Proust's famous novel A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) is a fascinating exploration not only of memory and desire, of high society and everyday life, but also of art. The study focuses on Venice, one of the hero's central obsessions, and shows how a whole network of allusions to art (from Titian to Turner, from Ruskin to Emile Male, from Giotto to Bellini, from Byzantine mosaic to the dresses designed by Fortuny after paintings by Carpaccio) ties in with the hero's quest for self-knowledge and self-fulfilment. Peter Collier demonstrates how an understanding of the...

This volume assesses the current state of Literacy Theory and examines the issues to be addressed by future research. The essays cover established theoretical perspectives and debates and also examine the changing face of literacy studies in the modern world. They include: Essays on deconstruction; New historicism: Reception theory; Sociology and literature; Modernism and post modernism; Marxism and literature; Feminist literary theory; Psychoanalytic literary theory, and the relevance of race and imperialism to the study of literature.

The contributors are distinguished,...

This collection of essays, inspired by Andre Breton s concept of the limites non-frontieres of Surrealism, focuses on the crossings, intersections and margins of the surrealist movement rather than its divides and exclusion zones. Some of the essays originated as papers given at the colloquium Surrealism: Crossings/Frontiers held at the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, in November 2001.
Surrealism is foregrounded as a trajectory rather than a fixed body of doctrines, radically challenging the notion of frontiers. The essays explore real and imaginary journeys,...

Cet ouvrage constitue les actes du Colloque International, Julien Green, Diariste et Essayiste, qui a eu lieu a la National University of Ireland, Maynooth, en avril 2003, sous l egide de la Societe Internationale d Etudes Greeniennes.
Dans le cadre du regain actuel de curiosite pour les ecrits intimistes, le Journal et les Essais de Julien Green sont particulierement a meme de susciter l interet passionne des lecteurs. Le Journal est en effet l un des journaux les plus celebres et les plus etendus du XXe siecle (1919-1998), et il est singulierement representatif du genre diaristique par...