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Derrida and other animals : the boundaries of the human (2015)
Book
STILL, J. (2015). Derrida and other animals : the boundaries of the human. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Analyses 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/10.1080/09639489.2015.1054372

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.

Literary Correspondences: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Mme de Genlis (2015)
Journal Article
Ford, R. L. (2015). Literary Correspondences: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Mme de Genlis. Nottingham French Studies, 54(2), 181-193. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2015.0118

Although Bernardin’s correspondence spans most of his adult life and involves a wide range of correspondents and subject matter, there is a marked increase in the number of correspondents and frequency of correspondence from the time he begins to enj... Read More about Literary Correspondences: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Mme de Genlis.

Federico García Lorca y el cine (2015)
Journal Article
Roberts, S. G. (2015). Federico García Lorca y el cine. Europe -Paris- Revue Litteraire Mensuelle-, 93(1032), 170-185

This article analyses Federico García Lorca's relationship with cinema, taking into account not only his screenplays but also his incorporation into his drama and poetic works of techniques borrowed from cinema.

"Ich bin dann mal Deutsch lernen!": der Absentiv im DaF-Unterricht (2015)
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Stollhans, S. (2015). "Ich bin dann mal Deutsch lernen!": der Absentiv im DaF-Unterricht. German as a Foreign Language, 2015(1),

Der Absentiv ist eine grammatische Struktur bestehend aus finitem sein und Infinitiv eines Handlungsverbs, die impliziert, dass der Subjektreferent zum Zeitpunkt der Äußerung von einem gewissen Ausgangsort abwesend ist bzw. für eine Interaktion nicht... Read More about "Ich bin dann mal Deutsch lernen!": der Absentiv im DaF-Unterricht.

Introduction: The Arkhitekton (2015)
Book Chapter
García, P. (2015). Introduction: The Arkhitekton. In Space and the postmodern fantastic in contemporary literature: the architectural void. Routledge

Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the histor... Read More about Introduction: The Arkhitekton.

Fanon's Les Damnés de la terre : translation, de-philosophization and the intensification of violence (2015)
Journal Article
Batchelor, K. (2015). Fanon's Les Damnés de la terre : translation, de-philosophization and the intensification of violence. Nottingham French Studies, 54(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2015.0103

The influence of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique de la raison dialectique on Frantz Fanon’s Les Damnés de la terre can be seen in Fanon’s direct engagement with Sartre’s text as well as in the vocabulary that he adopts when discussing key ideas, particul... Read More about Fanon's Les Damnés de la terre : translation, de-philosophization and the intensification of violence.

J.M.G. Le Clézio et Édouard Glissant: pour une poétique de la trace (2015)
Journal Article
Ridon, J. (2015). J.M.G. Le Clézio et Édouard Glissant: pour une poétique de la trace. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 19(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2015.998079

En utilisant les textes que J.M.G Le Clézio et Edouard Glissant ont écrits pour la collection Peuples de l’eau aux éditions du Seuil, cet article analyse la façon dont les deux auteurs repensent la notion d’interculturalité à partir du concept de tra... Read More about J.M.G. Le Clézio et Édouard Glissant: pour une poétique de la trace.

Continuity and rupture: Levinas's temporal ethics and Gideon Koppel'ssleep furiously (2015)
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Harries, R. (2015). Continuity and rupture: Levinas's temporal ethics and Gideon Koppel'ssleep furiously. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 13(2), 189-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2015.1004962

This paper considers the work of Emmanuel Levinas alongside Gideon Koppel's film sleep furiously to explore the significance of temporality for the ethical potential of documentary film. Though comparatively little attention has been devoted to Levin... Read More about Continuity and rupture: Levinas's temporal ethics and Gideon Koppel'ssleep furiously.

