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Book SynopsisMagnificent hardcover art books featuring the incredible images and lore of Magic: The Gathering®!Danger and adventure await in these pages, lavishly illustrated with the award-winning art of Magic: The Gathering®!“Just imagine what’s waiting around the bend. Adventure. Discovery. Riches for the taking. This is why I sail.”—Captain Lannery StormDeep in the heart of Ixalan’s verdant jungle lies a treasure beyond imagining. Join the peoples of this plane in their search for an ancient golden city as you explore these pages, lavishly illustrated with the award-winning art of Magic: The Gathering®!Here you can sail with daring pirates and call on the might of earth-shaking dinosaurs. The marooned Planeswalker Jace Beleren will be your guide in his search for the true power of the golden city. A whole world waits to be discovered. Come and join the struggle to cla

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Book SynopsisÉmile Verhaeren (18551916), art critic, poet and homme de lettres, was a man whose vision transcended his native Belgium. With close ties to Mallarmé in France and Rilke in Germany, Verhaeren, a peripatetic student of the arts, readily traveled to Paris, Berlin, Cassel, Vienna and Amsterdam. From the mid-1880s until his death in 1916, his many trips abroad resulted in a raft of essays and short monographs on the arts of the Northern Renaissance. Yet, despite the insights, scholarship and markedly precise and revealing descriptions of these studies, they have long been neglected in art historical circles, overshadowed, perhaps, by Verhaeren's own poetic outpourings and his numerous essays on contemporary art. In this book, Albert Alhadeff translates, edits, annotates and contextualizes these often brilliant and always revealing studies on artists such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Memling, Bruegel and Grünewald, masters from the North who worked mostly in Flanders, Holland and Germa

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Book SynopsisVoices of Marginality is theoretically grounded in the theology of the diaspora, which according to Fernando F. Segovia has been forged in the migratory experience of American Hispanics. This theological perspective views Judean exiles (587 B.C.E.) and contemporary Mexican migrants as part of a recurring diasporic human experience. The present analysis reads across from the exile and return envisioned in the poetry of Second Isaiah (40-55) to the corridos (ballads) about Mexican immigration to the United States. More specifically, the diasporic categories of exile and return in Second Isaiah inform our reading of exile and return in the Mexican immigrant corridos. Conversely, the rhetorical ability of these corridos to transmit a collective Mexican identity for immigrants in the United States provides a compelling lens for understanding the images of exile and return in Second Isaiah. Ultimately, both literary productions reflect voices of marginality.

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Book SynopsisPornography has always been central to debates about sex and emerging new media technologies. Today, debate is increasingly focused on online pornographies. This collection examines pornography's significance as a focus of definition, debate, and myth; its development as a mainstream entertainment industry; and the emergence of the new economy of Porn 2.0, and of new types of porn labor and professionalism. It looks at porn style behind the scenes of straight hardcore, in gay, lesbian, and queer pornographies, in shock sites, and in amateur erotica, and investigates the rise of the online porn fan community, the sex blogger, the erotic rate-me site and the visual cultures of swingers. Treating these developments as part of a broader set of economic and cultural transformations, this book argues that new porn practices reveal much about contemporary and competing views of sex and the self, the real and the body, culture, and commerce.Trade Review«‘porn.com’ is an outstanding contribution to the emerging field of online porn studies, examining the intersection of online sociability and erotic content, and providing important insights about both. Online fan cultures and a democratization of production have affected the porn industry as they have all sectors of the communication industry, but these new forms represent a diverse range of practices, values, and challenges that defy attempts at reductive description. The chapters of ‘porn.com’ provide a tour of this new and rapidly changing erotic landscape, and a detailed analysis of the contexts in which these interactions take place. The collection should be of interest not only to those who are engaged in porn studies, but to anyone who wants to understand the broad range of contexts in which online interaction takes place.» (Alex Halavais, Quinnipiac University) «The internet has become the key site of contemporary debates around the effects of pornography on communities and individuals. Anxieties are widespread about the impact of online porn on the sexualities and attitudes of young people and on the capacity of paedophiles to establish networks for sharing images. Feona Attwood’s new edited collection is a timely addition to this debate, bringing together an impressive range of international scholars on porn studies to explore such themes as the production and consumption of online porn, the evolution of the industry, and the content of sex blogging and amateur online erotica. This book is a valuable contribution to an intensifying global debate.» (Brian McNair, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) «This anthology positions net porn at the throbbing centre of society. If you’re ready for some uncensored scholarship on porn cultures in the digital age, this is the reader for you. Beyond good or evil, ‘porn.com’ provides us with a broad overview of topics such as child pornography, the working conditions of porn professionals, Web 2.0 cultures, extreme imagery, image rating, and insights into the online ‘swinging’ world. So let’s praise the researchers and blast the moralists!» (Geert Lovink, Dutch-Australian media theorist and net critic)«‘porn.com’ is an outstanding contribution to the emerging field of online porn studies, examining the intersection of online sociability and erotic content, and providing important insights about both. Online fan cultures and a democratization of production have affected the porn industry as they have all sectors of the communication industry, but these new forms represent a diverse range of practices, values, and challenges that defy attempts at reductive description. The chapters of ‘porn.com’ provide a tour of this new and rapidly changing erotic landscape, and a detailed analysis of the contexts in which these interactions take place. The collection should be of interest not only to those who are engaged in porn studies, but to anyone who wants to understand the broad range of contexts in which online interaction takes place.» (Alex Halavais, Quinnipiac University) «The internet has become the key site of contemporary debates around the effects of pornography on communities and individuals. Anxieties are widespread about the impact of online porn on the sexualities and attitudes of young people and on the capacity of paedophiles to establish networks for sharing images. Feona Attwood’s new edited collection is a timely addition to this debate, bringing together an impressive range of international scholars on porn studies to explore such themes as the production and consumption of online porn, the evolution of the industry, and the content of sex blogging and amateur online erotica. This book is a valuable contribution to an intensifying global debate.» (Brian McNair, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) «This anthology positions net porn at the throbbing centre of society. If you’re ready for some uncensored scholarship on porn cultures in the digital age, this is the reader for you. Beyond good or evil, ‘porn.com’ provides us with a broad overview of topics such as child pornography, the working conditions of porn professionals, Web 2.0 cultures, extreme imagery, image rating, and insights into the online ‘swinging’ world. So let’s praise the researchers and blast the moralists!» (Geert Lovink, Dutch-Australian media theorist and net critic)Table of ContentsContents: Feona Attwood: Introduction: Porn Studies: From Social Problem to Cultural Practice – Stephen Maddison: Online Obscenity and Myths of Freedom: Dangerous Images, Child Porn, and Neoliberalism – Adam Stapleton: Child Pornography: Classifications and Conceptualizations – David Slayden: Debbie Does Dallas Again and Again: Pornography, Technology, and Market Innovation – Sharif Mowlabocus: Porn 2.0? Technology, Social Practice, and the New Online Porn Industry – Feona Attwood: «Younger, paler, decidedly less straight»: The New Porn Professionals – Sanna Härmä/Joakim Stolpe: Behind the Scenes of Straight Pleasure – Steven Jones: Horrorporn/Pornhorror: The Problematic Communities and Contexts of Online Shock Imagery – Susanna Paasonen: Good Amateurs: Erotica Writing and Notions of Quality – Jennifer Moorman: Gay for Pay, Gay For(e)play: The Politics of Taxonomy and Authenticity in LGBTQ Online Porn – Simon Lindgren: Widening the Glory Hole: The Discourse of Online Porn Fandom – Katrien Jacobs: The New World Dream and the Female Itch: Sex Blogging and Lolita Costume Play in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China – Dennis D. Waskul/Cheryl L. Radeloff: «How Do I Rate?»: Web Sites and Gendered Erotic Looking Glasses – Alison Rooke/Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa: Beyond «Key Parties» and «Wife Swapping»: The Visual Culture of Online Swinging – Feona Attwood: Conclusion: Toward the Study of Online Porn Cultures and Practices.

