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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975 is the first publication to deal with the postwar avant-garde in the Nordic countries. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, architecture and design, film, radio, television and the performative arts. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: The cultural politics, institutions and new cultural geographies after World War II, new technologies and media, performative strategies, interventions into everyday life and tensions between market and counterculture.Trade Review“The subseries’ emphasis on cultural history, rather than a narrower focus on art history, […] is particularly apt in a Nordic context, where a distinct set of model welfare states emerged in the twentieth century that helped generate funding, space, resources, and networks for, and public debates on, experimental arts, as these were deemed vital to the health and welfare of a modern democratic society. […] While the scope and heterogeneity of the volume is imposing, its thoughtful organization into seven coherent sections makes it an accessible, dynamic, and useful scholarly reference work for anyone with an interest in avant-garde movements in, from, and including the Nordic region.” - Ursula Linqvist, Gustav Adolphus College, USA, in: Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research, 2017, pp. 193-198 "Serien A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries er utrolig viktig, både i seg selv og som en del av en økt oppmerksomhet rundt nordisk modernisme. I dette andre bindet, som strekker seg fra 1950 til 1975, får vi essays om nordisk kunst fra Öyvind Fahlström til den alternative Melodi Grand Prix. Blant de 85 (!) essayene beskrives Galleri Køpcke i København, Pistolteatern i Stockholm, De skandinaviske situasjonistene (selvfølgelig), Morten Krohgs periode som intendant på Kunstnernes Hus i Oslo, Lene Adler Pedersen og Bjørn Nørgaards kvinnelige kristus-performance på Børsen i København, Kjartan Slettemarks passprosjekt med portrettet til Nixon, og enormt mye annet. Når de to siste bindene foreligger vil vesentlige deler av det 20. århundres nordiske avantgarde være beskrevet i dette bokverket. [...] Den virkelige revolusjonen kommer imidlertid når dette blir pensum for kommende kunstnere og kunsthistorikere. Da vil endelig den Paris- og New York-sentrerte fortellingen om modernismen kunne erstattes med en bredere, global fortelling, der også Norden inngår." - Jonas Ekeberg, in: Kunstkritikk [www.kunstkritikk.dk/artikler/24-desember-jonas-ekeberg-2/]Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Tania Ørum The Post-War Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1. Paradigmatic Images of Scandinavia Jesper Olsson Politics & Play – The Impure Arts of Öyvind Fahlström Rune Gade The Female Christ at the Stock Exchange Tue Andersen Nexø Biological Avant-Garde – Inger Christensen’s det Birgitte Anderberg Images of Women Halldór Björn Runólfsson The Kitchen – An Offspring of Steina and Woody Vasulka 2. Cultural Politics and Institutions Christer Ekholm The Social Avant-Garde – The “Democratisation” of Literature in the Early 1960s in Sweden Tania Ørum Culture Wars in Denmark Annika Öhrner The Moderna Museet in Stockholm – The Institution and the Avant-Garde Sanne Krogh Groth The Fylkingen Concert Society, 1950–1975 Tania Ørum Self-Organisation in the Avant-Garde of the 1960s Fred Andersson Åke Hodell’s Kerberos –A Case Study Kari Brandtzæg Morten Krohg and Art’s Oppositional Role Sanne Krogh Groth EMS – Elektronmusik Studio in Stockholm Thomas Hvid Kroman Sub-Publications from a Basement in Snaregade 6, Copenhagen – Arena Sub-Pub (1969–1970) Dossier/Little Magazines Þröstur Helgason An Open Field of Play and Experimentation – The Little Magazine Birtingur Jesper Olsson Tvångs-Blandaren – Stuff in a Box Jesper Olsson Rondo and Gorilla – Magazine and Calendar Thomas Hvid Kromann Against Restrictions and Exclusions – For Expansion and Inclusions – The Little Magazine ta’ (1967–1968) Thomas Hvid Kromann A Time Capsule from the Sixties – The Little Magazine ta’ BOX (1969–1970) Thomas Hvid Kromann In the Service of