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A history of flattery, showing it to be an art form well worth studying. Ranging from the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt, an outrageous form of physical self-flattery to the publication of "How To Win Friends and Influence People". It looks at flattery during the Renaissance and President Clinton on the opening day of his impeachment inquiry: "I trust the American people. They almost always get it right".

Jacques Stephen Alexis, Jacques Roumain, Rene Depestre, Marie Chauvet, Franketienne, J. J. Dominique, Jean Metellus, Dany Laferriere, Yanick Lahens, Lyonel Trouillot et Edwidge Danticat sont quelques-uns des ecrivains haitiens dont l'ecriture est marquee par le contexte politique d'Haiti. Les regimes dictatoriaux ont, en effet, affecte l'espace creatif, imposant un certain nombre de contraintes auxquelles ces ecrivains, chacun a leur maniere, ont ingenieusement riposte et reagi. Ce recueil d'ess...

En este numero se reunen nueve articulos ineditos sobre aspectos del relato breve (cuento y miccorrelato) en la literatura espanola e hispanoamericana del ultimo cuarto del siglo XX. Encabezan el volumen tres colaboraciones, agrupadas juntas sea por ser de orientacion esencialmente teorica e historica, sea por presentar una vision de conjunto de un genero en un pais. Los seis articulos que siguen son comentarios a obras particulares. Los nueve trabajos son representativos al constituir un conjun...

Exposing the forces behind the decline of the rave scene in Philadelphia and elsewhere

Has thinking, working and teaching in terms of national literatures become obsolete in today's globalized world of hyphenated languages, literatures and cultures? Since the rise of modern European national philologies coincided with the emergence of modern European nation-states, does the dissolution of the latter in the European supranational unity imply the suspension of the former? Or we must, on the contrary, consider the fact that today's Europe is not only postnational but, in its re-natio...

L'Enigme-poesie presente une serie d'entretiens avec vingt-et-une poetes francaises contemporaines. Une grande diversite de voix et d'approches face a l'objet poeme se fait entendre dans ces discussions exceptionnelles. A travers un dialogue en profondeur, chaque poete cherche a definir et a explorer sa conception et sa pratique de la poesie. Les ecrivaines reconnaissent toutes l'influence des ancetres poetiques, surtout celle des poetes de la modernite francaise et europeenne. Ces entretiens fo...

The Norman Conquest is one of the most significant events in British history - but how is it actually remembered and perceived today? This book offers a study of contemporary British memory of the Norman Conquest, focussing on shared knowledge, attitudes and beliefs. A major source of evidence for its findings are references to the Norman Conquest in contemporary British newspaper articles: 807 articles containing references to the Conquest were collected from ten British newspapers, covering a...

Morality, Identity and Narrative in the Fiction of Richard Ford is only the second monograph on the work of Richard Ford and the only one to deal with all three Frank Bascombe novels. The book offers comprehensive readings of the trilogy and the stories of Women with Men and A Multitude of Sins, thus bringing critical work on Ford up to date. Richard Ford insists that fiction contain a "moral vision", and this study takes up that challenge by investigating Ford's characters through the interconn...

This book examines the social significance of mobile telecommunications. Not a day goes by when we don't hear one ring, and they have rapidly become a taken for granted feature of life today. That they have had an impact on the way we live is undeniable; the precise nature of this impact is less certain. To what extent have mobiles redefined community, security and danger, the division between rich and poor, and public versus private? How are mobile phones changing our environments? What is thei...

Part of the Pop Goes the Decade series, this book looks at one of the most memorable decades of the 20th century, highlighting pop culture areas such as film, television, sports, technology, advertising, fashion, and art. All in the Family. Barry Manilow, Donna Summer, and Olivia Newton-John; Styx, Led Zeppelin, and The Jackson Five. Jaws, Rocky, The Exorcist, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies takes a sweeping look at all of the cultural events and developmen...

This expansive three-volume set investigates racial representation in film, providing an authoritative cross-section of the most racially significant films, actors, directors, and movements in American cinematic history. Hollywood has always reflected current American cultural norms and ideas. As such, film provides a window into attitudes about race and ethnicity over the last century. This comprehensive set provides information on hundreds of films chosen based on scholarly consensus of their...

Women Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women's travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, focusing on the role of gender in travel and cross-cultural mediation and challenging stereotypical views of 'the Greek journey', traditionally seen as an antiquarian or Byronic purs...

Will open people's eyes to the bizarre and shocking history that begain with use in religious ceremonies, then raised high hopes as a cure for many ills in Victorian times and was regarded as an embodiment of the romantic East, leading to its horrific consequences today.

Ecrasez l'infame! Voltaire's rallying cry against fanaticism resonates with new force today. Nothing suggests the complex legacy of the Enlightenment more than the struggle of superstition, prejudice, and intolerance advocated by most of the Enlightenment philosophers, regardless of their ideological differences. The aim of this book is to undertake a reconsideration of the controversies surrounding the questions of religion, toleration, and fanaticism in the eighteenth century through an examin...

A travers tout le XIXe siecle, l'empire des tsars et ses habitants ont largement inspire la production litteraire en France. Mais si des recherches se sont interessees aux recits de voyages, aux journaux et aux correspondances, la Russie en tant qu'objet de la fiction est generalement jugee ininteressante car tres eloignee de la realite. Reposant sur l'analyse d'un corpus de cent textes environs, ce livre se propose de reveler toute la richesse de la Russie et des Russes imagines par la fiction...

In The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History, Lane J. Harris introduces an extraordinary collection of primary sources covering China's long nineteenth century (1793-1912) that allows readers to understand how the Manchu emperors and the multiethnic subjects of the Great Qing Empire experienced this tumultuous period.