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Book SynopsisThis book contains an introduction to the text of and a commentary on the fragments of two plays by Euripides, the Kresphontes (ca. 424 B.C.) and the Archelaos (ca. 408/7 B.C.) Fragments of both plays are preserved in quotations by other writers and in recently published papyri. The introduction discusses aspects of the background and of the contents of the plays, such as, for example, their first performances, the relation of the Kresphontes with the plays about Orestes, and Euripides' motives in writing the Archelaos (politics or flattery?). The commentary to each play deals with the interpretation of the fragments and testimonia, with textual problems and with typical elements of Euripides' style. This is the first full-scale treatment of both plays and offers, thanks to modern papyrus finds, some new evidence on their composition and context. The text of the papyrus fragments is based on personal inspection of the papyri concerned, which has resulted in a number of new readings.

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Book SynopsisHephaestion's Encheiridion is the most influential text in the history of metrical scholarship. It has been superseded for some genres of Greek verse but remains basic to the description of others. Its terminology continues to be applied to most of the verse written in Western literary traditions. The present volume offers a translation of th eelliptic Greek text and of a parallel account of metre included in Aristides Quintilianus On Music, with a commentary, an introduction analyzing the approach of ancient metricians in term of their own practical aims, an index of all significant words in the Greek texts, and an English index. The book is designed to be equally accessible to Greekless students of metre and to Greek scholars. It should enable them to take clear stand with regard to the ancient heritage in this field, and to define more unequivocally than has been possible any terms they choose to retain, thereby contributing towards greater coherence and consistency in discussion of poetic metre.Trade Review'This exacting work belongs in any major research library and should stimulate study of a neglected ancient scholar.' Richard Hamilton, Religious Studies Reveiw, 1989. '...un travail critique, tout en sagacité et perspicacité, tandis que la synthèse révèle chez l'auteur une intelligence claire de phénomènes complexes.' Daniel Donnet, L'Antiquité Classique, 1989. '...can be recommended to all interested in studying the ancient metrics.' Witold Stefański, 1990.

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Trade Review'...of interest to many students of antiquity.' Ronald F. Hock, The second Century, 1989.

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Book SynopsisThis new and complete translation of Spinoza's famous 17th-century work fills an important gap, not only for all scholars of Spinoza, but also for everyone interested in the relationship between Western philosophy and religion, and the history of biblical exegesis. The existing Elwes translation of 1883 has long been regarded as insufficient by Spinoza scholars for its misleading rendering of the Latin and its many omissions. Samuel Shirley, well-known for his excellent best-selling translation of Spinoza's Ethics, now presents this new, complete translation of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus in lucid English, which meets the highest standards of modern critical scholarship. The book includes an Index of Subjects and a detailed Index of Biblical References as well as an Introduction by Brad Gregory, which sets Spinoza squarely in the context of his time and intellectual tradition.

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Book SynopsisThe New Papyrological Primer is a fully revised and expanded edition of David and Groningen's 1964 standard introduction to Greek papyrological texts. The current edition contains 81 Greek texts, arranged in a chronological order, which illustrate various aspects of life in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt. Each text is provided with a short commentary and explanatory notes, which aim to allow students to understand the text and to place it accurately in its social context. A lengthy introduction provides general background information, data about the texts examined and discussion of a number of commonly neglected topics. A glossary of Greek terms is appended. The work contains numerous plates, illustrations and maps.Trade Review'...a valuable introduction to documentary papyrology...It brings much that is useful for the expert.' James G. Keenan, Religious Studies Review, 1992. '...alles zusammen macht ihn zu einem ausgezeichneten Lehrbuch.' Archiv für Papyrusforschung, 1995.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains all the known Old Syriac inscriptions from Edessa and the area around Osrhoene in Northern Mesopotamia from the first three centuries C.E., the number of which has substantially increased over the last decades. The texts are given in estrangelo script and are accompanied by an extensive philological and historical commentary. The originals are presented in photographs and line drawings. The volume also contains chapters on the script of these inscriptions, on the language and on the history and culture of Edessa. Two appendices offer the texts of three parchments written in Syriac and originating from the same area, and of known but still unpublished inscriptions. The book concludes with indices of words and proper names, which are complement to the Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions (Brill, 1995), and with a full bibliography.

