The Humble in 19th- to 21st-Century British Literature and Arts
Through its take on ‘the humble’, this volume attempts to reveal the depth and philosophical relevance of literature, its ethical and political dimension as well as its connection to life. Because it can be associated with social class, religion, psychology or ethics, the notion of ‘the humble’ lends itself to diverse types of studies. The papers collected in this volume argue that in the course of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, artists and writers have revisited the term ‘humble’ and, far...
Éditeur : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Lieu d’édition : Montpellier
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 11 février 2022
ISBN numérique : 978-2-36781-398-1
DOI : 10.4000/books.pulm.11828
Collection : Horizons anglophones
Année d’édition : 2017
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-36781-248-9
Nombre de pages : 286
Isabelle Brasme, Jean-Michel Ganteau et Christine Reynier
IntroductionPart One. Humble Art Forms
Laurence Roussillon-Constanty
Artful Humility: A Pre-Raphaelite Ideal?Sophie Aymes
Autographic Wood Engraving: Modernist D.I.YPart Two. Aestheticizing Religious Humility
Stéphane Sitayeb
From Humbleness to Humiliation: Physical Losses and Spiritual Gains in The Hill of Dreams, by Arthur MachenJosé María Yebra
The (Extra)ordinary of Humbleness and Mutual Recognition in Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of MaryPart Three. Gendering the Humble
Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz
The Humble, Gender, and the Local in Contemporary British and Irish FictionSusana Onega
Lesbian Invisibility and the Politics of Representation of the Lady and the Humble Servant in Sarah Waters’s AffinityPart Four. Precariousness
Angela Locatelli
‘The Humble/d’ in Literature and Philosophy: Precariousness, Vulnerability, and the Pragmatics of Social VisibilitySilvia Pellicer Ortín
Writing and Loving: Strategies to Overcome Humbleness in Lynne Reid Banks’s Children at the GatePart Five. Self-Effacement
Pascale Tollance
From Humiliation to Humility: Graham Swift’s Aesth/et(h)ics of Self-Effacement in The Light of DayXavier Le Brun
Leaving Jacob Room: Narratorial Humility in Jacob’s RoomAude Haffen
The Brothel and the Kimono: Christopher Isherwood’s Humble, Queer, Inoperative Goodbye to BerlinAdeline Arniac
‘We can’t start again. We can end again: ’ Humble Inchoation in a Selection from Harold Pinter’s Memory PlaysPart Six. The British Humble Abroad
Leila Haghshenas
The Aesthetics of Humility in The Village in the JungleThrough its take on ‘the humble’, this volume attempts to reveal the depth and philosophical relevance of literature, its ethical and political dimension as well as its connection to life. Because it can be associated with social class, religion, psychology or ethics, the notion of ‘the humble’ lends itself to diverse types of studies. The papers collected in this volume argue that in the course of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, artists and writers have revisited the term ‘humble’ and, far from treating it as a simple motif, have raised it to the status of an aesthetic category. This category can first foster a better understanding of fiction, poetry, painting, and their representation of precarious lives through various genres and modes. It may also draw attention to neglected or depreciated humble novels or art forms that developed from the Victorian to the contemporary period, through the Edwardian and the modernist eras. Finally, it helps revise assumptions about the literature and art of the period and signals to a poetics of the humble. The works of art examined here explore the humble as a possible capacity and ethical force, a way of being and acting.
University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3-EMMA, France.
is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Nîmes, France, and a member of the EMMA research centre at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. She has published extensively on Ford Madox Ford and has recently published a monograph entitled: Parade’s End de Ford Madox Ford: vers une esthétique de la crise (PULM, 2016). Her research focuses on modernism, the relationship between modernism and tradition, and the question of canonicity.
University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3-EMMA, France.
is Professor of British Literature at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. He is the editor of the journal Études britanniques contemporaines. He is the author of two monographs on David Lodge and Peter Ackroyd and of a book-length study, The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction (Routledge, 2015). He is also the editor, with Christine Reynier, of six volumes of essays on the themes of impersonality and emotion, autonomy and commitment and the ethics of alterity (PULM). He has also edited several volumes of essays with Susana Onega: Trauma and Ethics in Contemporary British Literature (Rodopi, 2010), Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Fiction (Routledge, 2013), and Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of form (Routledge, 2014). He has published extensively on contemporary British fiction, with a special interest in the ethics of affects (as manifest in such aesthetic resurgences and concretions as the baroque, kitsch, camp, melodrama, romance), trauma criticism and theory and the ethics of vulnerabilty in France and abroad.
University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3-EMMA, France.
is Professor of British Literature at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. She has published extensively on major modernist writers, edited books and journals on Woolf (Journal of the Short Story in English 50, July 2008) and published a monograph Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). She is also a member of the ENSFR network (European Network for Short Fiction Research) and recently co-edited Reframing the Modernist Short Story (JSSE 64, Spring 2015). She is the editor, with Jean-Michel Ganteau, of six volumes of essays on the themes of impersonality and emotion, autonomy and commitment and the ethics of alterity in British Literature and Arts (PULM). In 2013, she organized, with B. Coste and C. Delyfer, a European Science Foundation Workshop in Montpellier that led to the publication of Re-connecting Aestheticism with Modernism (Routledge, 2016).
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Traces diasporiques et espaces de créolisation
Robin Cohen et Olivia Sheringham Elise Trogrlic (trad.)
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L’androgyne dans la littérature britannique contemporaine
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Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature
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Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature
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2005
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