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The Life and Travels of Xavier Marmier (1808-1892)
A household name in nineteenth-century France, Xavier Marmier's work had a significant influence on literary and intellectual developments both in France and the countries he visited. Marmier's achievements are assessed in their intellectual and historical context, within the framework of his colorful and somewhat controversial private life.
No Man's Land
A play about fiction and reality, in which an invited guest threatens to disrupt the self-contained refuge of his host.
Mignon's Afterlives
Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, through the European cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song, opera, and film.
Cultural Transfer Reconsidered
Examining the cultural dynamics of translation and transfer, Cultural Transfer Reconsideredproposes new insights into both epistemological and analytical questions. With its focus on the North, the book opens perspectives mainly implying textual, intertextual and artistic practices and postcolonial interrelatedness.
Writing the North of the North / L’Écriture du Nord du Nord / Den Norden des Nordens (be-)schreiben
The expression “North of the North” refers both to an objective, geographical reality – the territories situated at the highest latitudes on our planet – and to a subjective, mental construction which came into being many centuries ago and has been developed, modified and differentiated ever since. The chapters in the present volume examine various aspects of that concept, analysing texts and works of art from a range of regions and periods. La notion de « Nord du Nord » renvoie tout autant à la réalité géographique objective que sont les territoires des latitudes les plus élevées de notre planète qu’à une construction mentale subjective qui s’est constituée, développ...
The Humming Bird
Genera of humming birds, by Adolphe Boucard, was issued with the Humming bird, the first sections issued as a supplement to v. 2-4, the latter part (p.203?-412) issued as pt. 2-4 (Mar.-Dec. 1895) of v. 5.
