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The Holy Land and the Early Modern Reinvention of Catholicism
Explores the Holy Land as a critical site where Catholics sought spiritual and political legitimacy during a period of profound change.
The Edinburgh Review
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CAMION BLANC
Royaume de Suède, début des années 1990. Dans le pays en crise, la scène métal trouve un terrain de jeu idéal. Chaque semaine, de nouvelles formations voient le jour. Originaire de Stockholm, Opeth fait partie de ces groupes de death metal aux riffs novateurs, mais dont le caractère extrême de la musique limite a priori sa diffusion. Pourtant, sous la houlette de son maître à penser Mikael Åkerfeldt, Opeth sort progressivement de l’ombre. 20 ans après sa création, la formation suédoise fait partie du gotha métallique non seulement local, mais international. Mieux : depuis ABBA, aucun artiste suédois n’a connu un tel engouement à l’échelle planétaire. Nicolas Bénard ...
Veiled Encounters
Travel narratives were the principal source of knowledge about the lands of the Near East and the Indian Ocean Basin in 17th-century France. Claiming the authority of first-hand observation, they paradoxically rely for their legitimization on the tropes of an established literary tradition. The status of these texts remained ambiguous, not least because of their anecdotal depictions of great riches, brutality or sexual promise. Drawing on the insights of post-colonial scholarship, this study tackles a question given scant attention in previous work and suggests that beyond the hazy representation of the Orient, an opposition emerges between the threatening Near East and the indolent East Ind...
Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour
This work examines the forms of language that map out Italy as an imaginative topography of pleasure within British and French travel writing, over the period 1600 to 1830. It considers the tour with reference to strategies of description and themes.
Camion Blanc
L'homo metallicus apparaît au Royaume-Uni au début des années 1980. Cette nouvelle figure de l'artiste métal, dotée d'un imaginaire expressif et haut en couleur, devient rapidement un mythe de même que la cible de critiques qui lui associent une série de clichés et la dépeignent sous une forme caricaturale. Cet essai vise à montrer comment cet homo metallicus, issu d'un imaginaire populaire renouvelé, symptomatique d'une mondialisation et d'une médiatisation naissantes, victime d'une propagande culturocentriste ou, au contraire, collégialement déifié, bref, comment ce drôle d'animal est un pur produit marketing. Une mythologie du contemporain qui, comme la plupart des mythologies, suscite l'exégèse et déclenche une myriade d'analyses. Résultat : peu à peu, le vernis s'effrite, les murs du temple se fissurent, les adorateurs s'épuisent, les courtisans s'ennuient. Le mythe s'effondre. Reste alors une image plus juste, conforme à la réalité des choses. Celle d'un homme (ou d'une femme) comme les autres.
The Hellfest - A Pilgrimage for Metalheads
The study presented here shows, through the analysis of the Hellfest, an annual metal music festival held in Clisson in the Loire-Atlantique region of France, that this music constitutes a true culture. To understand the current position the Hellfest holds for the metal community, it is necessary to know its evolution since its creation, to examine the relationships it promotes between the festivalgoers themselves, and between the festivalgoers and the artists, and to examine its role as a place where a community with no real geographical foothold can be united during a given period of time. The various sociabilities that are experienced at the Hellfest cannot be understood without taking an...
Beyond Greece and Rome
Though the subject of classical reception in early modern Europe is a familiar one, modern scholarship has tended to assume the dominance of Greece and Rome in engagements with the classical world during that period. The essays in this volume aim to challenge this prevailing view by arguing for the significance and familiarity of the ancient near east to early modern Europe, establishing the diversity and expansiveness of the classical world known to authors like Shakespeare and Montaigne in what we now call the 'global Renaissance'. However, global Renaissance studies has tended to look away from classical reception, exacerbating the blind spot around the significance of the ancient near ea...
