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Collective, Collage, And Translative Authorship: Writing To And From Multilingual Europe, Jamie H. Trnka

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Letters to Europe (2011) is a collectively authored, transnational literary engagement with Europe as an idea, a place, and a set of socio-political relationships. A print publication and performance, the ambivalent generic status of the Brussels-based project raises productive questions about how collective translation, transnational authorship, and multimedial performance strategies combine to advance new modes of aesthetic and political representation for subjects in transit in twenty-first century Europe. I argue for attention to multilingual and multimedial translations as sites of creative self-documentation on the part of mobile subjects as a critical counterpoint to state-sanctioned forms of documentality (Favorini). To that …

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Special Focus Introduction: Translating Multilingualism, Yasemin Yildiz

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Figures Of Radical Absence: Blanks And Voids In Theory, Literature, And The Arts, Alexandra Irimia

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Although post-structuralism highlighted the importance of what is offstage, lost, forgotten, hidden or discarded, silent or silenced, the poetics and politics of absence (much like its ethics and aesthetics) have rarely been discussed across media and disciplines. This book proposes the concept of ‘radical absence’ to describe a certain tradition of resistance to ontology, predication, and representation, contesting their reliance on a metaphysics of presence. Apophatic speech, empty signifiers, and figural voids are some of the figures through which radical absence becomes apparent with unprecedented intensity in twentieth-century theory, literature, film, and the arts. Phantasmatic and outrageous, such figures play …

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Guido Mazzoni. On Modern Poetry. Translated By Zakiya Hanafi. Belknap Press, 2022., Anthony Degenaro

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Review of Guido Mazzoni. On Modern Poetry. Translated by Zakiya Hanafi. Belknap Press, 2022. 294 pp.

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Brian Britt. Religion Around Walter Benjamin. The Pennsylvania State Up, 2022., Doris Mcgonagill

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Review of Brian Britt. Religion Around Walter Benjamin. The Pennsylvania State UP, 2022. xvii + 233 pp.

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Special Focus Introduction: Centering Black Cultural Production In Translation, Corine Tachtiris, Priscilla Layne

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Lia Brozgal. Absent The Archive. Liverpool Up, 2020., Aubrey Gabel

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Review of Lia Brozgal. Absent the Archive. Liverpool UP, 2020. 368 pp.

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Candelas Gala. Clara Janés: La Poética Cuántica O La Física De La Poesía. Csic, 2021., Nicolás Fernández-Medina

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Review of Candelas Gala. Clara Janés: La poética cuántica o la física de la poesía. CSIC, 2021. 203 pp.

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Emily Johansen. Beyond Safety: Risk, Cosmopolitanism, And Contemporary Neoliberal Life. Bloomsbury, 2021., Irene Gammel, Jason Wang

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Review of Emily Johansen. Beyond Safety: Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and Contemporary Neoliberal Life. Bloomsbury, 2021. xiii + 171 pp.

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Stephen Ross, Editor. Modernism, Theory, And Responsible Reading: A Critical Conversation. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022., Anne Cunningham

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Review of Stephen Ross, editor. Modernism, Theory, and Responsible Reading: A Critical Conversation. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 239 pp

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Jim T. Reed. Genesis: The Making Of Literary Works From Homer To Christa Wolf. Camden House, 2020., Chiedozie M. Uhuegbu

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Review of Jim T. Reed. Genesis: The Making of Literary Works from Homer to Christa Wolf. Camden House, 2020. 301 pp.

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Erin Mcglothlin, Brad Preger, And Markus Zisselsberger, Editors. The Construction Of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’S Shoah And Its Outtakes. Wayne State Up, 2020., Michael Williamson

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Review of Erin McGlothlin, Brad Preger, and Markus Zisselsberger, editors. The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its Outtakes. Wayne State UP, 2020. 495 pp.

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Special Focus Introduction: Migration Narratives In Europe, Farid Laroussi

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Special Focus Introduction: Migration Narratives in Europe

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Olga Beloborodova, Editor. The Making Of Samuel Beckett’S Play/Comédie And Film. Bloomsbury, 2019., S. E. Gontarski

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Review of Olga Beloborodova, editor. The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Play/Comédie and Film. Bloomsbury, 2019. 352 pp.

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Maria Stehle And Beverly Weber. Precarious Intimacies: The Politics Of Touch In Contemporary Western European Cinema. Northwestern Up, 2020., Paul Ardoin

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Review of Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema. Northwestern UP, 2020. 197 pp.

