Ein Dialog zwischen Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik findet trotz kritischer bildungspolitischer Entwicklungen fur das Franzoesische bisher kaum statt. Um diese Zusammenarbeit zu etablieren, wahlten die Herausgeberinnen fur die Beitrage dieses Bandes ein innovatives Format: Es wurden Autorenteams aus Literaturwissenschaftlern und Fachdidaktikern gebildet. Als Gegenstand des Dialogs fiel die Wahl auf die Krimikultur Frankreichs, da "roman" und "film noir", "litterature" und "BD policiere" dort e...
Lives of the Great Romantics, Part III, Volume 1
by Harriet Devine Jump, Pamela Clemit, Betty T. Bennett, and John Mullan
This volume sheds light on contemporary perception of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, a biographically and intellectually compelling literary family of the Romantic period. The writings reveal the personalities of the subjects, and the motives and agendas of the biographers.
Literary Trauma (SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)
by Deborah M. Horvitz
The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, Just Looking, first published in 1985, addresses itself to a central paradox of the period: the perceived antithesis of the terms "commerce" and "culture" which emerged at a t...
Sprachliche Strategien Der Ueberzeugung (Bonner Romanistische Arbeiten, #116)
by Isabelle Catherine Mensel
Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit steht die Untersuchung der Metaphernprogramme der engagierten Autorin Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793). Diese Studie analysiert mit der Metapher eines der zentralen sprachlichen Mittel, die wahrend des regen politischen Diskurses rund um die Franzoesische Revolution bei der Vermittlung politisch-sozialer Programme eingesetzt wurden. Das Korpus basiert auf nicht-fiktionalen, fur den Revolutionsdiskurs prototypischen Textsorten aus dem Zeitraum 1786-1793. Die Untersuchung kom...
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives is a scandalous, engrossing tale of sexual politics and family strife in modern-day Nigeria. Lola Shoneyin's bestselling novel bursts on to the stage in a vivid adaptat ion by Caine Award-winning playwright Rotimi Babatunde. "Men are like yam, you cut them how you like." Baba Segi has three wives, seven children, and a mansion filled with riches. But now he has his eyes on Bolanle, a young university graduate wise to life's misfortunes. When Bolanle r...
English Literary Sexology (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by H. Bauer
It is well known that much of our modern vocabulary of sex emerged within nineteenth-century German sexology. But how were the 'German ideas' translated and transmitted into English culture? This study provides an examination of the formation of sexual theory between the 1860s and 1930s and its migration across national and disciplinary boundaries.
Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica Kincaid. In writers who attempt a "communal voice"-includ...
The Contradictions of Freedom
Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre, 1910s to 2010s
by Lynne Greeley
Justice, Women, and Power in English Renaissance Drama
Justice, Women, and Power in English Renaissance Drama is a collection of essays that explores the relationship of gender and justice as represented in English Renaissance drama. Many of the essays are concerned with interrogating the ways that women relied upon and/or reacted to the legal (and overarching political) systems in early modern England. Other essays examine issues involving the role of narrative, evidence, and gendered expectations about justice in the plays of this time period. An...
Critical Negotiations (Bayreuther Beitraege zur Literaturwissenschaft, #38)
by Weiwei Shen
In a global context where the speed and volume of migration have continuously increased, communicative failure shows up in cultural conflicts as thematized in Asian American women's literature. When the text surface suggests that migrant identity is flexibly hybrid, are there deeper textual layers? This book probes the limitations not only of the usual methods of literary study, but of Western constructions of the experience of loss and deprivation. Can literary interpretation gain from adapting...
Consigned to oblivion by the Franco regime and traditional historiography, the Other Silver Age Spain (1868-1939) encompasses an array of cultural forms that are coming back into view today with the aid of mass digitization. This volume examines the period through a digital lens, reinterpreting literary and cultural history with the aid of twenty-first-century technologies that raise aesthetic and ethical questions about historical memory, the canon, and the archive. Scholars based in Spain, Ger...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
by Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
Delve into a legendary literary love affair'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of...
Inscribed Identities (Routledge Auto/Biography Studies)
Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions, Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions. Like all genres with a distinguished career, autobiography has elicited a fair amount of critical and theoretical reflection. Classic works by Käte Hamburger and Philippe Lejeune in the 1960s and 70s articulated distinctions and similarities betwe...
Jane Austen and the State (Rle Jane Austen) (Routledge Library Editions: Jane Austen)
by Mary Evans
Women on the Move (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)
Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Feminity in Present-day Transnational Diasporic Writing explores the role of women in the current globailized era as active migrants. Silvia Pellicer-Ortin and Julia Kuznetski have brought together a collection of essays from scholars in diaspora, migration and gender studies to take a look at the female experince of migration and globalization by covering topics such as vulnerability, empowerment, trauma, identity, memory, violence and gender contruction, whi...