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The Dual Role of Code-Switching in Alejandro Morales’s Reto en el Paraíso Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Cecilia Montes-Alcalá
Although most contemporary Chicano authors tend to write exclusively in one language, English or Spanish, they have a range of linguistic options available to them – as would any member of a bilingual community – including code-switching. Code-switching in US literature dates back to the Mexican–American War and has been employed to establish aesthetic or stylistic credibility and to communicate biculturalism
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The Metalinguistic Dimension of Literary Multilingualism: Linguistic Biographies in Italian Fiction Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Riikka Ala-Risku
In this article, I argue that a thorough analysis of literary multilingualism and code-switching needs to take their metalinguistic dimension into account. Many scholars have noticed multilingual authors’ tendency to frame code-switches with metalinguistic comments, but they are sometimes treated marginally, or as just one of the many functions of code-switching. My article argues that metalanguage
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On Being Tongue-Tied: Franchise, Fluency, and Precarity in Montaigne’s ‘De la vanité’ Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Luke O’Sullivan
Drawing attention to a key but overlooked moment in Montaigne’s ‘De la vanité’, this article interrogates the relationship between two aspects of the essayist’s ‘franchise’: his personal freedom and his frank, direct speech. It offers a reading that runs counter to Montaigne’s self-characterization as ‘le plus libre et moins endebté’ person he knows, underscoring the precarity of his ‘franchise’ and
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Decolonial Gazing and Hermeneutic Resistance: Black German Challenges to White German Cultural Hegemony in the Museum Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Maureen O Gallagher
In this article, I highlight the ways that Black Europeans challenge universalizing notions of cultural heritage to emphasize decolonial possibilities. Focusing on the German context, I show how Black artists, intellectuals and activists interrogate the collection, display and spectatorship of museum objects in majority-white contexts using the strategies of decolonial gazing and hermeneutic resistance
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Jazz Music and Intermedial References in Toni Morrison’s Love Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Yakiv Bystrov, Nataliya Telegina
This paper proposes an intermedial reading of Toni Morrison’s Love (2003) and applies the concepts of intermediality theory to discuss the jazz narrative strategies used in the novel. In this article, intermediality is on the one hand associated with the musicalization of fiction; on the other hand, it is viewed from the perspective of expanding the representational modes of a given medium. The article
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Amor mundi: The Ecology and Praise of Transience in Rilke’s Duino Elegies Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Alexander Sorenson
Among the many puzzles in Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies is the ninth elegy’s declaration that the things of the world are disappearing, but that the only way to rescue them from this fate is to make them ‘invisible’. To make sense of this paradoxical scenario, the present article first examines in the light of several theoretical frameworks (for example, Walter Benjamin’s aura, Jean-Luc Maron’s
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The Italian Collective Project in Literature, Architecture and the Visual Arts, 1968–77 Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Sabrina Ovan
During the tumultuous period in Italy between 1968 and 1977, known as the ‘long 68’, myriad alternative publications focusing on the narratives and the experiences of avant-garde groups, marginal communities, labour organizers and political activist circles gained widespread popularity. Among these, two significant literary and political reviews, I Quindici and Contropiano, played a pivotal role in
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Dada in the Underground: Linkeck and West Berlin’s Anti-Authoritarian Newspapers, 1968–69 Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Mererid Puw Davies
This article explores the importance of periodicals for the 1960s protest movements in West Germany. It opens with the significance of both mainstream news media and New Left journals. Attention then turns to a different class of periodical, the anti-authoritarian underground newspaper, examined here through one emblematic example, linkeck [leftangle], which was produced in a centre of revolt, West
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‘BY EVERY HYPER-POLITICAL MEANS’: INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONNISTE AND THE REVIEW AS WEAPON Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Alex Corcos
This article examines the articulation of Situationist perspectives on art and politics with reference to the cycle of protest, surveillance, detention, scandal, repression and violence which accompanied the theoretical writings and practical activities of the Situationists. The Situationist International (SI) was, by design, a mercurial organization whose existence was marked by clandestine activity
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Il Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano: The Songbook of 1968 in Italy Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Rachel E Love