the Revolution – The Little Magazine MAK (1969–1970) Sissel Furuseth Profil 1966–1969 – Triumph and Crisis of the Collective 3. New Cultural Geographies Harri Veivo Christian Dotremont’s Logogrammes and Logoneiges – European Avant-Garde Inspired by Lapland Anna Jóhannsdóttir Exile, Correspondence, Rebellion – Tracing the Interactive Relationship between Iceland and Dieter Roth Anneli Fuchs Galerie Køpcke – An Artist-Run Gallery in Copenhagen, 1958–1962 Søren Møller Sørensen Action Music! – Nam June Paik in Scandinavia, 1961 Árni Heimir Ingólfsson Clothing Irons and Whisky Bottles – Creating an Icelandic Musical Avant-Garde Danielle Kvaran Erró, or the Porousness of Borders Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen The Situationist Offensive in Scandinavia Halldór Björn Runólfsson SÚM – The Flux in Iceland Peter van der Meijden Fluxus, Eric Andersen and the Communist East Janna Kantola Making Choices – Debatable Translations and Publication Policies of Finnish Cultural Magazines Aikalainen, Parnasso and Uusi Kirjallisuuslehti in the 1960s 4. New Technologies and New Media John Sundholm Chance and Play, or Marvellous Machines – A Forgotten Swedish Film Avant-Garde Jesper Olsson Radiophonic Poetry and a Blind Movie – Öyvind Fahlström’s Sound Art Tania Ørum The Medium is the Message – Danish Radio Experiments in the 1960s Jonas Ingvarsson What’s Wrong with Billy Spafon? Tania Ørum Concrete Poetry as a Sign of Technological Change in Society Jesper Olsson Collaborators in Art and Technology – The Case of Billy Klüver Jonas Ingvarsson The Case[y] of Husberg Tanja Tiekso Art Has Opened People’s Eyes, Music People’s Ears, and Computers People’s Minds – Erkki Kurenniemi on Music and Technology Mikko Ojanen and Kai Lassfolk University of Helsinki Electronic Music Studio – Founding and Early Development Jesper Olsson The New Monument – Experimental TV and Remediation Tania Ørum ABCinema and Super 8 Technology Kari Yli-Annala Visions Seen through Felt Boots – “The Carriers of the Fire” of Avant-Garde Art in the 1950s and 1970s in Finland Thomas Hvid Kromann Artists’ Books in the 1960s Tania Ørum Telephone Art Teddy Hultberg Fylkingen’s Text-Sound Festivals, 1968–1974 Erling Kullberg The Detested Interval Music – On Per Nørgård’s Calendar Music as Interval Signal on TV 5. Performative Strategies Jesper Olsson “Hätila ragulpr på fåtskliaben” – Conceiving of Concrete Poetry Jesper Olsson Concrete Poetry as a Score for Performance – Bengt Emil Johnson’s Old Man Drowning Peter van der Meijden The Festum Fluxorum in Copenhagen, 23–28 November 1962 Tania Ørum To Play To-Day Merja Hottinen Experiment, Scam and Children’s Games – The Finnish Media on Ken Dewey’s Happenings in Finland, 1963–1964 Per Ringby Pistolteatern – Avant-Garde Performance and Political Theatre Annika Öhrner Yvonne Rainer and Robert Morris – An Evening of Talking and Dancing, 1964 Erik Exe Christoffersen Odin Teatret –¬ Between Tradition and the Avant-Garde Magnús Þór Þorbergsson Leiksmiðjan – Collaborating on a New Theatre Rasmus Graff Asger Jorn’s Work in The Archive of the Revolution in Havana Karsten Wind Meyhoff Showtime! Notes on the Performance Practice of Per Højholt Birgitte Anderberg Performing Feminism – Kirsten Justesen Mette Mortensen A Borderline Case – Facial Politics in Kjartan Slettemark’s The Passport 6. Interventions into Everyday Life Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen Raping the Whole World in a Warm Embrace of Fascination – Drakabygget’s Anti-Authoritarian Artistic Endeavours Sven-Olov Wallenstein 1966 – Thinking the City Lars Bang Larsen True Rulers of Their Own Realm – Political subjectivisation in Modellen – En modell för ett kvalitativt samhälle Jonas (J) Magnusson Jarl Hammarberg’s Concrete Poetry and Collective Books Ingvild Krogvig Linguistic Leakage in the Landscape – Early Land Art in Norway Lars Bang Larsen Kanonklubben – The Oslo Trip and The Garden Christine Buhl Andersen The Avant-Garde in Public Space – Two Danish Examples Elisabeth Friis and and and – A Device of One’s Own – Reproductive Parataxis in Rex, Thorup and Åkesson Malene Woltmann Christiana – Utopia Realised? Stig Jarl and Laura Luise Schultz A Sensuous Dramaturgy