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Provides new and original analysis on how Lebanese francophone women authors wrote about the Lebanese civil war

[headline]A reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster delves into Maurice Blanchot's enigmatic, and deeply influential, notion of the disaster - a term Blanchot famously refuses to define. By exploring the novels of Jon McGregor, Mike McCormack, David Mitchell, Jeanette Winterson and Maggie Gee, Jonathan Boulter suggests that we can think of literature, the space of the imagination, as the place where some conception (ethical, ecological, or ontological) of the disaster emerges. These novels, all in some ways about the disaster, just as they are inflected by the disaster, become the place where an understanding of critical events - death, ecological catastrophe, pandemics - is possible. [bio]Jonathan Boulter is Professor of English at Western University, London, Canada. His previous publications include Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose (2019), Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience (2015), Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (2011), Samuel Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008), and Interpreting Narrative in the Novels of Samuel Beckett (2001).

The last three decades in Iraqi history can be summarized in these words: dictatorship, war and occupation. After the fall of Saddam's regime Iraqi novelists are not only writing about the occupation and the current disintegration of Iraq but are also revisiting previous wars that devastated their lives. This book examines how recent Iraqi fiction about war depicts the Iraqi subject in its relation to war, coercion, subjugation and occupation. The theoretical medieval concept of the homo sacer, the killable, as defined by Giorgio Agamben is used to explore the lives and the experiences of different war actors such as the soldier, the war deserter, the camp detainee and the suicide bomber depicted in their "e;bare life"e; as men doomed to death in the necropolitical context. War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction is an exploration of fictional works by a new generation of leading Iraqi authors such as Ali Badr, Shakir Nuri, Najm Wali, Hdiya Hussein and others. It brings to light the overarching continuum in the production of homines sacri in Iraq. Instances of homo sacer under the dictatorship are complemented by new instances found in the camp and under the state of exception of the occupation and the war on terror.

'A sweeping, scintillatingly original, exciting exploration of writer, spy, power player, lover Aphra Behn' Kate Williams, historian and author of Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots'Hilton to showcase[s] her skill for both historical and detective work and compelling, evocative writing . . . A sparkling and eye-opening account . . . compelling to read [and] refreshingly transparent . . . Her fresh ideas could open up exciting paths for future scholars' BBC History Magazine----A CLANDESTINE AFFAIR 'Whereas the Lady Henrietta Berkeley has been absent from her Father's house since the 20th August last past . . . AN OUTRAGEOUS ELOPEMENT. . . and is not yet known where she is, nor whether she is alive or dead. STOLEN LETTERS, SCHEMING SERVANTS These are to give notice That whoever shall find her, so that she may be brought back to her Father, the Earl of Berkeley, they shall have 200 Pounds Reward' SEX. SENSATION. CELEBRITY. This is The Scandal of the Century - and the true story of the author Aphra Behn, who used a shocking love affair to create the first English novel . . . ----In 1682, a young woman in the throes of a passionate affair flees her parents' home in Surrey to seek a new life in London. A scandal in its own right, but this is no ordinary young woman: Lady Henrietta Berkeley is the daughter of one of England's most powerful men, and her lover is her own sister's husband. As news of this notorious adulteress spreads, her flight, capture and the lawsuit that follow tear through society as the scandal of the century.To Aphra Behn, England's first professional female writer - herself condemned as a scarlet woman of loose morals - Henrietta's trial would be more than a source of shock and intrigue: it would inspire her to write Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, an outrageous and bestselling political fiction and arguably the first novel in English literature.Aphra herself is an enigma, the facts about her life continually disputed. By revealing the story of these two rebellious and ruthless women, Lisa Hilton's new history offers a surprisingly original theory on the origins of one of England's most celebrated playwrights. Against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, with its strict traditional conventions of love, duty and identity, The Scandal of the Century shows just how far both women will go to break free.---'Gloriously mind-boggling . . . This is a lively book' Spectator

Im Fokus dieses interdisziplinären Bandes stehen Phänomene der kulturellen Aneignung in der Vormoderne. Dabei geht es weniger um das konkrete ,Was', sondern das ,Wie' der Aneignung. Im ,Framing', vor allem aber im Prozess von ,Deframing' zu ,Reframing' ist das ,Aneignen' bereits praxeologisch enthalten. Strukturen, Mechanismen und Strategien der ,Framing'-Prozesse und damit verbundene kulturelle Produktivität werden ebenso beleuchtet wie über sie (re-)produzierte Machtverhältnisse. Gefragt wird nach der Motivation und dem Engagement der Akteur:innen, die angeeignete Gegenstände in neuen Deutungsmustern positionieren, den Bedingungen, unter denen sich solche Gegenstände für eine Übernahme anbieten, sowie den Mechanismen der ,Framing'-Prozesse selbst und den daraus resultierenden Verschiebungen und neuen Formationen. Vereint werden historische, germanistische, kunst- und literaturhistorische, ethnologische und theologische Zugänge.