Orality, trauma theory, and interlingual translation: a study of repetition in Kourouma's Allah n'est pas obligé (2015)
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Batchelor, K. (in press). Orality, trauma theory, and interlingual translation: a study of repetition in Kourouma's Allah n'est pas obligé. Translation Studies, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700.2014.1001777

The use of stylistic devices based around repetition in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé is usually taken as one of the markers of the novel’s link to oral story-telling traditions. It is, however, equally feasible to read such devices as ma... Read More about Orality, trauma theory, and interlingual translation: a study of repetition in Kourouma's Allah n'est pas obligé.

Segalen et l'Autre impossible (2015)
Book Chapter
Ridon, J. (2015). Segalen et l'Autre impossible. In Exotisme et Altérité, Segalen et la Polynésie (81-97). Paris: Honoré Champion

German through English eyes : a history of language teaching and learning in Britain 1500-2000 (2015)
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MCLELLAND, N. (2015). German through English eyes : a history of language teaching and learning in Britain 1500-2000. Harrassowitz

McLelland's pioneering study charts the history of foreign language learning and teaching in the UK over five centuries (1500-2000), taking German as her case study. From the first grammar of German for English speakers, published in 1680, McLelland... Read More about German through English eyes : a history of language teaching and learning in Britain 1500-2000.

Remarks on subversive performance at the trial of Giulio Cesare Vanini (1618-19) (2015)
Journal Article
Horsley, A. (2015). Remarks on subversive performance at the trial of Giulio Cesare Vanini (1618-19). Modern Language Review, 110(1), https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0085

This article uses the theoretical framework of James C. Scott's Domination and the Art of Resistance (1990) to analyse the trial and execution of Giulio Cesare Vanini (1585–1619). It argues that Vanini's final actions were subversive acts of rebellio... Read More about Remarks on subversive performance at the trial of Giulio Cesare Vanini (1618-19).

On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen" (2015)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. J. (2015). On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen". Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, 20(2),

This paper provides an account of inferential evidential meaning in English and German, realized by seem and scheinen, respectively. The focus is on the grammaticalization of these verbs into semi-auxiliaries that take infinitive complements, a proce... Read More about On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen".

The e-learning tool Voxopop and its benefits on oral skills: activities for final year students of German (2015)
Book Chapter
Stollhans, S. (2015). The e-learning tool Voxopop and its benefits on oral skills: activities for final year students of German. In K. Borthwick, E. Corradini, & A. Dickens (Eds.), 10 years of the LLAS elearning symposium: case studies in good practice / edited by Kate Borthwick, Erika Corradini, Alison Dickens. Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2015.000278

This case study demonstrates how Voxopop, a voice based e-learning tool, can be used to practise oal skills in the target language by presenting activities which have been developed for students of German at the University of Nottingham. The focus li... Read More about The e-learning tool Voxopop and its benefits on oral skills: activities for final year students of German.

Territories of literary history: the shifting boundaries of Francophone literature in Canada (2014)
Book Chapter
Chapman, R. (2014). Territories of literary history: the shifting boundaries of Francophone literature in Canada. In N. Cheadle, J. Boissonneault, & A. Reguigui (Eds.), Language and territory: literary spaces/Langues et territoire: espaces littéraires. Laurentian University, Ontario

The writing of literary history opens up a range of questions about territory and boundaries. While recognising the energising role of Quebec nationalism in the emergence and affirmation of Québécois literature in the second half of the Twentieth Cen... Read More about Territories of literary history: the shifting boundaries of Francophone literature in Canada.

The mirror and the map: Central Europe in the late prose of Danilo Kiš (2014)
Journal Article
Zoric, V. (2014). The mirror and the map: Central Europe in the late prose of Danilo Kiš

The article examines Danilo Kiš’s essayistic and narrative articulations of the cultural space of Central Europe in the context of dissident debates and the Yugoslav political crisis. In mid-1980s, Kundera’s essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe” spar... Read More about The mirror and the map: Central Europe in the late prose of Danilo Kiš.