This article examines how the Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano (NCI) – a leftist collective founded in Milan in 1962 by Gianni Bosio and Roberto Leydi – used their journal to theorize oral cultures as instruments of class consciousness. By doing so, they contributed to the political movements of the 1960s in Italy. The NCI worked to construct a culture of protest through recorded albums, live performances
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Divorce Law, the Revolution of 1830 and the Novel: Aloïse de Carlowitz’s Le Pair de France ou Le Divorce (1835) Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Elizabeth Amann
Divorce was legalized in France during the French Revolution and remained legal (though more restricted) during the Napoleonic period. With the return of the Bourbons in 1815, however, it was almost immediately outlawed. The Revolution of 1830 and the ascension of the more progressive Louis-Philippe d’Orléans led to hopes that divorce would soon be reinstated, but they were quickly disappointed as
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‘Curiouser and curiouser’: Childhood Figures to Live By, in Writings in French by Lydia Flem and Philippe Forest Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Susan Bainbrigge
This article analyses selected writings in French by Lydia Flem and Philippe Forest, with a focus on the intertextual presence of literary figures from well-known sources, identifications with figures from imaginary worlds and their relationship to the writing project. These authors’ curiosity about the place of storytelling in understanding selves and lives extends to the question of how literature
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Digital Prompts and Narrative Cues: Storytelling in the 1450s and in the 2020s Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Catherine Emerson
The Cent Nouvelles nouvelles present challenges to student learners of French linguistically, culturally and in terms of the content of the stories. Investigations designed to interrogate how the stories might have been collected in the second half of the fifteenth century end up demonstrating how the storytelling environment shapes the stories that are told and the way that they are understood. The
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When a Habit Meets a Habit at the City Dump: Persistence and Adaptability of Habit in Única mirando al mar (2010) Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Victoria Carpenter
Fernando Contreras Castro’s novel Única mirando al mar (1993 and 2010) is a bitter, scathing social critique of Costa Rica’s government, a government which only occasionally remembers its duty to its taxpayers and its environment. Rewritten in 2010 after the closure of Río Azul, a landfill near San José, the novel explores the way this action affected the population of the landfill, locally known as
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Intertextual Irony: Between Relevance Theory and Umberto Eco Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Andrea Brondino
This article discusses the advantages deriving from the interaction of pragmatics and literary theory in the study of literary irony. The first section argues that the current (mis)understanding of irony is the result of a centuries-long intertwinement between rhetorical and philosophical discourses. The paper then shows how the echoic theory of irony, devised by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson within
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Simone Weil and George Herbert on Love through Poetry Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Hugh Roberts
In two letters written shortly before she sailed from Marseille in May 1942, Simone Weil reveals the profound impact George Herbert’s ‘Love’ (now commonly titled ‘Love (III)’) had on her. When reciting the poem to herself during intense headaches, she had a religious experience which involved Christ descending and taking possession of her. This article offers a comparative case study of how focused
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Reading the Sensory Trajectory of Unmoored Existence and the Poetic Encoding of Wounds in Zsuzsa Bánk’s Der Schwimmer (2002) Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Shivani Chauhan
Zsuzsa Bánk’s Der Schwimmer (2002) is a meditation on the trials of flight and dislocation. Underpinned by complex memory dynamics, the narrative reconstructs the fate of several ‘unmoored’ figures whose physical or psychological experiences of liminality exacerbate their exile. Drawing on David Howes’s concepts of ‘emplacement’ and ‘displacement’, the primary objective of this essay is to examine
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What if State Logic Rests on Enslavement? Radical Alternatives in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Fouad Mami
This article provides a detailed assessment of Laila Lalami’s novel The Moor’s Account (2014), in which a slave decides to escape upon becoming certain that his enslaver will never act on a prior understanding to free him. Still, his desertion carries with it the ultimate price: never seeing his home or country again. The article explores what that imaginative escape into the wilderness signifies in
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Literary City Limits: Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary Marseille Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Michael G Kelly
Marseille can be thought to constitute a singular urban complex – both marginal and transitional – within a broader French territorial imaginary and political discourse. Proposing successive readings of literary works by Emmanuel Loi (Marseille amor, 2013), Sabrina Calvo (Sous la colline, 2015) and Maylis de Kerangal (Corniche Kennedy, 2008), this article examines how such works mobilize aspects of
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Care Narratives by Annie Ernaux and Michael Rosen in the Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Sarah Tribout-Joseph
