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Postcolonial Brittany
This book investigates the space between the two languages of modern-day Brittany through a series of close readings of literary texts that represent Brittany or Bretonness in the French language. This is the space that is negotiated by translation, be it a smooth translation of Breton scenes and themes into a French fit for the salons of the capital, or a foreignizing translation of Breton motifs into a French that writhes and struggles to accommodate them. It is also the space negotiated by the bilingual author who writes in the shadow of the other language: the literary conventions of one may litter his work in the other, or the idioms and syntax of one may make their ghostly presence felt in the other. But it can equally be a space of violence as in the case of the writer whose whole community has lost its mother tongue, and writes under protest in the language of the cultural oppressor or colonizer. As the first sustained analysis of the literature produced between French and Breton, this book shows us how literary language is affected by such inter-cultural tensions, and also what it can mean to be caught between cultures.
Ludwig Holberg: A European Writer
Ludvig Holberg is the most important man of letters in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway and is often referred to as the father of Danish and Norwegian Literature, the Molière of the North, the founder of Scandinavian drama, or even as the first Scandinavian feminist. In all his writings - apart from being a dramatist in his own right - he excelled as a satirist, historian and essayist, Holberg is a true child of the Enlightenment advocating tolerance and moderation. At the same time, however, he transgressed its parameters. He introduced a series of classical genres but also violated their rules; he generally supported absolute monarchy but criticized its deficiencies, sometimes with subtl...
Vacations Abroad
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The Artist as Politician
Focuses specifically on nineteenth century French Romantic artists to examine the questions, How is an artist's historical milieu reflected in his or her work? Do artists from the same social circumstances produce art with similar characteristics? Does a particular artistic genre derive from specific historical conditions? Contents: Part I The Original Romantics: Chateaubriand; Constant; Lamartine, Part II The Younger Romantics: The Younger "Noble" Romantics; The "Bourgeois" Romantics. Conclusion. Appendices. Bibliography.
Who's who in Switzerland Including the Principality of Liechtenstein
Issues for 1950/51- include "Index of Organizations, associations, and institutions."