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Book SynopsisPornography has always been central to debates about sex and emerging new media technologies. Today, debate is increasingly focused on online pornographies. This collection examines pornography's significance as a focus of definition, debate, and myth; its development as a mainstream entertainment industry; and the emergence of the new economy of Porn 2.0, and of new types of porn labor and professionalism. It looks at porn style behind the scenes of straight hardcore, in gay, lesbian, and queer pornographies, in shock sites, and in amateur erotica, and investigates the rise of the online porn fan community, the sex blogger, the erotic rate-me site and the visual cultures of swingers. Treating these developments as part of a broader set of economic and cultural transformations, this book argues that new porn practices reveal much about contemporary and competing views of sex and the self, the real and the body, culture, and commerce.Trade Review«‘porn.com’ is an outstanding contribution to the emerging field of online porn studies, examining the intersection of online sociability and erotic content, and providing important insights about both. Online fan cultures and a democratization of production have affected the porn industry as they have all sectors of the communication industry, but these new forms represent a diverse range of practices, values, and challenges that defy attempts at reductive description. The chapters of ‘porn.com’ provide a tour of this new and rapidly changing erotic landscape, and a detailed analysis of the contexts in which these interactions take place. The collection should be of interest not only to those who are engaged in porn studies, but to anyone who wants to understand the broad range of contexts in which online interaction takes place.» (Alex Halavais, Quinnipiac University) «The internet has become the key site of contemporary debates around the effects of pornography on communities and individuals. Anxieties are widespread about the impact of online porn on the sexualities and attitudes of young people and on the capacity of paedophiles to establish networks for sharing images. Feona Attwood’s new edited collection is a timely addition to this debate, bringing together an impressive range of international scholars on porn studies to explore such themes as the production and consumption of online porn, the evolution of the industry, and the content of sex blogging and amateur online erotica. This book is a valuable contribution to an intensifying global debate.» (Brian McNair, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) «This anthology positions net porn at the throbbing centre of society. If you’re ready for some uncensored scholarship on porn cultures in the digital age, this is the reader for you. Beyond good or evil, ‘porn.com’ provides us with a broad overview of topics such as child pornography, the working conditions of porn professionals, Web 2.0 cultures, extreme imagery, image rating, and insights into the online ‘swinging’ world. So let’s praise the researchers and blast the moralists!» (Geert Lovink, Dutch-Australian media theorist and net critic)«‘porn.com’ is an outstanding contribution to the emerging field of online porn studies, examining the intersection of online sociability and erotic content, and providing important insights about both. Online fan cultures and a democratization of production have affected the porn industry as they have all sectors of the communication industry, but these new forms represent a diverse range of practices, values, and challenges that defy attempts at reductive description. The chapters of ‘porn.com’ provide a tour of this new and rapidly changing erotic landscape, and a detailed analysis of the contexts in which these interactions take place. The collection should be of interest not only to those who are engaged in porn studies, but to anyone who wants to understand the broad range of contexts in which online interaction takes place.» (Alex Halavais, Quinnipiac University) «The internet has become the key site of contemporary debates around the effects of pornography on communities and individuals. Anxieties are widespread about the impact of online porn on the sexualities and attitudes of young people and on the capacity of paedophiles to establish networks for sharing images. Feona Attwood’s new edited collection is a timely addition to this debate, bringing together an impressive range of international scholars on porn studies to explore such themes as the production and consumption of online porn, the evolution of the industry, and the content of sex blogging and amateur online erotica. This book is a valuable contribution to an intensifying global debate.» (Brian McNair, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) «This anthology positions net porn at the throbbing centre of society. If you’re ready for some uncensored scholarship on porn cultures in the digital age, this is the reader for you. Beyond good or evil, ‘porn.com’ provides us with a broad overview of topics such as child pornography, the working conditions of porn professionals, Web 2.0 cultures, extreme imagery, image rating, and insights into the online ‘swinging’ world. So let’s praise the researchers and blast the moralists!» (Geert Lovink, Dutch-Australian media theorist and net critic)Table of ContentsContents: Feona Attwood: Introduction: Porn Studies: From Social Problem to Cultural Practice – Stephen Maddison: Online Obscenity and Myths of Freedom: Dangerous Images, Child Porn, and Neoliberalism – Adam Stapleton: Child Pornography: Classifications and Conceptualizations – David Slayden: Debbie Does Dallas Again and Again: Pornography, Technology, and Market Innovation – Sharif Mowlabocus: Porn 2.0? Technology, Social Practice, and the New Online Porn Industry – Feona Attwood: «Younger, paler, decidedly less straight»: The New Porn Professionals – Sanna Härmä/Joakim Stolpe: Behind the Scenes of Straight Pleasure – Steven Jones: Horrorporn/Pornhorror: The Problematic Communities and Contexts of Online Shock Imagery – Susanna Paasonen: Good Amateurs: Erotica Writing and Notions of Quality – Jennifer Moorman: Gay for Pay, Gay For(e)play: The Politics of Taxonomy and Authenticity in LGBTQ Online Porn – Simon Lindgren: Widening the Glory Hole: The Discourse of Online Porn Fandom – Katrien Jacobs: The New World Dream and the Female Itch: Sex Blogging and Lolita Costume Play in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China – Dennis D. Waskul/Cheryl L. Radeloff: «How Do I Rate?»: Web Sites and Gendered Erotic Looking Glasses – Alison Rooke/Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa: Beyond «Key Parties» and «Wife Swapping»: The Visual Culture of Online Swinging – Feona Attwood: Conclusion: Toward the Study of Online Porn Cultures and Practices.

