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Affiche du document Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction

Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction

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145 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h49min.
It is easy to find books and libraries within fiction from the earliest times onwards in works for all age groups, in canonical literature and in books that form part of popular culture. From Don Quixote to Louisa M. Alcott’s March girls and Terry Pratchett’s Unseen University wizards, the reading material of fictional personae is part of their characterisation; we are often reading readers. This volume breaks new ground in offering a chronological range of essays exploring the depiction of books, libraries and reading specifically in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Through detailed case studies from primarily British fiction that address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself, the collection examines the ways in which authors of fiction mediate and interpret books, libraries, and the act of reading to their own readers. Fiction enables writers to teach readers how to read, but it can also portray subversive acts of reading that engage with contemporary cultural anxieties or moral debates. The volume draws on approaches from literary studies, book history, library history, and theories and histories of reading, to examine what fictional representations of reading tell us about changing cultural attitudes to different reading practices, and the use (and abuse) of books beyond actual reading, both in the context of specific works and about the reception of books more widely. Introduction: Books, Reading, and Libraries in Fiction Karen Attar and Andrew Nash 1 Reading Envisioned in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Daniel Sawyer 2 ‘The Gay Part of Reading’: Corruption through Reading? Rahel Orgis 3 ‘Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilet’: Reading Fiction Together in the Eighteenth Century Abigail Williams 4 Jane Austen’s Refinement of the Intradiegetic Novel Reader in Northanger Abbey: A Study in Ricoeurian Hermeneutics of Recuperation Monika Class 5 ‘Evaluating Negative Representations of Reading: Ivan Turgenev’s Faust (1855)’ Shafquat Towheed 6 ‘I spent all yesterday trying to read’: Reading in the Face of Existential Threat in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Hannah Callahan 7 ‘Into separate brochures’: Stitched Work and a New New Testament in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure Lucy Sixsmith 8 A Fire Fed on Books: Books and Reading in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers Susan Watson 9 ‘I sometimes like to read a novel’: Books and Reading in Victorian Adventure Romance Andrew Nash 10 When It Isn’t Cricket: Books, Reading and Libraries in the Girls’ School Story Karen Attar 11 The Body in the Library in the Fiction of Agatha Christie and her `Golden Age’ Contemporaries Keith Manley 12 ‘Very Nearly Magical’: Books and their Readers in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Series Jane Suzanne Carroll
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Affiche du document The Afterlife of Apuleius

The Afterlife of Apuleius

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206 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h34min.
Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, linguistics and philology, within a wide geographical scope.The volume gathers the proceedings of an international conference held in March 2016 at the Warburg Institute in London, in association with the Institute of Classical Studies. It includes both diachronic overviews and specific case-studies. A first series of papers focuses on The Golden Ass and its historical and geographical diffusion, from High Medieval Europe to early modern Mexico. The oriental connections of the book are also taken into account. The second part of the book examines the textual and visual destiny of Psyche’s story from the Apuleian fabula to allegorical retellings, in poetical or philosophical books and on stage. As the third series of essays indicates, the fortunes of the book led many ancient and early modern writers and translators to use it as a canonical model for reflections about the status of fiction. It also became, mostly around the beginning of the fifteenth century, a major linguistic and stylistic reference for lexicographers and neo-Latin writers : the last papers of the book deal with Renaissance polemics about ‘Apuleianism’ and the role of editors and commentators.1. The medieval ass: re-evaluating the reception of Apuleius in the High Middle Ages / Robert H. F. Carver. 2. The white goddess in Mexico: Apuleius’ Latin, Spanish, and Nahuatl legacy in New Spain / Andrew Laird.3. The Ass goes east: Apuleius and Orientalism/ Carole Boidin.4. How to tell the story of Cupid and Psyche: from Fulgentius to Galeotto Del Corretto / Julia Haig Gaisser.5. Psyche’s textual journey from Apuleius to Boccaccio and Petrarch / Igor Candido6. An Apuleian masque? Thomas Heywood’s Love’s Mistress (1634) / Stephen Harrison7. Echoes of Apuleius’ novel in Mary Tighe’s Psyche: romantic imagination and self-fashioning / Regine May 8. Apuleius and Martianus Capella: canon, reception and pedagogy / Ahuvia Kahane9. A translation of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and the debate about fiction in the sixteenth century: L’asino d’oro by Agnolo Firenzuola (1550) / Françoise Lavocat.10. Apuleius’ Ass and Cervantes’ Dogs in Dialogue / Maria Loreto Núñez11. ‘He does not speak golden words: he brays’: Apuleius’ style and the humanistic lexicography / Clementina Marsico12. The Golden Ass under the lens of the ‘Bolognese commentator’ L Lucius Apuleius and Filippo Beroaldo / Andrea Severi
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Affiche du document Ma vie était un fusil chargé

