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OBITELJSKI ROMAN U HRVATSKOJ DJEČJOJ KNJIŽEVNOSTI DEVEDESETIH GODINA PROŠLOGA STOLJEĆA

Author(s): Sanja Vrcić Mataija / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 13/2015

Considering the position of the dominant narrative figure within the Croatian children's realistic novel of the nineties of the last century it is possible to define type of the family novel that belongs to social-psychological fiction. Narrative pattern of the family children's novel implies a story of the family atmosphere in which adult characters appear alongside with children's characters equal to them at the narrative level, portraying the adult and children's characters and a way of building their identity in a family community of different types. Children's characters create their personality strongly influenced by family relationships and characters of their parents and relatives, modeling their activity on them as well as adopting gender standardized roles. The traditional and contemporary family relationships could be recognized according the prevailing world view on the selected corpus of the novel. Unlike the traditional family, which includes parents and children, strong family, mostly male authority, more liberal attitude of the weaker parental authority prevails in the majority of contemporary families. It is possible to identify several forms of a family novel: family novel with a picture of the traditional patriarchal family, family novel with a picture of contemporary patriarchal family and family novel with a picture of contemporary liberal family.

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Метафорика на вкуса: Пруст и Кант

Author(s): Victoria Kirilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2-3/2017

Our assumption is that the aesthetic concept of taste is a metaphor. Aesthetic perception occurs precisely when taste is understood as something different from tasting, although it is metaphorically connected precisely with the latter. As a metaphor, taste arises through both the similarity and the difference between concept and sensation, so that the indirect meaning overbuilds the literal one without negating it, and the relationship between the two remains. We consider taste as a metaphor in Marcel Proust’s "In Search of Lost Time". In our view, the important aspect here is the relationship in question and the distinction drawn between state of mind and sensation. We are referring to the sensory dimension of taste (tasting) and its metaphorical transformation into concept and experience. It is a basic aspect, which actually marks the beginning of "In Search of Lost Time". In the first part, entitled "Combray", the narrator talks about the taste of a small cake called “petite madeleine” and the unconscious reason which provokes the pleasure caused by an extraordinary similarity. The same episode is examined in Time Regained as part of the overall conception of "In Search of Lost Time". The sudden similarity occurs between two sensations and between two otherwise different moments. Thus, the particular state is identified, whereby an unknown but very valuable essence is expressed. We assume that in the episode of the small madeleine, taste actually represents the way of manifestation of all the moments associated with the advantage of involuntary memory (la memoire involontaire), insofar as through it is manifested the hidden nature of things that had not been experienced before. This is possible, even though the manifestation of the essence has no logical explanation and the unknown state transcends the boundaries of conceivable experience. We associate this idea with Kant’s aesthetic concept of taste, which is a metaphor, because of the similarity of characteristics, and insofar as the metaphor expresses essence in "In Search of Lost Time".

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Хенри Дейвид Торо между

Author(s): Plamen Antov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2-3/2017

This essay situates H. D. Thoreau in a row of large cultural aporiae. The author argues an uncommon approach to Thoreau, not in the Kantian key of Transcendentalism, but as situated at the midpoint where Transcendentalism meets its antipode corporeality and reality: the author views the gesture Walden as a hidden expression of the kind of activeness that is of the essence of modern bourgeois-capitalist aggression against nature.Thoreau is seen as an American proto-philosopher who revolts against the European Cartesian metaphysization of philosophy, a trend whose ultimate manifestation is precisely Kant. Thoreau is seen as restoring the primordial totality of philosophy, similarly as the ancient philosopher who, in order to refute the assertion of his opponent that there is no motion in the world, simply stood up and took a few steps. – The gesture Walden is interpreted as an attempt to walk back those steps. As an attempt to restore the reality of the world, which has been lost in the course of civilization (seen as a process of increasingly dense veiling of reality under a network of symbols-simulations). Walden is at the center of this plot, personified by two mutually contrary cultural myths – the “European” Hamlet and the “American” Robinson Crusoe.Thus, on the other hand, Thoreau is seen as situated at the beginning of American Pragmatism considered as a philosophy of the “lower part” of the body (Bakhtin), of the thinking stomach. This fundamental non-metaphysicality of the American cultural genotype (world view) – the domination of bodily activity over reflection – has been paraphrased by a number of US presidents in the 20th and 21st century as the maxim “Bomb first, seek arguments later”. Yet at the same time, precisely in moving away from the European tradition, Thoreau finds himself at the point where the East begins. In Thoreau’s gesture Walden, the author finds and interprets the potential of this whole complex of dialectically “sublating” aporiae (at the core of which is the radical anti-cultural gesture, which is also a radical cultural gesture).

