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Photobiography
Photographic Self-
Writing in Proust,
Guibert, Ernaux, Macé
Akane Kawakami (Author)
Why do photographs interest writers, especially
autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention,
photographs have featured — as metaphors, as absent
inspirations, and latterly as actual objects — in written
texts. In autobiographical texts, their presence has raised
particularly acute questions about the rivalry between
these two media, their relationship to the ‘real’, and
the nature of the constructed self. In this timely study,
based on the most recent developments in the fields of
photography theory, self-writing and photo-biography,
Akane Kawakami offers an intriguing narrative which
runs from texts containing metaphorical photographs
through ekphrastic works to phototexts.
9781907975868, £45.00, May 2013
HB, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
Chicago of the
Balkans
Budapest in Hungarian
Literature 1900–1939
Gwen Jones (Author)
At the point of its creation in 1873, Budapest was
intended to be a pleasant rallying point of orderliness,
high culture and elevated social principles: the jewel
in the national crown. From the turn of the century
to World War II, however, the Hungarian capital
was described, variously, as: Judapest, the sinful
city, not in Hungary, and the Chicago of the Balkans.
This is the first English-language study of competing
metropolitan narratives in Hungarian literature that
spans both the liberal late Habsburg and post-liberal,
Christian-national eras, at the same time as the Jewish
Question became increasingly inseparable from
representations of the city.
9781907975578, £45.00, May 2013
HB, 168p, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
Language & Literature
Taboo
Corporeal Secrets in
Nineteenth-Century
France
Hannah Thompson
(Author)
The Present
Word. Culture,
Society and the
Site of Literature
Essays in Honour of
Nicholas Boyle
John Walker (Editor)
French realist texts are driven by representations of the body
and depend on corporeality to generate narrative intrigue.
But anxieties around bodily representation undermine realist
claims of objectivity and transparency. Aspects of bodily
reality which threaten les bonnes moeurs – gender confusion,
sexual appetite, disability, torture, murder, child abuse and
disease – rarely occupy the foreground and are instead
spurned or only partially alluded to by writers and critics.
Thompson reads texts by Sand, Rachilde, Maupassant, Hugo,
Barbey d’Aurevilly, Mirbeau and Zola alongside modern
theorists of the body to show how the figure of the taboo
plots an alternative model of author-reader relations based
on the struggle to speak the unspeakable.
This book addresses three key areas of intellectual
enquiry: literary criticism, cultural critique, and
philosophical theology. Once closely related, especially
in the Catholic tradition, they often appear to be
separate and unconnected domains in the modern
university. The work of Nicholas Boyle is one of
the most significant recent attempts to reconnect
them. Responding to that initiative, The Present
Word challenges this fragmentation of knowledge.
Essays investigate the reconnection of an idea of
literary criticism closely related to the experience of
reading, and the wider societal and political concerns
addressed by Cultural Studies.
9781907975554, £45.00, June 2013
HB, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
9781907975615, £45.00, June 2013
HB, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
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