A critical study of Libeskind s Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context, this book develops the notion of 'memorial ethics to explore the Museum s difference from more conventional post-World War Two commemorative sites, with reflections on texts by Beckett, Celan, Derrida, Kafka and others.

The author of a book on the Middle Ages and Renaissance literature is inevitably the possessor of an overabundance of data. Having so many illustrious forerunners, I was inevitably influenced by the opinions of one scholar or another in ways it was not always possible to footnote. In this sense, my book makes no claim to original research, but is offered as a compendium of factual knowledge and critical interpretations. A previous version of the book was published by Editura Universit ii din Ploie ti in 2008. As this course was too big to be comfortably packed into a single volume, I decided...

This study makes Romania s largely unknown Joycean heritage visible to an international readership. Reviewing Joyce s critical reception and translations, as well as the writer s influence on Romanian prose, it brings Derrida s notion of -hostipitality- to comparative literary and translation studies in order to theorize the impact of politics and ideology on fiction. After an original survey of the links between Romanian modernism/postmodernism and Western literature, it focuses on alternate trends of hostility and hospitality towards Joyce, especially his techniques and style. It examines...