Ma vie était un fusil chargé

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« Je n’en reviens pas moi-même de ce qui s’est passé et de ce don que les livres m’ont fait de me porter sans faiblir, de prendre soin de moi et de me guérir en brisant l’enfermement dans lequel je vivais. Ils ont ma reconnaissance éternelle. »« Le Journal d’Anne Frank, Le Silence de la mer de Vercors, Souvenirs pieux de Marguerite Yourcenar, Une Année à la campagne de Sue Hubbell, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo d’Alexandre Dumas…  Nous avons tous des livres-cultes, des livres-phares, des livres de chevet auxquels nous revenons régulièrement. Dans Ma vie était un fusil chargé, Marie Gillet présente un nouveau genre de livre, le « livre-chevalier ». Le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche des romans d’aventures lutte contre l’injustice, vient au secours des plus faibles et porte haut les valeurs de l’humanité. Le livre-chevalier agit de la même façon : il sauve celui qui le lit.La narratrice raconte comment grâce à cinq « livres-chevaliers », elle a pu sortir de l’emprise dans laquelle elle a longtemps vécu après avoir été élevée par un père violent. Après des décennies de lutte, elle a été délivrée de l’anéantissement dans lequel elle sombrait.  L’ensemble du livre est plus qu’un hommage à la littérature, c’est la démonstration que chaque livre est vivant et de toute éternité.
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Affiche du document Literature and the Relational Self

Literature and the Relational Self

Ann Schapiro Barbara

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222 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h46min.
"Literature and the Relational Self is a tribute to the rich complexity of human nature—as poets, novelists, and relational models of contemporary psychoanalysis mutually attest."—Psychoanalytic Psychologist While psychoanalytic relational perspectives have had a major impact on the clinical world, their value for the field of literary study has yet to be fully recognized. This important book offers a broad overview of relational concepts and theories, and it examines their implications for understanding literary and aesthetic experience as it reviews feminist applications of relational-model theories, and considers D. W. Winnicott''s influential ideas about creativity and symbolic play. The eight incisive essays in this volume apply these concepts to a close reading of various nineteenth and twentieth-century literary texts: an essay on Wordsworth, for instance, explores the poet''s writing on the imagination in light of Winnicott''s ideas about transitional phenomena, while an essay on Woolf and Lawrence compares identity issues in their work from the perspective of feminist object relations theories. The cultural influences that have led to the development of the relational paradigm in the sciences at this particular historical moment have also affected contemporary art and literature. Essays on John Updike, Toni Morrison, Ann Beattie, and Alice Hoffman examine self-other relational dynamics in their texts that reflect larger cultural patterns characteristic of our time. The author reviews feminist applications of relational-model theories and applies these models to works by William Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, John Updike, Toni Morrison, and others.
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Affiche du document Oral Poetry

Oral Poetry

Ruth Finnegan

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167 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h05min.
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the vast field of 'oral poetry,' encompassing everything from American folksongs, contemporary pop songs, and Inuit lyrics, to the heroic epics of Homer, biblical psalms, and epic traditions in Asia and the Pacific. Taking a broad comparative approach, it explores oral poetry across Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas. Drawing on global research, Ruth Finnegan, the author of the seminal Oral Literature in Africa, sheds light on key debates such as the nature of oral tradition, the relationship between poetry and society, the differences between oral and written forms, and the role of poets in predominantly non-literate contexts. Written from a primarily anthropological and literary perspective, this study contributes to the socio-cultural aspects of verbal art while also engaging with the literary dimensions of poetry which happens at any given moment to be unwritten. Finnegan's clear, non-technical language and extensive use of translated examples make this work accessible to a wide audience, appealing not only to sociologists and anthropologists but also to those with an interest in poetry, in comparative literature, and in global folk traditions. The re-issue of this classic study is now augmented by further illustrations and a newly written Introduction and Conclusion, situating it in the context of the contemporary study of literature. 
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Affiche du document Millennial Jewish Stars

Millennial Jewish Stars

Jonathan Branfman

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170 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h07min.
Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US mediaJewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many millennial Jewish stars have won stellar success while spotlighting (rather than muting) Jewish identity. In Millennial Jewish Stars, Jonathan Branfman asks: what makes these explicitly Jewish stars so unexpectedly appealing? And what can their surprising success tell us about race, gender, and antisemitism in America? To answer these questions, Branfman offers case studies on six top millennial Jewish stars: the biracial rap superstar Drake, comedic rapper Lil Dicky, TV comedy duo Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, “man-baby” film star Seth Rogen, and chiseled film star Zac Efron.Branfman argues that despite their differences, each star’s success depends on how they navigate racial antisemitism: the historical notion that Jews are physically inferior to Christians. Each star especially navigates racial stigmas about Jewish masculinity—stigmas that depict Jewish men as emasculated, Jewish women as masculinized, and both as sexually perverse. By embracing, deflecting, or satirizing these stigmas, each star comes to symbolize national hopes and fears about all kinds of hot-button issues. For instance, by putting a cuter twist on stereotypes of Jewish emasculation, Seth Rogen plays soft man-babies who dramatize (and then resolve) popular anxieties about modern fatherhood. This knack for channeling national dreams and doubts is what makes each star so unexpectedly marketable.In turn, examining how each star navigates racial antisemitism onscreen makes it easier to pinpoint how antisemitism, white privilege, and color-based racism interact in the real world. Likewise, this insight can aid readers to better notice and challenge racial antisemitism in everyday life.
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