New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

World Literature, World Culture
History, Theory, Analysis
edited by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen and Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Offering their own 21st-century perspectives, the contributors to this anthology explore
the idea of world literature for what it may add of new connections and itineraries to
the study of literature and culture today. Covering a vast historical material, these essays
examine the pioneers of world literature and the roles played by translation, migration
and literature institutions in the circulation and reception of literatures.
283p, paperback, 9788779344082, $55.95, Aarhus University Press, December 2008.
L’Effet Pygmalion
Pour une anthropologie historique des simulacres
by Victor I Stoichita
L’Effet Pygmalion is based on the literary, visual and audiovisual incursions of
the first recorded simulacrum in Western culture. Neither a copy of a model,
nor based on resemblance, the simulacrum exists on its own and transgresses
the mimesis of artistic thought. Victor Stoichta ranges from Ovidian texts to
medieval miniatures, from a living Renaissance statue to paintings, photography,
film and even Barbie dolls, in order to apply critical principals and to
contribute to the hermeneutical discourse on the Western concept of images.
French text.
320p, 122 illus, paperback, 9782600005371, $40.00(s), Librairie Droz, December 2008, Titre courant 37.
La Spiritualité des écrivains
edited by Olivier Millet
The notion of spirituality has evolved since the Middle Ages, adding to its
traditional philosophical or religious meanings the authentic principals that
inspire a life or an undertaking. Literature illustrates this change to which it
also contributes, especially when, between the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, it began to represent subjectivity. The study of the spirituality of
writers can thus bring out principles that can either concord with tradition,
go against it, or combine both in unusual ways. French text.
544p, 11 illus, paperback, 9782951840362, $140.00(s), Librairie Droz,
December 2008, Travaux de Littérature 21.
Een of twee Nederlandse literaturen?
Contacten tussen de Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur sinds 1830
edited by R Gruttemeier and J Oosterholt
This volume contains contributions to a symposion held at the Seminar for Dutch Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky
University in Oldenburg, Germany, that was centered around Dutch and Flemish literature. Often viewed as one
and the same, the essays collected here analyze contacts and influences between Dutch and Flemish literature
from 1830 until today and ask the question: One or two Dutch literatures? Dutch text.
321p, paperback, 9789042920880, $51.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008.
literary studies
Im Zeichen der Fiktion
Aspekte fiktionaler Rede
aus historischer und systematischer Sicht
edited by Irina O Rajewsky
and Ulrike Schneider
This volume considers the relationship between “fiction”
and “literature.” The contributions range from a fundamental
revision of the common concepts of fiction and
narrative theory to more historically-oriented studies.
The analyses of literary texts from the Middle Ages to
the end of the 20th century lead to new insights into
the understanding of fiction that can be employed in
the current theoretical discussion. German text.
372p, hardback, 9783515092784, $103.00(s),
Franz Steiner Verlag, December 2008.
Michaux l’insaisissable
Socioanalyse d’une entrée en littérature
by David Vrydaghs
Secret, beyond classification, elusive: these judgements
are frequently used to describe the poet and
essayist Henri Michaux, to the point that his readers
have been deprived of a better understanding of his
work and historical impact. It is thus necessary to
situate the author and his work in the literature of his
time. One discovers a very different Michaux: quick to
talk about his era, attentive to the literature of his contemporaries
and anxious to differentiate himself from
them. French text.
200p, paperback, 9782600012270, $35.00(s),
Librairie Droz, December 2008,
Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire 445.
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