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Experiment and Experience is a collection of critical essays on
twenty-first-century women-authored literature in France. In
particular, the volume focuses on how contemporary women's writing
engages creatively with socio-political issues and real-life
experiences. Authors covered include well-established names, the
'new generation' of writers who first came to the fore of the
French literary scene in the 1990s and whose work has now matured
into an important oeuvre, as well as new emerging writers of the
2000s, whose work is already attracting scholarly and critical
attention. Within the overarching theme of 'experiment and
experience', the contributors explore a range of issues:
identities, family relations, violence, borders and limits, and the
environment. They consider fiction, autobiography, writing for the
theatre, autofiction and other hybrid genres and forms. Their
analyses highlight difficult issues, refreshing perspectives and
exciting new themes at the start of the new millennium and moving
forward into the coming decades.
A Literary Map of Spain in the 21st Century is a unique scholarly
publication that participates in the debates of literary
researchers by exploring the linguistic and literary map of Spain
in the twenty-first century. Each chapter is centered in a
particular cultural and linguistic area of Spain; and there the
study extrapolates to other regions of interest. This book covers
all or at least most of the sociolinguistic and literary
environments of Spain. It is a comprehensive study of the new
trends and attitudes towards linguistic and literary coexistence in
a linguistically diverse nation. By painting a panoramic
retrospective view of the evolution of this coexistence during the
twenty-first century, Graciela Susana Boruszko brings new light to
the current global scenario. The comparative approach of the study
constitutes an excellent scholar contribution to the field of
comparative literature and linguistics, Spanish linguistics, and
Spanish cultural studies. While being centered in literary and
linguistic analysis, this book will also appeal to scholars in
adjacent academic fields, such as political science, sociology,
sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, psycholinguistics, contemporary
history, social studies, cultural studies, intercultural studies,
gender studies, and European studies.
The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into
the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of
Greek and Latin literature, ranging from classical to Neo-Latin
texts. Some 4-5 new editions are published every year. A team of
renowned scholars in the field of Classical Philology acts as
advisory board: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di
Pisa) Marcus Deufert (Universitat Leipzig) James Diggle (University
of Cambridge) Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California,
Berkeley) Franco Montanari (Universita di Genova) Heinz-Gunther
Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen) Dirk Obbink
(University of Oxford) Oliver Primavesi (Ludwig-Maximilians
Universitat Munchen) Michael D. Reeve (University of Cambridge)
Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard University) Formerly out-of-print
editions are offered as print-on-demand reprints. Furthermore, all
new books in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana series are published as
eBooks. The older volumes of the series are being successively
digitized and made available as eBooks. If you are interested in
ordering an out-of-print edition, which hasn't been yet made
available as print-on-demand reprint, please contact us:
[email protected] All editions of Latin texts published in
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BTL Online.
The book offers a view of national self-identification in the
literary culture of twentieth century Romania with a special focus
on the postcolonial paradigm. Romanian identity narratives downplay
the colonial setup of the country's past and the colonial past goes
unmentioned in the country's historiography and popular culture.
However, the postcolonial paradigm helps readers grasp national
self-identification in modern Romanian culture. The author analyses
how Anglo-American reporting on interwar Romania and later Romanian
historical fiction establish notions such as hybridity and cultural
overlap as conducive to the making of modern Romanian culture.
Published in 1991 The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda is a late
Elizabethan romantic tragedy by Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish
Tragedy. It dramatises the triangular relationship of the Turkish
emperor Soliman, his captive Perseda and her beloved Erastus
against the fictionalised backdrop of the Turkish invasion of
Rhodes in the early sixteenth century. This volume contains the
original text along with textual and critical notes.
Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual
issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known
texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius,
and Vergil. A follow-up to Vegiliana: Critical Studies on the Texts
of Publius Vergilius Maro (2017), the volume includes major
contributions to the discussion of Horace's Carmen IV 8 and IV 12,
along with studies on Catullus Carmen 67 and Hadrian's Animula
vagula, as well as a new contribution on Livy's text at IV 20 in
connection with Cossus's spolia opima, and on Vergil's Aeneid 3.
147-152 and 11. 151-153. On Ennius, the author presents several new
ideas on Ann. 42 Sk. and 220-22l, and in editing Horace, he
suggests new principles for the critical apparatus and tries to
find a balance by weighing both sides in several studies, comparing
a conservative and a radical approach. Critica will be an important
resource for students and scholars of Latin language and
literature.
Les dix-sept regards sur les " spectateurs " reunis dans le present
volume s'inscrivent dans un projet de recherche de longue haleine
sur l'essai periodique en Europe. Le recueil prolonge la
publication de plusieurs volumes dans notre collection sur les "
Lumieres " et la mise en place d'une base de donnees, tous
consacres aux " spectateurs " de langues romanes. A la difference
de ces derniers, il envisage cependant non seulement les "
spectateurs " francais, italiens ou espagnols mais aussi des
periodiques anglophones, russes ou germanophones. En elargissant
ainsi la perspective, cet ouvrage espere mieux prendre en compte le
rayonnement des " spectateurs " a l'echelle mondiale. Et il tente
en particulier de donner quelques elements de reponse a une
question essentielle : quelles sont les raisons qui ont permis a
ces journaux, un siecle durant, et d'un bout du monde a l'autre, de
connaitre un succes sans precedent dans l'histoire de la presse
litteraire ? Ce livre contient des contributions en francais,
allemand, italien, espagnol et anglais.
Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic
imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation
throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the
Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his
engagement with the philosophical tradition? Ovid's close
familiarity with philosophical ideas and with specific
philosophical texts has long been recognized, perhaps most
prominently in the Pythagorean, Platonic, Empedoclean, and
Lucretian shades that have been seen to color his Metamorphoses.
This philosophical component has often been perceived as a feature
implicated in, and subordinate to, Ovid's larger literary agenda,
both pre- and post-exilic; and because of the controlling influence
conceded to that literary impulse, readings of the philosophical
dimension have often focused on the perceived distortion,
ironizing, or parodying of the philosophical sources and ideas on
which Ovid draws, as if his literary orientation inevitably
compromises or qualifies a "serious" philosophical commitment.
Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher counters this tendency by
considering Ovid's seriousness of engagement with, and his possible
critique of, the philosophical writings that inform his works. The
book also questions the feasibility of separating out the
categories of the "philosophical" and the "literary" in the first
place, and explores the ways in which Ovid may offer unusual,
controversial, or provocative reactions to received philosophical
ideas. Finally, it investigates the case to be made for viewing the
Ovidian corpus not just as a body of writings that are often
philosophically inflected, but also as texts that may themselves be
read as philosophically adventurous and experimental. The essays
collected in this volume are intended at the individual level to
address in new ways many aspects of Ovid's recourse to philosophy
across his corpus. Collectively, however, they are also designed to
redress what, in general terms, remains a significant lacuna in
Ovidian studies.
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts
critically interrogates the issue of Blackness in Brazil under the
lens of cultural studies - broadly defined to include utterances on
transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. From a multidisciplinary
perspective, this collection of scholarly articles queries the
notions of national and racial identity and ambivalence, through
critical analysis of contemporary (mid-twentieth century to the
present) Brazilian cultural materiality, including literature,
religion, film/video and theatrical production, and cultural
anthropological manifestations. The book's purpose is to understand
how multiethnic nations, such as Brazil, negotiate issues of
Blackness in contemporary contexts. All of the contributing authors
are leading Brazilian scholars in the areas of race, gender,
theatre, music, literature, film, and religion studies. By
concentrating on how these disciplines and ideologies relate to
matters concerning Blackness in the construction of identities in
Brazil, this book will be of significant value to scholars in the
areas of Brazilian studies, Latin American studies,
interdisciplinary studies, cultural studies, and African Diaspora
studies.
This book covers the history of Polish cinema from 1989 up to the
present in a broad political and cultural context, looking at both
the film industry and film artistry. It considers the main ideas
behind the institutional changes in the Polish film industry after
the collapse of communism and assesses how these ideas were
implemented. In discussing artistry, the focus is on the genres
which dominated the Polish cinematic landscape after 1989 and the
most important directors.
The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building
blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus
on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories.
Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek
tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from the
Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts. And still, today, a wealth of
novels, plays and films draw their inspiration from stories first told
almost three thousand years ago. But modern tellers of Greek myth have
usually been men, and have routinely shown little interest in telling
women’s stories. And when they do, those women are often painted as
monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil. But Pandora – the first woman,
who according to legend unloosed chaos upon the world – was not a
villain, and even Medea and Phaedra have more nuanced stories than
generations of retellings might indicate.
Now, in Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths, Natalie Haynes –
broadcaster, writer and passionate classicist – redresses this
imbalance. Taking Pandora and her jar (the box came later) as the
starting point, she puts the women of the Greek myths on equal footing
with the menfolk. After millennia of stories telling of gods and men,
be they Zeus or Agamemnon, Paris or Odysseus, Oedipus or Jason, the
voices that sing from these pages are those of Hera, Athena and
Artemis, and of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Eurydice and Penelope.
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