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World Literatures
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ISBN: 9176350797 9176350762 Year: 2018 Publisher: Stockholm Stockholm University Press

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"Placing itself within the burgeoning field of world literary studies, the organising principle of this book is that of an open-ended dynamic, namely the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange.As an adaptable comparative fulcrum for literary studies, the notion of the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange accommodates also highly localised literatures. In this way, it redresses what has repeatedly been identified as a weakness of the world literature paradigm, namely the one-sided focus on literature that accumulates global prestige or makes it on the Euro-American book market.How has the vernacular been defined historically? How is it inflected by gender? How are the poles of the vernacular and the cosmopolitan distributed spatially or stylistically in literary narratives? How are cosmopolitan domains of literature incorporated in local literary communities? What are the effects of translation on the encoding of vernacular and cosmopolitan values?Ranging across a dozen languages and literature from five continents, these are some of the questions that the contributions attempt to address."


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Серебряный век в русской литературе и культуре конца XIX – первой половины XX вв = Silver Age in Russian Literature and Culture in the Late 19th Century and the First Half of the 20th Century : К 90-летию со дня рождения З. Г. Минц = On the 90th Birth Anniversary of Zara Minz
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Tartu University of Tartu Press

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Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. The first section of this volume contains articles on the history, poetics and reception of the Silver Age in Russian literature and culture in the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. In the second section, titled “It was impossible not to Love Zara Grigoryevna…”, several students of Zara Minz share their memories of her. The third section addresses issues of translation and intermediality in Russian and European culture.


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Diaries real and fictional in twentieth-century French writing
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ISBN: 9780198814535 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,


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Серебряный век в русской литературе и культуре конца XIX – первой половины XX вв = Silver Age in Russian Literature and Culture in the Late 19th Century and the First Half of the 20th Century : К 90-летию со дня рождения З. Г. Минц = On the 90th Birth Anniversary of Zara Minz
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Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. The first section of this volume contains articles on the history, poetics and reception of the Silver Age in Russian literature and culture in the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. In the second section, titled “It was impossible not to Love Zara Grigoryevna…”, several students of Zara Minz share their memories of her. The third section addresses issues of translation and intermediality in Russian and European culture.


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Tar for Mortar: "The Library of Babel" and the Dream of Totality
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ISBN: 1947447513 1947447505 9781947447516 Year: 2018 Publisher: Brooklyn, NY punctum books

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Tar for Mortar offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature’s greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story “The Library of Babel” is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the irony of Borges’s narration, which undermines at every turn its narrator’s claims of the library’s universality, including the very possibility of exhausting meaning through combinatory processing. Borges directed readers to his non-fiction to discover the true author of the idea of the universal library. But his supposedly historical essays are notoriously riddled with false references and self-contradictions. Whether in truth or in fiction, Borges never reaches a stable conclusion about the atomic premises of the universal library — is it possible to find a character set capable of expressing all possible meaning, or do these letters, like his stories and essays, divide from themselves in a restless incompletion? While many readers of Borges see him as presaging our digital technologies, they often give too much credit to our inventions in doing so. Those who elide the necessary incompletion of the Library of Babel compare it to the Internet on the assumption that both are total archives of all possible thought and expression. Though Borges’s imaginings lend themselves to digital creativity (libraryofbabel.info is certainly evidence of this), they do so by showing the necessary incompleteness of every totalizing project, no matter how technologically refined. Ultimately, Basile nudges readers toward the idea that a fictional/imaginary exposition can hold a certain power over technology.


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Traces of war : interpreting ethics and trauma in twentieth-century French writing
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ISBN: 9781786948243 1786948249 9781786940421 1786940426 1786945118 Year: 2018 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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The legacy of the Second World War remains unsettled; no consensus has been achieved about its meaning and its lasting impact. This is pre-eminently the case in France, where the experience of defeat and occupation created the grounds for a deeply ambiguous mixture of resistance and collaboration, pride and humiliation, heroism and abjection, which writers and politicians have been trying to disentangle ever since. This book develops a theoretical approach which draws on trauma studies and hermeneutics; and it then focuses on some of the intellectuals who lived through the war and on how their experience and troubled memories of it continue to echo through their later writing, even and especially when it is not the explicit topic. This was an astonishing generation of writers who would go on to play a pivotal role on a global scale in post-war aesthetic and philosophical endeavours. The book proposes close readings of works by some of the most brilliant amongst them: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Charlotte Delbo, Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, Louis Althusser, Jorge Semprun, Elie Wiesel, and Sarah Kofman. An Open Access edition of this work is available on the OAPEN Library.

