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  • The Cambridge Companion to Rilke

    Edited by Karen Leeder, Robert Vilain ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to ... Read more

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  • Healing South African Wounds

    Series series Horizons anglophones
    On the eve of the democratic elections scheduled in South Africa in 2009, this collection of essays analyses the many ways in which South Africans have been trying to heal the wounds of apartheid, as advocated in Nelson Mandela’s famous 1994 speech, delivered at the dawn of the ‘new’ South Africa. The articles encompass such diverse fields as politics, literature, cinema, welfare policies or ... Read more

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  • Curiosités, croyances, superstitions, chansons et coutumes de l’Ille-et-Vilaine

    by Adolphe Orain ...
    Il n’est pas, à nos yeux, de sites plus charmants que les coteaux de Laillé, sur les bords de la Vilaine.Couronnés de chênes ou de sapins, ces coteaux ont, sur leurs versants, des taillis, des fougères, desajoncs aux fleurs d’or en hiver et des bruyères roses en été. Parfois un petit ruisseau s’est creusé sonlit dans le flanc du rocher, et de ses rives s’exhale un parfum de menthes et de plantes ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Ghosts

    Series series Horizons anglophones
    As liminal beings, ghosts seem particularly appropriate to define, question or challenge hybrid cultures where several, seemingly irreconcilable, identities coexist. The present volume wonders how they manifest themselves in the English-speaking world, and whether there is a specifically postcolonial kind of haunting. The twenty-two articles deal with textual, translational or historical ghosts, ... Read more

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  • Another Life

    Series series Horizons anglophones
    Many writers started their professional lives in very diverse fields before embracing writing, or on the contrary have turned away from writing. The present volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between that ‘other life’ and writing. The aim is to determine whether a writer’s ‘other life’ appears in, influences or even shapes his/her work, and to what extent. What is the part of ... Read more

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  • Another Life / Une autre vie

    Series series Horizons anglophones - Série PoCoPages
    Many writers started their professional lives in very diverse fields before embracing writing, or on the contrary have turned away from writing. The present volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between that ‘other life’ and writing. The aim is to determine whether a writer’s ‘other life’ appears in, influences or even shapes his/her work, and to what extent. What is the part of ... Read more

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  • Riley

    The Story of How "That" Dog Became My Dog

    Riley: The Story of How "That" Dog Became My DogIn November 2019, Phil wanted exactly one thing: a quiet Sunday evening in front of the television, in a house ruled, gently and completely, by two senior cats. Then his wife, Robyn, came home from a long weekend in Puerto Vallarta, dropped her suitcase, and announced the words that would upend everything: "We're getting a dog."The dog in question ... Read more

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  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

    Translated by Robert Vilain ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'An indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself' The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents. Now living in Paris, Malte begins to record his life in a series of loosely connected notes, diary entries, prose poems, parables and stories, ostensibly collected by a fictional editor to form the Notebooks. Focusing on Malte's ... Read more

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  • Statistical Physics

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  • Post-Apartheid Gothic

    White South African Writers and Space

    Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space analyzes the representation of space in recent works by South African writers. By combining analytical tools borrowed from Gothic studies with geocritical and postcolonial approaches, Mélanie Joseph-Vilain assesses the literary mechanisms utilized by Damon Galgut, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Lauren Beukes, Justin Carwright, and Lynn Freed to ... Read more

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  • Healing South African Wounds / Guérir les blessures de l’Afrique du Sud

    Series series Horizons anglophones - Série PoCoPages
    On the eve of the democratic elections scheduled in South Africa in 2009, this collection of essays analyses the many ways in which South Africans have been trying to heal the wounds of apartheid, as advocated in Nelson Mandela’s famous 1994 speech, delivered at the dawn of the ‘ new ’ South Africa. The articles encompass such diverse fields as politics, literature, cinema, welfare policies or ... Read more

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