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted both the importance of care and a global crisis in care. Since its beginnings in the US in the 1980s as a feminist theory within virtue ethics, care ethics has emerged from the margins of the domestic sphere in the West to become a species theory and a force for radical societal change. Influenced by Joan Tronto’s work, Alexandre Gefen has integrated the approach
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Utopian Spaces and Dystopian Subjects in Ray Loriga’s Urban Fiction Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Carla Almanza-Gálvez
This article examines the interplay between socio-spatial environments, social control mechanisms and alienated subjectivities in the urban fiction of Spanish author Ray Loriga. It analyses how the search for an urban utopia intertwines in Loriga’s work with an attention to processes of commodification, consumerism and social control. These represented processes are read, in turn, as driving the dystopian
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Axes of Hope: Flights of Fancy in Recent Work on Urban Congo Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Karen Bouwer
This article explores the question of hope in dystopian urban spaces as represented in recent work from the Democratic Republic of the Congo by developing the concept of ‘the hole’ used by Congolese people to comment upon the quality of their lives. The more literal reading of ‘le trou’ in Sinzo Aanza’s 2015 novel Généalogie d’une banalité, set in the mining community of Lubumbashi, is compared to
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Writing Milan and Turin in the Light of (Failed) Utopia: Luciano Bianciardi and Paolo Volponi Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Giulia Brecciaroli
This article examines a series of novels by Italian writers, Luciano Bianciardi and Paolo Volponi, that capture the transformations brought about by the post-World War II economic growth in the urban-industrial society of Northern Italy. The analysis draws on utopia as, in Ruth Levitas’s words, a ‘desire for a better way of living and being’ and explores how the writers’ frustrated aspirations for
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City of Fury: Urban Violence, Dystopia and Anti-Utopia in Nuevo orden and Era Uma Vez BRASÍLIA Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Mariano Paz
In the twenty-first century Latin America has become the most urbanized region on the planet and, at the same time, the one that has the highest level of inequality. This article discusses how this tension is expressed in cinema, an eminently urban art, through two case studies: the Mexican Nuevo orden (dir. by Michel Franco, 2020) and the Brazilian film Era uma vez Brasília (dir. by Adirley Queirós
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Reframing Rousseau: Art, Literature and Attachment in Émile Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Gemma Tidman
This article sheds light on both Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s aesthetic thought and his role in the emergence of modern ideas of littérature, by revisiting his novel-cum-treatise, Émile, ou de l’éducation (1762). Contrary to much scholarship that has minimized Rousseau’s interest in aesthetics, and in the visual arts in particular, the article reframes Rousseau as a fundamentally aesthetic thinker. With
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‘Community is the one true capital’: Ideologies of urban self-build groups in Anke Stelling’s Berlin novels Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Hanna Henryson
Privately organized collective housing is currently included in agendas for sustainable urban development in a range of European cities as a resource-efficient form of housing that prevents isolation and contributes to social cohesion within urban communities. However, research has shown that the recent surge of different forms of private-collective housing in Berlin could be a driver of gentrification
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‘Queering the Textual Politics of Alba de Céspedes’s Prima e dopo’ Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Tommasina Gabriele
Alba de Céspedes’s Prima e dopo (1955) has generally been interpreted within the framework of the Italian Resistance and the subsequent disillusionment of Resistance ideals. While taking this interpretation into account, I argue that the central narrative of desire in Prima e dopo is not Irene’s relationship with her lover, Pietro, but Irene’s subversive desire for her maid, Erminia. I analyse and
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Contemporary Values Encounter Classic Illustrations in Rebecca Solnit’s Cinderella Liberator (2019) Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Ana Oancea
Rebecca Solnit’s retelling of ‘Cinderella’ in Cinderella Liberator (2019) transforms the fairy tale by infusing a slew of modern ideas into its ‘once upon a time’. Cinderella becomes an independent, active, empowered heroine not only freed from servitude, but able to liberate others in her community from oppression. While the rewriting targets the morals and values of traditional ‘Cinderella’ texts
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Postsecular Pilgrimage in Malek Bennabi’s Lebbeik: pèlerinage de pauvres and Abdelkébir Khatibi’s Pèlerinage d’un artiste amoureux Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Sura Qadiri
This paper explores representations of the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in two North African literary texts, Malek Bennabi’s Lebbeik (1947) and Abdelkébir Khatibi’s Pèlerinage d’un artiste amoureux (2003). It considers the divergent ways in which pilgrimage is used to explore the place of both literature and religion, as well as their interrelation, when it comes to working out ethics and values on
