• Les objets du corps héroïque
• "Ses gants et son livret pour faire testament"
• Le récit de la mort de Jane Grey dans l'Histoire des Martyrs de Jean Crespin et les Tragiques d'Agrippa d'Aubigné
• Les joyaux de la reine
• Le bouclier de Satan dans Paradise Lost (1674), objet d'incertitude
• Héroïne ou martyre ?
• Approches de la femme à l'épée
• L'héroïne : constructions de genre
• Camille, Judith, martyre. Réflexions sur les représentations de Marie de Lorraine entre 1548 et 1560
• Le corps héroïque féminin dans le récit de la captivité des princesses dans The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia de Sir Philip Sidney
• Corps héroïques, corps de saintes dans The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia de Sir Philip Sidney (1590) et The Countess of Montgomery's Urania de Lady Mary Wroth (1621)
• Courasche, ou La Vagabonde Courage de Grimmelshausen. Gender-crossing, politique et écriture
• Les objets de la guerre et le corps féminin de l'héroïsme dans The Lady Errant de William Cartwright et Bell in Campo de Margaret Cavendish
• L'anatomie du corps héroïque
• Des composantes à la décomposition du corps héroïque dans Coriolan de William Shakespeare
• Engagement corporel des héroïnes du peuple dans la comedia lopesque. De la défense individuelle à la réaction collective (Peribdnez et Fuente Ovejuna)
• Les armes font-elles le héros ? L'identité guerrière en question dans The Faerie Queene d'Edmund Spenser (1590)
• Charles r, du héros guerrier à sa féminisation ?
• "Yet was his sword or armour all his glass." Marvell et l'héroïsme narcissique.

"Cet ouvrage porte sur les métamorphoses du héros et de son éthos dans la littérature et les arts de la première modernité (XVIe-XVIIe siècles), vues par le prisme de la représentation du corps et des objets héroïques. Pensée à partir des Îles britanniques, cette anatomie du héros est replacée dans le contexte européen avec des études sur la France, l'Italie, l'Espagne et l'Allemagne. Là où la statuaire grecque mettait le héros sublimement à nu et où l'épopée chrétienne en faisait un guerrier ou un martyr démonstratif, l'héroïsme moderne se joue sur une scène plus immatérielle et intime, où le symptôme prend le pas sur les armes et blessures glorieuses, et vient se nicher jusque dans les objets du quotidien, tels que gants, luth ou livre."--Page 4 of cover.

• Frank Lestringant : une vie, une oeuvre
• Voyages
• Le Brésil de Frank Lestringant
• L'invention capucine du sauvage
• Détournement joyeux de l'Indonésie portugaise et des Antilles espagnoles : les Letres des ysles é- terres nouvellement trouvées (c. 1536)
• Le meuble doré de la cosmographie ou comment Thevet sauva ses curiosités
• L'intertexte virgilien dans les Singularités de la France Antarctique (1557) d'André Thevet
• Lisières d'un nouveau monde : l'inscription du littoral américain dans les récits de Colomb et Vespucci ou le choix des échelles
• Mythologiques. Parler des Sept Cités en Nouvelle-Espagne
• La rébellion du cacique Enriquillo et sa réinvention par François de Belleforest
• D'un souvenir à l'autre. Le parcours du chapitre "Des Cannibales"
• Le plaisir du voyage. En Nouvelle-France et aux Antilles (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)
• Duels de plume et rivalités de pouvoir en Nouvelle-France. Autour des premiers missionnaires récollets et jésuites (1625-1637)
• Les images d'Amérindiens dans les Historite Canadensis de François Du Creux
• Le corsaire et l'astronome
• En passant par l'Italie. Reliques, ruines et vides sur la route du Grand voyage
• Poétique et politique d'une étape de voyage : le sonnet 133 sur Venise dans Les Regrets de Joachim Du Bellay
• Le Journal du voyage de Montaigne est-il un journal de voyage ?
• Espaces
• "Cosmopolite" ? La redécouverte d'un concept antique dans la France du XVIe siècle
• La ligne et le corps. Passages de l'équateur de Jean de Léry à Miguel de. Cervantès
• Une maladie nouvelle au miroir d'un nouveau monde : l'unité du genre humain selon la Syphilis de Fracastor
• Les lieux du diable
• La cosmographie du diable : démonologie et géographie à la Renaissance
• Adeline Lionetto Représenter "l'eau informe et multiforme". La mer et ses créatures dans quelques fêtes de cour françaises de la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle
• Seuils de l'espace -- seuils de pouvoir : les détroits dans la pensée cosmographique
• Anton Francesco Doni et Gabriel Chappuys, cosmographes des Enfers, entre Venise et Lyon. I Mondi
• Cartographie satirique : la rhétorique de l'espace dans la guerre picrocholine (Gargantua,-chap. 33)
• Un insulaire-systétnatique ? Singularités lexicales de l'Île Sonnante
• La peste terrestre anthropomorphe à la Renaissance : l'exemple du Pantagruel de Rabelais
• Géographie, politique et religion aux portes de Rome : Jean Du Bellay et les Marais pontins (1548-1560)
• Du jardin d'Eutrapel au jardin d'Olivier de Serres
• Espace et sociabilité du voisinage chez quelques conteurs français du XVIe siècle
• Banderoles fluviales : "Les Fers" (1615) en vue du Théâtre François (1594)
• Religions
• Aux premiers temps de la guerre de Smalkalde, une affaire de poison ou les débuts de la fin de Babylone
• Allégorie satirique et allégorie heuristique. Rabelais et les combats religieux de son temps
• Le jeu des allégories dans L'homme justifié par Foy
• Du Livre des martyrs de Crespin (1554) aux Poemata de Bèze (1597), l'étonnant destin d'une silve de Jean Tagaut
• Autour du purgatoire. L'écroulement de la forteresse de Bernardino Ochino à Jean-Baptiste Trento
• Guerres civiles avec spectateur. Le Printemps d'Yver entre Ronsard et Montaigne

• Sancerre en Europe : les traductions de l'Histoire memorable de Jean de Léry
• La tragédie "Valois" entre France et Angleterre. La mise en scène de l'assassinat politique
• "Monstres veuz de nostre temps" : rendre témoignage en situation de guerre (Ronsard, Thevet, Montaigne)
• L'échafaud de l'Histoire : Les Tragiques d'Agrippa d'Aubigné et le Théâtre de l'Antéchrist de Nicolas Vignier
• Le rire et le tragique dans Les Aventures du baron de Faeneste d'Agrippa d'Aubigné
• Mort à crédit : être au cachot dans le martyrologe huguenot
• Penser le martyre sous le régime de l'Édit de Nantes. L'exemple du Triomphe de l'Église sous la croix ou la gloire des Martyrs de Charles Drelincourt
• Charles IX, de Chénier à Chéreau : l'homme blessé du romantisme
• Ecritures
• Vanitas. Voyages de Folengo et Montaigne vers le vide
• "Deuil ou plaisir". Sur le troisième chapitre de Pantagruel (1532)
• Espaces de l'exil, espace de l'écriture : amour, amitié et desiderium chez Muret expatrié
• Images captieuses de l'Hercule Gaulois
• L'atlas anatomique d'Eustorg de Beaulieu
• "Une Muse perfette" : Jacques Grévin entre poésie, science et religion
• La table ronde des parents spirituels. Au sujet de la Conversation de Lucien, Érasme et Rabelais dans les Champs-Élysées de Voltaire
• Octave de Musset, ou la vengeance en travesti
• D'une plume de fer
• Lointains échos d'un "barde priapique". Samuel Beckett se souvient de Ronsard
• Les locutions latines dans Astérix.

"Explorateur curieux et audacieux, Frank Lestringant n'a cessé, dans son oeuvre au long cours et à large envergure, d'ouvrir des horizons nouveaux sur la littérature de la Renaissance, quitte à bousculer une critique parfois sédentaire, voire frileuse dans ses sujets et ses méthodes. Affectionnant les espaces de plein vent, où l'Europe du XVIe siècle cherche à étendre sa puissance par-delà les mers, fasciné par les scènes sanglantes de l'histoire, celle qui se joue dans les feux et les fers d'une France déchirée, il nous mène d'île en île, d'un texte à l'autre, sur les traces de ses auteurs de prédilection. Le volume que lui offrent ses collègues, ses élèves et ses amis, spécialistes de littérature française ou comparée, d'histoire ou de géographie, entend rendre hommage à la richesse et à la diversité de son oeuvre critique, ainsi qu'à son énergie sans pareille au service des études seiziémistes. Rassemblés autour des quatre centres d'intérêt majeurs de la recherche de Frank Lestringant - les récits de voyage, la cosmographie, la littérature des religions, les pratiques d'écriture -, ces mélanges sont autant de témoignages d'amitié, d'admiration et de reconnaissance."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction
• The old world order dissolving
• The poetics of international legal order
• International order as tragedy
• International order as romance
• The divergence between international law and literature around 1700
• The novel and international order in the eighteenth century
• Epilogue.

