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Book SynopsisIn Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture, Ashby Kinch argues for the affirmative quality of late medieval death art and literature, providing a new, interdisciplinary approach to a well-known body of material. He demonstrates the surprising and effective ways that late medieval artists appropriated images of death and dying as a means to affirm their artistic, social, and political identities. The book dedicates each of its three sections to a pairing of a visual convention (deathbed scenes, the Three Living and Three Dead, and the Dance of Death) and a Middle English literary text (Hoccleve’s Lerne for to die, Audelay’s Three Dead Kings, and Lydgate’s Dance of Death).Trade Review"...Kinch traces how visual and verbal artists draw on, adapt, and transform each other’s traditions in ways that are sometimes complementary, sometimes competitive, and nearly always in the service of making death more palatable to their powerful patrons. It would have been significantly easier to study one or two of these topics more deeply and in isolation, but it is in teasing out this vast network that Imago Mortis does its most valuable work... Any chapter in Imago Mortis could serve as a useful model in graduate and advanced undergraduate seminars. I also want to note that the book is unusually readable: a boon to any reader, but one that is vital for introducing students to rigorous scholarship..." Bridget Whearty, in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 2015, pp. 301-304Table of ContentsList of Figures ... vii Preface ... xiii Introduction: The Mediating Image of Death ... 1 Section One: Facing Death 1: “Yet mercie thou shal have”: Affirmative Visions of Dying in Illustrations of Henry Suso’s “De Scientia” ... 35 2: Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve’s “Lerne for to Die” ... 69 Section Two: Facing the Dead 3: Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead ... 109 4: Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death: Audelay’s Three Dead Kings and the Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb ... 145 Section Three: The Community of Death 5: “My stile I wille directe”: Lydgate and the Bedford Workshop Reinvent the Danse Macabre ... 185 6: The Parlementaire , the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre ... 227 Epilogue: The Afterlives of Medieval Images of Death ... 261 Bibliography ... 281 Index ... 297

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Book SynopsisThe Quest for Civilization illuminates the origins of modern Japan through the lens of its cultural contact with the Netherlands providing a rare contribution to the field in English-language literature. Following the “opening” of the country in the 1850s, Japan encountered Western modernity through a quest for knowledge personified by Nishi Amane and Tsuda Mamichi, two young scholars who journeyed to Leiden in 1863 as the first Japanese sent to study in Europe. For two years they were tutored by Simon Vissering – one of the leading Dutch economists of the nineteenth century. Following their return home, their work as government officials and intellectuals played a key role in the introduction of the European social sciences, jurisprudence, and international law to Japan, thereby exerting a decisive influence on the establishment of the modern Japanese state and the redefinition of the international and cultural order in East Asia.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface to the English Edition Introduction 1. Seeking the Bridge between Edo and Meiji Japan 2. The Study Mission to the Netherlands of Nishi Amane and Tsuda Mamichi 1. The Dutch Constitution of 1848 and the Meiji Restoration 1. Dutch Jurisprudence and the Development of Constitutional Thought 2. Vissering’s Legal World: Natural Law, Historical Jurisprudence, and Liberal Reform 3. The Dutch Constitution of 1848 and Taisei kokuhō ron 4. The Sorai School and the Reexamination of Confucianism 5. Nishi Amane’s “Gidai sōan”: A New Concept of Government 6. The Founding of the Meirokusha and the Birth of a New Knowledge 2. The Rise of Statistical Thinking in Meiji Japan 1. The Beginning of Statistical Studies in Japan 2. Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Outline of a Theory of Civilization 3. The Intellectual World of Tsuda Mamichi’s Hyōki teikō: Dutch Statistical Administration and the Leiden University Lecture Notes 4. Sugi Kōji’s Proposal for a Central Statistical Bureau and the Political Crisis of 1881 3. Dutch Political Economy and Nishi Amane’s Philosophical Encounter with Utilitarianism 1. Political Economy as the Twin Sister of Statistics 2. The Lectures on Political Economy and Aiseiyō no michi 3. Mill’s Utilitarianism and the Deepening of Nishi Amane’s Political Philosophy 4. International Law and the Quest for Civilization 1. International Law and the Opening of Japan 2. The Place of International Law in Vissering’s Curriculum: Law, Civilization, Practice 3. Transcripts of the Leiden University Lectures on Diplomatic History and the Study of International Law in the Netherlands 4. The Intellectual World of Vissering’s Lectures on International Law 193 5. Two Views of International Law: Vissering and Wheaton 6. Debates in the Meiroku zasshi 7. Regarding Asia: Tsuda Mamichi and the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Amity 247 Conclusion 1. Philosophy and Utilitarianism 2. International Law and the Vicissitudes of Foreign Policy 3. The Establishment of Constitutional Government 4. Legacy for a New Generation Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe phenomenon of “Chinatown” has been of great interest to the general public as well as scholars. Movies and story books have made Chinatown to be exotic, mysterious, gangster filled, and sometimes, a gilded ghetto, an ethnopolis, a cultural diaspora as well as a model community. The authors of Chinatowns around the World seek to expose the social reality of Chinatowns with empirical data. The authors also examine the changing nature and functions of Chinatowns around the world while scrutinizing how factors emanating from larger societies and other external factors have shaped Chinatown development and transformation. The activities of the recent Chinese transnational migrants are also critically appraised.Trade Review"王保华教授（Bernard P. Wong）和陈志明教授（Tan Chee-Beng）都是华人研究领域中极有成就的资深学者，不仅了解华人的历史和现状，而且熟知研究唐人街的各种理论和观点。他们编辑的这本书可说是填补了这个领域的空白。[...]这是一本想了解全球华人历史与现状的必读书。" 刘海铭, 美国加州州立理工大学普莫纳分校亚洲与亚美研究系, 《华人研究国际学报》 第五卷 第二期 2013年12月 页111–114Table of ContentsIntroduction Chinatowns around the World Bernard Wong Chapter One Vancouver Chinatown in Transition Peter S. Li and Xiaoling Li Chapter Two From Mott Street to East Broadway: Fuzhounese Immigrants and the Revitalization of New York's Chinatown Kenneth J. Guest Chapter Three The New Trends in American Chinatowns: The Case of the Chinese in Chicago Huping Ling Chapter Four Chinatown Sydney: A Window on the Chinese Community Christine Inglis Chapter Five The Chinatown in Peru and the Changing Peruvian Chinese Communities Isabelle Lausent-Herrera Chapter Six Chinatown Havana: One Hundered and Sixty Years below the Surface Adrian H. Hearn Chapter Seven Problematizing "Chinatowns": Conflicts and Narratives Surrounding Chinese Quarters in and around Paris Chuang Ya-Han and Anne-Christine Trémon Chapter Eight Chinatown-Lisbon? Portrait of a Globalizing Present over a National Background Paula Mota Santos Chapter Nine Ikebukuro Chinatown in Tokyo: The First "New Chinatown" in Japan Yamashita Kiyomi Chapter Ten Chinatowns: A Reflection Tan Chee-Beng

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Book SynopsisBetween Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel analyses how Jerusalem is translated into the visual and material culture of medieval, early modern and contemporary Europe, and in what ways European encounters with the city have shaped its holy sites. The volume also demonstrates methodological shifts in the study of Jerusalem in Western art by mapping the diversity of concepts that underlie imaginations of the city as an earthly presence and a heavenly realization, as a physical and a mental space, and as a unique location which is multiplied and re-imagined in numerous copies elsewhere. Contributors are Lily Arad, Pnina Arad, Barbara Baert, Neta B. Bodner, Iris Gerlitz, Anastasia Keshman Wasserman, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Ora Limor, Galit Noga-Banai, Robert Ousterhout, Yamit Rachman-Schrire, Bruno Reudenbach, Alessandro Scafi, Tsafra Siew, and Victor I. Stoichita.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements vii List of Figures viii List of Contributors xiii xiv Introduction 1 Part 1 Crusader Jerusalem 1 The Cross and the Tomb: The Crusader Contribution to Crucifijixion Iconography 13 Anastasia Keshman Wasserman 2 ‘The King is Dead, Long Live the King’: Representing Transfer of Power in the Crusader Estoire de Eracles 34 Iris Gerlitz Part 2 Matter, Image and Body 3 Sinai Stones on Mount Zion: Mary’s Pilgrimage in Jerusalem 57 Yamit Rachman-Schrire 4 Earth from Jerusalem in the Pisan Camposanto 74 Neta B. Bodner 5 Permanent Ephemera: The ‘Honourable Stigmatisation’ of Jerusalem Pilgrims 94 Robert Ousterhout Part 3 Jerusalem in European Landscapes 6 Translations of the Jerusalem Pilgrimage Route at the Holy Mountains of Varallo and San Vivaldo 113 Ts afra Siew 7 Jerusalem in Galicia: From the Navel of the World to the Ends of the Earth 133 Lily Arad 8 Is Calvary Worth Restoring? The Way of the Cross in Romans-sur- Isère, France 154 Pnina Arad 9 Places of Remembrance : A Via Dolorosa in Berlin’s Bavarian Quarter 173 Galit Noga-Banai Part 4 Time and the End of Time 10 The Annunciation and the Senses: Ruach, Pneuma , Odour 197 Barbara Baert 11 Salvation History, Typology, and the End of Time in the Biblia Pauperum 217 Bruno Reudenbach 12 The Messianic Sanctuary in Late Fifteenth-Century Sepharad: Isaac de Braga’s Bible and the Reception of Traditional Temple Imagery 233 Katrin Kogman-Appel Part 5 Between the Real and the Ideal 13 Coping with Muslim Jerusalem between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Islam and the Holy City on Christian World Maps 257 Alessandro Scafiji 14 Placing an Idea: The Valley of Jehoshaphat in Religious Imagination 280 Ora Limor 15 Jerusalem Dreaming: Some Thoughts about Zurbarán’s Paintings for the Merced Calzada in Seville 301 Victor I. Stoichita Bibliography 311 Index 350

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Oslo in late 2005, which brought together scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines from Scandinavia, Great Britain and Ireland. The papers here began as those read at the conference, augmented by two written immediately after by attendees, but have been updated in light of the discussions in Oslo and more recent scholarship. They offer historical, archaeological, art-historical, religious-historical and philological views of the interaction and interdependence of Celtic and Norse populations in the Irish Sea region in the period 800 A.D.-1200 A.D. Contributors are Ian Beuermann, Barbara Crawford, Claire Downham, Fiona Edmonds, Colmán Etchingham, Zanette T. Glørstad, John Hines, Alan Lane, Julie Lund, Jan Erik Rekdal and David Wyatt.Trade Review"This volume presents a wide range of approaches and evidence relating to a broad region in the ninth to thirteenth centuries. That this breadth is achieved without straying from the aim to address ‘Celtic-Norse relationships’ is a major strength of the volume. [...] This will be a valuable collection for encouraging interdisciplinary reading amongst students of the Irish Sea, and indeed future students of the Irish Sea Province." Alison Leonard, University of York, in: Northern Scotland, 9 (2018), pp. 73-76.Table of ContentsPreface ... vii List of Illustrations ... xv List of Contributors ... xvii 1. Vikings’ Settlements in Ireland Before 1014 ... 1 Clare Downham 2. Names for the Vikings in Irish Annals ... 23 Colmán Etchingham 3. Saints’ Cults and Gaelic-Scandinavian Influence around the Cumberland Coast and North of the Solway Firth ... 39 Fiona Edmonds 4. The Kingdom of Man and the Earldom of Orkney—Some Comparisons ... 65 Barbara E. Crawford 5. No Soil for Saints: Why was There No Native Royal Martyr in Man and the Isles? ... 81 Ian Beuermann 6. Slavery, Power and Cultural Identity in the Irish Sea Region, 1066–1171 ... 97 David Wyatt 7. Pagan Myth and Christian Doctrine ... 109 Jan Erik Rekdal 8. Ceramic and Cultural Change in the Hebrides AD 500–1300 ... 119 Alan Lane 9. Homeland—Strange Land—New Land. Material and Theoretical Aspects of Defining Norse Identity in the Viking Age ... 151 Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad 10. Viking Weapons in Irish Wetlands ... 171 Julie Lund 11. From *AnleifR to Havelok: The English and the Irish Sea ... 187 John Hines Index ... 215

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Book SynopsisLocations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts brings together scholars who shed light on the ways locations gave shape to scientific knowledge practices in the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This interdisciplinary volume uses four hundred years of Dutch history as a laboratory to investigate spatialized understandings of the history of knowledge. By conceptualizing locations of knowing as time-specific configurations of actors, artefacts, and activities, contributors to this volume not only examine cities as specific kind of locations, but also analyze the regionally and globally networked and transformative character of locations. Many of the locations which are studied in this volume are still visible until the present day. Contributors are Azadeh Achbari, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Alette Fleischer, Floor Haalboom, Marijn Hollestelle, Dirk van Miert, Ilja Nieuwland, Abel Streefland, Andreas Weber, Martin Weiss, Gerhard Wiesenfeldt, and Huib Zuidervaart.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 The Netherlands as a Laboratory of Knowing: Introduction to Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts  Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis and Andreas Weber Part 1: Cities 2 Science in the Theatre of Towns  Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis 3 The ‘Duytsche Mathematique’ and Leiden Family Networks, 1600–1620  Gerhard Wiesenfeldt 4 The Middelburg Theatrum Anatomicum: A Location of Knowledge and Culture in an Early Urban Context  Huib J. Zuidervaart Part 2: Connections 5 Breyne’s Botany: (Re-)locating Nature and Knowledge in Danzig (circa 1660–1730)  Alette Fleischer 6 An Amphibious Science: Where Storms Took Shape  Azadeh Achbari 7 Science to Bring the Nation Together: The Formation of Nomadic Congresses in the Netherlands and Flanders  Ilja Nieuwland 8 Between Openness and Classification: Early Dutch Ultracentrifuge Development in International Context  Abel Streefland Part 3: Transformations 9 The Disputation Hall in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic: An Urban Location of Knowledge  Dirk Van Miert 10 The Lorentz Transformation of a Museum  Martin P.M. Weiss 11 Scientists in Cowsheds: Disputes Over Hygienic Milk Production in the Netherlands, 1918–1928  Floor Haalboom 12 Blending Research: Linking Dutch Industrial and Academic Polymer Laboratories, 1940–1980  Marijn J. Hollestelle Index

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Book SynopsisThis study offers a new view on the development of an urban culture of writing in one of the major cities of late medieval Europe. Via the examination of a tremendous number of documents from the Augsburg city archive it shows how civic authorities started to rely more and more on written records, which in turn created the need for archiving. The power of this process primarily resulted from a growing desire for supervision and control. Die Studie eröffnet einen neuen Blick auf den Entstehungsprozess kommunaler Schriftkultur in einer europäischen Großstadt des Spätmittelalters. Die Auswertung der umfangreichen Überlieferung im Stadtarchiv Augsburg zeigt, wie städtische Autoritäten zunehmend auf Schriftlichkeit angewiesen waren und dabei eigene Bedürfnisse der Archivierung ausprägten. Als zentrale Antriebskraft der Verschriftlichung tritt dabei ein wachsendes Bedürfnis nach Kontrolle und Überprüfbarkeit hervor.Trade Review"[...] kann resümiert werden, dass Kluges Dissertation durch die Fülle der aufgearbeiten und präsentierten Archivalien und die eingenommene Perspektive ein wichtiger Beitrag zum Verständnis von Bedeutung und Funktionieren des spätmittelalterlichen Schriftwesens ist." Herwig Weigl (Univ. Wien), in: MIÖG 123, pp 511-2 "Kluge has produced an engaging and stimulating cultural history of civic writing in Augsburg. We may look forward to other thoughtful contributions from him in the years to come." Joseph P. Huffman, Messiah College, in The Medieval Review 15.11.18 https://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/geschichte/Mittelalterliche_Geschichte/Dokumente/RezensionKlugeDiss.pdfTable of ContentsABKÜRZUNGEN TABELLEN UND ABBILDUNGEN VORWORT I. EINLEITUNG 1. Forschungsgeschichte 2. Schriftgebrauch, Überlieferungswandel und zeitgenössisches Denken 3. Methodisches Vorgehen: Stadtgeschichte und Überlieferung II. GEBURT: ADAPTION UND ASSIMILATION (1234-1304) 1. Im Zeichen des Siegels 2. Die Entstehung des Stadtrechtsbuchs 2.1 Kodifikation 2.2 Verwendung 2.3 Keine Stadt ohne Recht: Bürger, Bischof, König 3. Von der Liste zum Buch: Die Anfänge kommunaler Buchführung 3.1 Adaption 3.2 Verwendung 3.3 Überlieferung 4. Kompetenzimport: Die Anfänge der Stadtschreiber 5. Zwischenergebnisse III. REIFE: LEGITIMITÄT IM POLITISCHEN ORGANISMUS (1304-1368) 1. Buchführung und Legitimation 1.2 Fortpflanzungsfähigkeit: Die Arbeit der kommunalen Kanzlei 1.3 Buchführung im politischen Alltag 1.4 Nördlingen: Metropole und Kleinstadt im Vergleich 2. Das Rote Buch 3. Der Zunftbrief: Transfer und Visualisierung hierarchischer Distinktion 4. Der Privilegienschatz: Gezeigt, gehütet, geraubt und zerstört 5. Zwischenergebnisse IV. MACHT: VERSCHRIFTLICHUNG UND KONTROLLE DES ALLTAGSLEBENS (1368-1450) 1. Schriftgedächtnis auf Papier: Von der Apotheke zur Mühle 2. Oculus civitatis: Überlieferung, Stadtschreiber und Kanzlei 3. Briefregister: Schriftliche Bewahrung der Korrespondenz 4. Ratsprotokolle: Verschriftlichung des Regierungsalltags 5. Das städtische Nebensiegel: Der Alltag in der Urkunde 6. Neuordnung des Archivs: Systematisierung und Erschließung 7. Zwischenergebnisse V. ERGEBNISSE QUELLEN UND LITERATURVERZEICHNIS REGISTER

