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Ovid in French
This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse oeuvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by a range of French and Francophone women from the Renaissance to the present. It aims to reveal lesser-known voices in Ovidian reception studies, and to offer a wider historical perspective on the complex question of Ovid and gender. Ranging from Renaissance poetry to contemporary creative-criticism, it charts an understudied strand of reception studies, emphasizing how a longer view allows us to explore and challenge the notion of a female tradition of Ovidian reception. The range of genres analysed here--poetry, verse and prose translation, theatre, epistolary ficti...
Rootedness
Roots are good to think with indeed most of us use them as a metaphor every day. A root can signify the hiddenness of our beginnings, or, in its bifurcating structure, the various possibilities in the life of an individual or a collective. This book looks at rootedness as a metaphor for the genealogical origins of people and their attachment to place and how this metaphor transformed so rapidly in twentieth-century Europe. Christy Wampole s case study is France, with its contradictory legacies of Enlightenment universalism, anti-Semitism, and colonialism. At one time, French nationalist rhetoric portrayed the Jews as unrooted and thus unrighteous people. After the two world wars, the root me...
Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) was active as monarch of Scotland for just six years between 1561 and 1567, but her impact as a ruler in Scotland is much less important than her subsequent role in popular culture and imagination. Her story has enjoyed perpetual retelling and reached a global audience over the past four and a half centuries. This collection surveys the exceptionally varied range of objects, literature, art and media that have been produced to commemorate Mary between her own time and the present day. Why is her story so enduring, pervasive, and of such interest to so many different audiences? How have the narratives associated with these objects evolved in response to shifting cultural attitudes? The collection offers a much-needed novel perspective on the Queen of Scots, using an approach at the intersection of early modern, gender and cultural history, museum and heritage studies, and memory studies.
Monteverdi and the Marvellous
Integrating musical and poetic analysis, this book sheds new light on the experience of listening to Monteverdi's path-breaking madrigals. The music of this pivotal figure reveals how composers and performers at the turn of the seventeenth century not only responded to but themselves influenced experiments in language.
Petrarchism at Work
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 scho...
Imagine
Your Cell Phone Could Be Your Worst Enemy. Hackers have cracked the global cell phone network and Internet. Stock markets, GPS navigation and even secret CIA files are all under their control. The world is on the verge of a catastrophic economic meltdown, but one country has not been affected, China. Is this a coincidence or a dangerous plan to bring the world to its knees? IMAGINE is the second book of the award-winning Fuzed Trilogy.
Yale French Studies
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Noeuds de Mémoire
"The work of polymath Jean-Francois Lyotard has proved seminal in the best sense of the word: original and historical, both fundamental and far-reaching, neither partisan nor exclusive. This retrospective volume deals with the extraordinary breadth of Lyotard's thought and his wide-ranging impact on critical thinking in the late twentieth century." --Book Jacket.
Francophone Sub-Saharan African Literature in Global Contexts
"The work of polymath Jean-Francois Lyotard has proved seminal in the best sense of the word: original and historical, both fundamental and far-reaching, neither partisan nor exclusive. This retrospective volume deals with the extraordinary breadth of Lyotard's thought and his wide-ranging impact on critical thinking in the late twentieth century." --Book Jacket.
Contre-marées
Aurore, dévastée par une rupture amoureuse et par un diagnostic médical d’endométriose, quitte Bruxelles pour s’installer dans un village sur la Côte d’Opale. La proximité de la mer et de nouvelles rencontres l’aident à se reconstruire. La maladie est cependant toujours en embuscade. Un jour que la jeune femme se rend à Calais, sa route croise celle de deux migrants, deux frères : Hatim et Khalid. Ils survivent dans des campements de fortune. Leur but est de traverser la Manche. Cette rencontre va bouleverser la vie d’Aurore qui, incapable de s’occuper d’elle-même, va prendre soin des autres. —— Ariane Van Compernolle partage sa vie entre Bruxelles et la Côte d’Opale. Contre-marées est son troisième livre. L’écriture fait partie de son quotidien, en tant qu’auteure mais également au travers de son activité d’écrivaine publique et d’animatrice d’ateliers d’écriture. Elle aime la lecture, le théâtre, le yoga, la randonnée et s’asseoir face à la mer.
