The present collection of essays follows in the wake of recent work in cultural geography challenging the idea that maps are scientifically neutral entities, or that space, unlike time, is immobile. In defining space, place and geography as forms of textuality, the essays collected in this volume examine the ways in which postcolonial and metropolitan literary and filmic texts in French can at once inscribe and produce place and space, and thereby participate in forms of “discursive geographies.” Contributors: François Bon; Alexandre Dauge-Roth; Habiba Deming; Zakaria Fatih; Jeanne Garane; Patricia Geesey; Greg Hainge; Sirène Harb; Jean-Luc Joly; Chantal Kalisa; Michel Laronde; Valérie Loichot; Mary McCullough; Michael O’Riley; Pascale Perraudin; Walter Putnam; Antoine Stéphani; Abdourahman A. Waberi. Contents Acknowledgements Jeanne GARANE: Introduction Greg HAINGE: Allegorical Geographies: Topographical Transposition and Allegorical Function in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Aesthetic Spaces Walter PUTNAM: Raging Against the Night: Céline’s African Episode Pascale PERRAUDIN : Le devoir de violence de Yambo Ouologuem: images et nation au degré zéro Sirène HARB: Translation, Resistance, and Revision in Evelyne Accad’s Coquelicot du massacre Valérie LOICHOT: Saint-John Perse’s Imagined Shelter : J’habiterai mon nom Mary MCCULLOUGH: Solidarity, Space and Sisterhood in Assia Djebar’s Ombre sultane and Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass Abdourahman A. WABERI: Eloge du nomadisme Jeanne GARANE : Comment faire exister son pays sur la planète littérature: Entretien avec Abdourahman A. Waberi Zakaria FATIH : Postcolonial Nomads in Alien Landscapes, or the Treasure Hunt in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Les yeux baissés Michael O’RILEY : Orientalist Remainders and Postcolonial Images of France and Algeria Chantal KALISA: Space, Violence, and Knowledge in Gisèle Pineau’s L’espérance macadam Habiba DEMING: Espaces coloniaux et identités linguistiques au Maghreb Patricia GEESEY : ‘Faites comme chez vous’: Spatial Appropriation in Franco-Maghrebi Cinema Michel LARONDE : La Fontaine et Salut cousin! : Le stéréotype scolaire comme sociocritique Jean-Luc JOLY : L’Ecriture cartographique de Georges Perec Alexandre DAUGE-ROTH : Du non-lieu au lieu-dit: Plaidoyers de François Bon pour une urbanité contemporaine François BON et Antoine STÉPHANI : Billancourt (extrait) Notes on Contributors Index

Discursive Geographies/Géographies discursives. Writing Space and Place in French/L’écriture de l’espace et du lieu en français (Francopolyphonies 2) (English and French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

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Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America explores the critical potential inherent in the notion of "transculturation" in order to understand contemporary architectural practices and their cultural realities in Latin America. Despite its enormous theoretical potential and its importance within Latin American cultural theory, the term transculturation had never permeated into architectural debates. In fact, none of the main architectural theories produced in and about Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century engaged seriously with this notion as a way to analyze the complex social, cultural and political circumstances that affect the development of the continent's cities, its urban spaces and its architectures. Therefore, this book demonstrates, for the first time, that the term transculturation is an invaluable tool in dismantling the essentialist, genealogical and hierarchical perspectives from which Latin American architectural practices have been viewed. Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America introduces new readings and interpretations of the work of well-known architects, new analyses regarding the use of architectural materials and languages, new questions to do with minority architectures, gender and travel, and, from beginning to end, it engages with important political and theoretical debates that have rarely been broached within Latin American architectural circles.

Transculturation: Cities, Space and Architecture in Latin America (Critical Studies 27)

