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Book SynopsisThe fascinating history of Edinburghâs astonishing literary legacy. Covering authors, books, journals, ideas, festivals, attractions and landmarks.

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Book SynopsisDespite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop''s Fables are still passed on from parent to child, and are embedded in our collective consciousness. The morals we have learned from these tales continue to inform our judgements, but have the stories also informed how we regard their animal protagonists? Are wolves deceptive villains? Are crows insightful geniuses? And could a tortoise really beat a hare in a race? What truths about the animal world lie behind these tales?In Aesop''s Animals, zoologist Jo Wimpenny turns a critical eye to the fables to examine the science behind Aesop''s portrayal of the animal kingdom. She brings the tales into the twenty-first century, introducing the latest findings from the world of behavioural ecology the study of why animals do the things they do, in areas such as tool use, plans and projections, self-recognition, cooperation and deception. How close to verifiable scientific truths do these ancient tales laTrade ReviewCome for the fables and stay for the behavioral research in this jam-packed but delightful collection … Aesop’s Animals is both an intense and playful look at how humans — storytellers and scientists alike — consider the mysteries inside the creatures with whom we share this planet. * Scientific American *A spirited romp through modern cognitive ethology. * Wall Street Journal *Engaging and comprehensive, this is highly readable popular science. * Hannah Beckerman, The Observer *Every once in a publisher’s blue moon, along comes a book so simple and original in its concept that it verges on brilliance and 1,000 science and nature writers howl: "Why did we not think of it?" Such is Aesop’s Animals by zoologist Jo Wimpenny, which does precisely what it says on the lid: it puts the anthropomorphic fables of Aesop under the electron microscope of modern science. […] a clever cadastral survey of animal behavioural studies. * Country Life *I simply couldn't put it down. The clever ways in which Wimpenny weaves in current scientific facts about topics including future planning, tool use, self-recognition, cooperation, and deception with Aesop's lessons was spellbinding. * Psychology Today *Wimpenny has the knack for bringing interesting research to life with anecdotes without obscuring the more significant challenges of determining just what animals can do and what they may be thinking. * Wellbeing International *Wimpenny pumps life into the hard science and keeps her discussions accessible, offering plenty of insight into how humans interpret the natural world. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPreface 1: The Crow and the Pitcher 2: The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing 3: The Dog and its Shadow 4: The Ass Carrying the Image 5: The Fox and the Crow 6: The Lion and the Shepherd 7: The Monkey and the Fisherman 8: The Ants and the Grasshopper 9: The Hare and the Tortoise Epilogue Selected Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisThomas Dekker's singular comic drama, The Shoemakers' Holiday moves through the urban landscape of 16th century apprenticeships and artisan production in this tale of thwarted marriages and class division. Simon Eyre and his rags to riches journey to becoming the city's Lord Mayor embroils a host of lively characters who find themselves in the generative setting of the shoemakers' workshop. Whether it be Roland Lacy, who abandons his military duties under the guise of a Dutch shoemaker to stay close to Rose Oatley, his love interest, or Ralph Damport, a journeyman shoemaker, who cannot escape conscription and finds himself separated from his wife Jane with the appearance of an elusive shoe providing the only chance of reunion. Dekker's comedy focuses on the early modern tensions between urban artisans, wealthy merchants and the landed aristocracy. Through these relationships he explores gender, immigration and disability, mixing acute social commentary within the promise of f

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Book SynopsisOffers an investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's writing. The author discusses all of Woolf's novels as well as selected essays and short fiction, offering detailed commentaries on Woolf's numerous allusions to classical repertoire and to composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner.

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Book SynopsisKey Concepts in the Gothic' provides a one-stop resource which details and defines, in accessible language, those contexts essential for the study of the Gothic in all periods and media.

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces you clearly and succinctly to the ways in which feminist ideas have transformed the form and content of British women's fiction and non-fiction writing.

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Book SynopsisThe first translation into English of Mother Homer is Dead, written in the immediate aftermath of the death of the Cixous's mother in the 103rd year of her life.

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Book SynopsisThis collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.

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Book SynopsisWritten from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, 'Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion' interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.

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Book SynopsisCombining her expertise in legal theory and judicial practice in a continental-European civil-law system, Jeanne Gaakeer explores the intertwinement of legal theory and practice to develop a humanities-inspired methodology for both the academic interdisciplinary study of law and literature and for legal practice.

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Book SynopsisApplies new understandings of realism as a political aesthetic to Progressive Era Literature, arguing for its radicalism politically and culturally

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Book SynopsisRevises current thinking about how genre operates in early modern theatre

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Book SynopsisExplores the complex life of this controversial and enigmatic Scot, and his contribution to Scottish life and lettersTrade Review"This is a great achievement, a very full and thoroughly documented account. I am full of admiration for this very scrupulous account, and for Munro's determination not to simplify what is necessarily complex. This is an honest and well-balanced description of a personality so hard to categorise: the research is exemplary."" -Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Affective Ecocriticism: Emotion, Embodiment, Environment imagines fresh critical responses to the problem of altered landscapes and the human costs of ongoing environmental trauma. . . . It asks us to imagine a broader spectrum of emotional possibility and to reevaluate those feelings already in our activist toolkit."—William V. Lombardi, Environmental History"Beyond critiquing the cultural logic of a human-dominated geologic interval and all that comes with it, the environmental humanities can offer a clearer sense of the Anthropocene’s ecological affects. In articulating scholarly versions of such emotional attunements, Affective Ecocriticism represents an exciting, ground-breaking vision of how such a project might proceed."—Andrew Ross, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment"These essays, diverse in method, topic, and style, show that an affective ecocriticism offers numerous tools for understanding our present moment and imagining new futures."—Shelby Brewster, H-Environment"This volume provides a refreshingly sophisticated approach for integrating the interdisciplinary field of affect theory with ecocritical analysis."—Patrick D. Murphy, Western American Literature“Affective Ecocriticism cements the importance of affect—and not only data or narrative—to understanding current environmental crises and relations. It also posits how affect bears on acting on these crises (or not) and pivoting our relations. That is, the essays here aren’t merely descriptive or diagnostic; they also look to possibilities for response.”—Heather Houser, associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect“Affect theory and ecocriticism are both already vibrant fields of inquiry, but Affective Ecocriticism makes a strong case for their inherent compatibility. This field-defining book demonstrates the deeper ground that both of these approaches might find were they to understand the basic fact of their shared concerns, methods, and aims.”—Rachel Greenwald Smith, associate professor of English at Saint Louis University and author of Affect and American Literature in the Age of NeoliberalismTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Toward an Affective Ecocriticism: Placing Feeling in the Anthropocene Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino Part 1. Theoretical Foundations 1. “what do we do but keep breathing as best we can this / minute atmosphere”: Juliana Spahr and Anthropocene Anxiety Nicole M. Merola 2. From Nostalgic Longing to Solastalgic Distress: A Cognitive Approach to Love in the Anthropocene Alexa Weik von Mossner 3. A New Gentleness: Affective Ficto-Regionality Neil Campbell Part 2. Affective Attachments: Land, Bodies, Justice 4. Feeling the Fires of Climate Change: Land Affect in Canada’s Tar Sands Jobb Arnold 5. Wendell Berry and the Affective Turn William Major 6. A Hunger for Words: Food Affects and Embodied Ideology Tom Hertweck 7. Uncanny Homesickness and War: Loss of Affect, Loss of Place, and Reworlding in Redeployment Ryan Hediger Part 3. Animality: Feeling Species and Boundaries 8. Desiring Species with Darwin and Freud Robert Azzarello 9. Tragedy, Ecophobia, and Animality in the Anthropocene Brian Deyo 10. Futurity without Optimism: Detaching from Anthropocentrism and Grieving Our Fathers in Beasts of the Southern Wild Allyse Knox-Russell Part 4. Environmentalist Killjoys: Politics and Pedagogy 11. The Queerness of Environmental Affect Nicole Seymour 12. Feeling Let Down: Affect, Environmentalism, and the Power of Negative Thinking Lisa Ottum 13. Feeling Depleted: Ecocinema and the Atmospherics of Affect Graig Uhlin 14. Coming of Age at the End of the World: The Affective Arc of Undergraduate Environmental Studies Curricula Sarah Jaquette Ray List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe superhero Wolverine time travels and changes storylines. On Torchwood, there''s a pill popped to alter memories of the past. The narrative technique of retroactive continuity seems rife lately, given all the world-building in comics. Andrew J. Friedenthal deems retroactive continuity, or retconning, as a force with many implications for how Americans view history and culture. Friedenthal examines this phenomenon in a range of media, from its beginnings in comic books and now its widespread shift into television, film, and digital media. Retconning has reached its present form as a result of the complicated workings of superhero comics. In comic books and other narratives, retconning often seems utilized to literally rewrite some aspect of a character''s past, either to keep that character more contemporary, to erase stories from continuity that no longer fit, or to create future story potential. From comics, retconning has spread extensively, to long-form, continuity-rich

