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German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600 (2015)
Journal Article
McLelland, N. (2015). German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600. Angermion, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2015-001

A quarter of a century ago, two essays examined the early history of German as a Foreign Language (GFL) in Britain.2 The present paper revisits the history of GFL at a time of perceived crisis in modern language education, to provide some historical... Read More about German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600.

Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Pilar de Valderrama (2015)
Book Chapter
Andrews, J. (2015). Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Pilar de Valderrama. In The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War 1936-2016 (40-59). Oxford: Berghahn Books

This chapter looks at three women poets writing during the Spanish Civil War and afterwards - two supporters of the Republican government, one a supporter of the Franco regime, all three condemned in some way to post-war silence and circumspection.

Inappropriation et 'diversalité' chez J.M.G. Le Clezio (2015)
Journal Article
Ridon, J. (2015). Inappropriation et 'diversalité' chez J.M.G. Le Clezio. https://doi.org/10.7173/164913315817039225

Tout en partant de la polémique que suscita la publication du manifeste Pour une littérature-monde en 2007, cet article analysera comment J.M.G. Le Clézio se situe par rapport au concept de littérature-monde. À partir de sa manière toute particulière... Read More about Inappropriation et 'diversalité' chez J.M.G. Le Clezio.

Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001) (2015)
Journal Article
Lane, J. F. (2015). Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001). French Cultural Studies, 26(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155815597426

This article questions whether readings of Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001) as simply a parody of political correctness have tended to overlook the allegorical significance of its depiction of a middle-aged executive forced to pretend to be gay, sim... Read More about Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001).

Anarchy in the UK('s most famous fortress): comradeship and cupidity in Gibraltar and neighbouring Spain, 1890-1902 (2015)
Journal Article
Grocott, C. A., Stockey, G., & Grady, J. (in press). Anarchy in the UK('s most famous fortress): comradeship and cupidity in Gibraltar and neighbouring Spain, 1890-1902. Labor History, 56(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2016.1086542

This article is the first to investigate the growth of anarchist ideology and tactics in Gibraltar and the surrounding Spanish region, the Campo de Gibraltar, in the period 1890-1902. We draw upon hitherto unused material from both The National Archi... Read More about Anarchy in the UK('s most famous fortress): comradeship and cupidity in Gibraltar and neighbouring Spain, 1890-1902.

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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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