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Book SynopsisFor over a quarter century Russian scholars have operated apart from past ideological constraints and have been discussing in new ways the most acute problems of Russia and of the world community as a whole. Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization makes available in English current research by leading thinkers in Russia in philosophy, political theory, and related fields. At the international level, one group of essays articulates Russian perspectives on key global issues. At the national level, another group of essays delivers analyses of the global dimensions in a variety of current issues in Russia. Taken together, the fourteen chapters of this book demonstrate the relevance and vitality of contemporary Russian philosophy to the study of globalization. Contributors are: Akop P. Nazaretyan, Alexander N. Chumakov, Alexander V. Katsura, Anastasia V. Mitrofanova, Ilia V. Ilyin, Ivan A. Aleshkovskiy, Leonid E. Grinin, Olga G. Leonova, Pavel S. Seleznev, Sergey A. Nikolsky, Tatiana A. Alekseeva, Valentina G. Fedotova, Vladimir N. Porus, Vladimir V. Mironov, William C. Gay, Yakov A. PlyaisTable of ContentsPreface ALEXANDER N. CHUMAKOV Introduction CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY AND THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION WILLIAM C. GAY PART ONE THE GLOBAL WORLD AS SEEN FROM RUSSIA ONE GLOBALIZATION FROM A PHILOSOPHICAL POINT OF VIEW: RUSSIAN VISION ALEXANDER N. CHUMAKOV TWO RUSSIAN CULTURE AND CHALLENGES OF SOCIO-CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION 21 ILIA V. ILYIN AND OLGA G. LEONOVA THREE THE TRANSFORMATION OF ECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND LAW IN GLOBALIZATION VLADIMIR V. MIRONOV FOUR THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF RUSSIA AND GLOBALIZATION SERGEY A. NIKOLSKY FIVE GLOBALIZATION AND CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA: THE NEED FOR INNOVATION PAVEL S. SELEZNEV PART TWO THE GLOBAL DIMENSION OF CURRENT ISSUES IN RUSSIA SIX INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND DEVELOPMENT IVAN A. ALESHKOVSKI SEVEN INTERNAL ANARCHY IN RUSSIA AS AN OBSTACLE FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY VALENTINA G. FEDOTOVA EIGHT THE NEW ELITE CLASS FORMATION AS THE TOP PRIORITY FOR RUSSIAN MODERNIZATION YAKOV A. PLYAIS NINE AMERICA AND RUSSIA: A MULTIPOLAR WORLD AS AN ECHO OF FEAR BEFORE FUTURE UNIFICATION ALEXANDER V. KATSURA PART THREE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVES ON VARIOUS ISSUES TEN THE NEW WORLD ORDER AND PHILOSOPHY LEONID E. GRININ ELEVEN THE PROSPECT FOR POLITICIZATION OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY ANASTASIA V. MITROFANOVA TWELVE NON-LINEAR FUTURES: THE “MYSTERIOUS SINGULARITY” IN VIEW OF MEGA-HISTORY AKOP P. NAZARETYAN THIRTEEN THE TRAGEDY OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF TRAGEDY (SERGEY N. BULGAKOV AND LEV I. SCHESTOV) VLADIMIR N. PORUS FOURTEEN LIBERALISM IN A NON-IDEAL WORLD TATIANA A. ALEKSEEVA BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX

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Book SynopsisDans Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones, Michał Obszyński étudie les enjeux esthétiques et idéologiques qui sous-tendent les principaux textes manifestaires et programmatiques publiés aux Caraïbes francophones depuis le début du XXe siècle jusqu’à nos jours. In Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophone, Michał Obszyński examines the aesthetic and ideological issues underlying the main manifestoes and programmatic texts published in the French speaking Caribbean since the early twentieth century to the present.Trade Review"Il est difficile de rendre justice, en quelques pages, à un ouvrage si complet et riche, surtout en ce qui concerne le choix judicieux et innovateur du corpus,qui n’est pas seulement focalisé sur les textes le plus célèbres, mais qui déniche de petites perles manifestaires de la Caraïbe, comme par exemple l’Enracinerrance (2001) de Jean‑Claude Charles. Un autre aspect à retenir concerne les analyses de Michał Obszyński, qui s’attachent aux moindres détails et qui font surtout preuve d’une grande habilité comparative." - Sara del Rossi, in: Romanica Silesiana (2016) "On recommandera l’ouvrage de M. Obszyński pour son double intérêt : par sa précision et son organisation à la fois chronologique et géographique, il constitue un manuel clair, pratique et accessible que l’on consultera avec profit pour ses analyses détaillées des textes théoriques, support fondamental de