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Book SynopsisIn contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their male counterparts. In Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender, author Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, making the argument that representations of the American South on stage are complicated by difficulties of identity, genre, and region. Through analysis of the dramatic texts, the rhetoric of reviews of productions, as well as what the playwrights themselves have said about their plays and productions, Kayser delineates these challenges and argues that playwrights draw on various conscious strategies in response. These strategies, evident in the work of such playwrights as Pearl Cleage, Sandra Deer, Lillian Hellman, Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Shay Youngblood, provide them with the opportunity to lead audiences to recons

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Book SynopsisDrop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you've been meaning to pick upthe reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since Dylan went electric, listening to rock 'n' roll has often been a surprisingly literary experience, and contemporary literature is curiously attuned to the history and beat of popular music. In The Ink in the Grooves, Florence Dore brings together a remarkable array of acclaimed novelists, musicians, and music writers to explore the provocatively creative relationship between musical and literary inspiration: the vitality that writers draw from a three-minute blast of guitars and the poetic insights that musicians find in literary works from Shakespeare to Southern Gothic. Together, the essays and interviews in The Ink in the Grooves provide a backstage pass to the creative processes behind some of the most exciting and influential albums and novels of our time. Contributors: Laura Cantrell, Michael Chabon, Roddy Doyle, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, William Ferris, Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, Dave Grohl, Peter Guralnick, Amy Helm, Randall Kenan, Jonathan Lethem, Greil Marcus, Rick Moody, Lorrie Moore, the John Prine band (Dave Jacques, Fats Kaplin, Pat McLaughlin, Jason Wilber), Dana Spiotta, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Richard Thompson, Scott Timberg, Daniel Wallace, Colson Whitehead, Lucinda Williams, Warren Zanes.Trade ReviewNovelists, musicians, and other cultural movers and shakers muse on the intersection of literature and rock music in this rich collection of essays. Music lovers with a literary bent will find this worth tuning in to. * Publishers Weekly *Florence Dore has created an excellent collection of old and new writing that explores the convergence of rock and literature. Readers will want to take the time to slowly savor this rich gathering. * Booklist *Florence Dore's search along the seam of rock music and fiction evinces rare moments in the lives of writers and musicians, epiphanies suggesting a shared psyche of art seeking freedom, art quaking with hungers of expression that anyone who has gone stomp-down dancing in a club where the music soars will feel into the bone. * The Daily Beast *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Needles and Pens, by Florence Dore Part 1: The Inescapable Dylan 1. Let it Rock 2. The Genius and Modern Times of Bob Dylan 3. All the Poets (Musicians on Writing): An Interview with Rhiannon Giddens 4. Chronicles: Volume One (Excerpt) Part II: Rock 'N' Roll Saved My Life: Writers on Music 5. Banjo Interlude: An Idle Teen's Life Is Saved by Music 6. Tonight We Improvise: From Sag Harbor (Excerpt) 7. Ubu Lives! Remembering Punk and Its Stories 8. By Heart: From Eat the Document (Excerpt) 9. Precious Resource (Rock and Our Generation of Novelists): An Interview with Jonathan Lethem and Dana Spiotta 10. Whack Fol the Daddy-O: How I Learned to Hate Irish Music Slightly Less Part III: Rock's Literary Identity: Musicians on Literature 11. Dear Dylan: An Interview with Lucinda Williams 12. Iambic Pentameter and the Blues: An Interview with Steve Earle 13. Sir Patrick Rocks! Dragging Ancient Ballads into the Twentieth Century, and What That Can Do to Fragile Young Minds 14. Two Blue Suedes Part IV: Don't Let Anyone Write Your Story: Musings on Rock as Literature 15. When We All Get to Heaven 16. English as a Second Language 17. Cosmic Ray: How Ray Charles's "I Got a Woman" Transformed the Music of Ray Charles, Allowed Him to Keep His Band, and Created a Musical and Social Revolution 18. Ain't It Always Stephen Stills Part V: Losses and Erasures 19. Black Cowboys and Jimi Hendrix: An Interview with Dom Flemons 20. Anatomy of a Canned Heat Hit: "Let's Work Together" by Wilbert Harrison 21. John Prine (The Reluctant Genius): An Interview with Dave Jacques, Jason Wilbur, Fats Kaplin, and Pat McLaughlin 22. The Day the Live Concert Returns 23. Unknown Band on a Forgotten Stage 24. Right on Time: An Interview with Amy Helm,