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Domestication of Foreigner’s Home in Toni Morrison’s Home

Author(s): Agnieszka Łobodziec / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

In a number of interviews, Toni Morrison refers to America as Foreigners’ Home. This conceptualization is linked to the historical processes related to the formation of the New World by immigrants who sought to make America their new homeland. Upon their expropriation of land from native inhabitants, there arose a need for a labor force to work the acquired land that engendered forced chattel African immigration to America out of which grew a particular African-American experience. Enslavement as well as Jim Crow segregation induced within the New World black American community feelings of foreignness, “a long way from home”. One of their survival strategies and forms of resistance against oppression was the development of another sense of home over against the oppressive conditions that engulfed them. In her novel Home, Toni Morrison reconstructs the journey of a black Korean War veteran, Frank Money, who reaches a sense of homeliness in the racially segregated South despite failing to realize the citizen-soldier ideal and being victim and witness to continued widespread racist oppression. He attains a sense of belonging and security upon returning to the black community of Lotus, Georgia, where black people are regarded as foreign because of their settlement there as forced exiles. The community, by its unity, manages to domesticate this foreigners’ home, which enables Frank Money, the traumatized black veteran, to perceive Lotus as an empowering space contrary to the alienation he felt before his engagement in combat abroad.

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The Secret History of Hamden Campus: A Study in Elitism and Murder

Author(s): Evangelia Kyriakidou / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

This paper examines Donna Tartt’s The Secret History (1992) from the perspective of campus spatial modalities and their use or abuse by a privileged group of students. As in other campus mystery novels, the supposedly egalitarian and democratic space of the campus is transformed into an elitist enclave by a group of students who use knowledge-as-power in order to plot the murder of threatening intruders into their exclusive world. The unexpected turn of events brings about the disenchantment of Richard Papen, a low-class but talented, young Californian who enrolls to Hamden, Vermont with high academic expectations. At the same time as it introduces a series of personal disillusionments it also creates a crisis of meaning in the American campus in general.

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Постсоветскость как травма? Проза Романа Сенчина

Author(s): Katarzyna Jastrzębska / Language(s): Russian Issue: 163/2018

According to the author’s estimation, the line of conduct, as well as, psychic and psychological conditions of the heroes of Roman Senchin’s prose are similar in a lot of ways to the clinical picture of the post-traumatic syndrome. This syndrome is caused by the social, economic and moral consequences of the demise of the USSR. As a definitive formula that allows determining the phenomena of the social and political life of modern Russia, which are described in the prose works of Senchin, we suggest using the term t r a u m a - s u b s t i t u t i o n. It exactly reflects the contentsof some line of conduct, views, judgments, and beliefs characteristic of a large part of Russian society. In essence, they are formed in response to the social, political and economic changes caused by the restructuring and in particular by the fact of the demise of the USSR. At the same time, collision with a real trauma, which is the unmasking of the catastrophic consequences of the totalitarian regime is stilla matter of the future.

