Today's spectrum of research in literary studies is characterized by a sense of openness to the methods of comparative literature and cultural studies, along with a wide range of interdisciplinary ...crossover. The spectrum Literaturwissenschaft series is intended to be a forum for this pluralistic new model of literary studies. It presents papers that are informed by methodologically innovative, frequently comparative approaches, and whose findings are of importance well beyond the narrow boundaries of national philological horizons.
Winner of the SCMLA 2017 Book AwardBeginning in the late nineteenth century, French visual artists began incorporating Japanese forms into their work. The style, known asJaponisme, spanned the arts.
...Identifying a general critical move from a literal to a more metaphoric understanding and presentation ofJaponisme, Pamela A. Genova applies a theory of "aesthetic translation" to a broad response to Japanese aesthetics within French culture. She crosses the borders of genre, field, and form to explore the relationship of Japanese visual art to French prose writing of the mid- to late 1800s.Writing Japonismefocuses on the work of Edmond de Goncourt, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Émile Zola, and Stéphane Mallarmé as they witnessed, incorporated, and participated in an unprecedented cultural exchange between France and Japan, as both creators and critics. Genova's original research opens new perspectives on a fertile and influential period of intercultural dynamics.
Every writer is a player in the marketplace for literature. Jonathan Paine locates the economics ingrained within the stories themselves, showing how the business of literature affects even ...storytelling devices such as genre, plot, and repetition. In this new model of criticism, the text is a record of its author’s sales pitch.
Filmmakers have drawn inspiration from the pages of Emile Zola (1840—1902) from the earliest days of cinema. The ever-growing number of adaptations they have produced spans eras, genres, languages, ...and styles. In spite of the diversity of these approaches, numerous critics regard them as inferior copies of a superior textual original. But key novels by Zola resist this critical approach to adaptation. Both at the level of characterization and in terms of their own textual inheritance, they question the very possibility of origin, be it personal or textual. In the light of this questioning, the cinematic versions created from Zola's texts merit critical re-evaluation. Far from being facile copies of the nineteenth-century novelist's works, these films assess their own status as adaptations, playing with both notions of artistic creation and their own artistic act.
Explosive Narratives: Terrorism and Anarchy in the Works of Emile Zola explores the genealogy of modern day terrorism through a close study of the anarchist figure in three of Emile Zola's novels: ...Germinal, Paris, and Travail. The study links the crisis of representation registered at the end of the 19th century with the rise of terrorism embodied in the bomb-throwing anarchist. It thereby traces Zola's evolving thoughts on anarchy from the terrorist to the humanitarian reformer, from class warfare to a peaceful artisan commune, from a naturalist depiction of an elusive reality to a utopian writing fleeing the contingencies of the historical. The volume brings together aesthetic, political, urban, and scientific debates of Belle Epoque France and it will thus be of great interest not only to Zola scholars, but also to students of late 19th-century politics and art.
This bibliography provides an admirably complete and intelligently organized survey for the large corpus of writings on Emile Zola, an important and widely read French author, by Zola scholars.
Ya'aqov Hurgin is one of the Hebrew authors in Erets Yisrael to have represented World War I in the Middle East arena in his works, particularly the novella, Bein harerei Efrayim. His works dwell ...less on the war itself than on microcosmic, interpersonal conflicts among individuals as a mirror of the wider conflict. It is as if he were pointing to the cosmic phenomenon of ongoing tensions and conflicts among elements in creation, concrete or abstract. As part of this observation, Hurgin experiments, much like writers that follow, with the possibility of a junction of diverse cultural, religious, and ethnic values. His work challenges the Orientalist notion of bringing progress to so-called lesser civilizations, for the very same dark forces lurk beneath the surface of their own superficial culture.
This article proposes a comparative study between two journey(s) to the depths of the mine, with an analysis of Germinal (1885) by French writer Émile Zola (1840-1902) and Minas de San Francisco ...(1946) by Portuguese writer Fernando Namora (1919-1989) whose 100th anniversary of his birth was just celebrated in 2019. This article will analyze the journey to the center of the Earth and the Human from the topography of the mine and its ideological implications, of which both novels voice in very different ways.
Cet article esquisse une réflexion comparative axée sur deux voyage(s) aux profondeurs de la mine à partir de l’analyse de Germinal (1885) d’Émile Zola (1840-1902) et de Minas de San Francisco (1946) ...de Fernando Namora (1919-1989) dont on a fêté le centenaire de la naissance en 2019. Notre hypothèse de lecture vise à analyser ce voyage au centre de la terre et de l’homme à partir de la topographie de la mine et de ses implications idéologiques dont les deux romans se font le porte-voix.
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