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Verb sec­ond in medieval romance
This vol­ume pro­vides the first book-length study of the con­tro­ver­sial top­ic of Verb Sec­ond and relat­ed prop­er­ties in a range of Medieval Romance vari­eties. It presents an exam­i­na­tion and analy­sis of both qual­i­ta­tive and quan­ti­ta­tive data from Old French, Occ­i­tan, Sicil­ian, Venet­ian, Span­ish, and Sar­din­ian, in order to assess whether these were indeed Verb Sec­ond lan­guages. Sam Wolfe argues that V‑to‑C move­ment is a point of con­ti­nu­ity across all the medieval vari­eties — unlike in the mod­ern Romance lan­guages — but that there are rich pat­terns of syn­chron­ic and diachron­ic vari­a­tion in the medieval peri­od that have not pre­vi­ous­ly been observed and inves­ti­gat­ed. These include dif­fer­ences in the syn­tax-prag­mat­ics map­ping, the locus of verb move­ment, the behav­iour of clitic pro­nouns, the syn­tax of sub­ject posi­tions, matrix/embedded asym­me­tries, and the null argu­ment prop­er­ties of the lan­guages in ques­tion. The book out­lines a detailed for­mal car­to­graph­ic analy­sis of both the attest­ed syn­chron­ic pat­terns and the diachron­ic evo­lu­tion of Romance clausal struc­ture. The find­ings have wide­spread impli­ca­tions for the under­stand­ing of both the key typo­log­i­cal prop­er­ty of Verb Sec­ond and the devel­op­ment of Latin into the mod­ern Romance lan­guages.
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Writ­ing the self, writ­ing the nation: roman­tic self­hood in the works of Ger­maine de Staël and Claire de Duras
The French Rev­o­lu­tion rep­re­sents a piv­otal moment with­in the his­to­ry of per­son­hood in France, where gen­der and nation­al dif­fer­ences pro­vid­ed the foun­da­tions of soci­ety. As such, these con­structs fea­ture as ide­o­log­i­cal bat­tle­grounds in the search for iden­ti­ty and self-expres­sion with­in the Roman­tic lit­er­a­ture pub­lished between the rev­o­lu­tions of 1789 and 1830. This book con­sid­ers Ger­maine de Staël’s and Claire de Duras’s depic­tions of men’s and women’s shared and diverg­ing lived expe­ri­ences to offer an inno­v­a­tive transna­tion­al per­spec­tive on the usu­al­ly male-focused mal du siè­cle. Its method­ol­o­gy com­bines fem­i­nist revi­sions of the nov­el, sit­u­at­ed read­ing prac­tices, and life writ­ing research with an inter­sec­tion­al approach to gen­der and nation­hood. This frame­work presents a dialec­ti­cal rela­tion­ship between same­ness and dif­fer­ence on for­mal and the­mat­ic lev­els that chal­lenges the con­struc­tion and enforce­ment of bina­ries with­in ear­ly nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry leg­is­la­tion, dis­course, and cul­ture. Beyond Staël’s and Duras’s inter­tex­tu­al rela­tion­ship, this book pro­motes the impor­tance of an under­stud­ied peri­od in lit­er­ary schol­ar­ship, clar­i­fies women’s role with­in French Roman­ti­cism, and explores the tense rela­tion­ship between the self and the nation.
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