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Book SynopsisIn Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia, twenty-three international authors examine Galicia’s changing place in Iberia, Europe, and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds from late antiquity through the thirteenth century. With articles on art and architecture; religion and the church; law and society; politics and historiography; language and literature; and learning and textual culture, the authors introduce medieval Galicia and current research on the region to medievalists, Hispanists, and students of regional culture and society. The cult of St. James, Santiago Cathedral, and the pilgrimage to Compostela are highlighted and contextualized to show how Galicia’s remoteness became the basis for a paradoxical centrality in medieval art, culture, and religion. Contributors are Jeffrey A. Bowman, Manuel Castiñeiras, James D'Emilio, Thomas Deswarte, Pablo C. Díaz, Emma Falque, Amélia P. Hutchinson, Amancio Isla, Henrik Karge, Melissa R. Katz, Michael Kulikowski, Fernando López Sánchez, Luis R. Menéndez Bueyes, William D. Paden, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez, Ermelindo Portela, Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras, Adeline Rucquoi, Ana Suárez González, Purificación Ubric, Ramón Villares, John Williams †, and Roger Wright.Table of ContentsContents Preface ix Acknowledgments xxiv List of Figures, Maps, and Tables XXVI Abbreviations xxxii List of Contributors xxxviii Part 1: The Paradox of Galicia A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe 1 The Paradox of Galicia A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe 3 James D’Emilio Part 2: The Suevic Kingdom Between Roman Gallaecia and Modern Myth Introduction to Part 2 126 2 The Suevi in Gallaecia An Introduction 131 Michael Kulikowski 3 Gallaecia in Late Antiquity The Suevic Kingdom and the Rise of Local Powers 146 P. C. Díaz and Luis R. Menéndez-Bueyes 4 The Suevic Kingdom Why Gallaecia? 176 Fernando López Sánchez 5 The Church in the Suevic Kingdom (411–585 ad) 210 Purificación Ubric Part 3: Early Medieval Galicia Tradition and Change Introduction to Part 3 246 6 The Aristocracy and the Monarchy in Northwest Iberia between the Eighth and the Eleventh Century 251 Amancio Isla 7 The Charter of Theodenandus Writing, Ecclesiastical Culture, and Monastic Reform in Tenth- Century Galicia 281 James D’ Emilio 8 From Galicia to the Rhône Legal Practice in Northern Spain around the Year 1000 343 Jeffrey A. Bowman Part 4: Galicia in the Iberian Kingdoms From Center to Periphery? Introduction to Part 4 362 9 The Making of Galicia in Feudal Spain (1065–1157) 367 Ermelindo Portela 10 Galicia and the Galicians in the Latin Chronicles of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 400 Emma Falque 11 The Kingdom of Galicia and the Monarchy of Castile-León in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 429 Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez Part 5: Compostela, Galicia, and Europe Galician Culture in the Age of the Pilgrimage Introduction to Part 5 464 12 St. James in Galicia (c. 500–1300) Rivalries in Heaven and on Earth 477 Thomas Deswarte 13 Compostela A Cultural Center from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century 512 Adeline Rucquoi 14 The Tomb of St. James Coming to Terms with History and Tradition 543 John Williams † 15 The European Architecture of Church Reform in Galicia The Romanesque Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela 573 Henrik Karge 16 The Topography of Images in Santiago Cathedral Monks, Pilgrims, Bishops, and the Road to Paradise 631 Manuel Castiñeiras 17 Dreams of Kings and Buildings Visual and Literary Culture in Galicia (1157–1230) 695 Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras 18 Cistercian Scriptoria in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries A Starting Point 765 Ana Suárez González 19 A Convent for La Sabia Violante of Aragón and the Clarisas of Allariz 812 Melissa R. Katz Part 6: Language and Literary Culture From Latin to Galician-Portuguese Introduction to Part 6 838 20 Galician Before 1250 843 Roger Wright 21 On the Music of Galician-Portuguese Secular Lyric Sources, Genres, Performance 862 William D. Paden 22 Making Poetry, Making Waves The Galician-Portuguese Sea Lyric 894 Amélia P. Hutchinson Part 7: Modern Galicia and the Middle Ages Castros, Castles, and the Camino de Santiago Introduction to Part 7 914 23 Castles vs. Castros The Middle Ages in the Construction of Galician National Identity 917 Ramón Villares Part 8: Epilogue Future Directions Epilogue: Future Directions in the Study of Medieval Galicia 949 James D’Emilio Index 963

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Book SynopsisArt and Architecture in Ladakh shows how the region’s cultural development has been influenced by its location across the great communications routes linking India with Tibet and Central Asia. Edited by Erberto Lo Bue and John Bray, the collection contains 17 research papers by experienced international art historians and architectural conservationists, as well as emerging scholars from Ladakh itself. Their topics range widely over time, from prehistoric rock art to mediaeval Buddhist stupas and wall paintings, as well as early modern castle architecture, the inter-regional trade in silk brocades, and the challenges of 21st century conservation. Taken together, these studies complement each other to provide a detailed view of Ladakh’s varied cultural inheritance in the light of the latest research. Contributors include: Monisha Ahmed, Marjo Alafouzo, André Alexander, Chiara Bellini, Kristin Blancke, John Bray, Laurianne Bruneau, Andreas Catanese, Philip Denwood, Quentin Devers, Phuntsog Dorjay, Hubert Feiglstorfer, John Harrison, Neil and Kath Howard, Gerald Kozicz, Erberto Lo Bue, Filippo Lunardo, Kacho Mumtaz Ali Khan, Heinrich Poell, Tashi Ldawa Thsangspa and Martin Vernier.Trade Review'The book is an ambitious effort that brings together a wide range of conversations about Ladakhi’s heritage of art and architecture. The two editors must be commended for their ability to allow each topic the space it deserves, while still managing to keep the book together as a coherent whole. A key strength of the book is the critical tone and the diversity of sources it taps to develop its arguments.(...) In addition to the past, the book also dwells on current issues, while also keeping an eye on future possibilities and challenges. This is best epitomised by the concluding chapters that discuss the importance of heritage conservation in the present and the future.' Sunetro Ghosal, Ladakh Studies, 33 (September 2015) 'The volume will become an indispensable reference work for all academic libraries focussed on the HImalayas and Tibet as well as on India.' Amy Heller, Arts Asiatiques, 70 (2015).Table of ContentsIntroduction – Erberto Lo Bue and John Bray 1. Ancient Petroglyphs of Ladakh: New Discoveries and Documentation - Tashi Ldawa Thsangspa 2. Embedded in Stone – Early Buddhist Rock Art of Ladakh - Phuntsog Dorjay 3. Historic Ruins in the Gya Valley, Eastern Ladakh, and a Consideration of Their Relationship to the History of Ladakh and Maryul - Neil and Kath Howard. With an Appendix on the War of Tsede (rTse lde) of Guge in 1083 CE by Philip Denwood 4. An Archaeological Account of Ten Ancient Painted Chortens in Ladakh and Zanskar - Quentin Devers, Laurianne Bruneau and Martin Vernier 5. The Chorten (mChod rten) with the Secret Chamber near Nyarma - Gerald Kozicz 6. The Dating of the Sumtsek Temple at Alchi - Philip Denwood 7. The Iconography and the Historical Context of the Drinking Scene in the Dukhang at Alchi, Ladakh - Marjo Alafouzo 8. The Wood Carvings of Lachuse. A Hidden Jewel of Early Mediaeval Ladakhi Art -Heinrich Poell 9. The mGon khang of dPe thub (Spituk): A Rare Example of 15th Century Tibetan Painting from Ladakh - Chiara Bellini 10. Chigtan Castle and Mosque: a Preliminary Historical and Architectural Analysis - Kacho Mumtaz Ali Khan, John Bray, Quentin Devers and Martin Vernier 11. Lamayuru (Ladakh) – Chenrezik Lhakang: The Bar Do Thos Grol Illustrated as a Mural Painting - Kristin Blancke 12. The Lost Paintings of Kesar - John Bray 13. Tshogs zhing: a Wall Painting in the New ’Du khang of Spituk (dPe thub) - Filippo Lunardo 14. From Benaras to Leh - the Trade and Use of Silk-brocade - Monisha Ahmed 15. Conservation of Leh Old Town – Concepts and Challenges - André Alexander with Andreas Catanese 16. Revealing Traditions in Earthen Architecture: Analysis of Earthen Building Material and Traditional Constructions in the Western Himalayas - Hubert Feiglstorfer 17. Conservation of Architectural Heritage in Ladakh -John Harrison Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisGeorge Dimitri Sawa’s Arabic Musical and Socio-Cultural Glossary of Kitāb al-Aghānī is the first comprehensive lexicographical study of Umayyad and early Abbāsid-era music theory and practices. It defines melodic and rhythmic modes, musical forms, instruments, technical terms and metaphors used in evaluating compositions and performances, and the emotional effects of ṭarab. It explains the processes of composition and learning, performance practice, musical change and aesthetics, and addresses the behavior of court musicians to help understand societal views of music. Medieval dictionaries, reference works on Arabic literature, theoretical treatises as well as full quotations from the Aghānī are used. This glossary will be of interest to scholars and students of the music and socio-cultural history of the early Islamic era.

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Book SynopsisIn The Lordship of the Isles, twelve specialists offer new insights on the rise and fall of the MacDonalds of Islay and the greatest Gaelic lordship of later medieval Scotland. Portrayed most often as either the independently-minded last great patrons of Scottish Gaelic culture or as dangerous rivals to the Stewart kings for mastery of Scotland, this collection navigates through such opposed perspectives to re-examine the politics, culture, society and connections of Highland and Hebridean Scotland from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. It delivers a compelling account of a land and people caught literally and figuratively between two worlds, those of the Atlantic and mainland Scotland, and of Gaelic and Anglophone culture. Contributors are David Caldwell, Sonja Cameron, Alastair Campbell, Alison Cathcart, Colin Martin, Tom McNeill, Lachlan Nicholson, Richard Oram, Michael Penman, Alasdair Ross, Geoffrey Stell and Sarah Thomas.Trade Review"This collection of twelve articles plus an introduction is an extremely welcome addition to the increasingly sophisticated literature on the Gaelic culture of Highland and Hebridean Scotland from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries." Victoria Whitworth, Landscape History, Vol. 37, No. 1, DOI: 10.1080/01433768.2016.1176438, Date accessed: 5 May, 2016Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Maps…vii List of Abbreviations …x List of Contributors …xii Introduction A Celtic Dirk at Scotland’s Back? The Lordship of the Isles in Mainstream Scottish Historiography since 1828 …1 Richard D. Oram 1 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Climate, Weather and the Rise of the Lordship of the Isles …40 Richard D. Oram 2 The MacDonald Lordship and the Bruce Dynasty, c.1306–c.1371 …62 Michael A. Penman 3 From the River Farrar to the Loire Valley: The MacDonald Lord of the Isles, the Scottish Crown, and International Diplomacy, 1428–1438 …88 Lachlan Nicholson 4 Ghille Chattan Mhor and Clann Mhic an Tòisich Lands in the Clann Dhomhnail Lordship of Lochaber …101 Alasdair Ross 5 Bishops, Priests, Monks and Their Patrons: The Lords of the Isles and the Church …123 Sarah Thomas 6 ‘Contumaciously Absent’?: The Lords of the Isles and the Scottish Crown …146 Sonja Cameron 7 A Maritime Dominion – Sea-Power and the Lordship …176 Colin Martin 8 West Highland Heraldry and the Lordship of the Isles …200 Alastair Campbell of Airds 9 Organising a Lordship: The Castles of the MacDonalds of Dunivaig and the Glens …211 T.E. McNeill 10 The Lordship of the Isles: Identity Through Materiality …227 David H. Caldwell 11 A Spent Force?: The Clan Donald in the Aftermath of 1493 …254 Alison Cathcart 12 Castle Tioram and the MacDonalds of Clanranald: A Western Seaboard Castle in Context …271 Geoffrey Stell Bibliography …297 Index …319

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Book SynopsisThe ‘open society’ has become a watchword of liberal democracy and the market system in the modern globalized world. Openness stands for individual opportunity and collective reason, as well as bottom-up empowerment and top-down transparency. It has become a cherished value, despite its vagueness and the connotation of vulnerability that surrounds it. Scandinavia has long considered itself a model of openness, citing traditions of freedom of information and inclusive policy making. This collection of essays traces the conceptual origins, development, and diverse challenges of openness in the Nordic countries and Austria. It examines some of the many paradoxes that openness encounters and the tensions it arouses when it addresses such divergent ends as democratic deliberation and market transactions, freedom of speech and sensitive information, compliant decision making and political and administrative transparency, and consensual procedures and the toleration of dissent. Contributors are: Ainur Elmgren, Tero Erkkilä, Norbert Götz, Ann-Cathrine Jungar, Johannes Kananen, Lotta Lounasmeri, Carl Marklund, Peter Parycek, Johanna Rainio-Niemi, Judith Schossböck, Ylva Waldemarson, and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila.Table of Contents1. Introduction Norbert Götz and Carl Marklund 2. The Concept of Openness: Promise and Paradox Norbert Götz 3. A Nordic Paradox of Openness and Consensus? The Case of Finland Johanna Rainio-Niemi 4. Ruptures in National Consensus: Economic versus Political Openness in the Globalization Debate in Finland Lotta Lounasmeri and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila 5. Nordic Openness in Finland: European Integration, Ideational Transfer, and Institutional Traditions Tero Erkkilä 6. The Nordic Ideal: Openness and Populism According to the Finns Party Ainur Elmgren 7. The Procedural Openness of Nordic Welfare State Restructuring Johannes Kananen 8. Open Skies, Open Minds? Shifting Concepts of Communication and Information in Swedish Public Debate Carl Marklund 9. Openness and Elite Oral History: The Case of Sweden Ylva Waldemarson 10. Exporting Nordic Parliamentary Oversight to the European Union Ann-Cathrine Jungar 11. Adopting a New Political Culture: Obstacles and Opportunities for Open Government in Austria Peter Parycek and Judith Schossböck 12. From Promise to Compromise: Nordic Openness in a World of Global Transparency Carl Marklund Index

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Book SynopsisThe Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on African-European relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Factual Overview I. Sub-Saharan Africa (Sebastian Elischer, Rolf Hofmeier, Andreas Mehler & Henning Melber) II. African-European Relations (Christine Hackenesc & Niels Keijzer) III. West Africa (Sebastian Elischer) Benin (Alexander Stroh) Burkina Faso (Dan Eizenga) Cape Verde (Gerhard Seibert) Côte d’Ivoire (Alfred Babo) Gambia (Alice Bellagamba) Ghana (Kwesi Aning & Nancy Annan) Guinea (Anita Schroven) Guinea-Bissau (Christoph Kohl) Liberia (Lansana Gberie) Mali (Bruce Whitehouse) Mauritania (Helena Olsson & Claes Olsson) Niger (Klaas van Walraven) Nigeria (Heinrich Bergstresser) Senegal (Emanuelle Bouilly & Marie Brossier) Sierra Leone (Krijn Peters) Togo (Dirk Kohnert) IV. Central Africa (Andreas Mehler) Cameroon (Fanny Pigeaud) Central African Republic (Andreas Mehler) Chad (Ketil Fred Hansen) Congo (Brett Carter) DR Congo (Claudia Simons) Equatorial Guinea (Joseph Mangarella) Gabon (Douglas Yates) São Tomé and Príncipe (Gerhard Seibert) V. Eastern Africa (Rolf Hofmeier) Burundi (Stef Vandeginste) Comoros (Rolf Hofmeier) Djibouti (Rolf Hofmeier) Eritrea (Nicole Hirt) Ethiopia (Jean Nicholas Bach) Kenya (Gabrielle Lynch) Rwanda (Susan Thomson) Seychelles (Rolf Hofmeier) Somalia (Stig Hansen) South Sudan (Peter Woodward) Sudan (Peter Woodward) Tanzania (Kurt Hirschler & Rolf Hofmeier) Uganda (Volker Weyel) VI. Southern Africa (Henning Melber) Angola (Jon Schubert) Botswana (David Sebudubudu & Keratilwe Bodilenyane) Lesotho (Roger Southall) Madagascar (Richard Marcus) Malawi (Lewis B. Dzimbiri & Tiyesere Mercy Chikapa-Jamali) Mauritius (Klaus-Peter Treydte) Mozambique (Joseph Hanlon) Namibia (Henning Melber) South Africa (Sanusha Naidu) Swaziland (Marisha Ramdeen & Senzo Ngubane) Zambia (Edalina Sanches) Zimbabwe (Amin Kamete) List of Authors