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French literature --- World War, 1939-1945 --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- Literature and the war. --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) --- Litterature française --- Histoire et critique. --- Litterature et guerre --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Ethics in literature. --- 2e guerre mondiale --- Deuxième guerre mondiale --- Guerre de 1939-1945 --- Seconde guerre mondiale --- Guerre mondiale --- Guerre sino-japonaise --- Reconstruction d'après-guerre --- Plan Jaune (1940) --- Guerre soviéto-finlandaise (1939-1940) --- Histoire universelle --- Citations françaises --- Écrivains français --- Et la littérature française --- Littérature comparée --- Littérature française --- Mouvements littéraires --- Philologie française --- Prix littéraires --- Autobiographie française --- Biographie (genre littéraire) française --- Chroniques françaises --- Contes littéraires français --- Dialogues (genre littéraire) français --- Discours français --- Écrits anonymes français --- Écrits d'agriculteurs français --- Écrits d'enfants français --- Écrits d'étudiants français --- Écrits d'homosexuels français --- Écrits de criminels français --- Écrits de jeunes français --- Écrits de militaires français --- Écrits de prisonniers français --- Écrits de travailleurs français --- Essai (genre littéraire) français --- Fantasy française --- Journaux intimes français --- Littérature clandestine française --- Littérature contestataire française --- Littérature d'épouvante française --- Littérature de colportage française --- Littérature de reportage française --- Littérature dialectale française --- Littérature didactique française --- Littérature épistolaire française --- Littérature érotique française --- Littérature expérimentale française --- Littérature fantastique française --- Littérature française pour la jeunesse --- Littérature humoristique française --- Littérature pastorale française --- Littérature policière française --- Littérature populaire française --- Littérature religieuse française --- Littérature révolutionnaire française --- Mémoires (genre littéraire) français --- Nouvelles françaises --- Pamphlets français --- Parodie française --- Pastiche français --- Poésie française --- Portraits (genre littéraire) français --- Prose française --- Récits de détention français --- Récits de guerre français --- Récits de voyages français --- Roman français --- Satire française --- Science-fiction française --- Théâtre (genre littéraire) français --- Civilisation --- Littérature francophone --- 1939-1945) -- Pertes humaines --- 1939-1945) -- Musées --- 1939-1945) -- Art et guerre --- 1939-1945) -- Cinéma et guerre --- 1939-1945) -- Littérature et guerre --- 1937-1945 --- Opérations sous-marines --- Confiscations --- Réfugiés --- Destruction et pillage --- Atrocités --- Mouvements de résistance --- Aspect économique --- Récits personnels --- Africaine et française --- Allemande et française --- Américaine et française --- Anglaise et française --- Arabe et française --- Australienne et française --- Autrichienne et française --- Belge de langue française et française --- Brésilienne et française --- Byzantine et française --- Camerounaise et française --- Catalane et française --- Chinoise et française --- Coréenne et française --- Croate et française --- Danoise et française --- Espagnole et française --- Européenne et française --- Française et galloise --- Française et grecque moderne --- Française et haïtienne de langue créole --- Française et hébraïque --- Française et hongroise --- Française et irlandaise --- Française et italienne --- Française et japonaise --- Française et kazakhe --- Française et latino-américaine --- Française et macédonienne --- Française et maghrébine --- Française et polonaise --- Française et portugaise --- Française et roumaine --- Française et russe --- Française et serbe --- Française et suédoise --- Aspect social --- Auteurs juifs --- Femmes écrivains --- Literary studies: from c 1900 --- -Literary studies: from c 1900 --- -French literature --- Second World War --- ethics --- hermeneutics --- trauma studies --- French thought

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