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Book SynopsisWhat is virtuosity? Is it an innate gift or can it be taught? How does it manifest in music, dance, or drama, and by what criteria? What does it take to become a virtuoso/a; what are the odds of success? And ultimately, at what price? Examining the concept of virtuosity in multiple perspectives, this book helps to answer those questions and many more. V. A. Howard traces virtuosity from its historical roots to philosophical and psychological learning theory to the rigours of professional training and shows how high level performers are made, marketed, and sold by those who broker talent as a commodity. Critics and theorists will find this book comprehensive and illuminating. And for that vast group of budding aspirants (and their mentors) who desire to make it, to figure out where they are going, how far and why, the insights contained herein are key to survival. No dance or drama studio, regional theatre, music school, or conservatory can afford to ignore this hard look at the reTrade Review«V. A. Howard’s book is acute and anecdotal at the same time – generous with arguments, but also with examples from the real world. I think anyone eager to make a life in the performing arts will want to read it because it really concerns itself with the kind of education they should have and the kind of life they can expect. It is his view that virtuosity is not just an innate gift, but something that needs to be nurtured, and in that connection he offers something rather rare in philosophical books: real wisdom, helpful advice.» (Arthur C. Danto, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University) «In ‘Charm and Speed’, V. A. Howard shares his astute analysis of virtuosity with considerable charm and just the right pace to keep things interesting.» (David N. Perkins, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education) «The philosophical analyses are undergirded by the author’s nuanced feel for the actualities of performance based on his own experience as a singer and audience member and on his extraordinarily rich historical knowledge of the lives and practices of great artists and their teachers – all of which he uses in masterful (and often amusing) fashion to illustrate his more abstract philosophical analyses. ‘Charm and Speed’ is the most profound, most complete, most engagingly written treatment of virtuoso performance artistry and of the multiple issues that intersect with it I have read. Until now, virtuosity has not received much attention from philosophers and art critics. This landmark work rights the balance. It offers an original and wonderfully coherent account of virtuosity which should allow musicians, dancers, painters, sculptors, and other performance artists, and their varied audiences, to talk more sensibly and clearly to each other about what it is that great artists achieve in their work. ‘Charm and Speed’ will be an invaluable intellectual resource and guide for all of them.» (Thomas Ewens, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Rhode Island School of Design)

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Book SynopsisIt is remarkable how often we consider certain constructs in other peoples' worldview to be myths, while in our own case we regard equally arbitrary assumptions as inherent to the nature of things. As every anthropologist knows, one's most cherished cultural assumptions tend to remain implicit; in other words, worldview is largely unconscious. This book explores the possibility of plumbing obscure aspects of one's own culture in order to assess what some might call (regarding other cultures) the mythic underpinnings of worldview. Seven explorations in folklore and ethnography exhume a conceptual heritage that still influences perception, albeit in unconscious ways. This archeology of intangible heritage provides the sort of break in intellectual routine that allows us to look anew at familiar things.

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Book SynopsisWhy are you speaking, what is your purpose, your topic? Who comprises your audience and how will they be affected by your message? How will they react? What are supporting materials, where does one find them, and how does one incorporate them into presentations? These questions and more are addressed in this accessible introduction to public speaking. The reader will learn all the tools of giving an effective public presentation, including how to put a speech together, how to choose supporting materials, and strategies for how one should look, sound, and act while delivering a speech. The book addresses different types of speeches and provides suggestions for how to cope with the fear of public speaking and how to turn that fear to one's advantage. Practical and useful, Public Speaking: A Concise Overview for the Twenty-first Century is a roadmap that helps its readers navigate the challenges of effectively conveying thoughts, ideas, and messages from one person to an

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Book SynopsisNation, Race & History in Asian American Literature reflects on the symbolic processes through which the United States constitutes its subjects as citizens, connecting such processes to the global dynamics of empire building and a suppressed history of American imperialism. Through a comparative analysis of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging, and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, this study considers the ways in which bodies challenge the categories asserted in nation-building. The book proposes that underwritten by the vast histories of American imperial migrations, there are texts and bodies which challenge and reconstitute the ever-vexed definition of American. In re-membering such bodies, Maria C. Zamora proclaims our bodies as actual living texts, texts that are constantly bearing, contesting, and transforming meaning. Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature will engage scholars interested in cultural and Trade Review«With haunting eloquence, Maria C. Zamora argues for ‘the sway of the figurative regime’ over the material body that is, at once, elusive, irreducible and transformative. Reading gendered, sexualized, and raced bodies as living texts in canonical Asian American works, Zamora compellingly re-maps American national identity through these unwieldy but spectacular literary and bodily texts located at the geopolitical margins of United States empire.» (Allan Punzalan Isaac, Associate Professor of American Studies and English, Rutgers University, Author of ‘American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America’)

