Lire la poésie de langue espagnole en dialogue
Françoise Morcillo
L'Harmattan, 2025, ISBN 9782336514369
This book presents listening readings of poetic works by Vicente Aleixandre, Jaime Siles, Guillermo Carnero, Antonio Colinas, Luis Antonio de Villena, Pere Gimferrer, Luis Cernuda, Jenaro Talens, Miguel Veyrat, Manuel Álvarez Ortega, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, León Felipe, Tomás Segovia, Juan Gelmán, Julia de Burgos, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Pureza Canelo. These authors have left their mark on the contemporary Spanish-language tradition of dialogue between cultures through their writings.
The present volume focuses on the singularity of their inspiration, delivered in what Antoine Berman has called L'épreuve de l'étranger. The universe of the other culture opens up to us to build the strangeness of being a poetic voice in the crossings of each poet's life: republican voices, the voices of exiles, the voices of poet-translators, the voices of passers-by of European and Chinese cultures gradually advance towards the twilight decentering of withdrawal.
At the center of these voices, the reader dialogues with all these works, listening to these “inner oralizations”, inventing a receptive posture of privileged reader.
Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction, Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett
Patrick Armstrong
Bloomsbury, 2025, ISBN 9781350420434
Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers – D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett – this book is the first substantial study of the interrelations between microscopy and modernist fiction.
Illustrating ways in which optical instruments had the capacity to change, displace and reframe ideas of what the world is like, this book argues that encounters with the microscopic are often depicted as thresholds between the human and the non-human, in ways that reverberate through modernist fiction.
Exploring a period of significant developments in microscopical tools and techniques, from the light microscope to the electron microscope, this book traces a shift that reconfigured the limits of the observable.