In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowledged common authority that would create, change, apply, and enforce legal norms. In Imagining World Order, Chenxi Tang shows that international world order was as much a literary as a legal matter. To begin with, the poetic imagination contributed to the making of international law. As the discourse of international law coalesced, literary works from romances and tragedies to novels responded to its unfulfilled ambitions and inexorable failures, occasionally affirming it, often contesting it, always uncovering its problems and rehearsing imaginary solutions. Tang highlights the various modes in which literary texts-some highly canonical (Camoes, Shakespeare, Corneille, Lohenstein, and Defoe, among many others), some largely forgotten yet worth rediscovering-engaged with legal thinking in the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In tracing such engagements, he offers a dual history of international law and European literature. As legal history, the book approaches the development of international law in this period-its so-called classical age-in terms of literary imagination. As literary history, Tang recounts how literature confronted the question of international world order and how, in the process, a set of literary forms common to major European languages (epic, tragedy, romance, novel) evolved.
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• Introduction Part I: Babylon as Political Metaphor Chapter One: The Political Image of Babylon in Antiquity Chapter Two: Political Babylon in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Chapter Three: Political Babylon from the Great Schism to the Present Part II: Babylon as Degenerate Archetype Chapter Four: The Medieval Genealogy of Babylonian Degeneracy: The Cursed Race Chapter Five: The Post-Medieval Genealogy of Babylonian Degeneracy and the Cursed Race Archetype Part III: Babylon as Sublime Topos Chapter Six: City of Ruins Chapter Seven: Babylon and the Coordinates of Romance Conclusion.
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Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years. Sifting through the many references to Babylon in biblical, classical, medieval, and modern texts, Andrew Scheil uses Babylon's remarkable literary ubiquity as the foundation for a thorough analysis of the dynamics of adaptation and allusion in western literature. Touching on everything from Old English poetry to the contemporary apocalyptic fiction of the "Left Behind" series, Scheil outlines how medieval Christian society and its cultural successors have adopted Babylon as a political metaphor, a degenerate archetype, and a place associated with the sublime. Combining remarkable erudition with a clear and accessible style, Babylon under Western Eyes is the first comprehensive examination of Babylon's significance within the pantheon of western literature and a testimonial to the continuing influence of biblical, classical, and medieval paradigms in modern culture.
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• VOLUME I
• GENERAL INTRODUCTION
• I: PARIS TO BEARN
• II: CALAIS TO LONDON
• III: ST ANDREWS TO FINISTERE
• IV: BASEL TO DANZIG
• V: AVIGNON TO NAPLES
• VOLUME II
• VI: PALERMO TO TUNIS
• VII: CAIRO TO CONSTANTINOPLE
• VIII: MOUNT ATHOS TO MUSCOVY
• IX: VENICE TO PRAGUE
• X: NATIONS OF EUROPE, 1414-1418.
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This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418, provides deep context for understanding current developments in Europe, particularly as initiated by the destruction and disasters of World War II. We begin with the greatest of all European catastrophes: the 1348 bubonic plague, which killed one person in three. Literary cultures helped speed recovery from this unprecedented 'ground zero' experience, providing solace, distraction, and new ideals to live by. Questions of where Europe begins and ends, then as now, and disputes over whom truly 'belongs' on European soil are explored, if not solved, through writing. A war that would last for a century convulsed much of western Europe. Divisions between Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianities endured, and in 1378 the West divided again between popes of Avignon and Rome. Arabic literary cultures linked Fes and Granada to Jerusalem and Damascus; Persian and Turkish writings began to flourish south and west of Constantinople; Jewish intellectuals treasured Arabic texts as well as Hebrew writings; Armenian colophons proved unique. From 1414-18 western nations gathered to heal their papal schism while also exchanging literary, humanist, and musical ideas; visitors from the East hoped for commitment to wider European peace. Freed from nation state historiography, as bequeathed by the nineteenth century, these 82 chapters freshly assess the free movement of European literature in all its variety, local peculiarity, and regenerative power.
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"This study analyzes representative texts in which the master-servant relationship is a structurally determining theme. The analysis is undertaken from the perspective of ideological history and is based on a model of interdependent rule in literature that transcends epochs and genres. It reveals the ways that 18th to 20th century literature participated in contemporary theoretical discourses on rule."-- Provided by publisher.

• Table of Contents; Introduction; Representing the Self in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Recollecting the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Re-creating the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period Today; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Emerging Scholars; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen; List of Contributors

Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past celebrates the various ways in which the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are adapted, recollected, and represented in our own day and age. Most of the chapters fit broadly into one of three categories: namely, the representation of the self in medieval and early modern history and literature; the recollection and utilization of the past in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; and the role of the medieval and the early modern in our own society. Overall, the contributions to this volume bear witness to the importance of representation to our understanding of ourselves, each other, and our shared past.
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• Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction to Noh Lessons
• 1. Ezra Pound as Noh Student
• 2. Theater in the "Deep": W. B. Yeats's At the Hawk's Well
• 3. Ito Michio's Hawk Tours in Modern Dance and Theater
• 4. Pedagogical Intermission: A Lesson Plan for Bertolt Brecht's Revisions
• 5. Noh Circles in Twentieth-Century Japanese Performance
• 6. Trouble with Titles and Directors: Benjamin Britten and William Plomer's Curlew River and Samuel Beckett's Footfalls/Pas Coda Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.
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In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater's stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they reimagined new approaches to tradition and form. In Learning to Kneel, Preston locates noh's important influence on such canonical figures as Pound, Yeats, Brecht, Britten, and Beckett. These writers learned about noh from an international cast of collaborators, and Preston traces the ways in which Japanese and Western artists influenced one another. Preston's critical work was profoundly shaped by her own training in noh performance technique under a professional actor in Tokyo, who taught her to kneel, bow, chant, and submit to the teachings of a conservative tradition. This encounter challenged Preston's assumptions about effective teaching, particularly her inclinations to emphasize Western ideas of innovation and subversion and to overlook the complex ranges of agency experienced by teachers and students. It also inspired new perspectives regarding the generative relationship between Western writers and Japanese performers. Pound, Yeats, Brecht, and others are often criticized for their orientalist tendencies and misappropriation of noh, but Preston's analysis and her journey reflect a more nuanced understanding of cultural exchange.
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• Introduction: The Marketplace of Mercury
• Part One: Petrarch and Italian Poetry
• 1. Petrarch as Homo Economicus
• 2. Making Petrarch Matter: The Parts and Labor of Textual Revision
• 3. Jeweler's Daughter Sings for Doge: Gaspara Stampa's Entrepreneurial Poetics
• 4. Incommensurate Gifts: Michelangelo and the Economy of Revision
• Part Two: Pierre De Ronsard and Pleiade Aesthetics
• 1. Polished to Perfection: Ronsard's Investment in Les Amours
• 2. Ronsard Furieux: Interest in Ariosto
• 3. Passions and Privations: Writing Sonnets like a Pro in Les Amours de Marie
• 4. The Smirched Muse: Commercializing Sonnets pour Helene Part Three: Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Economy of Petrarchan Aesthetics
• 1. To Possess Is Not to Own: The Cost of the Dark Lady and the Young Man
• 2. Polish and Skill: Will's Interest and Self-Interest in Sonnets 61-99
• 3. Owning Up to Furor: The "Poets' War" and Its Aftermath in Sonnets 100-126
• 4. Shakespeare as Professional: The Economy of Revision in Sonnets 1-60 Conclusion: Mercurial Economies.
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The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These "Petrarchan" poets were self-consciously aware of themselves as poets-as craftsmen, revisers, and professionals. As William J. Kennedy shows in Petrarchism at Work, this commitment to professionalism and the mastery of poetic craft is essential to understanding Petrarch's legacy. Petrarchism at Work contributes to recent scholarship that explores relationships between poetics and economic history in early-modern European literature. Kennedy traces the development of a Renaissance aesthetics from one based upon Platonic intuition and visionary furor to one grounded in Aristotelian craftsmanship and technique. Their polarities harbor economic consequences, the first privileging the poet's divinely endowed talent, rewarded by the autocratic largess of patrons, the other emphasizing the poet's acquired skill and hard work. Petrarch was the first to exploit the tensions between these polarities, followed by his poetic successors. These include Gaspara Stampa in the emergent salon society of Venice, Michelangelo Buonarroti in the "gift" economy of Medici Florence and papal Rome, Pierre de Ronsard and the poets of his Pleiade brigade in the fluctuant Valois court, and William Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the commercial world of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. As Kennedy shows, the poetic practices of revision and redaction by Petrarch and his successors exemplify the transition from a premodern economy of patronage to an early modern economy dominated by unstable market forces.
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• Gothic and romantic: an historical overview / Dale Townshend and Angela Wright
• Graveyard writing and the rise of the Gothic / Vincent Quinn
• Gothic romance / Deborah Russell
• The gothic stage: visions of instability, performances of anxiety / Diego Saglia
• Gothic poetry and first-generation romanticism / Joel Faflak
• Gothic and second-generation romanticism: Lord Byron, P.B. Shelley, John Polidori and Mary Shelley / Jerrold E. Hogle
• Political gothic fiction / Robert Miles
• Shorter gothic fictions: ballads and chapbooks, tales and fragments / Douglass H. Thomson and Diane Long Hoeveler
• Oriental gothic / Peter J. Kitson
• Gothic parody / Natalie Neill
• Gothic borders: Scotland, Ireland and Wales / Meiko O'Halloran
• Gothic travels / Mark Bennett
• The romantic and the gothic in Europe: the elementary spirits in France and Germany as a vehicle for the transmission and development of the Fantastique, 1772-1835 / Victor Sage
• American gothic passages / Carol Margaret Davison
• Gothic and the language of terror / Jane Hodson
• Gothic science / Andrew Smith
• Gender and sexuality in gothic romanticism / Patrick R. O'Malley
• Gothic forms of time: architecture, romanticism, medievalism / Tom Duggett
• Gothic theology / Alison Milbank.

Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a thorough critical, textual and historical account of the Gothic aesthetic as manifested across a wide-range of Romantic-era literary texts, from the adumbrations of the Gothic mode in the proto-Romantic poetry of the 1740s, through to the 'belated' Gothic fictions of the late 1820s. Self-consciously breaching, like Hume and Gamer before it, the critical divide between what literary history has subsequently differentiated as the 'Gothic' and the 'Romantic: this collection of 17 newly commissioned chapters seeks to draw attention to what G. R. Thompson in 1947 termed 'dark Romanticism: that is, that prominent strain in late 18th and early 19th-century British, American and European literature in which the distinction between the popular, low-cultural reaches of the Gothic and the 'High' Romantic aesthetics of more canonical figures is all but erased.
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• Ambivalence, confusion, and narrative fluidity
• Diodorus Siculus's narrative of Semiramis
• Manipulating the sight and site of royal bodies
• Viewing the royal body
• Semiramis as viewer
• Conclusion.

• Introduction
• Exposing the Protagonist: The Theory of Romantic Irony
• The Antagonist Speaks: Romantic Shakespeare, Grotesque Irony
• Revolutionary Catharsis: Shakespearean Negotiations in A.W. Schlegel, Stendhal and Hugo
• "Abnormal Specimens": The Shakespearean Grotesque in Baudelaire
• Conclusion: The Fates of the Grotesque.

This seminal book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. There are currently no book-length studies exploring the drama of the Romantic grotesque, a category that accentuates multiplicity and hybridity. The post-Kantian philosophy backing Friedrich Schlegel's Romantic irony provides the most decisive rationalisation of this plurality through theatrical play, and forms the theoretical framework for this study. Poetry and philosophy are merged in Schlegel's attempt to create Romantic modernity out of this self-conscious blurring of inherited perspectives and genres - a mixing and transgressing of past demarcations that simultaneously create the condition of the Romantic grotesque. The other writers examined in this book include A. W. Schlegel, Stendhal, Victor Hugo, and Baudelaire. The primary question is: how is the grotesque used to re-evaluate notions of aesthetic beauty? An answer emerges from a study of those thinkers in Schlegel's tradition who evolve a modern, ironic regard for conventional literary proprieties. Furthermore, how does the grotesque rewrite ideas of poetic subjectivity and expression? Here, Back and Forth foregrounds the enormous importance of Shakespeare as the literary example supporting the new theories. Shakespearean drama, which crosses aesthetic borders, legitimises the grotesque while reflecting the blood and gore of a post-Revolutionary Europe. Consequently, in reviewing hybrid texts like the Schlegelian fragments, Stendhal's Racine et Shakespeare, Hugo's Preface de Cromwell, and Baudelaire's De L'Essence du Rire, this book uses theories of continental Romanticism to reposition the significance of a vitally radical English aesthetic. Through this, Back and Forth claims that the Romantic revisioning of the Shakespearean grotesque helps create the ideas of post-Revolutionary modernity that are crucial to the larger projects of European Romanticism, and the ideas of modernity emerging from them.
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• Cover; Table of contents; Preface; The Importance of Literature and Cultural Transfer -Redefining Minority and Migrant Cultures; Part I Borders/Nation/Language, case Denmark/Germany; Germans making Danes. Germans and the German Language in Copenhagen and the Construction of Danish Culture 1750-1880; Language as cultural metaphor: The creation of a national identity in the German-Danish border area; Part II Cultural Transfer, Language Frontiers, Across Borders; The Discovery of Finland. Patterns in Cultural Transfer.

• Against all odds. Sally Salminen's Katrina and the possibilities of cultural transferPart III Minor Languages and Literary History/Within Borders; The rise, dispersal and stabilisation of New Norwegian literature; Towards a Monolingual Canon. Faroese and Danish on the Faroe Islands; Part IV Literary History/Within Borders/Without Borders; Anticolonial and Postcolonial De-/Constructions of the Nation Ethnonational Mobilisation in Meänmaa; Cultural Transmission. Diaspora Writing from the Balkans; About the Authors; Bibliography; Index.

• Table of Contents Cesar Dominguez. "Introduction"
• Part 1. Challenging Postnationalism/Cosmopolitanism Helena Buescu. "Europe between Old and New: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered" Cesar Dominguez. "Local Rooms with a Cosmopolitan View? Novels in/on the Limits of European Convergence" Sibylle Baumbach. "Rooting "New European Literature": A Reconsideration of the European Myth of the Postnational and Cynical Cosmopolitanism" Maria DiBattista. "Native Cosmopolitans"
• Part 2. What's New in European Literature? Susana Araujo. "European Security, European Identity? Fictions of Terror and Transnationality" Soren Frank. "Globalization, Migration literature, and the New Europe" Karen-Margrethe Simonsen. "Towards a New Europe? On Emergent and Transcultural Literary Histories"
• Part 3. Test Cases on Postnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the New Europe John Crosetti. "Europeanization, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Cases in the Crime Fiction of Poe, Gadda and Simenon" Birgit Mara Kaiser. "The Spaces of Transnational Literature: Or, Where on Earth Are We with Emine Sevgi OEzdamar's Der Hof im Spiegel?" Dorothy Odartey-Wellington. "Postnational or Postcolonial? Reading Immigrant Writing in Postnational Europe: The Case of Equatorial Guinea and Spain" Margarida Esteves Pereira. "A Transnational and Transcultural Perspective: Transcending the "Englishness" of English Literature" Aysegul Turan. "How to Become a "Rudeboy": Identity Formation and Transformation in Londonstani".
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In recent years postnational theory has become a primary tool for the analysis of European integration. Though interpretations of the concept vary, there is a wide consensus about postnationalism as a way to forge a European identity beyond a particular national history. In line with the German historical context in which this key concept was formulated in the first place, postnationalism is considered to be an adaptation of Kantian cosmopolitanism to the conditions of the modern world. This collection of essays is the first to systematically and comparatively explore the links between postnationalism and cosmopolitanism within the context of the "New Europe". Contributors: Susana Araujo, Sibylle Baumbach, Helena Buescu, John Crosetti, Maria DiBattista, Cesar Dominguez, Soren Frank, Birgit Mara Kaiser, Dorothy Odartey-Wellington, Maria Esteves Pereira, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Aysegul Turan.
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• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Writing Publics (Publics and Nation);
• 1. States, Nations, and Publics: The Politics of Language Reform in Renaissance England;
• 2. Translating the Law: Sir Edward Coke and the Formation of a Juristic Public;
• 3. Apocalyptics and Apologetics: Richard Helgerson on Elizabethan England's Religious Identity and the Formation of the Public Sphere; Part II: Forming Social Identities and Publics;
• 4. Perverse Delights: Cross Channel Trash Talk and Identity Publics;
• 5. Making Public the Private.

• 6. Public and Private Intercourse in Dutch Genre Scenes: Soldiers and Enigmatic Women / Painters and Enigmatic Paintings7. Sonnets from Carthage, Ballads from Prison: Entertainment and Public Making in Early Modern Spain; Part III: Networks and Publics;
• 8. Forms of Nationhood and Forms of Publics: Geography and Its Publics in Early Modern England;
• 9. "The Land Speaks": John Shrimpton's Antiquities of Verulam and St. Albans and the Making of Verulamium;
• 10. Collectors, Consumers, and the Making of a Seventeenth-Century English Ballad Public: From Networks to Spheres.

• 11. Forms of Internationality: The Album Amicorum and the Popularity of John Owen (1564-1622)Part IV: Theatrical Publicity;
• 12. The Voice of Caesar's Wounds: The Politics of Martyrdom in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar;
• 13. Shakespeare's Pains to Please;
• 14. The Political Fortunes of Robin Hood on the Early Modern Stage; Afterword: Richard Helgerson and Making Publics; About the Contributors; Index; Back Cover.

