Through a reappraisal of the work of four major figures in critical theory Ernst Bloch, Georg Luk cs, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin Filippo Menozzi rethinks the tradition of critical theory in relation to pressing concerns in postcolonial studies.
À la fin des années quatre-vingt, les vétérans des essais nucléaires commencèrent à se demander si leurs maladies n’étaient pas liées à leur présence sur les sites d’expérimentations.
Je suis né le 30 juin 1942 dans deux familles françaises très dissemblables, inassimilables, bretonne et limousine, à 15 jours de la rafle du Vél’d’hiv’.
Récit saisissant de l’enfance et de la vie familiale riche et parfois truculente d’un petit Arménien à Paris, Gilbert Dalgalian retrace le parcours qui le mènera de l’Inde à l’Allemagne en passant par l’Afrique, avec toujours le fil conducteur de la découverte, des rencontres, et de la curiosité pour les sociétés.
This book offers a comprehensive and nuanced history of the Jews of Egypt, who constituted an important ethnic minority ever since they first appeared in the country.
Courteous Exchanges explores the significant overlap between Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene and Shakespeare's plays, showing how both facilitate the critique of Renaissance aristocratic identity.
Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind die umfangreichen Anmerkungsapparate des barocken Dichters Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635–1638) zu seinen Trauerspielen.
The first part of Volume 14 of the Yearbook presents ten essays concerned with Futurism in Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Germany, and two focusing on dance and typography.
This volume explores the relationship between oneiric and historical episodes of atrocity as depicted in transnational twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, film, literature and theatre.
This volume presents comprehensive investigations into various facets of observational astronomy during the medieval Islamic period, spanning from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries.
Readers of this book receive an overview of the main perspectives and research of recent decades in the fruitful collaboration between Classics and Cognitive studies.
"If we are talking about ancient Arabic poetry, this means that we are re-excavating these established aesthetic roots, where the language was aesthetically shaped for the first time, and where the Arab person met his Arab brother in the most subtle feelings and deepest perceptions.
The Arabic novel in the new century witnessed an unprecedented spring, represented by the transformations it achieved in language, imagination, themes, forms, visions, and positions.
A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Keith Roberts's Pavane and explores why this work was instrumental to the evolution of the Science Fiction genre in British Literature.
