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Book SynopsisIn this ethnography Liisa H. Malkki reverses the study of humanitarian aid, focusing on aid workers rather than aid's recipients. She shows how aid serves the needs of its recipients and providers.Trade Review"The Need to Help situates aid work firmly in the social realities of the sending countries, rather than in the context of the abstract cosmopolitan values that academic accounts usually emphasise. For many of the Finnish workers Malkki studies, aid work is also linked to different notions about what is good and what is bad about Finland and about being Finnish. Complementing her focus on professionals who work in crisis settings across the world, Malkki looks at the needs that are associated with some of the more mundane ways in which people connect to the humanitarian enterprise, such as the knitting of bunnies and teddies for imagined children-in-need far away." -- Monika Krause * Times Higher Education *"This book would be a valuable text in undergraduate and graduate courses on development and humanitarianism. Malkki’s skilled ability to link together so many different intellectual inspirations makes this book very useful to examine as a model for theoretical conceptualization and for her methodology." -- Jeremy Rich * African Studies Quarterly *"[A]n original and highly significant analysis of 'Aidland,' essential reading for anyone interested in the growing literature on the people who work in the development industry and humanitarian organizations." -- R. L. Stirrat * Journal of Anthropological Research *"...this book provides finely textured material with which to debate the salience of the various rationales that people give for helping others." -- Erica Caple James * American Ethnologist *"This beautifully written book artfully navigates the purchase of domestic arts on international humanitarianism. . . . It is a book crafted with finesse, weaving in subtle threads of Western political thought on humanism, animism, cosmopolitanism with the empathetic understanding of an ethnographer engaged in painful and complex fieldwork." -- Ritu Mathur * Society & Space *"Perhaps one of the more captivating and accessible texts on humanitarianism. The text would be a useful tool for students seeking a deeper knowledge about the drivers of humanitarianism, as well as connections between the ‘local’ and ‘global.’ Yet, it has sufficient theoretical depth for researchers to find value when reflecting on broader questions about the power of humanitarianism." -- Simon Dickinson * Progress in Development Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Need, Imagination, and the Care of the Self 1 1. Professionals Abroad: Occupational Solidarity and International Desire as Humanitarian Motives 23 2. Impossible Situations: Affective Impasses and Their Afterlives in Humanitarian and Ethnographic Fieldwork 53 3. Figurations of the Human: Children, Humanity, and the Infantilization of Peace 77 4. Bear Humanity: Children, Animals, and Other Power Objects of the Humanitarian Imagination 105 5. Homemade Humanitarianism: Knitting and Loneliness 133 6. A Zealous Humanism and Its Limits: Sacrifice and the Hazards of Neutrality 165 Conclusion. The Power of the Mere: Humanitarianism as Domestic Art and Imaginative Politics 199 Notes 209 References 235 Index 267

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Book SynopsisAppearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical questions that inform our encounters with sound, stimulating our thinking about being open to new sounds and to explore the links between language, technology, culture, and hearing.Trade Review"Chion's work is refreshing in many ways.... It is clear that Chion lives his topic deeply, and has not simply “researched” it. Alongside the extended theorisation, the book teems with thought-provoking observations, like the best of Jean Baudrillard (who could always be appreciated for his vignettes if not for his theories) or Roland Barthes. How good it is to find that someone else has asked himself why being subjected to one side of a conversation on a mobile phone is even more frustrating than overhearing a two-way conversation in person – and Chion has an answer." -- David Revill * Times Higher Education *"This work . . . is an excellent addition to the literature on sound. It is a stimulating and thought-provoking book that addresses not only basic philosophical ideas but also highly practical questions that inform the reader about encounters with sound. . . . The notes that are provided at the end of the work offer further details and are extremely useful. The glossary is incredibly valuable, especially in describing the French words the author uses. The bibliography is also extensive. In summary, the book is excellent. Recommended. All readers." -- M. G. Prasad * Choice *"Michel Chion’s opus is itself a delight to read. . . . His writing miraculously foregrounds sound without fixating upon its objecthood. Organizationally, he provides clarity through schematic listings of key points throughout the essays and a helpful glossary of terms that he has generated throughout his career." -- Shayna Silverstein * TDR: The Drama Review *"Chion and Schaeffer are part of an active, interventionist, history: they are about how humans seize technologies and put them to undesigned uses, they are about how to dis-alienate the spectacular. Bravo!" -- Tim Hodgkinson * Cultural Critique *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Closed Grooves, Open Ears / James A. Steintrager vii Preface to the French Edition of 2010 xxvii I. Hearing 1. Listening Awakes 3 2. The Ear 16 3. Sound and Time 29 II. A Divided World 4. Voice, Language, and Sounds 45 5. Noise and Music: A Legitimate Distinction? 55 III. The Wheel of Causes 6. The Sound That You Cause: Ergo-Audition 83 7. Sounds and Its Cause: Casual Listening and Figurative Listening 101 8. Sound and What It Causes: Real and Supposed Effects 121 IV. Sound Transformed 9. How Technology Has Changed Sound 131 10. The Audiovisual Couple in Film: Audio-Vision 150 V. Listening, Expressing 11. Object and Non-Object: Two Poles 169 12. Between Doing and Listening: Naming 212 Notes 243 Glossary 265 Bibliography 269 Index 275

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Book SynopsisThrough an analysis of four contemporary operas, Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions of how we think about sound, music, and listening by challenging common assumptions about sound, freeing it from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings.Trade Review"Even if we consider 'the voice' as a sound source, in an average personal imaginary ‘sound’ is something external, while 'the voice' is something internal and intimate. If we add to that the extreme power of language, it’s even harder to treat the voice as 'sound.' Eidsheim explores these contradictions in her book with knowledge and vision. Her theory of sound as a 'universal connection of entities,' for example, is simply enrapturing...." -- Aurelio Cianciotta * Neural *"Eidsheim’s formulation of music as vibrational practice engenders new ways of considering communication between singer and audience, environment and body, and animate and inanimate materials. ... Her work generates wide-ranging and pragmatic resonances for those interested in questions surrounding sound and multi-sensory experience." -- Amy Skjerseth * Theatre Research International *"[Eidsheim's] book invites readers to remember that music itself is a complex phenomenon better understood as an experience and practice of 'intermaterial vibration.'" -- Cecilia Livingston * Cambridge Opera Journal *“Sensing Sound is a captivating and rewarding book. Eidsheim’s ‘vibrational practice’ provides a liberating take on vocal sound, and one that can be applied not only to singing and listening, but to many dimensions of sensory experience.” -- Rebecca Lentjes * Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies *“No doubt [Sensing Sound] will become required reading in many academic disciplines that touch on voice studies.” -- Marit MacArthur * Yale Review *“Sensing Sound delivers a provocative theory of musical sonority—one that interrogates the participatory, material, and ex­periential dimensions of music-making in new and exciting ways. . . . Sensing Sound is sure to enliven music and sound studies research for years to come.” -- Daniel Akira Stadnicki * Intersections *“Eidsheim’s book is sensitive to bodies, attentive to physics, and mindful of encultured practices of listening and sounding. It is a much-needed meeting point for musicology, sound studies, philosophy of sound, performance studies, vocal pedagogy, and those interested in theorizing difference in music.” -- Lucie Vágnerová * Current Musicology *Table of ContentsIllustrations viii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Music's Material Dependency: What Underwater Opera Can Tell Us about Odysseus's Ears 27 2. The Acoustic Mediation of Voice, Self, and Others 58 3. Music as Action: Singing Happens before Sound 95 4. All Voice, All Ears: From the Figure of Sound to the Practice of Music 132 5. Music as a Vibrational Practice: Singing and Listening as Everything and Nothing 154 Notes 187 Bibliography 241 Index 261