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Book SynopsisElectronic Literature considers new forms and genres of writing that exploit the capabilities of computers and networks – literature that would not be possible without the contemporary digital context. In this book, Rettberg places the most significant genres of electronic literature in historical, technological, and cultural contexts. These include combinatory poetics, hypertext fiction, interactive fiction (and other game-based digital literary work), kinetic and interactive poetry, and networked writing based on our collective experience of the Internet. He argues that electronic literature demands to be read both through the lens of experimental literary practices dating back to the early twentieth century and through the specificities of the technology and software used to produce the work. Considering electronic literature as a subject in totality, this book provides a vital introduction to a dynamic field that both reacts to avant-garde literary and art traditions and generates new forms of narrative and poetic work particular to the twenty-first century. It is essential reading for students and researchers in disciplines including literary studies, media and communications, art, and creative writing.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2019 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature �Electronic Literature demonstrates rare common sense and an encyclopedic knowledge of works, theory, contexts, and criticism. This is a significant and important book by the field�s founder that will be the definitive work on electronic literature now and for many years to come.�N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University �Scott Rettberg provides an excellent history of digital storytelling and poetry – and points to the future. Electronic Literature is a clear map of creative writing�s conjunction with computing, a vital region of today�s culture.�Nick Montfort, author of The Truelist �Rarely do a historian and his subject match so perfectly as Rettberg and the early days of electronic literature. This authoritative account of the origins of electronic literature covers all the genre�s forms, as well as the people and institutions who helped found the field. A unique and remarkable book.�Robert Coover, novelist and Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts at Brown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Genres of Electronic LiteratureChapter 2: Combinatory PoeticsChapter 3: Hypertext FictionChapter 4: Interactive Fiction and Other Gamelike FormsChapter 5: Kinetic and Interactive PoetryChapter 6: Network WritingChapter 7: Divergent Streams References Index

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Book SynopsisDeveloped in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate®Everything you need to deliver a rich, concept-based approach for the new IB Diploma English Literature course. - Navigate seamlessly through all aspects of the syllabus with in-depth coverage of the new course structure and content- Investigate the three areas of exploration, concept connections and global issues in detail to help students become flexible, critical readers- Learn how to appreciate a variety of texts with a breadth of reading material and forms from a diverse pool of authors- Engaging activities are provided to test understanding of each topic and develop skills - guiding answers are available to check your responses- Identify opportunities to make connections across the syllabus, with explicit reference to TOK, EE and CASTrade ReviewClearly this is a richly stocked and very well written resource for the IB Literature course. Strong HL students, as well as all teachers of the course, are likely to be well advantaged by reading and using it, as they will find much to interest them and expand their experience of the course. And the book provides great potential for all students, HL and SL to evolve in their knowledge and understanding of what 'literature' is, how it works, and how it has and does function in human life and history.The way in which the book aligns itself with the chosen aspects of the Subject Guide is impressive. The chapters work to deconstruct the lines of inquiry in the Areas of Exploration.... as a teacher I would be very happy to have a copy of the book in my library of resources, both for ideas and simply to re-read from time to time to spur my own thinking. The panoply of examples is delightful, and there is some very useful critical work. I would also seriously consider recommending or giving the book to any student, IB or not, who is headed to university with plans to study language and literature.The biographies are very helpful and interesting and the QR codes are a lively and apt clarification/enrichment technique. One thing that is very well handled is the reiteration and the interweaving of certain ideas and aspects. I was impressed by how free of copy errors the whole text is.Dr Hannah C. Tyson, Educator, writer, consultant11 July 2019 -- Dr Hannah C. Tyson

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Book SynopsisBuild confidence in a range of key literary analysis techniques and skills with this practical companion, full of advice and guidance from experienced experts.- Build analysis techniques and skills through a range of strategies, serving as a useful companion throughout the course - from critical-thinking, referencing and citation and the development of a line of inquiry to reflecting on the writing process and constructing essays for Paper 1 and Paper 2- Develop skills in how to approach a text using literary analysis strategies and critical theory, for both unseen literary texts (the basis of Paper 1) and texts studied in class - Learn how to engage with texts so that you can write convincingly and passionately about literature through active reading, note-taking, asking questions, and developing a personal response to texts- Concise, clear explanations help students navigate the IB requirements, including advice on assessment objectives and how literary analysis weaves through Paper 1, Paper 2, the HL Essay, Individual Oral and the Learner Profile- Engaging activities are provided to test understanding of each topic and develop skills for the exam - guiding answers are available to check responses

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Book SynopsisWhat did it mean to be happy in early modern Europe? Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture includes essays that reframe historical understandings of emotional life in the Renaissance, focusing on under-studied feelings such as mirth, solidarity, and tranquillity. Methodologically diverse and interdisciplinary, these essays draw from the history of emotions, affect theory and the contemporary social and cognitive sciences to reveal rich and sustained cultural attention in the early modern period to these positive feelings. The book also highlights culturally distinct negotiations of the problematic binary between what constitutes positive and negative emotions. A comprehensive introduction and afterword open multiple paths for research into the histories of good feeling and their significances for understanding present constructions of happiness and wellbeing.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie M. MiuraPart I: Rewriting discourses of pleasure1 Happy Hamlet – Richard Strier2 Therapeutic laughter in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy – Cassie M. Miura 3 The pleasure of the text: reading and happiness in Rabelais and Montaigne – Ian Frederick Moulton4 Pleasure and the 'rustic life' – Ullrich Langer Part II: Imagining happy communities5 The theology of cheer, Erasmus to Shakespeare – Timothy Hampton6 ‘My crown is called content’: positive, negative, and political affects in Shakespeare’s first tetralogy – Paul Joseph Zajac 7 Solidarity as ritual in the late Elizabethan court: faction, emotion, and the Essex Circle – Bradley J. Irish 8 Merriness, affect, and community in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor – Cora Fox Part III: Forms, attachment, and ambivalence9 Happy objects and earthly pleasure in Thomas Traherne’s devotional poetry – Leila Watkins 10 Trust and disgust: the precariousness of positive emotions in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi – Lalita Pandit Hogan 11 ‘My heart is satisfied’: revenge, justice, and satisfaction in The Spanish Tragedy – Eonjoo Park 12 All’s Well That Ends Well? Happiness, ambivalence, and story genre – Patrick Colm Hogan Afterword – Michael SchoenfeldtIndex

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Book SynopsisLove’s Victory by Lady Mary Wroth (1587–1651) is the first romantic comedy written in English by a woman. The Revels Plays publishes for the first time a fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of the Penshurst manuscript, the only copy of the play containing all five acts, handwritten by Wroth and privately owned by the Viscount De L’Isle. Edited by Alison Findlay, Philip Sidney and Michael G. Brennan, their critical introduction provides details of Wroth’s remarkable life and work as a member of the Sidney family, tracing connections between Love’s Victory, her prose and poetry and her family’s extensive writings. The editors introduce readers to the influence of court drama on Love’s Victory and offer a new account of the play’s stage history in productions from 1999–2018. Extensive commentary notes guiding the modern reader include explanatory glosses, literary references and staging information.

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Book SynopsisEliza de Feuillide seemed fascinating and outlandish to her cousins in rural eighteen century England. When she visited their village, her appearance was electrifying. She was an attractive, accomplished French countess with a vivacious personality who inspired their imaginations and regaled them with stories of life in London and Paris where she hobnobbed with French nobility and wore the latest fashions. One of these impressionable younger cousins would find Eliza's stories so fascinating that she would incorporate elements of Eliza's life into some of the most famous novels in English literature. This cousin was Jane Austen. Yet Eliza's life was not as glamorous as Jane or her Austen cousins might have thought. She faced many tragedies in her life that wealth and social class could not protect her against. She was also forced to adapt and re-examine her priorities in a way that would dramatically change her life choices and result in a more sedate lifestyle. Read about the perseverance and courage of the real person behind several fictional characters in Jane Austen's writings and novels and the deeper connection Eliza had to the Austen family.

