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\"Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of disability can provide new approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability plays a central role in much of the most celebrated literature, yet it is only in recent years that literary criticism has begun to consider the aesthetic, ethical and literary challenges that this poses. The author explores: - key debates and issues in disability studies today - different forms of impairment, with the aim of showing the diversity and ambiguity of the term \"disability\" - the intersection between literary critical approaches to disability and feminist, post-colonial, and autobiographical writing - genre and representations of disability in relation to literary forms including novels, short stories, poems, plays and life writing. This volume provides students and academics with an accessible overview of literary critical approaches to disability representation\" -- Provided by publisher.
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The Sociology of Literature
The Sociology of Literature is a pithy primer on the history, affordances, and potential futures of this growing field of study, which finds its origins in the French Enlightenment, and its most salient expression as a sociological pursuit in the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Addressing the epistemological premises of the field at present, the book also refutes the common criticism that the sociology of literature does not take the text to be the central object of study. From this rebuttal, Gisèle Sapiro, the field's leading theorist, is able to demonstrate convincingly one of the greatest affordances of the discipline: its in-built methods for accounting for the roles and behaviors of agents and institutions (publishing houses, prize committees, etc.) in the circulation and reception of texts. While Sapiro emphasizes the rich interdisciplinary nature of the approach on display, articulating the way in which it draws on literary history, sociology, postcolonial studies, book history, gender studies, and media studies, among others, the book also stands as a defense of the sociology of literature as a discipline in its own right.
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Une empathie spectrale ou le dibbouk qui hante la fiction du XXIe siècle
In this article, I employ methods inspired by the spectral turnand trauma studies to discuss post-memorial fictions that usethe figure of the dybbuk. The theme of possession of a living personby the spirit of the dead – the dybbuk, present in Jewish mysticismas a substantial contagion – when recontextualized in 21st-centuryfiction, intersects with empathy as an emotional contagion. In workssuch as Irène Kaufer's autofiction Dibbouks, Élie Wiesel’s Un désirfou de danser, and Tomek Heydinger's graphic novel Dibbouk,the dybbuk embodies post-traumatic ties between the livingand the dead in the process of adopting an empathetic approachto historical loss. The analyzed rewritings align with LaCapra’s critiqueof empathy as projective or incorporative identification. The motifof disturbances in self-awareness and perception of reality duringa confrontation with the spectral past illustrates the conflict betweendesire for and rejection of such an identification
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Of Wastelands and Ecopoetics. An Ecocritical Reading of T. S. Eliot’s Poetry
This article is an ecocritical study of three of T. S. Eliot’s most notable works:“The Waste Land”, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, and “The Hollow Men”. The poems are analyzed in detail and in relation with one another to highlight Eliot’s understanding of man’s relationship with nature through an elemental, ecomythical, and ecoreligious study. The article pursues a pattern in Eliot’s writing of a Man-Nature relationship as it focuses on the ways in which nature interacts with and influences man’s life, emotions, and faith.
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Les relectures empathiques (im)possibles d’Un alligator nommé Rosa de Marie-Célie Agnant
The aim of the present paper is to answer the question whetherit is possible to reread the book Un alligator nommé Rosa (2007)by Marie-Célie Agnant, a Quebec writer of Haitian origins,through the lenses of empathy and of what A. Gefen (2017)names the “empathetic participation” of the reader. The booktells the story of two victims of Rosa Bosquet (based on the realperson), the cruel right-hand woman of former Haitian presidentF. Duvallier, who decide to punish Rosa, now old, paralyzed, mute,and entirely defenseless. The paper is divided into three parts,analyzing the three main protagonists and their possible empatheticreception by the reader. It turns out that the narrative strategies usedby Agnant and the changes of role between executioner and victim,provoke that the empathy is frequently blocked. It does not meanhowever that the empathetic rereading of the book is vain: it makesthe reader reflect on the nature of Good and Evil and encouragesthem to “repair the world”.
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Réécriture de L’Étranger et des Mandarins (Meursault, contre-enquête et Samouraïs) : enjeux moraux et esthétiques
The aim of the author is to analyse two texts written by Daoud and Kristeva: Meursault, contre-enquête (2013) and Les Samouraïs (1983). These novels may be seen as rewritings of two earlier texts: L’Étranger (1942) by Albert Camus and Les Mandarins (1954) by Simone de Beauvoir. Hence, it is possible to establish a relationship between the French 20th-century existentialism, represented by Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus and the works of more contemporary writers. One of the tools that allows to establish a such parallel is the use, by the contemporary novelists, of means of expression that encourage the readers to adopt an empathetic attitude towards the fictional characters and to better assess their feelings. The questions that interest us the most are those of identification, imitation and reproduction, components that are at the core of the empathetic processes. The study includes methods such as rewriting analysis and descriptive comparative analysis.
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Heurs et malheurs du Congo dans les romans d’In Koli Jean Bofane : Mathématiques congolaises et Congo Inc. Le testament de Bismarck
This article examines two Congolese novels by In Koli Jean Bofane: Mathématiques congolaises (2008) and Congo Inc. Bismarck's Testament (2014). Their study reveals that the writer makes empathy a narratological and ethical foundation of his writing, with the objective of informing the reader of the socio-political situation of Congo, of making him aware of the tragedy experienced by the Congolese and of encouraging action in their favor. It achieves this objective by two methods: by the presentation of scenes of extreme violence (political, sexual, economic and social) which deeply affect the reader and inspire feelings (pity, compassion, anguish, indignation, anger or guilt) and by the presentation of natural beauties, traditions and Congolese customs, that is to say local particularities which fascinate the reader and awaken his desire to protect this beautiful country and its inhabitants.
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British Travelers and British Travel Writing. An Overview to British Travelers Visiting Albania in the First Half of 19th Century
The Grand Tour played an important role in the education of the aristocratic British youth. Several requirements served for its classical qualification. The Tour lasted from some months to some years. Travelers’ individual choices, spread of diseases, priority to special places, as well as historical events shaped the travel plan. The Tour changed its classical denotation in the 19th century, reflecting a radical social transformation in the British society. The middle class would be engaged in travelling beyond the borders of the British territory. The Romantic traveler of the 19th century differers from the classic traveler of the Grand Tour, stressing heroism and bravery, avoiding scenic descriptions. These travelers resembled the explorer. A term introduced by the Romantics. The dense narrative produced in this period would permit the British public to become familiar with unalike people, experiences, and lands. There are five travellers that visited the Albanian land in the first half of 19th century, during British Romanticims. Dodwell, Hughes, Martin Leake, Urquhart and Best published works mentioning the Albania theme, people, culture, nature, geography. Dodwell’s work is significant because of classical archeology. T.S. Hughes gives information about Ali Pasha and his mystical figure. Topographical data on the Albanian population, customs, and traditions are introduced in Leake’s book. Urquhart looks at the Orient from a philosophical viewpoint. A work about hunting, natural beauty, customs, traditions is written by Best. Therefore, their books give essential information about the country in the first half of this century.
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The Literary Field under Communist Rule
This volume widens the field of Soviet literature studies by interpreting it as a multinational project, with national literatures acting not as copies of the Russian model, but as creators of a multidimensional literary space. The book proposes a reconsideration of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of literary field and discusses its functioning under communist rule.
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