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Victoria Adams
Digital Media, Memory and Heritage in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro

Since the 1970s, Brazil's authorities have regarded the country's past as a source of cultural and economic value. In the late 2000s, a boom in Brazil's consumer economy served to make smartphones and soc…

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Jeremy Adler
From the Renaissance to Modernism

This volume collects Jeremy Adler's keynote essays on poetry and experimental writing. Employing a distinctive philological method, he analyses Goethe's links to Renaissance poetics, German idealist phil…

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Marta Arnaldi
The Diasporic Canon

The Diasporic Canon is the first monograph to be dedicated to the history of a national literary canon in another language and country. By exploring Italian poetry's potential for mobility and transformat…

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Samir Ayoub
Taking a human approach

English translation of the successful German title 'Mach's menschlich' - now available for the international market!What does a working world look like when people and their needs come first?Attracting ne…

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Susan Bassnett
Tales of Travellers and Translators

In this wide-ranging collection, Susan Bassnett, one of the founding figures of translation studies and contemporary comparative literature, reflects on comparing literatures, translation, travel writing,…

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Dorothée Boulanger
Fiction as History

Fiction as History is an interdisciplinary analysis of over twenty Angolan novels written from the 1960s to the 2010s by some of the country's most celebrated writers: Pepetela, Manuel dos Santos Lima, Ma…

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Jade Boyd
The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre

Federico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect of his craft, particularly in terms of colour's psychological, bodily and material agency. B…

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Joanne Brueton
Geometry and Jean Genet

Though notorious for his visceral, affective, and politically incendiary writing, Jean Genet also had a surprising penchant for the abstract language of geometry. Points, lines, obliques, grids and circle…

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Tom Cuthbertson
Autobiographical Reenactment in French and Belgian Film

We live in 'reenactive times'. Recent decades have witnessed a marked proliferation of various forms of reenactment across numerous cultural contexts and domains to the point that it is today seemingly im…

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Jacobo de Camps
Walter Benjamin's Calderón

Why did philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin say that Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-81) was the virtual subject of his rejected Habilitation thesis on German baroque drama,…

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Alessandra Diazzi
Psychoanalysis, Ideology and Commitment in Italy 1945-1975

Over the post-war decades, Italy's 'extroverted' cultural identity was mostly oriented towards social and political questions: the inward turn of psychoanalysis was regarded with suspicion, as a fin-de-si…

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Miguel García
Queering Lorca's Duende

Much literature and scholarship has been devoted to the works by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), one of the greatest Spanish poets and playwrights of the twentieth century. In addition to the multiface…

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John N. Green, Marie-Anne Hintze
Aspirations to Silence

Nothing raises purist hackles so fiercely as des haricots 'beans' pronounced with a /z/ liaison or un haricot 'one bean' with a linking /n/. In Reference French, it is stigmatized as uneducated, like drop…

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Jane Hiddleston
Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon remains one of the greatest and most influential postcolonial thinkers. If he has been analysed by turns as a political thinker, a philosopher and a psychiatrist, however, he has less often b…

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Robert Lethbridge
Zola's Painters

As the author of the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, Émile Zola enjoys a reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century: but his essays on painting, and in particular his early cham…

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James P. Leveque
Words Like Fire

The avant-garde in the early-twentieth century planted its flag on the ruins of the day's pieties, with religion a particularly urgent target. Movements such as Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism often repres…

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Lin Li
Residual Figuration in Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti

In 1945, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) brought back to Paris six matchboxes filled with the work of his war years: minute figurines that crumbled upon a single touch. Around this time, Iri…

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Laura Linares
Translation Landscapes

Contemporary Galician literature is a central pillar of Galician cultural production and a key driver of the consolidation of Galicia's identity in the twenty-first century, yet it remains largely invisib…

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Lucy O'Sullivan
Diego Rivera and Juan Rulfo

Working in different media, Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Juan Rulfo (1917-1986), are identified as monuments to two distinct moments in Mexico's cultural history, yet their works have never been examined …

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Christoph J. Pretzer
Writing Across Time in the Twelfth Century

The 12th century saw an explosion of interest in the Roman past by authors all over Europe, who were looking for historical templates they could use to model the emerging political and cultural identities…

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