contextualisation des œuvres littéraires caribéennes. La dimension d’ensemble de l’ouvrage présente d’autre part une réflexion plus globale, à la fois comparatiste et transnationale, sur les littératures francophones caribéennes. L’ouvrage, qui s’achève par une invitation à un dépassement de l’espace dans lequel se circonscrivait l’étude des manifestes, permet enfin une remise en perspective des problématiques esthétiques et politiques des littératures francophones caribéennes au sein de la République mondiale des lettres." - Marine Cellier, « Un siècle de manifestes : projets littéraires & enjeux politiques en Caraïbe francophone », in: Acta fabula, vol. 18, n° 7 (Septembre 2017) "Michal Obszyński’s Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones : En/jeux idéologiques et poétiques offers an excellent chronological account and analysis of texts whose overt intention has been to seek “affirmation and worldly respect” [...] by putting forth theories of aesthetics, ethics, and/or identity. Obszyński emphasizes the constant push and pull between the need for European affirmation, on one hand, and the desire to better articulate an ethos that expresses itself aesthetically, and that rids itself of the need for European recognition, on the other. The major contributions of Obszyński’s study are: 1) its inventory and analysis of scholarly production in French from university milieus in the Caribbean, France, and Québec, work that is often ignored by scholars working in the English-based academy; 2) its establishment of criteria to assess the rhetorical devices through which a text asserts an ethical agenda; and 3) its consideration of more contemporary texts, such as the two iterations of Pour une littérature-monde (2007), within a longer French (and in-French but non-Hexagone) tradition of the literary manifesto." - Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, in: Journal of Haitian StudiesTable of ContentsRemerciements Introduction Chapitre I : L’écrit manifestaire : théorie et axes d'analyse La généalogie du manifeste littéraire Le manifeste littéraire « canonique » Les « quasi-manifestes » L’impact de la réception Les axes d’analyse Le manifeste en tant que discours persuasif Le texte manifestaire et son contexte social La question du champ littéraire L’internationalisation du champ littéraire Le manifeste littéraire et l’engagement Chapitre II : De l’assimilation culturelle à la prise de conscience identitaire Vers l’affirmation d’un « monde noir » Domaine haïtien Pour une légitimité politico-littéraire : un discours de l’entre-deux Défense de la nation et de la race Entre la francophilie et l’art pur : la génération de La Ronde (1898-1902) Un manifeste de la modernité : La Revue indigène (1927-1928) Le programme de l’indigénisme haïtien : Ainsi parla l’oncle (1928) de Jean Price-Mars Le manifeste du noirisme haïtien : Les Griot s (1938) Vers une solidarité supranationale : Bois-d’ébène (1945) de Jacques Roumain Le surréalisme haïtien : l’art et la révolution Domaine franco-antillais Sous le signe de l’assimilation René Maran et La Préface de Batouala (1921) Pour une solidarité des Noirs : La Revue du monde noir (1931-1932) Un manifeste antibourgeois : Légitime défense (1932) Les premières conceptions de la négritude : L’Étudiant noir (1935) Une révolution poétique : Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (1939) d’Aimé Césaire Vers une pensée archipélique : Tropiques (1941-1945) La poésie au service du discours manifestaire : « En guise de manifeste littéraire » (1942) d’Aimé Césaire Un « quasi-manifeste » de la négritude : Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française (1948) de Léopold S. Senghor Orphée noir de Jean-Paul Sartre et la critique de la négritude Les apories de la négritude : Peau noire, masques blancs (1952) de Frantz Fanon Chapitre III : Entre l'hybridité et les pièges de l'identité Domaine haïtien Pour l’autonomie de la littérature haïtienne : « Du réalisme merveilleux des Haïtiens » (1956) de Jacques-Stephen Alexis La littérature face à la dictature : Haïti littéraire et le spiralisme Le transit québécois Contre la pureté : Théories caraïbes (1996) de Joël Des Rosiers Échapper au spectre du pays natal : « L’Enracinerrance » (2001) de Jean-Claude Charles Une approche diasporique de l’écriture migrante : Repérages (2001) d’Émile Ollivier Domaine franco-antillais L’antillanité d’Édouard Glissant Une dissidence suspecte : Éloge de la créolité (1989) Vers une pensée relationnelle : Poétique de la relation (1990) et Traité du Tout-monde (1997) d’Édouard Glissant Vers une créolité ouverte : Écrire en pays dominé (1997) de Patrick Chamoiseau Épilogue : les voix franco-caribéennes dans Pour une littérature-monde (2007) Conclusion Bibliographie Abstract Index Table des matières

