From One Shore to Another

Reflections on the Symbolism of the Bridge

Edited By: Sanda Badescu

£34.99

Combining literary, social, and philosophical approaches, the essays in this book explore the theme of the bridge. Each piece defines the bridge as a connection between shores, countries, languages, cultures, people, or communities.

The essays collected in this book—a selection of papers presented at the conference “The Sea, The Land, The Bridge: Histories of Communication” held at the…

The essays collected in this book—a selection of papers presented at the conference “The Sea, The Land, The Bridge: Histories of Communication” held at the University of Prince Edward Island (Canada) in August 2005––combine various approaches, covering literary, social, philosophical and anthropological fields, in exploring the theme of the bridge. Each essay is concerned with one possible definition of the bridge as a connection between shores, countries, languages, cultures, people or communities.
The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students and for academics in the humanities. It will be of more particular interest to scholars who are working on the history of communication and literature and on the symbolism of the bridge.

Sanda Badescu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Prince Edward Island (Canada). She has published articles on Proust, Rousseau and Mme d’Épinay, and her latest essay entitled “Le fragmentaire autobiographique chez Montaigne et Madame de Sévigné” is to be part of a collection which will be published in 2007 by Editions Nota Bene (Québec). She is working on relationships between body and soul through figures of malady, melancholia and depression in autobiographical and auto-fictional genres.