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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…
French Studies
Le monde en ruines : Espaces brisés de la littérature contemporaine
Dr. Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire is excited to announce the recent publication of his edited volume on the poetics of ruins in…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Historias de Montreal: "Miradas de Outremont"
Dr. María Adelaida Escobar-Trujillo's short story titled "Miradas de Outremont" has been published in Historias de Montreal. Aiming to showcase…
General
The Afrikaner
A hijacking in deeper Johannesburg goes horribly wrong. Zoe du Plessis, a paleontologist of Afrikaner origin, is suddenly confronted with her…
Italian Studies
Oikosophia: Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei
Why «Oikosophia», and what does this new and yet archaic word mean? Sophia in Greek means Wisdom, a knowing, or…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Crónica de la minería de oro en Colombia: de la montaña al texto
This article evaluates the mining literary history of the mining town of Marmato, Colombia. Starting from novels like Tierra virgen (1897) by Eduardo…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana: Asia en América Latina
This special issue of the Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, co-edited by Kim Beauchesne, Koichi Hagimoto, and Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, provides a…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Tiempo del Sur
“Tiempo del Sur tells the story of a family through the voices of four women: Manuela, Titi, Elena and Elisa. Each…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
The Holy Mountain
While Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon, its success spawned The Holy Mountain. The film production was…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas
Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos -- This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Fricciones
Gabriel Saldías Rossel -- Fricciones is a collection of short stories published by Editorial Nadar in Chile, 2017. All the short stories…
General
The Mirror in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Specular Reflections
Nancy Frelick (ed.) -- This volume examines the intersections between material and metaphorical mirrors in medieval and early modern culture. Mirrors have…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Buñuel en Toledo. Arte público, acción cultural y vanguardia
María Soledad Fernández Utrera -- In 1923, Luis Buñuel established the Order of Toledo, a parody order of knights whose…
French Studies
Postcolonial Counterpoint. Orientalist, France, and the Maghreb
Farid Laroussi -- Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined…
French Studies
La mesure des mots. Microscopie du Livre I des fables de La Fontaine
Hervé Curat -- Cette analyse textuelle des vingt-deux «fables de La Fontaine» qui font le Livre premier des Fables choisies…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Celestina según su lenguaje
Raúl Alvarez-Moreno -- Celestina según su lenguaje estudia el lenguaje en Celestina (1499-1502) como elemento primordial y no solo supletorio…
French Studies
Traditions orales et postcoloniales
Luc Fotsing Fondjo et Moustapha Fall (ed.) -- Que suggère une oralité postcoloniale qui informe le texte de fiction postcolonial…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Una embajada española al Egipto de principios del siglo XVI
Raúl Álvarez-Moreno -- Pedro Mártir de Anglería desembarcó en Egipto la Navidad de 1501 tras ochenta días de viaje, trece…
General
The Purgatory Press & After the End
John Culbert -- The Purgatory Press & After the End is a volume of short fiction consisting of two parts:…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Visión periférica: marginalidad y colonialidad en las crónicas de América Latina (siglos XVI-XVII y XX-XXI)
Kim Beauchesne -- The product of extensive research in specialized archives, Visión periférica challenges linguistic, geographical and temporal boundaries to…
Portuguese Studies
Arnaldo Canibal Antunes
Alessandra Santos -- Arnaldo Canibal Antunes analyzes the work of a prominent contemporary Brazilian artist. The book’s main argument is…
French Studies
Voltaire à la radio canadienne
Joël Castonguay-Bélanger et Benoît Melançon -- Il fut un temps, pas si lointain, où la radio d’État canadienne considérait que…
