Cultural Studies

Bertrand Cardin Neil Jordan écrivain-scénariste

L’imaginaire de la transgression

Oxford, 2021 . VI, 302 p . Studies in Franco-Irish Relations. Vol. 17

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Si son nom est d’emblée associé aux films à succès qu’il a réalisés (« The Crying Game », « Entretien avec un vampire », « Michael Collins »…), Neil Jordan est également un homme de lettres . Son oeuvre littéraire, composée de huit romans et d’un recueil de nouvelles, est riche, complexe et foisonnante . Elle manifeste un intérêt pour l’histoire et la politique irlandaises, mais aussi pour le surnaturel et l’irrationnel . Elle crée un univers où le temps et l’espace peuvent s’abolir, le matériel et le spirituel se confondre, le visible et l’invisible s’interpénétrer . Aussi transgresse-t-elle les frontières à plus d’un titre . A la fois réaliste et fantastique, elle établit de nombreuses connexions avec la psychanalyse, la religion chrétienne, la mythologie ou la tradition culturelle qu’elle revisite de manière originale . La présente étude aborde l’oeuvre littéraire de Neil Jordan dans toute sa diversité . Elle s’intéresse essentiellement au romancier, mais aussi au nouvelliste et au scénariste, la production cinématographique de l’artiste ne pouvant être ignorée . Ce premier ouvrage en français consacré à l’écrivain a pour objectif de rendre justice à une grande figure de la vie culturelle irlandaise contemporaine dont tout un pan de la création artistique reste encore largement méconnu .

Maristella Gatto• Alessandra Squeo• Maristella Trulli (eds.) Culture and the Legacy of Anthropology

Transatlantic Approaches 1870–1930 . A Reader

Oxford, 2020 . X, 476 pp ., 7 fig . b/w .

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This reader investigates the changing face of the notion of culture, tracing how it emerged in some of the most important and controversial phases of the lively Anglo-American debate on the subject from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, including the crucial years of Modernism . Shedding light on the cross-disciplinary approaches that characterized the debate and focusing especially on the legacy of anthropology, the volume presents a selection of some of the most distinguished voices from such assorted fields as literature, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and ethnology, whose interests and areas of enquiry apparently converged and partly overlapped . A selection of primary sources from leading figures such as Matthew Arnold, Bronisław Malinowski, Ruth Benedict, T . S . Eliot, Ezra Pound and Aldous Huxley provide an overview of the crucial issues raised on a wide array of topics: civilization, race, nation, progress, evolution, education, art, science, literature and politics . The primary sources are accompanied by critical essays that offer new insights into these classic texts . This reader will be of use to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as to scholars exploring the cross-disciplinary or transatlantic nature of the study of culture .

Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez• José Igor Prieto-Arranz (eds.) The Humanities Still Matter

Identity, Gender and Space in Twenty-First-Century Europe

Oxford, 2020 . XIV, 326 pp ., 7 b/w ill . Cultural Identity Studies. Vol. 31

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Why are the arts and humanities under attack? And how can they fight back? Historically these fields have suffered from a lack of prestige due to the utilitarian perspective of the «developed» world . While such utilitarian views have not been entirely fair on this branch of knowledge, the humanities themselves are partly to blame for this crisis, often not keeping pace with an increasingly changing society . It is therefore imperative that the humanities once and for all prove themselves relevant, leaving behind «departmentalized» approaches to academic knowledge and embracing the social mission that once epitomized humanistic study . Guided by such principles, this book features fourteen interdisciplinary studies that explore exciting intersections between different areas of academic research . These studies centre around three broad topics, which function as this volume’s structural axes: identity, gender, and space and mobility (whether voluntary, as in tourism, or imposed, as in the case of migrations and persecutions) . Altogether, the volume demonstrates that the humanities, far from being artificially detached from society, can actually study the enormously complex context that is contemporary Europe and crucially point the way to a better, more equitable world .