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‘Ça tient qu'à toi’: cartographies of post-fordist labour in Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps (2011)
Journal Article
Marks, J. (in press). ‘Ça tient qu'à toi’: cartographies of post-fordist labour in Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps. Modern and Contemporary France, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2011.610166

Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's work on Michel Foucault, control societies and cinema, Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps is analysed as a cartographic rendering of post-Fordist labour. The film creates a pervasive ambiance of liminality and dreamlike di... Read More about ‘Ça tient qu'à toi’: cartographies of post-fordist labour in Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps.

‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’ (2011)
Journal Article
Sharman, A. (2011). ‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 30(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2011.00528.x

The article examines two ‘postmodern’ critiques of modernity: a general history which argues that it was never solely Western, and a work of Latin American cultural criticism which wishes to leave a modernity seen as eurocentric. It argues that to u... Read More about ‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’.

Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes (2011)
Journal Article
Shingler, K. (2011). Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes. Paragraph, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2011.0006

Literary scholars have recently become increasingly interested in the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms involved in reading, and have incorporated scientific research in this area into their critical approaches to texts. This article argues that su... Read More about Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes.

A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea' (2011)
Journal Article
Bartel, H. (2011). A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea'. German Life and Letters, 64(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2010.01519.x

In the extensive tradition of adaptations of the Medea myth in German-speaking literature Paul Heyse’s novella Medea (1898) has been often overlooked. However, the fact that it is the first text to introduce the tragic heroine from classical mytholog... Read More about A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea'.

Clone stories: ‘shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder’ (2010)
Journal Article
Marks, J. (in press). Clone stories: ‘shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder’. Paragraph, 33(3), https://doi.org/10.3366/E0264833410000945

This article explores literary interrogations of the bioethical implications of cloning. It does so by outlining the basic science of cloning before going on to question the dominance of the Freudian notion of the ‘uncanny’ in the critical theoretica... Read More about Clone stories: ‘shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder’.

Cross-cultural self-assertion and cultural politics: African migrants' writing in German since the late 1990s (2010)
Journal Article
Göttsche, D. (2010). Cross-cultural self-assertion and cultural politics: African migrants' writing in German since the late 1990s. German Life and Letters, 63(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2009.01482.x

Since the 1980s African migrants’ writing in German has seen significant development, establishing itself as one of the few examples of a German postcolonial literature in the literal sense, undercutting traditional notions of national literatures, a... Read More about Cross-cultural self-assertion and cultural politics: African migrants' writing in German since the late 1990s.

Da literatura abscondita? ou apontamento liminar sobre Baralha de sonhos: António Gil Hernández leitor de Amado L. Caeiro (2010)
Journal Article
Vidal Bouzon, Á. J. (2010). Da literatura abscondita? ou apontamento liminar sobre Baralha de sonhos: António Gil Hernández leitor de Amado L. Caeiro

Confronting the fact that Amado L. Caeiro’s poetry collection Baralha de sonhos comes framed by the interpretations provided through the accompanying texts authoredb by António Gil Hernández (legal name who fabricated Amado’s as his otherbproper name... Read More about Da literatura abscondita? ou apontamento liminar sobre Baralha de sonhos: António Gil Hernández leitor de Amado L. Caeiro.