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Book SynopsisControversial poetry played a crucial role in dealing with religious, political, and scholarly conflicts from 1400 until 1625. This volume analyses roles and functions of Latin, Italian, Dutch, German, Scots, and Hungarian poetry in specific historical controversies. A media theory of poetical impact is proposed by Franz-Josef Holznagel and Dieuwke van der Poel. Levente Seláf, Philipp Steinkamp, and Guillaume van Gemert examine the genres sung in wars, and in rulers’ controversies. Judith Keßler, Dirk Coigneau, Juliette Groenland, and Regina Toepfer analyse how female and male rhetoricians and humanists use verse in religious, municipal, and educational conflicts. Signe Rotter-Broman, Samuel Pakucs Willcocks†, and Alasdair A. MacDonald explain how reception strategies can shape cultural and political identities. Controversial Poetry 1400-1625 diskutiert den entscheidenden Einfluss von Controversial Poetry, Kontrovers-Dichtung, in Konflikten zwischen 1400 und 1625. Dafür werden die Rollen und Funktionen lateinischer, italienischer, niederländischer, deutscher, schottischer und ungarischer Dichtung in konkreten historischen Kontroversen analysiert. Eine Medientheorie der Beeinflussung durch Dichtung entwerfen Franz-Josef Holznagel and Dieuwke van der Poel. Levente Seláf, Philipp Steinkamp, and Guillaume van Gemert untersuchen verschiedene Gattungen gesungener Politik in Kriegen und Auseinandersetzungen von Herrschern. Judith Keßler, Dirk Coigneau, Juliette Groenland und Regina Töpfer analysieren, wie weibliche und männliche rederijkers und Humanisten Verse in konfessionellen, städtischen und Bildungs-Konflikten verwenden. Signe Rotter-Broman, Samuel Pakucs Willcocks† und Alasdair MacDonald erklären, wie Rezeptions-Strategien kulturelle und politische Identitäten gestalten können.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Role and Function of Poetry in Debate and Controversy (1400–1600)  Judith Keßler, Ursula Kundert and Johan Oosterman Part 1 Media Theory of Poetical Impact 1 wort and wîse: The German Art of Song in the 15th and 16th Centuries and Its Specific Potential Effects Shown on the Melody of “Die welt die hat ain thummen mut”  Franz-Josef Holznagel 2 The Power of Song  Dieuwke van der Poel Part 2 Genres of Sung Politics 3 Between Lyrics and Epics: The Great Turkish War in German, Italian and Hungarian Ereignisliedern  Levente Seláf 4 Dichtung als politische Propaganda? Die historisch-politische Ereignisdichtung zum Landshuter Erbfolgekrieg (1504/05)  Philipp Steinkamp 5 Der sprechende Held: Darstellungsstrategien des frühneuzeitlichen politischen Gedichts am Beispiel der Auseinandersetzungen um Heinrich den Jüngeren von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel und um Wilhelm von Oranien  Guillaume van Gemert Part 3 Usages by Rhetoricians and Humanists 6 Spitze Zunge gegen Luther  Judith Keßler 7 Poetry on Stage: The refrein in Rederijker Drama  Dirk Coigneau 8 Polemical Poetry and the Making of a Humanist School  Juliette Groenland 9 Medialität der Metrik: Eine Königsberger Bildungskontroverse um 1580 im Spiegel der Kasualdichtung  Regina Töpfer Part 4 Strategic Poetical Reception 10 Faccend’ogni Toscan di te tremare: Resonanzen politischer Kontroversen in Florentiner Liedsätzen um 1400  Signe Rotter-Broman 11 Michael Beheim’s Versifications of Popular Piety  Samuel Pakucs Willcocks 12 The Functionality of Lyric in Sixteenth-Century Scotland  Alasdair MacDonald Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the complex aesthetic, cultural, and memory politics of urban representation and reconfiguration in neo-Victorian discourse and practice. Through adaptations of traditional city tropes – such as the palimpsest, the labyrinth, the femininised enigma, and the marketplace of desire – writers, filmmakers, and city planners resurrect, preserve, and rework nineteenth-century metropolises and their material traces while simultaneously Gothicising and fabricating ‘past’ urban realities to serve present-day wants, so as to maximise cities’ potential to generate consumption and profits. Within the cultural imaginary of the metropolis, this volume contends, the nineteenth century provides a prominent focalising lens that mediates our apperception of and engagement with postmodern cityscapes. From the site of capitalist romance and traumatic lieux de mémoire to theatre of postcolonial resistance and Gothic sensationalism, the neo-Victorian city proves a veritable Proteus evoking myriad creative responses but also crystallising persistent ethical dilemmas surrounding alienation, precarity, Othering, and social exclusion.Trade Review“Like the previous volumes in the “neo-Victorian series” edited by Kohlke and Gutleben, this collection includes stimulating and thought-provoking analyses not only of novels but also of various (and diverse) movies, non-literary texts, architectural projects, and other artistic works, offering readers a comprehensive view of neo-Victorian negotiations with various notions of the city. This critically solid volume is a rewarding reading experience for all those who are interested in the multiple and subtle ways through which our nineteenth-century relatives inhabit our spaces, and still continue to live with and in us.” - Saverio Tomaiulo, in: RSV – Revista di Studi Vittoriani, Vol. 40 (2017) pp. 130-137 “Since the so-called ‘spatial turn’, cultural geography has become one of the most vibrant fields in cultural studies, with approaches ranging from a Benjamin-inflected urban phenomenology to approaches in urban sociology, media geography, psychogeography, cultural architecture, etc. The volume offers unique insights into both the contemporary and the Victorian urban mentality, thus contributing significantly both the Urban Studies and Neo-Victorian Studies circuits. The well-written and well-structured essays are informed by expert knowledge of relevant texts across media borders, and portray the neo-Victorian take on Victorian cities as fascinating, ever-changing palimpsest of historical narratives and practices.” – Prof. Dr. Eckart Voigts, TU BraunschweigTable of ContentsContents Troping the Neo-Victorian City: Strategies of Reconsidering the Metropolis, Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben PART I: Capitalising on the Palimpsestic City 1. Making and Unmaking ‘Marvellous Melbourne’: The Colonial City as Palimpsest in Neo-Victorian Fiction and Non-Fiction, Kate Mitchell 2. Neo-Victorian Cities and the Ramifications of Global Capitalism in Ayeesha Menon’s Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Nathalie Vanfasse 3. Re-imagining the Victorian Flâneur in the 1960s: The London Nobody Knows by Geoffrey Fletcher and Norman Cohen, Isabelle Cases 4. ‘Part Barrier, Part Entrance to a Parallel Dimension’: London and the Modernity of Urban Perception, Julian Wolfreys PART II: Gothicising the Metropolitan Deathscape 5. Vulnerable Visibilities: Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous Victorian Metropolis, Jean-Michel Ganteau 6. Mapping Gothic London: Urban Waste, Class Rage and Mixophobia in Dan Simmons’s Drood, Mariaconcetta Costantini 7. Neo-Victorian Cities of the Dead: Contemporary Fictions of the Victorian Cemetery, Susan K. Martin 8. Londons under London: Mapping Neo-Victorian Spaces of Horror, Paul Dobraszczyk PART III: Romancing the Commodified Metropolis 9. A Strangely Mingled Monster: Gender and Spatial Transgression in the Hardcore Metropolis of Paul Thomas’s Jekyll and Hyde, Laura Helen Marks 10. Steampunking New York City in Kate and Leopold, Margaret D. Stetz 11. The Ship and the Gun: The Perversity of Neo-Victorian Belfast in Glenn Patterson’s The Mill for Grinding Old People Young, Barry Sheils 12. Adaptive Re-Use: Producing Neo-Victorian Space in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Ho Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisSpaces in-between goes beyond the emphasis on externalities signalled by the term ‘environment’ to address the isolation of modern technological culture from nature. Solutions require more than an awareness of ‘natural surroundings’ and human destructiveness. We think in terms of the re-conceptualization, re-design and re-negotiation of space. The book is concerned with social practices, belief systems, urban designs, the organization and representation of landscapes and modes of living. These aspects of ‘spatiality’ suggest how to conceive and practice the intermingling of nature and culture and how to develop public commitment to such practices. In the process we show how concern for the environment as an aspect of space helps us to reconceive and reinterpret what it means to be human.Table of ContentsIntroduction Reconsidering Environment: Spatial Contexts and the Development of the Environmental Humanities, Mark Luccarelli and Sigurd Bergmann I: Lived Spaces & Political Contexts Strindberg’s Modern Ecological Subject: “Swedish Nature” Viewed From a Train, Linda Haverty Rugg The Romance of Reinhabitation: Jack London and Knut Hamsun, Peter Mortensen A Cosmopolitan Sense of Place, Carmen Flys Junquera Hannah Arendt on Transcendence in the Public Sphere, Firmin DeBrabander “City Creeks: Lessons in Sustainable Environmental Discourse from a Florida Boom Town”, Thomas Hallock Allotment and Community Gardens: Commons in German Cities, Werner Bigell II: Reconceiving Environmental Space Natural or Political Public Space? Spaces of Interpretation, Environmentalism, and the Sacred Depth, Forrest Clingerman Reconstituting the geographical place: the design of public spaces of exception in the contemporary city, Rodrigo Coelho Living in Bubbles: Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherology and the Environmental Humanities, Hannes Bergthaller Conclusion Medieval Green Cities: Third Space and the Challenge of History, Mark Luccarelli Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years postnational theory has become a primary tool for the analysis of European integration. Though interpretations of the concept vary, there is a wide consensus about postnationalism as a way to forge a European identity beyond a particular national history. In line with the German historical context in which this key concept was formulated in the first place, postnationalism is considered to be an adaptation of Kantian cosmopolitanism to the conditions of the modern world. This collection of essays is the first to systematically and comparatively explore the links between postnationalism and cosmopolitanism within the context of the “New Europe”. Contributors: Susana Araújo, Sibylle Baumbach, Helena Buescu, John Crosetti, Maria DiBattista, César Domínguez, Soren Frank, Birgit Mara Kaiser, Dorothy Odartey-Wellington, Maria Esteves Pereira, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Aysegul Turan.Trade Review“Those wondering about the future of Europe, given the recent political and social difficulties the continent has faced, might be well-advised to turn to César Domínguez and Theo D’haen’s timely collection of essays for possible answers.” - Audrey Louckx, Université de Mons, Belgium, in: Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research, Vol. 33 (2017), pp.218-224Table of ContentsTable of Contents César Domínguez. “Introduction” Part 1. Challenging Postnationalism/Cosmopolitanism Helena Buescu. “Europe between Old and New: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered” César Domínguez. “Local Rooms with a Cosmopolitan View? Novels in/on the Limits of European Convergence” Sibylle Baumbach. “Rooting “New European Literature”: A Reconsideration of the European Myth of the Postnational and Cynical Cosmopolitanism” Maria DiBattista. “Native Cosmopolitans” Part 2. What’s New in European Literature? Susana Araújo. “European Security, European Identity? Fictions of Terror and Transnationality” Søren Frank. “Globalization, Migration literature, and the New Europe” Karen-Margrethe Simonsen. “Towards a New Europe? On Emergent and Transcultural Literary Histories” Part 3. Test Cases on Postnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the New Europe John Crosetti. “Europeanization, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Cases in the Crime Fiction of Poe, Gadda and Simenon” Birgit Mara Kaiser. “The Spaces of Transnational Literature: Or, Where on Earth Are We with Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Der Hof im Spiegel?” Dorothy Odartey-Wellington. “Postnational or Postcolonial? Reading Immigrant Writing in Postnational Europe: The Case of Equatorial Guinea and Spain” Margarida Esteves Pereira. “A Transnational and Transcultural Perspective: Transcending the “Englishness” of English Literature” Aysegul Turan. “How to Become a “Rudeboy”: Identity Formation and Transformation in Londonstani”

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of post-communist identity reconstructions under the impact of experiences such as migration and displacement, collective memory and trauma, and cultural self-colonization. The book facilitates a mutually productive dialogue between postcolonialism and post-communism, mapping the rich terrain of contemporary East-Central European creative writing and visual art.Trade Review“An important and timely volume on post-communist cultures that seeks to offer an insightful contribution to the field of postcolonial studies [...] The diverse disciplinary background of the authors ensures that this very rich cultural material is explored from different angles [...]" - Ágnes Györke, University of Debrecen, Hungary in Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research , Vol. 33 2017 pp.110-114Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Dobrota Pucherová and Róbert Gáfrik Introduction: Which Postcolonial Europe? Part I: Post-Communist, Post-Socialist, Post-Soviet, Post-Dependence: Preliminary Considerations on East-Central European Un-Homing Madina Tlostanova Postcolonial Theory, the Decolonial Option and Postsocialist Writing Benedikts Kalnačs Postcolonial Narratives, Decolonial Options: The Baltic Experience Cristina Sandru Joined at the Hip? About Post-Communism in a (Revised) Postcolonial Mode Emilia Kledzik Inventing Postcolonial Poland: Strategies of Domestication Part II: The Ghosts of the Past: Post-Communist Rewriting of National Histories Bogdan Ştefănescu Filling in the Historical Blanks: A Tropology of the Void in Postcommunist and Postcolonial Reconstructions of Identity Adriana Raducanu Confessions from the Dead: Reading Ismail Kadare’s Spiritus as a ‘Post-Communist Gothic’ Novel Dobrota Pucherová Trauma and Memory of Soviet Occupation in Slovak (Post-)Communist Literature Natalie Paoli ‘Let My People Go’: Postcolonial Trauma in Oksana Zabuzhko’s The Museum of Abandoned Secrets Edit Zsadányi Voicing the Subaltern by Narrating the Communist Past through the Focalization of a Child in Gábor Németh’s ‘Are You a Jew?’ and Endre Kukorelly’s ‘The Fairy Valley’ Part III: Place and Displacement in (Post-)Communist Narratives and Cityscapes Irene Sywenky Geopoetics of the Female Body in Postcolonial Ukrainian and Polish Fiction Tamás Scheibner Building Empire through Self-Colonization: Literary Canons and Budapest as Sovietized Metropolis Xénia Gaál The City of K. (Königsberg/Kaliningrad) as a Cultural Phenomenon: Cultural Memory, the Myth and Identity of the City Dorota Kołodziejczyk The Organic (Re)Turn ― Ecology of Place in Postcolonial and Central/Eastern European Novel of Post-Displacement Part IV: Imagining the Orient in Central European Communist Travel Writing Róbert Gáfrik Representations of India in Slovak Travel Writing during the Communist Regime (1948–1989) Martin Slobodník Socialist Anti-Orientalism: Perceptions of China in Czechoslovak Travelogues from the 1950s Agnieszka Sadecka A Socialist Orientalism? Polish Travel Writing on India in the 1960s Part V: Between the East and the West: The Colonial Present Mykola Riabchuk Ukrainian Culture after Communism: Between Post-Colonial Liberation and Neo-Colonial Subjugation Dariusz Skórczewski Trapped by the Western Gaze: Contemporary European Imagology and Its Implications for East and South-East European Agency ― a Case Study Jagoda Wierzejska Central European Palimpsests: Postcolonial Discourse in Works by Andrzej Stasiuk and Yurii Andrukhovych Contributors

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Book SynopsisDislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance offers a broad panorama of critical approaches to globalization, its effects, the critique of neoliberalism, and discusses various forms of resistance to its monocultural raison d’être. The authors in this volume address these issues from a variety of perspectives – theoretical, as well as geographically diverse case-based analyses ranging from South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, and Australia in attempt to show the diverse effects of globalization, and varied forms of negotiating globalization on a local level. Contributors are: Allie Biswas, Katherine Burrows, Jacob P. Chamberlain, Vytis Čiubrinskas, Maria Halouva, Jeanne Kay, Mara Matta, Gintautas Mažeikis, Dennis Mehmet, Beatriz Miranda-Galarza, Mustafa Mustafa, Abhijeet Paul, Šarūnas Paunksnis, and Némésis Srour.Trade ReviewDislocating Globality engages in a vigorous exploration of the complexities of globalization, particularly of some of its neglected aspects. Through a collection of very interesting papers which focus on particularly two essential aspects of the new forms of globality – the logics of political change and of cultural dislocation – it offers a fascinating picture of innovation and creativity on the dark side of the globalization process. Against the pleasant fable of globalization as the universal spread of a benevolent and uniform modernity, this collection offers a picture of a strange, creative, innovative world in the making where things, people and institutions are forced out of their conventional places and functions. The collection offers a fascinating critical view of global modernity in its migratory flows, cultural creativity and displacement, and the surprise of political improvisation. Sudipta Kaviraj, Columbia University This collection of essays opens up new research avenues and is going to become a standard reference for scholars of globalization. Traversing diverse global landscapes and working the boundaries between disciplines it sheds light on the dislocating effects produced by the experience of globality on economies, cultures, and societies. And at the same time it dislocates the very notion of globality, demonstrating how multiple practices of resistance haunt the “monocultural” tendencies of globalization from the inside. A fascinating reading and a welcome new start in globalization studies! Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna From the postcolonial confusions of the Charlie cartoons to the zero-popping arithmetics of a lumpen counter-hegemony, the range and verve of these essays will never allow the mono of 'their' globalization time to recover. A narrowed and homogenised theoretical distance is scattered into constituent variabilities and divergent localities, as each chapter of this book offers a differing and defiant global vernacular burn. John Hutnyk, RMIT University, Melbourne This is one of the most challenging and provocative anthologies on globalization to come out in recent times. The editor has managed to bring together a bunch of audacious, youthful and politically committed writers from different parts of the globe whose corners are diverse and wide-ranging. From gentrification in Istanbul and New Delhi to French response to Charlie Hebdo massacre, from disability in Ecuador to social enterprise in indigenous Australia, from analysis of iconic global artists to debating insurgency in the Arab world, from subaltern commodification in third-world industrial slums to the politics of diasporic sexuality – the sheer range of the contributions is mind-boggling. There are also some insightful and cutting-edge theoretical essays. This is activist scholarship at its best. These are the new dissenting voices in the study of globalization. Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay, the author of The Rumor of Globalization Dislocating Globility is an attempt to bring 'small voices' from the often sidelined parts of the world to counter and encounter the metropolises. Multidisciplinary, inter-media, and translocational, the project is an alternative articulation to the familiar discourse on globalization. Kuan-Hsing Chen, National Chiao Tung UniversityTable of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures List of Contributors PART 1 Experiencing Difference, Transculturalism, and Migration On Autonomy and Migration: The Politics of Statelessness Jacob P. Chamberlain Suis-je Charlie? The Colonial Genealogy of The French Response to the Charlie Hebdo Attack Jeanne Kay Dialectics of Global and Local in the Work of Subodh Gupta Allie Biswas Deterritorialization of the Image: Dissonances in The Imagery of Arab Identity? Némésis Srour From the ‘Mad Woman in the Attic’ to the ‘Queer Stranger in the Closet’: Sexuality and Migration at the Crossroads Mara Matta Transnationalism as Fragmentation of Globality: Ethnification and Strategies of Reterritorialization of Lithuanian Immigrants in the United States Vytis Čiubrinskas PART 2 Articulating Globalized Present and Resistance The Architects of New Turkey: Globalization of Urban Space in Istanbul and the New Islamic Gentry Dennis Mehmet Infrastructures of the Grey: Asli/naqli in a Mohalla Bazaar Abhijeet Paul Tahrir Square, January 2011: Crowds, Rumours, Civil Society and Globalization Mustafa Mustafa From Self-determination to Self-appreciation: Neoliberalism and Social Enterprise in Indigenous Australia Maria Halouva From Global Concepts to Local Stories: Intellectual Disability, Family and Resistance in Ecuador Beatriz Miranda-Galarza PART 3 Monocultures and Dislocations Undoing the Logic of Zero Katherine Burrows Composite Multiculturalism in the Era of the Distribution of the Global Imaginary Gintautas Mažeikis Dreams of Other Space: Heterotopian Emplacements of the Global Šarūnas Paunksnis Index

