Literary theory Books

Book SynopsisIntroduction: Modelling the Energy Transition: Cultures - Visions - Narratives, R. M, Erdbeer, V. Hagenmeyer and K. Stierstorfer.- Part I: Transparent Modelling: Revisiting Model Theory.- Theories, Modelling and Empirical Support, B. van Fraassen.- Modelling in Experimentation, H-J. Rheinberger.- Model-Based Science as Epistemic Warfare: Scientific Models in a Static and a Dynamic Perspective, L. Magnani.- Modelling Objectively, N, Cartwright, F. Ray.- Basic Operations of Model Building in Literary Studies, D. Tenev.- ???????Part II: Modelling the Energy Transition 1: Technology and Practice.- On the Art of Electric Power System Modelling and Simulation for Integrated Transmission-Distribution Analysis, U. Kuehnapfel, V. Hagemeyer.- Daily Streamflow Forecasting using an Enhanced LSTM Neural Network Model, V. Eniola et al.- Open Models areNot Enough: Advancing Energy System Modelling Towards Practical Usefulness, F. Lombardi et al.- ???????Part III: Modelling the Energy Transition 2: Societal and Cultural Perspectives.- Backcasting: Prototyping Future Ontologies by Backward Chaining Possible Futures, G. Gramelsberger.- Indicator Politics: Modelling Societal Problems under Real-World Conditions, S. Boeschen.- Understanding Petromodernity: Oil as a Medium between Geology, Technology, and Different Types of History, B. Steininger.- ???????Part IV: The Energy Imaginary: Model Media in Literature and Art.- Literary Models of/for Resilience in Juliana Spahr's "The Transformation" and Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future", J. Dorson.- Modelling the Future with Miniature Worlds, O. Eide.- Models in Art: A Visual Approach to Energy Transition, T. Becker.

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Book Synopsis.- 1 Introduction (Valérie Baisnée-Keay, co-editor, Université Paris Saclay).- Part I: Personal and Political Activism.- 2 Love, Gender and Political Activism: Emma Goldman and Rose Pesotta (Maria Tamboukou, University of East London).- 3 Preserving Intimate Relationships on Nishnaabeg Territory: Decolonial Love, Women and Radical Resistance in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Stories and Songs (Corinne Bigot, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).- 4 “Caught in the Hinge of a Slowly Opening Door?” Colonial Legacy and Gender Inequality in Robin Hyde’s Autobiographical Writings (Valérie Baisnée-Keay, Université Paris Saclay).- 5 Glimpses into the Abyss (1906): Mary Higgs’s Personal Sociology (Nathalie Saudo-Welby, Université de Picardie Jules Verne).- Part II: Threats to Intimacy.- 6 The Intimate Politics of Empire: Child Removal and Indigenous Women’s Writing (Christina Stanciu, Virginia Commonwealth University).- 7 The Intimate Politics of Rape Narratives in the works of Arundhati Roy and Meena Kandasamy (Aurore Montheil, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).- 8 “I wanted to see if no still meant somethin’” or Female and Cherokee Resilience in Betty by Tiffany McDaniel (Elisabeth Bouzonviller, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne).- 9 Intimacy and Poverty in Kerry Hudson's Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns (2019) (Martina Domines, University of Zagreb).- 10 The Hospital as Scene of Childbirth in 20th and 21st-century Literature (Alice Braun, Université Paris Nanterre).- Part III: Redefining Intimate Spaces.- 11 The Black Seamstress in the Attic: Intimacy as Pleasure and Peril in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (Valentina Rapetti, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy).- 12 “Heaven” as Female Heterotopia in Elizabeth Phelps’s The Gates Ajar (Mariana Teixera Marquez Pujol, Université Toulouse Capitole).- 13 Out of The Women’s Room: Marilyn French’s Iconography of Emotional Restraint (Stephanie Genty, Université Paris Saclay).- Part IV: Navigating the Paradoxes of Intimacy.- 14 Lang Leav: Navigating the Tensions of Intimacy as an “Instapoet-ess” (Floriane Joseph, Université de Lille).- 15 Lonely Hunters: Intimacy Between (Queer) Women in My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Ana Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal).- 16 “Meeting between the Dry Hours”: Lesbian Intimacies and Queer Timelessness in Contemporary Poetry (Héloïse Thomas, independent scholar).- 17 Narrative Intimacy and Story Sharing in Brenda Lin’s Memoir Wealth Ribbon (Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis).

