Strict Stress-Meter in English Poetry Compared with German and Russian
This book investigates a verse form never befor identified by Western Scholars: the strict stress-meter. The main object of research, the English strict stress-meter, is typologically compared with its German and Russian counterparts.
Experimental Nations Or, the Invention of the Maghreb
Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or read no French, or a broader audience beyond Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia? In Experimental Nations, Réda Bensmaïa argues powerfully against the tendency to view their works not as literary creations worth considering for their innovative style or language but as "ethnographic" texts and to appraise them only against the "French literary canon."
Английская литература и английский национальный характер
Эта книга посвящена культурологическим аспектам английской литературы. В ней анализируются литературные тексты, связанные с традиционными феноменами английской культуры и национального характера: спортом, образованием, путешествием, юмором. FOR RUSSIAN SPEAKERS ONLY
Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer examines multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Mary Catherine Davidson traces monolingual habits of inquiry to nineteenth-century attitudes toward French, which had first influenced popular constructions of medieval English in such historical novels as Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe. In re-reading medieval traditions in the origins of English from Geoffrey of Monmouth, this book describes how multilingual practices reflected attitudes toward English in the age of Chaucer.