An Unfinished History of HorrorCome and dig beneath the cobwebs, under the dust and through the forgotten boxes with horror historian J. F. Gonzalez.Collecting non-fiction works from J.F. Gonzalez, Shadows in the Attic takes the reader from Ancient times to the mid-40's weaving a tale of the history of horror-all the while discussing writers and stories that influenced, that captivated, and cultivated the genre through the centuries. Includes articles from LampLight, Afraid, Hellnotes and a never before published history of Splatterpunk, with a list of related works.

Afbrydelser er en antologi med nyskrevne tekster om afbrydelsens væsen, som den opleves af en række skønlitterære forfattere i Danmark netop nu. En vildtvoksende og flerstemmig samling af tanker om og refleksioner over afbrydelsens mange former.Her er blandt andet tekster om kroppens grænser, om kærlighed og venskab, om tilknytning, tab og sorg, om p-piller som fængsel og ikke som frigørelse, om stress, angst og ADHD, om multitasking, transnational adoption, racisme og rumskibe. Og først og fremmest er her tekster om tekst og om det at skrive med og imod sine afbrydelser.Bogens tekster er skrevet af Caroline Albertine Minor, Cecilie Lind, Ditte Holm Bro, Joan Rang Christensen, Johanne Bille, Julie Sten-Knudsen, Kirstine Reffstrup, Kristina Stoltz, Louise Juhl Dalsgaard, Maja Lucas, Puk Qvortrup, Sabitha Söderholm, Sine Bang Nielsen, Tina Frank og Ursula Scavenius og redigeret af Mia Degner.

International Convention of Asia Scholars 2019 Book Prize - Best Art Publication In the most comprehensive and authoritative source on this subject, Comics Art in China covers almost all comics art forms in mainland China, providing the history from the nineteenth century to the present as well as perspectives on both the industry and the art form. This volume encompasses political, social, and gag cartoons, lianhuanhua (picture books), comic books, humorous drawings, cartoon and humor periodicals, and donghua (animation) while exploring topics ranging from the earliest Western-influenced cartoons and the popular, often salacious, 1930s humor magazines to cartoons as wartime propaganda and comics art in the reform. Coupling a comprehensive review of secondary materials (histories, anthologies, biographies, memoirs, and more) in English and Chinese with the artists' actual works, the result spans more than two centuries of Chinese animation. Structured chronologically, the study begins with precursors in early China and proceeds through the Republican, wartime, Communist, and market economy periods. Based primarily on interviews senior scholar John A. Lent and Xu Ying conducted with over one hundred cartoonists, animators, and other comics art figures, Comics Art in China sheds light on tumult and triumphs. Meticulously, Lent and Xu describe the evolution of Chinese comics within a global context, probing the often-tense relationship between expression and government, as well as proving that art can be a powerful force for revolution. Indeed, the authors explore Chinese comics art as it continues to grow and adapt in the twenty-first century. Enhanced with over one hundred black-and-white and color illustrations, this book stands out as not only the first such survey in English, but perhaps the most complete one in any language.

"Philip Smallwood celebrates the emotional power and enduring wisdom of Samuel Johnson's literary criticism, showing how the abyss of the heart informs its powerful life"--

Luis Mateo Diez: El reposo de los muertos es el primer ensayo en español sobre la obra novelística del gran autor, uno de los mejores del idioma que se consigna. Alcanza el ensayo a la novedad y a la exigencia sobre el material seleccionado.

Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street is a riveting collection of short essays on the impact of world literature¿and Fyodor Dostoevsky in particular¿on a young Latino growing up in Texas. For a searching mind attempting to find links and meanings in a dark world of fragmentation and despair, literary escape can be vitally significant. Grouped into short categories (from formative beginnings to politics and dystopia), these essays provide a historic glimpse into a nascent group of Latino writers emerging from obscurity to form one of Americäs newest voices. Latino writing is the fastest growing genre worldwide, and this excellent primer provides a quick study for undergraduates, graduates, and first-generation college students in journalism, education, literary studies, and the humanities. The essays are short, original, witty, and provocative¿and easy to read. "Written in lucid, luminous, and engaging prose. Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street is a surprising, probing, edifying tour-de-force that captures literary journalism at its quintessential best. A much-needed critical discourse on the status of literature in our changing society." ¿Maria Martha Brummell, Emerita, Associate Dean, Yale University; CEO of Catch the Next, Inc. (New Haven, CT)"In one of the piquant prose morsels that constitute Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street, Rafael Castillo, an ardent aficionado of metaphor, notes that writing is for him ¿a roller coaster to self-discovery.¿ Jouncing through topics including education, punctuation, translation, digitalization, and growing up on the West Side of San Antonio, exhilarated readers will also find themselves."¿Steven G. Kellman, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Texas at San Antonio; Author of Rambling Prose, The Translingual Imagination, and Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, Among Other Books"When you open Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street, you will enter a world where imagination rules. You will not read this volume; you will inhabit it. Rafael Castillo possesses the two most important traits of a talented writer¿a fierce intelligence and the grace with which to express it." ¿Robert Seltzer, Former Editorial Writer for the San Antonio Express-News; Author of Amado Muro and Me: A Tale of Honesty and Deception"Rafael Castillo takes us back to his youth growing up in San Antoniös Westside, where books opened his world. Castillös beautiful, captivating words and colorful images in Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street bring to life la raza del Westside, who for too long were marginalized and left in the shadows. This is must-reading!"¿Rogelio Saenz, Peter Flawn Professor of Geography, University of Texas at San Antonio; Author of Latinos in the United States: Diversity and Change and Opinion Writer for Latino Rebels and the New York Times "Rafael Castillo has the concentrated power of a razor-sharp miniaturist who captures the nuance and cadence of West Side San Antonio with ease and patience of one who has observed a world through ease, mystery, and grace."¿Belinda Urdiales, Novelist and Writer with Aztlan Associates; Author of The Hidden Voice"Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street is a compilation of essays, review, articles and op-eds that capture the life of Latinos in the Southwest with literary style and panache."¿Julian S. Garcia, Former Editor with ViAztlan: International Journal of Arts and Ideas; Author of La Fantasica Curandera

Rudyard Kipling var en stor inspirator og et forbillede for Johannes V. Jensen. Fra sin tidlige ungdom i Viborg, hvor Jensen første gang stiftede bekendtskab med den britiske forfatter og til sine voksne år, hvor han oversatte flere af Kiplings værker, hang beundringen fast. "Rudyard Kipling" er et portræt af forfatteren, men også en refleksion over hans påvirkning af Johannes V. Jensens eget livssyn og litterære stil. -

In 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Max Brod's posthumous papers which included a collection of Kafka's manuscripts be transferred to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. If Kafka's writings may be seen to belong to Jewish national culture and if they may be considered part of Israel's heritage, then their analysis within a Jewish framework should be both viable and valuable. This volume is dedicated to the research of Franz Kafka's late narrative "The Burrow" and its autobiographical and theological significance. Research is extended to incorporate many fields of study (architecture, sound studies, philosophy, cultural studies, Jewish studies, literary studies) to illustrate the dynamics at work within the text which reveal the Jewish aspects implicitly thematicized. Examination of the structure created, the nature of sound perceived, the atmosphere experienced and the acts performed by the protagonist serve as the foundation of this analysis and offer new access to Kafka's work by presenting an interpretive, space-semantic approach. "Der Bau" is presented as a life concept given the task of constituting identity, highlighting the critical link between the literary and biographical Kafka and demonstrating the necessity of understanding the author as a Jewish writer to understand his late narrative. For her outstanding research project, Andrea Newsom Ebarb was awarded the "Forschungsförderpreis der Vereinigung der Freunde der Universität Mainz e.V." in 2023.

The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives, compromising their constitutive freedom. The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James's fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition: those of Shakespeare, Richardson, Fielding, Gibbon, Thackeray, and Dickens. This subtextual arrogation sets constrains to the unfolding, in James's narratives, of liberal and romantic freedom-it places limits both to the absolute exemptions of aesthetic interest and to radical Bohemian abandon. But these constrains and limits can be regarded, dialectically, as the enabling conditions of the very liberty they imperil. Drawing on recent research on the spectral dynamics and indirections of literary influence by scholars like Adrian Poole, Philip Horne, Nicola Bradbury, Tamara Follini, and Peter Rawlings, but also on earlier deconstructive work by John Carlos Rowe, Prepossessing Henry James offers a speculative account of the way James is simultaneously resourced and restrained by his sources. Along the way, we discover how Hamlet's ghost instills in James a fantasy of mental autonomy, or how he adapts Gibbon's Enlightened narrative to inhibit civic liberty with images of female sacrifice. We see the governess in The Turn of the Screw possessed by the specter of Richardson's Pamela, exposing social freedoms with liberal brutality. We encounter Gray, in The Ivory Tower, striving to obtain personal freedom by repressing Dickensian "figures, monstruous, fantastic." And, finally, we recognize how much The Ambassadors owes to the ambiguous manner of Thackeray.