of Intervention – Solvognen (The Sun Chariot), Copenhagen, 1969–1983 Ingvild Krogvig Viggo Andersen’s Vigelandsinstallasjon – The History of a Forgotten Anti-Monument 7. Avant-Garde between Market and Counterculture Vibeke Petersen Gether Gunnar Aagaard Andersen – Commercial Design and Experimental Art Jens Tang Kristensen Angli Avant-Gardism – Paul Gadegaard’s Art Project in Herning, Denmark Lars Bukdahl Vagn is Also a Bit of a Soft Drink – Vagn Steen’s Advertisements for Himself and Concrete Poetry, 1964–1969 Jesper Olsson The Artist on Holiday, or “L’art pour l’or”, or Some Conceptual Investments of Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Alf Arvidsson From Avant-Garde to Pop Culture to Alternative Scenes – The Case of Two Swedish Bands, Blå Tåget and Träd, Gräs & Stenar Harri Veivo Everyday High and Low – Finnish Avant-Garde Poetry of the 1960s Navigations in a Rapidly Changing Society Tania Ørum The Rose Campaign – John Davidsen’s Appropriation of Commercial Formats Lars Bang Larsen PUSS 1968–1973 Tania Ørum Counterculture Benedikt Hjartarson “A Furious Girl from Rome” – Róska and the Mythography of Avant-Garde Bohemianism Trond Haugen “From Everyone to Everyone” – The Countercultural Little Magazine Dikt & datt David Thyrén The Alternative Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden, 1975 Abstracts

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Book SynopsisRussia is an enigmatic, mysterious country, situated between East and West not only spatially, but also mentally. Or so it is traditionally perceived in Western Europe and the Anglophone world at large. One of the distinctive features of Russian culture is its irrationalism, which revealed itself diversely in Russian life and thought, literature, music and visual arts, and has survived to the present day. Bridging the gap in existing scholarship, the current volume is an attempt at an integral and multifaceted approach to this phenomenon, and launches the study of Russian irrationalism in philosophy, theology, literature and the arts of the last two hundred years, together with its reflections in Russian reality. Contributors: Tatiana Chumakova, David Gillespie, Arkadii Goldenberg, Kira Gordovich, Rainer Grübel, Elizabeth Harrison, Jeremy Howard, Aleksandr Ivashkin, Elena Kabkova, Sergei Kibalnik, Oleg Kovalov, Alexander McCabe, Barbara Olaszek, Oliver Ready, Oliver Smith, Margarita Odesskaia, Ildikó Mária Rácz, Lyudmila Safronova, Marilyn Schwinn Smith, Henrieke Stahl, Olga Stukalova, Olga Tabachnikova, Christopher John Tooke, and Natalia Vinokurova.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Olga Tabachnikova, Rationalising Russian Irrationalism Part I: On the Place of Irrationalism in the Russian History of Ideas Chapter 1. Barbara Olaszek, The Traditions of Rationalism in Russian Culture of the Pre-Soviet Period Chapter 2. Tatiana Chumakova, Irrationalism in Ancient Russia Chapter 3. Oliver Smith, Ethos versus Pathos: The Ontologisation of Knowledge in Russian Philosophy Chapter 4. Christopher John Tooke, Irrationalism and anti-Semitism in Late-tsarist Literature Chapter 5. Natalia Vinokurova, Russian Semiotics of Behaviour, or can a Russian Person be Regarded as ‘Homo Economicus’? Chapter 6. Elizabeth Harrison, ‘Fides et ratio’: Catholicism, Rationalism and Mysticism in Russian Literary Culture of the Mid-Nineteenth Century Part II: Russian Classics and Their Influence in Space and Time Chapter 7. Arkadii Goldenberg, The Irrational Basis of Gogol’’s Mythopoetics Chapter 8. Sergei Kibal’nik, On the Philosophical Sources and Nature of Dostoevskii’s Anti-Rationalism Chapter 9. Alexander McCabe, Shifting French Perspectives on Dostoevskian Anti-Rationalism Chapter 10. Margarita Odesskaia, The Concept of Love and Beauty in the Works of Turgenev Chapter 11. Olga Tabachnikova, Patterns of European Irrationalism, from Source to Estuary: Johann Georg Hamann, Lev Shestov and Anton Chekhov – On Both Sides of Reason Chapter 12. Rainer Grübel, Lev Tolstoi and Vasilii Rozanov: Two Fundamental(ist) Types of Russian Irrationalism Part III: The Silver Age Chapter 13. Henrieke Stahl, From Neo-Kantian Theory of Cognition to Christian Intellectual Mysticism: Logical Voluntarism in Vladimir Solov’ev and Andrei Belyi Chapter 14. Marilyn Schwinn Smith, Aleksei Remizov’s Pliashushchii demon – tanets i slovo: Cultural Memory, Dreams and Demons Chapter 15. Ildikó Mária Rácz, Irrational Elements in Ivan Bunin’s Short Story “The Grammar of Love” Part IV: Russian Culture into the 20th Century and Beyond Chapter 16. Jeremy Howard, Viewing Askance: Irrationalist Aspects in Russian Art from Fedotov to Malevich and into the Beyond Chapter 17. Aleksandr Ivashkin, Symbols, Metaphors and Irrationalities in Twentieth-Century Music Chapter 18. Oleg Kovalov, The Irrational in Russian Cinema (A Short Course) Chapter 19. Olga Stukalova and Elena Kabkova, The Rational and Irrational Standard: Russian Architecture as a Facet of Culture Part V: Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature Chapter 20. Kira Gordovich, The Irrational in the Perception of Andrey Platonov’s Characters Chapter 21. Liudmila Safronova, The Metaphysics of Numbers in the Eurasian Artistic Mentality: Viktor Pelevin’s The Dialectics of the Transition Period (From Nowhere to No Place) Chapter 22. Oliver Ready, “Questions to which Reason has no Answer”: Iurii Mamleev’s Irrationalism in European Context Chapter 23. David Gillespie, Vladimir Sorokin and the Return of History

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Book SynopsisIn Le clair-obscur « extrême contemporain »: Pierre Bergounioux, Pierre Michon, Patrick Modiano et Pascal Quignard, Julia Holter proposes that a chiaroscuro aesthetic and mode of thought underlie and unite the work of four well-known contemporary French writers, studied together for the first time. Dans Le clair-obscur « extrême contemporain » : Pierre Bergounioux, Pierre Michon, Patrick Modiano et Pascal Quignard, Julia Holter montre comment la notion de clair-obscur sous-tend la pensée et l’esthétique de quatre écrivains français extrême-contemporains rassemblés pour la première fois.Trade Review"This is an impressive book. It is full of sensitive readings, rigorously argued and the product of great erudition, effortlessly ranging over a wide variety of subject areas. Quite apart from her detailed knowledge of her selected writers’ oeuvres and associated secondary literature, Holter extends her scope to disciplines such as Fine Art (the centrality of chiaroscuro oblige), literary theory, sociology, etymology, philosophy and psychoanalysis, travelling backwards and forwards with ease between l’extrême contemporain and Antiquity. [...] its academic impact may [...] be considerable, since the very nature of Holter’s innovative, self-created concept means that it will have a broader, more universal application to the French literature of today." - Alan Morris, Irish Journal of French Studies, 2017.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapitre I. Une thématique (mystère, secret, énigme du moi) 1. Quelques repères historiques pour un concept critique 2. Le clair-obscur des origines 3. Autoportrait en clair-obscur Chapitre II. Une esthétique 1. Oxymore et oscillation 2. Le petit et le fragment 3. Figure du cercle Chapitre III. Une pensée 1. Complexité, sensibilité, poétique 2. La haute tension Chapitre IV. Quatre études pour un clair-obscur 1. Pascal Quignard: Les solidarités mystérieuses, 2011 2. Pierre Michon : Les Onze, 2009 3. Pierre Bergounioux : Une chambre en Hollande, 2009 4. Patrick Modiano : Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue, 2007 Conclusion Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisPresence of the Body provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dialogue between theory and practice about the impact of the body on human awareness in the fields of art, writing, meditative practice, and performance. This dialogue benefits from the neuro-systematic integration of “embodied” knowledge in the cognitive sciences, but it also suggests creative and transformative dynamics of embodiment which, beyond conceptualisation, emerge in sophisticated acts of writing, performing and meditating. Exploring the presence and experience character of the body-awareness relationship, a double perspective beyond cognitive fixations is suggested: 1) a body-centred touch of the world which inspires life as a creative ‘writing’ process, and 2) in line with Buddhist thought, an empty space of ‘pure presence’ from which all conscious processes originate.