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Recenzija: Tajno delovanje primorske duhovščine pod fašizmom. Primorski krščanski socialci med Vatikanom, fašistično Italijo in slovensko katoliško desnico - zgodovinsko ozadje romana Kaplan Martin Čedermac

Author(s): Nevenka Troha / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 1/2003

The review of: Egon Pelikan: Tajno delovanje primorske duhovščine pod fašizmom. Primorski krščanski socialci med Vatikanom, fašistično Italijo in slovensko katoliško desnico - zgodovinsko ozadje romana Kaplan Martin Čedermac. Nova revija, Ljubljana 2002. 776 strani, ilustrirano (Korenine)

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RECENZIJE

Author(s): Almir Fatić,Alen Zečević,Mina Kujović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 78/2019

The review of: - Roman o bereketu jedne dove. Kemal Ljevaković, Blago blagoslova, JU Opća biblioteka Tešanj, Tešanj, 2018. 255 str. - Historija u ogledalu. Dr. Ibrahim Kajan, Historija grijeha i nasilja – sekvence uklonjene povijesti, Zapisi i putopisne vedute iz zemlje dobrih Bošnjana, IC Štamparija Mostar, 2019. - Dječiji bonton. Mevlida Serdarević, Aida Abdulović: Dječiji bonton, Sarajevo, 2019.

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Турски суфикси у Зони Замфировој Стевана Сремца

Author(s): Aleksandra D. Rakić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 20/2019

The aim of this paper is to examine the usage of Turkish suffixes in Stevan Stemac’s Zamfirʼs Zona and to show which suffixes are most frequent. Particular emphasis is laid on semantic categorisation of lexemes with Turkish suffixes -cija / -dzija (-ci / -dzi), -lija (-li), -luk, -ana, -basa, -suz and -dzik. On the basis of the analysis conducted, most frequent Turkish suffixes in this novel are -cija / -dzija, -lija and -luk. Suffixes -ana and -suz are detected twice, while suffixes -basa and -dzik are detected once.

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Преполовљени – први роман Предрага Степановића (интертекстуална анализа)

Author(s): Rada B. Stanarević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 20/2019

An intertextual analysis of Stepanović's novel reveals two things. First, a fruitful influence of Turgenev on the structure of fabula (reunion of friends at the same location) and on the typology of characters (Dragan – Lytvinov, Vojin – Rudin). Secondly, a highly unusual, impressive mixture of Turgenev and Goethe with reference to their respective works of the same title, Faust, providing the two aforementioned encounters of old friends with magic properties. This is achieved in such a manner that the two nocturnal, Mephistopheles-like meetings happen simultaneously, with Stepanović's characters enduring double destiny (Ana = Margareta and Vera Nikolayevna, Vojin = Mephistopheles and Rudin).With regard to its composition and subject matter, Stepanović's novel offers several interesting features. To start with, Mephistopheles' First/ Mother Night, unique and very successfully designed in artistic terms, takes place, intertwined with another night, within Chapters IV and VI, which justifies their central position as regards the novel's overall structure of fourteen chapters. In contrast with that, the protagonists' split lives of the present develop in the respective chapters of VIII, X, and XII. As for the subject matter – Ana and Dragan's unhappy love – it is comprised within the respective Chapters of V, VII, IX, and XI. As a result, events and relations between characters are not portrayed in a linear manner, but mutually intertwined. Yet, the frame, that is, the first and final chapters, which feature the partly ironically depicted character of Milorad Janković, makes sure that the desired unity of the plot, taking the novel in its entirety, is achieved, thus providing us with an open door to indulge in aesthetic delight.

