Outputs (308)

The “grave covering” of St Demetrios between Byzantium and Rus (2014)
Journal Article
White, M. (2014). The “grave covering” of St Demetrios between Byzantium and Rus

Much scholarly attention has focused on the role of St Demetrios in the maintenance of the civic identity and cultural independence of Thessalonika, the Byzantine Empire’s second city. Yet Thessalonika did not always win this struggle with Constantin... Read More about The “grave covering” of St Demetrios between Byzantium and Rus.

Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German (2014)
Book Chapter
McLelland, N. (2014). Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German. In G. Rutten, R. Vosters, & W. Vandenbussche (Eds.), Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900. A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective. Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.3.11lel

This chapter examines the relationship between language prescription and language use in seventeenth-century German, reporting on a corpus investigation of the influence (or otherwise) of the leading grammarian Justus Georg Schottelius (1612–1676) on... Read More about Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German.

Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar (2013)
Journal Article
Gonçalves Miranda, R. (2013). Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar. Hispanic Research Journal, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000033

Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar (1990) is a landmark in Lusophone cinema’s revisitation of the history of Portuguese expansion and colonial conflicts. This article aims at analysing the film’s political import by extrapolating from... Read More about Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar.

Poetry into painting: Mallarmé, Picasso, and punning (2013)
Journal Article
Shingler, K. (2013). Poetry into painting: Mallarmé, Picasso, and punning. French Cultural Studies, 24(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155813501118

This article gives a critical assessment of the relationship between the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the Cubist painting and collage of Pablo Picasso. Taking in a range of critical sources that have insisted on Picasso’s ‘mallarmisme’, the articl... Read More about Poetry into painting: Mallarmé, Picasso, and punning.

‘Les anglicismes polluent la langue française’. Purist attitudes in France and Quebec (2013)
Journal Article
Walsh, O. (2014). ‘Les anglicismes polluent la langue française’. Purist attitudes in France and Quebec. Journal of French Language Studies, 24(3), 423-449. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269513000227

It is often claimed that France is a particularly purist country; the Acad´emie franc¸aise is seen to be representative of a purist outlook and popular works such as ´Etiemble’s attack on English influence Parlez vous franglais? (´Etiemble, 1964) hav... Read More about ‘Les anglicismes polluent la langue française’. Purist attitudes in France and Quebec.

Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music) (2013)
Journal Article
Norris, D. A. (2013). Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music). Modern Language Review, 108(2), https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.108.2.0597

In the narrative of a mass conflict, the human experience of its effects may be subsumed into the rationalizing contours of history, or they may fall completely outside our comprehension. This article examines the intertextual strategies employed in... Read More about Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music).

Mãe Africana, Pátria Brasileira: negotiating the racial politics of identity, freedom and motherhood in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil (2013)
Book Chapter
Collins, J.-M. Mãe Africana, Pátria Brasileira: negotiating the racial politics of identity, freedom and motherhood in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil. In Intimacy and Inequality: female histories and feminist readings of manumission and motherhood in Brazilian slave society (Bahia 1830-1888). Liverpool University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

Margarida Ignácio de Medeiros was one of up to twelve million enslaved Africans brought to Brazil. She did not, however, remain enslaved all her life. Margarida’s trajectory from enslavement to freedom was typical of many enslaved African women labou... Read More about Mãe Africana, Pátria Brasileira: negotiating the racial politics of identity, freedom and motherhood in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil.

Ich trinke gerne *die Tee: der Nullartikel aus der Perspektive französischsprachiger Deutschlerner unter besonderer Berücksichtigung generischer Ausdrücke (2012)
Journal Article
Stollhans, S. (2012). Ich trinke gerne *die Tee: der Nullartikel aus der Perspektive französischsprachiger Deutschlerner unter besonderer Berücksichtigung generischer Ausdrücke. Informationen Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 39(6), https://doi.org/10.1515/infodaf-2012-0603

Ausgehend von Überlegungen zu Kontrastivität und Transfer in DaF und einem kurzen Vergleich des deutschen und französischen Artikelsystems, werden in diesem Beitrag
bestimmte generische Ausdrücke untersucht, bei denen im Deutschen häufig der Nullart... Read More about Ich trinke gerne *die Tee: der Nullartikel aus der Perspektive französischsprachiger Deutschlerner unter besonderer Berücksichtigung generischer Ausdrücke.

An art novel for the age of mechanical reproduction: Blaise Cendrars's Dan Yack (2012)
Journal Article
Shingler, K. (2013). An art novel for the age of mechanical reproduction: Blaise Cendrars's Dan Yack. French Studies, 67(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kns229

This article considers Blaise Cendrars's novel Dan Yack (1929) as a variation on the art novel genre, arguing that it rewrites and adapts well-worn art narratives — most notably various iterations of the Pygmalion myth — in order to question the natu... Read More about An art novel for the age of mechanical reproduction: Blaise Cendrars's Dan Yack.

Photography and the ‘Jeu des clefs’: À la recherche du temps perdu in the light of Paul Nadar's portraits (2012)
Journal Article
Yacavone, K. (2012). Photography and the ‘Jeu des clefs’: À la recherche du temps perdu in the light of Paul Nadar's portraits. Nottingham French Studies, 51(3), https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2012.0025

The year 1978 saw the first exhibition of photographic portraits of Marcel Proust's family, friends and acquaintances taken by Paul Nadar, an event leading to renewed interest in the subject of À la recherche du temps perdu as a roman à clef. This ar... Read More about Photography and the ‘Jeu des clefs’: À la recherche du temps perdu in the light of Paul Nadar's portraits.