This book seeks to challenge conventionally accepted views of David Bergelson's achievement by... Læs mere
In this book, Claire Boyle presents an account of the death of autobiography in the post-war era of French literature. She challenges assumptions that are sometimes made about why it is that writers are reluctant to be associated with the genre of autobiography.
China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated theirannee de la Chine in 2004.
This book analyses a representative selection of discursive and ceremonial practices in which one finds the... Læs mere
This book uses the fiction of George Sand to explore questions of masculinity as they pertain to the nineteenth-century French... Læs mere
Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France
This book examines the role and function of the notion of the city in Dante's works. It focuses most closely on the ways in which the poet's multifaceted interest in and utilization of the city receive their fullest expression in the Commedia.
This book looks beyond the concepts of carnival and dialogue and traces the transformation of the Bakhtin Circle's thought from its introduction to the West in Julia Kristeva's seminal late-1960s theory of intertextuality, through Tzvetan Todorov's landmark study.
Land, Sea and Home: Proceedings of a Conference on Viking-Period Settlement
Given the growing disenchantment, on all sides, with the 'high theory' of... Læs mere
Traces the development of "impegno" (political commitment) in post-war Italian prose literature using the metaphor of fragmentation: the monolithic notion of commitment to an overarching political agenda has splintered, facilitating a fragmentary attention to specific issues.
Continuous casting of non-ferrous metals has been practised for well over 100 years