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Introduction: Comedy and its Afterlives Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-10 John H Cameron, Goran Stanivukovic
This introduction is concerned with the intellectual and cultural construction of comedy from the classical period to the present, with particular emphasis on comic afterlives. By afterlives, we mean the successive re-creation of its many forms, incarnations, inspirations and adaptations, pasts and futures. The introduction lays out the theory and critical history of comedy and its afterlives; it critically
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Meta-Theatrical Comedy: Pirandello’s Existential Humour and the Italian Avant-Garde Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Michael Subialka
This article examines modernist meta-theatre as a reconfiguration of classical tragedy. While many critics have rejected modernist aesthetics for emptying out the content of artistic representation, and accounts of modernist comedy frequently focus on its negative (even nihilistic) dimensions, this article argues that Luigi Pirandello’s theory of humour provides an alternative vision of how modernist
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‘This was the Better Way’: The Restoration Afterlives of Ben Jonson’s Comic Designs Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-01 John H Cameron, Jonathan Goossen
The dramatists of the Restoration stage reveal the guiding influence of Ben Jonson, giving his plays a strong comedic afterlife, particularly with respect to his construction of his plots and his sense of comedic design. This article explores that influence by first considering the influences on Jonson’s own concept of comic design, particularly as derived from Aristotle, and the late-antique grammarians
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Greek Tragedy and Cathartic Violence in Leconte de Lisle’s Animal Poems Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Scott Shinabargar
This article proposes a new understanding of Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle’s famous animal poems. While recent studies have identified an innovative non-anthropocentric perspective in the texts – vivid snapshots of brute existence, without deeper meaning – we find that these animals function in a more complex manner. Locating them throughout his poetry, beyond the ‘portraits’ most readers are
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On Purpose: Interest, disinterest and literature we can live by Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Ben Hutchinson
The idea of ‘literature we can live by’ crystallizes the paradox of art: defined by its distance from life, it requires, at the same time, proximity to life. We turn to art because it offers a protected space of disinterested play – yet we are also profoundly interested in its ethical implications. In the words of Rilke’s ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’, the work of art – and through its Apollonian patron
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Surrealizing Wifredo Lam? Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Elza Adamowicz
In their writings on the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, Surrealists and the related avant-garde forge a fictional construct, ‘Wifredo Lam.’ Their texts are explored in relation to what André Breton identified as the two approaches to the artwork: a subjective approach expressed through poetic language; and an interpretation based on objective knowledge expressed through rational language. An overview of
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Pippin, Robert. Metaphysical Exile: On J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus Fictions Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Mishra D.
RobertPippin. Metaphysical Exile: On J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus Fictions. Oxford University Press, 2021. 152 pp. £47.99. ISBN 978–0–1975–6594–0.
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Hickmott, Sarah. Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Evans D.
HickmottSarah. Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). ix + 245 pp. £80. ISBN 978–1–4744–5831–3
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Fugelso, Karl. Ecomedievalism Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Dósa A.
FugelsoKarl. Ecomedievalism. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer (Studies in Medievalism, 24), 2017. 281 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978–1–84384–465–5
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Medievalism and Modernity. Ed. by Karl Fugelso, Joshua Davies and Sarah Salih Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Dósa A.
Medievalism and Modernity. Ed. by FugelsoKarlDaviesJoshuaSalihSarah. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer (Studies in Medievalism, 25), 2017. 240 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978–1–84384–437–2.
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Thomas, Arvind. Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Dixon K.
ThomasArvind. Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 288 pp. $57.75. ISBN 978–1–4875–0246–1.
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Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood. Ed. by M. J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Reeve M.
Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood. Ed. by ToswellM. J.CzarnowusAnna. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer (Medievalism, 17), 2020. 218 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978–1–84384–547–8.
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The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, ed. by Chris Bobel, Inga T. Winkler, Breanne Fahs, Katie Ann Hasson, Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, Tomi-Ann Roberts Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Bildhauer B.
