The July 2010 issue of The Slavonic and East European Review is now published in print and online.
The contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available here, with links to the full text online.
SEER (88:3) July 2010 now published
July 13th, 2010MLR July 2010 now published
July 5th, 2010
The July 2010 issue of The Modern Language Review is now available both in print and online. This issue includes articles on:
Literary Variations on Bach’s Goldberg; Martin Amis and the Postmodern Grotesque; Influential Genres in Flaubert’s Novembre; Nature, Nostalgia, and Modernity in Jaccottet’s Poetics; Alexandre Jollien’s Éloge de la faiblesse; The Fantastic in Dino Buzzati’s Christmas Stories; Comedy and Didacticism in Calila e Dimna and Sendebar; Narration and Truth in Borges; Raimund’s Der Alpenkönig unde der Menschenfeind; Frank Schulz’s Hagener Trilogie; Makanin’s Nomadic intelligent; as well as more than 90 book reviews.
The full contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available online here, with links to the full text.
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Yearbook of English Studies (40:1/2) 2010 now published
July 1st, 2010
The 2010 double issue of Yearbook of English Studies is now available both in print and online.
This is a themed issue on The Arts in Victorian Literature.
The complete contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available here, with links to the full text online.
Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron, Le Cosmopolite, ou le citoyen du monde (1750)
June 29th, 2010
The MHRA is pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 22 in the Critical Texts series: an edition of Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron, Le Cosmopolite, ou le citoyen du monde (1750) prepared by Édouard Langille.
Full details, including a preview of the book, are available here
The introductory notes focus on the links to Voltaire’s Candide and show how Monbron’s cynical memoirs combined with another important narrative source of Candide, La Place’s Histoire de Tom Jones, ou l’enfant trouvé (1750).
Édouard Langille is Professor of French Language and Literature at the St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Recueil d’impressions de voyage pimentées d’anecdotes grivoises, de commentaire social, de jugements esthétiques, et de règlements de compte, Le Cosmopolite, ou le citoyen du monde (1750) est un livre de second rayon goûté par quelques esprits de premier plan. Plus d’un critique y voit une source importante du Candide de Voltaire. D’après J. Fabre, Diderot s’en est souvenu dans sa Première Satyre sur les mots de caractère et, plus tard, dans Le Neveu de Rameau. Enfin, le jeune Byron découvre Monbron avec enthousiasme et cite Le Cosmopolite en exergue dans la première édition de l’un des textes fondateurs du romantisme anglais, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, publié en 1811. Au-delà donc d’un simple parcours touristique, relevé çà et là de gauloiseries et de satire anticléricale, c’est le portrait que l’auteur y laisse de lui-même qui caractérise cet ouvrage. Portrait peu flatteur, au demeurant, et qui n’a pas peu contribué à la légende de « l’homme au cœur velu ».
Professeur de langue et de littérature françaises à St. Francis Xavier University (Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada), Édouard Langille travaille depuis une dizaine d’années sur Voltaire.
Austrian Studies 17, ‘Words and Music’, Now Published
May 25th, 2010
The Austrian lands have been at the heart of European musical development for many centuries – with ‘Viennese schools’ both classical and modernist, and thriving traditions of folk and popular music.
Spanning a historical period ‘from Haydn to Haider’, and including Mozart, Schubert, Janáček, Mahler and Schoenberg, the essays in this volume explore a range of the ways in which music interacts with the written word in Austria, in song settings, operas and anthems, in personal and critical responses to performance, and in literary explorations of music, musicians or musical forms.
Hamann’s Prophetic Mission
May 4th, 2010
Hamann’s Prophetic Mission: A Genetic Study of Three Late Works against the Enlightenment by Timothy Beech – vol. 74 in the MHRA Texts & Dissertations series – is now published.
MHRA AGM & Presidential Address 2010
April 27th, 2010The Annual General Meeting of the Modern Humanities Research Association will take place at 5 p.m. on Friday 21 May 2010 in the Council Room at 1 Carlton House Terrace, London. All members welcome. A map is available here.
The Association is delighted to welcome Professor Barry Nisbet as President of the Association for 2010.
The Presidential Address will be given immediately after the AGM and is open to the public.
The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Vol. 70 (for report year 2008) is now published
April 12th, 2010Volume 70 of The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies is now published.
MLR April 2010 now published
April 12th, 2010
The April 2010 issue of The Modern Language Review is now available both in print and online. This issue includes articles on:
Hermann Hesse and Michel Tournier; Disillusioned Rhetoric in Edward Sexby; Voices in Wallace Stevens’s Collected Poems; Ravaillac and the Concinis; The French Revolution’s Paranoid Aesthetics; Futurism and Women; Structures with saír in Galician; Wisdom and Ethics in El licienciado Vidriera; Child Sacrifice in German Bibles for Children; Hile Domin in Retrospect; Gender and National Identity in Oksana Zabuzhko; as well as more than 90 book reviews.
The full contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available online here, with links to the full text.
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The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora in Great Britain and Ireland
March 29th, 2010
This special issue of Portuguese Studies is now also available as a book. Its study of the neglected subject of Portuguese structural emigration covers a wide range of approaches (such as sociolinguistic, sociocultural, sociopolitical, socio-economic, anthropological and literary), and will become a landmark that will serve to stimulate future research.
More information is available here.