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Book SynopsisBody Knowledge and Curriculum examines student understandings of body knowledge in the context of creating and interrogating visual art and culture. It illustrates a six-month research study conducted in an alternative secondary school in a large urban city. During the research project, students created a number of visual art works using a diversity of material explorations as a means to think through the body as a process of exchange and as a bodied encounter. The book engages with feminist theories of touch and inter-embodiment, questioning the materiality and lived experiences of the body in knowledge production, in order to provoke different ways of theorizing self/other relations in teaching and learning. This volume is important because it explores the ways in which youth understand the complex, textured, and often contradictory discourses of body knowledge, and seeks to intentionally create alternative pedagogical and curricular practices to ones that subscribe to a healtTrade Review«Deleuzian philosophy is revolutionary, inviting us to think of our lives in terms of a series of encounters that open us up to difference, to the possibility of becoming a new society, a new people. He was interested in how the arts might play a role in the processes he envisaged. Stephanie Springgay has taken up that challenge in this book, showing us how educational encounters with students in the art classroom open teachers and students to new ways of thinking and being that emerge through the creation of their own art works. As an a/r/tographer, that is, as artist, researcher, and teacher documenting her work with students and their art teacher, Springgay uses the concepts Deleuze invented for this revolutionary work to rethink education practice and philosophy in a way that is at once engaging, entertaining and inspiring.» (Bronwyn Davies, Professor of Education, Narrative, Discourse, and Pedagogy, College Research Group, University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus) «‘Body Knowledge and Curriculum’ is just the kind of theory and practice text the fields of art education, arts-based research, and curriculum theory need and deserve. In this work, Stephanie Springgay demonstrates why she is among the preeminent scholars in arts-based research and exemplifies the arts-based methodology – a/r/tography. ‘Body Knowledge and Curriculum’ places at the center of consideration the engaged translations of theory within practice. Springgay weaves them together as mutually informative discourses and makes this difficult task accessible. Based on a six-month study in an alternative secondary school, Springgay renders explicit what can be done when students and educators work from mutual positions of respect and a desire for exploration.» (B. Stephen Carpenter II, Associate Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning & Culture, College of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University)

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of The Responsible Reporter gives practical advice to beginning journalism students on how to be socially responsible reporters in the new digital landscape of news gathering and dissemination. The book provides specific insights into the ethical and legal challenges of reporting in this new online environment; the history of responsible reporting in America; and instructions on how to report and edit news while maintaining journalistic integrity. The many content areas addressed include: - public affairs - international reporting - science and technology - crime and law enforcement - the arts and entertainment - features - business and finance - broadcasting - health and medicine - religion and moral issues - literary journalism - sports The book is designed as an introductory text for journalism courses but would also be useful for related classes such as magazine and feature writing, principles of journalisTrade Review«Bruce J. Evensen has put together a masterful book. ‘The Responsible Reporter’ epitomizes what a text on writing and reporting should be. It provides superb insight into the writing and reporting process; offers important historical perspective; and best of all, it’s well-written. The fact that so many respected contributing authors are included here – people such as Fred Blevens, Dave Davies, Janice Hume, John Pauly, and Sam Riley – is a reflection of the book’s excellence. Students will enjoy and benefit from this book.» (Mike Murray, University of Missouri Board of Curators’ Distinguished Professor; Author of ‘Media Law and Ethics’) «Media content is created by people who have many professional and practical decisions to make. In examining the ways today’s journalists gather and process news, this informative and wide-ranging book illuminates the kinds of thinking and writing reporters must master to do their vitally important work well.» (Jeffrey A. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) «Future journalists need the message of this book: keep democracy strong. ‘The Responsible Reporter’ is written with passion, intelligence, and a compelling call to serve public life through accurate, balanced, fair, and thoroughly researched story-telling. Authors model the quality of writing that keeps us wanting more.» (Mark Fackler, Professor, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan) «Bruce J. Evensen’s latest edition of ‘The Responsible Reporter’ is a cure for the benighted who say journalists have lost their sense of true North. The third edition can be subtle but its intellectual undertow will pull readers into greater ethical strength. His collection of some of the finest thinkers on news reporting in the Information Age lead the reader to one conclusion: Journalism is a high calling and more important today than ever. An added bonus is the prose is a joy to read and may help this generation of journalists and the next one write better because they are better for reading mature thoughts from mature models.» (Michael R. Smith, Chair, Department of Mass Communication, Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina) «I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the key role of journalism in a democratic society. This is a book that focuses – in a very modern way – on key themes of social responsibility, examining the way journalists can – and must – serve society. News is at the center of self-governance; the guiding principle of this wonderful book is the idea that journalists must rise to the challenge of a crowded news/infotainment era by continuing to provide key information to citizens/readers/viewers. This book reminds us that journalism is central to democratic self-governance, and that journalists have a great opportunity – and responsibility – to make sure we have the news we need. This book reminds us that journalists today need to adapt, and adapt quickly, if they are to continue to be relevant, and if they are to continue to provide news and information so central to democratic self government. Americans today face a dizzying array of news sources (and fake news sources); the burden is on journalists to make sure that the vital news of the day is presented – and is presented in a way that citizens will absorb. Journalists, as the authors point out, need to take seriously their obligation to research and report the news that makes a civil society possible. This is a ‘must read’ for anyone who values democracy.» (Gerald J. Baldasty, Chair, Department of Communication, University of Washington) «Bruce Evensen is a professional with solid foreign reporting experience (ITable of ContentsContents: Bruce J. Evensen: What’s New in the News – Bruce J. Evensen: A History of Responsible Reporting - Janan Hanna: Sidebar: Responsible Reporting and the Law – Frederick R. Blevens: The Digital World and Responsible Reporting - Amy Schmitz Weiss: Sidebar: Collaborative Newsgathering - Art Golab: Sidebar: Data Base Reporting – Catherine Cassara-Jemai: Sourcing and Interviewing - Steve Smith: Sidebar: Interviewing – Bruce C. Swaffield: Going Online - Scott L. Powers: Sidebar: Arts and Entertainment Reporting – Shayla Thiel-Stern: Assembling an Online Story - James L. Aucoin: Sidebar: Investigative Reporting – David R. Davies: Beat Reporting and Community News - Carolyn S. Carlson: Sidebar: Covering Crime and Law Enforcement - Trace Regan: Sidebar: Reporting Race and Ethnicity - Sonny Rhodes: Sidebar: Science and Technology Reporting – Ann O’Data Lawson: Covering Speeches and Press Conferences - Lisa Pecot-Hebert: Sidebar: Covering Meetings - Ari L. Goldman: Sidebar: Reporting Religion and Moral Issues – Bruce J. Evensen: Writing the Lead - Edmund Lawler: Sidebar: Business and Finance Reporting – Mike Conklin: Writing a Newspaper Story - Debra A. Schwartz: Sidebar: Reporting National News - Lee Sillars: Sidebar: Reporting International News – Sandra Ellis: Writing and Reporting Radio News - Bruce J. Evensen: Sidebar: Creating a Broadcast Sound – David Marshall: Writing and Reporting Television News - Bruce J. Evensen: Sidebar: Creating a Broadcast Style – Sonny Rhodes: Feature Writing - Sam G. Riley: Sidebar: Commentary and Column Writing - Mike Conklin: Sidebar: Sports Reporting - Janice Hume: Sidebar: Writing the Obituary – James Martin: Writing for Magazines - John J. Pauly: Sidebar: Literary Journalism – David Copeland: Rewriting and Editing - Holly Shreve Gilbert: Sidebar: Health and Medicine Reporting - Shawn Murphy: Sidebar: Weekly Reporting.

