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Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages (2017)
Book
Batchelor, K., & Harding, S. (Eds.). (2017). Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315620626

This book provides an innovative look at the reception of Frantz Fanon’s texts, investigating how, when, where and why these—especially his seminal Les Damnés de la Terre (1961) —were first translated and read. Building on renewed interest in the aut... Read More about Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages.

The politics of elegy: Henri IV of France by Villamediana, Quevedo, Góngora, and Rubens (2017)
Journal Article
Andrews, J. (2017). The politics of elegy: Henri IV of France by Villamediana, Quevedo, Góngora, and Rubens. Journal of Romance Studies, 17(1), 1-35. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2017.1

© Institute of Modern Languages Research 2017. This article examines Franco-Spanish political relations in the period from 1610 to 1625 as represented in Spanish poetry and paintings produced in Spain or in the Spanish theatre of influence. The early... Read More about The politics of elegy: Henri IV of France by Villamediana, Quevedo, Góngora, and Rubens.

Une corde de plus à l’arc de tout le monde’ : L’usage de la photographie chez Balzac et Hugo (2017)
Book Chapter
Yacavone, K. (2017). Une corde de plus à l’arc de tout le monde’ : L’usage de la photographie chez Balzac et Hugo. L'Écrivain vu par la photographie : Formes, usages, enjeux. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes

This illustrated article appeared in the first major publication on the photographic representation of the author, based in part on a landmark conference at the famous Cerisy-la-Salle venue in France in 2014. Demonstrating that Balzac’s and Hugo’s au... Read More about Une corde de plus à l’arc de tout le monde’ : L’usage de la photographie chez Balzac et Hugo.

Paris and the birth of the modern fantastic during the nineteenth century (2017)
Journal Article
Garcia, P. (2017). Paris and the birth of the modern fantastic during the nineteenth century. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 19(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2875

In her article "Paris and the Birth of the Modern Fantastic during the Nineteenth Century" Patricia Garcia discusses the unprecedented growth of Europe's urban centers during the nineteenth century in relation to the realist novel and takes urban and... Read More about Paris and the birth of the modern fantastic during the nineteenth century.

Lessons from Lysenko (2017)
Book Chapter
Marks, J. (2017). Lessons from Lysenko. In W. deJong-Lambert, & N. Krementsov (Eds.), The Lysenko Controversy As A Global Phenomenon - Volume 2 (185-206). Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39179-3_7

This chapter explores the question of whether we can still “learn lessons” from Lysenkoism. Contemporary allusions are often narrowly polemical, usually making the claim that scientific work is being marginalised for non-scientific reasons. However,... Read More about Lessons from Lysenko.

Carducho and the Spanish Literary Baroque (2016)
Book Chapter
LAWRANCE, J. (2016). Carducho and the Spanish Literary Baroque. On Art and Painting: Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain. University of Wales Press

José Saramago: history, utopia, and the necessity of error (2016)
Book
Sabine, M. (2016). José Saramago: history, utopia, and the necessity of error. (1). Cambridge: Legenda

Although best known internationally for his ‘allegorical’ novels such as Blindness (1995), in his native Portugal, José Saramago remains most acclaimed for his earlier, richly poetic ‘historical’ novels. This new study of five of these works focuses... Read More about José Saramago: history, utopia, and the necessity of error.

The rhetoric of exile : duress and the imagining of force (2016)
Book
Zoric, V. (2016). The rhetoric of exile : duress and the imagining of force. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association

The Rhetoric of Exile explores the rhetorical construction of force in indirect exile and in literary responses to it. Between banishment, a compulsory exile, and expatriation, a voluntary one, many legal systems have allowed for a third model. Such... Read More about The rhetoric of exile : duress and the imagining of force.

‘Me juzgo por natural de Madrid’: Vincencio Carducho, theorist and painter of Spain's court capital (2016)
Journal Article
Bass, L. J., & Andrews, J. (in press). ‘Me juzgo por natural de Madrid’: Vincencio Carducho, theorist and painter of Spain's court capital. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 93(7-8), https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2016.1227040

More than a guide for painters, Vicente de Carducho's Diálogos de la pintura has long been recognized to promote painting as a liberal art and to advocate for the creation of an academy of painting in seventeenth-century Madrid. But questions of patr... Read More about ‘Me juzgo por natural de Madrid’: Vincencio Carducho, theorist and painter of Spain's court capital.

Can people experience post-traumatic growth after committing violent acts? (2016)
Journal Article
Blackie, L. E., Roepke, A. M., Hitchcott, N., & Joseph, S. (2016). Can people experience post-traumatic growth after committing violent acts?. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 22(4), 409-412. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000218

The concept of post-traumatic growth refers to the positive psychological changes that some people experience as a result of their struggle with highly stressful and often traumatic circumstances. Research into post-traumatic growth has typically foc... Read More about Can people experience post-traumatic growth after committing violent acts?.

Haunted Serbia: Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination (2016)
Book
Norris, D. (2016). Haunted Serbia: Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315559810

Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten, are brought back to the present and made to live again. Serbian fiction writers of the 1980s exhume the ghosts of th... Read More about Haunted Serbia: Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination.

Learning by teaching: developing transferable skills (2016)
Book Chapter
Stollhans, S. (2016). Learning by teaching: developing transferable skills. In E. Corradini, K. Borthwick, & A. Gallagher-Brett (Eds.), Employability for languages: a handbook (161-164). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2016.cbg2016.478

Learning by teaching (German: Lernen durch Lehren, commonly abbreviated as LdL) is a teaching and learning approach which was developed by the French language teacher Jean-Pol Martin in German schools in the 1980s (Martin, 1985). The method sees stud... Read More about Learning by teaching: developing transferable skills.