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French Studies
Francophone Literature After the Postcolonial Age
Discover the three main forces have reshaped the French postcolonial in the twenty-first century: digital globalization, intertextuality, and ecocriticism.
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Las fiestas del intelecto. Banquetes e ideología en la vanguardia española
El primer estudio monográfico hasta la fecha sobre el banquete de intelectuales en la modernidad y la vanguardia españolas.
French Studies
La francophonie en action : Utilisateur indépendant (B1)
With a strong emphasis on the francophone world, including a much-needed focus on francophone and Indigenous Canada, this textbook series…
French Studies
Les Fabliaux : Fiction, vraisemblance et genre littéraire
This study proposes to bring medieval and modern thoughts into dialogue to reread the fabliaux and make them participate in…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Nudos y enredos: revistas andinas del siglo XX
Rodolfo Ortiz studies the impact of Andean magazines and analyzes their complex networks of cultural production in the intellectual field…
Italian Studies
E c'erano gerani rossi dappertutto
A collection of 16 narratives authored by Italian North-American women, exploring their immigrant experiences. Through a series of narratives, the…
French Studies
The Crimean War and Cultural Memory: The War France Won and Forgot
This book illuminates the forgotten traces that the Crimean War left on the French cultural landscape.
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Politically Animated: Non-fiction Animation from the Hispanic World
"Politically Animated" interrogates the many ways in which animation as a stylistic tool and storytelling device participates in political projects…
Italian Studies
Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy
This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history. In analyzing these cultural mobilities,…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
(Pro)creación. Escritura y maternidad en la España contemporánea
(Pro)creación is a book about writing and motherhood in contemporary Spain: it analyzes how three women authors have portrayed their…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Bilingual Legacies: Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona
This book examines fatherhood in the work of four canonical Spanish authors born in Barcelona and raised during the dictatorship…
Romance Studies
Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe
This book sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe’s boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent’s…
French Studies
Combinatoires ludiques : littérature, contrainte et mathématique
This study is interested in the ergodic modality borrowed from cybernetics, which sets up a rhetoric of constraint serving a…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Rayanos y Dominicanyorks: la dominicanidad del siglo XXI
Through close readings of various texts that deal with issues of border, identity and the relationship between Haiti and Dominican…
French Studies
Le Récit architecte : Cinq aspects de l’espace
Space is at the heart of the story. Its invention is fundamentally linked to the evolution of time, characters, their bodies,…
French Studies
L'archive du réel : essais sur Claude Simon
This work, which represents the fruits of forty years of research on Claude Simon, alternates thematic studies and essays devoted…
French Studies
La Mort le roi Artu (Modern French Translation)
This is a new Modern French translation by Dr. Patrick Moran of the early 13th-century Old French romance La Mort…
Italian Studies
Migration and the Media: Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992–2012
By Gaoheng Zhang © 2019 The first book to analyse cultural dynamics of Chinese migration to Italy, Migration and the Media compares Italian,…
General
Canons of Fantasy: Lands of High Adventure
Canons of Fantasy: Lands of High Adventure by Patrick Moran has recently been published by Cambridge University Press. It is part…
Italian Studies
Exchanges and Parallels between Italy and East Asia
This collection of essays is the first English-language study to present the latest research on Italy’s cultural relationships with China…