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Book SynopsisWriting Tangier discusses an array of topics relating to the literature on Tangier from the seventeenth century to the present. Major questions include: Why has Tangier come to play an important role in contemporary world literary history as a signifier in the literary imagination; what is the nature of the inter-textual output produced through Paul Bowles' translations of the oral tales of a circle of uneducated storytellers (including Mohammed Mrabet and Larbi Layachi) and the text (For Bread Alone) brought to Bowles by the literate Mohamed Choukri; how do academics, artists, and writers who have been based in the city or who have written about it assess the various socio-economic, political, and cultural factors that have shaped its cultural production and the relationship of this production to the celebrated hybrid aspects of its identity; does the success of the literature of Tangier reflect a truly new multicultural cosmopolitanism, or does it stem from the fact thaTable of ContentsContents: Khalid Amine/Andrew Hussey: A Preface – Ralph M. Coury: Some Introductory Remarks – Allen Hibbard: Tangier at the Crossroads: Cross-cultural Encounters and Literary Production – Jeffrey Miller: Publishing Tangier: Twenty-five Years – Salah Moukhlis: Localized Identity, Universal Experience: Celebrating Mohamed Choukri as a Moroccan Writer – Andrew Hussey: Forbidden Territory: Juan Goytisolo’s Maps of Tangier – Abdellatif Akbib: Bankruptcy in Mohamed Choukri’s The Flower Freak – Khalid Amine: Paul Bowles’ Tangier: An Ambiguous Compromise – R. Kevin Lacey: The Writers/Storytellers of Morocco and Paul Bowles: Some Observations and Afterthoughts – Barry Tharaud: Culture and Existence in Bowles’ Short Fiction – Greg Mullins: Visions and Revisions of Paul Bowles in Tangier – Ralph M. Coury: The Twain Met: Paul Bowles’ Western and Arab Critics – Karim Bejjit: Tangier That Was: The Confessions of Samuel Pepys (1683) – Mohammed-Saâd Zemmouri : Tanger, ville-mythe dans le discours romanesque de deux écrivains tangérois (M. Choukri and T. Ben Jelloun) – José Manuel Goñi Pérez: Las construcciones verbales de Tánger: tres ejemplos de la narrativa española.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in Disguise, Deception, Trompe-l'œil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives investigate the subject of deception and falsehood from various perspectives. Classical, modernist and postmodern texts and art forms, both visual and performative, are examined in frames of reference that range from aesthetics and literary theory to cognitive science. In some cases, deception and falsehood are seen to have positive connotations, and, in other cases, their negative dimensions are highlighted. The complexity of these terms and their relationship with truth and truthfulness are put on display by the contributors to this volume.Table of ContentsContents: Roberto Nickel: Disguising Helen: The Polymorphous Wife in the Odyssey – Carol U. Merriam: The Seductiveness of Deception: Ovid’s Advice to Lovers – Sally Hickson: More than Meets the Eye: Giulio Romano, Federico II Gonzaga, and the Triumph of Trompe-l’œil at the Palazzo del Te in Mantu – John Picchione: Baroque Poetry in Italy: Deception, Illusion, and Epistemological Shifts – Vincent Francavilla: The Masks of Comedy: A General Theory Applied to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Albert N. Katz: On the Science and Art of Sarcasm – Catherine Parayre: Panoramic Trompe-l’œil: C’était tout une vie, by François Bon – Brian Lightbody: Leaving the Island of Cyclops: Practicing an «Aural» Genealogy within the Surrealist Community of Fellowship – Michael Berman: Deception of the Self in Zamyatin’s We – Tamara El-Hoss: Veiling/Unveiling in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s The Sacred Sand Child: Disguise and Deception of the Female Protagonist – Jeannette Gaudet: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Marie Redonnet’s Candy Store and Nevermore – Richard Smolinski: Matthew Barney’s Strategic and Critical Disguises: Cremaster 3 and Masculine Performativity – Maurice Yacowar: Famous Film Failures - or Our Lapse in «Poetic Faith» – R. Bruce Elder: Deception as Aggression: Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou – Catherine Heard: Uneasy Associations: Wax Bodies Outside the Canon – Linda Carreiro: What Lies Beneath: The Female Anatomy Flap Revealed – Rebekah Zwanzig: Why Must God Show Himself in Disguise? An Exploration of Sufism within Farid Attar’s «The Conference of the Birds» – Anna Ghiglione: Deception in Chinese Buddhist Thinking: Reflections from the Lotus Sūtra and the Vimalakīrti Sūtra.

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Book SynopsisA Maeterlinck Reader is a compilation of plays, poems, essays, short stories and aphorisms by one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, Maurice Maeterlinck. The editors have included, in fresh translations that convey Maeterlinck's revolutionary innovations in theatrical language, selections that show facets both exemplary and extraordinary of this Nobel Prize winning author, the Missing Link of Modern Drama.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores âyoung adultâ fictions â stories about being young, staying young and sometimes never wanting to grow up. Looking at controversial novels by Francesca Lia Block, at sex and âraceâ in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and at the online world of fans and censors, Chris Richards argues that attempts to classify and regulate what counts as âyoung adultâ have failed, and shows how youth â as intense, exciting and tormented â draws audiences unconstrained by age. Throughout the book, the narratives of life as lived by the young emerge as the stuff of the âselfâ â made and remade in reading, watching and listening. Fascinating and accessible, Forever Young will be of particular interest to students and teachers concerned with contemporary popular culture in cultural, media, literature and education studies courses.Trade Review«Once again, Chris Richards shows us why cultural studies matters. A pioneer in every sense, Richards has been working the intersections between media studies and education for several years now, opening up unexplored and exciting vistas in and across each. In this book, Richards turns his sharp, critical eye to the complexities of on- and off-line literary productions – a topic he takes on with characteristic rigor and flair. I cannot recommend this book highly enough!» (Greg Dimitriadis, University at Buffalo, State University of New York) «Chris Richards complicates common sense definitions of ‘adolescence’, and provides a welcome contribution to current debates within and outside of the field of education around the relationship between real and imagined youth and popular cultural narratives.» (Elizabeth Marshall, Simon Fraser University)

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Book SynopsisVoices of Marginality is theoretically grounded in the theology of the diaspora, which according to Fernando F. Segovia has been forged in the migratory experience of American Hispanics. This theological perspective views Judean exiles (587 B.C.E.) and contemporary Mexican migrants as part of a recurring diasporic human experience. The present analysis reads across from the exile and return envisioned in the poetry of Second Isaiah (40-55) to the corridos (ballads) about Mexican immigration to the United States. More specifically, the diasporic categories of exile and return in Second Isaiah inform our reading of exile and return in the Mexican immigrant corridos. Conversely, the rhetorical ability of these corridos to transmit a collective Mexican identity for immigrants in the United States provides a compelling lens for understanding the images of exile and return in Second Isaiah. Ultimately, both literary productions reflect voices of marginality.