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Book SynopsisChapter 1-Introduction.-Section One: Ethics in Creative Writing.-Chapter 2-Creative Writing Ethically, Maybe.-Chapter 3-Returning to Nature: Humanity, Environment, and Creative Writing.-Chapter 4-An Unmediated Imagination: “internal verification” as shortest path toward our Others.-Chapter 5-Fact, Fiction, Fun, Fortune: Does Ethics Matter in Creative Writing?.- Section Two: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.-Chapter 6-The Inclusive Page: Empathy Through Representation in Creative Writing.-Chpater 7-Writing Gender, Writing Sex: Ideas and Approaches.-Chapter 8-Cripping Empathy: On Disability Poetics .-Chapter 9-Writing from the Roof of the World .-Section Three: Creative Writing as Communication.-Chapter 10-Communicating Between the Self and Others: The Possibility of Empathy with Objects in Creative Writing.-Chapter 11-Shouting into the floor: writing through an audience.-Chapter 12-What Will It Profit?: Appraising Poetry’s Apocalyptic Turn.-Chapter 13-Thirteen Acts of Seeing Further: Creative Writing as Text-Image Art and A Quest for Care.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1 : An Introduction to Meatfiction.- Chapter 2 : The King of Corn: God, Man, and Meat in David Foster Wallace’s Moral Fiction.- Chapter 3 : Labour Pains : Authorship, Education, and Mammalian Life in Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love.- Chapter 4 : Meat is the Medium: Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meat and the Reader’s Stomach.- Chapter 5 : The Rendering Operation: Decapitation Theory and the Construction of Meat on the Human Factory Farm.- Chapter 6 : Vegans Do It Better : Cannibalism and the Monstrous Vegan in the Modern American Romance.- Chapter 7 : Conclusion: The Chickens Will Inherit the Earth.

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Book Synopsis1 Einleitung.- 2 Petrochemische Verstrickungen lesen.- 3 Verströmt oder verstromt.- 4 Vom Petrozän zum Plastozän.- 5 Schmutzige Bilder.- 6 Insel oder Welle.- 7 Petro-gender.- Resümee.

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Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Literarische Texte als Untersuchungsgegenstand.- Literarästhetische Funktionen und ihre Ermittlung.- Vorüberlegungen zu einem Ellipsenbegriff.- Ellipsenbegriffe: ein Überblick über die Forschungslage.- Ellipsenbegriff dieser Arbeit.- Ansätze zur Klassifikation von Ellipsen.- Ellipsentypen dieser Arbeit.- Das Was Vieldeutigkeit.- Das Wer Unbestimmtheit der Sprechinstanz.- Das Wie: leise Charakterisierung und ästhetische Kohäsion.- Schluss.- Literaturverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisErster Teil: Hydropoetiken / Flussexploration.- Zweiter Teil: Deformation und Transformation / Flusspoetiken der Gegenwart.

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Book SynopsisStefan Arnold und Kerstin Wilhelms: Gericht – Theater – Inszenierung: Eine Einleitung.- Ino Augsberg: Nach der Vorstellung.- Johanna Canaris: Inszenierung des Urteils – Urteil durch Inszenierung. Bertolt Brechts Lehrstück Die Maßnahme.- Tim Kortendieck: Inszenierte Autorität. Notwendigkeit und Praxis informeller Legitimation höchstrichterlicher Entscheidungen über Grund- und Menschenrechte.- Nuria Mertens: Zum Scheitern verurteilt. Gerichtsinszenierung im Musiktheaterstück No Planet B (2020).- Jara Streuer und Moritz Vormbaum: Das Gericht als Bühne: Das Verfahren gegen Bruno Dey und seine Protagonist*innen.- Kerstin Wilhelms: Gerichtstheater als Praxis der Praxis. Rimini Protokolls Zeugen! Ein Strafkammerspiel als praxeologische Theaterstudie.- Daria Bayer: Wahrheit und Macht des Strafprozesses. Foucaults Ödipus-Lektüre als Selbstreflexion des (Völker)Strafrechts.

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Book SynopsisThe present study provides an extensive treatment of the topic of enargeia on the basis of the classical and humanist sources of its theoretical foundation. These serve as the basis for detailed analyses of verbal and pictorial works of the Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age. Their theoretical basis is the tradition of classical rhetoric with its principal representatives (Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian) and their reception history. The ‘enargetic’ approach to the arts may be described as rhetoric of presence and display, or aesthetics of evidence and imagination. Visual imagination plays a major role in the concepts of effect in oratory, poetry, and drama of the Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age. Its implementations are manifested in the Second Sophistic and in the Early Modern Age, there above all in the works of William Shakespeare.

