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Jennifer Rushworth
In Proust's Songbook, Jennifer Rushworth analyzes and theorizes the presence and role of songs in Marcel Proust's novel A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Instead…
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In Song in the Novel, scholars of literature, music, and culture explore the presence of songs and singing in novels, focusing on English, French, Italian, Russian, and Spanish examples from…
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A consideration of Petrarch’s influence on, and appearance in, French texts - and in particular, his appropriation by the Avignonese.
Jennifer Rushworth (St John's College, Oxford)
This book brings together three authors who have written movingly about mourning: Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, and Marcel Proust. Jennifer Rushworth explores how each of them, through their respective narratives…
Mediating Vulnerability meditates on the creative and destructive powers of vulnerability in literary form. To experience vulnerability is to experience the tension between ruin and creativity: a vulnerable species faces…
How and why do we write about mourning? How does narrative assist us when we dwell on, in, and with grief? What forms of community and even consolation do mournful…
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Claude Lefort
One of the most prominent political philosophers of the 20th century reads Dante’s Monarchia and demonstrates the surprising relevance of this radical 14th-century treatise defending the necessity of universal monarchy…
