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Autobiography as a Writing Strategy in Postcolonial Literature
Autobiography, a fully-recognised genre within mainstream literature today, has evolved massively in the last few decades, particularly through colonial and postcolonial texts. By using autobiography as a means of expression, many postcolonial writers were able to describe their experiences in the face of the denial of personal expression for centuries. This book is centred around the recounting and analysis of such a phenomenon. Literary purists often reject autobiography as a fully-fledged literary genre, perceiving it rather as a mere life report or a descriptive diary. The colonial and postcolonial autobiographical texts analysed in this book refute such perceptions, and demonstrate a subtle combination of literary qualities and the recounting of real-life experiences. This book demonstrates that colonial and postcolonial autobiographical texts have established their ‘literarity’. The need for postcolonial authors to express themselves through the ‘I’ and the ‘me’, as subjects and not as objects, is the essence of this book, and confirms that self-affirmation through autobiographical writing is indeed an art form.
The Op-Ed Novel
“The Op-Ed Novel not only elegantly recounts a vital intellectual and cultural history of post-Franco Spain. Carefully exploring the careers of Spain’s most eminent writers, it demonstrates, too, the osmotic links between political journalism and literary fiction—salutary reading in the English-speaking countries, where politics and literature are still regarded as strangers to each other.”—Pankaj Mishra, author of Run and Hide A new history of contemporary Spanish fiction through the prism of novelists’ newspaper columns. Public intellectuals come in many different stripes, but most of them gain a following at least in part from their writing, whether in the form of magazine art...
Die Rezeption Der Mittelalterlichen Sprachphilosophie in Der Theologie Des Thomas Von Aquin
The first detailed monography on how Thomas Aquinas used the contemporary philosophy of language in his works. Precise interpretations, many tables and schematical drawings give the reader a useful orientation in the field of the new research on Aquinas.
Aquinas’s Philosophical Commentary on the Ethics
Is Aquinas's Sententia libri Ethicorum an interpretation of Aristotle based on `principles of Christian ethics'? Or do we have in that work a presentation of the foundation of Aquinas's moral philosophy? Professor Doig answers these questions through an examination of the historical context within which the Sententia was composed. In Chapters 1-2, the work's role as a corrective of earlier commentaries is established. Chapter 3, by examining philosophy at Paris between 1215 and 1283, reveals that the proposal by Aquinas of a moral philosophy would have been unexceptional. Chapter 4's investigation of the principles underlying the moral theory of the Sententia makes apparent that they were regarded by Aquinas as both philosophical and Aristotelian. The date to be assigned the composition of the Sententia is studied in Chapter 5, and the conclusion is drawn, that with some probability, the Sententia is its author's final proposal of moral doctrines. The closing Chapter offers a summary of that moral philosophy against the historical background brought out earlier.
Sensations proustiennes
Ce numéro de Marcel Proust Aujourd’hui, ‘Sensations proustiennes’, regroupe une dizaine articles, en français, traitant de de la notion de ‘sensation’ sous plusieurs perspectives : une recherche basée sur la sémiotique et la phénoménologie ; une approche partant des portraits de peintres dans Les Plaisirs et les Jours ; une étude de l’ivresse ; la chambre en tant qu’espace générateur d’une part, polysignifiant de l’autre ; l’érotisme d’Albertine, ainsi que la transposition des sensations dans le domaine du cinéma. En plus des études sur ‘le roman noir’, sur les modalités de la traduction et sur le dynamisme des titres chez Proust complètent ce panorama. Avec des contributions de: Joel Candau ; Thomas Carrier-Lafleur ; Fanny Daubigny ; Rokus Hofstede ; Sjef Houppermans ; Farzaneh Karimian ; Guillaume Lavoie; Cristian Micu ; Bérengère Moricheau-Airaud ; Thomas Muzart ; Philippe Robichaud ; Philippe Willemart ; Manet van Montfrans ; Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar ; Annelies Schulte Nordholt ; Sjef Houppermans
Autofiction: pratiques et théories
L’autofiction, considérée dans l’Histoire littéraire, est un genre nouveau. Mais cette classification générique, envisagée précisément, peut nous paraître déjà ancienne, tant elle a fait l’objet d’articles, de débats, de polémiques, d’attaques et de plaidoyers. Autofiction : pratiques et théories regroupe des recensions et des articles publiés depuis une dizaine d’années sur des sites littéraires, dans des revues universitaires ou associatives. On y retrouve analysées les récentes parutions d’écrivains emblématiques de l’écriture de soi tels que Christine Angot, Christophe Donner ou Camille Laurens mais aussi les dernières publications universitaires qui questionnent le genre sous différents angles, historique, génétique, politique, ou qui en font un outil d’analyse permettant l’étude du travail d’écrivains aussi différents que Proust, Colette ou Frédéric Beigbeder. Tenter de voir plus clair dans le bouillonnement théorico-littéraire de l’autofiction, saisir les enjeux de cette nouvelle écriture de soi, telle est l’ambition du présent ouvrage.
La transcendance de l'homme : Études en hommage à Thomas...
Les textes rassemblés dans le présent recueil ont pour but de rendre hommage à l’ensemble de la carrière du professeur Thomas de Koninck, qui célèbre par ailleurs cette année ses cinquante ans d’enseignement à la Faculté de philosophie de l’Université Laval. Le dévouement entier de Thomas de Koninck envers la philosophie est une évidence pour tous ceux qui ont eu l’occasion de le côtoyer, dévouement fondé sur la conviction, tout à la fois intime et inébranlable, que la philosophie délie, comme le suggérait déjà le Phédon, c’est-à-dire possède le pouvoir de libérer les virtualités humaines, et qu’elle sert en cela la dignité de chacun. Le dévouement don...
Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945
A 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Love at first sight, whirlwind marriages, break-ups, divorces, remarriage... What accounts for the enduring success of the Hollywood madcap comedies of the 1930s? Directed by masters of comedy (Hawks, LaCava, Leisen, Ruggles...) and featuring the decade's most iconic stars (Colbert, Dunne, Grant, Hepburn...), these films set romantic comedy standards for decades to come. Screwball comedy embarked on two challenging missions: to poke fun at established social norms and to undermine stereotypical depictions of gender roles, putting forward a discourse that postulated the possibility of equality between men and women. Grégoire Halbout's reexamination of...
The Discovery of Being and Thomas Aquinas
While there has been agreement among followers of Aquinas that being insofar as it is being (being qua being) is the subject of metaphysics, there is not agreement on how this being qua being is to be understood, nor on how we come to know the being that is the object of metaphysical investigation. The topic of what being is, as the object of the science of metaphysics, and how to account for the “discovery” of the being of metaphysics have emerged as central problems for the contemporary retrieval of Aquinas and for the larger project of post-Leonine Thomism in general. This lack of agreement has hampered the retrieval of Aquinas’s metaphysics. The collection of essays within The Disc...