'Loot held me spellbound from the first page...an expertly-plotted, deeply affecting novel ' Maggie O'FarrellYoung toy maker and dreamer Abbas is whisked away to Tipu Sultan's glorious palace in Mysore and ordered to create a musical tiger to delight Tipu's sons.When he is apprenticed to eccentric clockmaker Monsieur Du Leze, Abbas finds an unexpected friend who encourages his skill and hunger for learning. Through Du Leze, he also meets the unforgettable Jehanne, who has questions and ambitions of her own.But when British soldiers attack and loot Mysore, Abbas's world is turned upside down and his prized tiger is shipped off to a country estate in England. In order to carve out his place in the world, he must follow.A hero's quest, a love story, an exuberant heist novel that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across the world, Loot is a dazzling, wildly inventive and irresistible feat of storytelling.'A thrilling, absorbing and immersive tale of artistry, adventure and romance' Claire Fuller'A cinematic novel of empire, colonialism and romance...Loot asks who gets written out of history and why' Guardian'Immersive and beautifully written...a clever and absorbing novel about empire and belonging' Sunday Times

Wie beschreibt, inszeniert und unterstützt die Literatur eines Landes die Nationenbildung? Norwegens jahrhundertelange Personalunion mit Dänemark endete 1814, und das Land befand sich bis 1905 in einer Union mit Schweden. Es war eine Phase der Nationsfindung, dies auch in der Literatur. Das Buch untersucht Norwegens vorherrschende Prosaformen in der Periode von 1814 bis 1863. Das übergeordnete Narrativ der Nationenbildung vor allem in den Erzähler- und Leserstrategien wird herausgestellt. Intertextuelle Dialoge und Diskursangebote einzelner Texte verwiesen auch auf das Problem der Nationalsprache und damit der Sprache der Nationalliteratur: Soll und kann das fremdgewordene Dänisch die Vorstellungen von ¿Nation" und ¿Bildung" vermitteln, oder sollte dies eine rekonstruierte Nationalsprache tun?

"Das Glück ist ein unsteter Gesell" heißt der 16. Roman von Manfred Schloßer. Wieder erfährt sein literarisches Alter Ego Danny Kowalski so allerlei an Glück, Glück im Unglück, Glück in der Liebe, Glück im Spiel und Glück in besonderen Momenten...... was fast alle seiner Leser und Leserinnen selber schon erlebt haben.Das Glück, das Glück, mal hast du es, dann ist es wieder fort...... ist ein rastloser Gesell und immer von Endlichkeit geprägt.Ähnlich wie die ewige Jagd nach der Traumfrau oder nach einem Traum-Mann. Viele finden sie oder ihn nie. Aber diejenigen, die sie mal zu fassen bekommen, zu sehen, zu erleben, zu berühren oder gar zu lieben können...,die merken dann irgendwann, nach einem Jahr, oder drei oder sieben, dass aus der Traumfrau/Traum-Mann ein ganz gewöhnlicher Mensch geworden ist, mit allen Mucken und Fehlern, ein ganz und gar unsteter Gesell...Bei einer Reha in der Till Eulenspiegel-Stadt Mölln im Jahre 2011 gab der dortigePsychotherapeut dem bis dahin von Nackenschmerzen geplagten Danny den Ratschlag,statt minutiös sein Schmerztagebuch zu führen, auf einen sogenannten Glückskalenderumzusteigen. Das empfand Danny als eine hervorragende Idee, und er begann noch dort,sein ¿Glücks-Tagebuch¿ zu führen. Das machte er von 2011 bis 2017, als es nämlich voll war, und erfolgreich beendet wurde. In der Zwischenzeit hatte Danny immer wieder kleine Glücksmomente, die er dort aufschrieb. Doch der größte Glücksfall war der, als er im Sommer 2013 zum letzten Mal eine Schmerz-Tablette gegen seine Nackenschmerzen nahm...... und ganz stolz - heute, also 10 Jahre später - verkünden konnte, dass er seitdem nichteine einzige Schmerztablette mehr genommen hat...Aber trotz des Titels, also das Glück als unsteter Geselle, ist dieses Buch kein Plädoyer für Skeptizismus, nach dem Motto "hat eh keinen Sinn"...... nein, nein, im Gegenteil: Die Suche nach dem Glück sollte immer an oberster Stelle im Leben stehen.Nie solltest du aufgeben, das Glück zu suchen, das Glück zu finden, das Glück zu erleben, damit es, das Glück in Erfüllung geht. Das große Glück in jungen Jahren, das kleine Glück der Zufriedenheit im Alter...

