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The Unknowable in Literature and Material Culture
Literature strives to interpret and explain the unknown, and to propose ways in which to engage with it—even if, at least initially, these keys exist only in the realm of the imagination. This is one of the many important qualities that draw us to study literature, and to marvel at the creative understandings that it offers. However, many questions call for further exploration: how does something “unknowable”, unspeakable, become a subject that can be examined and debated? How have literary and scientific communities entered into the dialogue and exchange that are crucial to the consolidation of knowledge? By what processes can we come to know and understand that which remains hidden, ...
Trolling Ourselves to Death
Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman's classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Yet, how do we explain this profound change? What are the primary drivers behind the deterioration of civic culture and the toxification of public discourse? Trolling Ourselves to Death moves beyond the familiar picture of trolling by recasting it in a broader historica...
Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits, and Pornography
This book explores the life and fiction of the French decadent writer Rachilde (pen name of Marguerite Eymery), using her as a case study to examine the impact late nineteenth-century theories about female hysteria, medical hypnotism, mediums, and spiritualism had on the female creative psyche. It is a book about disempowerment, and re-empowerment through writing.
Comparative Literature in Canada
This timely volume takes stock of the discipline of comparative literature and its theory and practice from a Canadian perspective. It engages with the most pressing critical issues at the intersection of comparative literature and other areas of inquiry in the context of scholarship, pedagogy and academic publishing: bilingualism and multilingualism, Indigeneity, multiple canons (literary and other), the relationship between print culture and other media, the development of information studies, concerted efforts in digitization, and the future of the production and dissemination of knowledge. The authors offer an analysis of the current state of Canadian comparative literature, with a dual focus on the issues of multilingualism in Canada’s sociopolitical and cultural context and Canada’s geographical location within the Americas. It also discusses ways in which contemporary technology is influencing the way that Canadian literature is taught, produced, and disseminated, and how this affects its readings.
McLuhan's Techno-Sensorium City
In McLuhan's Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers argues that Marshall McLuhan was both an activist and a speculative urbanist who drew from cross-disciplinary and ahistorical sources to explore constitutive exchanges between humanity and technologies to alter human perception and imagine a sustainable future based on collective participation in a responsive urban environment. This environment—a techno-sensorium—would endeavor to design and program technology to be favorable to life and capable of engaging with multiple senses. McLeod Rogers examines McLuhan’s active engagement with the vibrant art and urban design culture of his day to further understand the ways in which the links he drew between media, technology, space, architecture, art, and cities continue to inform current urban and art criticism and practices. Scholars of media studies, urbanism, philosophy, architecture, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
Les ambiances dans les littératures de langue française du XIXe siècle à nos jours
Cet ouvrage se situe au carrefour des théories sur l’ambiance et de « la poétique de l’ambiance ». À l’intersection de ces deux axes, il examine un corpus de textes de langue française parus à partir du XIXe siècle, où l’ambiance et sa mise en mots jouent un rôle de premier plan dans la représentation de la vie quotidienne, du rapport au lieu/milieu et des sensations qui y surgissent.
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Le processus de création dans l'oeuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio
Que se passe-t-il lors du surgissement de l’inspiration ? Comment traverser des expériences-choc ? Ou encore, quels sens donner à la transposition du vécu dans la fiction ? Le processus de création dans l’œuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio examine les étapes du travail créateur dans l’œuvre du lauréat du prix Nobel de littérature 2008. L’analyse des modes d’inscription du processus de création dans le narratif apporte un nouvel éclairage sur l'oeuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio au croisement du poétique et des discours philosophique et psychanalytique. What happens when inspiration bursts forth? How does one live through shocking experiences? And what meaning can be gleaned from transforming life experiences into fiction? Le processus de création dans l’œuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio examines the process of literary creation in the writings of the 2008 Nobel Prize laureate for literature by outlining the relationships between poetics, philosophy and psychoanalysis.
Dysnostie. Le récit du retour au pays natal dans la littérature canadienne francophone contemporaine
Thème fondateur de la littérature occidentale, le retour au pays natal ne s’est manifesté que récemment dans la littérature canadienne francophone ; depuis la publication en 1979 de Pélagie-la-Charrette d’Antonine Maillet, cependant, des écrivains très divers s’intéressent au retour : ainsi, Bernard Assiniwi, Anne Hébert, Nancy Huston et Dany Laferrière – entre autres. Contre toute attente, ces auteurs ne dépeignent jamais le retour comme un moment d’apaisement, mais comme la source de conflits. Le retour force ses acteurs à redéfinir tant leur propre identité que les critères de leur appartenance réciproque : il vient déclencher, dans la communauté qu’il touch...