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Book SynopsisThe present volume contains seventeen essays on the Mamluk Sultanate, an Islamic Empire of slaves whose capital was in Cairo between the 13th and the 16th centuries, written by leading historians of this period. It discusses topics as varied as social and cultural issues, women in Mamluk society, literary and poetical genres, the politics of material culture, and regional and local politics. The volume presents state of the art scholarship in the field of Mamluk studies as well as an in-depth review of recent developments. Mamluk studies have expanded considerably in recent years and today interests hundreds of active researchers worldwide who write in numerous languages and constitute a vivid and strong community of researchers, some of whose best research is presented in this volume. With contributions by Reuven Amitai; Frédéric Bauden; Yuval Ben-Bassat; Joseph Drory; Élise Franssen; Yehoshua Frenkel; Li Guo; Daisuke Igarashi; Yaacov Lev; Bernadette Martel-Thoumian; Carl Petry; Warren Schultz; Boaz Shoshan; Hana Taragan; Bethany J. Walker; Michael Winter; Koby Yosef; Limor Yungman.Trade Review"In my view this volume offers a nice entry point into the field of Mamlūk history. It offers a taster of the range of perspectives that have and are being taken by scholars in the field, as well as a fine introduction to a number of its historical sources." - Daisy Livingston, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 109 (2019) "... this collection of articles is highly recommended for anyone interested in the Mamlūks. With its combination of articles by both well-established scholars as well as relative newcomers to the discipline, it provides an excellent, remarkably rich and multifaceted cross section of the state of the art in the burgeoning field of Mamlūk history." - Laurenz Kern, Freie Universität Berlin, in: Die Welt Des Islams 59 (2019) "... the volume constitutes an important read for scholars and students of the Mamluk Period as well as of the respective fields of inquiry beyond that field. This is also true for further subjects such as numismatics, manuscript studies, institutional history, or food studies." - Torsten Wollina, Orient-Institut Beirut, in: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 95/2 (2018) "In their remarkable variety, these seventeen papers nicely illustrate the different terrains of scholarship on which Amalia Levanoni has been operating since the 1980s. Whereas some of them continue to situate themselves comfortably in longstanding research traditions and paradigms, quite a few simultaneously demonstrate the expanding range of research perspectives - including social theory, literary criticism, codicology, anthropology and archaeology - that have started to transform Mamluk studies into an interdisciplinary field by default. Beyond the individual value of quite a few of the papers in this volume, the latter general observation certainly also adds to the importance of this volume as a whole." - Jo Van Steenbergen, University of Gent, in: English Historical Review 134/569 (2019)Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration List of Pictures and Illustrations Acknowledgments Professor Amalia Levanoni’s Contribution to the Field of Mamluk Studies Michael Winter Introduction Yuval Ben-Bassat A. Social and Cultural Issues 1. Carl Petry “Already Rich? Yet ‘Greed Deranged Him’: Elite Status and Criminal Complicity in the Mamluk Sultanate” 2. Koby Yosef “Usages of Kinship Terminology during the Mamluk Sultanate and the Notion of the ‘Mamlūk Family’” 3. Limor Yungman “Medieval Middle Eastern Court Taste: The Mamluk Case” 4. Bernadette Martel-Thoumian “DU SANG ET DES LARMES: LE DESTIN TRAGIQUE D’AṢALBĀY AL-JARKASIYYA (m. en 1509)” 5. Daisuke Igarashi “The Office of the Ustādār al-ʿĀliya in the Circassian Mamluk Era” B. Women in Mamluk Society 6. Yaakov Lev “Women in the Urban Space of Medieval Muslim Cities” 7. Yehoshua Frenkel “Slave Girls and Learned Teachers: Women in Mamluk Sources” 8. Boaz Shoshan “On Marriage in Damascus, 1480-1500” C. Literary and Poetical Genres 9. Li Guo “Songs, Poetry, and Storytelling: Ibn Taghrībirdī on the Yalbughā Affair” 10. Frédéric Bauden “Maqriziana XIII: An Exchange of Correspondence Between al-Maqrīzī and al-Qalqashandī” 11. Michael Winter “Sultan Selīm’s Obsession with Mamluk Egypt according to Evliyā Ҁelebi’s