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Book SynopsisMy Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology in which she uses everyday items to intimately examine the ways consumption resonates with personal and social meaning.Trade Review"Chin composes a sprawling paean to the joy of stuff and the impossibility of our ever eschewing it. In My Life With Things, she is winningly alert to the ambivalence around our acts of consumption, both the awful guilt and the immeasurable pleasure nonetheless." -- Shahidha Bari * Times Higher Education *"My Life with Things is a refreshing and honest book, which gives a rich insight into the experience of engaging with auto-ethnography. It should certainly appeal to the more adventurous, less conventional academic from across the social sciences and not just anthropology, the author’s home discipline.... At the end of the day, researchers interested in anthropology, auto-ethnography and/or consumption looking for an insider account complete with warts and all, should find this an invaluable companion." -- Christina Goulding * Consumption Markets & Culture *"With herself as both subject and object of study, Chin . . . weaves a highly personal, idiosyncratic, and explanatory narrative. Ever the provocateur, she brings her own consumer diaries over the span of several years into conversation with the likes of Karl Marx, not only at a theoretical level but also as biographical touchstones. The narratives, structured around the themes of inheritance, survival, and love, detail the author’s close relationship with the everyday items that surround her. The results can be exhilarating, giving readers self-reflexive pause on the consumptive world and how they got there." -- C. R. Yano * Choice *"My Life with Things is a strange yet fascinating look at our cultural preoccupation with owning and communing with physical objects. Chin uses her anthropological background to present an autoethnography, combining research, theory, and personal writing to criticize (and commiserate with) our love of objects." -- Jess Kibler * Bitch *"Elizabeth Chin’s My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries, is a fantastic book. I can’t imagine anyone reading it and not wanting to become an anthropologist. It is also one of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time, with actual laugh-out-loud moments." -- Ben Highmore * New Formations *"Part academic study and part personal essay, My Life with Things offers both casual and scholarly readers an entryway into conversation about the place of material possessions in our lives.... [A] nuanced reflection on both the fact that we are inescapably tied to our possessions and the ways they connect us to our loved ones and neighbors around the world." -- Lee Hull Moses * Christian Century *“My Life with Things is thought-provoking in the best sense of the term. It poses new questions, approaches old ones in fresh ways, and tugs at the complex heart of people’s relationship to the things they have and the things they want.” -- Carrie M. Lane * American Ethnologist *"In the end this book, as Chin tells us, is a focus on moments, rife with the complexities and contradictions of everyday life. Just as in other life moments and journeys, it is full of fodder for contemplation and discussion as well as catalysts for new perspectives. I can imagine it as a resource for teachers as well as students, and I envision many imaginative and lively discussions based on objects described in this book as well as the particular objects animating others’ lives and relationships." -- Patricia L. Sunderland * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. Introduction 3 2. The Entries 37 My Life with Things 37 Learn to Love Stuff 38 Banky 40 A Digression on the Topic of the Transitional Object 42 Cebebrate! 56 My Purple Shoes 58 Newspapers 61 Rose Nails 63 The Window Shade 67 Napkins 69 My White Man's Tooth 72 Should I Be Straighter 76 Cyberfucked 79 Knobs 80 Glasses 82 Curing Rug Lust 85 Window Shopping Online 89 Catalogs 92 Other People's Labor 95 Making Roots/Making Routes 98 My Closet(s) 101 Joining the MRE 108 Fun Shopping 114 Preschool Birthday Parties 114 Xena Warrior Consumer Princess 118 I Love Your Nail Polish 120 Little Benches 123 The Kiss 126 Are There Malls in Haiti? 127 Baby Number Two Turned Me into Economic Man 129 Pictures of the Rice Grain 132 Panting in Ikea 136 Capitalism Makes Me Sick 139 My Grandmother's Rings 147 Anorectic Energy 157 Mi-Mi's Piano 162 Dream-Filled Prescriptions 169 The Turquoise Arrowhead 170 Turning The Tables 173 Minnie Mouse Earring Holder 176 Make Yourself a Beloved Person 181 3. Writing as Practice and Process 187 4. This Never Happened 203 Notes 221 Bibliography 227 Index 235

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Book SynopsisIn essays analyzing the photography of luminaries such as Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Susan Meiselas, pioneering feminist art critic Abigail Solomon-Godeau extends her politically engaged and theoretically sophisticated inquiry into the historical and cultural circuits of power as they shape and inform the practice, criticism, and historiography of photography.Trade Review"Solomon-Godeau shines when applying deconstructive feminist analysis to broader questions of representation in visual culture, and the market forces that collude to elevate an artist’s reputation to master status." -- Wendy Vogel * Camera Austria *"With its refusal to separate photography from power and patronage, Abigail Solomon-Godeau's Photography After Photography arrives at an auspicious moment.. . . Bringing a wealth of information to bear on photographic meaning, Solomon-Godeau explores her topics in historical context. In doing so, she demonstrates that the way many photographs are understood today has little to do with the circumstance of their creation, or the manner in which they were originally distributed and viewed." -- Dore Bowen * Art in America *"While Solomon-Godeau’s overarching goal is to offer a feminist critique of the art world — particularly of critical discourse around art — in some of her essays she also discusses topics that fall outside this lens, such as the role of desire in photography and images of torture. In this sense, the anthology reflects the range of Solomon-Godeau’s practice and interest as an art critic and scholar." -- Ela Bittencourt * Hyperallergic *"Solomon-Godeau’s essays are lucid and make for captivating reading. . . . It is fitting for Solomon-Godeau to present a collection that spans such a broad range of topics in a manner that is cohesive, challenging, and attentive to photography’s complex formal and cultural history." -- Will Carroll * ASAP/Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface. May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way / Sarah Parsons ix Introduction 1 1. Inside/Out (1995) 10 2. Written on the Body (1997) 27 3. The Family of Man: Refurbishing Humanism for a Postmodern Age (2004) 43 4. Torture at Abu Ghraib: In and Out of the Media (2007) 61 5. Harry Callahan: Gender, Genre, and Street Photography (2007) 77 6. Caught Looking: Susan Meiselas's Carnival Strippers (2008) 94 7. Framing Landscape Photography (2010) 107 8. The Ghosts of Documentary (2012) 123 9. Inventing Vivian Maier: Categories, Careers, and Commerce (2013) 141 10. Robert Mapplethorpe: Whitewashed and Polished (2014) 156 11. Body Double (2014) 171 12. The Coming of Age: Cindy Sherman, Feminism, and Art History (2014) 189 Notes 207 Bibliography 237 Index 249

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Book SynopsisSean Cubitt offers a large scale rethinking of theories of mediation by describing the ecological footprint of media. He investigates the energy, material, and space needed to create, operate, and dispose of electronic devices, and shows how changing how we use media is the only solution to planetary devastation.Trade Review"This insightful book is replete with illuminating examples and case studies, with subtle arguments that will likely prove prescient in years to come." -- Niall Flynn * LSE Review of Books *"Filled with cases of environment changes of contemporary age, Cubitt approaches the topic with journalistic clarity and deep comparative activist source-data, uncovering various types of criminal activities that he grounds with many background theories. . . . Similar to previous books, Finite Media is a rather short (and concentrated) reading, with an even lighter style that makes reading a very pleasurable experience." -- Ana Peraica * Leonardo Reviews *"Sean Cubitt’s Finite Media is so much more than the title suggests: it is a meticulously researched and thoughtful intervention into the linkages between digital media and environmental degradation." -- Sandra Robinson * Theory, Culture & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Eco-mediation 1 1. Energy 13 2. Matter 63 3. Eco-political Aesthetics 151 4. Ecological Communication as Politics 169 Coda on Saturn 193 References 201 Index 237

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Book SynopsisCrumpled Paper Boat is an exploration of the possibilities and limits of a literary anthropology that bends the conventions of ethnographic voice and form to engage with writing as a material practice rather than a transparent representational medium.Trade Review"In a ‘post-truth’ world, where facts have become less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief, this publication is of timely importance. . . . It is a text that encourages the reader to embrace writing as a practice immanent to the world, rather than a detached reflection upon society and our place within it." -- Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani * LSE Review of Books *“There is still much to learn about cultivating uncertainty, failure and collaboration in geographic writing and research, and this volume invites just this kind of casting off.” -- Ursula Lang * Antipode *"This is an outstanding volume to use as provocation, to reflect on one’s own practice and history, as well as for teaching. I can see students becoming excited at the possibility of an anthropology that takes as its departure point the very hesitations and unknowns that we are schooled to suppress." -- Paloma Gay y Blasco * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"The volume challenges anthropological conventions on multiple fronts and provides both an energizing example and a refreshing reminder that powerful writing energizes our knowing and can bring anthropology out of its mostly self-imposed limits of speaking." -- David Syring * Anthropology and Humanism *"The Paper Boat Collective . . . demonstrates that not only can ethnography survive, but by incorporating an aesthetic mode of uncertainty, vulnerability, and adventure, it is better equipped to connect with the violent storms and hopeful struggles of a complex and untidy world.… The sense of journey is palpable in the persistent exhortation to go beyond: beyond the tangible, beyond the human, beyond oneself, beyond the real." -- Jason Danely * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue / Anand Pandian and Stuart McLean 1 Introduction: Archipelagos, a Voyage in Writing / Paper Boat Collective 11 1. The Ambivalent Archive / Angela Garcia 29 2. Writing with Care / Michael Jackson 45 3. After the Fact: The Question of Fidelity in Ethnographic Writing / Michael Jackson 48 4. Walking and Writing / Anand Pandian 68 5. Anthropoetry / Adrie Kusserow 71 6. Poetry, Uncertainty, and Opacity / Michael Jackson 91 7. Ta'bir: Ethnography of the Imaginal / Stefania Pandolfo 94 8. Writing through Intercessors / Stuart McLean 116 9. Desire in Cinema / Anand Pandian 119 10. Flows and Interruptions, or, So Much for Full Stops / Stuart McLean 126 11. Denial: A Visit in Four Ethnographic Fictions / Tobias Hecht 130 12. Ethnography and Fiction / Anand Pandian 145 13. SEA / Stuart McLean 148 14. Writing Otherwise / Lisa Stevenson 168 15. Origami Conjecture for a Bembé / Todd Ramón Ochoa 172 16. Ethnographic Excess / Daniella Gandolfo and Todd Ramón Ochoa 185 17. Conversations with a Hunter / Daniella Gandolfo 189 18. On Writing and Surviving / Lisa Stevenson 207 19. A Proper Message / Lisa Stevenson 209 20. Fidelity and Invention / Angela Garcia 222 Epilogue / Kathleen Stewart 225 Bibliography 231 Contributors 241 Index 243

