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Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
Two centuries of sexism have hidden Staël's place in international history. Straddling the divides of the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe, emergent nationalism, and European Romanticism, and playing pivotal roles in those movements, she was also a friend of Byron, Jefferson, and Tsar Alexander. Extensive archival research, and a complete contextual overview of Staël's writings, here restore Staël's canonical status as political philosopher, historian, European Romantic theorist, and Revolutionary. While the term stateswoman is not commonly used, it describes Staël aptly, acting as she necessarily did through men around her. The brilliant game of masks and proxies imposed on her by patriarchy is detailed here, alongside her unending fight for the oppressed, from the nations of Napoleon's subjugated Europe to the victims of the Atlantic slave trade. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Musical Culture in the World of Adam de la Halle
In Musical Culture in the World of Adam de la Halle, contributors from musicology, literary studies, history, and art history provide an account of the works of 13th-century composer Adam de la Halle, one of the first named authors of medieval vernacular music for whom a complete works manuscript survives. The essays illuminate Adam’s generic transformations in polyphony, drama, debate poetry, and other genres, while also emphasizing his place in a large community of trouvères active in the bustling urban environment of Arras. Exploring issues of authorship and authority, tradition and innovation, the material contexts of his works, and his influence on later generations, this book provides the most complete and up-to-date picture available in English of Adam’s œuvre. Contributors are Alain Corbellari, Mark Everist, Anna Kathryn Grau, John Haines, Anne Ibos-Augé, Daniel E. O’Sullivan, Judith A. Peraino, Isabelle Ragnard, Jennifer Saltzstein, Alison Stones, Carol Symes, and Eliza Zingesser.
A Companion to Alain Chartier (c.1385-1430)
A Companion to Alain Chartier: Father of French Eloquence brings together fourteen contributions that offer a range of perspectives and insights into the works of this exceptional late medieval author. As heir to the past and herald of the future, Chartier reinvented the traditional, whether in Latin or French, verse or prose. Chartier’s open-ended, dialogic works and his own politically-engaged writing inspired his successors to think and write in new ways about ethics, the individual’s role in society, relationships between men and women, and the responsibility of a poet to his/her audience. As these essays show, Chartier’s renovation of poetic form and content had considerable influence over successive generations of writers in France and across Europe. Contributors are: Adrian Armstrong, Florence Bouchet, Emma Cayley, Daisy Delogu, Ashby Kinch, James C. Laidlaw, Marta Marfany, Deborah McGrady, Joan E. McRae, Jean-Claude Mühlethaler, Liv Robinson, Camille Serchuk, Andrea Tarnowski, Craig Taylor, and Hanno Wijsman.
Géographies de Maylis de Kerangal
« J’écris avec la géographie » explique Maylis de Kerangal, ou avec les géographies a-t-on envie d’ajouter, tant ses textes explorent les divers aspects de cette discipline en s’attachant aussi bien à la beauté des espaces qu’à la manière de les habiter. Cette première étude monographique consacrée à l’œuvre montre que les lieux construisent la narration, influencent l’écriture et permettent à l’esthétique et à l’éthique de se joindre en une « poéthique » qui exalte le monde et sublime les personnages dans des socio-épopées d’une grande puissance narrative. Sans être naïf, cet élan créateur est le fruit d’une réflexion politique proche du care...
Defining Medievalism(s).
"A sequel to its predecessor, this volume of Studies in Medievalism further explores definitions of the field. In essays by seven leading medievalists, it seeks to determine precisely how we should characterize the subjects of our study, their relationship to new and related fields, such as neomedievalism, and their relevance to the Middle Ages, whose definition is itself a matter of debate." "The observations and conclusions of the essayists are tested in the volume's second section, which comprises eight articles on: the notion of progress over the last eighty or ninety years in our perception of the Middle Ages; medievalism in Gustave Dore's mid-nineteenth-century engravings of the Divine Comedy; the role of music in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films; cinematic representations of the Holy Grail; the medieval courtly love tradition in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion and The Powerbook; Eleanor of Aquitaine in twentieth-century histories; modern updates of the Seven Deadly Sins; and Victorian spins on Jacques de Voragine's Golden Legend."--Jacket.
Engagement
In his radio lecture "Commitment" Theodor W. Adorno showed that the question of commitment versus artistic autonomy is not a rigid antithesis. Literary texts that are intended to be purely partisan and (politically) committed fail to recognise the autonomous status of every artistic utterance. Conversely, a literature that claims to be autonomous is blind to its own relation to society and to the counterfactual objection that has always suggested itself by virtue of the mere existence of literary texts as literature.The volume examines, from a historic and systematic perspective, the antagonistic tension that emerges through the concept of commitment and the present-day relevance of literature. The topics range from concepts of "Zeitdichtung" in the 19thcentury to 20th-century literary models and aesthetic positioning of the present day.
Les formes plurielles des écritures de la réception
Les textes de cet ouvrage en deux volumes apportent des éclairages multiples et complémentaires à ces questions sensibles de la réception des textes littéraires, de la trace laissée du souvenir de lecture et des modes d'expression du texte du lecteur.
Les Temps et les lieux de la lecture
Comment faire « entrer » les élèves du secondaire et les étudiants du postsecondaire dans les temps et les lieux de la lecture de la littérature, réels et imaginaires, et leur faire vivre des expériences significatives de lecture ? Quelles œuvres choisir en priorité ? Comment prendre en compte les pratiques de lecture qui s'effectuent en dehors de l'espace-temps scolaire, et de plus en plus souvent sur de nouveaux supports ? Comment faire lire des textes qui traitent de temps et de lieux non familiers pour les lecteurs d’aujourd’hui ou qui jouent avec les frontières du temps et de l’espace et présentent des défis particuliers de compréhension ? Comment programmer des activités afin d’accompagner les différents temps de la lecture (avant-pendant-après) et susciter l’engagement dans ces activités ? Les textes rassemblés dans ce volume apportent des éclairages multiples et complémentaires à ces questions. Ils témoignent de l’évolution actuelle des travaux dans le domaine de la didactique de la littérature et traitent d’une grande diversité de contextes d’enseignement en Europe, au Canada et au Brésil.
Ethique et frontières en littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse
Cet ouvrage qui réunit didacticiens, auteurs, traducteurs et comparatistes spécialistes de la question daltérité linguistique, se propose dexplorer encore et toujours les frontières de la littérature denfance et de jeunesse, dans les significations ouvertes que lon peut donner aux limites que pose la notion de frontière : à la fois borne, peut-être parce que la lecture éthique peut apporter une réflexion sur les repères de vie, mais aussi au sens du limes antique, cest-à-dire un lieu déchanges, de porosité, entre valeurs et littérarité, entre les genres, entre les langues et les cultures.
