Bicultural Literature And Film In French And English

Author : Peter I. Barta,Phil Powrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317564775

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Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English by Peter I. Barta,Phil Powrie Pdf

This book focuses on literature and cinema in English or French by authors and directors not working in their native language. Artists with hybrid identities have become a defining phenomenon of contemporary reality following the increased mobility between civilisations during the postcolonial period and the waves of emigration to the West. Cinema and prose fiction remain the most popular sources of cultural consumption, not least owing to the adaptability of both to the new electronic media. This volume considers cultural products in English and French in which the explicitly multi-focal representation of authors' experiences of their native languages/cultures makes itself conspicuous. The essays explore work by the peripheral and those without a country, while problematising what might be meant by the widely used but not always well-defined term ‘bicultural’. The first section looks at films by such well-known filmmakers working in France as Bouchareb, Kechiche, Legzouli and Dridi, as well as the animated feature Persepolis. Here the focus is on the representation of human experience in spatial terms, exploring the appropriation of territory cohabited by ‘local’ people, newcomers and their children, haunted by the cultural memories of distant places. The second part is devoted to multicultural authors whose ‘native’ language was English, Russian, Polish, Hungarian or Spanish (Beckett, Herzen, Voyeikova, Triolet, Conrad, Hoffmann, Kristof, Dorfman), and their creative engagement with difference. A study of the emergence of multilingual writing in Montaigne and an autobiographical essay by Elleke Boehmer on growing up surrounded by English, Dutch, Afrikaans and Zulu frame the volume's chapters. The collection relishes the freedom provided by liberation from the confines of one language and culture and the delight in creative multilingualism. This book will be of significant interest to those studying the subject of biculturalism, as well as the fields of comparative literature and cinema.

Author : Steven F Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429861086

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Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film by Steven F Walker Pdf

One of the primary objectives of comparative literature is the study of the relationship of texts, also known as intertextuality, which is a means of contextualizing and analyzing the way literature grows and flourishes through inspiration and imitation, direct or indirect. When the inspiration and imitation is direct and obvious, the study of this rapport falls into the more restricted category of hypertextuality. What the author has labeled a cryptic subtext, however, is an extreme case of hypertextuality. It involves a series of allusions to another text that have been deliberately inserted by the author into the primary text as potential points of reference. This book takes a deep dive into a broad array of literature and film to explore these allusions and the hidden messages therein.

Author : Anna K. Windisch,Claus Tieber,Phil Powrie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030891558

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When Music Takes Over in Film by Anna K. Windisch,Claus Tieber,Phil Powrie Pdf

This open access collection deals with musical moments in film as one of the most pivotal and compelling issues of current film music research. Musical moments as defined by Amy Herzog occur when a musical number inverts the normal relationship between the image track and the soundtrack in a film in such a way that what we see is determined by what we hear. As one potential approach, this definition provokes a variety of perspectives to investigate the disruptive potential of these moments and numbers as a creative device in the production of audiovisual narratives. In this sense, the book responds to a need for an anthology that introduces students as well as scholars of cinema, musicology, media studies and cultural studies more broadly, to recent discourses in film music scholarship. The volume includes contributions by early career researchers as well as by established experts in the fields of musicology, film studies, media studies, and cultural studies, promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration in film music research.

Author : Michael Gott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781474466530

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ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb by Michael Gott Pdf

Examines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognised French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.

Author : Steven G. Kellman,Natasha Lvovich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000441512

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The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism by Steven G. Kellman,Natasha Lvovich Pdf

Though it might seem as modern as Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and Vladimir Nabokov, translingual writing - texts by authors using more than one language or a language other than their primary one - has an ancient pedigree. The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism aims to provide a comprehensive overview of translingual literature in a wide variety of languages throughout the world, from ancient to modern times. The volume includes sections on: translingual genres - with chapters on memoir, poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema ancient, medieval, and modern translingualism global perspectives - chapters overseeing European, African, and Asian languages Combining chapters from lead specialists in the field, this volume will be of interest to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in investigating the vibrant area of translingual literature. Attracting scholars from a variety of disciplines, this interdisciplinary and pioneering Handbook will advance current scholarship of the permutations of languages among authors throughout time.

Author : Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho,Nicola Gavioli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315386362

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Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil by Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho,Nicola Gavioli Pdf

When Brazil was honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato opened the event with a provocative speech, claiming that literature, through its pervasive depiction and discussion of ‘otherness,’ has the potential to provoke ethical transformation. This book uses Ruffato’s speech as a starting point for the discussion of contemporary Brazilian literature that stands in contrast to the repetition of social and cultural clichés. By illuminating the relevance of humanities and literature as a catalyst for rethinking Brazil, the book offers a resistance to the official discourses that have worked for so long to conceal social tensions, injustices, and secular inequities in Brazilian society. In doing so, it situates Brazilian literature away from the exotic and peripheral spectrum, and closer to a universal and more relevant ethical discussion for readers from all parts of the world. The volume brings together fresh contributions on both canonical contemporary authors such as Graciliano Ramos, Rubem Fonseca, and Dalton Trevisan, and traditionally silenced writing subjects such as Afro-Brazilian female authors. Essays deal with specific contemporary literary and social issues while engaging with historically constitutive phenomena in Brazil, including authoritarianism, violence, and the systematic violation of human rights. The exploration of diverse literary genres -- from novels to graphic novels, from poetry to crônicas -- and engagement with postcolonial studies, gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies, Brazilian studies, South American literature, and world literature carves new space for the emergence of an original Brazilian thought.

