possible grounds for optimism. Yourcenar emerges as an insightful and deeply reflective writer with an important contemporary message, responsive to the urgent environmental concerns of the present day.
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The Environment And Marguerite Yourcenar - Readings Of «Le Labyrinthe Du Monde»

by Rodney Mearns

~~63,60€~~ 57,24€ 10% OFF

 This book is the first full-length study of Marguerite Yourcenar's Le Labyrinthe du monde along environmental lines. Written by the first académicienne more than twenty years after Mémoires dHadrien, the three-volume work was her most ambitious undertaking. Drawing extensively on the rich reserves of Yourcenar scholarship as well as on environmental humanities, this study entails a broad review of time, place and interconnectedness. While Yourcenars work often engages in detail with her parents and their forebears, the analysis here includes a focus on notions such as fragility and vulnerability, qualities common to human beings and to the rest of the natural world. Through a quasi-plot structure and a range of concerns carefully orchestrated and examined, Yourcenar proffers her extensive genealogical heritage as a reading of the global and the modern, opening the way to possible grounds for optimism. Yourcenar emerges as an insightful and deeply reflective writer with an important contemporary message, responsive to the urgent environmental concerns of the present day.
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Rage - Affect And Resistance In French And Francophone Culture And Thought, 19682020

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 This volume explores the political life of rage as it has been experienced and mobilized in France since 1968. The collection traces anger and its various morphologies across French-language literature, thought, cinema and activism.
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Rage - Affect And Resistance In French And Francophone Culture And Thought, 19682020

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 This volume explores the political life of rage as it has been experienced and mobilized in France since 1968. The collection traces anger and its various morphologies across French-language literature, thought, cinema and activism.
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Oulipo And The Mathematics Of Literature

by Natalie Berkman

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 The French literary collective OuLiPo was founded in 1960 with the goal of applying mathematics to literary creation. Comprised of authors, poets, mathematicians, and scientists, this quirky writers workshop also created some of the first electronic literature and digital humanities work, contributing to mathematics and computer science in the process. Now beginning its seventh decade of existence, Oulipo has outlived every other literary collective of its time, in no small part due to the diversity of its members and its fascinating marriage of mathematics and literature. OuLiPo and the Mathematics of Literature retraces the historical foundations of this groups unprecedented literary project, putting its first thirty years of archival meeting minutes into conversation with the scientific and mathematical literature that preceded the founding of the group. Through close readings and genetic criticism, this project demonstrates the impact of the groups experimental literary production and how it invites a willing reader to participate in abstract, mathematical thought. Additionally, this book makes use of digital humanities techniques to understand Oulipos pioneering yet complicated relationship with computer science. This analysis sheds new light on disciplinary questions, suggesting that creative practices can help bridge this artificial divide between the Humanities and STEM fields.
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Queer(Y)Ing Bodily Norms In Francophone Culture

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 Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture questions how a wide selection of restrictive norms come to bear on the body, through a close analysis of a range of texts, media and genres originating from across the francophone world and spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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The Evolution Of Prousts «Combray» - A Genetic Study

by Maureen A. Ramsden

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 This book primarily investigates whether the most important work in the development of Marcel Prousts À la recherche du temps perdu was Contre Sainte-Beuve, often assigned this role, or the first, unfinished and, in Prousts lifetime, unpublished novel, Jean Santeuil. Given the length of the final work, this book focuses on the beginning of the first volume, Du Côté de chez Swann, known as «Combray». Proust was writing his work on the French literary critic Sainte-Beuve, when it appeared to evolve into the final novel. However, much of the material found in the early work, Jean Santeuil, can also be found in À la recherche, but usually in a very different form or context. By his abandonment of Jean Santeuil, Proust showed he was still searching for the right material and also, even more challenging, a suitable form in which to present it. The technique adopted for the main body of this work is to follow, by means of close readings, the evolution of a character, a place or an episode, from its earliest appearance in the avant-texte, both published and unpublished, to its final place in «Combray». The extra layer of the avant-texte also leads to further elucidation of the meaning of this rich and complex novel. Finally, the new presentation of the material in «Combray» reveals the novels technical evolution to that of a modernist work.
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Les Mécanismes De La Création Littéraire - Lecture, Écriture, Génétique Et Psychanalyse

