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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.

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. Cardiff: 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.

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.

The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McLelland, N. (2020). The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics. In É. Aussant, & J.-M. Fortis (Eds.), Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September (189-204). https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.127.13mcl

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. Cham, Switzerland: 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. Paris: 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.