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The Dialogue of Writing

Mcdonald, Christie
The Dialogue of Writing
To the extent that writing has long been considered a substitute for "living"  conversation, dialogue has been a quintessential metaphor for language as communication. This volume closely analyzes dialogue, both as a literary genre and as a critical principle underlying the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Diderot. In her analysis, the author examines relationships between texts and writers, between texts and readers, and between texts and o...

CHF 47.90

Images of Congo: Anne Eisner's Art and Ethnography, 1946-...

Mcdonald, Christie
Images of Congo: Anne Eisner's Art and Ethnography, 1946-1956
Images of Congo riporta all'attenzione l'opera di Anne Eisner, artista ebrea newyorchese, che visse nel Congo belga (oggi Repubblica democratica del Congo) durante gli anni Quaranta e Cinquanta. Affascinata e legata agli abitanti del luogo, vi rimase per nove anni. Un'"eccentrica" rispetto al contesto coloniale, la Eisner trascorse lunghi periodi di tempo nei campi dei pigmei, trascrivendo leggende, prendendo estese note etnografiche e adottan...

CHF 51.90

French Global

McDonald, Christie (Harvard University) / Suleiman, Susan (Harvard University)
French Global
The relationship between France's national territory and other regions of the world where French is spoken and written (most of them former colonies) has long been central to discussions of "Francophonie." Boldly expanding such discussions to the whole range of French literature, the essays in this volume explore spaces, mobilities, and multiplicities from the Middle Ages to today. They rethink literary history not in terms of national boundar...

CHF 51.50