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Book SynopsisEvolution and Human Culture argues that values, beliefs, and practices are expressions of individual and shared moral sentiments. Much of our cultural production stems from what in early hominins was a caring tendency, both the care to share and a self-care to challenge others. Topics cover prehistory, mind, biology, morality, comparative primatology, art, and aesthetics. The book is valuable to students and scholars in the arts, including moral philosophers, who would benefit from reading about scientific developments that impact their fields. For biologists and social scientists the book provides a window into how scientific research contributes to understanding the arts and humanities. The take-home point is that culture does not transcend nature; rather, culture is an evolved moral behavior.Trade Review"Evolution and Human Culture is a milestone piece bringing together philosophy, the sciences and the arts in an original and stimulating read. Culture, art, morality and evolution – a striking unification that is unique to this work." – Kathryn Francis, Fellow, CogNovo Institute, Plymouth University, UK "Evolution and Human Culture provides a very well written account of evolutionary theory across the spectrum of relevant disciplines ... addressing ... the most challenging questions that face humankind." – Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Ph.D., Professor of drama and consciousness studies, University of Lincoln, UK "Between the age-old outposts maintained by the humanities and the biological sciences lies a vast wilderness where culture and biology form a dense and inter-tangled forest. If you’ve had the feeling that you need to leave your safe and comfortable outpost and venture into this forest in order to truly understand the unique role that culture has played in the evolution of the human species, Gregory F. Tague’s Evolution & Human Culture is your map of that wilderness. A native of the humanities but also a frequent envoy to the biological sciences, Professor Tague has mapped out the paths taken by anthropologists, primatologists, evolutionary psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who have traveled where human culture and human biology intersect. Different disciplines have discovered different areas of this biocultural landscape and have returned with different ideas; Evolution & Human Culture provides an impressively-complete account of these diverse explorations. An intrepid explorer himself, Professor Tague provides his own take on the importance of culture to human evolution — that culture emerged as a means of creating and maintaining the norms that enable us to be so highly cooperative — but only after laying out the full spectrum of perspectives so clearly that he enables his reader to entertain interpretations differing from his own." – Christopher X J. Jensen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolution, Pratt InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One. Prehistory and Mind Chapter Two. Biology and Morality as Interrelated Chapter Three. Culture and Evolution Chapter Four. Art and Aesthetics as Moral Cognition Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art, Jeffrey A. Halley and Daglind E. Sonolet offer to English-speaking audiences an account of the very lively Francophone debates over Pierre Bourdieu’s work in the domain of the arts and culture, and present other directions and perspectives taken by major French researchers who extend or differ from his point of view, and who were marginalized by the Bourdieusian moment. Three generations of research are presented: contemporaries of Bourdieu, the next generation, and recent research. Themes include the art market and value, cultural politics, the reception of artworks, theory and the concept of the artwork, autonomy in art, ethnography and culture, and the critique of Bourdieu on literature. Contributors are: Howard S. Becker, Martine Burgos, Marie Buscatto, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Laurent Fleury, Florent Gaudez, Jeffrey A. Halley, Nathalie Heinich, Yvon Lamy, Jacques Leenhardt, Cécile Léonardi, Clara Lévy, Pierre-Michel Menger, Raymonde Moulin, Jean-Claude Passeron, Emmanuel Pedler, Bruno Péquignot, Alain Quemin, Cherry Schrecker, Daglind E. Sonolet.Trade Review“Based on a series of conferences, working groups, and translations of classic French texts on the matter until now unavailable to the English-speaking reader, the book sheds light on the context of origin of some of Bourdieu’s most important contributions to the sociology of the arts and culture—its legacy, its aporias, and its debates with contemporaries, disciples and dissenters alike. […] The volume should be of interest not only to those working in the sociology of arts and literature, but also to those who wish to read about new currents in the French sociology of culture and French social theory at large.” -- Claudio E. Benzecry, Northwestern University, in: Contemporary Sociology 48/6 (2019) "[...] the importance of the book. It is a contribution to the sociological literature on Bourdieu, the sociology of art, as well as French studies generally. It also fills a translation gap in bringing a large number of works to the Anglophone reader. Its strength lies in its attention to theoretical as well as empirical work, as well as its avoidance of intellectual partisanship by exposing the reader to a range of perspectives on Bourdieu’s sociology of art, some positive, others unfavorable." -- Marnia Lazreg, in Sociological Forum, Vol. 34, No. 1 (04 March 2019) "[...] ein in Sammelbänden eher seltenes Kunststück: die einzelnen Beiträge beziehen sich aufeinander und reflektieren einander. Dadurch werden beim Lesen viele Verknüpfungen hergestellt und man verfällt leicht in einen Lesefluss. Ein weiterer Pluspunkt ist auch die Autor*innenauswahl: Im Band vertreten sind viele im französischsprachigen Raum renommierte Autor*innen, wie unter anderem Raymonde Moulin, Jean-Claude Passeron, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Pierre-Michel Menger, Emanuel Pedler und Marie Buscatto, die nun auch nicht-französisch sprechende Leser*innen kennen lernen dürfen. [...] Nicht zuletzt besticht der Sammelband durch die Vielfalt seiner Themen. [...] Auch die Vielschichtigkeit des Bandes ist besonders hervorzuheben.So werden etwa in einer historisch-soziologischen Darstellung die Entwicklungslinien Bourdieus nachgezeichnet, weniger prominenten/unbekannteren Positionen Bourdieus wird Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt und auch vereinzelte missing links in seinen Theorien aufgezeigt." -- Tamara Schwertel, Soziologie Blog, 23 July 2018Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1 Introduction  Jeffrey A. Halley and Daglind E. Sonolet Part 1: Bourdieu’s Contemporaries: Raymonde Moulin, Howard S. Becker, Jean-Claude Passeron, Jacques Leenhardt 2 The Museum and the Marketplace: The Constitution of Value in Contemporary Art  Raymonde Moulin 3 The Anglophone Reception of French Sociology: The Case of Bourdieu and Subsequent Scholarship  Howard S. Becker 4 The Time Devoted to Observing Each Work of Art  Jean-Claude Passeron and Emmanuel Pedler 5 What is Literature? Notes on The Rules of Art by Pierre Bourdieu  Jacques Leenhardt Part 2: The Second Generation: Bruno Péquginot, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Pierre-Michel Menger, Nathalie Heinich, Martine Burgos, Yvon Lamy 6 The Issue of the Artwork: A Site under Construction in Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory  Bruno Péquignot 7 Theory and Practice in French Sociology after Pierre Bourdieu  Jean-Louis Fabiani 8 Inequalities in the Arts  Pierre-Michel Menger 9 Bourdieu’s Culture  Nathalie Heinich 10 Founding a Reading Group at a Library for the Young: The Story of Its Creation and Variations  Martine Burgos 11 On a Contemporary Principle of Public Classification: Heritage Conversion of Cultural Property  Yvon Lamy Part 3: The Next Generation: Emmanuel Pedler, Florent Gaudez, Alain Quemin, Laurent Fleury, Marie Buscatto, Clara Lévy and Cherry Schrecker, Cécile Léonardi 12 Musical Understanding and Cultural Misunderstanding: The Concert as a Site of Symbolic Confrontation  Emmanuel Pedler 13 Empiricity and the Process of Production in Literature: The Text as the Field of Socio-Anthropological Investigation  Florent Gaudez 14 How International is “International” Contemporary Art? An Empirical Survey of the Globalization of High Culture  Alain Quemin 15 The Work of the Institution: The Democratization of Culture in the Light of the Legacy of the Théâtre National Populaire  Laurent Fleury 16 Trying to Get in, Getting in, Staying in: The Three Challenges for Women Jazz Musicians  Marie Buscatto 17 In What Way (or Not) is Bourdieu Useful to the Sociology of Literature?  Clara Lévy, and Cherry Schrecker 18 The Art of Self-Reflecting  Cécile Léonardi Part 4: Editors’ Contributions 19 Mondo Vino: Rationalization, Resistance, and Taste in the Wine World  Jeffrey A. Halley 20 Literature and Modernity: Günther Anders, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor W. Adorno – Interpreters of Kafka  Daglind E. Sonolet Index of Subjects Index of Names

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Book SynopsisThe notion of ‘landlines’ intimates communication, and is a fairly safe bet as far as most of the writing offered here, critical and creative, is concerned. In a way, of course, the metaphor is a rearguard action, and blows up in one’s face, as it were, suggesting as it does a system of telephonic communication that is no longer typical of Africa, which is at the forefront of cellphone culture. On the more positive side, it is hoped that ‘landlines’ evoke traditional values, permitting the endorsement of communicative standards that are higher than those fostered by the ‘etherial’ chaos of cyberspace. The essays included are overwhelmingly concerned with Nigeria (productive power-house of the continent), covering such writers as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Vincent Egbuson, Buchi Emecheta, D.O. Fágúnwà, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Femi Osofisan (two articles), Wole Soyinka, and Ahmed Yerima. The Nigerian novel (four articles) is roughly matched by studies of Nigerian dramatists (five articles). Also offered are three essays on fiction from outside Nigeria, by Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana), J.M. Coetzee (South Africa), and Marie NDiaye (France), and a treatment of the poetry of Jack Mapanje (Malawi). A further, wide-ranging essay, on cityscapes, discusses novels from Cameroon, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Kenya, as well as paintings from Equatorial Guinea and public placarding in Accra. Social awareness, a firm sense of history and traditional culture, the contemporary challenges of gender and identity-politics, and the perennial theme of endemic corruption are themes that underpin all of the contributions to Matatu 47. Matatu has traditionally fostered the publication of creative writing, and the present issue is no exception, featuring as it does poetry from Trinidad, a play from Nigeria, and short stories from Burundi, Ghana, and Nigeria. The volume closes with in-depth reviews of books on Yorùbá proverbs, Chinua Achebe, and transnational literature. Contributors are: E.B. Adeleke, Tony E. Afejuku, Sophia Akhuemokhan, Niyi Akingbe, Sunday Victor Akwu, Félix Ayoh’Omidire, Dele Bamidele, Gilbert Braspenning, Clare Counihan, Jane Duran, Summer Edward, Pelumi Folajimi, Fausat M. Ibrahim, Isaiah U. Ilo, Ayodele S. Jegede, Mahrukh Khan, Adele King, Adebayo Mosobalaje, Dorothy Odartey–Wellington, H. Oby Okolocha, Harry Olufunwa, Owojecho Omoha, Wumi Raji, Marie–Thérèse Toyi, Flora A. Trebi–Ollennu, Kenneth Usongo, and Lendzemo Constantine Yuka.Table of ContentsEditor’s Preface Essays: JANE DURAN - Emecheta, Culture, and The Bride Price H. OBY OKOLOCHA AND LENDZEMO CONSTANTINE YUKA - Neologism and Dual Gender Status: The Socio-Political Implications of Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia WUMI RAJI - In Place/Out of Place: Crossings and Cross-Cultural Connections in Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s In Dependence DELE BAMIDELE AND SUNDAY VICTOR AKWU - Bourgeois Politics and Ideology in Vincent Egbuson’s Womandela ADEBAYO MOSOBALAJE - The Transition from a Mythopoeic to a Populist Aesthetic in Selected Political Plays of Wole Soyinka TONY E. AFEJUKU AND E.B. ADELEKE - Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre: The Example of Femi Osofisan PELUMI FOLAJIMI - Incorporating the Audience into Performance: Femi Osofisan’s Once Upon Four Robbers HARRY OLUFUNWA - Resident Aliens: Identity-Politics in the Drama of Ahmed Yerima DOROTHY ODARTEY–WELLINGTON - Fictional and Street Narratives: The Textual Scaffolding of Contemporary African Cities FAUSAT M. IBRAHIM AND AYODELE S. JEGEDE - Naturalism and Health in Fágúnwà’s Novels OWOJECHO OMOHA - Memory and Poetry: Imagining the Present to Reconnect the Past in The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison by Jack Mapanje CLARE COUNIHAN - Childless Mothers and Motherless Children: Fantasies of Postcolonial Reproduction in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency MAHRUKH KHAN - Motherhood and the Measure of Truth in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron ADELE KING - La Question de différence dans l’œuvre de Marie NDiaye Creative Writing: SUMMER EDWARD - Five Poems MARIE–THÉRÈSE TOYI - The Voice of Pigmies ISAIAH U. ILO - A Night Longer: A Short Play SOPHIA AKHUEMOKHAN - Medicine for Joy FLORA A. TREBI–OLLENNU - Oversized Coat Reviews

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Book SynopsisScholars of the middlebrow have demonstrated that the preferences and choices of both women writers and women readers have suffered considerably from the dismissive attitude of earlier critics. George Eliot’s famous attack on ‘Silly Novels by Lady Novelists’ set the tone for the long tradition of gendered disputes over the literary merit of works of fiction – a controversy which eventually coalesced with a class-based hegemony of taste in the so-called Battle of the Brows. The new research presented in this volume demonstrates that this gendered inflection of the critical debate is not only one-sided but tends to obfuscate the significance the middlebrow literary spectrum had for the wider dissemination of new concepts of gender. By exploring the scope of middlebrow media culture between 1890 and 1945, from household magazines to popular novels, the essays in this volume give evidence of the relative proximity that existed between middlebrow writers and the avant-garde in their concern for gender issues. Contributors: Nicola Bishop, Elke D’hoker, Petra Dierkes-Thrun, Stephanie Eggermont, Christoph Ehland, Wendy Gan, Emma Grundy Haigh, Kate Macdonald, Louise McDonald, Tara MacDonald, Isobel Maddison, Ann Rea, Cornelia Wächter, Alice WoodTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: “... all granite, fog and female fiction” Christoph Ehland and Cornelia Wächter Part I: Contact Zones The Short Fiction of New Woman Writers in Avant- Garde, Mainstream, and Popular Periodicals of the Fin de Siècle Stephanie Eggermont and Elke D’hoker Modernism and the Middlebrow in British Women’s Magazines, 1916-1930 Alice Wood Gender, Disability, Wartime: The Woman’s Body and the Disabled Ex-Serviceman in the First World War Kate Macdonald Complementary Cousins: Constructing the Maternal in the Writing of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield Isobel Maddison Part II: Heroics of the Everyday Middlebrow “Everyman” or Modernist Figurehead? Experiencing Modernity through the Eyes of the Humble Clerk Nicola Bishop “The Heroine of a Modern Sea Epic”: The New Woman Adventuress in Grant Allen’s The Type-Writer Girl Tara MacDonald The Adventures of the Lady Typist: Redefining the Heroic in Early Twentieth-Century Women’s Spy Fiction Emma Grundy Haigh Part III: Gender, Sexuality, and the Management of Anxiety Clemence Dane’s Fantastical Fiction and Feminist Consciousness Louise McDonald The Painted Veil: Re-Inventing the Colonial Woman and the Hinterland Narrative Wendy Gan Victoria Cross’ Six Chapters of a Man’s Life: Queering Middlebrow Feminism Petra Dierkes-Thrun Middlebrow Negotiations of Lawrentian Sexuality in Una Silberrad’s Desire Cornelia Wächter “Ordinary” Sexuality, the “Dirty Little Secret” and the Indecent Highbrow Modernist: Sexuality in Married Love and Lady Chatterley’s Lover Ann Rea Index

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Book SynopsisEnglish Topographies in Literature and Culture takes a spatial approach to the study of English culture. In order to gain a fresh perspective on constructions of English cultural identity, the collection treats geography, social spaces and spatial practices as well as representations of space and place as complex constellations termed ‘cultural topographies’. Individual contributions focus on writing landscapes, London psychogeography, heritage discourses, urban planning, and idiosyncratic spatial practices such as suburban gardening. In line with the ‘affective turn’, the investigated cultural topographies transcend the dichotomy between the material and the immaterial through embodiment and embeddedness, displaying a ‘new sensitivity’ in textual, visual and aural representations that seek to transcend an anthropocentric perspective. Space thus emerges as both political and shaped by affect.Table of ContentsEnglish Topographies: Introduction (Ina Habermann and Daniela Keller) I Writing Landscape 1. The Making of Edgelands (Michael Symmons Roberts) 2. “Untranslated landscape”: Recent Poetic Prose of Kathleen Jamie and Paul Farley/Michael Symmons Roberts (Christian Schmitt-Kilb) 3. Wilderness Effects and Wild Affects in UK Nature/Travel Writing (Kylie Crane) II London Psychogeography 4. Running Rings Round London: Psychogeography in Iain Sinclair’s London Orbital (Ina Habermann) 5. Bleak London: (Neo-)Dickensian Psychogeographies (Susanne Gruss) III Heritage Discourses 6. British Suburban Sitcoms and Television Heritage: The Good Life and Keeping Up Appearances (Christiane Schlote) 7. Brontё Soundscapes: The Role of Soundtracks in Adaptations of Wuthering Heights in Brontё Heritage Discourses (Jenny Bavidge) 8. Topographies of Detection: Literary Tourism, English Heritage and the Making of Agatha Christie Country (Barbara Eichhammer) 9. From Cityscapes of the Past to Brave New Worlds of the Present – Heritage and the Politics of Urban Revitalization (Richard Stinshoff) IV Individual Spatial Practices 10. Spatial Practices of Eighteenth-Century Domestic Travellers and the Idea of the Nation (Stephan Kohl) 11. Reinforcing Local Identities Through Landmarks and Their Representations in En-passant-media. The Special Case of the Angel of the North (Jakob F. Dittmar) 12. Domestic Garden Landscapes of Memory, Mortality and Beyond (Franklin Ginn)

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the rich scholarly legacy of Gunnar Jarring, the Swedish Turkologist and diplomat, the fourteen contributions by sixteen authors representing a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences provide an insight into ongoing research trends in Uyghur and Xinjiang Studies. In one way or other all the chapters explore how new research in the fields of history, linguistics, anthropology and folklore can contribute to our understanding of Xinjiang’s past and present, simultaneously pointing to those social and knowledge practices that Uyghurs today can claim as part of their traditions in order to reproduce and perpetuate their cultural identity. Contributors include: Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Rahile Dawut, Arienne Dwyer, Fredrik Fällman, Chris Hann, Dilmurat Mahmut, Takahiro Onuma, Alexandre Papas, Eric Schluessel, Birgit Schlyter, Joanne Smith Finley, Rune Steenberg Jun Sugawara, Äsäd Sulaiman, Abdurishid Yakup, Thierry Zarcone.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables A Note on Transliteration and Spelling Notes on Contributors Introduction: In the Footsteps of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring  Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Birgit N. Schlyter, Jun Sugawara Part 1: Language 1 From the Private Library of Gunnar Jarring and His New Eastern Turki Dictionary  Birgit N. Schlyter 2 Manuscript Technologies, Writing, and Reading in Early 20th Century Kashgar  Arienne M. Dwyer 3 From Eastern Turki to Modern Uyghur: A Lexicological Study of Prints from the Swedish Mission Press in Kashgar (1892–1938)  Äsäd Sulaiman 4 The Khotan Varieties of Uyghur as Seen in Jarring’s Transcription  Abdurishid Yakup Part 2: History 5 The 1795 Khoqand Mission and Its Negotiations with the Qing: Political and Diplomatic Space of Qing Kashgaria  Takahiro Onuma 6 Muslims at the Yamen Gate: Translating Justice in Late-Qing Xinjiang  Eric T. Schluessel 7 Models and Realities: Aspects of Format in Real Estate Deeds under Conditions of Legal Pluralism in Xinjiang  Jun Sugawara 8 Muslim Reformism in Xinjiang: Reading the Newspaper Yengī Ḥayāt (1934–1937)  Alexandre Papas 9 Defining the Past and Shaping the Future: Reflections on Xinjiang Narratives, Uyghur-Han-Hui Relations, and the Perspectives of Research  Fredrik Fällman Part 3: Religion 10 Writing the Religious and Social History of Some Sufi Lodges in Kashgar in the 20th Century  Thierry Zarcone 11 Ordam Mazar: A Meeting Place for Different Practices and Belief Systems in Culturally Diverse Xinjiang  Rahile Dawut 12 Magic, Science, and Religion in Eastern Xinjiang  Chris Hann and Ildikó Bellér-Hann Part 4: Kinship and Gender 13 “Keep the wealth within the Family”: Cousin Marriage and Swedish Uncles in Kashgar  Rune Steenberg 14 “A man works on the land, a woman works for her man”: Building on Jarring’s Fascination with Eastern Turki Proverbs  Dilmurat Mahmut [Dilimulati Maihemuti] and Joanne Smith Finley Index