Seyāḥatnāme” D. The Politics of Material Culture 12. Warren Schultz “Mamluk Coins, Mamluk Politics and the Limits of the Numismatic Evidence” 13. Hana Taragan “Mamluk Patronage, Crusader Spolia: Turbat al-Kubakiyya in the Mamilla Cemetery, Jerusalem (688/1289)” 14. Bethany J. Walker “The Struggle over Water: Evaluating the ‘Water Culture’ of Syrian Peasants under Mamluk Rule” 15. Élise Franssen “What was there in a Mamluk Amīr’s Library? Evidence from a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript” E. Regional and Local Politics 16. Reuven Amitai “Post-Crusader Acre in Light of a Mamluk Inscription and a Fatwā Document from Damascus” 17. Joseph Drory “Favored by the Sultan, Disfavored by his Son: Some Glimpses into the Career of Ṭashtamur Ḥummuṣ Akhḍar” Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRemembering Patrick White presents the first major study of the full range of White’s work in over twenty-five years, and aims to bring this important author up to date for new generations of readers and scholars. Patrick White is a writer of moods and perspectives and the essays collected here range in their focus over his public presentations, his formal challenges, his spiritual leanings and dramatic gestures. They examine the breadth and significance of White’s intellectual contribution and consider the ongoing legacy of his thought and his art within national and international frames. As a collection, they focus our attention on what Patrick White means at the juncture of the present, reading his work through contemporary critical perspectives that further underscore the dynamism and substance of his writing. Contributors: Bill Ashcroft; Veronica Brady; Bernadette Brennan; Lorraine Burdett; Greg Graham-Smith; John McCallum; Lyn McCredden; Elizabeth McMahon; Brigitta Olubas; Brigid Rooney; Jennifer Rutherford; Anthony Uhlmann.Trade ReviewRemembering Patrick Whiteis an essential shot in the arm. It reminds us we do need actively to remember Patrick White, to fetch him back centre-stage in Australian literary scholarship. And yet the essays in this book also look forward, remembering in order to re-energise scholarship on White’s novels, plays, and life. Indeed, if this timely book reminds us of the vitality – and the resolute contemporaneousness – of White’s intellectual engagement with Australia and the world, it is to show us how much we still have to gain from bringing new perspectives to bear upon his body of work, which is no less astounding in the twenty-first century than it was during his lifetime.” – Ian Henderson, King’s College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Patrick White’s Public Selves Brigid Rooney: Public Recluse: Patrick White’s Literary-Political Returns Bernadette Brennan: Riders in the Chariot: A Tale For Our Times Rodney Wetherell: Patrick White and his Award Form and Expression Jennifer Rutherford: Homo Nullius: The Politics of Pessimism in Patrick White’s The Tree of Man Anthony Uhlmann: The Symbol in Patrick White Elizabeth McMahon: The Lateness and Queerness of The Twyborn Affair: White’s Farewell to the Novel White’s Metaphysics Bill Ashcroft: The Presence of the Sacred in Patrick White Lyn McCredden: Voss: Earthed and Transformative Sacredness Veronica Brady: The Dragon Slayer: Patrick White and the Contestation of History Performance John McCallum: The Late, Crazy Plays Brigitta Olubas: “Some of the doors of the house have never been seen open”: Poetic Habitation and Civil Space in Patrick White’s Early Drama Gregory Graham–Smith: Against the Androgyne as Humanist He(te)ro: Patrick White’s Queering of the Platonic Myth Bibliography Lorraine Burdett: Patrick White, 1994–2009 Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPostcolonial and contemporary African literatures have always been marked by an acute sensitivity to the politics of language, an attentiveness inscribed in the linguistic fabric of their own modes of expression. It is curious however, that despite the prevalence of a much-touted ‘linguistic turn’ in twentieth century theory and cultural production, language has frequently been neglected by literary studies in general. Even more curiously, postcolonial literary studies, an erstwhile emergent and now established discipline which has from the outset contained important elements of linguistic critique, has eschewed any sustained engagement with this topic. This absence is salient in the study of African literatures, despite, for instance, the prominence of orature in the African literary tradition right up to the present day, and sporadic meditations on the part of such luminaries