Reflections: New Directions in Modern Languages and Cultures - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1847188362 ISBN 13: 9781847188366

Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008

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Scholars at the University of Durham (UK) introduce a dozen essays which emerged out of a postgraduate conference held at the campus in 2006. Going beyond the traditional boundaries of Modern Language studies, these reflections create new frameworks for analysis which link texts with pre-existing images, self with others, and culture or literature with national or iconic concepts. In analyses that are multinational and multidisciplinary, authors reflect on new directions in the field. The "text as self" section presents narrative analysis as a tool to illuminate the essence of foreign cultures over time and intertextual influences; e.g., Buxton proposes a new structure for interpreting the legend of Saint Christopher in medieval Spanish texts. The volume is not indexed. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Sarah Buxton Sarah Buxton completed a BA (Hons) in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Spanish) in 2005, graduating from Queens' College, Cambridge University. She then undertook a Masters by Research at Durham University with Andrew M. Beresford, which she completed in autumn 2006. She is currently on a doctoral programme funded by the AHRC. Her research interests focus on the literature, history and culture of medieval Spain, particularly hagiography. Laura Campbell Laura Campbell graduated from Durham University in 2003 with a BA (Hons) in Modern European Languages (Spanish), and again in January 2006 on completing the MA in The Photographic Image. Laura is now undertaking an AHRC-funded doctoral research programme on the photographic representation of architecture in the Mexican illustrated press, 1910 to the 1940s. Tracey Dawe Tracey Dawe studied German Literature, Political Science and Sociology at the Humboldt University, Berlin. After graduating in 2002, she moved to Durham to write her M.A. thesis Time and the Other in Late Nineteenth-Century German Travel Writing. Tracey is currently an AHRC-funded PhD student at Durham researching themes of identity and colonialism in German travel writing on Africa 1849-1914. Elise Hugueny-Leger Elise Hugueny-Leger is a lecturer in French at St Andrews University. Her main teaching and research interest lie around modern French literature and culture, with an emphasis on autobiography, women's writing and contemporary literature. Before coming to St Andrews, she completed a PhD on the works of Annie Ernaux at Durham University. She has written several articles and essays on Ernaux, as well as a monograph: Annie Ernaux, une poetique de la transgression (Peter Lang, forthcoming).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1847188362
• ISBN 13: 9781847188366
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
• Herausgeber: Buxton Sarah, Campbell Laura, Dawe Tracey, Hugueny-leger Elise
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