Languages & Literatures 2011 | 1 | - Peter Lang

54 Romance Languages and Literatures · Romanistik · Langues et littératures romanes
Ravry: A Dance of Angels and Monsters: Vic-
tor Hugo’s Caducean Aesthetics • Catherine
Markey: ‘Une œuvre barbare et délicate’:
Hervé Guibert and the Limits of Representa-
tion • Anna Magdalena Elsner: Uncanny
Balbec: Crypts, Nightmares and Phantoms
in ‘Les intermittences du cœur’ • Nicolas
Valazza: The Flower and the Monster: On
Huysmans’ Painters • Klem James: Surrealism
and the Sublime or the Vertiginous Plunging
into the Real • Martin Llewellyn: Neither
Beast nor Man: ‘Qu’est que c’est qu’un monstre’
? • Miranda Griffin: The Beastly and the
Courtly in Medieval Tales of Transformation:
Bisclavret, Melion and Mélusine • Ruth G .
Vorstman: Diane as Beauty: Three Seventeenth-Century
Examples • Jennifer Yee:
The Black Maid and her Mistress in Manet
and Zola • Elizabeth Lindley: The Monstrous
Female: Images of Abjection in Marie NDiaye’s
Hilda • Andrew Asibong: Haitian Bride
of Frankenstein: Disintegrating Beauty,
Monstrousness and ‘Race’ in Jacques Stephen
Alexis’s ‘Chronique d’un faux-amour’ .
aMaleena daMlé is Lecturer in French
at Exeter College, Oxford University . Her primary
research interests lie in intersections
between twentieth- and twenty-first-century
theory and literature, with a particular emphasis
on gender and sexuality . Her doctoral
thesis examined articulations of female corporeality
and transformation in contemporary
women’s writing in French and she has
written articles on Amélie Nothomb, Ananda
Devi and Marie Darrieussecq .
auRélie l’hoStiS is a graduate of King’s
College, Cambridge, where she completed a
doctoral thesis on the contribution of French
Caribbean literature to the creation of a historical
consciousness in the region . Her publications
include articles on the current debate
around historical memory and slavery
in France and the representation of Antillean
traumatic history in works by Édouard Glissant
and Patrick Chamoiseau .
Christine Garbe / Karl Holle /
Swantje Weinhold (eds .)
ADORE – Teaching Struggling
Adolescent Readers
in European Countries
Key Elements of Good Practice
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Neil Foxlee
Albert Camus’s ‘The New
Mediterranean Culture’
A Text and its Contexts
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles,
Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2010 .
XII, 337 pp .
Modern French Identities . Vol . 38
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O
n 8 February 1937 the 23-year-old
Albert Camus gave an inaugural lecture
for a new Maison de la culture, or community
arts centre, in Algiers . Entitled
‘La nouvelle culture méditerranéenne’ (‘The
New Mediterranean Culture’), Camus’s lecture
has been interpreted in radically different
ways: while some critics have dismissed
it as an incoherent piece of juvenilia, others
see it as key to understanding his future development
as a thinker, whether as the first
expression of his so-called ‘Mediterranean
humanism’ or as an early indication of what
is seen as his essentially colonial mentality .
R
Ann Frost
amón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) was
undoubtedly the most controversial
literary figure of his generation . Whilst his
genius was recognised by fellow writers, the
reading public was slow to accept his work,
and his theatre taxed directors and audiences
alike . One of the harshest criticisms
levelled against him concerned his use of
repetition . This study shows how the reuse,
recycling and development of material becomes
one of the hallmarks of Valle-Inclán’s
writing during the first three decades of his
literary career, linking one genre with another
and blurring the borders between different
aesthetics . The repetition of themes
and motifs, characters and stylistic devices
reveals an underlying interdependence
among works that on the surface appear un-
These various interpretations are based
on reading the text of ‘The New Mediterranean
Culture’ in a single context, whether
that of Camus’s life and work as a whole, of
French discourses on the Mediterranean or
of colonial Algeria (and French discourses on
that country) . By contrast, this study argues
that Camus’s lecture – and in principle any
historical text – needs to be seen in a multiplicity
of contexts, discursive and otherwise,
if readers are to understand properly what
its author was doing in writing it . Using
Camus’s lecture as a case study, the book
provides a detailed theoretical and practical
justification of this ‘multi-contextualist’
approach .
neil Foxlee is a Visiting Research Fellow
at Lancaster University and a lecturer at the
University of Central Lancashire, where his
teaching has included MA modules on Political
Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Narrative
and Image . His published work includes several
articles on Camus and a study of the campaign
rhetoric of Barack Obama . He is also a
contributor to (and co-editor of) G . McKay
et al . (eds), Subcultures and New Religious
Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe
(Peter Lang, 2009) .
The Galician Works of Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Patterns of Repetition and Continuity
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2010 .
X, 231 pp .
Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas . Vol . 43
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connected or even contradictory . Many of
Valle-Inclán’s works have been studied in
isolation, rather than as pieces of a whole .
This book examines the elements that provide
significant links in his writing between
1889 and 1922, most of which shares the common
backdrop of Galicia, and demonstrates
that apparently unrelated works are part of
a larger picture . Despite changes in perspective
and genre, there are constants that relate
individual works to those that precede
and follow, creating a unifying pattern of
continuity .
ann FRoSt received her PhD from University
College London . Since 1988 she has
been an affiliated lecturer in the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese at the University
of Cambridge .