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Book SynopsisThere can be no question, Mr Dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast' Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of Black Peter You may have been introduced to the magic of the greatest of English detectives by reading the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or perhaps watching some of the hundreds of films or TV shows that feature the extraordinary adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H. Watson - now, this unique book offers a detailed itinerary for actually walking' Sherlock Holmes. Beginning, of course, at Baker Street a series of walks takes in the well-known, as well as some of the more obscure, locations of London as travelled by Holmes and Watson and a gallery of unforgettable characters in the stories. Details of each location and the story in which it features are given along with other items of interest - associated literary and historical information, social history, and events in Conan Doyle's life. A chapter then explores Holmes' adventures in the rest of the UK. 55 black and white original photographs accompany the text. This book is designed to appeal to anyone who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of the stories by travelling, even if just in imagination from an armchair, exactly the same London streets as Sherlock Holmes, and perhaps also by exploring some iconic Holmesian locations farther afield. Come, Watson, come!' Holmes says in The Adventure of the Abbey Grange. The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!'

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Book SynopsisThis accessible, personal, and provocative study returns to the major subject in literary discussion before and during the relatively recent flourishing of literary theory, that of literary intention. Does the author’s personal intention or historical site determine a correct interpretation of a literary work? Probing the entire range of issues connected with this many-faceted and knotty concept, this book engages with interpretation on both theoretical and practical levels. It argues that the hard questions about interpretation connected to issues of intention cannot be sidestepped or ignored. It does not argue for conservative concepts of literature itself, nor against the major historical engagements of critics in our time. But in addressing those who continue to read or teach literature, it does insist on a level of sophistication in issues of literary interpretation that cannot be assured by historical research and knowledge of the social and cultural connections to literary works. The overall aim of the work is to recall readers to the great complexity, pleasure, and interest of literary interpretation. Trade Review“At last—a book on literary theory and interpretation that is as refreshing and as accessible to students and general readers as it is provocatively challenging to the professoriat. John Maynard’s essays are absorbing, probing, and inspiring in their broad re-thinking of the foundations of interpretation and the potential creation of a utopian moment of reader freedom, unencumbered by the stultifying models of monolithic interpretation. The scholarship is impressive, the style vibrant, the arguments forcefully stated, and the constructive power of diverse readers and readings eminently apparent.” — Lewis Kamm, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth“What is it to be a reader, as opposed to the author or the language, of a literary text? This was one of the regulating questions of literary criticism a generation ago. John Maynard’s Literary Intention is a comprehensive work of intellectual history that investigates the concepts and theories that once animated intense debates about intentionality, reception-aesthetics, and ideology-critique. At the same time, it locates the reasons why critics began to weave cultural tapestries around texts instead of interpreting them. By turns critical and elegiac, Maynard’s book is written with enviable clarity and grace. It will prove indispensable for courses on the history of criticism, not to mention our efforts to explain how we got to where we are now.” — Gerald Bruns, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSSECTION ONE: INTRODUCTIONSECTION TWO: LITERARY INTENTION/ALITY Once More with Feeling Individual Psychological Uncertainties Ideological and Discursive Uncertainties Deliberate Uncertainties Performative Multi-Intentions Limits on the Author’s Control Cultural Determinism as Disguised Intentionality Intention in the Text Intended Initial Reception as a Guide to Intention Speech Act Thinking as a Way of Establishing Intentions Words Getting in the Way Syntax, Grammar, Logic Getting in the Way Tropes and Figures Getting in the Way Voice Gets in the Way Too Thematic Foregrounds Abounding Foregrounding Forms Abounding: Genres and Structures Interpretation: Some More Pragmatic Arguments You Can’t Properly Get There from Here: Babes in the Woodsof Historicity Brief Conclusion to a Long Discourse SECTION THREE: REREADING READER THEORIES:INTERVENTIONS AND INTRUSIONS Introduction What Was to Fear in the Wolf-gang in Sheep’s Clothing De Man’s Narrative of Reading: No Exit—for Others Reading in Textual Power Reread: The Big One that Got Away Theory Postscript: Communities and Schools of Fish SECTION FOUR: CONCLUSION AND WORK IN PROGRESS: READER THEORY MEETS REAL READERSAppendix 1: More on Speech Act Theory and IntentionAppendix 2: Stanley Fish’s IntentionsWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisImagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistanhas been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion—the era that propelledAfghanistan into the center of global media visibility. Through an analysis offiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates thatwriting and screening "Afghanistan" has become a conduit for understanding ourshared post-9/11 condition. "Afghanistan" serves as a lens through whichcontemporary cultural producers contend with the moral ambiguities of twenty-first-centuryhumanitarianism, interpret the legacy of the Cold War, debate the role of theU.S. in the rise of transnational terror, and grapple with the long-term impactof war on both human and nonhuman ecologies.Post-9/11 global Afghanistan literary productionremains largely NATO-centric insofar as it is marked by an uncriticalinvestment in humanitarianism as an approach to Third World suffering and inanti-communism as an unquestioned premise. The book's first half exposes how persistinganti-socialist biases—including anti-statist bias—not only shaped recent literaryand visual texts on Afghanistan, resulting in a distorted portrayal of itstragic history, but also informed these texts' reception by critics. In thebook's second half, the author examines cultural texts that challenge thislimited horizon and forge alternative ways of representing traumatic histories.Captured by the author through the concepts of deep time, nonhuman witness, andwar as a multispecies ecology, these new aesthetics bring readers asophisticated portrait of Afghanistan as a rich multispecies habitat affectedin dramatic ways by decades of war but not annihilated.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Global Afghanistan 1. Humanitarian Sublime and the Politics of Pity: Writing and Screening "Afghanistan" Circa 2001 2. Imagining the Soviets: The Faustian Bargain of Khaled Hosseini's Kabul "Trilogy" 3. Humanitarian Jihad: Unearthing the Contemporary in the Narratives of the Long 1979 4. Witness: Modes of Writing the Disaster 5. The Deep Time of War: Nadeem Aslam and the Aesthetics of the Geologic Turn 6. The Kabubble: The Humanitarian Community Under Scrutiny Conclusion: The End of an Era Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisRecounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that portrays the strains on Russian society in the middle of the nineteenth century. Its protagonist, Raskolnikov, moves in a world of dire poverty, disillusionment, radicalism, and nihilism interwoven with religious faith and utopianism. In Dostoevsky's innovative style, which he called fantastic realism, the narrator frequently reports from within the protagonist's mind. The depiction of the desperate lives of tradespeople, students, alcoholics, prostitutes, and criminals gives readers insight into the urban society of St. Petersburg at the time.The first part of this book offers instructors guidance on Russian editions and English translations, a map of St. Petersburg showing locations mentioned in the novel, a list of characters and an explanation of the Russian naming system, analysis of key scenes, and selected critical works on the novel. In the second part, essays address many of Dostoevsky's themes and consider the role of ethics, gender, money, Orthodox Christianity, and social justice in the narrative. The volume concludes with essays on digital media and film adaptations.

