Maurizio Ferraris explores how, through the reading of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, one can explore memory, art, and society, using the book as a guide for living life.
Haunted Childhoods in George MacDonald reconsiders the nature of death and divine love in the stories of one of Scotland's most slyly subversive writers for children.
The journey towards morality in nature can be seen through the million-year-old relationship of the flowering plant and honeybee social group. Flowers and Honeybees brings what science has learned into a dialog with the philosophy of morality.
Dans Témoignage et littérature d'après Auschwitz, Fransiska Louwagie réunit des études critiques provenant de deux centres de gravité de la littérature de la Shoah et des camps nazis, alliant, dans un riche panorama, les oeuvres des témoins-survivants et celles des générations d'après. In Témoignage et littérature d'après Auschwitz, Fransiska Louwagie brings together two key areas of Holocaust literature, offering a rich panorama of both testi...
Dans Le retentissant destin de Georges Darien à la Belle Époque, Aurélien Lorig s'intéresse à la vie et à l'oeuvre d'un écrivain réfractaire peu connu. Son essai nous fait redécouvrir le destin mouvementé d'un homme de lettres combatif. In Le retentissant destin de Georges Darien à la Belle Époque, Aurélien Lorig studies the life and the work of a little known, refractory author. His essay allows us to rediscover the eventful fate of a combati...
The contributors in Expanding and Restricting the Erotic offer a multidisciplinary perspective on the ways in which what is considered acceptable within the realm of the erotic has altered over time to the current situation where the erotic is being both expanded and restricted.
In Knowledge, Art, and Power John Ryder develops a pragmatic naturalist theory of experience that posits the cognitive (knowledge), the aesthetic (art), and the political (power) as the most general and pervasive dimensions of all human experience.
Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century offers multi-angled critical attention to recent retranslations of Joyce's works into Italian, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Turkish, German, South Slavic and many other languages, and reflects the newest scholarly developments in Joyce and translation studies.
La littérature française contemporaine porte un vif intérêt à l'histoire des conflits du XXe siècle et de leurs séquelles pour la vie civile. La monographie explore les modalités narratives qui permettent d'adresser les traumatismes et d'entamer le travail de mémoire. Contemporary French literature is acutely interested in the history of twentieth-century conflicts and their repercussions on civilian life. This monograph explores the narrative...
The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in U.S. Literature and Culture explores hospitality in literature, language and cinema from a variety of methodological perspectives that illustrate the richness of American hospitality.
Tracing Hospital Boundaries explores how the forces of integration and segregation shaped hospital communities and structures in theory and practice between the eleventh and twentieth centuries. The eleven chapters consider hospitals in Europe (particularly Southeast), North America and Africa.
Quintessence of Dust by Harry Redner argues for a science of matter and philosophy of mind based on emergence through five stages. It criticises mechanistic approaches to mind and advocates a philosophic synthesis of the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.
In A history of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a comparative study of trends in 40 specific diseases in Europe and their explanation, focusing on the causes of the spectacular improvements in people's health since the early 18th century.
Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage is a pioneering collection of critical essays on the work of the Lebanese-Canadian writer, situating his fiction in contexts such as diasporic writing or trans-geographical literature, and reflecting the worldwide range of research into his literary output.
Postmodern Pirates offers a comprehensive analysis of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean series and the pirate motif in British literature and Hollywood movies through the lens of postmodern film theories.
Self-reflection in Literature provides the first diachronic panorama of genres, forms, and functions of literary self-reflexivity and their connections with social, political and philosophical discourses from the 17th century to the present.
This book interprets the multifarious writing of the Irish-American word wizard, Paul Muldoon, who has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as 'the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War'.
In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful care that facilitates healing and enables wellbeing.
From the thirteenth up to the nineteenth century European travellers encountered a foreign religion, Hinduism, and recorded their impressions in travel reports. In The European Encounter with Hinduism Jan Peter Schouten leads us through the fascinating history of this experience.
How are well-known female characters from the Bible represented in late 20th-century novels? Bertrand shows how biblical women in contemporary literature are given a voice that rests not only on words but also on silences. Exploring the many forms that silence can take, she presents an innovative typology that sheds light on this profoundly meaningful phenomenon.
