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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),...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Maurice Blanchot est certainement l'un des plus eminents penseurs et ecrivains du vingtieme siecle, dont le retrait et la discretion ont laisse la marque meme de son effacement comme evenement de l'experience litteraire. C'est par une demarche de dialogue avec les artistes qui ont faconne le siecle de la modernite que nous confrontons ses ecrits a des oeuvres dont le leitmotiv est la perte, l'absence, l'infigurable. Pour dire si l'avant-gardisme est une notion qui fait echo dans le deploiement s...

The collapse of the supposedly 'civilized' German nation into the 'barbarism' of Hitler's Third Reich has cast a long shadow over interpretations of German culture and society. In the remarkable work of Norbert Elias, himself a refugee from Nazi Germany, a deep concern with the distinctiveness of 'the Germans' is linked with an ambitious attempt to work out more general relations between broad historical processes - patterns of state formation, changing social structures - and the character of t...

A philosophical exploration of the entire seven-book Harry Potter series Harry Potter has been heralded as one of the most popular book series of all time and the philosophical nature of Harry, Hermione, and Ron's quest to rid the world of its ultimate evil is one of the many things that make this series special. The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy covers all seven titles in J.K. Rowling's groundbreaking series and takes fans back to Godric's Hollow to discuss life after death, to consider...

Hans-Gert Roloff, Emeritus an der Freien Universitat Berlin, hat mit der von ihm initiierten und durchgesetzten Etablierung des Studiengebietes Mittlere Deutsche Literatur grundlegende Impulse fur die systematische Erforschung der Zeit zwischen Spatmittelalter und Aufklarung gegeben. Zum 70. Geburtstag von Hans-Gert Roloff prasentiert der vorliegende Band 21 Studien, die der Jubilar zwischen 1967 und 1998 der deutschen Literatur des 16. Jahrhunderts gewidmet hat. In ihrer exemplarischen Reprase...