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Book SynopsisArt mirrors life; life returns the favor. How could nineteenth and twentieth century technologies foster both the change in the world view generally called postmodernism and the development of new art forms? Scholar and curator Faye Ran shows how interactions of art and technology led to cultural changes and the evolution of Installation art as a genre unto itself â a fascinating hybrid of expanded sculpture in terms of context, site, and environment, and expanded theatre in terms of performer, performance, and public.Trade Review«Faye Ran’s book, ‘A History of Installation Art and the Development of New Art Forms’, speaks to the essential physical reality of our existence (....). When we tire of web pages, a street with a café, a store, or a museum can be an oasis. This book and its insights into Installation art can tell us how to make the most of it.» (Paul Levinson, Ph.D., Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, New York) «By synthesizing disparate and often difficult strands of theory and evidence in an accessible manner, this book is bound to become a key text in the field for scholars and researchers alike. It offers a clear historical overview of artistic developments and particularly recent trends towards Installation art that are often made unnecessarily obscure and fragmented by the competing claims of critics.» (Marius Kwint, Ph.D., Art History Department, Oxford University, England)

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Book SynopsisNational Trauma in Postdictatorship Latin American Literature: Chile and Argentina examines the traumatic experiences of Chile and Argentina under authoritarian regimes and argues that in order for postdictatorship countries to successfully implement transitions to democracy, they must confront the past. This book employs the research of psychologists Bessel van der Kolk, Judith Herman, Donald Dutton, Elizabeth Loftus, and Cathy Caruth, in order to better understand the emotional and psychological effects of national trauma in the works of Chileans Diamela Eltit and Ariel Dorfman, and Argentines Ricardo Piglia and Griselda Gambaro. The themes and characters transcend national boundaries the abuse, torture, paranoia, anguish, and shame are common to all human beings oppressed by tyranny. The inclusion of theater is necessary in global times for the art of drama has the power to ignite a repressed consciousness to emerge and contribute to progress and change. National Trauma i

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Book SynopsisIn much recent theory, the media are described as ephemeral, ubiquitous, and de-localized. Yet the activity of modern media can be traced to spatial centers that are tangible enough some even monumental. This book offers multidisciplinary and historical perspectives on the buildings of some of the world's major media institutions. Paradoxically, as material and aesthetic manifestations of mediated centers of power, they provide sites to the siteless and solidity to the immaterial. The authors analyse the ways that architectural form and organization reflect different eras, media technologies, ideologies, and relations with the public in media houses from New York and Silicon Valley to London, Moscow, and Beijing.Trade Review«The fascinating studies of the architecture of ‘media houses’ – the head-office buildings of powerful media corporations – brought together in this edited book, make a strikingly original contribution to current debates about the power of so-called ‘central media’. Together they are a significant addition to our understanding of the ways in which the spaces and places of central media institutions contribute to defining the common, globalized world of the early twenty-first century. A ‘must-read’ for all of us concerned with global media today.» (Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan) «This collection follows a wonderfully original pathway to understanding media: through the buildings that house them. The book offers a harvest of insight about the historical and cultural footprint of media by reading the built environments of media institutions in a diverse array of nations, styles, and moments.» (John Durham Peters, University of Iowa)«The fascinating studies of the architecture of ‘media houses’ – the head-office buildings of powerful media corporations – brought together in this edited book, make a strikingly original contribution to current debates about the power of so-called ‘central media’. Together they are a significant addition to our understanding of the ways in which the spaces and places of central media institutions contribute to defining the common, globalized world of the early twenty-first century. A ‘must-read’ for all of us concerned with global media today.» (Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan) «This collection follows a wonderfully original pathway to understanding media: through the buildings that house them. The book offers a harvest of insight about the historical and cultural footprint of media by reading the built environments of media institutions in a diverse array of nations, styles, and moments.» (John Durham Peters, University of Iowa)Table of ContentsContents: Staffan Ericson/Kristina Riegert/Patrik Åker: Introduction – Staffan Ericson: The Interior of the Ubiquitous: Broadcasting House, London – Kristina Riegert: The End of the Iconic Home of Empire: Pondering the Move of the BBC World Service from Bush House – Patrik Åker: Ostankino TV Tower, Moscow: An Obsession with Space – Peter Jakobsson/Fredrik Stiernstedt: Googleplex and Informational Culture – Shannon Mattern: Edge Blending: Light, Crystalline Fluidity, and the Materiality of New Media at Gehry’s IAC Headquarters – Sven-Olov Wallenstein: Looping Ideology: The CCTV Center in Beijing – Helena Mattsson: Real TV: Architecture as Social Media.