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Table of Content Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić: Introduction. Presence of the Body—Awareness In and Beyond Experience PRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE Leonida Kovač: Bodies and their Matter Franc Chamberlain: Losing the Plot: Inappropriate Fictions and the Art of the Theatre Milica Ivić: Examining Body Limits Josip Zanki: Ritualised Corporeality in Contemporary Croatian Art THE ACT OF WRITING Lidija Štrmelj: Body and Awareness as Reflected in the Wife of Bath: A Historical Study Based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Karin Bauer: Lost in Isolation: Ulrike Meinhof’s Body in Poetry Anja Seiler: Foreign Language—Foreign Body: The Embodiment of Sprachfremde in Dimitré Dinev’s Engelszungen and Terézia Mora’s Alle Tage Elisa Primavera-Lévy: Putting Hell on Paper: Chronic Pain Patients and the Challenge of Illness Narratives Sara Strauß: Neuroethical Reflections on Body and Awareness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Ian McEwan’s Saturday Tanja Reiffenrath: Self, Interrupted: Body, Awareness, and Continuity in Oliver Sacks’s A Leg to Stand On Sabine Wilke: Performances in the Anthropocene: Embodiment and Environment(s) in Ilija Trojanow’s Climate Change Novel Gert Hofmann: Disintegrating Identities: Bodily Presence in Contemporary Writing EXPERIENCE OF SELF-TRANSCENDENCE Graham Parkes: Awe and Humility in the Face of Things: Somatic Practice in East-Asian Philosophies Snježana Zorić: The Silent Performance of Mindfulness: Aware Corporeality / Corporeal Awareness of No-Self Index

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Book SynopsisEight studies examine key features of Chinese visual and material cultures, ranging from tomb design, metalware, ceramic pillows, and bronze mirrors, to printed illustrations, calligraphic rubbings, colophons, and paintings on Buddhist, landscape, and narrative themes. Questions addressed include how artists and artisans made their works, the ways both popular literature and market forces could shape ways of looking, and how practices and imagery spread across regions. The authors connect visual materials to funeral and religious practices, drama, poetry, literati life, travel, and trade, showing ways visual images and practices reflected, adapted to, and reproduced the culture and society around them. Readers will gain a stronger appreciation of the richness of the visual and material cultures of Middle Period China.Trade Review"Most contributions are of striking vivacity and originality and accompanied by splendid illustrations." Barbara Hendrischke, University of Sydney, Religious Studies Review 45 (2019) 'this volume is a timely addition to the existing scholarship about visual and material cultures of China from 800 to 1400, extending our understanding of the cultural and economic dynamism during the period. Full with intriguing observations and thought-provoking syntheses, it is bound to an indispensable book which will definitely inspire future researchers on the perennial topic in Chinese and Asian history. - Hang Lin, Hangzhou Normal University, China, The Newsletter 86 (2020).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii List of Illustrations viii List of Contributors xiv Introduction Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Shih-shan Susan Huang Part 1: Making Art in Funeral and Ritual Contexts 1 Modular Design of Tombs in Song and Jin North China - Fei Deng 2 Visualizing Ritual in Southern Song Buddhist Painting - Phillip E. Bloom Part 2: Setting a Scene 3 Dreams, Spirits, and Romantic Encounters in Jin and Yuan Theatrical Pictures - Fan Jeremy Zhang 4 The Ten Views of West Lake - Xiaolin Duan Part 3: Appreciating the Written Word 5 A Forgery and the Pursuit of the Authentic Wang Xizhi - Hui-Wen Lu 6 Zhu Xi’s Colophons on Handwritten Documents - Patricia Buckley Ebrey Part 4: Cross-Cultural Transfers 7 Paintings of Birds by Basins - Jie Liu 8 Chinese Objects Recovered from Sutra Mounds in Japan, 1000-1300 - Yiwen Li Index 319