La carrera de John Fante tras un éxito esquivo está repleta de anécdotas sorprendentes y giros inesperados. El último, el encuentro casual entre su obra y las manos de Charles Bukowski en una biblioteca de Los Ángeles, sería el que le permitiría, finalmente, darle caza. En el despertar tardío de la bibliografía fantiana sobresale Ask the Dust, un retrato en claroscuro del amor fatal en los márgenes de la L.A. de los años 30 que golpeó la inspiración del director y guionista Robert Towne al primer contacto: arrancaba entonces un nuevo pillapilla entre la pasión del genio y el pragmatismo de la industria que recorrería los pasillos de Hollywood durante más de tres décadas. 2006 pondría término a la espera y alfombra roja a la película: Ask the Dust desembarcaba en los cines estadounidenses. Por fin.Este trabajo da cuerpo a las historias esbozadas en las líneas anteriores, pero también penetra en una fracción de la alfaguara paratextual que sucedió al lanzamiento de la película para analizar su recepción por parte de crítica y público. Al mismo tiempo, sus páginas calibran el peso de la (in)fidelidad a la novela en sus valoraciones y desglosan cómo aborda cada audiencia este aspecto, tan central como controvertido en la genealogía de los estudios de adaptación. Para saber más, no hace falta preguntar al polvo: basta con leer este libro.

«In this important comparative study, Polly Galis provides an illuminating ¿ and frank ¿ examination of the feminist tensions inherent in the inclusive and often transgressive modalities of female sexuality put forward by Nancy Huston, Nelly Arcan and Annie Ernaux, writers whose work subversively troubles the divide between 'good' and 'bad' models of bodily pleasure and desire.» (Siobhán McIlvanney, Professor of French and Francophone Women¿s Writing, King¿s College London)«An in-depth look at three important French-language women writers who tackle gender stereotypes, desire, the body, language and empowerment, this richly documented study is rigorous, thorough, illuminating and highly readable, with broader implications for contemporary feminism and women¿s writing within and beyond France and Quebec. A major contribution.» (Lori Saint-Martin, Professor of Literary Studies, University of Quebec in Montreal)This book is the first comparative study of the work of Francophone authors Annie Ernaux, Nancy Huston and Nelly Arcan, exploring their representation of sex, sexuality and the body. This book examines their narrative treatment of dominant sexual discourses, sexual difference and diverse feminine bodily experience, and thereby reveals these writers¿ distinctive contribution to contemporary women¿s writing in French and different feminisms, defined as «frank» French feminism. This feminist approach consists in tackling gender inequality, sexism and misogyny, while recognising the difficulties involved in feminist action, and acknowledging that adherence to allegedly oppressive gender stereotypes can actually prove enjoyable and empowering for women. This study examines the authors¿ earliest to latest publications and multiple genres and media, including fictional and autofictional novels, autobiographies, critical essays, phototexts, diaries, journals, illustrated oeuvres, media addresses and newspaper articles.This book project was the Winner of the 2019 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Contemporary Women¿s Writing in French.

This volume presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the different ways in which the two terms «politics» and «translation» interact. It affords an opportunity to look at translation as a highly complex activity that involves the participation of different agents with different backgrounds, orientations, ideologies, competences, goals and purposes. At the macro level, translation is seen as an activity carried out by gatekeepers ¿ translators, trans-editors, translation quality controllers, translation project managers, and the like ¿ to promote a certain narrative, achieve a goal or pursue an agenda. The ultimate aim of this volume is to shed light on how these various stakeholders explicitly or implicitly interpolate their cultural background, beliefs and values into the resulting text, thus overtly or covertly intervening to promote a certain theme or narrative.

Tying in with political and cultural changes in Europe, this volume focuses on current discourses on the significance of democratic systems in opposition to authoritarian regimes, to fathom the transformations but also the continuities in children's and young adult literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. One aim of the book is to calibrate the political, poetic, and receptive examination of children's and young adult literature and to depict it from a historical and systematic perspective. Characterized by an internationally comparative scope this volume revolves around the following questions with a view to childhood constructions: What continuities but also changes are discernible? What political and ideological concepts are inherent in children's and young adult literature? How are World War II and the postwar period represented in children's books? What role do trauma and (post)memory play? And how is the discourse on flight and migration shaped?