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Book SynopsisIn much recent theory, the media are described as ephemeral, ubiquitous, and de-localized. Yet the activity of modern media can be traced to spatial centers that are tangible enough some even monumental. This book offers multidisciplinary and historical perspectives on the buildings of some of the world's major media institutions. Paradoxically, as material and aesthetic manifestations of mediated centers of power, they provide sites to the siteless and solidity to the immaterial. The authors analyse the ways that architectural form and organization reflect different eras, media technologies, ideologies, and relations with the public in media houses from New York and Silicon Valley to London, Moscow, and Beijing.Trade Review«The fascinating studies of the architecture of ‘media houses’ – the head-office buildings of powerful media corporations – brought together in this edited book, make a strikingly original contribution to current debates about the power of so-called ‘central media’. Together they are a significant addition to our understanding of the ways in which the spaces and places of central media institutions contribute to defining the common, globalized world of the early twenty-first century. A ‘must-read’ for all of us concerned with global media today.» (Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan) «This collection follows a wonderfully original pathway to understanding media: through the buildings that house them. The book offers a harvest of insight about the historical and cultural footprint of media by reading the built environments of media institutions in a diverse array of nations, styles, and moments.» (John Durham Peters, University of Iowa)«The fascinating studies of the architecture of ‘media houses’ – the head-office buildings of powerful media corporations – brought together in this edited book, make a strikingly original contribution to current debates about the power of so-called ‘central media’. Together they are a significant addition to our understanding of the ways in which the spaces and places of central media institutions contribute to defining the common, globalized world of the early twenty-first century. A ‘must-read’ for all of us concerned with global media today.» (Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan) «This collection follows a wonderfully original pathway to understanding media: through the buildings that house them. The book offers a harvest of insight about the historical and cultural footprint of media by reading the built environments of media institutions in a diverse array of nations, styles, and moments.» (John Durham Peters, University of Iowa)Table of ContentsContents: Staffan Ericson/Kristina Riegert/Patrik Åker: Introduction – Staffan Ericson: The Interior of the Ubiquitous: Broadcasting House, London – Kristina Riegert: The End of the Iconic Home of Empire: Pondering the Move of the BBC World Service from Bush House – Patrik Åker: Ostankino TV Tower, Moscow: An Obsession with Space – Peter Jakobsson/Fredrik Stiernstedt: Googleplex and Informational Culture – Shannon Mattern: Edge Blending: Light, Crystalline Fluidity, and the Materiality of New Media at Gehry’s IAC Headquarters – Sven-Olov Wallenstein: Looping Ideology: The CCTV Center in Beijing – Helena Mattsson: Real TV: Architecture as Social Media.

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Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, Entertainment & Politics is an essential text for understanding how young people acquire and hold political beliefs over time. In this updated and expanded edition, the author reaches beyond the U.S., including research on Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland to investigate a broader international picture of the effect the entertainment media has on the socio-political beliefs of young people. The book examines the many ways that the entertainment media influence young people, and the extent to which young people's beliefs differ from those of their parents, teachers, and peers. Findings indicate that media's influence does not fit into neat conservative and left/liberal patterns, but interacts with parental and peer influence in heretofore unexamined ways. This up-to-date text is designed for undergraduates, graduate students, professors, and interested lay readers.Trade Review«For decades, scholars have speculated on the political impact of popular culture. ‘Entertainment & Politics’ provides us with evidence. Solidly grounded in theory and methods, this breakthrough book, which extends the findings of the first edition through comparative analysis, belongs on the reading list of every scholar and student of media effects, political socialization, and popular culture.» (Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard University)

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Book SynopsisIn light of current and projected demographic changes in the U.S., this book examines the attention paid to Latina/o youth from mainstream media conglomerates and the subsequent impact of this attention. In-depth interviews conducted within a family setting provide a rare glimpse into respondents' media consumption patterns and process of reception, and explain the ways in which the media are woven into their daily lives. The book critiques the tendency of mainstream media to reify and contain a Latina/o identity that is then sold back to youth in ways that limit Latino/a agency. Throughout the interviews, young people articulate a hybrid identity highlighting their bicultural experiences. Listening to Latina/o Youth ultimately recommends opening up the possibilities of representation to encourage the acceptance of new voices that challenge the current modes of media production.Trade Review«Whether you are a Latina/o or not, Kristin C. Moran’s accessible and engaging book offers you a lively and valuable entree into the world of media and culture, the mediating role of the family, and what it means to juggle identities for those growing up in today’s multi-cultural world.» (Dafna Lemish, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Editor of ‘Journal of Children and Media’)«Whether you are a Latina/o or not, Kristin C. Moran’s accessible and engaging book offers you a lively and valuable entree into the world of media and culture, the mediating role of the family, and what it means to juggle identities for those growing up in today’s multi-cultural world.» (Dafna Lemish, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Editor of ‘Journal of Children and Media’)

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Book SynopsisIn light of current and projected demographic changes in the U.S., this book examines the attention paid to Latina/o youth from mainstream media conglomerates and the subsequent impact of this attention. In-depth interviews conducted within a family setting provide a rare glimpse into respondents' media consumption patterns and process of reception, and explain the ways in which the media are woven into their daily lives. The book critiques the tendency of mainstream media to reify and contain a Latina/o identity that is then sold back to youth in ways that limit Latino/a agency. Throughout the interviews, young people articulate a hybrid identity highlighting their bicultural experiences. Listening to Latina/o Youth ultimately recommends opening up the possibilities of representation to encourage the acceptance of new voices that challenge the current modes of media production.Trade Review«Whether you are a Latina/o or not, Kristin C. Moran’s accessible and engaging book offers you a lively and valuable entree into the world of media and culture, the mediating role of the family, and what it means to juggle identities for those growing up in today’s multi-cultural world.» (Dafna Lemish, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Editor of ‘Journal of Children and Media’)«Whether you are a Latina/o or not, Kristin C. Moran’s accessible and engaging book offers you a lively and valuable entree into the world of media and culture, the mediating role of the family, and what it means to juggle identities for those growing up in today’s multi-cultural world.» (Dafna Lemish, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Editor of ‘Journal of Children and Media’)

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Book SynopsisGiorgio Vasari's Prefaces: Art and Theory provides students and scholars alike with the opportunity to study and understand the art, theory, and visual culture of Giorgio Vasari and sixteenth century Italy. For the first time all of Vasari's Prefaces from the Lives of the Artists (1568) are included translated into English as well as in the original Italian. Also included is an English translation of Giovanni Battista Adriani's letter to Giorgio Vasari enlightening Vasari on the art of the ancient masters. Through the eyes of Vasari, this book captures the creative achievements of his fellow artists how they adopt nature and the classical tradition as their muses and how they ingeniously interpret the secular and religious themes of the past and present. Vasari himself is lauded for the transformation of the artist from one of being a mere laborer to one who imbues his work with intellectual depth and is recognized as a creator of beautiful visual myths.