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Book SynopsisWilliam E. Connolly expands his influential work on democratic pluralism to confront the perils of climate change by calling on us to deepen our attachment to the planet and to create a worldwide coalition of people from all demographics to contest the forces that prevent us from addressing climate change.Trade Review"... theorists will find plenty to unpack here. Recommended. Graduate students through faculty." -- R. J. Meagher * Choice *"Connolly’s analysis of planetary calamities and proposal for a politics of swarming merit attention. The book effectively integrates a variety of sources, including from political theory, social theory, philosophy, theology, economics, geology, biology and paleontology, and covers a wide range of topics, reinvigorating discussion regarding not only the current ecological problems, but also what can be done given the prospect of a seemingly apocalyptic future." -- Nikhilendu Deb * LSE Review of Books *"Facing the Planetary is a timely book. It underscores what is daily becoming ever more obvious." -- David W. Orr * Perspectives on Politics *"William Connolly aspires to make us see our fragile and beautiful planet from the temporal distance the Anthropocene imposes. He does so by plunging, with intellectual courage, theoretical sophistication, and deeply felt appreciation for the human and nonhuman forces that tie human destines to what he calls 'the planetary.'" -- Nidesh Lawtoo * Postmodern Culture *"Bill Connolly’s Facing the Planetary buzzes with a swarm of innovative concepts, testing both the limits and the creative powers of contemporary political theory to address the fragility of the human condition in the Anthropocene." -- Anatoli Ignatov * Contemporary Political Theory *Table of ContentsPrelude: Myth and the Planetary 1 1. Sociocentrism, the Anthropocene, and the Planetary 15 2. Species Evolution and Cultural Creativity 37 3. Creativity and the Scars of Being 63 4. Distributed Agencies and Bumpy Temporalities 89 5. The Politics of Swarming and the General Strike 121 6. Postcolonial Ecologies, Extinction Events, and Entangled Humanism 151 Postlude: Capitalism and the Planetary 175 Acknowledgments 199 Notes 201 Bibliography 217 Index 225

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Book SynopsisExamining singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as vocal synthesis technology, Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which the voice and its qualities are socially produced and how listeners assign a series of racialized and gendered set of assumptions to a singing voice.Trade Review"Should be required reading in music education—and no doubt it will become required reading in many academic disciplines that touch on voice studies." -- Marit MacArthur * Yale Review *"An important read within sound studies and race studies." -- Jeff Donison * Journal of Radio & Audio Media *"The Race of Sound is brimming with insight and originality. Not every chapter contributes new knowledge (e.g., Eidsheim is not the first to note that black classical singers were constrained by listener expectations), but in tandem they constitute a groundbreaking argument that should inform all listeners and be part of all music courses. If enough readers take Eidsheim’s work to heart, we can begin to counter the effect of institutions that create and perpetuate the racialized voice." -- Sandra Jean Graham * ARSC Journal *“Eidsheim demonstrates an impressive ability to weave together different critical modes and diverse topics without faltering in her project…. New and established scholars interested in the study of race, gender, voice, and/or African American musics will find much to engage with in Eidsheim’s push toward nonessentializing listening.” -- Alex C. Valin * Women and Music *"Like Eidsheim’s earlier work, The Race of Sound presents meticulously researched, compelling, and detailed accounts of reception, race, and voice throughout the careers of important historical figures. The author provides ample evidence to support her groundbreaking arguments that will give readers a new understanding of how we construct voice, race, and identity every time we engage in the act of listening." -- Victoria Malawey * MUSICultures *“The Race of Sound is ... an insightful addition to the growing body of work on the voice.... We continue to live in a time in which Black voices struggle to be heard. The Race of Sound contributes to this struggle in recognition and joins the record of activist scholarship that centres and respects Black humanity.” -- Natalie Hyacinth * Feminist Review *“This book should be required reading for faculty members everywhere. . . . By asking listeners to reflect on their assumptions . . . The Race of Sound seeks greater freedom for Black musicians and people, opening the door to new possibilities for us all.” -- Loren Kajikawa * Journal of the American Musicology Society *“The Race of Sound allows us to rethink our understanding of identities through voice and thus better understand the social construction of race and gender. Brilliantly written, as approachable as it is accurate, The Race of Sound goes beyond the framework of musicology alone to embrace all cultural studies.” (Translated from French) -- Jean-René Larue * Volume *“Eidsheim provides an elaborate and powerful addition to music scholarship and sound studies as well as to humanities disciplines more broadly. . . . In exposing the plethora of mechanisms that build cultural lenses though which we hear voice, her work serves to puncture even the most trained musical ear or the deepest listener.” -- Kira Dralle * Notes *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. The Acousmatic Question: Who Is This? 1 1. Formal and Informal Pedagogies: Believing in Race, Teaching Race, Hearing Race 39 2. Phantom Genealogy: Sonic Blackness and the American Operatic Timbre 61 3. Familiarity as Strangeness: Jimmy Scott and the Question of Black Timbral Masculinity 91 4. Race as Zeros and Ones: Vocaloid Refused, Reimagined, and Repurposed 115 5. Bifurcated Listening: The Inimitable, Imitated Billie Holiday 151 6. Widening Rings of Being: The Singer as Stylist and Technician 177 Appendix 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 243 Index 259

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Book SynopsisKadji Amin challenges the idealization of Jean Genet as a paradigmatic figure within queer studies to illuminate the methodological dilemmas at the heart of queer theory, bringing the genealogy of Genet's imaginaries of attachment to bear on pressing issues within contemporary queer politics and scholarship, including prison abolition, homonationalism, and pinkwashing.Trade Review"Amin's commitment to re-evaluating the unsettling practices of Genet's life represents a serious attempt to contend with the colonial, racist, and hierarchical legacies present in queer social forms. . . . Disturbing Attachments, by investigating the traction queer theory can have in contending with the compromises and failures hidden within its own field, demonstrates the potential for critical self-inquiry." -- Rajat D. Singh * Gay & Lesbian Review *"There is no doubt that Disturbing Attachments is, first and foremost, a work of and about queer studies, a fearless and scholarly probing of its disciplinary norms, its discursive limits, and its most embarrassing relations. It should be read by all those who care about the discipline’s future . . . and, most importantly, by those who care about its past." -- Andrew Counter * French Studies *"Amin’s book offers a dizzying number of theoretical interventions, in an elegant style that makes up for the uncompromising density of the text. With refreshing currency, Disturbing Attachments displaces queer studies outside its presentist US context." -- Mehammed Amadeus Mack * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"Disturbing Attachments is a formidable read. It is theoretically mobile, stylistically gratifying, and conceptually probing." -- Helmut Puff * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Attachment Genealogies of Pederastic Modernity 19 2. Light of a Dead Star: The Nostalgic Modernity of Prison Pederasty 45 3. Racial Fetishism, Gay Liberation, and the Temporalities of the Erotic 76 4. Pederastic Kinship 109 5. Enemies of the State: Terrorism, Violence, and the Affective Politics of Transnational Coalition 141 Epilogue. Haunted by the 1990s: Queer Theory's Affective Histories 176 Notes 191 Bibliography 235 Index 249

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Book SynopsisIn Black and Blur—the first volume in his consent not to be a single being trilogy—Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life, exploring a wide range of thinkers, musicians, and artists.Trade Review"Simply put, Moten is offering up some of the most affecting, most useful, theoretical thinking that exists on the planet today.... Moten’s work makes the activities of reading and thinking feel palpably fresh, weird, and vital." -- Maggie Nelson * 4Columns *"Some readers will come here because of The Feel Trio, because of The Undercommons. Some because Moten is the activists’ theorist, the contemporary art institution’s darling, because of performance studies, jazz studies, literature. Some readers will come here to encounter a brain that is at once more erudite, generous, capacious, fierce, jokey and infuriating than most others on the planet right now. Everybody ought to arrive here to be schooled and troubled, elated and confused, invited and indicted by a sparklingly original vision for black study." -- Nabil Kashyap * Full Stop *"It's this spirit of the collective effort of study and exchange and resonance, the effort to keep the channels open and keep listening, that has made Moten (or, maybe, 'Moten/s') such a celebrated thinker. At the end of sentences like these, you want to say something like Amen." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"Be ready to be wowed; be ready to be challenged; most of all, be ready for the long haul. It is, apparently, the first in a planned trilogy. Moten is tracking his own course, and it’s fast-moving and spectacular." -- Patrick James Dunagan * Rain Taxi *"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both. . . . In its mixture of theoretical complexity and disarming directness, Moten’s beautifully written trilogy offers the sheer pleasure of art." -- Lidija Haas * Vulture *"2018 must go down for me as the year of Fred Moten’s trilogy: Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. You could say they’re essays about art, philosophy, blackness, and the refusal of social death, but I think of them more as a fractal universe forever inviting immersion and exploration, a living force now inhabiting my bookshelf." -- Maggie Nelson * Bookforum *"My favorite book(s) of 2018 are the three volumes of Fred Moten’s consent not to be a single being, individually titled Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. In this collection of essays stretching back fifteen years, Moten challenges the reader to imagine a radically interconnected aesthetic and political sphere that stretches from Glenn Gould to Fanon to Kant to Theaster Gates, sometimes in the space of a single sentence. This trilogy is one of the great intellectual adventures of our era." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"A brilliant collection of essays, part of a series that investigates notions of Blackness and its representation. This is writing and practice that summons the irregular and the resistant.” -- Katrina Palmer * The Art Newspaper *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xv 1. Not In Between 1 2. Interpolation and Interpellation 28 3. Magic of Objects 34 4. Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia 40 5. Taste Dissonance Flavor Escape (Preface to a Solo by Miles Davis) 66 6. The New International of Rhythmic Feel/ings 86 7. The Phonographic Mise-en Scène 118 8. Line Notes for Lick Piece 134 9. Rough Americana 147 10. Nothing, Everything 152 11. Nowhere, Everywhere 158 12. Nobody, Everybody 168 13. Remind 170 14. Amuse-Bouche 174 15. Collective Head 184 16. Cornered, Taken, Made to Leave 198 17. Enjoy All Monsters 206 18. Some Extrasubtitles for Wildness 212 19. To Feel, to Feel More, to Feel More Than 215 20. Irruptions and Incoherences for Jimmie Durham 219 21. Black and Blue on White. In and And Space 226 22. Blue Vespers 230 23. The Blur and Breathe Books 245 24. Entanglement and Virtuosity 270 25. Bobby Lee's Hands 280 Notes 285 Works Cited 317 Index 329