• Abbreviations Introduction: Dancing Around the Well
• 1. In the Beginning there was Chaos
• 2. A Gem in its Setting
• 3. Words Frozen and Thawed
• 4. Rhapsody in Prose
• 5. The Mosaic of Speech
• 6. The Universal Library
• 7. In a Roman Mirror Conclusion: Emptying the Well Bibliography Index locorum communium Index rerum Index nominum Index Erasmianus.
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This study examines the transmission and transformation of commonplace wisdom in Renaissance humanism by tracing a series of filiations between classical sayings, anecdotes, and exampes and Renaissance poems, essays, and fictions. The circulation of commonplaces can be understood either as a process of reanimation and revitalization, where frozen sayings thaw out and come to life, or conversely as a process of immobilization and incrustation that petrifies tradition. The paradigmatic figure for this process is the proverbial dance around the well, which expresses both the danger and the compulsion of borrowed speech.
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• Acknowledgments Preface: Re-Orienting Sexuality Part I: Theory and History
• 1. Histories of Cross-Cultural Encounter, Orientalism, and the Politics of Sexuality
• 2. Beautiful Boys, Sodomy, and Hamams: A Textual and Visual History of Tropes Part II: Geographies of Desire
• 3. Empire of 'Excesse, ' City of Dreams: Homoerotic Imaginings in Istanbul and the Ottoman World
• 4. Epic Ambitions and Epicurean Appetites: Egyptian Stories I
• 5. Colonialism and Its Aftermaths, Gide to Chahine: Egyptian Stories II Part III: Modes and Genres
• 6. Queer Modernism and Middle Eastern Poetic Genres: Appropriations, Forgeries, and Hoaxes
• 7. Looking Backward: Homoeroticism in Miniaturist Painting and Orientalist Art
• 8. Looking Again: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Visual Cultures Notes Index.
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One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism. To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and desires, Boone deploys a supple mode of analysis that reveals how the cultural exchanges between Middle East and West have always been reciprocal and often mutual, amatory as well as bellicose. Whether examining European accounts of Istanbul and Egypt as hotbeds of forbidden desire, juxtaposing Ottoman homoerotic genres and their European imitators, or unlocking the homoerotic encoding in Persian miniatures and Orientalist paintings, this remarkable study models an ethics of crosscultural reading that exposes, with nuance and economy, the crucial role played by the homoerotics of Orientalism in shaping the world as we know it today. A contribution to studies in visual culture as well as literary and social history, The Homoerotics of Orientalism draws on primary sources ranging from untranslated Middle Eastern manuscripts and European belles-lettres to miniature paintings and photographic erotica that are presented here for the first time.
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• Sascha Bru and Dirk de Geest: What Modernism Was and Is: By Way of an Introduction Hans Bertens: Towards Modernism Peter Liebregts: "The World Is a Fine Adventurous Place": Graham Greene in the 1930s Sjef Houppermans: Sorties or Entrenchment: Roussel, Crevel and Aragon between Avant-garde and Arriere-garde Jacqueline Bel: Intellectual Scepticism versus Avant-garde Bragging: Modernism in Dutch Literature Geert Buelens: "The Final Catholic": Paul van Ostaijen, and the Catholic Reveil around the First World War Koen Rymenants, Tom Sintobin and Pieter Verstraeten: Arriere-garde Perspectives on the History of Modern Literature: The Case of the Netherlands (1880-1940) Arthur Langeveld: How Modernism Disappeared from Fedor Gladkov's Cement between 1924 and 1958 Otto Boele: Biocosmism and the Russian Avant-garde: A Literary Cul-de-sac or the Road to Immortality? Paulo de Medeiros: Ten Times Pessoa Hero Hokwerda: Modernism in Greek Literature (1910-1940) Jan Baetens: Fun Home: Ithaca, Pennsylvania Peter Verstraten: A Modernist "Attempt at Cinema": The "Impurity" of Pierrot le Fou Peter de Voogd: Modernism and the Art of Printing: transition and Carolus Verhulst Marcel Cobussen: The (Post)Modern Music of Edgard Varese Notes on Contributors Index.
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This book manifests at least four recent shifts and tendencies within Modernist studies in general that point at the expansion of this increasingly interdisciplinary field. First, Modernist studies has seen a temporal expansion, to the extent that scholars in the field have come to turn to both the pre- and posterior history of Modernism. Second, the field has witnessed a spatial expansion, in that increasingly so researchers have also come to scrutinize the Modernisms of regions at the fringes of Europe, and beyond. Thirdly, a vertical expansion too has marked Modernist studies in recent decades, not only by further expanding the canon of women writers and exploring the continuum between high- and lowbrow, but also by looking at the artistic and mediatized hierarchies and cross-fertilizations operative in the period. A fourth conceptual expansion of the field shows that whereas concepts such as "middlebrow, " "arri re-garde, " and to some extent even "avant-garde, " were once exotic notions of at best marginal importance in European Modernist studies, they now form part and parcel of the field, complicating and expanding it conceptually.
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• Introduction / Juliana Dresvina and Nicholas Sparks
• Hussies, matrons, and others in Carolingian chronicles / Jinty Nelson
• Women in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle before AD 800 / Ben Snook
• Representing authority in an early Medieval chronicle: submission, rebellion and the limits of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle / Ryan Lavelle
• Monastic authority and the landscape in the Ecclesiastical History of orderic vitalis / Leonie V. Hicks
• The enthroned king in La estoire de seint Aedward le rei (Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.
• 3. 59) / Judith Collard
• Images of Queen Melisende / Sarah Lambert
• Perspicax ingenium mihi collatum est: strategies of authority in chronicles written by women / Graeme Dunphy
• The language of authority? The source texts for the dual chronicles of the 'Anonymous of Béthune' (fl. c. 1220) and the evolution of old French prose historiography / Gregory Fedorenko
• Clerc, chevalier, aucteur: the authorial personae of French Medieval historians (12th-15th centuries) / Christian Bratu
• The shadow of Dido: an interpretation of the Trojan episodes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Juliana Dresvina
• "What you hear is the truth": authorization strategies in late Medieval Swedish rhymed chronicles / Margaretha Nordquist
• "Ung dressoir de cinq degrez": Mary of Burgundy and the construction of the image of the female ruler / Olga Karaskova
• Staging the court: auto-iconicity and female authority around a 1478 Burgundian Baptism / Noa Turel
• Questionable authority: female sovereigns and their consorts in Medieval and Renaissance chronicles / Elena Woodacre.

This volume is an attempt to discuss the ways in which themes of authority and gender can be traced in the writing of chronicles and chronicle-like writings from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With major contributions by fourteen authors, each of them specialists in the field, this study spans full across the compass of medieval and early modern Europe, from England and Scandinavia, to Byzantium and the Crusader Kingdoms; embraces a variety of media and methods; and touches evidence from diverse branches of learning such as language and literature, history and art, to name just a few. This is an important collection which will be of the highest utility for students and scholars of language, literature, and history for many years to come.
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• Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on Editions, Translations, and Abbreviations Chapter One The Romance Globe: Why the Renaissance Repainted Greek Romance Chapter Two Converso Convertida: Cross-dressed Narration and Ekphrastic Interpretation in Leucippe and Clitophon and Clareo y Florisea Chapter Three Amazon Eyes and Shifting Emblems in Sidney's Greek Arcadia Chapter Four Painting Counterfeit Canvases: Heliodoran Pictographs, American Lienzos, and European Imaginings of the Barbarian in Cervantes' Persiles Chapter Five Pictura Locorum: Heliodoran Hieroglyphs and Anglo-African Identity in Barclay's Argenis Chapter Six "We are all picturd in that Piece": Lovers, Persians, Tartars, and the "Tottering" Romance Globe in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania Conclusions Works Cited.
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The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of visual representation, as a tool for characterization. The Emblematics of the Self shows how the women, foreigners, and non-Christians of these tales reveal their identities and desires in their responses to the 'verbal pictures' of romance. Elizabeth B. Bearden illuminates how 'verbal pictures' enliven characterization in English, Spanish, and Neolatin romances from 1552 to 1621. She notes the capacity for change among characters - such as cross-dressed Amazons, shepherdish princesses, and white Mauritanians - who traverse transnational cultural and aesthetic environments. Engaging and rigorous, The Emblematics of the Self breaks new ground in understanding hegemonic and cosmopolitan European conceptions of the 'other, ' as well as new possibilities for early modern identities, in an increasingly global Renaissance.
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• Table of contents; list of images; editors' preface; introduction; part i; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; part ii; chapter four; chapter five; chapter six; part iii; chapter seven; chapter eight; chapter nine; part iv; chapter ten; chapter eleven; chapter twelve; chapter thirteen; contributors; index.