Après la guerre, une réorientation radicale intervient dans la prose de Samuel Beckett : ce changement a trait avant tout à la souffrance. Celle-ci va contaminer tous les aspects de l’expérience humaine. Beckett semble privilégier de plus en plus une histoire débordant les seuls cataclysmes du XXe siècle : l’histoire anonyme et silencieuse d’une humanité torturée depuis des temps immémoriaux et vouée à un sort incompréhensible. Cette lecture de l’œuvre beckettienne s’imprègne des études de Paul Ricœur sur l’identité et le souvenir et aborde la prose de Beckett comme une écriture de la mémoire. Ainsi Watt, dont la genèse est retracée au travers d’un examen des manuscrits, est considéré ici comme un paradigme dans l’écriture de la mémoire et de la souffrance. D’autre part, les ‘German Diaries’, écrits en 1936-7, témoignent de l’intérêt profond de Beckett pour la peinture. Cette étude se penche sur ses réflexions sur l’art et ses réactions face aux icônes religieuses dans le contexte de la souffrance. Les écrits de Ricœur permettent de mieux examiner la manière dont l’œuvre beckettienne se trouve de plus en plus au carrefour d’identités privées et plurielles. Au travers de ces études, la question de la disparition de l’individu, remplacé graduellement par une histoire de la souffrance collective, peut être réévaluée. Table des matières Remerciements Abréviations Introduction Ch. 1 : De Dream of Fair to Middling Women à Murphy. La souffrance dans l’œuvre ou l œuvre comme souffrance Ch. 2 : Watt. Traversée silencieuse de la parole Ch. 3 : Beckett et la peinture. L’art comme vision Ch. 4 : La mémoire dans la prose de Samuel Beckett Conclusion, Bibliographie, Index

La souffrance portée au langage dans la prose de Samuel Beckett (Faux Titre 266) (French Edition)

History

Diane Lüscher-Morata

Europe

Inhalt Vorwort der Herausgeber Wilhelm G. JACOBS: Einleitung Hartmut TRAUB: Über die Freundschaft – Vier Bemerkungen zum Briefwechsel zwischen Schelling und Fichte Paul ZICHE: Raumkonstruktion, Deduktion der Dimensionen und idealistische Prinzipientheorie Problemlagen im Fichte-Schelling-Briefwechsel vom November 1800 Christian KLOTZ: »Synthesis der Geisterwelt«. Fichtes Systemskizze im Briefwechsel mit Schelling Birgit SANDKAULEN: Was heißt Idealismus? Natur- und Transzendentalphilosophie im Übergang zur Identitätsphilosophie Schellings Systemskizze vom 19.11.1800 Violetta L. WAIBEL: Fichtes Kritik an Schelling »Alle Wissenschaften sind nur Theile der Wissenschaftslehre« Zu Fichtes Briefen an Schelling vom 31. Mai / 7. August 1801 und 15. Januar 1802 Lore HÜHN: Die Verabschiedung des subjektivitätstheoretischen Paradigmas. Der Grunddissens zwischen Schelling und Fichte im Lichte ihres philosophischen Briefwechsels Petra LOHMANN: Die Funktionen der Kunst und des Künstlers in der Philosophie Johann Gottlieb Fichtes Thomas KISSER: Wie kann eine allgemeine Theorie der Wirklichkeit ihre eigene Wahrheit zeigen? Bemerkungen und Fragen zu Struktur und Funktion der Kunst in Schellings System des transzendentalen Idealismus Zur Diskussion: Erklärung von Prof Dr. Maciej Potepa Editionspraxis in dürftiger Zeit am Beispiel der F. H. JacobiWerkeausgabe Band 3 von Albert Mues Vierter Internationaler Kongress der Russischen Fichte-Gesellschaft: »Platon, Machiavelli und Fichte – Die Idee einer gerechten Gesellschaft« vom 26. – 31. Mai 2004 in Ufa (Baschkortostan). Ein Reisebericht von Hartmut Traub Rezensionen

Grundlegung und Kritik. Der Briefwechsel zwischen Schelling und Fichte 1794-1802. Dokumentation zur Lektüretagung der Internationalen ... 2003 (Fichte-Studien 25) (German Edition)

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Philosophy

Peter Jackson's film version of 'The Lord of the Rings' (2001-2003) is the grandest achievement of 21st century cinema so far. But it is also linked to topical and social concerns including war, terrorism, and cultural imperialism. Its style, symbols, narrative, and structure seem always already linked to politics, cultural definition, problems of cinematic style, and the elemenal mythologies that most profoundly capture our imaginations. 'From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings' treats Jackson's trilogy as having two conditions of existence: an aesthetic and a political. Like other cultural artefacts, it leads a double life as 'objet d'art' and public statement about the world, so that nothing in it is ever just cinematically beautiful or tasteful, and nothing is ever just a message or an opinion. Written by leading scholars in the study of cinema and culture 'From Hobbits to Hollywood' gives Jackson's trilogy the fullest scholarly interrogation to date. Ranging from interpretations of 'The Lord of the Rings' ideological and philosophical implications, through discussions of its changing fandoms and its incorporation into the Hollywood industry of stars, technology, genre, and merchandising, to considerations of CGI effects, acting, architecture and style, the essays contained here open a new vista of criticism and light, for ardent fans of J.R.R. Tolkien, followers of Jackson, and all those who yearn for a deeper appreciation of cinema and its relation to culture.