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Book SynopsisChallenging the academic and cultural stereotypes that do not acknowledge the rhetorical capabilities of autistic people, M. Remi Yergeau shows how autistics both embrace and reject the rhetorical, thereby queering the lines of rhetoric, humanity, agency, and the very essence of rhetoric itself.Trade Review"Authoring Autism provides many thought-provoking insights for disability scholars. . . . Melanie Yergeau’s double perspective as a rhetorician and autistic activist that makes Authoring Autism valuable to a larger audience." -- Marion Schmidt * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *"A new exploration—a work that defines, defies, and defiles the boundaries of rhetorical regimes of neurological oppression. . . . An intervention, a disruption, an eruption." -- Anna Williams * Disability & Society *"Deftly integrates rich theoretical analysis with moments of humor, irony, autoethnography (autie-ethnography), and poetic insight. Authoring Autism will be appropriate for graduate courses in rhetorical theory, whether feminist, queer, disability, posthuman, material, or embodied. It is essential reading for anyone who does rhetorical theory, and it will transform not only how we think about who a rhetor can be, but also what rhetoric should be." -- Jordynn Jack * Rhetoric Review *"A closely argued, elegantly performed, and even joyfully humorous work of critical emancipatory scholarship. Yergeau carefully intertwines lived experience, autistic memoir, clinical discourse, and humanities theory (particularly rhetorical studies, narrative theory, disability studies, and queer theory) to achieve a highly insightful hybrid discourse. In the process, she breaks down binaries and opens new possibilities of form for scholarly invention and cultural creation. . . . An excellent book and a major contribution." -- Bradley Lewis * Journal of Medical Humanities *"To oppose a medicalized flattening of autism to a passive embodiment of seemingly autonomic dysfunction, Yergeau makes a powerful case for 'autism’s rhetorical potentials' grounded in the resilient ways that autistic people self-consciously 'story' their desires for better, more inclusive futures. . . . Autistic people, Yergeau reminds us, have always been rhetorical beings. Only by redefining the very definitions and conventions of rhetoric can we begin to attend to these autistic narratives on their own terms." -- Travis Chi Wing Lau * Los Angeles Review of Books *"I need to (want to) read it several times in order to process the many profound, challenging, and delightful layers of [Yergeau's] rhetoric on rich display. . . . Authoring Autism is a masterclass in simultaneously claiming and dismantling rhetoric." -- Tara Wood * College Composition and Communication *"Authoring Autism doesn’t just show us what the neuroqueer can offer rhetoric, what the embodied experience of autistic people have to teach us of rhetoric, it resists these clinical gazes for us to study and instead urges readers to consider their own rhetoricity. How it might be neuroqueered—expanded, warped, and blown up. Yergeau wishes for us to embrace a future rhetoric full of tics and stims, and if this book is a glimpse of that future, it’s one every rhetorician should be advocating for." -- Jay McClintick * Enculturation *"Authoring Autism is a revolutionary book, a neuroqueer revelation." -- Michael Bérubé * Public Books *"Yergeau’s book is a welcome history of autism and critique of contemporary perceptions and 'treatments' of it. It is an insightful, often refreshingly irreverent argument that should be read by professors, administrators, and students." -- Patricia A. Dunn * College English *"Yergeau stocks wicked humor, manifesto-like passion, historical knowledge, a hard-hitting combination of rhetorical tightness and raw honesty, and an important bread crumb trail of autobiography in her authorial quiver." -- Deborah Jenson * American Literature *“Yergeau’s much-needed scholarship and activism crack open academic space to make room for those of us who do not fit the academy’s mandates for logic and legibility. Sketching new terrains of thought, Authoring Autism gestures toward vibrant words, images, and textures that sit with us, and we feel their weight.” -- Clare Mullaney * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Involution 1 1. Intention 35 2. Intervention 89 3. Invitation 135 4. Invention 175 Epilogue. Indexicality 207 Notes 215 Bibliography 261 Index 289

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Book SynopsisRenisa Mawani charts the story of the Komagata Maru—a steamship that left Hong Kong for Vancouver in 1914 carrying 376 Punjabi immigrants who were denied entry into Canada—to illustrate imperialism's racial, legal, spatial, and temporal dynamics and how oceans operate as sites of jurisdictional and colonial contest.Trade Review"Across Oceans of Law is complex, comprehensively researched, and engagingly presented. . . . Each of the four chapters presents a unique perspective on thinking about the diverse and significant themes found in the examination of the changing development of maritime jurisprudence and evolving interpretation of the freedom of the sea, changing definitions of the legal nature of a ship, the status of colonial subjects, anticolonial restrictions on immigration, and the career of Gurdit Singh. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- P. D. Thomas * Choice *"Renisa Mawani has written a beautifully conceived, deeply researched, and elegantly argued book that all of us should read." -- Fahad Bishara * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"Across Oceans of Law is much more than an account of yet another dark chapter in Canadian and British imperial history. . . . Fresh and compelling. . . . Straightforward in its ingenuity and genuinely convincing in its execution. Indeed, there is here an elegance in the delivery of the core idea." -- Jen Hendry * LSE Review of Books *"Across Oceans of Law follows a breathtaking scalar approach attentive to the hierarchies of race, time, and jurisdiction, while narrating a microhistorical story of Komagata Maru’s transoceanic travel to recover oceans as 'vibrant spaces of law, politics and poetics' (236). It is a beautifully written, richly documented, and theoretically sophisticated study that connects the dense imperial, legal, and maritime histories with global histories of time from the perspective of a ship steered by a colonial subject during the heyday of anticolonialism." -- Debjani Bhattacharyya * Law and History Review *"This impressively researched and theoretically sophisticated book will profoundly transform the ways in which scholars of migration, empire, and anticolonialism approach their work." -- Seema Sohi * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"What makes the book particularly valuable are the questions that it raises about freedom and movement, questions that are timely, especially given the manifold migration crises taking place around the globe today. Thus, for scholars who wish to better understand contemporary concerns around migration and race, Mawani's book is certainly a good resource." -- Alia Somani * The Historian *"It is…impossible not to appreciate the urgent contemporary relevance and resonance of the 'ocean as method' from the outset of Mawani's text." -- Honni Van Rijswik and Anthea Vogl * Law and Critique *"By requiring scholars to think thematically, narratively, connectedly, vertically, temporally, and non-foundationally, Across Oceans of Law provides stimulating conceptual tools for applications in contexts beyond the voyage of the Komagata Maru, and beyond the seas." -- Jennifer Hendry * Journal of Law and Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Currents and Countercurrents of Law and Radicalism 1 1. The Free Sea: A Juridical Space 35 2. The Ship as Legal Person 73 3. Land, Sea, and Subjecthood 115 4. Anticolonial Vernaculars of Indigeneity 152 5. The Fugitive Sojourns of Gurdit Singh 188 Epilogue. Race, Jurisdiction, and the Free Sea Reconsidered 231 Notes 241 Bibliography 293 Index 319

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Book SynopsisWhitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant in its most vivid and direct form.

