Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry. Volume One: The Traditions (Publications of the Mhra)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Legenda

Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry. Volume Two: Characteristics and Techniques (Publications of the Mhra)

John Ruskin's Continental Tour 1835: The Written Records and Drawings

Biographies & Memoirs

Ruskin, John

Arts & Literature

Spatial Plots: Virtuality and the Embodied Mind in Baricco, Camilleri and Calvino (Italian Perspectives)

Beltrami, Marzia

Montaigne in Transit: Essays in Honour of Ian MacLean

Essays & Correspondence

In discussions about plot, causality and chronology are sometimes held out as the only possible organising principles. And yet readers often transmute fragmented writings, parallel storylines, or tales within tales into a meaningful whole. Other patterns play a role in guiding our attention and, as Beltrami suggests, they invite us to make sense of narratives as spaces to be explored. The critical analysis of selected works by Alessandro Baricco (b. 1958), Andrea Camilleri (1925-2019) and Italo Calvino (1923-1985) dovetails broader theoretical reflection about the ways in which narrative comprehension, far from being 'extraordinary', is a practice embedded in our everyday life and deeply rooted in the sense-making strategies we use to negotiate the world around us. Drawing on recent studies in cognitive literary criticism and cognitive narratology, this book investigates the techniques that elicit such 'spatial' understanding and illustrates how a cognitive-oriented approach may help illuminate the internal workings of certain narrative texts and open up novel readings. The images of map, trajectory and fractal are offered to represent three types of spatial plots, three ways in which stories may be understood and navigated as spaces.

In her ever-evolving career, the legendary filmmaker Agnès Varda has gone from being a photographer at the Avignon festival in the late 1940s, through being a director celebrated at the Cannes festival (Cléo de 5 à 7, 1962), to her more ironic self-proclaimed status as a 'jeune artiste plasticienne'. She has recently staged mixed-media projects and exhibitions all over the world from Paris (2006) to Los Angeles (2013-14) and the latest 'tour de France' with JR (2015-16). Agnès Varda Unlimited: Image, Music, Media reconsiders the legacy and potential of Varda's radical tour de force cinématique, as seen in the 22-DVD 'definitive' Tout(e) Varda, and her enduring artistic presence. These essays discuss not just when, but also how and why, Varda's renewed artistic forms have ignited with such creative force, and have been so inspiring an influence. The volume concludes with two remarkable interviews: one with Varda herself, and another rare contribution from the leading actress of Cléo de 5 à 7, Corinne Marchand. 
Marie-Claire Barnet is Senior Lecturer in French at Durham University.

Agnès Varda Unlimited: Image, Music, Media (Moving Image)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Broken Glass, Broken World: Glass in French Culture in the Aftermath of 1870 (Research Monographs in French Studies)

Scott, Hannah

French Art Novel 1900-1930 (Research Monographs in French Studies)

Arts & Photography

Shingler, Katherine

Metamorphosis in Modern German Literature: Transforming Bodies, Identities and Affects (Germanic Literatures)

Beaney, Tara

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