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.
Rousseau and l'Infame (Faux Titre, #326)
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.
Helene Cixous, Chemins d’une écriture (Faux Titre, #49)
Gender in the Fiction of George Sand (Faux Titre, #175)
by Francoise Massardier-Kenney
In Gender in the Fiction of George Sand, Françoise Massardier-Kenney argues that the major nineteenth-century French writer George Sand articulates in her novels a complex and extremely modern conception of gender, questioning prevalent patriarchal modes of discourse and redefining masculinity and femininity. Through the analysis of a representative sample of Sand's works (Indiana, Jacques, La dernière Aldini, Jeanne, Horace, Valv'dre, Melle la Quintinie, Gabriel, Lucrezia Floriana, and Nanon),...
Tractatus Ludorum (Autores, Textos y Temas, #28)
by Jose Antonio Gonzalez Alcantud
Complex and controversial issues have accompanied the development of English-language literature in Wales, generating a continuing debate over the nature of Welsh writing in English. The main issues include the claim of some Welsh-language writers to represent the only authentic literature of Wales, the question of whether or not an extended literary tradition in English has existed in Wales, the absence (until fairly recently) of a publishing apparatus for English-language writers, the rise of...
L'Art Francais et Francophone depuis 1980 / Contemporary French and Francophone Art (Faux Titre, #269)
Ce volume presente vingt-trois essais consacres a l'art francais et francophone des vingt-cinq dernieres annees et propose des analyses critiques d'une cinquantaine d'artistes majeurs qui travaillent sur des modes richement varies. The volume offers 23 new critical essays on contemporary French and francophone art, dealing with some fifty major artists working in a wide range of mediums.
Marguerite Duras (Faux Titre, #144)
From the contents: Lectures de la sorciere, ensorcellement de l'ecriture (Catherine Rodgers).- The beast and the jungle: longing, learning, loving and luck in Marguerite Duras's Le boa (Susan D. Cohen).- Texte des origines, origines du texte (de la recette de cuisine a l'art poetique) (Ingrid Safranek).- Spatial figurativity in Marguerite Duras (Bronwen Martin).- Fortune et infortune de l'oeuvre durassienne (Marcell Marini).
The book examines the discursive construction of the representation of "Europe" in the selected writings of leading Serbian writers and intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to being of particular significance in the process of the genesis of our understanding of Europe across the continent, these several decades were crucial for the discursive construction of "Europe" in Serbian culture: when after the end of the Cold War the debate on Europe became possible agai...
Growing Gaps: Educational Inequality Around the World
by Professor of Sociology Paul Attewell
This book testifies to the growing interest in the many spaces of utopia. It intends to 'map out' on utopian and science-fiction discourses some of the new and revisionist models of spatial analysis applied in Literary and Cultural Studies in recent years. The aim of the volume is to side-step the established generic binary of utopia and dystopia or science fiction and thus to open the analysis of utopian literature to new lines of inquiry. The essays collected here propose to think of utopias n...
"Marcel Proust Aujourd'hui" est une revue internationale bilingue qui veut etre un forum aussi bien pour les specialistes de l'oeuvre de Proust que pour tout lecteur desirant se renseigner sur l'evolution des recherches proustiennes. Des numeros generaux alternent avec des numeros orientes suivant une thematique specifique. "Marcel Proust Aujourd'hui" is an international bilingual review that wants to be a meetingplace for Proust scholars as well as for all those readers of the Recherche who des...
Making Russians (On the Boundary of Two Worlds, #11)
by Darius Staliūnas
Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence
by James Newman
Despite record sales and an ever-growing global industry, the simple fact is that videogames are disappearing. Most obviously, the physical deterioration of discs, cartridges, consoles and controllers means that the data and devices will crumble to dust and eventually will be lost forever. However, there is more to the disappearance of videogames than plastic corrosion and bit rot. Best Before examines how the videogames industry's retail, publishing, technology design, advertising and marketin...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Memes (Complete Idiot's Guides (Lifestyle Paperback))
by John Gunders and Damon Brown
The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film
by Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Steven Sanders