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Book SynopsisCytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Hervé Guibert (1955-1991) of the everyday moments of his hospitalization due to complications of AIDS. In one of his last works, the acclaimed writer presents his struggle with the disease in terms that are unsentimental and deeply human.Trade Review"Like Roland Barthes's Mourning Diary, Herve Guibert's hospitalization diary speaks with moonlit clarity about the threshold between life and death; with this heartbreaking and exemplary book Guibert has earned literary immortality." -- -Wayne Koestenbaum Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY "In this medical humanities classic, the vulnerable yet unabashedly confrontational Herve Guibert dissects the solitary hospital body that he and unknown others have become exam after exam, drug after drug, humiliation after humiliation, scream after scream. The writer's urgent will to live and poignant desire to invent relations inside and outside the hospital are nothing short of breathtaking." -- -Joao Biehl author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival "To read Guibert's journal of faltering vision is to teeter at the portal to many worlds. He stands, like Saramago, between light and darkness, right and wrong, life and death. What he sees and hears there-what he learns-is timeless. This book is a gift." -- -David France Director of How to Survive a PlagueTable of ContentsIntroduction: Respect, One Dessert Spoon at a Time David Caron Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary Afterword: Remainders Todd Meyers Translator's Note

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Book SynopsisA collection of Essays over the last 20 years, exploring different dimensions (historical, political, philosophical, literary) of the philosophical debate on “subjecthood” and “subjectivity” in Modernity, as it was framed by the “Controversy on the subject” from the 1960’s, and showing how it is now continued in a “controversy on the Universal”.Trade Review"The appearance of this book in France was something of a historic event. Under the heading of 'universality,' a concept that Balibar has almost single-handedly salvaged, Citizen Subject tries to rethink political belonging in our time, so as to redeem a humanism capable of contesting itself from the inside and available to serve the struggles of our day. Balibar rewrites a central tradition of Western philosophy from Descartes through Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche, and from Wolstonecraft through Fanon, showing in case after brilliant case that the very writers most invoked as origins (or critics) of the subject had in fact been engaged in a common enterprise of thinking a social, nontranscendent self, the democratic citizen under the contradictory conditions of modernity. The result is one of the strongest, most ambitious, and most pertinent rewritings of the history of philosophy that readers are likely to encounter in their lifetimes." -- -Bruce Robbins Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsForeword-After the Quarrel INTRODUCTION Citizen Subject Response to a Question from Jean-Luc Nancy: "Who Comes After the Subject?" ANNEX: Subjectus/subjectum PART ONE "Our True Self Is Not Entirely Within Us" 1. "Ego sum, ego existo": Descartes on the Verge of Heresy 2. "My Self," "My Own": Variations on Locke 3. Aimances in Rousseau: Julie or The New Heloise as a Treatise on the Passions 4. From Sense Certainty to the Law of Genre: Hegel, Benveniste, Derrida PART TWO Being(s) in Common 5. Ich, das Wir, und Wir, das Ich ist: Spirit's Dictum 6. The Messianic Moment in Marx 7. Zur Sache Selbst: The Common and the Universal in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 8. Men, Armies, Peoples: Tolstoy and the Subject of War 9. The Social Contract Among Commodities: Marx and the Subject of Exchange PART THREE The Right to Transgression 10. Judging Self and Others (On the Political Theory of Reflexive Individualism) 11. Private Crime, Public Madness 12. The Invention of the Superego: Freud and Kelsen 1922 13. Blanchot's Insubordination (On the Writing of the Manifesto of the 121) CONCLUSION The Uneasiness of the Subject Bourgeois Universality and Anthropological Differences

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Book SynopsisCruising the Library examines the ways in which library classifications have organized sexuality and sexual perversion. The author studies the Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification, as well as the Library of Congress’s Delta Collection, a restricted collection of obscenity until 1964.Trade Review"An original study on an old institution- the U.S. Library of Congress. Adler's reading of crucial and cultural theory are accurate and insightful. She presents a practical example of the philosophical power of library documentation as a tool of metaphysics and political economy." -- -Ronald E. Day author of Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data "Tailor-made for the critlib movement, this demonstration that the Library of Congress is not a neutral space begs one critical question: where should it be shelved?" -Kirkus Reviews "This compelling book should be read by everyone who cares about the complex politics of knowledge production and dissemination. Melissa Adler's highly readable account of the fate of queer, non-normative sexual knowledge within the Library of Congress is both startling and important. It speaks to the very real importance of libraries and librarians to contemporary intellectual life." -- -Janice Radway Northwestern University "In this rewarding study, Melissa Adler shows how systems used to classify and catalogue information for libraries operate as mechanisms of control. In particular, she focuses on the ways sexual identities are constructed and disciplined through library practices. Using Eve Sedgwick's work as a paradigmatic test case, and the Library of Congress as a site, including its infamous Delta Collection, she produces a study that is as compelling as it is far-reaching in its implications. A must-read for present and future professionals, but also, a useful text for anyone concerned with official instruments for the production of knowledge." -- -Johanna Drucker Breslauer Professor, Information Studies, UCLA

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Book SynopsisSuspended between likeness and strangeness, portraiture can identify an individual only at the moment of its advancement and withdrawal. Examining 36 portraits across two millennia, Nancy shows how, despite photograph’s ubiquity, the forms of appearing that define the portrait continue to mark the bodies and representations that dominate our world.Table of ContentsPreface to the English- Language Edition vii Introduction: The Subject of the Portrait 1 Jeffrey S. Librett The Look of the Portrait The Autonomous Portrait 13 Resemblance 21 Recall 29 Look 36 The Other Portrait L’altro ritratto 47 Character 51 The Eye 54 Visageity 56 Mimesis 59 Withdrawn Presence 63 Ipseity 67 Theophany 72 Revelation 76 Divine Abandonment 81 Dis- figuration 84 Eclipse 89 Infinite Detachment 93 Coda I 99 Coda II 101 Coda III 104 Notes 109 List of Figures 125

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Herding the Cats of Deep Time 1 2. Who Do We Think We Are? 26 3. Cosmic Passions 36 4. Thinking Geologically after Nietzsche 47 5. Angst and Attunement 60 6. The Present Age: A Case Study 73 7. Posthumanist Responsibility 82 8. The New Materialism 96 9. The Unthinkable and the Impossible 107 10. What Is to Be Done? Democracy and Beyond 121 Acknowledgments 137 Notes 139 Index 157

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword from the Helmuth Plessner Society | vii Translator’s Preface and Acknowledgments | ix Preface to the First Edition (1928) | xv Preface to the Second Edition (1965) | xix Introduction | xxxvii J. M. Bernstein 1. Aim and Scope of the Study | 1 The Development of Intuitionist Lebensphilosophie in Opposition to Experience, 3 • Lebensphilosophie and the Theory of the Humanities, 11 • Working Plan for the Foundation of a Philosophy of the Human, 22 2. The Cartesian Objection and the Nature of the Problem | 34 Extension vs. Interiority and the Problem of Appearance, 34 • Appearance as Originating in Interiority, 38 • The Prior Givenness of Interiority and the Forward Displacement of Myself: The Proposition of Immanence 41 • Extension as Outer World; Interiority as Inner World, 46 • The Proposition of Representation and the Element of Sensation, 51 • The Inaccessibility of Other I’s according to the Principle of Sensualism, 55 • The Need for a Revision of the Cartesian Dichotomy in the Interest of a Science of Life, 58 • A Methodological Reformulation of the Opening Question, 64 3. The Thesis | 75 The Question, 75 • The Dual Aspect in the Appearance of Ordinary Perceptual Things, 76 • Against the Misinterpretation of This Analysis: A Closer Focus on the Subject Matter, 81 • The Dual Aspect of Living Perceptual Things: Köhler contra Driesch, 84 • How Is Dual Aspectivity Possible? The Nature of the Boundary, 93 • The Task of a Theory of the Essential Characteristics of the Organic, 99 • Definitions of Life, 104 • Nature and Object of a Theory of the Essential Characteristics of the Organic, 110 4. The Modes of Being of Vitality | 115 Essential Characteristics Indicating Vitality, 115 • The Positionality of Living Being and Its Spacelikeness, 118 • Living Being as Process and Type; the Dynamic Character of the Living Form; the Individuality of the Living Thing, 123 • Living Process as Development, 129 • The Curve of Development: Aging and Death, 137 • The Individual Living Thing as a System, 144 • The Self-Regulation of the Individual Living Thing and the Harmonious Equipotentiality of Its Parts, 149 • Individual Living Things as Organized: The Dual Meaning of Organs, 154 • The Temporality of Living Being, 159 • The Positional Union of Space and Time and the Natural Place, 168 5. The Organizational Modes of Living Being: Plants and Animals | 172 The Circle of Life, 172 • Assimilation—Dissimilation, 182 • Adaptedness and Adaptation, 186 • Reproduction, Heredity, Selection, 196 • The Open Form of Organization of the Plant, 202 • The Closed Form of Organization of the Animal, 209 6. The Sphere of the Animal | 219 The Positionality of the Closed Form: Centrality and Frontality, 219 • The Coordination of Stimulus and Response in the Case of an Inoperative Subject (Decentralized Type of Organization), 227 • The Coordination of Stimulus and Response by a Subject (Centralized Type of Organization), 231 • The Animal’s Surrounding Field Organized into Complex Qualities and Things, 242 • Intelligence, 252 • Memory, 257 • Memory as the Unity of Residue and Anticipation, 262 7. The Sphere of the Human | 267 The Positionality of the Excentric Form: “I” and Personhood, 267 • Outer World, Inner World, Shared World, 272 • The Fundamental Laws of Anthropology: The Law of Natural Artificiality, 287 • The Law of Mediated Immediacy: Immanence and Expressivity, 298 • The Law of the Utopian Standpoint: Nullity and Transcendence, 316 Appendix | 323 Glossary | 337 Notes | 345 Index | 359