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Book SynopsisGhost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception. In the middle of the Asian crisis of the late 1990s, ghost movies became major box office hits. The emergence of the phenomenally popular “J-Horror” genre inspired similar ghost movie productions in Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore. Ghost movies are embedded and reflected in national as well as transnational cultures and politics, in narrative traditions, in the social worlds of the audience, and in the perceptual experience of each individual. They reflect upon the identity crises and traumas of the living as well as of the dead, and they unfold affection and attraction in the border zone between amusement and thrill, secular and religious worldviews. This makes the genre interesting not only for sociologists, anthropologists, media and film scholars, but also for scholars of religion.Table of ContentsPeter J. Bräunlein: ‘Cinema-Spiritualism’ in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Encounters with Ghosts in the 21st Century Section 1: Narratives Vivian Lee: Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia: Universal Hybrids—The Trans/local Production of Pan-Asian Horror Elisabeth Scherer: Well-Travelled Female Avengers: The Transcultural Potential of Japanese Ghosts Martin Platt: Telling Tales: Variety, Community, and Horror in Thailand Maren Wilger: ‘Sundelbolong’ as a Mode of Femininity: Analysis of Popular Ghost Movies in Indonesia Section 2: Cultural Contexts Katarzyna Ancuta: That’s the Spirit! Horror Films as an Extension of Thai Supernaturalism Benjamin Baumann: The Khmer Witch Project: Demonizing the Khmer by Khmerizing a Demon Henri Myrttinen: Stepping Out from the Silver Screen and into the Shadows: The Fearsome, Ephemeral Ninjas of Timor-Leste Section 3: Audience Mary Ainslie: The Supernatural and Post-War Thai Film: Traditional Monsters and Social Mobility Natalie Boehler: Globalized Haunting: The Transnational Spectral in Apichatpong’s Syndromes and a Century and its Reception Patrick Keilbart: Pencak Silat, Ghosts, and (Inner) Power: Reception of Martial Arts Movies and Television Series amongst Young Pencak Silat Practitioners in Indonesia Ghost Movies, the Makers, and their Audiences: Andrea Lauser in Conversation with the Filmmakers Katarzyna Ancuta, Solarsin Ngoenwichit from Thailand and Mattie Do from Laos About the Authors

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Book SynopsisIn The Seal Hunt: Cultures, Economies and Legal Regimes, Nikolas Sellheim offers a deep analysis of the seal hunt worldwide. He engages on a journey from the northern to the southern hemisphere and explores how the seal hunt has shaped cultures all over the world up to this day. By analysing the different national and international regimes dealing with the seal hunt, Sellheim shows how the perception of the seal and the seal hunt has changed over time and space. Focusing on the European Union and the World Trade Organization, the volume offers an account on how opposition towards the seal hunt has found its way onto the international spheres of governance and trade.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction  1Where are we on Seals?  2Seals and Humans: A Troubled Relationship?  3A Brief Introduction to Seals  4The Characters of Law   4.1 Law and Knowledge   4.2 Law as Expression   4.3 Are Objectivity and Expression in Law Adversaries? 5 A Short Explanation of the Content of the Book 2 Cultures and Economies  1Introduction  2The Northern Hemisphere   2.1 Northern Atlantic Ocean    2.1.1. Eastern Canadian Seal Hunts    2.1.2. Iceland   2.2 Inuit Seal Hunts in the Davis Strait    2.2.1 Historical Overview   2.3 North Pacific    2.3.1. The Pribilof Islands    2.3.2. The Bering Sea and Bering Strait   2.4 Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of Japan    2.4.1. Historical Overview    2.4.2. Contemporary Issues   2.5 Jan Mayen, Barents Sea and White Sea   2.6 Baltic Sea and North Sea    2.6.1. Historical Overview    2.6.2. Contemporary Issues   2.7 Lake Sealing  3The Southern Hemisphere   3.1 South Georgia    3.1.1. Historical Overview    3.1.2. Contemporary Issues   3.2 South America   3.3 Bass Strait, New Zealand and Macquarie Island    3.3.1. Historical Overview    3.3.2. Contemporary Issues   3.4 South, Southwest and Southeast Africa  4Conclusion 3 Legal Regimes  1Introduction  2Defunct Multilateral Regimes   2.1 The North Atlantic    2.1.1 The Jan Mayen Seal Fishery Treaty, 1875    2.1.2 Finnish-Soviet Sealing Regimes in the Northeast Atlantic, 1922–1944    2.1.3 International Convention for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, 1949—1978    2.1.4 Agreement on Measures for Regulating the Catch and Conserving Stocks of Seals in the Northeastern Part of the Atlantic Ocean, 1957    2.1.5 Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of Norway on Sealing and the Conservation of the Seal Stocks in the Northwest Atlantic, 1971    2.2 The Bering Sea Fur Seal Regimes until 1984    2.2.1 The 1911 Fur Seal Convention    2.2.2 The 1957 Interim Convention on Conservation of North Pacific Fur Seals   2.3 Lake Sealing  3Current Multilateral Regimes    3.1 International Legal Regimes    3.1.1 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (unclos), 1982    3.1.2 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (cites), 1979    3.1.3 Convention on Migratory Species (cms, Bonn Convention), 1979    3.1.4 Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Habitats (Bern Convention), 1979    3.1.5 Convention on Biological Diversity (cbd), 1992    3.2 International Organisations and Regional Regimes    3.2.1 Atlantic Ocean    3.2.2 Baltic Sea    3.2.3 Mediterranean Sea    3.2.4 Antarctica   3.3 A Short Discussion on Bi- and Multilateral Agreements  4National Legislation   4.1 Northern Hemisphere    4.1.1 Canada    4.1.2 United States    4.1.3 Russia    4.1.4 Norway    4.1.5 Iceland    4.1.6 Denmark / Greenland    4.1.7 Sweden    4.1.8 Finland    4.1.9 Estonia    4.1.10 Japan    4.2 Southern Hemisphere    4.2.1 Falkland Islands and South Georgia    4.2.2 Namibia and South Africa    4.2.3 Uruguay    4.2.4 Argentina    4.2.5 Peru    4.2.6 Chile    4.2.7 Ecuador    4.2.8 Australia    4.2.9 New Zealand    4.3 A Short Discussion on National Legislation  5Conclusion 4 The European Union and the Seal Hunt  1Introduction  2The Seal Pups Directive 1983  3The EU Seal Regime   3.1 The Drafting History of the EU Seal Regime    3.1.1 The Declaration of the European Parliament    3.1.2 The Seal Hunt and the Council of Europe    3.1.3 The European Food Safety Authority    3.1.4 cowi    3.1.5 The Legislative Proposal    3.1.6 The imco Report    3.1.7 Banning the Trade in Seal Products    3.2 Adjudicating the Seal Regime   3.3 Problems, Politics and Protests    3.3.1 Stakeholders    3.3.2 The Effects of the EU Seal Regime 4 Conclusion 5 Public Morality, International Trade Law and the Seal Hunt  1Introduction  2The Blurry Concept of “Public Morality”  3International Trade Law and the “Moral Concern”   3.1 The Emerging “Moral Exception” in International Trade Law   3.2 The “Moral Concern” and the Trade in Seal Products  4Animal Welfare as a European Moral Standard  5An Inner-European View on Public Morality  6Conclusion 6 Concluding Thoughts Bibliography Literature Cited Legislation, Policy-Documents and Case-Law Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWater in Social Imagination considers how human communities have known, imagined and shaped water – and how water has shaped both material culture and the imagination. Essays from diverse perspectives offer histories of water at different scales – from community water wells and sacred springs to Siberian rivers and the regulated space of the Baltic Sea. From early modernization through Soviet style technological optimism to contemporary environmentalism, water’s ideological uses are multiple. With sustained attention not just to state policy and the technologies of high modernity, but to creative resistance to utilitarian imaginations, these essays insist on fluidities of meaning, ambiguities that derive both from water’s physical mutability and from its dual nature as life necessity and agent of destruction.

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Book SynopsisIn National Poets, Cultural Saints Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason explore the ways in which certain artists, writers, and poets in Europe have become major figures of cultural memory, emulating the symbolic role formerly played by state rulers and religious saints. The authors develop the concept of cultural sainthood in the context of nationalism as a form of invisible religion, identify major shifts in canonization practices from antiquity to the nationally-motivated commemoration of the nineteenth century, and explore the afterlives of two national poets, Slovenia's France Prešeren and Iceland's Jónas Hallgrímsson. The book presents a useful analytical model of canonization for further studies on cultural sainthood and opens up fruitful perspectives for the understanding of national movements.Trade Review'One of the most exciting comparative literary projects to appear in recent years is the Cultural Saints of the European Nation States (CSENS) project [...] Both the project and the book National Poets, Cultural Saints Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe by Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason are ambitious in scope, and their framework has proven to be a benchmark for any such studies for years to come. The combination of a comparative literature approach, cultural memory studies, and the embracement of a new theory relating to the construction of cultural saints, national poets, and cultural nationalism is truly convincing.' Kim Simonsen (University of Amsterdam), in: Romantik. Journal for the Study of Romanticisms, Volume 06 (2017), pp. 121-123.Table of ContentsPreface ... vii List of Figures, Charts, Tables, and Maps ... xi Introduction ... 1 PART 1: Towards a Theory of Cultural Sainthood 1 Remembering the Dead: Contexts of Cultural Sainthood ... 11 Cultural Memory and Invisible Religion ... 14 Nationalism and Civil Religion ... 23 Relics, Rituals, and Postulators ... 29 2 Commemorative Cults of Poets and Writers: A Historical Perspective ... 35 From Poets’ Hero Cults to the Concept of Canonicity ... 36 Medieval and Early Modern Europe: From “Poets Laureate” to the Petrarch Cult ... 42 The Cult of Centenary and Denkmalwut ... 51 Ritual and Cult as the Core of Commemorative Culture ... 58 The Rise of National Poets as Paradigmatic Cultural Saints ... 61 3 The Canonization of Cultural Saints: A Dynamic Model ... 71 Canonization, Canon, and Cultural Saints ... 72 Vita: Potentials of the Individual for Canonization ... 78 Cultus: The Production and Reproduction of Canonical Status ... 81 Effectus: Consequences for Society at Large ... 91 PART 2: National Poets from the European Periphery: Two Case Studies 4 “Glory to Prešeren!”: Canonizing a Paradigmatic Cultural Saint ... 99 Examining the Threads of Vita ... 100 Opera: Poetic Cult and the “European Level” ... 106 A Prelude to Canonization: The Tombstones ... 111 Vodnik, the “First Slovenian Poet” ... 115 The Prešeren Centenary and the Monument to the National Genius ... 122 From the Monument to the National Anthem ... 134 The “Slovenian Cultural Syndrome” ... 144 5 “I Sensed Your Desire for Your Home”: Postulators of the Memory of Jónas Hallgrímsson ... 149 Vita and Persona: Prešeren’s Nordic Twin ... 150 Opera and Acta: “His Story Still Can Make the Heart Beat High” ... 155 Postulators: The Role of Friends and Relatives ... 160 The Jónas Monument and the Icelandic Flag ... 168 The Translation and Reburial of the Poet’s Relics ... 176 Cultural Saints and Cultural Capital ... 185 Epilogue ... 189 Bibliography ... 205 Index of Names ... 226

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Book SynopsisThis volume pays tribute to the formidable legacy of Hena Maes–Jelinek (1929–2008), a pioneering postcolonial scholar who was a professor at the University of Liège, in Belgium. Along with a few moving and affectionate pieces retracing the life and career of this remarkable and deeply human intellectual figure, the collection contains poems, short fiction, and metafiction. The bulk of the book consists of contributions on various areas of postcolonial literature, including the work of Wilson Harris, the ground-breaking writer to whom Hena Maes–Jelinek devoted much of her career. Other writers treated include Ben Okri, Leone Ross, Kamau Brathwaite, Jamaica Kincaid, Peter Carey, Murray Bail, Patrick White, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Dan Jacobson, Joseph Conrad, and Eslanda Goode Robeson. Caryl Phillips revisits his earlier reflections on the ‘European tribe’. There are wide-ranging essays analysing consanguineous authors, on such topics as Caribbean treatments of the Jewish Diaspora, Swiss-Caribbean authors, the contemporary Australian short story and the Asian connection, and ‘habitation’ in Australian fiction, as well as a searching examination of the socio-political fallout from the scandal of Australia’s ‘Stolen Generations’. Contributors are: Gordon Collier, Tim Cribb, Fred D'Aguiar, Geoffrey V. Davis, Jeanne Delbaere, Marc Delrez, Jean–Pierre Durix, Wilson Harris, Dominique Hecq, Marie Herbillon, Louis James, Karen King–Aribisala, Bénédicte Ledent, Christine Levecq, Alecia McKenzie, Carine Mardorossian, Peter H. Marsden, Alistair Niven, Annalisa Oboe, Britta Olinder, Christine Pagnoulle, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Scott, Stephanos Stephanides, Klaus Stuckert, Peter O. Stummer, Petra Tournay–Theodotou, Daria Tunca, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Janet Wilson.Table of ContentsThe Invention of Legacy: A Tribute to Hena Maes–Jelinek, by JEANNE DELBAERE Because It Was She, by JEANNE DELBAERE The Invention of Legacy: Opening Ceremony, by GEOFFREY V. DAVIS Text Read at the Launch of The Labyrinth of Universality, by WILSON HARRIS Cumberland Lodge: Honouring Hena in the Right Setting, by ALASTAIR NIVEN A Kaddish for Hena, by PETER H. MARSDEN The Photo, by ALECIA MCKENZIE The Wind Under My Lips, by STEPHANOS STEPHANIDES The Empathy of Genius: Hena Maes–Jelinek and Wilson Harris, by LOUIS JAMES Place and Time: The Two Anchors, by T.J. CRIBB The Legacy of the Imagination: Reading Wilson Harris after Hena Maes–Jelinek, by JEAN–PIERRE DURIX Intersections on the ‘Map of Art’: Metaphor in Ben Okri’s Dangerous Love and Wilson Harris’s The Mask of the Beggar, by DARIA TUNCA A Tribute to Hena, by LAWRENCE SCOTT On a Voyage to Demerara, 1859, by LAWRENCE SCOTT The Shylock In Me, by KAREN KING–ARIBI SALA Revisiting The European Tribe, by CARYL PHILLIPS How Anancy Feeds His Family (and Himself), by FRED D’AGUIAR Telling Your Story: Memory and Trauma in Leone Ross’s Orange Laughter, by PETRA TOURNAY–THEODOTOU On the ‘Erasure of Specificities’ in Studies of the African Diaspora, by CHRISTINE LEVECQ Swiss-Caribbean Authors: A Legacy of Swiss Involvement in the Colonial System, by KLAUS STUCKERT On the Kamau Trail: Tracking Poems from Page to Stage, by CHRISTINE PAGNOULLE Race, Literacy, and Postcoloniality in Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter, by CARINE MARDOROSSIAN Caribbean Writers and the Jewish Diaspora: A Shared Experience of Otherness, by BÉNÉDICTE LEDENT Remarkable Developments in the Australian Short Story: John Murray and Nam Le, by PETER O. STUMMER Mourning and Metafiction in Peter Carey’s Chemistry of Tears, by MARC DELREZ Tribute, by MARIE HERBILLON Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus: An Australian Fairy-Tale?, by MARIE HERBILLON Metonyms of Mood and Condition: The Semiosis of Habitation in Selected Australian Fiction Since Patrick White, by GORDON COLLIER (Not) Saying Sorry: Australian Responses to the Howard Government’s Refusal to Apologize to the Stolen Generations, by JANET WILSON Cannibalism and ‘Unspeakable Rites’: Patrick White’s A Fringe of Leaves and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, by CYNTHIA VANDEN DRIESEN The Holocaust as Private and Public Crisis: Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Poetic Version of Etty Hillesum’s Diaries and Letters, by BRITTA OLINDER “The Territory of My Imagination”: Rediscovering Dan Jacobson’s South Africa, by GEOFFREY V. DAVIS The Legacy of Atlantic Crossings: Eslanda Goode Robeson’s African Journey (1945), by ANNALISA OBOE Letters to the End of Grief, DOMINIQUE HECQ