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Book SynopsisBrill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been discussed, parodied, translated, revisioned, adapted, and integrated into other works over the course of the last 2500 years. Immensely popular while alive, Aeschylus’ reception begins in his own lifetime. And, while he has not been the most reproduced of the three Attic tragedians on the stage since then, his receptions have transcended genre and crossed to nearly every continent. While still engaging with Aeschylus’ theatrical reception, the volume also explores Aeschylus off the stage--in radio, the classroom, television, political theory, philosophy, science fiction and beyond.Trade Review''Although, as Kennedy (Denison Univ.) states, this is not a comprehensive volume, it certainly lives up to her hope, which is that readers “come away with some sense of the scope of Aeschylus’ influence in the world."'' - H.M. Roisman, in: Choice 2018.55.10 "Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus is bold in charting new territories of reception and questioning what we think we know about the process of reception itself." - D.R. Alley, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.01.10 "[A]ltogether, the book is a thoroughly satisfying read.(...) Special mention should also go to the stimulating pair of chapters that conclude the volume (...). These contributions not only point to where fertile soil has been found, but, gratifyingly for any classicist, also illustrate how these ancient texts may have more to offer in new fields, suggesting new questions for the study of the humanities at large." - Lucy Jackson, in: Translation and Literature 28 (2019) "This valuable contribution to the burgeoning library on the receptions of Greek literature is the second Brill collection on the afterlife of Aeschylus, providing both a useful adjunct to that book[1] and an interesting take on the current state of reception studies in the English-speaking world (where all but four of its twenty-eight contributors teach). Its range is vast." - Peter Burian, Duke University, in: CJ-Online 2021.03.02.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Abbreviations Author Biographies Introduction: The Reception of Aeschylus  Rebecca Futo Kennedy Part 1: Pre-Modern Receptions 1 The Reception of Aeschylus in Sicily  David G. Smith 2 The Comedians’ Aeschylus  David Rosenbloom 3 Aristotle’s Reception of Aeschylus: Reserved Without Malice  Dana Lacourse Munteanu 4 Aeschylus in the Hellenistic Period  Sebastiana Nervegna 5 Aeschylus in the Roman Empire  George W. M. Harrison 6 Aeschylus in Byzantium  Christos Simelidis Part 2: Modern Receptions 7 Aeschylus and Opera  Michael Ewans 8 Aeschylus in Germany  Theodore Ziolkowski 9 Inglorious Barbarians: Court Intrigue and Military Disaster Strike Xerxes, “The Sick Man of Europe”  Gonda Van Steen 10 Transtextual Transformations of Prometheus Bound in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound: Prometheus’ Gifts to Humankind  Fabien Desset 11 Aeschylus and Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley  Ana González-Rivas Fernández 12 An Aeschylean Waterloo: Responding to War from the Oresteia to Vanity Fair  Barbara Witucki 13 Form and Money in Wagner’s Ring and Aeschylean Tragedy  Richard Seaford 14 Eumenides and Newmenides: Academic Furies in Edwardian Cambridge  Patrick J. Murphy and Fredrick Porcheddu 15 The Broadhead Hypothesis: Did Aeschylus Perform Word Repetition in Persians?  Stratos E. Constantinidis 16 Persians On French Television: An Opera—Oratorio Echoing the Algerian War  Gabriel Sevilla 17 Aeschylus’ Oresteia on British Television  Amanda Wrigley 18 Orestes On Trial in Africa: Pasolini’s Appunti Per un’Orestiade Africana and Sissako’s Bamako  Tom Hawkins 19 Reception of the Plays of Aeschylus in Africa  Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 20 In Search of Prometheus: Aeschylean Wanderings in Latin America  Jacques A. Bromberg 21 Avatars of Aeschylus: O’Neill to Herzog/Golder  Marianne McDonald 22 The Overlooked οἰκονομία of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining  Geoffrey Bakewell 23 “Now Harkonnen Shall Kill Harkonnen”: Aeschylus, Dynastic Violence, and Twofold Tragedies in Frank Herbert’s Dune  Brett M. Rogers 24 “Save Our City”: The Curious Absence of Aeschylus in Modern Political Thought  Arlene W. Saxonhouse 25 Political Theory in Aeschylean Drama: Ancient Themes and their Contemporary Reception  Larissa Atkison and Ryan K. Balot Index

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Book SynopsisHarima Fudoki, dated to 714CE, is one of Japan’s earliest extant written records. It is a rich account of the people, places, natural resources and stories in the Harima region of western Japan. Produced by the government as a tool for Japan’s early state formation, Harima Fudoki includes important myths of places and gods from a different perspective to the contemporaneous ‘national’ chronicles. This document is an essential primary source for all who are interested in ancient Japan. In this new critical edition, Palmer draws upon recent research into the archaeology, history, orality and literature of ancient Japan to reinterpret this hitherto little-known document. Palmer’s insightful commentary contextualizes the Harima tales for the first time in English.

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Book SynopsisThrough a comparison with theatrical performance the argument develops that in both theatre and fiction the concepts of performance and performativity transform classical Indian mythic poetics. In the mythic symbiosis of performance and storytelling in Indian tradition, myth becomes a liberating space of consciousness, where rigid categories and boundaries are transcended.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Metamorphoses of the Self on the Border between ‘East’ and ‘West’ Chapter ONE. Writing in English: A Performative Act in Contemporary Indian Fiction Chapter TWO. Changes and Challenges in the Novel Form: From Myth to Performance to Nomadic Textuality Chapter THREE. Intercultural Epic in Performance: Peter Brook and Girish Karnad Chapter FOUR. Reperformed Traditions: Indian Theatre and Its Contemporary Avatars Chapter FIVE. Repositioning Scheherazade: From Storytelling to Performance in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children Chapter SIX. Storying the Fatwa: From The Satanic Verses to Haroun and the Sea of Stories Chapter SEVEN. Migrant Identity Performance Politics in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses Chapter EIGHT. Writing the Unspoken: Exclusion and Arundhati Roy’s Écriture Féminine in The God of Small Things Chapter NINE. Performances of Marginality in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things Chapter TEN. Postmodern Scheherazades between Storytelling and the Novel Form: Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring Rain Chapter ELEVEN. Performance, Performativity and Nomadism in Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring Rain Conclusion Bibliography Index

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