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4 English Language and Literatures · Anglistik · Langue et littératures anglaises Francesca Bugliani Knox The Eye of the Eagle John Donne and the Legacy of Ignatius Loyola Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011 . XIV, 342 pp ., 1 ill . Religions and Discourse . Vol . 49 Edited by James M .M . Francis J pb . ISBN 978-3-0343-0225-8 CHF 76 .– / € D 52 .30 / € A 53 .80 / € 48 .90 / £ 44 .– / US-$ 75 .95 ohn Donne’s family were committed Catholics . His two uncles were Jesuits . One of them, Jasper Heywood, was the leader of the Jesuit mission in England, while Donne’s mother was a recusant who was forced to leave the country in 1595 . In this detailed and historically contextualized study, the author argues that Donne was greatly influenced in his journey from militant Roman Catholicism to ordination in the Church of England by Ignatius of Loyola’s religious ideals and in particular by his Spiritual Exercises . The book describes the pervasive influence of the Spiritual Exercises on late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Catholicism and Protestantism . In this light, it offers a close reading of Donne’s preordination religious poems and prose with constant reference to the sermons . These works are usually read through the tinted lenses of ‘Catholicism’ or ‘Protestantism’ or other religious ‘-isms’ . The reading proposed here argues instead that Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises were for Donne a means to transcend the simplistic and perilous divisions of contemporary Catholicism and Protestantism . FRanCeSCa Bugliani Knox graduated in 1976 from Pisa University (Dott . Lett .) and was senior lecturer in the English Department of the Università IULM, Milan, from 1986 to 2002 . In 2009 she was awarded a PhD by Heythrop College, University of London . She is now Research Fellow at Heythrop College and Teaching Fellow at UCL . Her publications include translations into Italian as well as books and articles on various aspects of English and Italian literature from the Renaissance to the present . T € D includes VAT – valid for Germany · € A includes VAT – valid for Austria Clive Bush The Century’s Midnight he Century’s Midnight is an exploration of the literary and political relationships between a number of ideologically sophisticated American and European writers during a mid-twentieth century dominated by the Second World War . Clive Bush offers an account of an intelligent and diverse community of people of good will, transcending national, ideological and cultural barriers . Although structured around five central figures – the novelist Victor Serge, the editors Dwight Macdonald and Dorothy Norman, the cultural critic Lewis Mumford and the poet Muriel Rukeyser – the book examines a wealth of European and American writers including Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Walter Benjamin, John Dos Passos, André T Dissenting European and American Writers in the Era of the Second World War Oxford, 2010 . XIV, 594 pp ., 4 ill . hb . ISBN 978-1-906165-25-3 CHF 78 .– / € D 53 .50 / € A 55 .– / € 50 .– / £ 45 .– / US-$ 77 .95 Valentina Castagna Shape-Shifting Tales his book provides an analysis of the representation of women’s bodies and their monstrous metamorphoses in selected short stories by contemporary English writer Michèle Roberts . The author explores the relationship between traditional fairy tales such as the Grimm Brothers’ and Charles Perrault’s, the lives of female saints and Roberts’s counternarratives, focussing on the analysis of images of sublimed fleshliness and of acts of monstrous violence on the body . The book takes into account relevant Women’s Studies criticism regarding the mother-daughter re- Gide, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, George Orwell, Boris Pilniak, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ignacio Silone and Richard Wright . The book’s central theme relates politics and literature to time and narrative . The author argues that knowledge of the writers of this period is of inestimable value in attempting to understand our contemporary world . Clive BuSh is Emeritus Professor of American Literature at King’s College London . He pioneered the teaching of American Studies at the University of Warwick from 1966 to 1990 . His books include Halfway to Revolution: Investigation and Crisis in the Work of Henry Adams, William James and Gertrude Stein (1991) and Holding the Line: Selected Essays in American Literature and Culture (Peter Lang, 2009) . Michèle Roberts’s Monstrous Women Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010 . 127 pp . pb . ISBN 978-3-0343-0568-6 CHF 40 .– / € D 27 .60 / € A 28 .40 / € 25 .80 / £ 23 .20 / US-$ 39 .95 lationship, as Roberts’s stories question the role of mother figures in traditional fairy tales and hagiography and at the same time rework the concept of motherhood itself . valentina CaStagna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Palermo (Italy) . She was Visiting PhD Student at Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2005 and was awarded her PhD from the University of Salerno (Italy) in 2007 . She is the author of Corpi a pezzi (2007) and has recently edited the Italian critical version of Marina Warner’s Brigit’s Cell (2010) . New: eBooks at www.peterlang.com