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RE-FRAMING MASCULINITY IN JAPAN: TOM CRUISE, THE LAST SAMURAI AND THE FLUID METANARRATIVES OF HISTORY

Author(s): Maria Grajdian / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

After its release in 2003, The Last Samurai became a major success at the Japanese (and international) box-office, simultaneously marking a turning point in the illustration of Japan by Western media, and more specifically, by US-American institutions of mass entertainment, such as Hollywood. The Last Samurai has been mostly discussed on the background of the historical realities it depicts (the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the unconditional import of Western artefacts and values, the clash between old and new in Japan by mid-19th century) or from the perspective of the impact it had on the representation of Asian or other non-European cultures by American mainstream mass-media. Based on a 15-year empiric-phenomenological fieldwork in the slippery domain of Japanese mass-media, as well as in-depth literature research on new media, masculinity studies and entertainment industry with specific focus on Japan, this paper argues that the character embodied by Tom Cruise – the typical white male from Japanese perspective – displayed an unexpectedly refreshing insight into the prevalent masculinity ideal in Japan, as subliminally suggested by the Japanese characters. On the one hand, it challenges the image of the samurai, both in its historical idealization (stoic warriors and social elite) and in their contemporary adaptation (carriers of Japan’s post-war recovery). On the other hand, it questions the values incorporated by classical Japanese masculinity and suggests a credible alternative, with emotional flexibility, human warmth and mental vulnerability as potential core attributes.

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The Secret Agent: A Far from Simple Tale

Author(s): Gerard Kilroy / Language(s): English Issue: XIII/2018

This article examines Conrad’s novel in the light of the Irish Fenian bombing campaign of 1881-1885. Conrad’s avoidance of any mention of their destructive methods and not unreasonable political objectives, allows him to focus on the absurdity of the Russian Nihilists, also resident in London at this time: their idle, parasitic and despairing devotion to indiscriminate destruction. While the first half of the novel is a metaphysical analysis of evil, where passive men do nothing, the second half is determined by its heroine, the active agent, Winnie, who invites comparison with Tess of the D’Urbervilles, shares with Lena in Victory the distinction of dying in a just cause, and satisfies the reader’s desire for a justice which neither the police nor the government is willing to offer. Conrad traces the roots of indiscriminate terrorism to Nihilist despair and Russian willingness to use London as a stage for its states-sponsored terrorism. His analysis of ‘the rules of the game’ agreed by security services, spies and terrorists, is as relevant today as it was in 1907.

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Светът на възрастните през погледа на едно подрастващо дете – един абсурден, несъвършен, подлежащ на промяна свят

Author(s): Teodora Valova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2020

The article presents linguistic and stylistic analysis of a chapter from the novel by Elitsa Georgieva „The Cosmonauts are just passing by“ and have been used for teaching Bulgarian for medical purposes. The novel was written in Paris, where the author lives and studies, and won the Andre Debbroy Award for a debut book, written with humor and critical sentiments and was nominated for a Fleur prize (founded by Beigbeder) and 111th page. The chance E. Georgieva to be noticed by the pretentious French criticism is due to the fact that she graduated with Master degree of filmmaking and creative writing at the National Film Academy in Paris (La Fémis) and has an experience as a documentary director. During this school year the novel of the Bulgarian writer will be studied in some of the French high schools

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Historical, Religious, and Political Content in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird

Author(s): Saeid Rahimipour / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2020

Literary works have contributed a crucial role to the manifestation of the dominant themes of the time and the era to which they belong. Each writer and each work has a special orientation in its approach to convey the intended message. This article, having as its approach context and metacontext analysis of the text, scrutinizes Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mocking Bird in order to assess the writer’s tact in the illustration of specific issues through the manifestation of their cultural, historical, and religious context and background. Through the introduction of these materials, this study has also tried to answer the question concerning the manner in which the writer has captured the theme of racism via the projection of the unseen, unfathomable, and the unobjectionable information of the mentioned origins to touch upon our consciousness and arouse sympathy towards the humanitarian crisis practised at that time. The article reveals the plausibility of the interpretation of the novel based on religious, historical, and cultural background references. It renders the fact that Lee contributed a significant share to the illustration of such themes as racism and inhumanness at that time and stands as a landmark of inspiration for others as well.

