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The Complete Stories
Toute l'oeuvre de Flannery O'Connor pourrait tenir dans un « as if », inscrivant dans ses textes une position liminale, un entre-deux vacillant, instable, fluctuant, à l'interface entre une réalité décevante, peuplée d'êtres médiocres aux limitations trop humaines, et un au-delà mystérieux aussi désirable qu'inatteignable. Le point d'équilibre entre ces extrêmes n'est jamais trouvé. Et il n'est sans doute même pas souhaité puisque seule la violence produit le choc nécessaire à l'éveil des consciences endormies. Le présent ouvrage explore les deux facettes de cet univers fictionnel sans concession : la recherche inlassable de la révélation divine et les formes paradoxal...
The Grapes of Wrath
Cet ouvrage traite de la nouvelle question au CAPES et à l'agrégation d'anglais.
Willa Cather
Dans Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather a porté à sa perfection l'art de la forme qu'elle défendait dans son esse " Le roman démeublé ". Considérant que " c'est l'inexplicable présence du non-dit [...] qui donne sa plus haute valeur au roman, au théâtre ou à la poésie ", elle pratique un art de l'épure et procède par " sélection " et " simplification ". Pour relater cette histoire de missionnaires français partis évangéliser les Indiens du Nouveau-Mexique au XIXe siècle, elle a conçu un récit dont la composition épouse étroitement le propos. Dans ce roman fait d'incessants voyages, il n'y a pas de chemin direct, mais des bifurcations, des embranchements, des c...
Janet Frame
An accessible close re-reading of Frame's novels and short stories from an autobiographical perspective. This study examines the whole of Janet Frame's output starting with the fiction (novels, short-stories and poems) before focusing on the two autobiographical novels, Owls do Cry and Faces in the Water, to end with the autobiographical trilogy, a sort of restorative prism inviting us to (re) read all her preceding works. It is the autobiography and its film version, An Angel at My Table (1990, directed by Jane Campion), that won her international fame. Frame's life is extraordinary, not only because she was spared a lobotomy by winning a prize for her collection of short stories, but also because writing from the 'rim of the farthest circle,' she provides food for thought for anyone interested in postcolonial and gender studies.
Kate Chopin
La carrière de Kate Chopin (1850-1904) fut brève mais fulgurante. L'œuvre lumineuse de cette femme libre de Saint Louis est traversée d'influences multiples. Comme son maître Maupassant, elle a su "jeter un regard lucide sur la vie" ; imprégnée d'Emerson, elle apprit avec lui à "s'affranchir de la tradition". Rompant avec les courants littéraires de son époque, ses romans et nouvelles, ciselés et musicaux, donnent forme poétique à ses "impressions". Son chef-d'œuvre, L'Eveil (1899), histoire d'adultère au féminin, fit scandale. Ce fut aussi son chant du cygne.
On the Legacy of Maxine Hong Kingston
This book is a collection of recent scholarship on Maxine Hong Kingston, gathered on the occasion of the very first conference ever devoted exclusively to Kingston and to celebrate her opera omnia. Featuring the work of researchers from four continents, the book represents the cosmopolitan reception of the most important Asian American author. In addition to many new angles on her two canonical postmodern autobiographies, The Woman Warrior and China Men, this collection also tackles Kingston's less frequently discussed writings and her most recent publications. Parallel readings and comparisons further test her legacy in the sense of her enduring influence on younger Asian American writers. Though it is a conference book, this peer-reviewed volume includes additional articles by selected scholars. It also contains original presentations by Maxine and her husband Earll Kingston. (Series: Contributions to Asian American Literary Studies - Vol. 7)
Poetics of the Iconotext
Poetics of the Iconotext makes available for the first time in English the theories of the respected French text/image specialist, Professor Liliane Louvel. A consolidation of the most significant theoretical materials of Louvel's two acclaimed books, L'Oeil du Texte: Texte et image dans la littérature anglophone and Texte/Image: Images à lire, textes à voir, this newly conceived work introduces English readers to the most current thinking in French text/image theory and visual studies. Focusing on the full spectrum of text/image relations, from medieval illuminated manuscripts to digital books, Louvel begins by introducing key terms and situating her work in the context of significant de...
Picturing the Language of Images
Picturing the Language of Images is a collection of thirty-three previously unpublished essays that explore the complex and ever-evolving interaction between the verbal and the visual. The uniqueness of this volume lies in its bringing together scholars from around the world to provide a broad synchronic and diachronic exploration of the relationship between text and image, as well as a reflection on the limits of representation through a re-thinking of the very acts of reading and viewing. While covering a variety of media—such as literature, painting, photography, film and comics—across time—from the 18th century to the 21st century—this collection also provides a special focus on the work of particular authors, such as A. S. Byatt, W. G. Sebald, and Art Spiegelman.
