Cross-cultural encounters between the Mediterranean and the English-speaking worlds / edited by Christine Reynier
- Published
- Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, [2011]
- Copyright Date
- ©2011
- Physical Description
- 216 pages ; 23 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Reynier, Christine
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. One Ambivalent Encounters between the Mediterranean World and the United States -- Importing Masters and Culture: Or Why Create the Art Market? / Marc Smith -- The Museum and the Mosaic: Anti-Mythology or Counter-Mythology in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country (1913)? / Guillaume Tanguy -- Ed Dorn, an American Heretic in Languedoc / Vincent Dussol -- pt. Two Defamiliarising Englishness or Britishness as Openness to the Mediterranean -- Ford Madox Ford's England and the English: The Language of the Troubadours or Englishness Revisited / Fabienne Couecou -- Lucretius, Bruno and Finnegans Wake / Jonathan Pollock -- Basil Bunting's Briggflatts (1965) and Lucretius's The Nature of the Universe (1st c. B.C.): Transposing Mediterranean Contents into Northern Forms / Claire Helie -- The Myth of the Androgynous in Jeanette Winterson's The PowerBook / Justine Gonneaud -- Mediterranean Englishness: Another Progress of Romance / Jean-Michel Ganteau -- pt. Three Shaping the Encounter between the Mediterranean and the English-Speaking Worlds: The Role of Stereotypes -- Louis-Xavier Eyma, Reader of George Catlin / Mare-Christine Rochmann -- New Woman Fiction, Gender and Empire: Egyptian Encounters and Subversions in Marie Corelli's Ziska (1896) and Victoria Cross's Six Chapters of a Man's Life (1903) / Catherine Delyfer -- George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War: The Discovery of Totalitarianism / Hubert Peres -- pt. Four Displacing the Encounter to Art Criticism and Literary Criticism: Towards a Reappraisal of the Role of the Mediterranean -- Confronting Mediterranean and English Values in Clive Bell's Civilisation and Art: Towards a Redefinition of Formalism / Christine Reynier -- Erich Auerbach and Translatio Studii: The German Dante and the Transmission of the Catholic Mediterranean to the English-Speaking World / Martin Elsky.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9783034306041 (pbk.)
3034306040 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Jeanne Berkey Libraries Endowment; 2011.
- Endowment Note
- Jeanne Berkey Libraries Endowment
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