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Cultural Perspectives and “the Tomahawk Man”

Author(s): Saša Simović / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2020

This paper deals with a classic of American literature, a master of the short story and poetry, a literary critic who demanded seriousness, professionalism and high standards of literature – Edgar Allan Poe – along with his contribution to literature in his native Appalachia and to world literature, and the way his literary legacy has been cherished in modern times and seen from different cultural perspectives. The paper will also shine additional light on the way the literary works of the “Tomahawk Man” influenced new generations of artists.

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The Lımıts Of Translatıng Postcolonıal Experıence Into A Foreıgn Culture

Author(s): Berrin N. Aksoy / Language(s): Turkish,English Issue: 2/2020

In this twofold study, I will focus on the exilic/ diasporic Nigerian-born black British author Ben Okri as a postcolonial author reflecting the issues of postcolonial literature in his novel The Famished Road from a translational point of view. I will first discuss the qualities of the exilic/diasporic experience in postcolonial literature in terms of theme, style and language use; language is the key element in postcolonial literature which reflects the hybridity of cultures and the hybridity of the language used in postcolonial texts, which is closely associated with the translation challenges of a postcolonial text into a culture which is alien to postcolonial experience. My aim in this study firstly will be to discuss whether the novel The Famished Road which displays the characteristics of a postcolonial text in terms of style, themes and the hybrid language use avails itself with all its generic qualities in the Turkish translation and creates the same effect and impressions on the Turkish reader in terms of voicing the postcolonial experience as it has on the English reader and, secondly, how the generic qualities are transferred into the language of a culture which does not possess a similar literary or cultural medium.

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Disappearance of the Self and Its Constitutive Outside in Kafka and Woody Allen's Zelig

Author(s): Lukas Mozdeika / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2020

Although parallels between Kafka’s hybrid characters and Woody Allen’s Leonard Zelig have been noted in literature studies (Bruce 1998), the underlying interpretative synergy is not exhausted and occasions a revisit, timely in light of the social tensions of the century-later-present. Juxtaposing counterfactual history with actual highbrow commentary in quasi- or mockumentary film genre allows Woody Allen to transpose Kafka’s grotesque into American realm of the 20s and thus Americanize it. The contention of this article is to suggest that Leonard Zelig, a changing man, is a derivative of Kafka’s characters, primarily cat-lamb in Hybrid, but Allen’s postmodern visual language in Zelig radically alters their inner metamorphoses and hybridity serving as a social critique, if only seen through triviality of its humour. Interpreting Zelig alongside Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Hybrid, we can trace genealogy of themes of anti-Semitism, racism and fascism resolve into contradiction of individualism versus petit-bourgeois mass culture marked by commercialization, commodification and assimilation, features that still define our present. The takeaway may be phrased in terms of a constitutive outside. That is, Leonard Zelig, the omnipresent-self, renders certain truth about society predefined by the cult of individualism by re-constituting his lack of individuality as inherently social phenomenon—constitutive outside, and thus disturbing it. In an ironic twist then, Zelig, released around the time of Margaret Thatcher’s famous denial of society, can be read as a structuring-absence revealing fiction, that of a non-existent society.

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Author(s): Suada M. Kovačević,Leontin Čapo Milenić,Mirsad Kunić,Melida Travančić,Žarko Milenić,Sead Husić,Božidar Stanišić,Jovanka Stojčinović Nikolić,Ivo Mijo Andrić / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian Issue: 3-4/2020