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Book SynopsisThis volume highlights humour’s crucial role in shaping historical re-visions of the long nineteenth century, through modes ranging from subtle irony, camp excess, ribald farce, and aesthetic parody to blackly comic narrative games. It analyses neo-Victorian humour’s politicisation, its ideological functions and ethical implications across varied media, including fiction, drama, film, webcomics, and fashion. Contemporary humour maps the assumed distance between postmodernity and its targeted nineteenth-century referents only to repeatedly collapse the same in a seemingly self-defeating nihilistic project. This collection explores how neo-Victorian humour generates empathy and effective socio-political critique, dispensing symbolic justice, but also risks recycling the past’s invidious ideologies under the politically correct guise of comic debunking, even to the point of negating laughter itself. "This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally." - Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, AustraliaTrade Review"This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally." – Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia “Kohlke & Gutleben’s collection of essays is a valuable addition to the existing research on neo-Victorian fiction and culture, particularly as it is the first work dealing with irony, humour and comedy in neo-Victorianism. Moreover, most chapters included in the book offer interpretations of neo-Victorian cultural texts that have so far enjoyed little scholarly attention. The introduction authored by the editors is especially significant, as it provides an overview of the ideological tensions inherent to neo-Victorian fiction and the role humour plays in this genre, which is innovative in the field of neo-Victorian studies. Its fresh perspective on the ideological agendas and incongruities of neo-Victorian fiction is particularly inspiring for further research in neo-Victorianism and postmodernism.” -Barbara Braid, Institute of English, Szczecin University, in European Journal of Humour Research Vol.6, No. 3, pp.113-118 (2018)Table of ContentsWhat’s So Funny about the Nineteenth Century? Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben PART I Humour and Metanarratives 1. Parody after Providence: Christianity, Secularism, and the Form of Neo-Victorian Fiction Miriam Elizabeth Burstein 2. Neo-Victorian Killing Humour: Laughing at Death in the Opium Wars Marie-Luise Kohlke 3. ‘Bleak Hilarity’ in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty Dana Shiller 4. Drainage in a Time of Cholera: History and Humour in Matthew Kneale’s Sweet Thames Michael L. Ross PART II Humour and Gender 5. Looking at Victorian Fashion: Not a Laughing Matter Margaret D. Stetz 6. Neo-Victorian Feminist History and the Political Potential of Humour Tara MacDonald 7. Good Vibrations: Hysteria, Female Orgasm and Medical Humour in Neo-Victorianism Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts 8. “People keep giving me rings, but I think a small death ray might be more practical”: Women and Mad Science in Steampunk Comics Dru Pagliassotti PART III Humour and Postmodernism: 9. “Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!”: The Neo-Victorian Novel-as-Mashup and the Limits of Postmodern Irony Megen de Bruin-Molé 10. Camp Heritage: Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm as Neo-Victorian Heritage Spectacle Christophe Van Eecke 11. Laughing (at) Freaks: “Bending the tune to her will” in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus and Rosie Garland’s The Palace of Curiosities Saverio Tomaiuolo 12. The Dog Days of Empire: Black Humour and the Bestial in J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur Ryan D. Fong Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTechnological progress in the 21st Century still remains monopolized by the developed countries, thereby determining the direction and rhythm of growth in developing countries which must import their technological infrastructure. This colonialized model of industrialization leads to a perpetual outflow of resources abroad and to structured social exclusion that placed narrow limits on democracy and the distribution of overall wellbeing. Why did Latin American societies fail to create an internal division of labour that could adequately provide for the development of productive forces? How did this affect the prospects for democracy in the region? Development and Democracy: Relations in Conflict examines the conflicting relations between technological development and democracy as they unfold in a new and ever more challenging environment. Contributors are: Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles, Leonel Álvarez Yáñez, Jesús Becerra Villegas, Ximena de la Barra, Héctor de la Fuente Limón, R. A. Dello Buono, Sergio Octavio Contreras Padilla, Silvana Andrea Figueroa Delgado, Víctor Manuel Figueroa Sepúlveda, Ernesto Menchaca Arredondo, Miguel Omar Muñoz Domínguez, Alexandre M. Quaresma de Moura, Cristina Recéndez Guerrero.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 A Critique of the Origin and Foundations of the New Inequality among Mankind  Alexandre M. Quaresma 2 Unemployment, Inequality and Technological Development  Víctor Manuel Figueroa Sepúlveda 3 Technology and Subsumption by Capital  Jesús Becerra Villegas 4 The State and Freedom of Public Network Space  Sergio Octavio Contreras 5 Grey Areas in China’s Growth: A Questionable Development  Silvana Andrea Figueroa Delgado 6 Economic Growth, Democracy and the Construction of Citizenship in South Korea  Cristina Recéndez Guerrero 7 Latin American Democracy as an Alternative Work in Progress  Ximena de la Barra and R.A. Dello Buono 8 Acquiring Technology in the Mexican Private Sector: A Disarticulated ‘Linkage’ of the Triple Helix  Miguel Omar Muñoz Domínguez 9 Proliferation of the Corporate Agro-Industrial Model in Latin America  Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles 10 Well-Being and Happiness: Conditions for a New Conception of Development?  Ernesto Menchaca Arredondo and Leonel Álvarez Yáñez 11 The Challenges of Democracy in Mexico  Héctor de la Fuente Limón References Index

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Book SynopsisThe “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of their respective departments in Todai and Fudan. The rest of the essays showcase how such thinking about the global and local histories have borne fruit, as the scholars of the three institutions contributed essays, arguing about the philosophies, methodologies, and/or perspectives of global history and how it relates to local stories. Authors include Benjamin Elman, Haneda Masashi, and Ge Zhaoguang.Table of ContentsList of Contributers Introduction: An Overview, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 1 Is World History Possible? 1 Is There Still Value in National History in the Trend towards Global History?, by Zhaoguang Ge 2 Is a World History of Ideas Possible?, by Federico Marcon Part 2 What Forms of Globalization Took Shape in Traditional East Asia? 3 Conditional Universality and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia, by Nakajima Takahiro 4 A New Global History and Regional Histories, by Masashi Haneda 5 A Jointly Regional-Global Approach to Rethinking Early Modern East Asian History, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 3 How Did Internationalism Emerge in Modern Chinese and Japanese Higher Education? 6 Internationalization from Within: 140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo. By Jin Satō 7 Global History in China: Inheritance and Innovation—A Case Study of the Development of World History in the History Department of Fudan University, by Yunshen Gu Part 4 Doing ‘World’ or ‘Global’ History as ‘Transnational’ History 8 From ‘East Asia’ to ‘East Asian Maritime Worlds’: The Pros and Cons of the Construction of a Historical World, by Shaoxin Dong 9 From Sri Lanka to East Asia: A Short History of a Buddhist Scripture, by Norihisa Baba 10 ‘Nobody Changed Their Old Customs’—Tang Views on the History of the World, by Tineke D’Haeseleer 11 The Korean Response to Xue Xuan’s Enshrinement in the Ming Confucian Temples, by Xinlei Wang 12 Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century World, by Yasushi Ōki 13 Tales of an Open World: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty as Dutch Tragedy, Chinese Rumor, and Global News, by Paize Keulemans 14 The Regulation of Sailors in the Maritime Trade between Jiangnan and Nagasaki in Early Qing China, by Zhenzhong Wang 15 The Transnational History of Japanese Thrift, by Sheldon Garon Coda, by Benjamin A. Elman Index

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Book SynopsisCultural Memory, a subtle and comprehensive process of identity formation, promotion and transmission, is considered as a set of symbolic practices and protocols, with particular emphasis on repositories of memory and the institutionalized forms in which they are embodied. High and low culture as texts embedded in the texture of memory, as well as material culture as a communal receptacle and reservoir of memory are analysed in their historical contingency. Symbolic representations of accepted and counter history/ies, and the cultural nodes and mechanisms of the cultural imaginary are also issues of central interest. Twenty-six contributions tackle these topics from a theoretical and historical perspective and bring to the fore case studies illustrating the interdisciplinary agenda that underlies the volume. Contributors: Luis Manuel A.V. Bernardo, Lina Bolzoni, Peter Burke, Pia Brinzeu, Adina Ciugureanu, Thomas Docherty, Christoph Ehland, Herbert Grabes, László Gyapay, Donna Landry, Christoph Lehner, Gerald MacLean, Dragoş Manea, Daniel Melo, Mirosława Modrzewska, Rareş Moldovan, C.W.R.D. Mosely, Petruţa Năiduţ, Francesca Orestano, Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke, Andreea Paris, Leonor Santa Bárbara, Hans-Peter Söder, Jukka Tiusanen, Ludmila Volná, Ioana Zirra.

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Book SynopsisThis volume seeks to revisit the Franco-Maghrebian representations of masculinity in the line of the New Men’s Studies examining the cultural codes, the aesthetical expressions as well as their interconnectedness with the socio-political realities. Dans la lignée des études sur le masculin, ce volume a pour objectif de revisiter les manifestations de la masculinité en contexte franco-maghrébin en éclairant autant les codes culturels, les expressions littéraires et cinématographiques que leur rapport aux réalités sociopolitiques.Table of ContentsIntroduction  Claudia Gronemann Part 1: Études dans le champ social et culturel 1 Masculinités et production érotiques au Maroc  Gianfranco Rebucini 2 Les Mésaventures du masculin postcolonial à travers le Texte maghrébin : de la Red̲j̲la aux papiches dans l’Imaginaire algérien  Mourad Yelles 3 Masculinité (vs féminité) et parole littéraire en berbère de Kabylie  Mohand-Akli Salhi 4 Basculement, renversement et révolution dans les relations entre genres et les comportements sexuels maghrébins  Denise Brahimi Part 2: Études cinématographiques 5 Circularité sans issue ? La Citadelle (El-Kalaa) de Mohamed Chouikh  Michael Gebhard 6 Melancholic Masculinity in Nouri Bouzid’s Man of Ashes  Kristine Hempel 7 La Double Altérité cinématographique de l’Autre maghrébin-homosexuel, entre exotisme, identification et décorporisation  Manuel Billi 8 Follitudes maghrébines et parodies en tous genres. Chouchou (Merzak Allouache) et La Folle Histoire d’amour de Simon Eskenazy (Jean-Jacques Zilbermann)  Renaud Lagabrielle 9 Masculinité et sexualités dans le cinéma tunisien  Alexie Tcheuyap Part 3: Études littéraires 10 Le Mâle/Mal de la Mélancolie : homoérotisme et masculinité inadaptée chez Abdellah Taïa  Claudia Gronemann 11 Transgressions des normes de genre et homosexualité dans Une vie à trois de Bahaa Trabelsi  Sabrina Nepozitek 12 Masculinités en crise. Ravisseur et La Vie sexuelle d’un islamiste à Paris de Leïla Marouane  Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner 13 La Représentation satirique de la Masculinité dans le Roman algérien et « beur »  Lila Medjahed 14 Father Figures in Beur Literature – a Comparison of Kiffe kiffe demain by Faïza Guène, Pieds-blancs by Houda Rouane and Les Chiens aussi by Azouz Begag  Ronja Schicke 15 Écriture et construction du corps masculin/féminin chez Mohammed Dib. L’exemple de Habel et Cours sur la Rive sauvage  Mourida Akaichi Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects twenty of Lawrence Kramer’s seminal writings on art song (especially Lieder), opera, and word-music relationships. All examine the formative role of culture in musical meaning and performance, and all seek to demonstrate the complexity and nuance that arise when words and music interact. The diverse topics include words and music, music and poetry, subjectivity, the sublime, mourning, sexuality, decadence, orientalism, the body, war, Romanticism, modernity, and cultural change. Several of the earlier essays have been revised for this volume, which also contains a preface by the author and a foreword by Richard Leppert. The volume should be essential reading for scholars, students, performing musicians, and other music-lovers interested in musicology, word-music relationships, cultural studies, aesthetics, and intermediality.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgments 1 Song [1984] 2 The Schubert Lied: Romantic Form and Romantic Consciousness [1986] 3 Performance and Social Meaning in the Lied: Schubert’s Erster Verlust [1994] 4 “Syringa”: John Ashbery and Elliott Carter [1984; 1980] 5 Decadence and Desire: The Wilhelm Meister Songs of Wolf and Schubert [1987] 6 Hugo Wolf: Subjectivity in the Fin-de-Siècle Lied [1996/2009] 7 Recognizing Schubert: Musical Subjectivity, Cultural Change, and Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady [2002] 8 “Little Pearl Teardrops”: Schubert, Schumann, and the Tremulous Body of Romantic Song [2002] 9 The Harem Threshold: Turkish Music and Greek Love in Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” [1998] 10 Like Falling Leaves: The Erotics of Mourning in Four Drum-Taps Settings [2002] 11 Murderous Women in German Opera [2008] 12 “Longindyingcall”: of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens [2006] 13 Recalling the Sublime: The Logic of Creation in Haydn’s Creation [2009] 14 Wagner’s Gold Standard: Tannhäuser and the General Equivalent [2010] 15 The Talking Wound and the Foolish Question: Symbolization in Parsifal [2006] 16 The Great American Opera: Klinghoffer, Streetcar, and the Exception [2007] 17 Modern Madrigalisms: Elliott Carter and the Aesthetics of Art Song [2014] Appendix: Unsung Words and Music 18 The Strange Case of Beethoven’s Coriolan: Romantic Aesthetics, Modern Subjectivity, and the Cult of Shakespeare 19 Tolstoy’s Beethoven, Beethoven’s Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata [1997/2006] 20 Subjectivity Unbound: Music, Language, Culture [2003/2012]

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Book SynopsisAfter the State and the Church, the most well organized membership system of medieval and early modern Europe was the confraternity. In cities, towns, and villages it would have been difficult for someone not to be a member of a confraternity, the recipient of its charity, or aware of its presence in the community. In A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities, Konrad Eisenbichler brings together an international group of scholars to examine confraternities from various perspectives: their origins and development, their devotional practices, their charitable activities, and their contributions to literature, music, and art. The result is a picture of confraternities as important venues for the acquisition of spiritual riches, material wealth, and social capital. Contributors to this volume: Alyssa Abraham, Davide Adamoli, Christopher F. Black, Dominika Burdzy, David D’Andrea, Konrad Eisenbichler, Anna Esposito, Federica Francesconi, Marina Gazzini, Jonathan Glixon, Colm Lennon, William R. Levin, Murdo J. MacLeod, Nerida Newbigin, Dylan Reid, Gervase Rosser, Nicholas Terpstra, Paul Trio, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Beata Wojciechowska, and Danilo Zardin.Trade Review“Konrad Eisenbichler has brought together a team of scholars that details the development and strength of confraternity studies as well as showcases the lacunae in scholarship in certain aspects of confraternity studies. A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities provides a guide to scholars interested in the study of the religious practices of the laity, the social assistance provided by confraternities, and the arts they sponsored. As a whole, it illustrates the richness and complexity of premodern confraternities and the many opportunities still open for further research. Scholars of medieval and early modern European culture will find this volume particularly useful for its detailed introduction to confraternity studies and its array of articles on various aspects of premodern lay religious associations." Nilab Ferozan, McMaster University. In Confraternitas, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2020), pp. 52–53. “This is an excellent volume. […] Any student of confraternities will profit from reading this book.” D. Henry Dieterich, in: The Medieval Review, 21.01.10. “The essays in this volume reveal the undeniable centrality of confraternities between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. Each contribution raises possibilities for further research. Early modern political and legal history might benefit from considering confraternal influence on statutory law.” Bianca Lopez, Southern Methodist University. In: Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Spring 2020), pp. 371–373. “A brief review cannot do full justice to such a rich collection about the growing field of confraternity studies as approached from so many perspectives. Even with this rich tapestry, almost every chapter ends by suggesting areas for further research.” Kenneth Jorgensen, Albertus Magnus College. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Fall 2020), pp. 1085–1087 (doi:10.1017/rqx.2020.183) “Confraternity studies have grown tremendously in the last thirty years and A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities reflects the depth and width of that growth […]. The team of scholars brought together by Konrad Eisenbichler for this volume highlights the strength and maturity of the scholarship of confraternity studies. A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities provides an important guide into this important field of research.” Mark A. Lewis, S.J., Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome). In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2019), pp. 707–710 (doi:10.1163/22141332-00604007-04)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: A World of Confraternities  Konrad Eisenbichler Part 1: Birth and Development 2 Confraternities as Such, and as a Template for Guilds in the Low Countries during the Medieval and the Early Modern Period  Paul Trio 3 Change and Continuity: Eucharistic Confraternities in Ticino and Switzerland before and after Trent  Davide Adamoli 4 The Development of Confraternities in Central Europe in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period  Beata Wojciechowska Part 2: Devotion and Prayer 5 The Ethics of Confraternities  Gervase Rosser 6 “A Single Body”: Eucharistic Piety and Confraternities of the Body of Christ in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Texts, Images, and Devotion  Danilo Zardin 7 Confraternities and the Inquisition: For and Against  Christopher F. Black Part 3: Good Works 8 Guides for a Good Life: The Sermons of Albertano da Brescia and other Instructions for Citizens and Believers in Italian Medieval Confraternities  Marina Gazzini 9 Cities of God or Structures of Superstition: Medieval Confraternities and Charitable Hospitals in the Early Modern World  David D’Andrea 10 Confraternities in Late Medieval Ireland: The Evolution of Chantry Colleges  Colm Lennon 11 Confraternities and Capital Punishment: Charity, Culture, and Civic Religion in the Communal and Confessional Age  Nicholas Terpstra Part 4: Confraternities in a Transcultural World 12 National Confraternities in Rome and Italy in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Identity, Representation, Charity  Anna Esposito 13 At the Crossroads of Cultures: The Orthodox Confraternities of Central and Eastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th Century  Dominika Burdzy 14 Confraternities in Colonial New Spain: Mexico and Central America  Murdo J. MacLeod 15 The Generative Space of Jewish Confraternities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe  Federica Francesconi Part 5: Arts and Letters 16 Singing Praises to God: Confraternities and Music  Jonathan Glixon 17 Serio Ludere: Confraternities and Drama in Central Italy, 1400–1600  Nerida Newbigin 18 Faith on Stage: The Chambers of Rhetoric and Civic Religion in the Low Countries, 1400–1700  Anne-Laure Van Bruaene 19 Confraternities and Poetry: The Francophone Puys  Dylan Reid 20 Iconography, Spectacle, and Notions of Corporate Identity: The Form and Function of Art in Early Modern Confraternities  Alyssa Abraham 21 Art as Confraternal Documentation: Homeless Children and the Florentine Misericordia in the Trecento  William R. Levin Index

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Book SynopsisLondon post-2010 in British Literature and Culture explores cultural and literary representations of London since around 2010 and focuses on a period in which a string of celebratory national and global media events, but also riots and anti-capitalist protests have cemented London’s status as a paradigmatic world city. This collection of articles brings together a wide variety of topics, such as the 2011 London riots, the London Olympics of 2012, royal festivities, the Tube anniversary, memorials, and London in recent novels and blockbuster films. The contributions look at the way in which cultural and literary texts articulate competing versions of the contemporary city, oscillating between either supporting or subverting the hegemonic narrative of London as a place of cosmopolitan harmony and inclusion.

