Languages & Literatures 2011 | 1 | - Peter Lang

tion to a variety of contexts, considering
language alongside music, images, theatre,
human experience of the world, and another
language . Each essay asks what it is to understand
language in a given context, and how,
in spite of divergent expressive possibilities,
a linguistic situation interacts with other
contexts, renegotiating boundaries and redefining
understanding . The book lies at the
intersection of linguistics and hermeneutics,
seeking to (a) contextualise philosophical
and linguistic discussions of communication
across a range of media and (b) illustrate their
intimate relations, despite differing strategies
or emphases .
ContentS: Foreword by Raphael Salkie •
Helen Tattam/Pierre-Alexis Mével: Introduction:
The Myth of Babel • Rose-Marie Alarcon
: Baudelaire et Fauré : du sens poétique
au sens musical • Mylène Dubiau-Feuillerac :
La Mise en musique d’un poème : transposition
d’art ou traduction d’un langage à un autre
? Le Cas de « Mandoline » de Paul Verlaine
mis en musique par Claude Debussy • Irène
Salas : Peindre avec des mots : les proverbesrébus
de Pieter Bruegel l’Ancien • Fabien
Arribert-Narce : Image(s) de l’autobiographe :
de la photographie comme « dangereux supplément
» • Helen Tattam: Theory, Theatre,
and Polyphony: Dramatising Existentialist
Ethical Thought • Céline Schmitt : La Scénographie
: le rythme du regard dans l’espace
vécu • Helena Chadderton: Transposing the
Thought Process in Marie Darrieussecq’s Bref
séjour chez les vivants • Jessica Whelan: Interpreting
Comparisons in La Petite Fille qui aimait
trop les allumettes by Gaétan Soucy •
Pierre-Alexis Mével : Trompe-l’œil et traduction
• Iain Bailey : ‘L’heure viendra, la chose
est là, tu la verras’ : Reading Biblical Intertextuality
in Beckett’s Bilingual Œuvre .
PieRRe-alexiS Mével is a Ph .D . student
at the University of Nottingham, where he
also completed an MA by research . His thesis
lies at the crossroads of translation theory,
sociolinguistics, and media studies, and
concerns the subtitling into French of African-American
Vernacular English .
helen tattaM is a Ph .D . student working
in the French Department at the University
of Nottingham . Developing the research
undertaken for her master’s thesis (also at
Nottingham), her thesis examines what is
distinctive about the philosophy of Gabriel
Marcel, and resituates him in relation to the
French intellectual tradition .
G
Langues et littératures romanes · Romanistik · Romance Languages and Literatures
Florian Mussgnug
The Eloquence of Ghosts
iorgio Manganelli (1922-1990), one of
Italy’s most radical and original writers,
went further than most in exploring the
creative possibilities of hybrid genres and
open forms . Ostentation, theatricality, and a
love of drapery and verbal excess are defining
features of his body of work, which ranges
from prose fiction, literary criticism, and drama
to travel writing, treatises, commentaries, and
imaginary interviews . This study examines
the wealth of Manganelli’s imagination – his
grotesque animals, speaking corpses, and melancholy
spectres – and argues that his spectacular
eloquence was shaped by an exceptional
awareness of literary and philosoph -
ical models . Following Manganelli’s lead, the
author addresses issues such as the boundaries
of meaningful language, the relation-
H
Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife
of the Avant-Garde
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2010 .
XIV, 243 pp .
Italian Modernities . Vol . 5
Edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Robert Gordon
pb . ISBN 978-3-03911-835-9
CHF 56 .– / € D 38 .– / € A 39 .10 / € 35 .50 / £ 32 .– / US-$ 55 .95
Raylene Ramsay (ed ./dir .)
Cultural Crossings
ship between literary and visual texts, fantasy
and realism, and the power of literature to express
the apprehensions and intimations of
human consciousness .
FloRian MuSSgnug is Lecturer in Italian
Literature at University College London . His
publications include Lutero e la riforma protestante
(2003), Folly: Special Issue of Comparative
Critical Studies (2008, co-edited with
Lucia Boldrini), and Postmodern Impegno:
Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian
Culture (2009, co-edited with Pierpaolo
Antonello), as well as articles on twentiethcentury
Italian literature, philosophy of language,
and literary theory . He is co-editor of
Contemporanea and a member of the executive
committee of the British Comparative
Literature Association .
Negotiating Identities in Francophone
and Anglophone Pacific Literatures
À la croisée des cultures
itherto undiscovered yet fundamental
historical and literary texts from
the Pacific provide the subject matter of this
collection of essays which sets out to explore
the new forms of writing and hybrid identities
emerging from both past and contemporary
cultural contact and exchange in the
‘South Seas’ .
This is also a weaving of the connections
between Francophone and Anglophone writers
long separated by colonial history . Luis
Cardoso, writing in Portuguese from East
De la négociation des identités dans les littératures
francophones et anglophones du Pacifique
Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010 .
301 pp ., 11 ill .
Nouvelle poétique comparatiste - New Comparative Poetics . Vol . 25
Directeur de collection/Edited by: Marc Maufort
pb . ISBN 978-90-5201-655-9
CHF 57 .– / € D 39 .10 / € A 40 .20 / € 36 .50 / £ 32 .90 / US-$ 56 .95
Timor offers further points of contrast . The
places of encounter – the beaches of Tahiti,
the retelling of the texts of oral tradition, indigenous
mastery of writing and appropriation
of Western technology, the construction
of contemporary Pacific anthologies or emerging
post-colonial writing and translation –
are sites of interaction and mixing that also
involve negotiations of mana or power . From
Pierre Loti’s mythical and feminised Tahitians
to Déwé Gorodé’s silenced women, the
outcomes of such negotiations are dynamic
Order online at www.peterlang.com
57