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Book SynopsisThe Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson burst into public awareness when he opposed the compulsory use of newfangled gender-pronouns. He has since published two best-selling books, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018) and Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (2021), and has become the leading public intellectual on social media. Although Peterson has an almost cult-like following, and arouses strong passions, both for and against, there has been very little focused, objective criticism of his provocative views on a wide variety of topics: the role of religion, the alleged need for more value and meaning in the modern world, the way young people should conduct their lives, the history of Marxism and postmodernism, male-female relations; the interpretation of Bible stories, the inevitability of hierarchy and inequality, and the application of Jungian archetypes.Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses brings together new and searching criticisms of various specific aspects of Peterson’s ideas. Though on balance decidedly critical, the authors represent a range of different backgrounds and philosophical assumptions, and the criticisms are fair and temperate, eschewing the personal attacks which have marred many of the pronouncements of Peterson’s opponents.Trade Review“Illuminating and provocative in equal measure, this fine collection of essays captures countless facets of one of the most refreshingly heterodox intellectuals of our time.” —James Orr, author of The Mind of God and the Works of Nature (2019)“In Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses, a remarkably broad range of writers compare and contrast Peterson’s thought with that of notables ranging from Karl Marx (Gordon and Tang) to Marcus Aurelius (Sandra Woien). Those looking for uncritical praise or debunking of the pronoun-reluctant Canuck should look elsewhere, but readers interested in a genuinely broad range of responses to a highly relevant contemporary thinker may have found an important text.”—Wilfred Reilly, author of Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About (2020)“Dr. Jordan Peterson holds forth eloquently on a rather wide range of topics and finds a huge, eager audience. I guess he must be right occasionally. This long overdue book is an excellent compilation of criticisms of Dr. Peterson’s ideas from many different angles. A much-needed contribution to cleaning up our intellectual discourse.”—Dr. Jeffrey A. Schaler, author of Addiction Is a Choice (2002)“Most often, Jordan Peterson is either lauded as a hero or condemned as a villain. In contrast, Sandra Woien has assembled a fine collection of essays that take Peterson's work very seriously and provide intelligent critiques. Both fans and foes of Peterson will appreciate this volume.” —Robert Murphy, author of Choice: Co-operation, Enterprise, and Human Action (2015)"Supremely helpful! This collection of essays offers a critical analysis of Jordan Peterson in the very best sense. Mercifully, the authors address and transcend the polarized ideological spectrum of his haters and zealots to explore the meaning of his work in productive ways. They truly take him on (as in both pushback and engagement), using JP as a foil for further thought across a wide array of disciplines."—Bradley Jersak, Dean of Theology and Culture, St. Stephen’s UniversityTable of ContentsChapters: 1. Jordan Peterson, Secular Priest, Alex Brocklehurst; 2. Confronting the New Puritans, Ron Dart;3. What Jordan Peterson Should Have Said about Marxism, David Gordon and Ying Tang; 4. Does Jordan Peterson’s Appeal to Authenticity Make Him a Hypocrite? Madeline Shield; 5. Not an Anti-Feminist Per Se, Luis Felipe Bartolo Alegre and Fabiola Valeria Cárdenas Maldonado; 6. Clean Up Your Theory! David Ramsay Steele; 7. Stone, Stone-Soup, and Soup, Marc Champagne; 8. The Masculine and Feminine of God, Katie Skurja; 9. Biblical Lilliputians Meet Gulliver, Ron Dart; 10. Jordan Peterson’s Religious Facts and Values, Stephen R.C. Hicks; 11. We’re Science! We’re All about Coulda, Not Shoulda, Mark Garron; 12. Missing God, Esther O’Reilly; 13. Jordan Peterson on Postmodernism, Truth, and Science, Panu Raatikainen; 14. Are We Made for Happiness? Tristan Rogers; 15. How Jordan Peterson Explains Human Behavior, David Dennen; 16. Could Jordan Peterson Be a Stoic? Sandra Woien;17. The Musical Mediation of Order and Chaos, David Cotter; 18. On Peterson’s Truth, Teemu Tauriainen.

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Book SynopsisFeatures a new section on the institutional settings of German Jewish Studies, a Film Forum on Shahar Rozen's 1998 documentary Liebe Perla, and interviews with Paul Mendes-Flohr and Barbara Honigmann, among other contributions. Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop at the University of Notre Dame. Together, Nexus and the Workshop constitute the first ongoing German Jewish Studies forum in North America. Because the locus of scholarship is never incidental, Nexus 6 introduces a new section, "Contexts," to examine, in this case, what it means to pursue German Jewish Studies at a Catholic university, Notre Dame. And because research is never static, it inaugurates a series in which scholars revisit their own prior scholarly publications. Robert Smith launches this initiative by revising his view of Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a source for post-Holocaust Christian-Jewish dialogue. The volume also offers conversations with the legendary Paul Mendes-Flohr on his understanding of the German Jewish "legacy" and with Barbara Honigmann on her distinctive prose style and what it means to her to practice Judaism. The popular Film Forum section returns, this time focusing on Shahar Rozen's 1998 documentary Liebe Perla. Nexus 6 also presents new scholarship on Babi Yar Holocaust memorials, Freud's famous Moses essay, Primo Levi's translation of Kafka, and an introduction to and first English translation of the 18th-century philosopher Salomon Maimon's understudied essay History of His Philosophical Authorship in Dialogues.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction - Martha B. Helfer and William Collins Donahue Contexts: German Jewish Studies at the University of Notre Dame Jewish Studies at a Catholic University: An Address to the German Jewish Studies Workshop, February 20, 2017 - John T. McGreevy Jewish (Studies) at Notre Dame: A Welcome Address Delivered at the 6th Biennial Workshop at Notre Dame, February 2019 - Peter Holland Nexus Film Forum: Shahar Rozen's Liebe Perla (1998) Edited by Brad Prager A Conversation with Shahar Rozen - Moderated by Brad Prager An Ethics of Radical Visibility - Jennifer Cazenave The Shape of Testimony in Shahar Rozen's Liebe Perla - Valentina Geri Sight Unseen: Liebe Perla and Archival Images - Brad Prager Film or Photo? Liebe Perla and Corresponding and Conflicting Survivor Testimony - Erin McGlothlin --------------- "My Marriage to the German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy": A Conversation with Paul Mendes-Flohr - Moderated by Steve Dowden Holocaust Tourism and Visual Mediation: Sergei Loznitsa's Austerlitz - Michael D. Richardson Narrative Convergences and Clashes: German, Israeli, and Ukrainian Constellations of Holocaust Memory through Babi Yar Commemorations - Kristina Hook Christian Responsibility and Anti-Jewish Theology: Revisiting "Reclaiming Bonhoeffer After Auschwitz" - Robert O. Smith "Alles so ein bisschen neben der Spur" / "Everything Just a Bit off the Beaten Path": Aesthetics, Politics, Jewishness: A Conversation with Barbara Honigmann (German / English) - Introduced and conducted by William Donahue Freud's Moses and the Critique of Nationalist Origins - Ari Linden "With the knife in the heart." Understanding Primo Levi's Translation of Franz Kafka's The Trial - Valentina Geri Salomon Maimon's History of His Philosophical Authorship in Dialogues: A Primer and Translation - Jason M. Yonover