Author : Daniel K. Jernigan,Walter Wadiak,Michelle Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429755675

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Narrating Death by Daniel K. Jernigan,Walter Wadiak,Michelle Wang Pdf

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.

Author : Shun-Liang Chao,John Michael Corrigan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429516238

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Romantic Legacies by Shun-Liang Chao,John Michael Corrigan Pdf

Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts presents the most wide-ranging treatment of Romantic regenerations, covering the cross-pollination between the arts or between art and thought in Germany, Britain, France, the US, Russia, India, China, and Japan. Each chapter in the volume examines a legacy or afterlife in a comparative context to demonstrate ongoing Romantic legacies as fully as possible in their complexity and richness. The volume provides readers a lens through which to understand Romanticism not merely as an artistic heritage but as a dynamic site of intellectual engagement that crosses nations and time periods and entails no less than the shaping of our global cultural currents.

Author : Susan Brantly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315386454

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The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era by Susan Brantly Pdf

This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author’s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. Furthermore, it traces how the concerns of the postmodern era, such as postmodern critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Not all historical novels written during the postmodern era are postmodern. The historical novel as a genre occupies a problematic, yet significant space in Cold War literary currents, torn between claims of authenticity and the impossibility of accessing the past. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process. This pitting of a center against a periphery serves to highlight traits that historical novels from the West have in common, but also how they differ. The historical novel is not just a local, regional phenomenon, but has become, during the postmodern era, a transnational tool for exploring how we should think of nations and nationalism and what a society should, or should not, look like.

Author : Nicolas Fernandez-Medina,Maria Truglio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317434061

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Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy by Nicolas Fernandez-Medina,Maria Truglio Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with corporeality. It examines the innovative ways Spanish and Italian avant-gardists explored the body as a locus for various aesthetic and sociopolitical considerations and practices. In reimagining the nexus points where the embodied self and world intersect, the texts surveyed in this book not only shed light on issues such as authority, desire, fetishism, gender, patriarchy, politics, religion, sexuality, subjectivity, violence, and war during a period of unprecedented change, but also explore the complexities of aesthetic and epistemic rupture (and continuity) within Spanish and Italian modernisms. Building on contemporary scholarship in Modernist Studies and avant-garde criticism, this volume brings to light numerous cross-cultural touch points between Spain and Italy, and challenges the center/periphery frameworks of European cultural modernism. In linking disciplines, genres, —isms, and geographical spheres, the book provides new lenses through which to explore the narratives of modernist corporeality. Each contribution centers around the question of the body as it was actively being debated through the medium of poetic, literary, and artistic exchange, exploring the body in its materiality and form, in its sociopolitical representation, relation to Self, cultural formation, spatiality, desires, objectification, commercialization, and aesthetic functions. This comparative approach to Spanish and Italian avant-gardism offers readers an expanded view of the intersections of body and text, broadening the conversation in the larger fields of cultural modernism, European Avant-garde Studies, and Comparative Literature.

Author : Philippe Mather,Sylvain Rheault
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443889803

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Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics by Philippe Mather,Sylvain Rheault Pdf

French science-fiction (SF) is as old as the French language. Cyrano de Bergerac wrote about a trip to the moon that was published back in 1657, as did Jules Verne in 1865, this time using hard, scientific facts. The first movie showing a trip to the moon was made by Georges Méliès in 1902. In the comics’ format, Hergé had Tintin walk on the moon in 1954, 15 years before Neil Armstrong. These are just a few of the many unique French contributions to SF that rightly deserve to be better known. One of the purposes of this collection is to introduce French SF to an English-speaking audience. Rediscovering French Science Fiction... first revisits proto science-fiction from authors like Cyrano de Bergerac and Jules Verne, before delving into contemporary science-fiction works from authors such as René Barjavel and Jacques Spitz. A contribution from preeminent SF author Élisabeth Vonarburg, from Québec, helps to understand the constraints and advantages of writing SF in French. A third section is devoted to French SF in movies and graphic novels, media where French creators have been recognized worldwide. This collection explores many aspects of French SF, including the genre’s deep roots in popular culture, the influence of key authors on its historical development, and the form and function of science and fantasy, as well as the impact of films and graphic novels on the public perception of the genre’s nature.

Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780802044754

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Screening Gender, Framing Genre by Peter Dickinson Pdf

Examines the history and theory of films adapted from Canadian literature through the lens of gender studies. This study offers readings of works by well-known Canadian authors such as Margaret Atwood, Marie-Claire Blais, and Michael Ondaatje, and by important Canadian filmmakers such as Mireille Dansereau, Claude Jutra, and Bruce McDonald.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1980-04
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010529810

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Education
ISBN : UFL:31262083003987

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Research in Education by Anonim Pdf