“The Shadow of fool-made history”: history as narrative in Nabokov’s work
(2015)
Journal Article
Frank, S. (2015). “The Shadow of fool-made history”: history as narrative in Nabokov’s work. CoSMO, 7, 11-20. https://doi.org/10.13135/2281-6658/989
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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/10.7173/164913315817039225Tout 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 BooksThis 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-2015-001A 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.
Review of Andy Stafford, Roland Barthes (London: Reaktion Books, 2015) (2015)
Journal Article
Yacavone, K. (2015). Review of Andy Stafford, Roland Barthes (London: Reaktion Books, 2015). Esprit Créateur, 55(4), https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2015.0049
Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction after 1994 (2015)
Book
Hitchcott, N. (2015). Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction after 1994. Liverpool University PressDuring what has become officially known as the genocide against the Tutsi, as many as one million Rwandan people were brutally massacred between April and July 1994. This book presents a critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and out... Read More about Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction after 1994.
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/10.1177/0957155815597426This 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.2016.1086542This 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.
Derrida and other animals : the boundaries of the human (2015)
Book
STILL, J. (2015). Derrida and other animals : the boundaries of the human. Edinburgh University PressAnalyses Derrida’s late writings on animals, especially his seminars The Beast and the Sovereign
Makes extensive reference to the two volumes of Derrida’s seminar series The Beast and the Sovereign
Pays particular attention to Derrida's intertexts,... Read More about Derrida and other animals : the boundaries of the human.
“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/10.1080/09639489.2015.1054372This 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.