Gerald Leonard Cohen / Barry A . Popik Origin of New York City’s Nickname «The Big Apple» Second Revised and Expanded Edition Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . 175 pp ., num . fig . hb . ISBN 978-3-631-61386-3 CHF 58 .– / € D 39 .80 / € A 40 .90 / € 37 .20 / £ 33 .50 / US-$ 57 .95 T he monograph aims for a comprehensive look at the history of «The Big Apple», incorporating material that has come to light since the first edition of this work was published in 1991 . The overall picture now is: Apples, always important, became especially so with the appearance of the Big Red Delicious Apple in Iowa, 1870’s . «The Big Apple» therefore came to refer to somebody or something very important . In 1920 an African-American stablehand in New Orleans mentioned in conversation: «We’s goin’ to ‘the big apple’» (NYC racetracks as the big time in horseracing) . Turf writer John J . Fitz Gerald overheard this statement and adopted «The Big Apple» (1921ff .) in his columns, popularizing it to refer particularly to the NYC tracks . Secondarily it could refer to big time horseracing in general . In the 1930’s «The Big Apple» was picked up by black jazz musicians to designate NYC in general (and Harlem in particular) as the place where the greatest jazz in the world was being played . And in 1971 Charles Gillett revived «The Big Apple» as part of a public-relations campaign on behalf of NYC . Despite the increasingly clear picture of what happened, various incorrect etymologies have arisen about «The Big Apple» . The monograph addresses and rejects them in some detail . geRald leonaRd Cohen was born in New York City in 1941 . He majored in Russian Civilization at Dartmouth College (1958-1962), received a Diploma in Slavonic Studies at Columbia University (1963) and then studied Slavic linguistics at Columbia University (PhD 1971) . He is presently Professor of Foreign Languages at Missouri University of Science and Technology . BaRRy a. PoPiK was born in New York City in 1961 . He is an attorney by vocation and a word researcher by avocation, whose contributions to such items as «dude», «hot dog», the «Show Me expression», «The Windy City» (Chicago) and numerous items in food terminology have been very favorably received by the scholarly community . P Langue et littératures anglaises · Anglistik · English Language and Literatures Robert Chambers Parody The Art That Plays with Art arody: The Art That Plays with Art explodes the near-universal belief that parody is a copycat genre or that it consists of a collection of trivial and derivative forms . Parody is revealed as an über-technique, a principal source of innovation and invention in the arts . The technique is defined in terms of three major variations that bang, bind, and blend artistic conventions into contrasting pairings, the results of which are upheavals of existing conventions and the formation of unexpected and sometimes startling and revolutionary new configurations . Parodic art fashions a galaxy of contrasts, and from these stem an illusionistic sense of multiplicity and an array of divergent meanings and interpretive paths . This book, an extreme de- T his groundbreaking volume of critical essays revolving around the concept of resurgence maps the modes of conservation, transformation, and invention of the literary, visual, and cultural expressions which Jane Urquhart’s singular voice has brought about on the Canadian but also international scene . Taking resurgence as the informing principle of investigation, the volume as a whole focuses on the rewriting and reconstruction of the past, on the modalities of its resurfacing or of its erasure . It raises questions about the explicit or implicit ideological repercussions of such concealment and disclosure, such rupture and resilience . Through the prism of this concept, through surveys, close New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2010 . XVI, 266 pp ., num . ill . Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory . Vol . 21 General Editor: Hans H . Rudnick hb . ISBN 978-1-4331-0869-3 CHF 80 .– / € D 55 .20 / € A 56 .80 / € 51 .60 / £ 46 .40 / US-$ 79 .95 parture from existing analyses of parody, is nonetheless highly accessible and will be of major interest not only to scholars but to general readers and to professional writers as well . Parody: The Art That Plays with Art is particularly suited for readers interested in modernism, postmodernism, meta-art, criticism, satire, and irony . RoBeRt ChaMBeRS is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Kennesaw State University . A graduate of Princeton University, he earned his masters and doctorate in modern British and American literature at Indiana University . He has been a correspondent for The Economist and a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he won a national fellowship competition . Héliane Daziron-Ventura / Marta Dvořák (eds .) Resurgence in Jane Urquhart’s Œuvre Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010 . 228 pp . Canadian Studies . Vol . 21 Edited by Serge Jaumain pb . ISBN 978-90-5201-634-4 CHF 52 .– / € D 35 .30 / € A 36 .30 / € 33 .– / £ 29 .70 / US-$ 51 .95 textual scrutiny and comparative analyses, the book explores Urquhart’s discursive practices, the way they hinge on intertextuality or citation, at the same time as upon intratextuality or self-citation . It brings to the fore the extratextual and metatextual quality of her writing together with the transmediality, the transcoding or intersemioticity which characterize the interaction between literature and the visual arts in her fictional and poetic works . The volume engages with Urquhart’s entire literary œuvre, opening with a thoughtprovoking, previously unpublished address by Urquhart herself and concluding with a discussion with the author . Special emphasis has been given to A Map of Glass, with the Order online at www.peterlang.com 5
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