by Philippe Willemart

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 Comment allier inspiration, tradition, culture et invention, dun côté, et grain de jouissance, Réel, rature et manuscrit, de lautre. La roue de lécriture, machine inventée par lauteur, aide à comprendre les rapports entre ces concepts à partir de létude des manuscrits. Lhomme, écrivain ou artiste, reste le centre, mais plus assujetti que sujet, plus ouvert aux découvertes quorganisateur. Lécrivain se sentant, comme lOEdipe de Bauchau, artiste et suppliant par rapport à la langue choisie et non plus régent dune écriture instrumentale, scripteur enfin pour devenir auteur. Cest ce que lauteur met en pratique, utilisant les théories littéraire et psychanalytique pour étudier manuscrits de Marcel Proust et dHenry Bauchau.
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#Noussommes - Collectivity And The Digital In French Thought And Culture

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 The relation between the digital and the collective has become an urgent contemporary question. These collected essays explore the implications of this relation, around the theme of #NousSommes. This hashtag marks the point where the «personal» modalities of social media have become embroiled in collective expressions of unity, solidarity and resistance. As this volume demonstrates, the impact of this cannot be isolated to the internet, but affect philosophy, literature, cinema, politics and the public space itself. The contributors approach the issue of #NousSommes from a diverse range of disciplines and methodologies, bringing out both the continuity and discontinuity with other forms of collective expression. Important contemporary philosophers such as Nancy, Derrida and Deleuze are engaged here, as are issues of ecology, community, automation, postcolonial identity and addiction. Featuring eight academic essays and an interview, this volume testifies to the importance of French philosophy and culture in understanding the digital and the collective today.
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Stains / Les Taches - Communication And Contamination In French And Francophone Literature And Culture

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 This volume explores and challenges the extensive possible meanings and semantic connotations of the stain, including dirt, blood, dye, clue, symptom, shadow, smudge, memory, crack, trace and blindspot. The roles, functions, workings and unworkings of stains are interrogated across a range of disciplinary areas in French and Francophone literature and culture. The collection provides a theoretical framework for the significance of the stain in interpretation across a wide range of disciplines as well as offering close readings of films, photographs, paintings and literary texts in which the figure of the stain appears. In this respect, the following key notions are addressed and reconfigured: presence and absence, obscurity, visibility and legibility, form(lessness) and (non)representation, the (non)human and the animal, language and materiality, experience and knowledge, suffering and healing, remembering and forgetting. In parallel, the collection offers innovative readings of the work of key thinkers, examining how Barthes, Proust, Bataille, Camus and others engage with the topic of stains. This volume presents the stain as a powerful critical tool which complicates and contaminates historical, ethical, aesthetic and methodological boundaries. The essays celebrate the productive potential of the stain as an oblique means of accessing and uncovering significant and unexpected continuities and discontinuities.
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De Lunanimisme Au Fantastique - Jules Romains Devant Lextraordinaire

by Augustin Voegele

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 Jules Romains est connu comme un écrivain « de bonne volonté », raisonnable et rationaliste. Il existe, toutefois, un Jules Romains obscur, et méconnu : un Jules Romains créateur de personnages de mauvaise volonté de criminels, même ; un Jules Romains qui nhésite pas à parsemer son oeuvre de longs chapitres érotiques pornographiques, même ; un Jules Romains, enfin, surtout, fasciné par tout ce qui relève du parapsychique et de lextraordinaire. Mais doù vient cet attrait pour lanormal et le paranormal ? Cest en replaçant la production de Romains dans le contexte dune époque confrontée à la mort de Dieu et meurtrie par deux Guerres mondiales que lon peut expliquer le glissement qui sopère, de La Vie unanime (1908) aux oeuvres de laprès-guerre, dun unanimisme optimiste et humaniste à un fantastique qui, sil se révèle scientifiquement et politiquement militant, nen est pas moins désespéré.
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Bernard Vargaftig - Gestures Toward The Sacred