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsI. Introduction 1. Arvo Pärt and the Art of Embodiment | 3 Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt, and Robert Saler 2. The Sound—and Hearing—of Arvo Pärt | 8 Peter C. Bouteneff II. History and Context 3. Sounding Structure, Structured Sound | 25 Toomas Siitan 4. Colorful Dreams: Exploring Pärt’s Soviet Film Music | 36 Christopher J. May 5. Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli and the 1970s Soviet Underground | 68 Kevin C. Karnes III. Performance 6. The Pärt Sound | 89 Paul Hillier, in conversation with Peter Bouteneff 7. The Rest Is Silence | 107 Andrew Shenton IV. Materiality and Phenomenology 8. Vibrating, and Silent: Listening to the Material Acoustics of Tintinnabulation | 129 Jeffers Engelhardt 9. Medieval Pärt | 154 Andrew Albin 10. The Piano and the Performing Body in the Music of Arvo Pärt: Phenomenological Perspectives | 177 Maria Cizmic and Adriana Helbig V. Theology 11. Presence, Absence, and the Ambiguities of Ambiance: Theological Discourse and the Move to Sound in Pärt Studies | 197 Robert Saler 12. The Materiality of Sound and the Theology of the Incarnation in the Music of Arvo Pärt | 208 Ivan Moody 13. Christian Liturgical Chant and the Musical Reorientation of Arvo Pärt | 220 Alexander Lingas 14. In the Beginning There Was Sound: Hearing, Tintinnabuli, and Musical Meaning in Sufism | 232 Sevin Huriye Yaraman List of Contributors | 243 Index of Terms | 247 Index of Persons | 252 Works by Other Composers | 256 Works by Arvo Pärt | 257

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1. The Gospel According to the Foreskin | 11 2. Saint Augustine and the Boy with the Long Foreskin | 32 3. Nicking Sir Gawain | 50 4. The Foreskin of Marriage | 82 Coda | 103 Acknowledgments | 109 Notes | 111 Index | 151

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reading Literary Modernities on the Horizon of World Literature | 1 1. Literary Modernity and the Emancipation of Voice: Defences of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lu Xun | 23 2. Shakespearean Retellings and the Question of the Common Reader: Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and Lin Shu’s Yinbian Yanyu | 50 3. Estrangements of the World in the Familiar Essay: Charles Lamb and Zhou Zuoren’s Approaches to the Ordinary | 73 4. Between the Theater and the Novel: Woman, Modernity, and the Restaging of the Ordinary in Mansfield Park and The Rouge of the North | 92 Coda | 137 Acknowledgments | 141 Notes | 145 Index | 161

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 The Indifferent Children of the Earth: Lead, Enclosure, and the Nocturnal Occupations of the Mineral Undead | 15 2 “Dressed in a strange fantasy”: The Dialectics of Seeing and the Secret Passages of Desire | 54 3 Constantly at Their Weaving Work: Historiography and the Annihilation of the Body | 89 4 Things Sweet to Taste: Corn and the Thin Gruel of Racial Capitalism | 120 5 They Prove in Digestion Sour: Medicine, an Obstinacy of Organs, and the Appointments of the Body | 173 Conclusion: The Afterlives of the Black Hawk War | 211 Acknowledgments | 215 Notes | 219 Bibliography | 233 Index | 239

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Book SynopsisExplores what it means to be structurally vulnerable; how structural vulnerabilities intersect with cancer risk, diagnosis, care seeking, caregiving, clinical-trial participation, and survivorship; and how differing local, national, and global political contexts and histories inform vulnerability.

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Book SynopsisA collection of both deeply personal reflections and carefully researched studies that explore the New Mexico homeland through the experiences and perspectives of Chicanx and indigenous/Genízaro writers and scholars from across the state.

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Book SynopsisThe creative programs shared in this book vividly demonstrate the ways in which library programming can make communities stronger and more resilient by creating lifelong learners, fostering conversation, and forging connections.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction About This BookChapter 1 Learning Chapter 2 Conversation Chapter 3 Connection Chapter 4 EntertainmentResources Index

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Book SynopsisAt a time when library workers are critically examining their professional practices, cultural humility offers a potentially transformative framework of compassionate accountability. This Special Report introduces the concept and outlines its core tenets.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments1. Introduction 2. Introducing Cultural Humility 3. Cultural Humility in Relation to Other Approaches Cultural Competence Critical Race Theory 4. Defining Cultural Humility 5. Culture and Humility 6. Cultural Humility as a Threshold Practice 7. Practicing Cultural Humility People, Context, and Situation Keys to Practicing Cultural Humility 8. Cultural Humility and Organizations 9. Cultural Humility Reflected in Leadership Mayor Landrieu and the Confederate Statues in New Orleans Provost Chaouki and the UNM Seal 10. Critiques of Cultural Humility: The Problem of Humility and Minoritized People Cultural Pride and Cultural Humility, or, Is This Only for White People (Part 1)? Centering Whiteness, or, Is This Only for White People (Part 2)? Complexity of Power Differentials 11. An Indigenous Perspective on Cultural Humility 12. Conclusion References About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisIn "Sixty Years of Welsh Champion", breed expert Dr Wynne Davies presents a complete record of equine champions from the Royal Welsh Show, 1947-2007. Both a beautifully presented book with numerous stunning photos, and an exhaustive record of the event at the heart of the Welsh calendar, this is a must have for every Welsh Pony and Cob enthusiast.

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Book SynopsisThe Chronicon Paschale is one of the major constituents of the Byzantine chronographic tradition covering the late antique period.Trade Reviewadmirable annotated translation... * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *Table of ContentsIntroduction - the chronicle and its context, sources, interests, translation; "Chronicon Paschale" - translation and notes. Appendices: the terminal date of CP; the great chronographer; Ericcson's postulated textual transposition; the date of Heraclius' encounter with the Avars.

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Book SynopsisFor a long while mistakenly revered as a saviour of classical civilization, in recent times more often dismissed as an anachronism, Cassiodorus emerges from this edition of the Institutions as an exceptional but nonetheless representative exponent of the learned Christian culture of later Latin Antiquity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations References and Abbreviations INTRODUCTION 1. Epigraph; Two Pen-Portraits of 'Cassiodorus' 2. The Writer, His Life and Works On the Soul 3. Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning Genesis and Models Composition and Contents Book 1: The Bible and Christian Authors Book 2: The Liberal Arts Reception and Historical Significance 4. Epilogue INSTITUTIONS OF DIVINE AND SECULAR LEARNING ON THE SOUL Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Atlas of an Anxious Man, Christoph Ransmayr offers a mesmerizing travel diarya sprawling tale of earthly wonders seen by a wandering eye. This is an exquisite, lyrically told travel story. Translated by Simon Pare, this unique account follows Ransmayr across the globe: from the shadow of Java's volcanoes to the rapids of the Mekong and Danube Rivers, from the drift ice of the Arctic Circle to Himalayan passes, and on to the disenchanted islands of the South Pacific. Ransmayr begins again and again with, I saw. . . recounting to the reader the stories of continents, eras, and landscapes of the soul. Like maps, the episodes come together to become a book of the worldone that charts the life and death, happiness and fate of people bound up in images of breathtaking beauty. One of the German language's most gifted young novelists.Library Journal, on The Terrors of Ice and DarknessTrade Review“Whatever the future may hold—and this is a book ruled by the past tense—it will emerge from the beautiful wreckage Ransmayr describes in these seventy tales: a world of ruins, haunted by failure and littered with the bodies of the dead, human and animal alike. Several of the vignettes evoke writing on a wall. We have no reason for arrogance, the author suggests, and little cause for hope. . . . Pare’s translation is lithe and assured. . . . Ransmayr casts a magisterial eye over a suffering world: the atlas he compiles is one in which awe at the splendour of the planet is tempered by sorrow at what has become of it.” * Times Literary Supplement *“Atlas of an Anxious Man is a record of the extraordinary things that can happen to a person if he steps out into the world with his eyes and mind open. It is an evocative and haunting book, a masterpiece of multiple genres by a writer unlike any other. Ransmayr is one of Austria’s most accomplished novelists, but his work is relatively unknown outside of Europe. With this excellent translation by Pare, there is hope that Ransmayr will start to receive the attention he deserves.” * Northwest Review of Books * “Atlas of an Anxious Man is far from your usual travel-account, but it's an impressive collection of scenes of the contemporary world -- the almost-asides of the often everyday, which are in fact often quite extraordinary. Recommended.” * Complete Review *Table of ContentsFar-Off Land Islas Sala y Gómez, Chile Territorial China Herzfeld Brazil The Celestial Bridge Morocco Dealth in Seville Spain Ghosts Iceland A City Extinguished Greece On the Edge of the Wilderness Austria Attempting to Fly New Zealand The Peacock India The Attack Nepal Air Raid Bolivia Wild Beach Brazil Man on Riverbank Austria The Master of Heroes Greece Way oo the Cross USA Visit from Afar Mexico A Change of Resting-Place Isla Robinsón, Chile By-Catch Ireland In the Deep Dominican Caribbean Queen of the Wild Brazil The Handover Laos Farewell Austria In Space New Zealand Teeing off at the North Pole Russian Arctic Homecoming Canada Current Cambodia The Angel’s Work Czech Republic In the Forest of Pillars Turkey The Beauty of Darkness Austria Falling Out of the Night India The Pianist Japan Fortune and the Pacific Ocean Chile The Rules of Paradise Pitcairn, South Pacific The Mere Shadow of a Rescue Mauritius The Undead Russia Visitor to Parliament Germany Naked Man in the Shade Greece A Shark in the Desert Yemen Blood Austria Arc of Light Australia Second Birthday Russian Arctic The Ice God Ireland The Preacher Poland A Photographer Dominican Republic Pacífico, Atlántico Costa Rica Love in Vain Sumatra, Indonesia White Sunday Austria Fisher Girl Nepal The Threat Malaysia Under Suspicion South Africa The Chinese Vase Chile Calligraphers China Pilgrims Sri Lanka Consoler of the Distressed Austria The Tenor Kola Peninsula, Russia Man without Sun Ireland Slow Motion Costa Rica The Monitor Hunter Java, Indonesia Storm Damage Austria Armageddon Hong Kong, China The Sheepdog Turkey In the Shadow of the Birdman Easter Island, Chile Hunting Scenes Paraguay The Writer Tibet Breaking the Law Bali, Indonesia Silent Night Sri Lanka Girl in a Winter Storm Austria Arrival Nepal