From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings (Contemporary Cinema 3)

Ernest Mathijs

Murray Pomerance (Eds.)

Humor & Entertainment

The essays in this volume are informed by a variety of theoretical assumptions and of critical methodologies, but they all share an interest in the intersections of word and image in a variety of media. This unifying rationale secures the present collection's central position in the current critical context, defined as it predominantly is by ways of reading that are based on a relational nexus. The intertextual, the intermedial, the intersemiotic are indeed foregrounded and combined in these essays, conceptually as much as in the critical practices favoured by the various contributions. Studies of literature in its relation to pictorial genres enjoy a relative prominence in the volume - but the range of media and of approaches considered is broad enough to include photography, film, video, television, comic strips, animated film, public art, material culture. The backgrounds of contributors are likewise diverse - culturally, academically, linguistically. The volume combines contributions by prominent scholars and critics with essays by younger scholars, from a variety of backgrounds. The resulting plurality of perspective is indeed a source of new insights into the relations between writing and seeing, and it contributes to making this collection an exciting new contribution to word and image studies.

Writing and Seeing: Essays on Word and Image (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 95)

This book addresses ethical conflicts arising from saving the lives of patients who need a transplant while treating living and dead donors, organ sellers, animals, and embryos with proper moral regard. Our challenge is to develop a better world in the light of debatable values and uncertain consequences. Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: A Philosophical Framework One: Dilemmas, Conflicts, and Residue Two: Medical Ethics and Its Limitations Three: Pluralism, Incommensurability, and Weighing Part Two: Conflicts of Organ Retrieval Four: Transplant Recipients’ Quality of Life Five: Can We Wrong the Dead? Six: Defining Death Seven: The Selling of Organs Eight: Xenografts Nine: Stem Cell Research Part Three: A Philosophical Response Ten: The Regulative Principle Eleven: Constructive Pluralism Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; About the Author; Index

Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism (Value Inquiry Book Series 172) (Values in Bioethics)

Charles C. Hinkley II

This volume is witness to a spirited and fruitful period in the evolution of corpus linguistics. In twenty-two articles written by established corpus linguists, members of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Mediaeval English) association, this new volume brings the reader up to date with the cycle of activities which make up this field of study as it is today, dealing with corpus creation, language varieties, diachronic corpus study from the past to present, present-day synchronic corpus study, the web as corpus, and corpus linguistics and grammatical theory. It thus serves as a valuable guide to the state of the art for linguistic researchers, teachers and language learners of all persuasions. After over twenty years of evolution, corpus linguistics has matured, incorporating nowadays not just small, medium and large primary corpus building but also specialised and multi-dimensional secondary corpus building; not just corpus analysis, but also corpus evaluation; not just an initial application of theory, but self-reflection and a new concern with theory in the light of experience. The volume also highlights the growing emphasis on language as a changing phenomenon, both in terms of established historical study and the newer short-range diachronic study of 20th century and current English; and the growing area of overlap between these two. Another section of the volume illustrates the recent changes in the definition of 'corpus' which have come about due to the emergence of new technologies and in particular of the availability of texts on the world wide web. The volume culminates in the contributions by a group of corpus grammarians to a timely and novel discussion panel on the relationship between corpus linguistics and grammatical theory.

The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics (Language and Computers 55) (Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics)

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Words, Language & Grammar

This book examines the issue of moral realism from a pragmatist point of view, drawing attention to our human practices of ethical evaluation and deliberation. It defends the essentially ungrounded and humanly fundamental place of ethics in our thought and action. Ethics must remain beyond justification and ubiquitous in our human form(s) of life.

Pragmatic Moral Realism: A Transcendental Defense (Value Inquiry Book Series 171) (Studies in Pragmatism and Values)

Sami Pihlström

What is the relationship between texts and ethics? Who decides the ethics of a text, the writer or the reader? What happens to ethics in texts that portray dreams or psychoses? Is violence always inherently unethical? In dealing with others is violence to both them and oneself ever completely avoidable?Textual Ethos Studies does not attempt to provide definitive answers to these questions so much as to be a springboard to the further discussion of ethics in relation to specific texts. The essays illustrate varying perspectives - ranging from the philosophical to the psychoanalytical to the linguistic - that can be used to localize how texts engage or invite an engagement with ethics.

Textual Ethos Studies: Or Locating Ethics (Critical Studies 26)

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