as Achebe and Ngũgĩ. Beyond this, however, there has been little scholarly work attuned to the multifarious aspects of language and linguistic politics in the study of African literature. The present volume aims to rectify such lacunae by making a substantial interdisciplinary and transcultural contribution to the gradual reinstatement of the ‘linguistic turn’ in African literary studies. The volume focuses variously on postcolonial and transcultural African literatures, areas of literary production where the confluence of several languages, whether indigenous and (post)colonial in the first case, and local and global in the second case, appears to be a central and decisive factor in the formation and transformation of the continent and its peoples’ cultural identities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chin Ce: Foreword Russell West-Pavlov & J. K. S. Makokha: Introduction: Linguistic (Re)turn and Craft in Contemporary African Literature General Perspectives Daria Tunca: Towards a Stylistic Model for Analysing Anglophone African Literatures: Preliminary Epistemological Considerations and a Case Study Adesola Olateju: Current Issues and Trends in African Verbal Stylistics: The Yoruba Example Perspectives on Fiction K. M. Mathews: Nnu Ego on the Verge of Feminist Consciousness: Feminist Stylistics and Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood Martina Kopf: Narratives of a Wounded Time: Yvonne Vera’s Poetics of Trauma Russell West-Pavlov: Speaking the Unspeakable in Iweala and Kourourma: The Trauma of Child Soldiers, Literary Stylistics and Story Telling Adeyemi Adegoju: Autobiographical Memory and Identity Construction in Tayo Olafioye’s Grandma’s Sun Shawkat M. Toorawa: Carl de Souza’s La maison qui marchait vers le large and the Multicultural Mauritian City Adeyemi Daramola: A Stylistic Study of Metaphors in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Perspectives on Orature and Poetry Iwu Ikwubuzo: Stylistic Features of Igbo Riddles Mikhail Gromov: On Stylistic Trends in Modern Swahili Poetry Michael Wainaina: New Wine in Old Wineskins: Stylistic Provisions of Orature’s Call and Response for Contemporary Discourses in Gikuyu Popular Music James Odhiambo Ogone and Ogone John Obiero: Activistic Understones in the Music of Women: A Psychoanalytic and Stylistic Reading of Agnes Mbuta’s Dhiang’ Othuwowa gi Chuo Anette Hoffmann: Chronotopes of the (Post-) Colonial Condition in Otjiherero Praise Poetry Bright Molande: Metapoesis and ‘the Art of Chameleons’ in Steve Chimombo’s Poetry Perspectives on Drama and Theatre Naomi Nkealah: Female Sexuality under the Male Gaze: Reading Style and Ideology in Bole Butake’s The Rape of Michelle Chris Wasike: Figurations of ‘troubled motherland’ and Feminization of the Ugandan Nation in John Ruganda’s Plays Victor Yankah: Language and Meaning in Efo Mawugbe’s In the Chest of a Woman Ibrahim Esan Olaosun: Incantation as Discourse: A Discourse-Stylistic Study of the Confrontational Scene in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are Not to Blame Contributors

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Book SynopsisSamuel Beckett and Pain is a collection of ten essays which explores the theme of pain in Beckett’s works. Experiencing both physical and psychological pain in the course of his life, Beckett found suffering in human life inevitable, accepted it as a source of inspiration in his writings, and probed it to gain deeper insight into the difficult and emotionally demanding processes of artistic creation, practice and performance. Acknowledging the recent developments in the study of pain in literature and culture, this volume explores various aspects of pain in Beckett’s works, a subject which has been heretofore only sporadically noted. The topics discussed include Beckett’s aesthetics and pain, pain as loss and trauma, pain in relation to palliation, pain at the experience of the limit, pain as archive, and pain as part of everyday life and language. This volume is characterized by its plural, interdisciplinary perspectives covering the fields of literature, theatre, art, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. By suggesting more diverse paths in Beckett studies, the authors hope to make a lasting contribution to contemporary literary studies and other relevant fields.Trade Review"The essays uniquely and surprisingly explore the varieties of Beckettian pain, inspired by this mutually interdependent relationship between the writer’s emotional and physical experiences of pain, loss and suffering, and pain’s incidence in his characters.” – Jacob