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Book SynopsisAfter more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations List of Figures Introduction: Heterotopic World FictionPart One. Biopolitics: Technologies of the Individual Correlating Knowledge and Power Relations: The Birth of BiopoliticsDiscipline and Punish: Discerning the Dangerous Mrs. Dalloway: A Dangerous DayIn the Skin of a Lion: Dangerous Yearnings Part Two. Biopoetics: Technologies of the Worldly SelfFrom Biopolitics to BiopoeticsConceptsParrhēsia: Dangerous Truth Telling Bios/Logos: Living Truth Askēsis: The Art of Elaborating the Self as a Practice of FreedomExperience-Books: Altering Truths Heterotopic Methods Method 1—Disposing/Transposing the Archive: Criminal Vanishing Acts Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur, et mon frère . . .The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems Flush: A Biography Method 2—Distracting/Transacting Genealogy: Reading for One’s Life Between the ActsThe English PatientThe History of Sexuality, vol. 1Method 3—Dislocating/Transiting Strategics: Reading Biopoetic AssemblagesFoucault 1: The History of Sexuality, vols. 2, 3, 4Foucault 2: Answering Questions Woolf 1: “. . . very little persuaded of the truth of anything”Woolf 2: OrlandoWoolf 3: The WavesOndaatje 1:“[W]e can’t rely on only one voice”Ondaatje 2: WarlightOndaatje 3: Running in the FamilyOndaatje 4: The Cat’s Table Figures Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBrings together writers from diverse worlds to explore how Austen's readers experience and process her novels' erotic power.

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Book SynopsisAn intellectual biography of a modern African artist and his immense contribution to twentieth-century art history.

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Book SynopsisIllustrated highlights from the Judaica Collection of the Library of Congress. Books Like Sapphires showcases a wide range of Hebraic treasures from the storied collection at the Library of Congress, many of them for the first time. Tracing the history of Judaica collecting in the twentieth-century United States, the book illuminates varied works, telling their stories alongside vibrant color images. These include a unique manuscript about a betrothal scandal in Renaissance Crete, an illustrated Esther Scroll, a poem from 1477 celebrating the new technology of printing, amusing rhymed couplets in sixteenth-century Padua, and the Washington Haggadah. This book also tells the story of the patrons and collectors, first among them Jacob Schiff, as well as archivists and curators, who made the storied Judaica archive at the Library of Congress the precious resource that it is today.

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Book SynopsisMathew Owen, John Morgan and Elis ab Elis are the three poets whose works are presented in this book. They represent Welsh muse in the second half of the 17th and early years of the 18th centuries, and this is an invitation to the readers of today to study poems and a period that has been largely ignored.

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Book Synopsis“[Metcalf’s] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.”—Washington PostIn Temerity & Gall, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the current state of CanLit; and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing.In a 1983 editorial letter to the Globe and Mail, celebrated Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella railed that “Mr. Metcalf—an immigrant—continually and in the most galling manner has the temerity to preach to Canadians about their own literature.” Forty years later, in spite of Kinsella’s effort to discredit him in the name of a misguided nationalism both embarrassing and familiar, John Metcalf still has the temerity and gall to preach, to teach, and to write passionately (and uproariously) about literature in Canada. Part memoir, meditation, and apologia, part criticism and pure Metcalf, the present volume distills a lifetime of reading and writing, thinking and collecting, and continues his necessary work kicking against the ever-present pricks. As is the case with all of his critical work, Temerity & Gall will challenge, delight, anger, and inspire in equal measure, and is essential reading for anyone interested in literature in Canada and its place within the wider tradition of writing in English.Temerity & Gall is printed in a limited paperback edition of 750 copies signed and numbered by the author.Trade ReviewPraise for Temerity & Gall"Incandescent [...] steeped in acid wit."—Literary Review of Canada"[Metcalf's] exacting eye and his ongoing willingness to call out what he considers substandard, inert, or deadening in our literary culture has earned him opprobrium ... One need not agree with everything [he] says to find much to gnaw on in his analyses of the various ways literary technique and style ... are too often downgraded or outright ignored. ... While it’s amusing to wrestle with the temerity and gall of Metcalf’s settled esthetic standards ... his achievement in translating this approach into practice as mentor and guiding light is invaluable and we are all in his debt."—Steven W. Beattie, Toronto Star"[Metcalf] deliver[s] a layered and textured narrative highlighting a wide range of writing and writers, one that immerses the reader into the soul of what writing, and thus literature, is supposed to be. And in this, he has succeeded."—Ottawa Review of Books"Temerity & Gall is obviously a must-have for book lovers but, since it presents Metcalf’s energetic meandering from a re-union of the Montreal Story Tellers through colourful observations and unabashed opinions, it can be enjoyed by anyone seeking stimulation of the mind."—Winnipeg Free PressPraise for John Metcalf “John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country.”—Alice Munro “[Metcalf’s] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.”—Washington Post “In the past few decades, Canada has won a reputation as a prolific producer of high-quality short stories. Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant and John Metcalf are among those who have proven themselves masters of the difficult form.” —Maclean’s “Hilarious, touching and delightful … brilliant concision and understated humor.” —Los Angeles Times “A master stylist confidently at work in his favoured form.” —Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature: Second Edition “Masterful ... Harsh reality, hope, and caricature mingle in this tour de force. As Metcalf says in his previous book, "Writing is very hard work but at the same time it is delightful play." An exceptional collection.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Book SynopsisThis book delineates different manifestations of the vagabond spirit of poetry through the ages. In doing so, it makes claims for the efficacy of poetry in our industrialized world, where we are presented with environmental, political and economic challenges. The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry demonstrates that poems are vital now more than ever because they can transform our relations with each other and with the earth. It acknowledges the awesome power of poems by providing you with fresh ways to apprehend their profound spiritual insights. You will be surprised by how sharp your imagination becomes once you start following the paths opened by Edward Clarke's original readings. This region is full of unexpected turns and pleasant clearings. Beginning in the middle of things with Wordsworth, you will be taken on a journey from Shakespeare to Wallace Stevens. Significant older poets, including Homer, Virgil and Dante, will enliven conversations with the wisest British, Irish and American poets of the modern age. As you proceed, poetry will teach you how to put into practice its perennial wisdom.

