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Lin­guis­tic Land­scape Stud­ies: The French Con­nec­tion
Despite some pio­neer­ing work on Lin­guis­tic Land­scapes (LL) refer­ring to French, com­par­a­tive­ly few pub­li­ca­tions exist which are devot­ed to the LL in the fran­coph­o­ne world. The objec­tive of this col­lec­tive vol­ume is to bring togeth­er case stud­ies with­in ‹fran­coph­o­ne› areas in a broad sense as a basis for empir­i­cal research; i.e. spaces where French is involved either as a dom­i­nant or as a (soci­olin­guis­ti­cal­ly) sub­or­di­nate lan­guage, or as a con­tact lan­guage. It deals with areas where French is the offi­cial lan­guage and/or where anoth­er (inter-)national lan­guage, region­al lan­guages with vari­able degrees of offi­cial recog­ni­tion and/or non-ter­ri­to­ri­al­ized lan­guages of migrant com­mu­ni­ties are used apart from French.
The 11 chap­ters includ­ed in this vol­ume explore var­i­ous phe­nom­e­na that are observ­able in the LL of regions in Europe (in France, Bel­gium, Switzer­land and Italy), in the Mid­dle East (Israel), in North Amer­i­ca (Cana­da), the Caribbean (islands of Guade­loupe and St. Mar­tin), and in the Indi­an Ocean (island of Réu­nion).
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Borges, Bud­dhism and world lit­er­a­ture: a mor­phol­o­gy of renun­ci­a­tion tales
This book fol­lows the renun­ci­a­tion sto­ry in Borges and beyond, argu­ing for its cen­tral­i­ty as a Bor­ge­sian com­po­si­tion­al trope and as a Bor­ge­sian prism for read­ing a glob­al con­stel­la­tion of texts. The renun­ci­a­tion sto­ry at the heart of Bud­dhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fas­ci­nat­ed Borges because of its cross-cul­tur­al adapt­abil­i­ty and meta­mor­phic nature, and because it res­onat­ed so pow­er­ful­ly across phi­los­o­phy, pol­i­tics and aes­thet­ics. From the sto­ry and its many vari­ants, Borges’s essays for­mu­lat­ed a ‚mor­pho­log­i­cal‘ con­cep­tion of lit­er­a­ture (bor­row­ing the idea from Goethe), where­by a poten­tial­ly infi­nite num­ber of sto­ries were gen­er­at­ed by trans­for­ma­tion of a finite num­ber of ‚arche­types‘. The king-and-ascetic encounter also tells a pow­er­ful polit­i­cal sto­ry, set­ting up a con­fronta­tion between pow­er and author­i­ty; Borges’s own polit­i­cal predica­ment is explored against the rich back­ground of truth-telling renounc­ers. In its poet­ic vari­ant, the renun­ci­a­tion arche­type morphs into sto­ries about art and artists, with renun­ci­a­tion a key require­ment of the cre­ative process: the dis­cus­sion weaves in and out of Borges to high­light mod­ern writ­ers’ debt to asceti­cism. Ulti­mate­ly, the enig­mat­ic appeal of the renun­ci­a­tion sto­ry aligns it with the open-end­ed­ness of mod­ern para­bles.
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