The European Avant-Garde: Text and Image is an interdisciplinary collection of thirteen essays relating to the study of European Avant-Garde movements between 1900 and 1940. The essays cover both literary and artistic subjects, across geographical, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries. Various aspects of the English, Irish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish avant-gardes are explored, examining both diverse literary genres such as prose, poetry and drama, and specific avant-garde movements such as Futurism and Surrealism. The volume includes a lengthy introductory essay by Prof. John J. White, Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Literature at King's College London. Avant-garde studies can be enhanced and developed through dialogue with other disciplines, such as translation, gender, exile and comparative studies. Thus, the volume is divided into four sections: Representations of the Body; Translating the Avant-Garde, Identity and Exile; and Comparative Perspectives and the Legacy of the Avant-Garde.
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• Introduction; Part I. Games for Example;
• 1. Theology and the Law: Dice in the Air;
• 2. Numbers and Calculation in Context: The Game of Decision-Pascal;
• 3. Writing the Calculation of Chances: Justiceand Fair Game-Christiaan Huygens;
• 4. Probability, a Postscript to the Theory of Chance: Logic and Contractual Law-Arnauld, Leibniz, Pufendorf;
• 5. Probability Applied: Ancient Topoi and the Theory of Games of Chance-Jacob Bernoulli;
• 6. Continued Proclamations: The Law of logica probabilium-Leibniz;
• 7. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or, The Improbability of Survival.

• Part II. Verisimilitude Spelled Out8. Numbers and Tables in Narration: Juristsand Clergymen and Their Bureaucratic Hobbies;
• 9. Novels and Tables: Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Schnabel's Die Insel Felsenburg;
• 10. The Theory of Probability and the Form of the Novel: Daniel Bernoulli on Utility Value, the Anthropology of Risk, and Gellert's Epistolary Fiction;
• 11. "Improbable Probability": The Theory of the Novel and Its Trope-Fielding's Tom Jones and Wieland's Agathon;
• 12. The Appearance of Truth: Logic, Aesthetics, and Experimentation-Lambert.

• 13. "Probable" or Plausible": Mathematical Formula Versus Philosophical Discourse-Kant14. Kleist's "Improbable Veracities, " or, A Romantic Ending; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet. Campe begs to differ. Mathematical probability, he argues, took over the role of the old probability of poets, orators, and logicians, albeit in scientific terms. Indeed, mathematical probability would not even have been possible without the other probability, whose roots lay in classical antiquity. The Game of Probability revisits the seventeenth and eighteenth-century ""probabilistic revolution, "" providing a history of the re.

• Tasso's silent lyre
• The oldest song: Ronsard and Spenser
• Interchapter: The lutanist and the nightingale
• Harps in Babylon: Cowley, Davenant, Butler
• Milton's lament
• Epic opera
• Coda: The singer withdraws.

This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors. Welch shows how the period's writers imagined lost civilizations built on speech and song-from Homeric Greece and Celtic Britain to the Americas-and struggled to reconcile this oral inheritance with an early modern culture of the book. Welch's wide-ranging study offers a new perspective on Renaissance Europe's epic literature and its troubled relationship with antiquity.
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• Introduction. Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: A Significant Domain Ignored For Too Long by Modern Research?
• Reforming the Monastic Landscape: Peter Damian's Design for Personal and Communal Devotion
• Women's Place and Women's Space in the Medieval Village
• "Gebrochen bluomen unde gras": Medieval Ecological Consciousness in Selected Poems by Walther von der Vogelweide
• Utopian Space in the Countryside: Love and Marriage between a Knight and a Peasant Girl in Medieval German Literature. Hartmann von Aue's Der arme Heinrich, Anonymous, "Dis ist von dem Heselin, " Walther von der Vogelweide, Oswald von Wolkenstein, and Late Medieval Popular Poetry
• Rural Space and Agricultural Space in the Old French Fabliaux and the Roman de Renart
• Moor, Court, and River in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi
• Rural Space and Transgressive Space in Bérenger au lonc cul
• Life on the Manor and in Rural Space: Answering the Challenges of Social Decay in William Langland's Piers Plowman
• Landscape of Luxuries: Mahaut d'Artois's (1302-1329) Management and Use of the Park at Hesdin
• Hunting or Gardening: Parks and Royal Rural Space
• The Significance of Rural Space in Guillaume de Palerne
• The Forest as Locus of Transition and Transformation in the Epic Romance Berte as grans piés
• Juan Manuel's Libro de la caza (1325?)
• Hunting as Salvation in Gaston Phébus's Livre de la chasse (1387-1389)
• Rural Space in Late Medieval Books of Hours: Book Illustrations as a Looking Glass Into Medieval Mentality and Mirrors of Ecocriticism
• The Tame Wilderness of Princes: Images of Nature in Exemplars of Books of Hours and in the Livre du Coeur d'amour épris of King René of Anjou
• Marshy Spaces in the Middle English Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: Physical and Spiritual Territory
• Peasant Authors and Peasant Haters: Matazone da Caligano and the Ambiguity of the Satira del villano in High and Late Medieval Italy
• "Lazarus and Abraham, our Jews of Eggenburg": Jews in the Austrian Countryside in the Fourteenth Century
• Small Town, Big Business: A Wealthy Jewish Moneylender in the Austrian Countryside
• Usos rerum rusticarum: Malae consuetudines, male usos lege and Peasant Rebellion as Resistance or Adaptation to Legal Change
• Village People: The Presence of the Rural in Late Medieval French Comedies
• Uprooted Trees and Slaughtered Peasants: The Savaging of Rural Space in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532)
• Representations of the Plowman and the Prostitute in Puritan and AntiPuritan Satire: Or the Rhetoric of Plainness and the Reformation of the Popular in the Harvey Nashe Quarrel
• The Poet in Exile: Robert Herrick and the "loathed Country life"
• Women at the Hunt: Developing a Gendered Logic of Rural Space in the Netherlandish Visual Tradition
• "The free Enjoyment of the Earth": Gerrard Winstanley on Land Reform.

Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to consider the meaning of rural space, both in light of ecocritical readings and social-historical approaches. While previous scholars examined the figure of the peasant in the premodern world, the current volume combines a large number of specialized studies that investigate how the natural environment and the appearance of members of the rural population interacted with the world of the court and of the city. The experience in rural space was important already for writers and artists in the premodern era, as the large variety of scholarly approaches indicates. The present volume signals how much the surprisingly close interaction between members of the aristocratic and of the peasant class determined many literary and art-historical works. In a surprisingly large number of cases we can even discover elements of utopia hidden in rural space. We also observe how much the rural world was a significant element already in early-medieval mentality. Moreover, as many authors point out, the impact of natural forces on premodern society was tremendous, if not catastrophic.
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• Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction to Text and Image in Modern European Culture; Part One: Cross-Cultural Networks; The Myth of Psyche in the Work of D'Annunzio and Burne-Jones; The Symbolist Context of the Siren Motif in Moreau's Painting and Bryusov's Poetry; Images of Paris in the Work of Brassaï and Miller; Part Two: Ekphrasis and Beyond; The Reciprocation of the Image in Two Poems by Rilke; Photography and Painting in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu; Photography in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu; Part Three: Text and Design.

• Text and Image in Fashion Periodicals of the Second French EmpireArchitecture and Utopia in Scheerbart's Rakkóx der Billionär; Part Four: Hybrid Texts; Word and Image in Apollinaire's "Lettre-Océan"; Text-Image Relations in French and Spanish Surrealist Literary Reviews from the 1920s and 1930s; How to Read a Poetic Photo-Text; Part Five: Multimedia Encounters; Constructivist and Futurist Multimedia Experiments in Russian Poetry; Science and Symptom from Mallarmé to the Digital Poet; Part Six: Thematic Bibliography; Bibliography for the Study of Text and Image in Modern European Culture.

Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of comparative cultural studies, work presented in this volume explores international creative dialogues between writers and visual artists, ekphrasis in literature, literature and design (fashion, architecture), hybrid texts (visual poetry, surrealist pocket museums, poetic photo-texts), and text and image relations under the impact of modern technologies (avant-garde experiments, digital poetry). The discussion encompasses pivotal fin de siecle, modernist, and postmodernist works and movements in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, and Spain. A selected bibliography of work published in the field is also included. The volume will appeal to scholars of comparative literature, art history, and visual studies, and includes contributions appropriate for supplementary reading in senior undergraduate and graduate seminars.
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• Notes on the Editors List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction LIEKE STELLING AND TODD M. RICHARDSON
• PART ONE - AUTHENTICITY La Confession Catholique du Sieur de Sancy: The Swan Song of the Zealous Protestants MATHILDE BERNARD 'The Conversion of Christian II of Denmark in Roman Catholic Diplomatic Literature, 1530-1532 FEDERICO ZULIANI `Thy Very Essence is Mutability': Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama, 1558-1642 LIEKE STELLING Turning Persia: The Prospect of Conversion in Safavid Iran CHLOE HOUSTON
• Narrating Conversion and Subjecthood in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands E. NATALIE ROTHMAN
• PART TWO - AGENCY `Most necessarily to be knowne': The Conversion Narratives of Samuel Smith PHILIP MAJOR Converting England: Mysticism, Nationalism, and Symbolism in the Poetry of John Donne JAYME M. YEO Conversion in James Shirley's St Patrick for Ireland (1640) ALISON SEARLE Salutary Reading: Conversion and Calvinist Humanism in Constantijn Huygens' Ooghentroost LISE GOSSEYE
• PART THREE - IMITATION Between Conversion and Apostasy: Moriens's Struggle and the Fate of the Soul JOHN R. DECKER The Sermons of a Rabbi Converted to Christianity: Between Synagogue and Church SHULAMIT FURSTENBERG-LEVI Parabolic Analogy and Spiritual Discernment in Jeronimo Nadal's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia of 1595 WALTER S. MELION Sight and insight: Paul as a Model of Conversion in Rhetoricians' Drama BART RAMAKERS Rhetorics of the Pulpit XANDER VAN ECK
• Bibliography Index Nominum.
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The religious upheavals of the early modern period and the fierce debate they unleashed about true devotion gave conversion an unprecedented urgency. With their rich variety of emotive, aesthetic and rhetoric means of expression, literature and the visual arts proved particularly well-adapted means to address, explore and represent the complex nature of conversion. At the same time, many artists and authors experimented with the notion that the expressive character of their work could cultivate a sensory experience for the viewer that enacted conversion. Indeed, focusing on conversion as one of early modern Europe's most pressing religious issues, this volume demonstrates that conversion cannot be separated from the creative and spiritual ways in which it was given meaning. Contributors include Mathilde Bernard, John R. Decker, Xander van Eck, Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi, Lise Gosseye, Chloe Houston, Philip Major, Walter Melion, Bart Ramakers, E. Natalie Rothman, Alison Searle, Lieke Stelling, Jayme Yeo, and Federico Zuliani.
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• Contents: Preface-- Introduction: the emergence of discourses: early modern friendship, Daniel T. Lochman and Maritere LA(3)pez-- Part I Conventional Discourses Re-Imagined: Bound by likeness: Vives and Erasmus on marriage and friendship, Constance M. Furey-- Triangulating humanist friendship: More, Giles, Erasmus and the making of the Utopia, Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski-- Friendship's passion: love-fellowship in Sidney's New Arcadia, Daniel T. Lochman. Part II Alternative Discourses: Friendship in the Margins: GuzmA!n de Alfarache's 'other self': the limits of friendship in Spanish picaresque fiction, Donald Gilbert-SantamarA-a-- The courtesan's gift: reciprocity and friendship in the letters of Camilla Pisana and Tullia D'Aragona, Maritere LA(3)pez-- The 'single lyfe' of Isabella Whitney: love, friendship and the single woman writer, Allison Johnson-- 'Friendship multiplyed': Royalist and Republican friendship in Katherine Philips's coterie, Penelope Anderson. Part III Friendship in Ethics and Politics: 'My foule, faulce brest': friendship and betrayal in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania, Sheila T. Cavanagh-- The friendship of the wicked in Novella 12 of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron, Marc D. Schachter-- 'To plainness is honour bound': deceptive friendship in King Lear, Wendy Olmstead-- Politics and friendship in William Cartwright's The Lady-Errant, Christopher Marlow-- Milton against servitude: classical friendship, tyranny, and the law of nature, Gregory Chaplin-- From civic friendship to communities of believers: Anabaptist challenges to Lutheran and Calvinist discourses, Thomas Heilke-- Afterword, Lorna Hutson-- Works cited-- Index.
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Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection examines the varied and complex ways in which early modern Europeans imagined, discussed and enacted friendship, a fundamentally elective relationship between individuals otherwise bound in prescribed familial, religious and political associations. The volume is carefully designed to reflect the complexity and multi-faceted nature of early modern friendship, and each chapter comprises a case study of specific contexts, narratives and/or lived friendships. Contributors include scholars of British, French, Italian and Spanish culture, offering literary, historical, religious, and political perspectives. Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 lays the groundwork for a taxonomy of the transformations of friendship discourse in Western Europe and its overlap with emergent views of the psyche and the body, as well as of the relationship of the self to others, classes, social institutions and the state.
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• Part 1. Cosmic imagination. Kepler sets the Earth in motion ; Genealogy of the dream: from ludus philosophicus to the game of fiction ; The dynamics of the voyage: a thought-experiment ; Vision in the voyage ; The place of fiction ; Godwin, Wilkins, Cyrano: from the optical voyage to the mechanical voyage ; The Man in the Moone ; A World in the Moon ; From heavens to the sky: Cyrano's other world ; Conclusions: dreams and fictions
• part 2. Conjectural machines. Fontenelle: unveiling the spectacle of the world ; Machine and spectacle ; Order of the narrative, harmony of the world ; Fontenelle's visions ; Huygens: the theoretical voyage of The Cosmotheoros ; Hypotheses, conjectures, fictions ; Architectonics of the narrative ; Conclusions: hypotheses and narratives
• part 3. Observing monsters. Robert Hooke: "the armed eye" ; Micrographia ; From enargeia to evidence ; Hooke the astronomer ; Poetics of proof ; Instruments and images ; Margaret Cavendish: the battle of instruments ; "A high heel to a short leg" ; A teratology of knowledge ; The empire of fiction.

In today's academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fiction. During the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, however, the two fields were not so distinct. Just as the natural philosophers of the era were discovering in and adopting from literature new strategies and techniques for their discourse, so too were poets and storytellers finding inspiration in natural philosophy, particularly in astronomy. A work that speaks to the history of science and literary studies, "Fictions of the Cosmos" explores the evolving relationship that ensued between fiction and astronomical authority. By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, Frederique Ait-Touati shows that it was through the telling of stories - such as accounts of celestial journeys - that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide. Ait-Touati draws from both cosmological treatises and fictions of travel and knowledge, as well as personal correspondences, drawings, and instruments, to emphasize the multiple borrowings between scientific and literary discourses. This volume sheds new light on the practices of scientific invention, experimentation, and hypothesis formation by situating them according to their fictional or factual tendencies.
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• Back to Burckhardt (plus the reformations)
• In defense of passion and the body
• Against the rule of reason: praise of passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert
• Against judgment: Petrarch and Shakespeare at sonnets
• Against morality: from Richard III to Antony and Cleopatra
• Appendix 1: Shakespearean seduction
• Appendix 2: morality and the happy infant: the case of Macbeth
• In defense of worldliness
• Sanctifying the bourgeoisie: the cultural work of the comedy of errors
• Appendix: sanctifying the aristocracy: from Ignatius Loyola to François de Sales (and then to Donne and Herbert)
• In defense of pride
• Self-revelation and self-satisfaction in Montaigne and Descartes
• Milton against humility
• Appendix: "lordly command?"

Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them.aRichard Strier reveals that many long-recognized major texts did question the most traditional values and uncovers a Renaissance far more bumptious and affirmative than much recent scholarship has allowed.a"The Unrepentant Renaissance "counters the prevalent view of the period as dominated by the regulation of bodies and passions, aiming to reclaim the Renaissance as an era happily churning with surprising, worldly, and self-assertive energies. Reviving the perspective of Jacob Burckhardt and Nietzsche, Strier provides fresh and uninhibited readings of texts by Petrarch, More, Shakespeare, Ignatius Loyola, Montaigne, Descartes, and Milton. StrierOCOs lively argument will stir debate throughout the field of Renaissance studies.a.
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• Frontmatter; Inhaltsverzeichnis;
• 1. Einleitung;
• 2. Interferenzen von Literatur und Wissenschaft im
• 18. Jahrhundert;
• 3. Das Verhältnis von Literatur und Wissenschaft an der Schwelle zum
• 19. Jahrhundert;
• 4. Die paradoxe Verwissenschaftlichung des Romans im Realismus/Naturalismus;
• 5. Die wissenschaftliche und literarische Infragestellung des Subjekts im frühen
• 20. Jahrhundert;
• 6. Die Grenzen der Literatur;
• 7. Literatur und moderne Physik oder die Sichtbarmachung des Unbeobachtbaren;
• 8. Zusammenfassung; Backmatter.

Vor dem Hintergrund der funktionalen Ausdifferenzierung der modernen Gesellschaft wird in der Monographie das Verhältnis von Literatur und Wissenschaft untersucht. Die Beispiele aus dem französischen (Diderot, Rousseau, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Houellebecq), deutschsprachigen (Goethe, Freud, Musil), italienischen (Vico, Manzoni, Pirandello, Svevo, Calvino, Del Giudice) und spanischsprachigen Bereich (Pío Baroja, Borges, Cortázar, Volpi) zeigen, dass es trotz der zunehmenden Trennung von Literatur und Wissenschaft zu poetologisch und epistemologisch aufschlussreichen Interferenzen k.

• Frontmatter
• Inhaltsverzeichnis
• Einleitung
• 1. Wegbereiter: Ernst Robert Curtius
• 2. Insel: Victor Hugo und Miguel de Unamuno
• 3. Schiffbruch: José Ortega y Gasset
• 4. Garten: Eugeni d'Ors und René Schickele
• 5. Abschied: Heinrich Mann
• 6. Reise: André Gide und Klaus Mann
• Rückblick und Ausblick
• Backmatter.