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Book SynopsisOf all European landscapes and regions, the Rhine is one of the most heavily overlaid with cultural and political meaning. Cradle of Romanticism, tourism, and the picturesque, bone of contention between the German and French spheres of cultural and geopolitical influence, the Rhine has attracted armies, artists, activists and tourists for centuries and has featured prominently the key writings of Europe’s literary and intellectual history from Byron to Lucien Febvre. This volume brings together eminent literary and cultural historians to present materials and analyses from various of the central nexus of European culture. The volume also contains a unique and comprehensive anthology of key texts (historical, poetical and polemical) related to the Rhineland and its contested position. Contributors are: Reinhard Baumann, Manfred Beller, Hans-Werner Breunig, Giovanna Cermelli, Joep Leerssen, Elmar Scheuren, Helmut J. Schneider, and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz.Trade Review'This admirable book tells us what it was like before sanity prevailed.' John Fletcher in, Journal of European Studies 49 (3-4) 2019, p. 5-6.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Rhine, Europe’s Frontier, Europe’s Dreamland: Transnational Destination, Inspiration, Disputation Part 1: Case Studies in Geopolitics, Romanticism and Travel 1 Victor Hugo’s Le Rhin: French National Perspectives on a European River  Manfred Beller 2 The Symbolical and Political Investment of the Rhine: A Dutch Perspective  Joep Leerssen 3 Italian Travellers in the Rhineland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century  Giovanna Cermelli 4 English Middle-Rhine Tourism in Late-eighteenth and Nineteenth-century Literature  Hans Werner Breunig 5 North American Travellers in the Rhine Valley: Revisions of Their Perspectives on the Landscape and on Sites of Memory in the Contested Region  Waldemar Zacharasiewicz 6 Goethe’s Art Travels in the Rhine Regions 1814–1817 and His Concept of Decentralized Collections  Helmut J. Schneider 7 Restored Future: A Panorama of the Castles, Churches and Monuments on the Confluence of Rhine and Nahe  Manfred Beller 8 The Rhine as a Symbol: Aspects, Meanings and Functionalization of a Memory Landscape  Elmar Scheuren 9 The Walhalla: Bavarian Integration Monument, Germanic Hall of Fame, Expression of European Patronage  Reinhard Baumann Part 2: A History of Appropriations 10 From the Meuse to the Rhine: A Disputed Region in French and German Atlases and Encyclopaedias  Manfred Beller 11 The Never-ending Stream: Cultural Mobilization over the Rhine  Joep Leerssen 12 Literary Appropriations of the Rhine: A German–French Repertory, 1814–1925

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Book SynopsisIn Florentine Patricians and Their Networks, Elisa Goudriaan presents the first comprehensive overview of the cultural world and diplomatic strategies of Florentine patricians in the seventeenth century and the ways in which they contributed as a group to the court culture of the Medici. The author focuses on the patricians’ musical, theatrical, literary, and artistic pursuits, and uses these to show how politics, social life, and cultural activities tended to merge in early modern society. Quotations from many archival sources, mainly correspondence, make this book a lively reading experience and offer a new perspective on seventeenth-century Florentine society by revealing the mechanisms behind elite patronage networks, cultural input, recruiting processes, and brokerage activities.Trade Review"an impressive scholarly achievement" Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto, in Renaissance Quarterly LXXII.4 (doi:10.1017/rqx.2019.427) “This excellent study not only helps to counter a previous limited understanding of the Florentine patriciate in the ‘forgotten centuries’, but also invites the reader to develop this new understanding further by examining other key figures and other networks of influence operating in seventeenth-century Tuscany.” Konrad Eisenbichler, University of Toronto. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 552–554.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations and Spelling Acknowledgements Introduction The Traditional View A New View Periodization, Methodology, and Structure Social Networks Archival Research in Florence and Rome Insights into a Rich Cultural and Intellectual World 1. Florentine Patricians and Their Changing Social and Political Position (1530-1670) Introduction 1.1 The Forming of the Duchy of the Medici in Florence 29 1531-1537 - The Reign of the First Duke Alessandro de’ Medici and Changing Political Institutions 1.2 The Nomination of Duke Cosimo I, the Patricians’ Loss of Political Power, the Arrival of Non-Florentine Courtiers and The Patricians’ Quest to Regain Political Influence (1537-1609) Cosimo’s Quest for Political Independence The Patricians’ Counterquest for Political Recognition 1.3 The Patricians’ Run on Noble Titles, Their Social Domination over the ‘Uomini Nuovi’ and Their Growing Political Power (1609-1670) 1.4 Social and Economic Power of Seventeenth-Century Patricians 1.5 The Patricians’ Contribution to the Economic Stability of Tuscany in the Seventeenth Century 1.6 Cittadini or Noble Courtiers? 1.7 Patrician Careers in Tuscany, Rome and Malta Conclusion 2. Florentine Patricians in Their Role as Ambassadors and Chamberlains and Their Influence on the Social and Cultural Representation of the Medici in Florence, Rome and at Other Courts Introduction 2.1 Patricians as Diplomats 2.2 Patricians as Ambassadors 2.2.1 Giovanni Niccolini (Tuscan Ambassador in Rome from 1587 until 1610) Food Gifts Other Gifts of Grand Duke Ferdinand I Visitors in the Garden of Villa Medici The Issue of Precedence: the Entry of the New Ambassador Piero Guicciardini in Rome The Preliminary Concerns The Medici and the Savoy: the Conflict of Precedence A Precedence Issue of 1608: Don Antonio de’ Medici Visits Mantua The Actual Arrival of Piero Guicciardini as the New Ambassador 2.2.2 Piero Guicciardini (Tuscan Ambassador in Rome from 1611 until 1621) Socializing with Cardinals and Other Prominent Persons in Rome The Acquisition of Paintings for the Medici Court The Elsheimer-tabernacle Cardinal Carlo de’ Medici Travels to Rome (1616) 2.2.3 Other Patrician Ambassadors and Their Direct Influence on the Course of Events at the Court of Madrid and Rome Francesco Guicciardini and His Advice for Cultural Gifts at the Court of Madri Francesco Niccolini (Tuscan Ambassador in Rome from 1621 until 1643) and the Palazzo Madama on the Campo Marzio in Rome 2.3 A Florentine Patrician as Chamberlain of a Medici Prince and His Influence on the Social Representation of the Medici in Rome: Filippo Niccolini and His Decisions Regarding the Entry of Cardinal Giovan Carlo de’ Medici into Rome (1645) The Decoration of the Carriage: Polished or Gilded Ironwork? The Uniforms and the Ceremonial Mace: Recycling, but Not Too Obvious The Decoration of Palazzo Madama 77 The Public Entry of Cardinal Giovan Carlo de’ Medici into Rome (1645) Conclusion 3. Patricians as Patrons and Collectors During the Reigns of Ferdinand I, Cosimo II, the Regents and Ferdinand II de’ Medici Introduction 3.1 Patricians as Patrons and Collectors During the Reigns of Ferdinand I and Cosimo II de’ Medici 3.1.1 Giovanni Niccolini (1544-1611) The Niccolini Chapel in Santa Croce The Niccolini Palace and Giovanni’s Collection of Paintings, Sculptures and Coins 3.1.2 Piero Guicciardini (1569-1626) The Guicciardini Chapel in Santa Felicita The Guicciardini Palace and the Collection of Art 3.1.3 Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger (1568-1647) The First Three Rooms of the Galleria Buonarroti Some Contemporary Decoration Cycles of the Medici and Influences of the Galleria Buonarroti on the Decoration of Casino Mediceo The Fourth Room of the Galleria Buonarroti, Buonarroti’s Attempt to Build Up an Antique Sculpture Collection, and Pietro Da Cortona’s Stay in Florence Buonarroti’s Influences on the Patronage of Grand Duke Ferdinand II 3.1.4 Niccolò dell’Antella (1560-1630) 3.2 Patricians as Patrons and Collectors During the Reigns of the Regents and Ferdinand II de’ Medici 3.2.1 Giovan Battista Strozzi the Younger (1596-1636) His Art Collection and the Interest of the Medici and Patricians for Paintings with Literary Themes 3.2.2 Tommaso Guadagni (1582-1652) The Guadagni Palace 3.2.3 Giovanni (1600-1661) and Lorenzo (1602-1656) di Jacopo Corsi The Corsi Villa The Corsi Palace and the Difference Between the Decoration of the Palace and the Villa 3.2.4 Filippo Niccolini (1586-1666) The Montauto Castle Villa Camugliano and the Niccolini Palace Conclusion 4. The Shared Cultural World of the Medici Princes and the Florentine Patricians: Musical Performances, European Networks, and Cultural Academies Introduction Part I 4.1 Giovanni de’ Medici and the Alterat 4.2 Giovan Carlo de’ Medici and Filippo Niccolini 4.2.1 Niccolini as Supervisor of Giovan Carlo’s Cultural Projects 4.2.2 Niccolini’s Correspondence with Musicians: New Baroque Influences from Rome The Unknown Copyist Vannucci Sends Ariettas by Caproli and Carissimi to Florence Marco Marazzoli and His Recitatives for Antonio Rivani A Private Music Academy at the Palazzo and Villa of Marchese Niccolini? 4.2.3 Niccolini’s Contacts to Clients of Queen Christina of Sweden 4.3 Leopoldo de’ Medici (1617-1675) and His Cultural Contact with Florentine Patricians The Acquisition of Books and Works of Art on Paper Leopoldo’s Interest in the Theatre Life at Different Italian Courts Relations with European Men of letters Part II 4.4 Patricians, Artists, and Their Literary, Linguistic, and Theatrical Experiments at Florentine Cultural Academies and Confraternities 4.4.1 Literary and Linguistic Academies The Apatisti The Svogliati, the Crusca and Burlesque Poems Influenced by the Literary Academies The Pastori Antellesi 4.4.2 Theatrical Academies The Incostanti, the Improvvisi/Percossi, the Affinati, and the Sorgenti Theatrical Performances at the Youth Confraternity Arcangelo Raffaello Conclusion 5. The Brokerage Activities of Michelangelo Buonarroti The Younger and the Exchange of Cultural Gifts 155 Introduction Part I 5.1 Social Networks 5.2 Patronage Networks Patrons, Clients, and Friends Dyadic, Non-Corporate Groups 5.3 Brokerage Networks Brokerage Networks in Theory How Did a Broker Make Profit? Dyadic Chains 5.4 Maintaining Patronage Relationships: Exchanging Courtesies and Gifts Part II 5.5 The Social Network of Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger 5.6 The Exchange of Gifts and Genealogical Information Between Buonarroti and Florentine Patricians at Different Italian and European Courts Books, Manuscripts, and Genealogical Information Poems and Songs Food Gifts Buonarroti’s Own Works as Gifts 5.7 The Brokerage Activities of Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger 5.7.1 Social and Geographic Mobility of Artists 5.7.2 Cultural Brokerage Services and Arranging Gifts Arranging a Diplomatic Gift for the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria 5.7.3 Improving Patron-Client Contacts and Bringing Commissions to Completion The Commission of ‘Judith’ (Cristofano Allori) for Cardinal Alessandro Orsini The Commission of ‘Latona and Her Children’ (Domenico Pieratti) for Cardinal Francesco Barberini 5.7.4 Job Requests Conclusion 6. The Patricians’ Contribution to Cultural Events the Medici Organised for Public Ceremonies and in Honour of Visiting Guests Introduction 6.1 Theatre Plays in Honour of Visiting Guests 6.1.1 Theatre Plays in Honour of Fakhr ad-Din 6.1.2 Theatre Plays in Honour of Other Important Guests 6.2 The Patricians’ Contribution to the Organisation of Memorial Ceremonies The Memorial Ceremonies of 1598, 1610, and 1612 6.3 The Patricians’ Contribution to the Organization of Marriages The Marriages of 1600 and 1608 Descriptions of Marriages and Memorial Ceremonies The Marriages of 1637 and 1661 Conclusion Conclusion Appendices Appendix I: Archival Sources Referring to Chapter 2 Appendix II: Archival Sources Referring to Chapter 4 Appendix III: Archival Sources Referring to Chapter 5 Appendix IV: Archival Sources Referring to Chapter 6 Glossary Bibliography Index of Historical Persons

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Book SynopsisMonsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human culture helps to explain this apparent contradiction. Monsters are created in order to delineate where the acceptable boundaries of action and emotion exist. However, while killing the monster allows us to cast out socially unacceptable desires, the prevalence of monsters in both history and fiction reveals humanity’s desire to see and experience the forbidden. We seek, write about, and display monsters as both a warning and wish fulfilment, and monsters, therefore, reveal that the line between desire and disgust is often thin. Looking across genres, subjects, and periods, this book examines what our conflicted reaction to the monster tells us about human culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction  Kristen D. Wright Part I: Searching for Monsters  How Ignorance Made a Monster, Or: Writing the History of Vlad the Impaler without the Use of Sources Leads to 20,000 Impaled Turks  Peter Mario Kreuter  Unveiling the Truth through Testimony: The Argentinean Dirty War  Adriana Spahr  Fanatics and Absolutists: Communist Monsters in John le Carré’s Cold War Fiction  Toby Manning Part II: Desiring the Monstrous  Queer Race Play: Kinky Sex and the Trauma of Racism  Dejan Kuzmanovic  Absolute Beasts? Social Mechanics of Achieved Monstrosity  William Redwood Part III: Writing Monsters  Utopian Leprosy: Transforming Gender in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and History in the Strugatsky Brothers’ The Ugly Swans  Elsa Bouet  Monstrosity and the Fantastic: The Threats and Promises of Monsters in Tommaso Landolfi’s Fiction  Irene Bulla Part IV: Gazing at Monsters  ‘This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine’: Man's Monstrous Potential in The Tempest and Titus  Andronicus Kristen D. Wright  Paedophilic Productions and Gothic Performances: Contending with Monstrous Identity  Jen Baker  Creeper Bogeyman: Cultural Narratives of Gay as Monstrous  Sergio Fernando Juárez  Full Metal Abs: The Obscene Spartan Supplement of Liberal Democracy  Carlo Comanducci

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Book SynopsisErotic encounters have assumed a myriad of shapes and forms throughout the histories of the world and, at many stages of those histories, have been understood as possessing the potential to take us closer to some ultimate mode of being that the everyday, in all of its artless modesty, seems unable to do. In this volume, discussions of the erotic as an extraordinary part of the human condition, manifest in examples such as: exoticised voyages to faraway lands; the thrills of ancient combat; the escape and enchantment of eroticized performance; transgressive notions of the female jouissance; the delights of the sexual pursuits in the virtual domain; the political possibilities of stigmatized, queer pleasure; and perceptions of ‘fetishes’ which include relationships with inanimate beings. It would appear that what is required for these out-of-the-ordinary quests, are pointed actions – movements away from the monotony of life’s rhythms and outside the shelter of an otherwise predictable materiality. Contributors are Jon Braddy, John Dayton, Rita Dirks, John T. Grider, Billy Huff, Maciej Musiał, Naomi Stekelenburg, Dionne van Reenen and Tianyang Zhou.

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Book SynopsisGender performativity, its variances depending on their historical, social and cultural contexts, and the rituals, representations and institutions involved in gender performances are some of the issues the authors addressed in this collection. Gender under Construction takes a non-essentialist view of gender and provides illustrative examples of gender constructive processes by pursuing them in various contexts and by means of diverse methodologies. In so doing, the book demonstrates that it is unfeasible to consider gender as a fixed biological trait. Instead, the authors propose to look at gender performance as ongoing processes in which femininities and masculinities enter multiple and dynamic intersections with a myriad of categories, including those of nationality, ethnicity, class, sexuality and age. Contributors are Iqbal Akthar, Renata Ćuk, Ewa Glapka, Deirdre Hynes, Borja Ibaseta, Martin King, Ana Cristina Moreira Lima, Mervi Patosalmi, Marcia Bastos de Sá, Andréa Costa da Silva, Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira, Christi van der Westhuizen and Isabelle V. Zinn.Table of ContentsIntroduction  Ewa Glapka and Barbara Braid Part I Gender in Talk: Construction of Identity versus Hegemonic Discourses of Gender   Masculinity in Media Consumption: Readers’ Positioning to the Discourse of a Men’s Magazine   Ewa Glapka   Still Pink and Pale: White Afrikaans Hetero-Femininity in Postapartheid South Africa   Christi van der Westhuizen   Gendering the Workplace: Between Transgression and (De-)Naturalisation   Isabelle V. Zinn Part II Dynamic Masculinities and Their Representations   Inscribing the Male: Representations of Masculinity and Male Bodies in Contemporary Literature   Borja Ibaseta   ‘Imprisoned in a System of Work, Produce, Consume’: So How Did Jack Kerouac, Hugh Hefner, Albert Finney and John Lennon Challenge the Link between Masculinity and Responsibility?   Martin King   Desperately Becoming a Father: Representations of Fatherhood in Desperate Housewives   Iqbal Akthar and Deirdre Hynes Part III Gender, Sexuality and the Coercive Power of Institutions   Sexual Violence against Men in Armed Conflict: Why Is It still Invisible?   Renata Cuk   Marital Rape and Constructions of Sexual Agency   Mervi Patosalmi   Sexuality and Gender at a Brazilian School: Constructing Femininities   Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira, Marcia Bastos de Sá, Andrea Costa da Silva, and Ana Cristina Moreira Lima

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Book SynopsisThe Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories of conflicts, world wars, dictatorship, genocide and mass killing. Focusing on the questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at the ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and received by museum workers, artists, politicians and general audiences. Due to amplified mobility and communication as well as Europe’s changing institutional structure, such memories become increasingly transcultural, crossing cultural and political borders. This book brings together in-depth researched case studies of memory transmission and reception in different types of media, including films, literature, museums, political debate printed and digital media, as well as studies of personal and public reactions. Contributors are: Ismar Dedović, Astrid Erll, Rosanna Farbøl, Magdalena Góra, Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Anne Heimo, Sara Jones, Wulf Kansteiner, Slawomir Kapralski, Zoé de Kerangat, Zdzisław Mach, Natalija Majsova, Inge Melchior, Daisy Neijmann, Vjeran Pavlaković, Benedikt Perak, Tea Sindbæk Andersen, and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: On Transcultural Memory and Reception  Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Astrid Erll Part 1: Actors and Practices in Transcultural Transmission and Reception 2 Cross-Border Collaboration and the Construction of Memory Narratives in Europe  Sara Jones 3 The Polish Elites’ Struggle for Recognition of the Experience of Communism in the European Union  Zdzisław Mach and Magdalena Góra 4 Answering Back to Presumed Accusations: Serbian First World War Memories and the Question of Historical Responsibility  Ismar Dedović and Tea Sindbæk Andersen 5 Beyond Local Memories: Exhumations of Francoism’s Victims as Counter-discourse during the Spanish Transition to Democracy  Zoé de Kerangat 6 Double Victims and Agents of Change in Europe’s Margins: Estonian Emigrants Sharing ‘Their’ Repressive Soviet Past in the Netherlands  Inge Melchior Part 2: Content and Media in Transcultural Transmission and Reception 7 Commemorating a War That Never Came: The Cold War as Counter-Factual War Memory  Rosanna Farbøl 8 Jews and the Holocaust in Poland’s Memoryscapes: An Inquiry Into Transcultural Amnesia  Slawomir Kapralski 9 Neither Rupture nor Continuity: Memorializing the Dawn of the Space Age in Contemporary Russian Cinematography  Natalija Majsova 10 Literary Mediation and Reception of Memories of War: Hallgrímur Hallgrímsson’s ‘Under the Republic’s Flag’  Daisy Neijmann and Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir 11 The Italian Hall Tragedy, 1913: A Hundred Years of Remediated Memories  Anne Heimo 12 How Does This Monument Make You Feel? Measuring Emotional Responses to War Memorials in Croatia  Vjeran Pavlaković and Benedikt Perak 13 Transnational Holocaust Memory, Digital Culture, and the End of Reception Studies  Wulf Kansteiner Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Rhythm of Modernization, Raül Tormos analyses the pace at which belief systems change across the developed world during the modernization process. It is often assumed that value change follows the slow rhythm of generational replacement. This book, however, reports trends that contradict this assumption in the field of values. Challenging Inglehart’s modernization theory, the transition from traditional to modern values happens much quicker than predicted. Many “baby-boomers” who were church-going, morally conservative materialists when they were young, become unchurched and morally tolerant postmaterialists in their later years. Using surveys from multiple countries over many years, and applying cutting-edge statistical techniques, this book shows how citizens quickly adapt their belief systems to new circumstances throughout their lives.