by Aaron Prevots

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 This book examines the poetry of Bernard Vargaftig (1934â€"2012) with a focus on his emphasis on the sacredness of words. His spiritual yearnings, as well as a need to heal due to lingering trauma from wartime hiding, are shown to underlie his poetry, which reflect a continual process of renewal and self-discovery.
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Bernard Vargaftig - Gestures Toward The Sacred

by Aaron Prevots

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 This book examines the poetry of Bernard Vargaftig (1934â€"2012) with a focus on his emphasis on the sacredness of words. His spiritual yearnings, as well as a need to heal due to lingering trauma from wartime hiding, are shown to underlie his poetry, which reflect a continual process of renewal and self-discovery.
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Le Grain De La Voix Dans Le Monde Anglophone Et Francophone

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 Comme la noté le philosophe Jacques Derrida, lenregistrement des voix a été lun des évènements marquants du siècle passé. Le sociolinguiste William Labov sest intéressé aux motivations sociales des variations phonologiques, mais non pas à la voix en tant que telle. Les recherches effectuées sur la texture et la qualité de la voix ou la relation entre la voix et laffect sont beaucoup plus rares. Le sujet est mentionné dans les discussions sur la musique, le doublage, le théâtre et la traduction, sans toutefois être analysé en profondeur. Les articles sur la voix correspondent en outre à un développement relativement récent dans les domaines de la psycholinguistique et de la psychoacoustique, lié à un regain dintérêt pour les études sur lémotion de manière générale. Le présent recueil darticles offre une perspective pluridisciplinaire au carrefour entre la sociolinguistique, la phonologie et les études cinématographiques.
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«Plaisirs De Femmes» - Women, Pleasure And Transgression In French Literature And Culture

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 Feminist approaches to questions of women, pleasure and transgression have generally been premised on the assumption that womens pleasures are typically constrained if not ignored, marginalized or forbidden in patriarchal cultures. The naming, foregrounding and pursuit of womens pleasures can therefore be deemed potentially transgressive and linked to womens emancipation in other realms. The essays in this volume draw on a range of materials, from travel writing and the novel to film and stand-up comedy, addressing the specificity of French and Francophone approaches to women, pleasure and transgression across a range of historical contexts. The volume is divided into three sections: intellectual and creative pleasures; normative pleasures, that is, pleasures conforming to womens conventionally expected roles and status as well as to accepted views regarding race, national identity and sexuality; and perverse pleasures, that is, pleasures transgressive in their tendency to reject authority and norms, and often controversial in their «excessive» appetite for violence, sex, alcohol or food. In each case, questions are raised about how we approach such pleasures as feminist researchers, motivated in part by a desire to counter the notion of feminism and feminist research as something «dour» or joyless.
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French Feminisms 1975 And After - New Readings, New Texts

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 This volume explores contemporary French womenâ€™s writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as Â«French feminismÂ».
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Visions Of Apocalypse - Representations Of The End In French Literature And Culture

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 Picturing the end of the world is one of the most enduring of cultural practices. The ways in which people of different historical periods conceive of this endpoint reveals a great deal about their imagination and philosophical horizons. This groundbreaking collection of essays offers an overview of the Apocalyptic imagination as it presents itself in French literature and culture from the thirteenth century to the present day. The contributors analyse material as diverse as medieval French biblical commentaries and twenty-first-century science fiction, taking in established canonical authors alongside contemporary figures and less well-known writers. The book also considers a vast range of other subject matter, including horror films, absurdist drama, critical theory, medieval manuscript illuminations and seventeenth-century theology. Moving from the sacred to the profane, the sublime to the obscene, the divine to the post-human, the volume opens up more than 750 years of French Apocalypticism to critical scrutiny.
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Subversion Ou Conformisme ? - La Différence Des Sexes Dans L½Uvre Dagota Kristof

