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Inappropriation et 'diversalité' chez J.M.G. Le Clezio (2015)
Journal Article
Ridon, J.-X. (2015). Inappropriation et 'diversalité' chez J.M.G. Le Clezio. https://doi.org/10.7173/164913315817039225

Tout en partant de la polémique que suscita la publication du manifeste Pour une littérature-monde en 2007, cet article analysera comment J.M.G. Le Clézio se situe par rapport au concept de littérature-monde. À partir de sa manière toute particulière... Read More about Inappropriation et 'diversalité' chez J.M.G. Le Clezio.

Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Pilar de Valderrama (2015)
Book Chapter
Andrews, J. (2015). Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Pilar de Valderrama. In The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War 1936-2016 (40-59). Berghahn Books

This chapter looks at three women poets writing during the Spanish Civil War and afterwards - two supporters of the Republican government, one a supporter of the Franco regime, all three condemned in some way to post-war silence and circumspection.

German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600 (2015)
Journal Article
McLelland, N. (2015). German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600. Angermion, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2015-001

A quarter of a century ago, two essays examined the early history of German as a Foreign Language (GFL) in Britain.2 The present paper revisits the history of GFL at a time of perceived crisis in modern language education, to provide some historical... Read More about German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600.

Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001) (2015)
Journal Article
Lane, J. F. (2015). Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001). French Cultural Studies, 26(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155815597426

This article questions whether readings of Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001) as simply a parody of political correctness have tended to overlook the allegorical significance of its depiction of a middle-aged executive forced to pretend to be gay, sim... Read More about Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001).

Anarchy in the UK('s most famous fortress): comradeship and cupidity in Gibraltar and neighbouring Spain, 1890-1902 (2015)
Journal Article
Grocott, C. A., Stockey, G., & Grady, J. (in press). Anarchy in the UK('s most famous fortress): comradeship and cupidity in Gibraltar and neighbouring Spain, 1890-1902. Labor History, 56(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2016.1086542

This article is the first to investigate the growth of anarchist ideology and tactics in Gibraltar and the surrounding Spanish region, the Campo de Gibraltar, in the period 1890-1902. We draw upon hitherto unused material from both The National Archi... Read More about Anarchy in the UK('s most famous fortress): comradeship and cupidity in Gibraltar and neighbouring Spain, 1890-1902.

“Come you spirits unsex me!”: representations of the female executive in recent French film & fiction (2015)
Journal Article
Lane, J. F. (2015). “Come you spirits unsex me!”: representations of the female executive in recent French film & fiction. Modern and Contemporary France, 23(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2015.1054372

This article analyses the representation of female executives in a corpus of French films and novels produced from 2000 on. The corpus includes a mixture of male and female directors and novelists, all of whom adopt broadly centre-left or left-wing p... Read More about “Come you spirits unsex me!”: representations of the female executive in recent French film & fiction.