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The Fairy-Tale Vanguard
Ever since its early modern inception as a literary genre unto its own, the fairy tale has frequently provided authors with a textual space in which to reflect on the nature, status and function of their own writing and that of literature in general. At the same time, it has served as an ideal laboratory for exploring and experimenting with the boundaries of literary convention and propriety. While scholarship pertaining to these phenomena has focused primarily on the fairy-tale adaptations and deconstructions of postmodern(ist) writers, this essay collection adopts a more diachronic approach. It offers fairy-tale scholars and students a series of theoretical and literary-historical expositions, as well as case studies on English, French, German, Swedish, Danish, and Romanian texts from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, by authors as diverse as Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Rikki Ducornet, Hans Christian Andersen and Robert Coover.
Transforming Tales
Transforming Tales argues that the study of transformation is crucial for understanding a wide range of canonical work in medieval French literature. From the lais and Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, through the Roman de la Rose and its widespread influence, to the fourteenth-century Ovide moralise and the vast prose cycles of the late Middle Ages, metamorphosis is a recurrent theme, resulting in some of the best-known and most powerful literature of the era. Transforming Tales is the first book in English to explore in detail the importance of ideas of metamorphosis in French literature from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. This book's purpose is twofold: ...
Mythes de la décadence
Les mythes de la décadence montrent combien les mythes peuvent être repris, réécrits, réinvestis à une époque et combien leurs métamorphoses sont en liaison directe avec les représentations et les idéologies. Le mythe fait signe et fait sens dans l'actualité même qu'il énonce et avec laquelle il entretient un système référentiel souvent biaisé et oblique. Son statut même change et, si d'un côté on peut parler d'une décadence des mythes, objets de parodie réinscrivant une intertextualité foisonnante dans un espace de la perversion, d'un dérèglement dépravé et d'une corruption méthodique, on est tout autant sensible à la permanence du mythe comme tel, à sa ductili...
Maternal Echoes
'Maternal Echoes' examines maternal imagery in the poetry of two French Romantic poets, the increasingly popular Desbordes-Valmore and the critically marginalized Lamartine. Drawing on psychoanalytic theories on the maternal voice as well as feminist criticism, the book argues that both poets find a voice of their own by echoing their mother's voice.
Framing Classical Reception Studies
Many study the reception of Classical Antiquity today. But why, how and from what conceptual or disciplinary frame? A number of selected representative chapters on these questions illustrate the remarkable diversity and vitality of Classical Receptions Studies and set the agenda for future research.
La nostalgie du moi
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Philomèle
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