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Book SynopsisSheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change. How do you become a citizen? Ever since printing was introduced, being a member of society increasingly involved reading and writing: for sociability and belonging, instruction and entertainment, profit and charity, spiritual awakening and political debate. Literary practices shaped and changed identities and the organisation of society during the Long Eighteenth Century. In Scandinavia, this happened locally, as well as transnationally - reading, writing and producing texts involved entanglements within and beyond the borders of the Northern European periphery of Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Focusing on 'literary citizenship', this volume uncovers the different ways in which engagements with print have mediated and established networks and communities, identities and agencies of multiple sorts in an interconnected media landscape. The result is a complex and intriguing history of the book in the Scandinavian region. This history is, on the one hand, influenced by a European market and tradition. On the other hand, it offers an important and different case of regional and local adaptation, marked by what has been termed a 'Northern Enlightenment'. This book will be of interest to scholars of European enlightenment studies and to those who are interested in the continuing debates surrounding print culture and history. This book is available in digital format as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC. This book and the research upon which it is based was supported by funds from The Research Council of Norway and the National Library of Norway. CONTRIBUTORS: Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Jon Haarberg, Ruth Hemstad, Thor Inge Rørvik, Ellen Krefting, Karin Kukkonen, Ulrik Langen, Aina Nøding, Jonas Nordin, James Raven, Janicke S. Kaasa, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Frederik Stjernfelt, Iver Tangen Stensrud and Jonas Thorup Thomsen.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Ruth Hemstad, Janicke S. Kaasa, Ellen Krefting and Aina Nøding 1. Early Print and Northern Exploration in the Service of the Church: On Archbishop Erik Valkendorf's Activities as Writer and Editor - Karen Skovgaard-Petersen 2. The Case of the Norwegian Catechism - Jon Haarberg 3. Possessed by a Book: Cultural Scripts for Demonic Possession in Early Modern Denmark - Jonas Thorup Thomsen 4. A Northern Republic of Letters? Transnational Periodical Cultures around 1700, 1800 and 1900 - Jens Bjerring-Hansen 5. Implementing Freedom of the Press in Eighteenth-Century Scandinavia: Perspectives on a Surprising Lack of Transnationalism - Ulrik Langen, Jonas Nordin and Frederik Stjernfelt 6. Multilingual Citizens of the World: Literary Fiction in Norwegian Book Collections in the Eighteenth Century - Karin Kukkonen 7. Stolen Fruit, Moral Fiction: Marmontel's Contes moraux in Denmark-Norway - Aina Nøding 8. Secret Springs and Naked Truths: Scandalous Political Literature in Eighteenth-Century Denmark-Norway - Ellen Krefting 9. From the Dictated Lecture to the Printed Textbook: The Circulation of Notes in the Teaching of Philosophy in Denmark-Norway, 1790-1850 -Thor Inge Rørvik 10. An Inspiring Model from the Periphery: The Transnational Circulation of the Norwegian 1814 Constitution - Ruth Hemstad 11. Heavenly Citizens of the World: Child Readers and the Missionary Cause - Janicke S. Kaasa 12. Diffusing Useful Knowledge: Skilling-Magazin, Transnational Images and Local Communities - Iver Tangen Stensrud Afterword - James Raven

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Book SynopsisIntimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon analyzes the ways in which the Amazon has been represented in twentieth century cultural production. With contributions by scholars working in Latin America, the US and Europe, Intimate Frontiers reads against the grain commonly held notions about the region -its gigantism, its richness, its exceptionality, among other- choosing to approach these rather from quotidian, everyday experiences of a more intimate nature. The multinational, pluriethnic corpus of texts critically examined here, explores a wide range of cultural artifacts including travelogues, diaries, and novels about the rubber boom genocide, as well as indigenous oral histories, documentary films, and photography about the region. The different voices gathered in this book show that the richness of the Amazon lays not in its natural resources or opportunities for economic exploit, but in the richness of its histories/stories in the form of songs, oral histories, images, material culture, and texts.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Intimate Frontiers Javier Uriarte and Felipe Martinez-Pinzon 2. The Jungle Like a Sunday at Home': Rafael Uribe Uribe, Miguel Triana and the Nationalization of the Amazon Felipe Martinez-Pinzon 3. Hildebrando Fuentes's Peruvian Amazon: National Integration and Capital in the Jungle Cristobal Cardemil-Krauze 4. Contested Frontiers: On Cartographical Knowledge and Power in Euclides da Cunha's Amazonian Texts Cinthya Torres 5. Splendid testemunhos': Bodily Pain and Pleasure in Roger Casement's Black Diaries Javier Uriarte 6. A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The cauchero of the Amazonian Rubber Groves Leopoldo M. Bernucci 7. Endless Stories: Perspectivism and Narrative Form in Native Amazonian Literature Lucia Sa 8. `Malarial Philosophy': the Modernist Amazonia of Mario de Andrade Andre Botelho and Nisia Trindade Lima 9. The Politics of Vegetating in Arturo Burga Freitas's Mal de gente Lesley Wylie 10. Filming Modernity in the Tropics: the Amazon, Walt Disney, and the Antecedents of Modernization Theory Barbara Weinstein 10. The `Western Baptism' of Yurupary: Reception and Rewriting of an Amazonian Foundational Myth Rike Bolte 11. "Photography, Inoperative Ethnography, Naturalism: On Sharon Lockhart's Amazon Project" Alejandro Quin 12. Nostalgia and Mourning in Milton Hatoum's Orfaos do Eldorado Charlotte Rogers

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Book SynopsisA Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021 Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. Is it ever okay for travel writers to make things up, and just where does the frontier between fact and fiction lie? What actually is travel writing, and is it just a genre dominated by posh white men? What of travel writing's queasy colonial connections? Travelling from Monaco to Eton, from wintry Scotland to sun-scorched Greek hillsides, Hannigan swills beer with the indomitable Dervla Murphy, sips tea with the doyen of British explorers, delves into the diaries of Wilfred Thesiger and Patrick Leigh Fermor, and gains unexpected insights from Colin Thubron, Samanth Subramanian, Kapka Kassabova, William Dalrymple and many others. But along the way he realises how much is at stake: can his own love of travel writing survive this journey? The Travel Writing Tribe tackles head on the fierce critical debates usually confined to strictly academic discussions of the genre. This highly original book compels readers and travellers of all kinds to think about travel writing in new ways.Trade Review'The pleasure of The Travel Writing Tribe comes from Hannigan’s diligent efforts to get to the bottom of it all — setting off on trains and planes, sometimes roughing it at hostels, on mini-adventures to meet travel writers and record interviews. The result is, effectively, a "travel book" about “writing about travel”"' -- The Critic'A timely book amid this pandemic, which has exacerbated the inequities between those that can move and those who can’t. [The Travel Writing Tribe] appears to be the first of its kind aimed at the general reader, and does a comprehensive job of collecting the myriad perspectives already percolating on the subject.' -- Mekong Review