Europa? Das sei eine Erfindung der Dichter, sagt Heinrich Mann und verweist damit auf eine Verbindung, die seit Jahrhunderten Bestand hat: diejenige zwischen der europäischen Literatur und Europa als ihrem Thema. Imperium, Zivilisation, Vereinigte Staaten, Ordnungsmacht oder Friedensprojekt - in literarischen Texten werden die unterschiedlichsten Vorstellungen von Europa formuliert und diskutiert. Ausgehend von einer komparatistischen Untersuchung der Werke von neun Schriftstellern versucht die Studie eine Antwort auf die Frage nach der Beziehung zwischen dem Medium Literatur und dem Thema Europa. Sie setzt dazu verschiedene Entwürfe aus der deutschen, spanischen, französischen und katalanischen Literatur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts miteinander in Verbindung und analysiert Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede, Kontinuitäten und Brüche, Parallelen und Divergenzen. Auf diese Weise zeigt sie die Konstruktionsprinzipien eines literarischen Europas auf, das sich auch dadurch auszeichnet, dass in den Versuchen einer literarischen Festschreibung des Kontinents die unterschiedlichsten Diskurse miteinander in Verbindung gesetzt werden können. So zeigt sich, dass das Wissen der europäischen Literatur von Europa immer auch ein Wissen der Literatur von sich selbst und von ihren eigenen Bedingungen und Prämissen ist.

• Preface-- Introduction-- Chapter One: Local-Color Literature and the Colonizations of Modernity-- Chapter Two: The Irish National Tale-- Chapter Three: The Scottish National Tale-- Chapter Four: Dorfgeschichte: The German Village Tale-- Chapter Five: Romans Champetres: French Provincial Literature-- Epilogue: A Sketch of the Local-Color Movement in Other Countries-- Works Cited and Other Relevant Titles.
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This is a pioneering work in comparative European literature by a leading American scholar. So-called Local Color Literature emerged in the mid nineteenth century, both in the United States and Europe. The US tradition has received scholarly attention, most notably by Donovan herself, whose pioneering work opened up the field. Her new book, on the European tradition, fills a significant gap in the literary history of Western culture. It covers the German ("Dorfgeschichten" - more or less "village histories"), French ("Contes" or "stories"), Irish, and Scottish traditions in detail, with a chapter devoted to each. In Germany, the tradition has been neglected by critics and commentators because of an unfair association with the Nazi heimet (home) literature. A final chapter will limn the European influence on the American local colorists - an influence not studied before. In an age of globalization, with the fears we all have of conformity and homogenization, interest in local-color literatures is growing. This book will help bring these literatures and their tradition back to life.
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• Graeme Dunphy and Rainer Emig: Introduction Alexander Woell: Hybridity and Humour in Modern Polish Literature Delia Chiaro: Laughing At or Laughing With? Italian Comic Stereotypes Viewed From Within the Peripheral Group Michiel van Kempen: Dutch Tulips in Unexpected Colours: Humour in Dutch Migrant Writing: Kader Abdolah, Sevtap Baycili, Khalid Boudou, Edgar Cairo Hedi Abdel-Jaouad: Beur Hybrid Humour Graeme Dunphy: Cold Turkey: Domesticating and Demythologising the Exotic in the German Satires of Sinasi Dikmen, Muhsin Omurca and Django Asul Rainer Emig: The Empire Tickles Back: Hybrid Humour (and Its Problems) in Contemporary Asian-British Comedy Notes on Contributors.
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An interdisciplinary and transcultural study of comedy in a pan-European perspective that include East, West, and Southern European examples. These range from humour in Polish poetry via jokes about Italian migrants in English-speaking TV commercials to Turkish comedy, literature and cartoons in Germany, Turkish, Surinamese, Iranian and Moroccan literary humour in the Netherlands, Beur humour in many media in France, and Asian humour in literature, film, and TV series in Great Britain. The volume is prefaced and informed by contemporary postcolonial theories that show humour not as an essential quality of each particular culture or as a common denominator of humanity, but as a complex structure of dialogue, conflict, and sometimes resolution. The volume is of interest for students and scholars of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies as well as for students and experts in the cultures and literatures that are covered in the collection of essays. It is relevant for courses on globalisation, migration, and integration.
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• Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: ugly subjects in early modern England
• 1. Theorising ugliness
• 2. 'Charactered in my brow': deciphering ugly faces
• 3. Opening the Silenus: gendering the ugly subject
• 4. 'Sight of her is a vomit': abject bodies and Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy
• 5. 'To make love to a deformity': praising ugliness
• 6. Sacrificing beauty: defeatured women Bibliography
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Plain ugly examines depictions of physically repellent characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. The book focuses closely on English literary culture but also engages with wider European perspectives, drawing on a wide array of primary sources including Italian and other European visual art. Offering illuminating close readings of texts from both high and low culture, it will interest scholars in English literature, cultural studies, women's studies, history and art history, as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students in these disciplines. As an accessible and absorbing account of the power dynamics informing depictions of ugliness (and beauty) in relation to some of the quirkiest literary and visual material to be found in early modern culture, it will also appeal to a wider audience. -- .
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• Introduction: Toward a New Conception of Women's Literary History ANKE GILLEIR AND ALICIA C. MONTOYA
• Female Spaces, Female Communities `To Promote God's Praise and her Neighbour's Salvation'. Strategies of Authorship and Readership among Mystic Women in the Later Middle Ages MADELEINE JEAY AND KATHLEEN GARAY Gendering Place: The Role of Place in Anne Krabbe's Ballad Works ANNE-MARIE MAI `To Make Frequent Assemblies, Associations, and Combinations Amongst Our Sex.' Nascent Ideas of Female Bonding in Seventeenth-Century England INA SCHABERT Women and Literary Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Lisbon VANDA ANASTACIO
• Appropriating Literary Genre Female Writing and the Use of Literary Byways. Pastoral Drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-1595) PHILIEP BOSSIER Prescriptions for Women: Alchemy, Medicine and the Renaissance Querelle des Femmes MEREDITH K. RAY The Appropriation of the Genre of Nuptial Poetry by Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711) NINA GEERDINK Madame de Maintenon au miroir de sa correspondance: rehabilitation du personnage et redecouverte d'une ecriture feminine CHRISTINE MONGENOT AND HANS BOTS French Women Writers and Heroic Genres PERRY GETHNER
• Transnational Perspectives The Tartar Girl, The Persian Princess, and Early Modern English Women's Authorship from Elizabeth I to Mary Wroth BERNADETTE ANDREA A Cloistered Nun Abroad: Arcangela Tarabotti's International Literary Career LARA LYNN WESTWATER Traveller, Pedagogue and Cultural Mediator: Marie-Elisabeth de La Fite and her Female Context INEKE JANSE Translation and Intellectual Reflection in the Works of Enlightened Spanish Women: Ines Joyes (1731-1808) MONICA BOLUFER `Nous voudrions que les femmes s'occupent de la litterature': Traductions des romancieres francaises en Russie autour de 1800 ELENA GRETCHANAIA
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Interest in early modern women writers is on the rise. However, familiarity with their works varies greatly from one country to another, and resources to assess their historical significance remain insufficient. Yet empirical evidence suggests that women writers who are no longer well-known today played surprisingly varied roles in the literary field of early modern Europe. The papers collected in this volume address early modern female authorship from the late Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, ranging geographically from Portugal to Russia, and from Italy to Denmark. In particular, they focus on three themes: the creation of female spaces or communities; women's appropriation of existing or developing literary genres; and transnational perspectives on early modern women's writings. Contributors include: Vanda Anastacio, Bernadette Andrea, Monica Bolufer, Philiep Bossier, Hans Bots, Kathleen Garay, Nina Geerdink, Perry Gethner, Elena Gretchanaia, Ineke Janse, Madeleine Jeay, Anne-Marie Mai, Christine Mongenot, Meredith Ray, Ina Schabert, and Lynn Lara Westwater.
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• Borderless Europe, decentring avant-garde, mosaic modernism
• "What's the difference?" Revisiting the concepts of modernism and the avant-garde / Astradur Eysteinsson
• The Slovenian interwar literacy avant-garde and its canonization / Marijan Dović
• Toward a horizontal history of the European avant-garde / Piotr Piotrowski
• The 20th century: century of the arrière-gardes? / William Marx
• "The serpent eats its tail": avant-garde and arrière-garde in Paris, 1943-1953 / Natalie Adamson
• How we look and read: the European avant-garde's imprint on 20th-century theory / Sascha Bru
• Phönix Europa? Krieg und kultur in Rudolf Pannwitz' und Hugo von Hofmannsthals europäischer idée / Cristina Fossaluzza
• Europa minor. Yvan and Claire Goll's Europe / Andreas Kramer
• La revue Zenit: une avant-garde entre particularisme identitaire et internationalism / Delphine Bière-Chauvel
• Europa: une manifestation des avant-gardes européennes / Liliane Meffre
• L'avant-garde bulgare de l'entre-deux-guerres comme exemple de l'<<autre Europe>> / Svetlana Ilieva
• History or Europe: images of Europe and defense of poetic innovation in post-1918 Poland / Ayelet Agnieszka Marczyk
• Ästhetische moderne und totalitäres anti-Europa: des spanische avantgardist Ernesto Gimenéz Caballero / Mechthild Albert
• Ezra Pound's fascist "Europa": toward the Pisan cantos / Ron Bush
• Writing the foundations of a better world: the role of Anglo-German literary exchange in the reconstruction of Germany and the construction of Europe, 1945-1949 / Lara Feigel
• Avant-garde or civil service? Yves Kein, Werner Ruhnau and "the European situation" / Noit Banai
• Discours internationaliste et conscience identitaire des échanges culturels: l'exemple belgo-allemand (Der Sturm, Résurrection) / Francis Mus, Hubert Roland & Dennis Van Mol
• Historizing modern art: the "difficult" names / Irina Genova
• The insignia of modernity and "le movement Apollinaire" / Jed Rasula
• Okkultismus, esoteric, mystic und die ikonographie des unsichtbaren in der fruhen mitteleuropäischen avant-garde. Das beispiel der posener gruppe bunt und des bauhausprofessors Lothar Schreyer / Lidia Głuchowska
• Apolkalypse als Narrenspiel: Kurt Schwitters und die mystic / Götz-Lothar Darsow
• Messianic endgames in German-Jewish expressionist literature / Vivian Liska
• "Here I am at home- here I am in a foreign land": multilingualism, modernism, and (de)territorialization in the works of the Finland-Swedish writer Elmer Diktonius / Julia Tidigs
• Configurations <<autographiques>> dans Mémoires d'une liseuse de draps de Belen/Nelly Kaplan, ou comment déclencher le fou rire / Andrea Oberhuber
• Artificial Africa in the European avant-garde: Marinetti and Tzara / Kai Mikkonen
• Seeing African sculpture: Carl Einstein's "ethnographie du blanc" / Rainer Rumold
• Surrealism for the ear: Paul Deharme's radio-plays / Anke Birkenmaier
• Amauta, l'Europe et les avant-gardes / Isabelle Krzywkowski
• Carpentier's marvelous real: modernity and its discontents in the tropics / Esther Sanchez-Pardo
• Amerika, Europa in Transition (1927-1938): literatursprachliche interkulturalität und transgressionen des avantgardesubjekts / Thomas Borgard
• Travels of an avant-gardist, West-East-West: on Kawara / Wolfgang Müller-Funk
• The colour of modernism: colour-form experiments in Europe and Australia / Andrew McNamara.

