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Shades of the Planet : American Literature as World Literature
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ISBN: 0691188254 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified. But is the conceptual box of the nation dispensable? And what would American literature look like without it?Leading scholars take up this debate in Shades of the Planet, beginning not with the United States as center, but with the world as circumference. This reversed frame yields a surprising landscape, alive with traces of West Africa, Eastern Europe, Iran, Iraq, India, China, Mexico, and Australia. The Broadway musical Oklahoma! has aboriginal antecedents; Black English houses an African syntax; American slavery consorts with the Holocaust; Philip Roth keeps company with Milan Kundera; the crime novel moves south of the border; and R. P. Blackmur lectures in Japan. A national literature becomes haunted by the world when that literature is seen extending to the Pacific, opening up to Islam, and accompanying African-American authors as they travel. Highlighting American literature as a fold in a planet-wide fabric, this pioneering volume transforms the field, redrawing its institutional as well as geographical map.The contributors are Rachel Adams, Jonathan Arac, Homi K. Bhabha, Lawrence Buell, Wai Chee Dimock, Susan Stanford Friedman, Paul Giles, David Palumbo-Liu, Ross Posnock, Joseph Roach, and Eric J. Sundquist.


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Histoire et géographie chez les auteurs grecs : du IIe s. av. J.-C. au VIe s. apr. J.-C.
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ISBN: 9782701805351 270180535X Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de Boccard,

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La 4e de couv. indique : "On sait à quel point l'écriture de l'histoire, dès ses origines dans la littérature grecque, convoque des savoirs qui, pour les Modernes, relèvent de la «géographie», physique et humaine. Au modèle explicatif du récit se mêle donc constamment celui de la description des territoires et des peuples. Dans quelle mesure le discours historique informe-t-il le propos géographique ? Dans quelle mesure, au contraire, une certaine façon de pratiquer la géographie peut-elle influencer l'écriture historique ? C'est à ces questions que l'ouvrage s'attache à répondre. Au-delà des cloisonnements encouragés par les différences de genre, d'époque ou d'appartenance religieuse, il s'agit de clarifier le rapport qu'entretiennent histoire et géographie chez les auteurs grecs contemporains de la République et de l'Empire romains. Les historiens au sens strict y côtoient des auteurs qui, dans d'autres genres littéraires, ont été eux aussi confrontés au problème posé par l'articulation de l'histoire et de la géographie."


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Space and place in Alice Munro's fiction : a book with maps in it
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ISBN: 9781640140202 1640140204 9781787442603 1787442608 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York : Camden House,

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New essays engaging with the developing field of literary geography to devote attention to the "regional" settings of Munro's stories and how they affect her characters' development or stasis.


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Shaping the geography of empire : man and nature in Herodotus' histories
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ISBN: 9780198820437 0198820437 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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"Focusing on the depiction of the natural world in Herodotus' Histories, this volume explores the fluid and complex network of spatial relationships that emerges from his narrative, examining its significance for the analysis of focalization in the work and for understanding the role of geography in the shaping of successive empires."--


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Erotic geographies in ancient Greek literature and culture
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ISBN: 9781138741768 1138741760 9781315182667 1315182661 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,

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"Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture addresses the following question: how does a place "get a reputation?" The Athenians associated sexual behaviors with particular places and their inhabitants, and this book decodes the meaning of the sexualization of place and traces the repercussions of these projections. Focusing on Corinth, Sparta, and Lesbos, each section starts from the fact that there were comic joke words that made a verb out of a place name to communicate a sexual slur. Corinth was thought of as a hotbed of prostitution; Sparta was perceived as a hyper-masculine culture that made femininity a problem; Lesbos had varying historically determined connotations, but was always associated with uninhibited and adventurous sexuality. The cultural beliefs encoded in these sexualized stereotypes are unpacked. These findings are then applied to close readings, ultimately demonstrating how sensitivity to the erotics of place enables new interpretations of well-known texts. In the process of moving from individual word to culture to text, Erotic Geographies recovers a complex mode of identity construction illuminating the workings of the Athenian imaginary as well as the role of discourse in shaping subjectivity. Gilhuly brings together a deep engagement with the robust scholarly literature on sex and gender in Classics with the growing interest in cultural geography in a way that has never been done before."--Back cover.


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Les géographies de Tintin
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ISBN: 9782271118981 2271118980 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris CNRS éditions

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"Pendant presque cinquante ans, Tintin a arpenté les cinq continents et navigué sur la plupart des océans, devançant même Armstrong sur la Lune. Et si Hergé ne fut pas un grand voyageur, il a créé assurément le dernier explorateur moderne et un modèle pour tous les géographes aventuriers. À la fois marin de haute mer et d’eaux douces, accessoirement plongeur sous-marin, Tintin est l’égal d’un Henry Morton Stanley, à la recherche de Livingston et des sources du Nil, ou d’un Albert Londres, courant aux quatre coins de la planète. Tintin et la Géographie forment un binôme inséparable. Cet ouvrage, premier du genre, tente d’approcher les aventures du reporter sous l’angle géographique. Pas pour souligner l’évidence des clichés ou les erreurs d’un Hergé à la culture avant tout livresque – il n’y a jamais eu de lamas à Lima, par exemple –, mais pour explorer les subtilités géographiques du monde de Tintin, un monde qui ne semble plus tout à fait le nôtre. Un livre qui, à travers vingt regards complices et critiques, éclaire le mythe d’un jour nouveau."


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Jane Austen's geographies
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ISBN: 9780815376873 0815376871 9781351235310 9781351235341 Year: 2018 Volume: 32 Publisher: London ; New York Routledge


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Shakespearean territories
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ISBN: 9780226559056 9780226559193 9780226559223 022655919X Year: 2018 Publisher: Chicago The University of Chicago Press

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Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare's unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history. Shakespeare's plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in King Lear, to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in Hamlet, to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in Richard II. Elden traces how Shakespeare developed a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place. A meticulously researched study of over a dozen classic plays, Shakespearean Territories will provide new insights for geographers, political theorists, and Shakespearean scholars alike.

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