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Smearing Time: Critical Temporality and Corporate Ontology (2020)
Journal Article
Hegarty, P., & Genosko, G. (2020). Smearing Time: Critical Temporality and Corporate Ontology. Time and Society, 29(4), 1009-1023. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X20933479

Since 1972 a leap second has been introduced into global time standardization systems, due to the discrepancy between Coordinated Universal Time and International Atomic Time. Until recently, the leap second has been a consensual, if mildly uncanny a... Read More about Smearing Time: Critical Temporality and Corporate Ontology.

Arctic rolls and gender roles: Female and male eating disorders in Karen Duve’s Regenroman and other texts (2020)
Journal Article
Bartel, H. (2020). Arctic rolls and gender roles: Female and male eating disorders in Karen Duve’s Regenroman and other texts. Journal of Romance Studies, 20(2), 225-248. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.14

The following article examines disordered eating in men and women. It discusses the novel Regenroman [Rain] by German writer Karen Duve focusing on gender roles, food consumption and the interconnection between female bulimia and male binge eating in... Read More about Arctic rolls and gender roles: Female and male eating disorders in Karen Duve’s Regenroman and other texts.

Disorderly eating in Marie NDiaye’s ‘La Gourmandise’, or The solitary pleasure of a Mère de famille (2020)
Journal Article
Still, J. (2020). Disorderly eating in Marie NDiaye’s ‘La Gourmandise’, or The solitary pleasure of a Mère de famille. Journal of Romance Studies, 20(2), 365-389. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.20

NDiaye’s typically subtle and polysemic story ‘La Gourmandise’ (1996) can be interpreted as the cautionary tale of a housewife’s short-lived frenzy that could have ended with a descent into madness brought on by the escalation of a destructive secre... Read More about Disorderly eating in Marie NDiaye’s ‘La Gourmandise’, or The solitary pleasure of a Mère de famille.

Disorderly eating in contemporary women’s writing: Introductory essay (2020)
Journal Article
Jordan, S., & Still, J. (2020). Disorderly eating in contemporary women’s writing: Introductory essay. Journal of Romance Studies, 20(2), 193-223. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.13

The Introduction presents the rationale for the special issue, and engages with key scholarship in the field. It makes the case for considering eating disorders in the wider context of ‘disorderly eating’, both as a sociological phenomenon and a recu... Read More about Disorderly eating in contemporary women’s writing: Introductory essay.

Painting and devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales (2020)
Book
Andrews, J. (2020). Painting and devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales. University of Wales Press

Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century, the high point of the Spanish and Portuguese counter-reformations. He spent... Read More about Painting and devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales.

The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McLelland, N. (2017, August). The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics. Presented at History of Linguistics 2017, Paris

Fifty years after two of the first overviews of the history of language teaching (Titone 1968, Kelly 1969), this paper highlights the value of the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) to the history of linguistics, from three perspective... Read More about The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics.

Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity (2020)
Book
Sharman, A. (2020). Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37019-0

This book is about Enlightenment culture in Spanish America before Independence—there where, according to Hegel, one would least expect to find it. It explores texts from five cultural fields (science, history, the periodical press, law, and literatu... Read More about Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity.

History, literature and the indices of the Ocean: Force of signification in Borges Coelho’s ‘”A força do mar de Agosto” (2020)
Book Chapter
Miranda, R. (2020). History, literature and the indices of the Ocean: Force of signification in Borges Coelho’s ‘”A força do mar de Agosto”. In A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

The impact of João Paulo Borges Coelho’s ‘A força do mar de Agosto’ rests largely on its concurrent conceptualization of the Indian Ocean and on its instrumental use of the Indian Ocean as a literary device. In Borges Coelho’s short story, the sea is... Read More about History, literature and the indices of the Ocean: Force of signification in Borges Coelho’s ‘”A força do mar de Agosto”.

'What is that to me?' Jorge de Sena's Sinais de fogo, poetry, and testimony during the Spanish civil war (2020)
Journal Article
Miranda, R. (2020). 'What is that to me?' Jorge de Sena's Sinais de fogo, poetry, and testimony during the Spanish civil war. Journal of Romance Studies, 20(1), 51-74. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.3

© Institute of Modern Languages Research 2020. The Spanish civil war is featured in the works of Jorge de Sena as a moment which created a new level of political awareness and militancy. Sena's incomplete, posthumously published novel Sinais de fogo... Read More about 'What is that to me?' Jorge de Sena's Sinais de fogo, poetry, and testimony during the Spanish civil war.

Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’: the conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’ (2020)
Journal Article
Lane, J. F., & Lane, J. (2021). Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’: the conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’. Textual Practice, 35(4), 545-563. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2020.1733066

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Jacques Rancière re-inflects Aristotle's famous maxim to claim that ‘man is a political animal because he is a literary animal’. He goes on to relate this characteristic of ‘literarity’... Read More about Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’: the conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’.

