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Romance Literatures
Fabien Arribert-Narce• Fuhito Endo• Kamila Pawlikowska (eds.) The Pleasure in/of the Text
About the Joys and Perversities of Reading
Oxford, 2021. VI, 170 pp. European Connections. Studies in Comparative Literature, Intermediality and Aesthetics. Vol. 43
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Reading is a peculiar kind of experience. Although its practice and theory have a very long tradition, the question of aesthetic pleasure is as perplexing as ever. Why do we read? What exactly thrills us in the text? One of the most prominent scholars having addressed these questions in the twentieth century is undeniably Roland Barthes, who distinguished between the «ordinary» pleasure of reading and bliss (jouissance), a delight so profound that it cannot be expressed in words. Taking his work as a central reference, and revisiting some of his seminal publications on the subject such as Empire of Signs (1970) and The Pleasure of the Text (1973), this collection of essays adopts a similar interdisciplinary approach to explore a broad range of themes and issues related to the notion of readerly enjoyment, between form and content, emotion and reason, and escapist and knowledge-seeking responses to the text: how do literary and ideological pleasures intersect? In what ways do perversions, madness or even fatigue contribute to the pleasure of the text? How do writing and signs, sense and significance, but also image and text interact in the intermedial process of reading? How can paratexts – i.e. the margins of the text, including footnotes – and metatexts play a part in the reader’s enjoyment? Simona Bartoli Kucher Transkulturelle Literatur- und Filmdidaktik
Narrationen und Filme aus dem mediterranen Begegnungsraum
Berlin, 2021. 382 S., 29 s/w Abb., 9 Tab. Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies. Bd. 7
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Welchen Stellenwert soll und kann ein intertextuelles Netzwerk aus literarischen Texten, Filmen und Medienmaterialien im Lehren und Lernen von Fremdsprachen einnehmen? Um darauf Antworten anbieten zu können, konzentriert sich das Buch auf zentrale Merkmale, welche literarische und filmische Texte kennzeichnen, die in komplexen, zwischen Sprachen und Kulturen situierten Räumen entstehen und diese thematisieren. Deren Potenziale produktiv für den Fremdsprachenunterricht zu nutzen, ist ein wesentliches Ziel dieses Bandes. Vorgeschlagen wird eine integrativ verstandene Sprach-, Literatur- und Filmdidaktik. Der Fokus liegt auf dem Italienischen und Französischen als Fremdsprache, auf transkulturellen Theorien und Methoden und deren Anwendung in plurilingualen LernerInnen-Kontexten.
Andreas Haarmann• Isabelle Muthmann (Hrsg.) Epoche machen
Vermessung literarischen Wandels im ›langen Mittelalter‹
Berlin, 2021. 194 S., 4 s/w Abb. Bonner romanistische Arbeiten. Bd. 122
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Geschichte ist zwar vergangen, aber nicht abgeschlossen. Der Blick zurück lässt literarische Texte und die Epoche, die sie hervorbrachte, immer wieder in neuem Licht erscheinen. Dieser Band greift einen Denkanstoß des großen Mediävisten Jacques Le Goff auf, der sich in einem seiner letzten Essays für ein „langes Mittelalter” ausspricht, das erst mit dem ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert endet. Forscherinnen und Forscher aus Deutschland und Frankreich untersuchen im vorliegenden Band Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten in den romanischen Literaturen zwischen 13. und 18. Jahrhundert und vermessen das literarische Feld dieser Zeit neu.
Filip Malesevic Reframing Roman Liturgy Open Access
Bern, 2022. 384 pp., 8 fig. b/w.
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This book presents a critical edition of a collection of liturgical manuscripts that the Augustinian friar Onofrio Panvinio (1530–1568) assembled in the 1560s for the Cardinal Alessandro Farnese as well as for Hans Jakob Fugger in Augsburg. Onofrio Panvinio is primarily known for his antiquarian studies about ancient Rome and for his edition of Bartolomeo Platina’s Lives of the Popes. His preoccupation with the Roman rite, however, remains until today largely unnoticed by modern scholarship. This edition of Panvinio’s Vetusti aliquot rituales libri highlights his interests in the development of Roman liturgy during the last sessions of the Council of Trent (1545–1563) by presenting the various documentary as well as cultural layers of Panvinio’s collection of Roman ritual manuscripts.
FiliP MaleseViCis working as a research and teaching associate at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His research focuses on the cultural history of Rome and the Roman Curia between the 14th and 17th century. Florian Mussgnug• Mathelinda Nabugodi• Thea Petrou (eds.) Thinking Through Relation
Encounters in Creative Critical Writing
Oxford, 2021. XVI, 302 pp., 9 fig. col., 10 fig. b/w, 1 table. New Comparative Criticism. Vol. 11
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«Thinking Through Relation brings together an outstanding collection of essays that explore the diverse ways in which works of art and aesthetic experience generate a richness of relation which escapes the straightjackets of rigid disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Clearly demonstrating the creative potential of critical writing, these essays are a fitting tribute to the creativity, originality and subtlety of Timothy Mathews’s scholarly accomplishment and his contribution to our understanding of art and of the aesthetic relation.» (Dr Ian James, University of Cambridge) «This book in honour of Timothy Mathews is much more than a Festschrift. It is a collection of thought-provoking, daring insights into the crucial place of literature and the arts in our world and in our being human. It is an exhilarating demonstration of how creativity can undo, without for a moment losing intellectual rigour, the disciplinary and academic structures that constrain our thinking. Driven by curiosity and by care – love, even – the many contributions to the volume show, in their different ways, how criticism can be at its most effective by being at its most imaginative and its least predictable.» (Professor Lucia Boldrini, Goldsmiths, University of London). This book is an offering. It contains eighteen essays in honour of Timothy Mathews, written by leading scholars in the fields of French, Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Creative Critical Writing. These essays examine the power of serendipitous encounter between artists, thinkers and artistic media as well as the importance of creative interjection in the arts and humanities. They advance fresh interpretations of some important figures in twentieth-century European culture – Apollinaire, Beckett, Benjamin, Calvino, Dalí, Genet, Nooteboom, Roubaud – using modes of reading that are both intellectually brave and open to fragility, intimate as well as critical, at once playful and earnest. They bring texts and artworks into relation in order to amply demonstrate that relation itself is a form of thinking.