The first volume of the new series "European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies" focuses on the relation between the avant-garde, modernism and Europe. It combines interdisciplinary and intermedial research on experimental aesthetics and poetics. The essays, written by experts from more than fifteen countries, seek to bring out the complexity of the European avant-garde and modernism by relating it to Europe's intricate history, multiculturalism and multilingualism. They aim to inquire into the divergent cultural views on Europe taking shape in avant-garde and modernist practices and to chart a composite image of the "other Europe(s)" that have emerged from the (contemporary) avant-garde and experimental modernism. How did the avant-garde and modernism in (and outside) Europe give shape to local, national and pan-European forms of identity and community? To what extent does the transnational exchange and cross-fertilisation of aesthetic tendencies illustrate the well-rehearsed claim that the avant-gardes form a typically European phenomenon? Dealing with canonised as well as lesser known exponents of modernism and the avant-garde throughout Europe, this book will appeal to all those interested in European cultural, literary and art history.
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• Theo D'haen: Introduction Models for European Literature Pascale Casanova: European Literature: Simply a Higher Degree of Universality? Vladimir Biti: Toward a Literary Community? Francoise Meltzer: What is Wrong with National Literature Departments? Sigrid Weigel: On the "Topographical Turn": Concepts of Space in Cultural Studies and Kulturwissenschaften: A Cartographic Feud Thomas Claviez: What is a European? Letters from a European Americanist Kristian Van Haesendonck: From Atavism to Creolization: "Europeanness" in Contemporary Caribbean Discourse Ottmar Ette: European Literature(s) in the Global Context: Literatures for Europe Robert J.C. Young: English and the Language of Others Satu Groendahl: Multicultural or Multilingual Literature: A Swedish Dilemma? Stephanos Stephanides: Turning East The Cultural Work of Memory in European Literature John Neubauer: Voices from Exile: A Literature for Europe? Mara Cambiaghi: A Gentleman Writer and His Sister: The Alternative Worlds of Beppe and Marisa Fenoglio Gerhard Fischer: Writing ex patria: W.G. Sebald and the Construction of a Literary Identity Christoph Parry: Constructing European Identity in Fiction: Three Strategies Wiljan van den Akker and Gillis Dorleijn: Did we Stop Reading Poetry? An Optimistic Approach to Cultural Pessimism Jose M. Gonzalez Garcia: Spanish Literature and the Recovery of Historical Memory Lisbeth Stenberg: Marginalization and Paradoxes of Identity Formation Anne Heith: Europeanization and Regional Particularity: The Northern Lights Route and the Writings of Bengt Pohjanen Helena Bodin: Byzantine Literature for Europe? From Karelia to Istanbul with the Swedish Modernist Poet Gunnar Ekeloef Nagihan Haliloglu: Memories of the City: The Metropole as Significant Other in Elif Safak's Flea Palace and Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul Reet Sool: On Literary Amnesia: Facing the Future Monica Spiridon: Literature and the Symbolic Engineering of the European Self Contributors.
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In Literature for Europe? leading scholars from around Europe reflect on the role played by literature, and by the study of literature, in the constant re-negotiation and re-construction of cultural identities in Europe implied by the accession to the European Union, in the early years of the twenty-first century, of fifteen new member states, with the accession of a number of Balkan states impending, and Turkey waiting in the wings, while at the same time transatlantic relations of the EU to the USA are hotly debated, in politics as in culture, China and India awake as economic giants, and globalization is upon us. At the same time, two of the earliest signatories to the treaties eventually leading to the European Union rejected a proposal for a European Constitution, and linguistic, religious, and ethnic dividing lines show even in some of Europe's oldest nation states. How do literary texts, genres, and forms, thinking about them and teaching them, respond to and shape ongoing processes of European self-understanding in our era of globalization? The volume seeks to answer these questions by charting key developments in a number of fields crucial to the emergence of a European common literary "space": literature and cultural value systems, literature and cultural memory, literary history, translation, the impact of the new media and the information age on matters of literature and identity, and the impact of the postcolonial. Literature for Europe? is a thought-provoking tour d'horizon of cutting-edge developments in the relationship between literary studies and "the matter of Europe, " and suggesting an exciting agenda for literary studies in Europe. It will be of interest to everyone working in European studies and/or European literature.
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• Acknowledgements Rachael Langford: Introduction: Intertextual, Intermedial, Intersections Eduardo Ralickas: Figuring the Artistic Subject: a Genealogy of Nineteenth-Century Dandyism Sarah Hibberd: Monsters and the Mob: Depictions of the Grotesque on the Parisian Stage, 1826-1836 Birgit Haas: Staging Colours: Edward Gordon Craig and Wassily Kandinsky Gustav Frank: Symptoms of Epistemological Change: Intersections with Music and the Visual Arts in the German Novel of the Long Nineteenth Century Ricarda Schmidt: How to Get Past Your Editor: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Don Juan as a Palimpsest Andrew Ginger: Fragments and Time: Aspects of Revolutionary Change, Literature and Painting in Spain (1790-1870) Steffan Davies: Geschichte Wallensteins: Ranke's Problem of Narrative - and Schiller's Solution? David Scott: Generical Intersections in Nineteenth-Century French Painting and Literature: Manet's La Musique aux Tuileries and Baudelaire's Petits Poemes en prose Albert Boime: Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere as an Allegory of Nostalgia Mairi Liston: Theatrical Intersections: an Entry from the Goncourts' Journal, 1 March 1862 Katherine Ashley: Literary Acrobatics: Edmond de Goncourt's Les Freres Zemgano Deirdre O'Grady: Decapitation, Dissection and Symbolic Deformity: the Crisis of Italian Romanticism: Hugo, Piave and Boito Guiliana Pieri: The Effect of the Pre-Raphaelites on the Cultural Consciousness of D'Annunzio Eda Dobrovetsky: Jewish Motifs in Mid-Nineteenth Century Russian Music, Art and Art Criticism Anastasia Siopsi: Dreaming the Myth of `Wholeness': Romantic Interpretations of Ancient Greek Music in Greece (1890-1910) Marion Schmid: Proust and the Fantastic: Metaphor, Metamorphosis and the Visual Arts Notes on Contributors Index of Proper Names.
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This volume examines the multifaceted ways in which textual material in nineteenth-century European cultures intersected with non-literary cultural artefacts and concepts. The essays consider the presence of such diverse phenomena as the dandy, nationhood, diasporic identity, operatic and dramatic personae and effects, trapeze artists, paintings, and the grotesque and fantastic in the work of a variety of writers from France, Germany, Spain, Britain, Russia, Greece and Italy. The volume argues for a view of the long nineteenth century as a century of lively cultural dialogue and exchange between national and sub-national cultures, between 'high' and popular art forms, and between different genres and different media, and it will be of interest to general readers and scholars alike.
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