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Speaking the Taboo : A study of the work of Wolfgang Hilbig
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ISBN: 9789004485617 9789042015425 Year: 2000 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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Wolfgang Hilbig is a writer who is widely acknowledged as one of the most important to have emerged from the former GDR. In this study, the first in English, Paul Cooke explores the interplay of aesthetic and social 'taboos', as defined by the official discourse of the GDR, in a cross-section of Hilbig's critical writing, poetry and prose. The protagonists in Hilbig's texts suffer from a profound crisis of identity due to the disparity between the state's official presentation of life in the East and their own experience. Cooke argues that through their exploration of the 'taboo', i.e. that which is excluded from the state's official discourse, Hilbig's characters attempt to break through the banal rhetoric of the ruling elite in order to realise an authentic sense of self.

Travel Writing and Cultural Memory / Écriture du voyage et mémoire culturelle
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ISBN: 9789004490611 9789042004702 Year: 2000 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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The present volume looks at the relation between travel writing and cultural memory from a variety of perspectives, ranging from theoretical concerns with genres and conventions to detailed analyses of single texts. As befits the topic, the contributions roam far and wide, both geographically and historically. Some detail early Portuguese voyages of discovery, particularly to the East. Others depict encounters between Early, and not so early, Modern Western travelers and their Other interlocutors. Still others focus on travel writings as literature. Voyages and voyaging in literature form the subject of the last category of essays gathered here. Amongst the authors discussed are Fernão Mendes Pinto, Jean de Sponde, Furtado de Mendonça, Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Elsa Morante, Ingeborg Bachmann, Sophia Andresen, Paul Claudel, Graham Greene, Valéry Larbaud, David Mourão-Ferreira, J.M.G. le Clézio, José Saramago, Michel Leiris, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. The volume concludes with an essay by the French-Lebanese author Salah Stétié.

Le Désir à l'oeuvre : André Gide à Cambridge 1918, 1998
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ISBN: 9789004488656 9789042014244 Year: 2000 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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Pendant l'été 1918, André Gide passa trois mois à Cambridge en compagnie de son jeune amant Marc Allégret. Ce séjour fut l'occasion de sa rencontre avec maints intellectuels anglais mais aussi la cause de la grande crise de son mariage, qui conduisit sa femme Madeleine à brûler toutes les lettres qu'il lui avait écrites depuis leur jeunesse. La complexité du désir chez Gide, son attitude envers les femmes et le féminin et envers la pédérastie et la pédagogie, son besoin inlassable des départs et des retours, l'exploitation du vécu dans ses oeuvres romanesques et la création de soi dans ses écrits non-fictionnels - voilà quelques-unes des matières qui sont développées dans ce livre.


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Coriolanus : dal testo alla scena
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Year: 2000 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Clueb

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Esquecidos por Deus : monstros no mundo europeu e ibero-americano, séculos XVI-XVIII
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ISBN: 8571649928 Year: 2000 Publisher: Sao Paulo Companhia das Letras

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Cristodoro : un'introduzione e un commento
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ISBN: 887694463X Year: 2000 Publisher: Alessandria Edizioni dell'Orso

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Being/s in Transit : Travelling - Migration - Dislocation
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ISBN: 9789004490291 9789042006492 Year: 2000 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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This fifth volume of ASNEL Papers covers a wide range of theoretical and thematic approaches to the topics of travelling, migration, and dislocation. All migrants are travellers, but not all travellers are migrants. Migration and the figure of the migrant have become key concepts in recent post-colonial studies. However, migration is not such a new or exceptional phenomenon. From the eighteenth century onward there have been migrations from Europe to what are now called 'post-colonial' countries, and this prepared the ground for movement back to the old but also to the new centres of Europe and elsewhere. Travel and travel experience, on the other hand, have been part of the cultural codes not only of the West and not only of imperialism. The essays in this volume look at both kinds of movement, at their intersections, and at their (dis)locating effects. They cover a wide range of topics, from early seventeenth-century travel reports, through nineteenth-century women's travel writing, to such contemporary writers as Michael Ondaatje and Janette Turner Hospital.

One Hundred Years of Masochism : Literary Texts, Social and Cultural Contexts
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ISBN: 9789004502932 9789042006577 Year: 2000 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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Just over a century has passed since the sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing coined the term "masochism" in a revised edition of his Psychopathia Sexualis (1890). Put into circulation as part of the fin-de-siècle process through which sexuality and sexual practices considered deviant became medicalized, this suspicious concept grew in significance and explanatory power in the expanding new context of psychoanalytic discourse. Today the study of masochism shows signs of becoming a discipline in its own right, the political, social, and cultural ramifications of which exceed and, indeed, render problematic, traditional psychoanalytic perspectives on the phenomenon. The essays in this volume demonstrate, however, that the concept of masochism still offers a point of entry into psychoanalytic theory that, while revealing a number of its most vexing insufficiencies and problematic constructions, evokes also a sometimes surprising illuminative potential and capacity to adapt to changing social realities. And as the volume's title is meant to suggest, the authors represented here tend to agree that the continued rich viability of psychoanalytic theory in cultural analysis is best appreciated and ensured through engaging the theory's own social-historical and cultural contexts. The volume includes clinical perspectives on masochism, and articles on medieval romance, Goethe, Sacher-Masoch, Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Multatuli, Fassbinder, and masochism and postmodernism.


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Midas : Mythos und Verwandlung
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ISBN: 3825310434 Year: 2000 Publisher: Heidelberg Winter

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A probable state : the novel, the contract, and the Jews.
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ISBN: 0226815331 0226815358 9780226815350 Year: 2000 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago press

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