Review of: Ivo Mijo Andrić - Savo ILIĆ: BLAGODATI NORDIJSKOG HODANJA, Digitalne knjige, Zagreb, 2019. Ivo Mijo Andrić - Joso ŽIVKOVIĆ: TRAGOM POKORENIH ŽELJA, DHK i DHKHB, Osijek – Mostar, 2019. Ivo Mijo Andrić - Milan RUPČIĆ: KRUGOVI NA POVRŠINI, Vlastita naklada, Zagreb, 2019. Jovanka Stojčinović Nikolić - Жељка АВРИЋ: ПЕСМА ЈОЈ ЈЕ ДРУГО ИМЕ, Дом културе Ивањица, 2020 Božidar STANIŠIĆ - Lana BASTAŠIĆ: UHVATI ZECA, Kontrast, Beograd, 2018. Sead HUSIĆ - Ibrahim KAJAN: KRICI I ŠAPUTANJA. PUTOPISI IZ HUMSKE ZEMLJE, Bosanska riječ, Tuzla, 2017. Žarko MILENIĆ - Lidija PAVLOVIĆ - GRGIĆ: GDJE ŽIVI BAJKA?, Planjax, Tešanj, 2019. Žarko Milenić - Цвијетин РИСТАНОВИЋ: СВАКИДАШЊЕ ПРИЧЕ, Свет књиге, Београд, 2017. Melida TRAVANČIĆ - Armin POHARA: BOSANSKI ZABORAV, Lijepa riječ, Tuzla, 2019. Mirsad Kunić - Sead HUSIĆ: ČASOPISNE PJESME, Lijepa riječ, Tuzla, 2020. Leontin Čapo Milenić - Ivona IVIĆ: ADASTRA, Vlastita naklada, Bošnjaci, 2020. Leontin ČAPO MILENIĆ - Marijana MARTINČIĆ: SUSRET SA SOBOM, Vlastita naklada, Pula, 2020. Suada M. KOVAČEVIĆ - Suvad ALAGIĆ: NISAM BANDIT, JA SAM PJESNIK, Planjax, Tešanj, 2020. Suada M. KOVAČEVIĆ - Danica VLAŠIĆ: U ZAČARANOM KRUGU, Vlada Brčko distrikta BiH – Književni klub P. N. Brčko distrikt BiH, 2020. Suada M. KOVAČEVIĆ - Zijad KONJIĆ: ZEMLJA RAJSKE DJECE, OFF-SET, Tuzla, 2019.

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Концепция гражданского правопорядка и свободы в поздней публицистике Г. Филдинга

Author(s): Irina Marikovna Erlihson / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2021

The author addresses the problem of power relations in the era of criminal justice reform, presented in historical narratives, taking into account the socio-cultural context and realities of Great Britain in the 18th century. The fight against crime during this period was haphazard in terms of both funding and organization. This, together with the critical attitude of various sections of British society regarding the use of militarized forces to maintain civil law and order, reduced the effectiveness of law enforcement mechanisms and, accordingly, led to an unprecedented increase in crime, which has become a popular area of public discourse. The subject of the analysis is the intellectual heritage of Henry Fielding, dating back to the turn of 1740—50, when the outstanding playwright and novelist served as Justice of the Peace of Westminster and Middlesex. The uniqueness of H. Fielding’s position is that his rich experience in the field of political journalism and jurisprudence allowed him not only to fight London crime, but to develop the ideological and conceptual foundations of British law enforcement practice. Application of special historical and source study methods (biographical, historical synthesis, discourse analysis, interpretation of texts and sources) to H. Fielding’s treatises that are little studied in Russian historiography (“Appeal to the Grand Jury”, “The True State of the Bosavern Penleza Case”, “Research into the causes of increased crime”). Allowed us to come to the following conclusion. Speaking from the position of an apologist for the British constitution, H. Fielding believed that it was the state that was the guarantor of civil law and order and argued for the need to create a state structure with a monopoly on the exercise of functions to control crim.

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Compte-rendu: Simona Carretta, Bernard Franco et Judith Sarfati Lanter dir. La Pensée sur l’art dans le roman des XXe et XXIe siècles.

Author(s): Antoaneta Robova / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2021

Book review: La Pensée sur l’art dans le roman des XXe et XXIe siècles. Edited by Simona Carretta, Bernard Franco and Judith Sarfati Lanter. Classiques Garnier, 2019, ISBN : 978-2-406-08394-8.

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