Fiction often appropriates erudition, or learned characters concerned with accumulating meticulous and inexhaustible knowledge, while also deriding them as melancholic or even deranged.
This collection of engravings and books of the French architect (1889-1956) includes a large number of works, arranged in chronological order from 1537 to 1950, devoted to architecture, perspective, hydraulics and botany which are of great interest...
Some eighteen film directors from France to the United States, Germany to India, have applied themselves to the task of adapting Madame Bovary to the screen. Why has Flaubert’s 1857 classic novel been so popular with filmmakers? What challenges have...
Island Paradise: The Myth An Examination of Contemporary Caribbean and Sri Lankan Writing Edition 2009 -
number 113
A colonial discourse has perpetuated the literary notion of islands as paradisal. This study explores how the notions of island paradise have been represented in European literature, the oral and literary indigenous traditions of the Caribbean and ...
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