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Book SynopsisThis book undertakes a detailed reading of Robert Kroetsch's The Studhorse Man, examining this Canadian novel in its transnational historical and socio-cultural context. Key subject headings are biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing and reading. The overarching theme is disenchanted modernity in the twentieth-century, the systematic displacement of the divine and natural order by a humanly ordained social regime, and by forms of social engineering that brought to bear the full force of modern science, invasively to alter the most fundamental conditions of human life. The more immediate literary frames of reference are Greek mythology, early Christian debates on the body and marriage, and the lore of the North American Aboriginal trickster, as these are deployed and alluded to in Kroetsch's novel. In establishing the sources and contexts of The Studhorse Man, this study examines Robert Kroetsch's early drafts of the novel, and his many no

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Book SynopsisThis book is the broad application of queer theories to the original plays of the contemporary Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness, the only author in Ireland to consistently utilize gay and lesbian themes in his writing. McGuinness continually represents sexual difference in his character development in a way that previous Irish authors have not. In particular McGuinness portrays homosexual protagonists in his dramas, allowing the queer the narrative prerogative, not merely a secondary role in the formation of theatrical perspective. Often it is the homosexual who tells the story or alters the plot through his or her alternative perspective. This book not only analyzes the queer in McGuinness's work, but also contributes to a widening of the conversation and criticism on Irish theatre in general. Its implementation of the internationally recognized paradigm of analysis, queer theory, is cutting-edge in its contribution to the general field of Irish studies as well. As a result of its

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Book SynopsisThe twenty-four essays in Rewriting Texts Remaking Images: Interdisciplinary Perspectives examine the complex relationships between original creative works and subsequent versions of these originals, from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives. The process involves the rereading, reinterpretation, and rediscovery of literary texts, paintings, photographs, and films, as well as the consideration of issues pertaining to adaptation, intertextuality, transcodification, ekphrasis, parody, translation, and revision. The interdisciplinary analyses consider works from classical antiquity to the present day, in a number of literatures, and include such topics as the reuse and resemantization of photographs and iconic images.Table of ContentsContents: Anderson Araujo: «Pictures and Voices»: Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas as Anti-archive – Rohini Bannerjee: Diasporas of Pain: Re-discovery and Re-writing of Mauritian History in Natacha Appanah’s Novel Le dernier frère – Jean-Pierre De Villers: Rediscovering the First Manifesto of Futurism of F.T. Marinetti: From the First Manifesto to the Invention of the Avant-Garde – François Foley: Re-constructing Akhenaten: The Many Faces of a Pharaoh in Naguib Mahfouz’s Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth – Lindsay Kaplan: The Political Artist: Picasso’s Wartime Production and Wartime’s Production of Picasso – Anne Urbancic: The Invasion of Belgium (1914): Memory and the Re-writing of History – John Baird: Re-writing Waverley: History and Secret History in Thackeray’s Henry Esmond – Anton Jansen: Heracles and Friendship in Euripedes and T.S. Eliot – Carol Merriam: Re-writing Grief: Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Recrafting of Ancient Poetry of Grief and Loss – Roberto Nickel: Recovering Paris: From the Erotic to the Heroic – Kate O’Neill: Re-writing the Colonial Experience: Robertson Davies’ Use of Parody in Tempest-Tost – Sébastien Roldan: Out of Ahab and into Dean’s Car: A Comparative Study of Two Literary Vehicles – Andrew Stubbs: «Writing as Re-vision»: Time, Space, and the (Re)Making of Mrs. Bentley in Sinclair Ross, Lorna Crozier, and Dennis Cooley – Elizabeth C. D’Angelo: Subjection and the Creation of the Subject: Negotiating a Dissident Identity in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer – R. Bruce Elder: On Being a Modern Poet – J. Douglas Kneale: The Translation of the Feelings: Ekphrasis in the Work of W.G. Sebald – Catherine J. Manning: «The Goddess Seemed More Savage than Was Fair» - Erotic Encounters in Titian’s Diana and Actaeon – Catherine Parayre: About(disfigured)faces: Sophie Calle’s Suite Vénitienne and W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz – Alla Boldina/Michael De Vito: Virginia Woolf’s «The Lady in the Looking-Glass»: The Image of Simulated Illusion – Marzia Caporale: «We are not in Hollywood anymore»: Female Representation and Spatial Relations in Jacques Doillon’s Film Raja – Catherine Heard: Unspeakable Anatomies – Brian Lightbody: Re-writing the Script of Power: A Celebration of the Artifactual – Nancy Pedri: The Forbidden Narratives of Looking: Photography and the Anxiety of Self-Representation – Rosa Saverino: Autobiography, Photography, and Intertextuality: Rewriting Autobiography in Sophie Calle’s Double Game.

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Book SynopsisThe Story of the Mexican Screenplay: A Study of the Invisible Art Form and Interviews with Women Screenwriters contributes to the international development of screenplay studies. While the debate on the ontology of the screenplay continues, a fact remains clear for screenwriters: the screenplay is the film's skeleton and the main base that sustains a story told through images. Certainly, lack of visibility, including publication, distribution, and promotion, are some of the problems that the screenplay confronts, but these are not the only challenges. Traditionally, the form has been unappreciated and regarded by many as only an initial step in the complexity of film production. In this study, the author elaborates on the cultural baggage that the screenplay carries since it is text imbued with multiple signs that for various reasons often get lost in the process and never make it to the screen. In this context, the author touches on the concept of adaptation since it is often

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Book SynopsisPrevious criticism has not adequately discussed oriental aspects of the content of Shakespearean drama. In addition to his portrayal of oriental figures (such as Cleopatra, Othello, and Shylock) and his use of literary genres and motifs that have roots in oriental tradition (such as that of the tragic romance in Romeo and Juliet, there are certain key elements in Shakespeare's thought and outlook that can only be properly understood within the larger contribution of the oriental legacy. This legacy has clear relevance not only to the exemplary fate of the lovers in Romeo and Juliet, but also to the destinies of such major Shakespearean heroes as Hamlet and Lear. Shakespeare, the Orient, and the Critics investigates the boundaries of oriental framework within works such as Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. Stylistically, at the heart of Shakespeare's orientalism are two long-recognized features of his dramatic art: his predilection for reversing ster

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Book SynopsisEl tema de la libertad ha sido uno de los más debatidos en la cultura cubana, sin embargo, hasta el momento no se ha estudiado como discurso, como instrumento impreciso y vulnerable a inconsistencias. Dentro y fuera de Cuba se prefiere hablar de libertad en relación a factores externos religión, política, derechos civiles. Esto explica por qué tantos de los que abordan este tema de las letras cubanas se han mantenido ajenos a las contradicciones propias del mismo. Libertad en cadenas explora los orígenes y trayectoria de las ideas de la libertad que mayor impacto han tenido en la cultura cubana a fin de llamar la atención sobre las aporías inherentes a una serie de discursos mítico-religiosos, teológicos, filosóficos, políticos, fílmicos, literarios desde principios del siglo diecinueve hasta hoy. Al igual que en el resto de América Latina, donde figuras como Borges o Paz han confrontado de manera directa y auto-consciente estas dificultades propias de los discursos sobre lib

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