French Studies
Claude Simon 6 : “La Réception critique”
Ralph Sarkonak -- “work in progress” : le titre sous lequel a été connu Finnegans Wake, lors de la prépublication d’extraits…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
The Utopian Impulse in Latin America
Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos -- This edited volume explores the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest…
French Studies
Shaken Wisdom: Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction
Gloria Nne Onyeoziri -- In her focus on irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction, Gloria Nne Onyeoziri refers to…
French Studies
La Bastille des pauvres diables
Laurence Bongie -- À travers l’histoire personnelle de Charles de Julie, pensionnaire de la Bastille entre 1753 et 1755, se…
French Studies
Les fossoyeurs
André Lamontagne -- Un journaliste établi à Vancouver profite d’un séjour à Québec pour faire des recherches, à la demande…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Posthegemony
Jon Beasley-Murray -- Posthegemony is an investigation into the origins, limits, and possibilities for contemporary politics and political analysis. Jon…
French Studies
Les spirales du sens chez Renaud Camus
Ralph Sarkonak -- Les Spirales du sens chez Renaud Camus a pour but de donner une idée de l’œuvre multiforme…
French Studies
Libertinism and literature in seventeenth-century France
Richard Hodgson -- This volume brings together the papers and lectures given at a conference held at the University of…
French Studies
Le grand dictionnaire des cooccurrences
Kim Beauchesne -- Avant de nous quitter, alors qu'il livrait une bataille acharnée contre le cancer, il nous a demandé…
French Studies
Les écarts de l’imagination
Joël Castonguay-Bélanger -- En 1775, à Paris, paraît un roman intitulé Le Philosophe sans prétention. L’auteur de ce « roman…
French Studies
Lévi-Strauss mot à mot
Hervé Curat -- Lévi-Strauss mot à mot résulte du concours de deux domaines d'intérêt, d'une part l'étude linguistique fondée sur…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Reciclaje cultural y memoria revolucionaria
Rita De Grandis -- Este estudio notable no solamente presenta una narracion completa y precisa de la trayectoria de una…
French Studies
Écritures du sujet
Farid Laroussi -- Comprise entre la critique littéraire et les nouveaux jeux esthétiques, la question de l'identité et la subjectivité…
General
The Shifting Foundations of Modern Nation-States
Sima Godfrey and Frank Unger -- Nation-states today are under pressure from opposite directions. In Western Europe, they are being…
French Studies
Bibliographie de la critique de la littérature québécoise au Canada anglais (1939-1989)
Réjean Beaudoin, Annette Hayward et André Lamontagne -- Le lectorat anglophone témoigne depuis près d'un siècle et demi d'un intérêt…
General
Women Filmmakers
Valerie Raoul -- What difference does it make when a woman wields the camera? What is the relationship of the…
Italian Studies
Il volo della mente
Daniela Boccassini -- Il volo della mente indaga le implicazioni filosofiche, letterarie e artistiche della falconeria nel Medioevo in prospettiva…
Italian Studies
Masters of Two Arts
Carlo Testa -- The movie screen has been the forum for many star pairings: Bogart and Bacall, Tracy and Hepburn,…
General
Text Technology
William Winder and R.G. Siemens -- This collection is jointly published as a special issue of the electronic journal Computing…
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Visiones de estereoscopio
2021 | María Soledad Fernández Utrera Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Description: This book, written in Spanish, focuses on…
French Studies
Bertolt Brecht et la nouvelle communication
Alain-Michel Rocheleau -- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) est sans conteste un de ceux qui ont le plus contribué au renouvellement du…
French Studies
Distribution sémantique des constructions Nom de Nom
Christine Rouget -- Cet ouvrage est consacré à l'analyse des syntagmes Nom de Nom, large domaine multiforme qui s'est souvent…
French Studies
Hermès et Aminadab: essai d’herméneutique littéraire
Robert Miller -- Si la tradition herméneutique ne semble pas avoir joué un rôle de première importance dans la critique…
French Studies
Délie as Other. Toward a Poetics of Desire in Scève’s Délie
Nancy Frelick -- This book examines various aspects of the poetics of desire in Maurice Scève's Délie, objet de plus…