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Béâtrice Picon-Vallin. Le Théâtre Du Soleil: The First Fifty-Five Years. Translated By Judith G. Miller. Routledge, 2021., Deborah Gaensbauer

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Review of Béâtrice Picon-Vallin. Le Théâtre du Soleil: The First Fifty-five Years. Translated by Judith G. Miller. Routledge, 2021. xi + 453 pp.

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Analola Santana. Freak Performances: Dissidence In Latin American Theater. U Of Michigan P, 2018., Stephanie R. Orozco

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Review of Analola Santana. Freak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theater. U of Michigan P, 2018. 266 pp.

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Jean E. Conacher. Transformation And Education In The Literature Of The Gdr. Camden House, 2020., Evelyn Preuss

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Review of Jean E. Conacher. Transformation and Education in the Literature of the GDR. Camden House, 2020. xiv + 293 pp.

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Todd Kontje. Imperial Fictions: German Literature Before And Beyond The Nation-State. U Of Michigan P, 2018., Patricia A. Simpson

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Review of Todd Kontje. Imperial Fictions: German Literature Before and Beyond the Nation-State. U of Michigan P, 2018. 329 pp.

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Karin Baumgartner And Monika Shafi, Editors. Anxious Journeys: Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing In German. Camden House, 2019., Doris Mcgonagill

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Review of Karin Baumgartner and Monika Shafi, editors. Anxious Journeys: Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German. Camden House, 2019. viii + 276 pp.

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Collective, Collage, And Translative Authorship: Writing To And From Multilingual Europe, Jamie H. Trnka

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Special Focus Introduction: Translating Multilingualism, Yasemin Yildiz

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Figures Of Radical Absence: Blanks And Voids In Theory, Literature, And The Arts, Alexandra Irimia

Languages and Cultures Publications

Guido Mazzoni. On Modern Poetry. Translated By Zakiya Hanafi. Belknap Press, 2022., Anthony Degenaro

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Brian Britt. Religion Around Walter Benjamin. The Pennsylvania State Up, 2022., Doris Mcgonagill

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Special Focus Introduction: Centering Black Cultural Production In Translation, Corine Tachtiris, Priscilla Layne

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

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Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Lia Brozgal. Absent The Archive. Liverpool Up, 2020., Aubrey Gabel

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Candelas Gala. Clara Janés: La Poética Cuántica O La Física De La Poesía. Csic, 2021., Nicolás Fernández-Medina

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Emily Johansen. Beyond Safety: Risk, Cosmopolitanism, And Contemporary Neoliberal Life. Bloomsbury, 2021., Irene Gammel, Jason Wang

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Stephen Ross, Editor. Modernism, Theory, And Responsible Reading: A Critical Conversation. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022., Anne Cunningham

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Jim T. Reed. Genesis: The Making Of Literary Works From Homer To Christa Wolf. Camden House, 2020., Chiedozie M. Uhuegbu

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Erin Mcglothlin, Brad Preger, And Markus Zisselsberger, Editors. The Construction Of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’S Shoah And Its Outtakes. Wayne State Up, 2020., Michael Williamson

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Special Focus Introduction: Migration Narratives In Europe, Farid Laroussi

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

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Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Olga Beloborodova, Editor. The Making Of Samuel Beckett’S Play/Comédie And Film. Bloomsbury, 2019., S. E. Gontarski

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Maria Stehle And Beverly Weber. Precarious Intimacies: The Politics Of Touch In Contemporary Western European Cinema. Northwestern Up, 2020., Paul Ardoin

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Béâtrice Picon-Vallin. Le Théâtre Du Soleil: The First Fifty-Five Years. Translated By Judith G. Miller. Routledge, 2021., Deborah Gaensbauer

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Analola Santana. Freak Performances: Dissidence In Latin American Theater. U Of Michigan P, 2018., Stephanie R. Orozco

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Jean E. Conacher. Transformation And Education In The Literature Of The Gdr. Camden House, 2020., Evelyn Preuss

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Todd Kontje. Imperial Fictions: German Literature Before And Beyond The Nation-State. U Of Michigan P, 2018., Patricia A. Simpson

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

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Karin Baumgartner And Monika Shafi, Editors. Anxious Journeys: Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing In German. Camden House, 2019., Doris Mcgonagill

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature