Gathering in one place a cohesive selection of articles that deepen our sense of the vitality and controversy within the Catholic renewal of the mid-twentieth century, God's Mirror offers historical analysis of French Catholic intellectuals. This volume highlights the work of writers, thinkers and creative artists who have not always drawn the attention given to such luminaries as Maritain, Mounier, and Marcel.
Organized around the typologies of renewal and engagement, editors Katherine Davies and Toby Garfitt provide a revisionist and interdisciplinary reading of the narrative of twentieth-century French Catholicism. Renewal and engagement are both manifestations of how the Catholic intellectual reflects and takes position on the relationship between the Church, personal faith and the world, and on the increasingly problematic relationship between intellectuals and the Magisterium. A majority of the writings are based on extensive research into published texts, with some occasional archival references, and they give critical insights into the tensions that characterized the theological and political concerns of their subjects.

The nature of laughter has recently attracted the attention of a number of different disciplines. In two recent colloquia, TRIO (Translation Research in Oxford) brought together international authorities from fields as diverse as physiology, psychology, linguistics, translation and literary studies, and sociology, with scant regard for political correctness. This fascinating and often hilarious collection of essays is the result. With the contributions: Jane Taylor Introduction Dominique Bertrand Anatomie et etymologie: ordre et desordre du rire selon Laurent Joubert Silke Kipper, Dietmar Todt The Sound of Laughter: Recent Concepts and Findings in Research into Laughter Vocalizations Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Why Can t You Tickle Yourself? Michael Holland Belly Laughs Walter Redfern Upping the Ante/i: Exaggeration in Celine and Valles Giselinde Kuipers Humour Styles and Class Cultures: Highbrow Humour and Lowbrow Humour in the Netherlands Christie Davies Searching for Jokes: Language, Translation, and the Cross-Cultural Comparison of Humour Ted Cohen And What If They Don t Laugh? Iain Galbraith Without the Rape the Talk-Show Would Not Be Laughable Jean-Michel Deprats Translating a Great Feast of Languages Paul J. Memmi Traduire le rire Natacha Thiery Rire et desir dans les comedies americaines de Lubitsch: l exemple de Ninotchka (1939) Adam Phillips What s So Funny? On Being Laughed at ... Sukanta Chaudhuri Laughing and Talking Georges Roque Le Rire comme accident en peinture Laurent Bazin La Couleur du rire: peinture et traduction Gerard Toulouse Views on the Physics and Metaphysics of Laughter