"L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique (2020)
Book
GILONNE, Y. (2020). "L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique. L'Harmattan

Cet ouvrage questionne le concept de déception. Le nucléaire a en effet emporté jusqu'à l'idée de fondement, exposant la raison à l'effondrement de son principe et subvertissant le programme rationnel de la modernité. La raison semble alors incapable... Read More about "L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique.

Poetry and male eating disorders (2020)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H., & Baker, C. (2020). Poetry and male eating disorders. In P. Crawford, B. Brown, & A. Charise (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (248-254). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Literary texts—from autobiographies and novels to self-help books and poetry—that explore experiences of illness can give unique and poignant insights into the states of mind and lives of individuals affected by physical or mental ill health. This ch... Read More about Poetry and male eating disorders.

Early medieval sources (2020)
Book Chapter
WHITE, M. (2020). Early medieval sources. In G. Gilbert (Ed.), Reading Russian Sources: A Student's Guide to Text and Visual Sources from Russian History (19-34). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351184175

The early medieval period (c. 1000–1325) witnessed the beginning of many institutions and processes which profoundly shaped the history of Eastern Europe, including the acceptance of Eastern-rite Christianity, the first flowering of East Slavonic wri... Read More about Early medieval sources.

¿Agonía o transformación? El carlismo en la literatura española, 1876-1912 (2020)
Book
Roberts, S. ¿Agonía o transformación? El carlismo en la literatura española, 1876-1912. Gobierno de Navarra

This is the Catalogue that accompanied the exhibition of the same title that Stephen Roberts curated at the Museo del Carlismo in Estella (Navarra, Spain) between October 2019 and June 2020. Roberts wrote the introduction (44 pages) and the 30 panels... Read More about ¿Agonía o transformación? El carlismo en la literatura española, 1876-1912.

Rouge Brun or Counterrevolutionary? Another Look at Michel Houellebecq's Politics (2020)
Journal Article
Lane, J. (2020). Rouge Brun or Counterrevolutionary? Another Look at Michel Houellebecq's Politics. Modern Language Review, 115(1), 63-82. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.115.1.0063

Michel Houellebecq has gained a reputation for combining left-wing critiques of neo-liberal capitalism with reactionary laments at the decline of nation, religion, honest labour, and the patriarchal family. Critics typically thus either declare the n... Read More about Rouge Brun or Counterrevolutionary? Another Look at Michel Houellebecq's Politics.

Miguel de Unamuno’s notion of public sphere (2019)
Book Chapter
Roberts, S. (2019). Miguel de Unamuno’s notion of public sphere. In D. Jiménez Torres, & L. Villamediana González (Eds.), The configuration of the Spanish public sphere: from the Enlightenment to the Indignados (174-191). Berghahn Books

This chapter analyses Unamuno's evolving notion of a public sphere in Spain between the 1890s and the 1930s.

The psychodynamic analysis of work (2019)
Journal Article
Marks, J. (2019). The psychodynamic analysis of work. Modern and Contemporary France, 28(3), 291-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2019.1702938

This article provides an overview of the psychodynamic analysis of work associated primarily with Christophe Dejours. It explores briefly the roots of psychodynamics in the psychopathology of work that emerged as a field in France in the 1950s. It th... Read More about The psychodynamic analysis of work.

‘Aprendiz de Proust’: Gilberto Freyre in Search of a Lost Past and a Renewed Future in Aventura e rotina (2019)
Journal Article
Miranda, R. (2019). ‘Aprendiz de Proust’: Gilberto Freyre in Search of a Lost Past and a Renewed Future in Aventura e rotina. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 96(8), 1317-1342. https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2019.1654266

The function of the self-proclaimed ‘Proustian’ traits of Gilberto Freyre’s work will act as the point of departure for a critique of Freyre’s conception of his non-fiction works, namely the travelogue Aventura e rotina (1953). As Freyre strategicall... Read More about ‘Aprendiz de Proust’: Gilberto Freyre in Search of a Lost Past and a Renewed Future in Aventura e rotina.

Music Hall, Jigs and Strippers: English Low-Brow Music in French Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing (2019)
Journal Article
Scott, H. (2019). Music Hall, Jigs and Strippers: English Low-Brow Music in French Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 55(4), 397-414. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqz020

It is a commonplace to remark that nineteenth-century England was a land without music. Yet French travel writers in the fin de siècle remark again and again on their astonishing, low-brow musical encounters in the nation’s capital. The present artic... Read More about Music Hall, Jigs and Strippers: English Low-Brow Music in French Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing.

L’oralité dans Allah Superstar : représentations, tensions, traduction (2019)
Journal Article
Mevel, P.-A. (2019). L’oralité dans Allah Superstar : représentations, tensions, traduction. TTR: Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction, 31(1), 47–68

This article examines the way in which banlieue French—a largely predominantly spoken linguistic variety—is used narratively and aesthetically in Y. B.’s novel Allah Superstar, and makes suggestions with regards to its English language translation. T... Read More about L’oralité dans Allah Superstar : représentations, tensions, traduction.