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Book SynopsisSatan is not God’s enemy in the Bible, and he’s not always bad – much less evil. Through the lens of the Old and New Testaments, Erik Butler explores the Devil through literature, theology, visual art, and music from antiquity up to the present, discussing canonical authors (Dante, Milton, Goethe) and a wealth of lesser-known sources. Since his first appearance in the Book of Job, Satan has pursued a single objective: to test human beings, whose moral worth and piety leave plenty of room for doubt. Satan can be manipulative, but at worst he facilitates what mortals are inclined to do, anyway. ‘The Devil made me do it’ does not hold up in the court of cosmic law. With wit and surprising examples, this book explains why.Trade Review"Butler, a researcher at the Yale School of Drama, explores the character of the devil in literature, theology, visual art, and music from antiquity up to the present, discussing canonical authors such as Dante, Goethe, and Milton." * Publishers Weekly *"Butler's book is a scholarly tour-de-force citing the widest range of thinkers. From St Augustine to Nietzsche, Freud, and Foucault. And from the world of literature and the arts come Byron, Shelley, Mann, Blake , and Mozart; even Hannibal Lecter gets a mention. Notwithstanding the heavy duty material, the book remains a hellish good read." * Fortean Times *"In this remarkable and thought-provoking book, Butler demonstrates that far from being the goat-horned, cloven-hoofed, and barbed-tail demon of popular culture, the Devil has in fact been constantly on the move in Christian thinking. . . . Like Virgil leading Dante, Butler steers the reader through the labyrinthine intricacies of early Christian philosophy, the writings of Luther and Milton, and the profane excesses of the French Decadence. . . . Brimful with erudite and recherché learning, and written with a compelling combination of scintillating intelligence and apocalyptic verve, The Devil and His Advocates presents a grand sweep of Western intellectual history that amounts to an alternative history of evil in the Christian world. In Butler, the Devil has found his most eloquent, sophisticated, and measured advocate to date." -- Nick Groom, Professor of Literature in English, University of Macau“In this devilishly clever and fiendishly erudite tour de force, Butler tracks the peregrinations of Satan and figurations of the Satanic across millennia and genres. . . . Butler masterfully weaves history, theology, folklore, music, philosophy, literary criticism, and more into a dazzling account of the Devil's many functions in Western thought and culture. The result is the perfect genealogical demonology for our present moment—an achievement that is at once accessible, provocative, and profound.” -- Patrick Blanchfield, author of "Gunpower: The Structure of American Violence"

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Book SynopsisStories shape us and give us meaning - but is it coincidence that the same seven basic plots repeat over time and across the world? What if stories not only reveal something about human psychology, but also give us clues to the meaning of the reality we live in? Discover how these archetypal stories - Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, The Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy, Tragedy and Rebirth - are not only universal, but also found in the story of Christ. What if Jesus' story is where myth becomes history and can give true meaning to all our lives? Explore for yourself the explosive claim that the life of Jesus isn't just another story, but the true story that satisfies our deepest longings.Trade ReviewThis is an imaginative, thought-provoking exploration of the power of story in our lives - and how the tales that we tell might point to a greater Story that encompasses us all. There is challenge here: some of it stirring, some of it prompting me to challenge the authors right back! But there’s also deep grace and wisdom: I was moved to tears by the chapter on Rebirth, with its beautiful depiction of the love and reconciliation that God offers us. It’s a book that reminds me just why I adore stories so much - and it’s a book that inspires me to pursue the Story that Peter and Matt suggest is the key to life, the universe and everything. -- Vicki Sparks, Commentator of the Year 2021, Sports Journalism AwardsReading Reality And Other Stories is like discovering the entrance to a cave. Once you’re inside you’ll find the tunnels through which all the great stories of the past are brought up to the earth. The greater discovery is that these many tunnels meet together in a single great hall of treasure. Without erasing the distinctions between the different stories we love - or embracing Christopher Brooker’s 7 plots theory too readily - Matt and Pete show how our thirst for great mythos is quenched by what C.S. Lewis called "the Myth become Fact", the gospel of Jesus. This book not only gathers together some of the best material on story and storytelling, but arranges it to show us that the best story is the truth. Matt and Pete have made this storehouse of storytelling riches so accessible that I will be putting Reality And Other Stories into the hands of every person we teach in the Speak Life Foundry. -- Nate Morgan Locke, Creative Director, Speak LifeI could almost hear this book as the banter of storytellers lingering around a dinner table as Pete & Matt regale us with their shared delight in the power of story. I have long been encouraging filmmakers to make adaptations of the stories and themes of scripture and found this approach of looking through Christopher Bookers "seven stories" genuinely inspiring. -- Luke Walton, Producer, Reel Issues Films.This is a book that's been needed for a long time. Its relevance comes from familiarity with literature and films over a wide range of illustrations of Booker's Seven Categories. It's also easily accessible, well written and not too long. Best of all, however, Peter and Matt do what Real-Reality demands of the stories of mankind: they relate them to His Story, the One who alone tells stories straight and true. And they accomplish that so that the Gospel itself—and our attendant responsibility not to waste time but be reconciled to God—is both clear but not unnaturally imposed. It flows naturally from the subject matter of the book as a whole. * Ranald Macaulay, Christian Heritage, Cambridge *

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Book SynopsisA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France’s preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980. The greater part of Barthes’s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. Volume four, Signs and Images, gathers pieces related to his central concerns—semiotics, visual culture, art, cinema, and photography—and features essays on Marthe Arnould, Lucien Clergue, Daniel Boudinet, Richard Avedon, Bernard Faucon, and many more. Table of ContentsGromaire, Lurçat and Calder Cinemascope Cinema, Right and Left The Problem of Signification in Cinema Review of Civilisation de l’Image Visual Information Dandyism and Fashion The Civilization of the Image Preface (Emmanuel Pereire Exhibition Catalogue) The Marthe Arnould Exhibition Visualization and Language (Interview) Japan: The Art of Living, the Art of Signs (Interview) What Is Good Like That (On Some Photographs by R. Avendon) On Some Photographs by Daniel Boudinet Colouring, Degree Zero Bernard Faucon The Interval (On the Japan exhibition) There Is No Man (On The Brontë Sisters Film) Note on an Album of Photographs by Lucien Clergue

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Book SynopsisA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France’s preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980. The greater part of Barthes’s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. In volume one, A Very Fine Gift, Barthes attempts to frame his lifelong curiosities in theoretical form, from his early musings on the sociology of literature through his high period of structuralism to his later reflections on Derrida.Table of ContentsShould Grammar Be Killed Off? A Brief Sociology of the Contemporary French Novel An Innovation in Criticism New Problems of Realism Works of Mass Culture and Explication de Texte The Human Sciences and the Works of Lévi-Strauss Mass Culture, High Culture Response to a Survey on Structuralism A Dialectical Writing Practice Interview on Structuralism Linguistics and Literature Ten Reasons to Write A Problematic of Meaning The Linguistics of Discourse On Theory A Very Fine Gift Letter to Jean Ristat For a Theory of Reading Supplement Writing Responses A Kind of Manual Labour Foreword to ‘Jakobson’ Relations between Fiction and Criticism according to Roger Laporte

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