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, ed. by BobelChrisWinklerInga T.FahsBreanneAnn HassonKatieArveda KisslingElizabethRobertsTomi-Ann. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 1037 pp.
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Jackson Williams, Kelsey. The First Scottish Enlightenment: Rebels, Priests, and History Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Grant E.
Jackson WilliamsKelsey. The First Scottish Enlightenment: Rebels, Priests, and History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 368 pp. £70.00. 9–780–1988–0969–2.
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Docherty, Thomas. Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Dosa A.
DochertyThomas. Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. 237 pp. £15.39. ISBN 978–1–3501–0139–5
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Webster, Erin. The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Coldiron AB.
WebsterErin. The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 224 pp. $80.00. 978–0–1988–5019–9
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Samuel Beckett’s ‘Philosophy Notes’. Ed. by Steven Matthews and Matthew Feldman Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Brown L.
Samuel Beckett’s ‘Philosophy Notes’. Ed. by MatthewsStevenFeldmanMatthew. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 576 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978–0–19–873486–4.
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The Inner World of Pedro García Cabrera Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-27 C Brian Morris
When he signed the manifesto published in Tenerife in 1935 to mark the Second International Surrealist Exhibition, Pedro García Cabrera (1905–1981) ratified the fascination exercised on him by a movement that, he recalled in 1979, ‘representaba el descubrimiento del mundo interior del hombre’ [represented the discovery of man’s inner world]. That discovery generated three works: a story he categorized
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The Rise of Spanish American Poetry 1500-1700. Literary and Cultural Transmission in the New World. Ed. by Rodrigo Cacho Casal and Imogen Choi Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Jonathan David Bradbury
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Hayes, Kevin J. Critical Lives: Mark Twain Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Attila Dósa
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Robson, Kathryn. I Suffer, Therefore I Am: Engaging with Empathy in Contemporary French Women’s Writing Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Siobhán McIlvanney
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John Burnside. Ed. by Ben Davies Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Attila Dósa
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Bound Hand and Foot: Lorca, Dalí, and the ‘Flight’ of Surrealism Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Javier RodrÍguez Fernández
Abstract The traditional narrative of Federico García Lorca’s embrace of Surrealism follows a familiar, all too familiar dialectical sequence: triumph, crisis, supersession. In this progression, Salvador Dalí plays the key role of the cosmopolitan, more advanced friend, who opens up a rift and puts things in motion with his mixture of harsh criticism, sentimental disappointment and visionary pushiness
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Turner, Victoria. Theorizing Medieval Race: Saracen Representations in Old French Literature Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Bettina Bildhauer
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Hines, Andrew. Metaphor in European Philosophy after Nietzsche: An Intellectual History Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Christopher O’Hara
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Twomey, Lesley K. The Sacred Space of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Hispanic Literature, from Gonzalo de Berceo to Ambrosio Montesino Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Jonathan David Bradbury
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Lloyd, Alexandra. Childhood, Memory, and the Nation: Young Lives under Nazism in Contemporary German Culture Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Kate Mackenzie
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Swift, Megan. Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Connor Doak
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The Ideology of Form: Surrealism and the Crisis of the Generation of ’27 Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Anthony L Geist
Abstract In the late 1920s, a number of poets of the fabled Generation of ’27 turn to Surrealism as the expression of a personal, generational, and poetic crisis. Alberti, Lorca, Cernuda, and Aleixandre’s Surrealist phase marks an axis or hinge between their ‘dehumanized’ poetry of the early 20s and their socially and politically committed texts of the 1930s. Drawing on critical theory ranging from
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Investigating Poetry with J. V. Foix Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Willard Bohn
Abstract Widely considered to be the best Surrealist poet writing in Catalan, J. V. Foix incorporated a number of principles associated with Sigmund Freud into his imaginative works, in which an assortment of dream mechanisms expressed his unconscious desires, fears, thoughts, and motivations. By means of surprising associations and astonishing encounters, Foix managed to transform his everyday surroundings
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Automatic Writings and Authorial Egos Forum for Modern Language Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Stamos Metzidakis
Abstract One of Surrealism’s fundamental principles was that of automatism. This article examines the history of automatic writing, its evolving place in the movement, and the extent to which André Breton and others adhered—or not—to this same principle, either in their own creative works or in the collaborative ones they produced together. Close readings of several key theoretical texts which outline