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries at the start of the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, painting as well as photography, architecture and design, film, radio, and performing arts like music, theatre and dance. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective which includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field, but in a broader cultural context. It examines the social and cultural context of the avant-garde: its media, its locations, its reception and audiences, the transmissions between Scandinavia and Europe, and its cultural consequences. The essays trace the connections between the avant-garde and the cultural discourses of contemporary currents such as revolutionary socialism, radical nationalism and occultism, and discuss questions of gender, ideology and politics, geographical location and technological innovation. The cultural history thus focuses on the role of the avant-garde in shaping the ideas of cultural modernity in the Nordic countries.Trade Review"With The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925, the Nordic Network for Avant-garde studies has presented a generally impressive first volume of a cultural history of the avant-garde in Northern Europe on which continuation we will wait with excitement. We really wish for both the network and the publisher that they will have the necessary long breath to bring cultural history of northern European avant-garde to its end." By Stephan Michael Schröder (Köln), Nordeuropaforum, 2014 pp. 42-46. Full tekst available: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/nordeuropaforum/2014-/schroeder-stephan-michael-42/PDF/schroeder.pdfTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Hubert van den Berg: The Early Twentieth Century Avant-Garde and the Nordic Countries – An Introductory tour d’horizon Nordic Icons in the European Avant-Gardes Per Stounbjerg: Rebels and Renegades – Strindberg, Artaud and the Avant-Garde Erik Mørstad: Munch’s Impact on Europe Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen: Die Asta and the Avant-Garde Geert Buelens: “the manifold in one/and the one manifold” – Asta Nielsen as an Icon for the European Avant-Garde Nordic Artists in the European Metropolises Frank Claustrat: Nordic Writers and Artists in Paris before, during and after World War I Shulamith Behr: Académie Matisse and its Relevance in the Life and Work of Sigrid Hjertén Frank Claustrat: Jean Börlin and Les Ballets Suédois Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann and Anne M. N. Sokoll: “From the North comes the light to us!” – Scandinavian Artists in Friedrichshagen at the Turn of the Century Jan Torsten Ahlstrand: Berlin and the Swedish Avant-Garde – GAN, Nell Walden, Viking Eggeling, Axel Olson and Bengt Österblom Hubert van den Berg and Benedikt Hjartarson: Icelandic Artists in the Network of the European Avant-Garde – The Cases of Jón Stefánsson and Finnur Jónsson Locations of the Nordic Avant-Garde Sven-Olov Wallenstein: The Avant-Garde and the Market Andrea Kollnitz: Promoting the Young – Interactions between the Avant-Garde and the Swedish Art Market 1910-1925 Vibeke Petersen: The Avant-Garde and the Danish Art Market Dorthe Aagesen: Art Metropolis for a Day – Copenhagen during World War I Margareta Tillberg: Kandinsky in Sweden – Malmö 1914 and Stockholm 1916 Stefan Nygård: The National and the International in Ultra (1922) and Quosego (1928) Natalia Baschmakoff: Avant-Garde Encounters on Karelian Bedrock (1890s-1930s) Øivind Storm Bjerke: The Pavilion of De 14 Claes-Göran Holmberg: flamman Bjarne S. Bendtsen: Copenhagen Swordplay – Avant-Garde Manoeuvres and the Aesthetics of War in the Art Magazine Klingen (1917-1920) Torben Jelsbak: Dada Copenhagen Transmission, Appropriations and Responses Claes-Göran Holmberg: The Reception of the Early European Avant-Gardes in Sweden Rikard Schönström: Pär Lagerkvist’s Literary Art and Pictorial Art Fredrik Hertzberg, Vesa Haapala and Janna Kantola: The Finland-Swedish Avant-Garde Moments Per Stounbjerg and Torben Jelsbak: Danish Expressionism Lennart Gottlieb: Avant-Gardism Danish Style – Jais Nielsen as a Modern Genre Painter 1916-18 Kristín G. Guðnadóttir: Jóhannes Kjarval’s Appropriation of Progressive Attitudes in Painting between 1917 and 1920 Andreas Engström: The Modern Breakthrough in Swedish and Scandinavian Art Music Karen Vedel: Dancing across Copenhagen Politics, Ideology, Discourse Torben Jelsbak: Avant-Garde Activism – The Case of the New Student Society in Copenhagen (1922-24) Timo Huusko: Finnish Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Julia Tidigs: Multilingualism and (De)territorialisation in the Works of Elmer Diktonius Anna Maria Bernitz: Hilma af Klint and the New Art of Seeing Thomas Henrikson: Art as a Revolutionary Dionysian Jaguar – Otto Ville Kuusinen, Elmer Diktonius and the Emergence of Avant-Garde Poetry in Finland Benedikt Hjartarson: The Early Avant-Garde in Iceland Epilogue Legacies of the Early Nordic Avant-Gardes Abstracts Index

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975 is the first publication to deal with the postwar avant-garde in the Nordic countries. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, architecture and design, film, radio, television and the performative arts. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: The cultural politics, institutions and new cultural geographies after World War II, new technologies and media, performative strategies, interventions into everyday life and tensions between market and counterculture.Trade Review"Serien A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries er utrolig viktig, både i seg selv og som en del av en økt oppmerksomhet rundt nordisk modernisme. I dette andre bindet, som strekker seg fra 1950 til 1975, får vi essays om nordisk kunst fra Öyvind Fahlström til den alternative Melodi Grand Prix. Blant de 85 (!) essayene beskrives Galleri Køpcke i København, Pistolteatern i Stockholm, De skandinaviske situasjonistene (selvfølgelig), Morten Krohgs periode som intendant på Kunstnernes Hus i Oslo, Lene Adler Pedersen og Bjørn Nørgaards kvinnelige kristus-performance på Børsen i København, Kjartan Slettemarks passprosjekt med portrettet til Nixon, og enormt mye annet. Når de to siste bindene foreligger vil vesentlige deler av det 20. århundres nordiske avantgarde være beskrevet i dette bokverket. Den virkelige revolusjonen kommer imidlertid når dette blir pensum for kommende kunstnere og kunsthistorikere. Da vil endelig den Paris- og New York-sentrerte fortellingen om modernismen kunne erstattes med en bredere, global fortelling, der også Norden inngår." - Jonas Ekeberg, Kunstkritikk www.kunstkritikk.dk/artikler/24-desember-jonas-ekeberg-2/Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Tania Ørum The Post-War Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1. Paradigmatic Images of Scandinavia Jesper Olsson Politics & Play – The Impure Arts of Öyvind Fahlström Rune Gade The Female Christ at the Stock Exchange Tue Andersen Nexø Biological Avant-Garde – Inger Christensen’s det Birgitte Anderberg Images of Women Halldór Björn Runólfsson The Kitchen – An Offspring of Steina and Woody Vasulka 2. Cultural Politics and Institutions Christer Ekholm The Social Avant-Garde – The “Democratisation” of Literature in the Early 1960s in Sweden Tania Ørum Culture Wars in Denmark Annika Öhrner The Moderna Museet in Stockholm – The Institution and the Avant-Garde Sanne Krogh Groth The Fylkingen Concert Society, 1950–1975 Tania Ørum Self-Organisation in the Avant-Garde of the 1960s Fred Andersson Åke Hodell’s Kerberos –A Case Study Kari Brandtzæg Morten Krohg and Art’s Oppositional Role Sanne Krogh Groth EMS – Elektronmusik Studio in Stockholm Thomas Hvid Kroman Sub-Publications from a Basement in Snaregade 6, Copenhagen – Arena Sub-Pub (1969–1970) Dossier/Little Magazines Þröstur Helgason An Open Field of Play and Experimentation – The Little Magazine Birtingur Jesper Olsson Tvångs-Blandaren – Stuff in a Box Jesper Olsson Rondo and Gorilla – Magazine and Calendar Thomas Hvid Kromann Against Restrictions and Exclusions – For Expansion and Inclusions – The Little Magazine ta’ (1967–1968) Thomas Hvid Kromann A Time Capsule from the Sixties – The Little Magazine ta’ BOX (1969–1970) Thomas Hvid Kromann In the Service of the Revolution – The Little Magazine MAK (1969–1970) Sissel Furuseth Profil 1966–1969 – Triumph and Crisis of the Collective 3. New Cultural Geographies Harri Veivo Christian Dotremont’s Logogrammes and Logoneiges – European Avant-Garde Inspired by Lapland Anna Jóhannsdóttir Exile, Correspondence, Rebellion – Tracing the Interactive Relationship between Iceland and Dieter Roth Anneli Fuchs Galerie Køpcke – An Artist-Run Gallery in Copenhagen, 1958–1962 Søren Møller Sørensen Action Music! – Nam June Paik in Scandinavia, 1961 Árni Heimir Ingólfsson Clothing Irons and Whisky Bottles – Creating an Icelandic Musical Avant-Garde Danielle Kvaran Erró, or the Porousness of Borders Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen The Situationist Offensive in Scandinavia Halldór Björn Runólfsson SÚM – The Flux in Iceland Peter van der Meijden Fluxus, Eric Andersen and the Communist East Janna Kantola Making Choices – Debatable Translations and Publication Policies of Finnish Cultural Magazines Aikalainen, Parnasso and Uusi Kirjallisuuslehti in the 1960s 4. New Technologies and New Media John Sundholm Chance and Play, or Marvellous Machines – A Forgotten Swedish Film Avant-Garde Jesper Olsson Radiophonic Poetry and a Blind Movie – Öyvind Fahlström’s Sound Art Tania Ørum The Medium is the Message – Danish Radio Experiments in the 1960s Jonas Ingvarsson What’s Wrong with Billy Spafon? Tania Ørum Concrete Poetry as a Sign of Technological Change in Society Jesper Olsson Collaborators in Art and Technology – The Case of Billy Klüver Jonas Ingvarsson The Case[y] of Husberg Tanja Tiekso Art Has Opened People’s Eyes, Music People’s Ears, and Computers People’s Minds – Erkki Kurenniemi on Music and Technology Mikko Ojanen and Kai Lassfolk University of Helsinki Electronic Music Studio – Founding and Early Development Jesper Olsson The New Monument – Experimental TV and Remediation Tania Ørum ABCinema and Super 8 Technology Kari Yli-Annala Visions Seen through Felt Boots – “The Carriers of the Fire” of Avant-Garde Art in the 1950s and 1970s in Finland Thomas Hvid Kromann Artists’ Books in the 1960s Tania Ørum Telephone Art Teddy Hultberg Fylkingen’s Text-Sound Festivals, 1968–1974 Erling Kullberg The Detested Interval Music – On Per Nørgård’s Calendar Music as Interval Signal on TV 5. Performative Strategies Jesper Olsson “Hätila ragulpr på fåtskliaben” – Conceiving of Concrete Poetry Jesper Olsson Concrete Poetry as a Score for Performance – Bengt Emil Johnson’s Old Man Drowning Peter van der Meijden The Festum Fluxorum in Copenhagen, 23–28 November 1962 Tania Ørum To Play To-Day Merja Hottinen Experiment, Scam and Children’s Games – The Finnish Media on Ken Dewey’s Happenings in Finland, 1963–1964 Per Ringby Pistolteatern – Avant-Garde Performance and Political Theatre Annika Öhrner Yvonne Rainer and Robert Morris – An Evening of Talking and Dancing, 1964 Erik Exe Christoffersen Odin Teatret –¬ Between Tradition and the Avant-Garde Magnús Þór Þorbergsson Leiksmiðjan – Collaborating on a New Theatre Rasmus Graff Asger Jorn’s Work in The Archive of the Revolution in Havana Karsten Wind Meyhoff Showtime! Notes on the Performance Practice of Per Højholt Birgitte Anderberg Performing Feminism – Kirsten Justesen Mette Mortensen A Borderline Case – Facial Politics in Kjartan Slettemark’s The Passport 6. Interventions into Everyday Life Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen Raping the Whole World in a Warm Embrace of Fascination – Drakabygget’s Anti-Authoritarian Artistic Endeavours Sven-Olov Wallenstein 1966 – Thinking the City Lars Bang Larsen True Rulers of Their Own Realm – Political subjectivisation in Modellen – En modell för ett kvalitativt samhälle Jonas (J) Magnusson Jarl Hammarberg’s Concrete Poetry and Collective Books Ingvild Krogvig Linguistic Leakage in the Landscape – Early Land Art in Norway Lars Bang Larsen Kanonklubben – The Oslo Trip and The Garden Christine Buhl Andersen The Avant-Garde in Public Space – Two Danish Examples Elisabeth Friis and and and – A Device of One’s Own – Reproductive Parataxis in Rex, Thorup and Åkesson Malene Woltmann Christiana – Utopia Realised? Stig Jarl and Laura Luise Schultz A Sensuous Dramaturgy of Intervention – Solvognen (The Sun Chariot), Copenhagen, 1969–1983 Ingvild Krogvig Viggo Andersen’s Vigelandsinstallasjon – The History of a Forgotten Anti-Monument 7. Avant-Garde between Market and Counterculture Vibeke Petersen Gether Gunnar Aagaard Andersen – Commercial Design and Experimental Art Jens Tang Kristensen Angli Avant-Gardism – Paul Gadegaard’s Art Project in Herning, Denmark Lars Bukdahl Vagn is Also a Bit of a Soft Drink – Vagn Steen’s Advertisements for Himself and Concrete Poetry, 1964–1969 Jesper Olsson The Artist on Holiday, or “L’art pour l’or”, or Some Conceptual Investments of Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Alf Arvidsson From Avant-Garde to Pop Culture to Alternative Scenes – The Case of Two Swedish Bands, Blå Tåget and Träd, Gräs & Stenar Harri Veivo Everyday High and Low – Finnish Avant-Garde Poetry of the 1960s Navigations in a Rapidly Changing Society Tania Ørum The Rose Campaign – John Davidsen’s Appropriation of Commercial Formats Lars Bang Larsen PUSS 1968–1973 Tania Ørum Counterculture Benedikt Hjartarson “A Furious Girl from Rome” – Róska and the Mythography of Avant-Garde Bohemianism Trond Haugen “From Everyone to Everyone” – The Countercultural Little Magazine Dikt & datt David Thyrén The Alternative Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden, 1975 Abstracts

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Book SynopsisThe “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of their respective departments in Todai and Fudan. The rest of the essays showcase how such thinking about the global and local histories have borne fruit, as the scholars of the three institutions contributed essays, arguing about the philosophies, methodologies, and/or perspectives of global history and how it relates to local stories. Authors include Benjamin Elman, Haneda Masashi, and Ge Zhaoguang.Table of ContentsList of Contributers Introduction: An Overview, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 1 Is World History Possible? 1 Is There Still Value in National History in the Trend towards Global History?, by Zhaoguang Ge 2 Is a World History of Ideas Possible?, by Federico Marcon Part 2 What Forms of Globalization Took Shape in Traditional East Asia? 3 Conditional Universality and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia, by Nakajima Takahiro 4 A New Global History and Regional Histories, by Masashi Haneda 5 A Jointly Regional-Global Approach to Rethinking Early Modern East Asian History, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 3 How Did Internationalism Emerge in Modern Chinese and Japanese Higher Education? 6 Internationalization from Within: 140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo. By Jin Satō 7 Global History in China: Inheritance and Innovation—A Case Study of the Development of World History in the History Department of Fudan University, by Yunshen Gu Part 4 Doing ‘World’ or ‘Global’ History as ‘Transnational’ History 8 From ‘East Asia’ to ‘East Asian Maritime Worlds’: The Pros and Cons of the Construction of a Historical World, by Shaoxin Dong 9 From Sri Lanka to East Asia: A Short History of a Buddhist Scripture, by Norihisa Baba 10 ‘Nobody Changed Their Old Customs’—Tang Views on the History of the World, by Tineke D’Haeseleer 11 The Korean Response to Xue Xuan’s Enshrinement in the Ming Confucian Temples, by Xinlei Wang 12 Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century World, by Yasushi Ōki 13 Tales of an Open World: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty as Dutch Tragedy, Chinese Rumor, and Global News, by Paize Keulemans 14 The Regulation of Sailors in the Maritime Trade between Jiangnan and Nagasaki in Early Qing China, by Zhenzhong Wang 15 The Transnational History of Japanese Thrift, by Sheldon Garon Coda, by Benjamin A. Elman Index

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