by Simona Cutcan

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 Cet ouvrage propose une étude de la question du genre dans l½uvre dAgota Kristof, écrivaine suisse francophone dorigine hongroise. La prépondérance des narrateurs masculins dans sa prose suggère la supériorité du masculin; ceci se reflète aussi sur le plan du contenu de son ½uvre, car les personnages féminins sont plutôt marginalisés et relégués à la sphère domestique. Néanmoins, les thèmes de la violence contre les femmes, de leur folie et de la prostitution démontrent un souci de présenter leur condition dans la société. Pour élucider cette contradiction, lanalyse détaillée des textes rend compte des différentes stratégies que lauteure emploie pour représenter les personnages et leurs relations sexuées. Notamment, mettre laccent sur la voix narrative permet détudier laccès des personnages à la parole et leurs attitudes à légard de lidéologie du genre. Létude se concentre non seulement sur la fameuse trilogie mais également sur le roman Hier, les nouvelles, les pièces de théâtre et lautobiographie. Première analyse de ce type, ce livre propose délargir lapproche interprétative des oeuvres de Kristof et dapporter une nouvelle perspective à létude des ½uvres littéraires de lespace francophone européen.
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Haptic Experience In The Writings Of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot And Michel Serres

by Crispin Lee

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 This book argues that changes in sensory relationships, often claimed to be symptoms of 21st-century technology, are not as recent as they may seem. The author analyses how â€˜hapticâ€™ sensory interactions (simultaneous manifestations of tactile and visual sensation) are portrayed in the work of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Michel Serres.
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Locating Hybridity - Creole, Identities And Body Politics In The Novels Of Ananda Devi

by Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy

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 The concept of hybridity allows identities and cultures to be conceptualized as different and manifold, allowing for the undermining of the binaries of self and other, centre and periphery, colonizer and colonized. This study provides a timely discussion of hybridity, examining it in the context of the Mauritian society depicted by Ananda Devi.
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Crossing Borders - The Interrelation Of Fact And Fiction In Historical Works, Travel Tales, Autobiography And Reportage

by Maureen A. Ramsden

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 This book argues that the borders between traditional studies of genre definitions depend on complex issues of epistemology, literary traditions, and social and political constraints. It analyses how literary works, in particular in the areas of history, travel tales, autobiography and reportage, can be classified as factual or fictional.
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Poetics Of The Antilles - Poetry, History And Philosophy In The Writings Of Perse, Césaire, Fanon And Glissant

by Jean Khalfa

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 Ã‚Â«Poetics of the AntillesÃ‚Â» explores the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Perse, CÃƒÂ©saire, Fanon and Glissant. The book portrays the complex history of the negritude movements in light of FanonÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s critique and reveals the original aesthetic ideas and philosophical reflections on which these authorsÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ rich production rests.
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The Fiction Of J. M. G. Le Clézio - A Postcolonial Reading

by Bronwen Martin

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 Modern French Identities focuses on the French and Francophone writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, whose formal experiments and revisions of genre have combined to create an entirely new set of literary forms. The series publishes studies of individual authors and artists, comparative studies and interdisciplinary projects.
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France And The Mediterranean - International Relations, Culture And Politics

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 This multidisciplinary edited volume examines wide-ranging exchanges between France and its Mediterranean neighbours and their impact. It questions the changing notion of a Mediterranean space and its representation, centrality and relevance in terms of Frances international relations under Sarkozys presidency, from the launch of the Union for the Mediterranean and its complex articulations with the European Unions own agenda in the region, to the tortuous relations with Libya, made even more complicated by the 2011 Arab Spring. Beyond the realm of state relations and formal policy networks, the volume examines the crucial role played by diasporas, the interplay between postcolonial and transnational representations in the fields of cultural diplomacy, cinema and architecture, and considers how these can produce merged or hybrid identities. Later in the collection, the politics of ethnicity in post-war France, the interplay between negative perceptions of Islam and the changing memory of the Algerian War, and the evolution of Franco-Algerian relations since 1962 are used to question the weight of the colonial past when analysing the relations between France and North Africa.
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