Hovind, Towson University “An interesting overview of the growing research about pain and suffering, topics which have been of great interest to many Western thinkers.” – French Studies "Cet ouvrage collectif, prenant son départ dans une série d'interventions à Tokyo faites par des spécialistes anglophones de premier plan, offre un apport très enrichissant à la question du coprs chez Beckett, déployant des perspectives variées sur la douleur sous ses formes physique et morale." – Llewellyn Brown, Les Lettres romanes "Il faut recommander la lecture de cet ouvrage, en raison non seulement de la qualité des textes recueillis, mais aussi de l’art avec lequel ils ont été organisés, sous l’égide des trois responsables éditoriaux, qui sont aussi les auteurs des articles ponctuant chacune des trois parties." – Florence Godeau, Série « Samuel Beckett; 4 », Lettres Modernes MinardTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Pain as a Creative Force Mark Nixon: “Happily melancholy”: Pleasure and Pain in Early Beckett Graley Herren: Mourning Becomes Electric: Mediating Loss in Eh Joe Garin Dowd: Beckettian Pain, In the Flesh: Singularity, Community and “the Work” Mariko Hori Tanaka: The Body in Pain and Freedom of the Mind: Performing Beckett and Noh Pain in the Age of Uncertainty Peter Fifield: “Frankly now, is there pain?”: Beckett, Medicine and the Composition of Pain David Houston Jones: “Strange Pain”: Archive, Trauma and Testimony in Samuel Beckett and Christian Boltanski Yoshiki Tajiri: Everyday Life and the Pain of Existence in Happy Days Pain at the Limit of the Human Jonathan Boulter: “We have our being in justice”: Samuel Beckett’s How It Is Mary Bryden: “That or Groan”: Paining and De-paining in Beckett Michiko Tsushima: The Appearance of the Human at the Limit of Representation: Beckett and Pain in the Experience of Language Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThese volumes present John Kinsella’s uncollected critical writings and personal reflections from the early 1990s to the present. Included are extended pieces of memoir written in the Western Australian wheatbelt and the Cambridge fens, as well as acute essays and commentaries on the nature and genesis of personal and public poetics. Pivotal are a sense of place and how we write out of it; pastoral’s relevance to contemporary poetry; how we evaluate and critique (post)colonial creativity and intrusion into Indigenous spaces; and engaged analysis of activism and responsibility in poetry and literary discourse. The author is well-known for saying he is preeminently an “anarchist, vegan, pacifist” – not stock epithets, but the raison d’être behind his work. The collection moves from overviews of contemporary Australian poetry to studies of such writers as Randolph Stow, Ouyang Yu, Charmaine Papertalk–Green, Lionel Fogarty, Les Murray, Peter Porter, Dorothy Hewett, Judith Wright, Alamgir Hashmi, Patrick Lane, Robert Sullivan, C.K. Stead, and J.H. Prynne, and on to numerous book reviews of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, originally published in newspapers and journals from around the world. There are also searching reflections on visual artists (Sidney Nolan, Karl Wiebke, Shaun Atkinson) and wide-ranging opinion pieces and editorials. In counterpoint are conversations with other writers (Rosanna Warren, Rod Mengham, Alvin Pang, and Tracy Ryan) and explorations of schooling, being struck by lightning, ‘international regionalism’, hybridity, and experimental poetry. This two-volume argosy has been brought together by scholar and editor Gordon Collier, who has allowed the original versions to speak with their unique informal–formal ductus. Kinsella’s interest is in the ethics of space and how we use it. His considerations of the wheatbelt through Wagner and Dante (and rewritings of these), and, in Thoreauvian vein, his ‘place’ at Jam Tree Gully on the edge of Western Australia’s Avon Valley form a web of affirmation and anxiety: it is space he feels both part of and outside, em¬braced in its every magnitude but felt to be stolen land, whose restitution needs articulating in literature and in real time. Beneath it all is a celebration of the natural world – every plant, animal, rock, sentinel peak, and grain of sand – and a commitment to an ecological poetics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Landscape and Poetry Towards a Personal Poetic Craftings and Connections A Western Australian Photo Album Life Links Heteroglossias: Reviews & Short Pieces Familial Links Onomastic Index

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