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Book SynopsisWritten during the final stages of the Indian Independence movement, between the gloom and angst of the interwar period and at the cusp of the beginning of modern India, Bhuwaneshwar's short stories both capture the melancholy of the time and ask what it means to be human in an indifferent and amoral world. These stories are truly an event in the history of modern Hindi literaturehis work marks a complete break from the neo-romanticism and mysticism of his predecessors and contemporaries and establishes him as the definitive founder of the modern Hindi short story. His stories are populated with lonely characters from all walks of life: doctors, students, nomadic communities, acrobats, single mothers, soldiers returning from war, neglected children, and more. They are people living on the margins, introspecting their own anxieties and existence in an increasingly uncertain world set in places as far apart as hill stations, anonymous Indian villages, highways, railway compartments, and Trade Review"[This] collection offers English-language readers access to one of the key figures of twentieth-century Hindi literature." * Words Without Borders *“[He] has brought to light our secrets, our perversions with such brutality that one is scared to look at them.” -- Premchand in 1936 at the Progressive Writers’ Association meetingTable of ContentsN

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shifting between such genres as novel, biography, philosophical essay, and historical fiction over the course of this work, Magnus attempts to rectify his grandfather’s failure to transcribe his life in a single meaningful, coherent work. As he probes the intersection of racism, nationalism, and war, Magnus dips in and out of history and fiction to reveal telling philosophical lessons about the tendency of man to make black and white the cultures of the world, when in reality we are all pieces of the same game." * World Literature Today *“Literary fiction merges with documentary source materials in a feat of the imagination that carefully reconstructs the Buenos Aires of the period: we wander through Harrods Department Store, watch the boxing at Luna Park and even get drunk at the Gran Rex. … Chess with My Grandfather is a philosophical exploration but also an effort to make the unfulfilled desire of a grandfather a reality, to ‘write the novel he never wrote’.” * "La Nación" *Table of ContentsN

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Menza ... was a guru, a giant. He was a supernova. He was the only brilliant person I have ever met. I took his course by accident, and it changed my life. He had all these acolytes who would hang on his every word, and he knew it, so one day he came into class and he started in on something, and we were taking down everything, and he stopped and said: 'Put your pens down. What I am saying is important.'"--Peter Mose in I Remember My Teacher by David ShribmanTable of Contents1. Psychic Bolt-Holes2. Visitation3. I Never Saw Harvey4. What Is a Symbol 5. Down the Philosophical Rabbit-Hole; or, “GAVAGAI!”6. The Rabbit Evangels: Joel Chandler Harris and Beatrix Potter7. Obliterature8. How Children Get Cheated Out of Their Humanity9. The Rabbit between Us Came from Slavery10. Aubade with Brer Rabbit11. The Rabbit Dances

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 1: Innocent wizards. Orpheus after Jean Cocteau (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 2: Alpha, Omega and that which is in-between. Cain after George Gordon Byron (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 3: Farce-Mystery, or there can be no other Socialism. Mystery-Bouffe after Vladimir Mayakovsky (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 4: A Hindu erotica. Shakuntala after Kalidasa (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 5: A mystery ‘in-yar-face’. Forefathers’ Eve after Adam Mickiewicz (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 6: Polishness as madness. Kordian after Juliusz Slowacki (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 7: Our Acropolis. Acropolis after Stanislaw Wyspianski (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 8: ‘To heaven? You blaspheme in vain’. Tragical History of Doctor Faustus after Christopher Marlowe (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 9: Jerzy Grotowski's Hamlets. Hamlet Study based on the works of William Shakespeare and Stanislaw Wyspianski (Wanda Swiatkowska)Conclusion (Dariusz Kosinski)Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and demonologist.Trade ReviewWitchcraft in Early Modern Scotland will be immensely useful for scholars of witchcraft, demonology, early modern women, as well as those who study Scottish political, religious, legal, and social history. The contextual information in Part One is clearly presented and accessible for scholars with only a cursory knowledge of early modern Scotland; and detailed annotations of the documents make them readily comprehensible for readers unfamiliar with Scots dialect. The book is a case-study that becomes cultural history ... Such rich and carefully read evidence of intimate interactions between members of elite and popular cultures makes an important contribution to our understanding of sixteenth-century social history.Albion, Vol.34, Issue 2, SummerThis volume provides readers, especially students, with what is too often lacking in early modern history: a self-contained case study based on primary sources ... However, the authors have done more than provide the raw material of these trials as a case study. They preface each document with a useful introduction while avoiding the temptation to lead the reader in the interpretation of them. The documents also have footnotes relating to vocabulary and endnotes on textual matters arising from the originals. Both are extremely helpful ... While one might be tempted to conclude that the publication of a complete set of witch trials is accomplishment enough, this volume expands upon this by including a detailed set of introductory chapters. These set out, clearly and concisely, the context in which the trials were prosecuted ... This volume is to be commended for providing those interested not only in witchcraft but also witch-hunting with a single, self-contained case study rich in detail. Students, in particular, will find much food for thought in these original documents.Scottish Economic and Social History, Vol. 21, Part 1This book is, altogether, a remarkable achievement, combining the best standards of traditional textual scholarship with an imaginative approach to the subject. For as well as the texts gathered together and so splendidly edited, there is a lengthy introduction which places these texts, and the events which underlay them, in context ... This is a book which will be welcomed, and much used, by the specialist in witchcraft history, which will also be invaluable to teachers and students both of early modern witchcraft and of early modern Scottish history more generally, and which will also be read with profit by those with a more general interest in such matters.ArchivesA significant contribution to the history of witchcraft, the history of Scotland, the history of feminism and the history of ideas in general.Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, Vol. 63This splendid edition of the documents represents substantial research and will be a welcome addition to the library of all interested in this topic.Renaissance Quarterly, SpringEvery so often a very worthwhile book comes along. Such a book provides the reader with an opportunity to examine modern transcriptions of primary sources, accompanied by intelligent commentary, and a well-written scholarly overview of the topics in question. This is such a book. It is a pleasure to read […] This edition of Demonology and other attendant documents should be welcomed by students an scholars who are studying the history of witchcraft in the British Isles. Jane P. Davidson, Sixteenth Century Journal XXXIII/3One is reminded of Arturo Perez Riverte’s novel The Dumas Club (London: Harvill Press, 1996), in which an unscrupulous bibliophile attempts to collate, from minute variants in the illustrations (the vital ones drafted by Lucifer himself) in the only three surviving copies of a legendary demonological treatise, an incantation to raise the Devil himself. Normand and Roberts’ project is a modest one compared to this, but undoubtedly a significant contribution to our understanding of Scottish and European witch belief. Jonathan Murray, Scottish Studies Review, vol. 4, no. 1It is excellent on the edited texts and will prove a very welcome addition for both academics and students to what has been, to date, a rather meagre selection of books on witchcraft in Scotland. Joyce Miller, Edinburgh Review IIITable of Contents Contents The court and politics social contexts and cultural formations the Kirk Scottish witchcraft before the North Berwich witch hunt the legal process aftermath. Witch hunting - examinations, confessions and depositions. Records of the witchcraft trials (Dittays) text of the witchcraft trials (Dittays). Witchhunt propaganda - "News from Scotland" text of"News from Scotland" Theorizing the witch hunt - James VI's "Demonology" text of "Demonology". Appendix: Privy Council Orders relating to the legal processes of witch trials.

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Book SynopsisThe Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D.Trade ReviewNot only does this book contain a good translation of Phlegon's Book of Marvels, but Hansen has also added translations of fragments of two other works by Phlegon, Olympiads (recounting the foundation of the Olympic Games), and Long-Lived Persons (which uses Roman census documents). As such we get a truly representative feel for the literary output of this Greek freedman which certainly seems to have had an eager market . . . Hanson's commentary is superb. Each section is sanely analysed, with references to the Greek vocabulary chosen, parallel versions and their differences, and helpful modern bibliography. The commentary makes interesting reading and reminds one of how immensely popular such collections were in the early empire. * Classical Review, Vol. XIIX, no 2. *Characteristic of Hansen's work is not only that he places Phlegon's efforts in the context of the literature of the Roman empire, but also that he compares the reports by this author with similar miraculous reports from later, even modern times. . . Hansen has put us in his debt by making this neglected material accessible in such a convenient way. * Mnemosyne, Vol. LII *Within the relics of paradoxography, the fragments of Phlegon of Tralleis, a freedman of the emperor Hadrian, are untypical and, for that very reason, of uncommon interest. William Hansen has done a valuable service in placing them within easy reach of the Greekless reader or student toiling in either of the neighbouring fields…anyone who needs to know about Phlegon has no hesitation in acquiring this handsomely produced and reasonably priced book…It is exactly the kind of resource needed to introduce students to the intriguing margins of ancient historiography. * Histos *Hansen's edition of the Phlegon fragments offers a good introduction to this author specifically but more generally allows us an insight into the under-valued and under-studied genre of paradoxography in antiquity. * Scholia Reviews, 8.7 *Some books have a headstart in being welcome simply for their existence and Hansen's text and accompaniments belong in that category. * Classical Review *At a time when the study of marginality is popular, this book gives insight into ancient forerunners of the literary freak-show . . . The delight in the violation of the natural order in 'he Book of Marvels'is kept within decent bounds by the sense that, although inexplicable, the monstrous can be deciphered, often to the benefit of the community. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents "Book of Marvels" Long-lived persons Olympiads. Appendices: Proklos - instances of persons who have died and returned to life Goethe -"The Bride of Corinth", translated by Breon Mitchell Philostratos - Achilleus' ghost and the Trojan maiden

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Book SynopsisVolume 1 of this series of documents with commentary covers the period from the founding of the Nazi Party in 1919 to Hitler's assumption of the office of Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor of 1 August 1934.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Introduction 1 From the Founding Party to the Putsch 1919-23 (i) The founding of the Party (ii) Hitler takes over the Party leadership, August 1921 (iii) The Development of the Party, 1921-23 (iv) The Hitler-Putsch 8-9 November 1923 2 The Creation of a Nationwide Party Organisation 1924-28 (i) The Refounding of the Party 27 February 1925 (ii) The assertion of the Primacy of the 'Fuhrer' (iii) The creation of the Party Cadre 3 The Emergence of Nazism as a Mass Movement 1928-1933 (i) The Breakthrough 1928-30 (ii) Propaganda 1930-32 (iii) Statistics and the Social and Geographical Bases of Nazism 4 The Struggle for Power 1930-33 (i) The Path of Legality and the problem of the SA (ii) Relations between Nazis and Nationalists in 1931-32 (iii) From Bruning to Papen (iv) The Crisis Months, August-December 1932 The Appointment of Hitler as Chancellor, 30 January 1933 5 The 'Seizure of Power' 1933-34 (i) The 'National Uprising'-The Election Campaign of February-March 1933 (ii) The Seizure of Power in the States and the SA/Party 'Revolution from Below' of March 1933 (iii) The 'Coordination' of the Reichstag and of the Political Parties, March-June 1933 (iv) The Revolution Stabilised: Conflict with the SA List of Sources A Selective Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a new edition of Volume Three of the four volume collection of documents on Nazism 1919-1945, with substantial revisions to three chapters and the inclusion of many new documents, an index and a revised bibliography.Table of Contents Contents Preface 25 Hitler's Foreign Policy 'Programme' 26 The Regime and the Armed Forces 1933-36 27 German Foreign Policy 1933-1937 28 German Foreign Policy 1938-1939: The Road to War 29 The Successful Blitzkriege 1939-1940 30 Strategic Vacillation, June-December 1940 31 From Blitzkreig to World War: January-December 32 The Turning Point 1942-1943 33 The Road to Defeat 1943-1945 34 The Nazi Empire 35 The German Occupation of Poland 36 The 'Euthanasia' Programme 1939-1945 37 The Persecution of the Jews 1939-1941 38 The Transition to the Systematic Extermination of the Jews 1941-1942 39 The Extermination Camps Maps List of Sources Selective Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThomas Hoccleve (1368–426) was one of Chaucer’s first disciples and is represented in this book by a selection of his works, newly edited from his own copies and fully annotated.Trade ReviewThe wealth of detail noticed and reported on by Ellis is absolutely staggering ... It is a serious work, offered by a committed textual scholar who has investigated all the complex issues of authority and transmission ... It allows us to bring into the classroom data about the complex and unique history of textual transformation for Hoccleve's works, a real “behind the scenes” look at medieval authorship and composition ... One thing is certain, the reader will know Hoccleve well as poet, translator and scribe after reading this edition cover to cover, all the way through, as Hoccleve long ago exhorted us to do. Ellis's edition, bursting at the seams with historical, textual and critical detail, a feast of both matter and art, will doubtlessly be a major factor in the renaissance of Hoccleve studies. * The Medieval Review *Table of Contents Frontispiece Acknowledgements Sigla of Manuscripts and Other Abbreviations Introduction Notes Editorial Principles A Note on Hoccleve's Language MINOR VERSE I. 'Conpleynte paramont' Notes II. 'La male regle de T. Hoccleue' Notes III. 'Balade et chanceon...a mon meistre H. Somer' Notes IV. 'Balade...[pour] mon meistre Robert Chichele' Notes V. 'Item de beata Virgine' Notes VI. 'L'epistre de Cupide' Notes VII. THE SERIES 1. 'My compleinte' Notes 2. 'A dialoge' Notes 3. 'Fabula de quadam imperatrice Romana' Notes 4. 'Ars vtillissima sciendi mori' Notes 5. 'Fabula de quadam muliere mala' Notes 6; Appendices 1. The stanzas added to the 'Conpleynte paramont' in the Middle English Pilgrimage of the Soul 2A. A comparison of the version of Hoccleve's first Gesta narrative with selected Latin and Middle English analogues 2B. The source of Hoccleve's 'Balade... translatee au commandement de... Robert Chichele.' 3. The glosses to 'Ars vtillissima sciendi mori' in S and D, 270 4. Additional notes on the textual relations of the non-holograph copies of the 'Conpleynte paramont', 'Epistre de Cupide' and the Series 5. Selected variants from the non-holograph manuscript copies of the texts here edited Bibliography Editions of texts or selections Secondary literature

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Book SynopsisProduced by an international team of experts, the volume offers the sources in their language of origin - Old English, Old Norse, Welsh, Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Early Modern English - with facing-page translations and explanatory notes.Trade Review'This will be the definitive text.'Fortean Times'The concept of bringing together all available written materials relating to a single significant event in early English history, together with commentary by a range of experts, is extremely worthwhile.' Donald Scragg, University of Manchester'A massive and admirable volume on the Battle of Brunanburh. It is designed as a casebook – a teaching tool and a scholarly examination in one. It is as definitive as it is possible to be about the battle and succeeds admirable as a case study of how to examine an obscure medieval battle.' Stephen Morillo, Journal of Military History'In short, the book is extremely useful ... valuable for beginning undergraduate students and established scholars alike, and the editor deserves recognition for bringing to fruition an ambitious and largely successful project.'Journal of English and Germanic PhilologyTable of ContentsPreface: The Shape of the Volume Introduction: The Roads to Brunanburh (Michael Livingston) Accounts of the Battle (This section is the "heart" of the book: editions of the medieval sources central to studying Brunanburh, with facing-page translations.) 1. Armes Prydein Vawr 2. Carta dirige gressus 3. Rex pius Athelstan 4. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Versions A and B], Battle of Brunanburh 5. Glaswawt Taliessin 6. Annales Cambriae 7. AEthelweard, Chronicon 8. Wulfstan of Winchester, Vita S. Ethelwoldi 9. Aelfric of Eynsham, Epilogue to Judges 10. Athelstan's Prayer 11. Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita Odonis 12. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Version F] 13. Symeon of Durham, Libellus de exordio 14. Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita Oswaldi 15. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Version E] 16. John of Worcester, Chronicon 17. William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum 18. Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum 19. Geoffrey Gaimar, Estoire des Engleis 20. Symeon of Durham, Historia regum 21. Chronicle of Ramsey 22. Chronicle of Melrose 23. Gwynfardd Brycheiniog, Canu y Dewi 24. Roger of Howden, Chronicle 25. Egil's Saga 26. Roger Wendover, Flores historiarum 27. Matthew Paris, Chronica majora 28. Livere de Reis de Engleterre 29. Bartholomew of Cotton, Historia Anglicana 30. Annals of Winchester 31. John of Oxnead, Chronicle 32. Robert of Gloucester, Metrical Chronicle 33. Annals of Waverley 34. Brut y Tywysogion 35. Brenhinedd y Saesson 36. Peter of Langtoft, Chronicle 37. Stanzaic Guy of Warwick 38. Anonymous Short English Metrical Chronicle 39. Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon 40. Robert Mannyng of Brunne, Chronicle 41. Scottish Chronicle (alias Pictish Chronicle) 42. John of Fordun, Chronica gentis Scotorum 43. Eulogium historiarum 44. Brut y Saesson 45. Richard of Cirencester, Speculum historiale 46. Pseudo-Ingulf, Chronicle of Crowland 47. Prose Brut 48. Book of Hyde 49. Walter Bower, Scotichronicon 50. Annals of Ulster 51. Hector Boece, Historiae 52. Annals of Clonmacnoise 53. Annals of the Four Masters Notes on the Sources Essays on the Sources The Welsh Sources Pertaining to the Battle (John K. Bollard, with Marged Haycock) Preliorum maximum: The Latin Tradition (Scott Thompson Smith) The Battle of Brunanburhin Old English Studies (Thomas A. Bredehoft) The Battle of Brunanburhas a Poem (Robert P. Creed) Truth and a Good Story: Egil's Saga and Brunanburh (A. Keith Kelly) Romancing the Past: The Middle English Tradition (Robert Rouse) Essays on the Battle The Place-Name Debate (Paul Cavill) Wirral: Folkore and Locations (Stephen Harding) The Sociolinguistic Context of Brunanburh (Richard Coates) Brunanburh and the Victorian Imagination (Joanne Parker) Bibliography Index

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