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Book SynopsisSubjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild responds to a contemporary political climate in which historically invested figures of otherness—barbarians, savages, monsters—have become common discursive currency. Through questionable historical comparisons, politicians and journalists evoke barbaric or primitive forces threatening civilization in order to exacerbate the fear of others, diagnose civilizational decline, or feed nostalgic restorative projects. These evocations often demand that forms of oppression, discrimination, and violence be continued or renewed. In this context, the collected essays explore the dispossessing effects of these figures but also their capacities for reimagining subjectivity, agency, and resistance to contemporary forms of power. Emphasizing intersections of the aesthetic and the political, these essays read canonical works alongside contemporary literature, film, art, music, and protest cultures. They interrogate the violent histories but also the subversive potentials of figures barbarous, monstrous, or wild, while illustrating the risks in affirmative resignifications or new mobilizations. Contributors: Sophie van den Bergh, Maria Boletsi, Siebe Bluijs, Giulia Champion, Cui Chen, Tom Curran, Andries Hiskes, Tyler Sage, Cansu Soyupak, Ruby de Vos, Mareen WillTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild Maria Boletsi and Tyler Sage Part I. Feared and Longed for Barbarian Invasions in Contemporary Politics and Culture 1 Crisis, Terrorism, and Post-Truth: Processes of Othering and Self-Definition in the Culturalization of Politics Maria Boletsi 2 The Fall of Rome and Rise of Empire in Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbares Tyler Sage 3 From Compton to Congress: The Barbarians Inside the Gates—An Exploration of 'Black Subjectivity' in Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly Siebe Bluijs 4 Barbarians in Istanbul: Different Approaches Towards the Urban Transformation Conundrum Cansu Soyupak Part II. Savages and Monsters Old, New, and Refurbished: Canons Recast in Literature and Film 5 Deconstructing Caliban's Genealogy of 'Otherness' in Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête: The Figuration of the Barbarian, Wild Man, and Cannibal in the Western Literary Canon Giulia Champion 6 Savage as Living Ghost: Rethinking Eurocentrism and Decoloniality in The Revenant Cui Chen 7 Grotesque Genius: The Aesthetics of Form and Affect in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Andries Hiskes 8 The Monstrosity of the Female Artist in Dept. of Speculation, The Blazing World, and I Love Dick Ruby de Vos Part III. Strange Bedfellows: Queering Barbarians, Barbarizing Self-Identity, Playing Holocaust 9 Glamazons: Queer Barbarians in Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea and RuPaul's Drag Race Mareen Will 10 Longboats, Oak, and the Dark Days of the Northmen: Seamus Heaney's Barbarisms in The Secret of Kells Tom Curran 11 "To Appreciate the Perfection of the Machinery": Rethinking the Notion of Barbarism in 'Playful' Holocaust Representation Sophie van den Bergh Index

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Book SynopsisHumans have been described as “meaning-making animals.” At the threshold of the Anthropocene, how might humans artistically envision their place in the world? Do humans possess cultural tools, which will allow us to imagine new possibilities and relationships with the natural environment at a time when our material surroundings are under siege? Exploring Nature’s Texture looks at the imaginative possibilities of using the visual arts to address the breakdown of the human relationship with the environment. Bringing together contributions from artists, theologians, anthropologists and philosophers, it investigates the arts as a bridge between culture and nature, as well as between the human and more-than-human world. Contributors: Whitney A. Bauman, Sigurd Bergmann, Forrest Clingerman, Timothy M. Collins, J. Sage Elwell, Reiko Goto, Arto Haapala, Tim Ingold, Karolina Sobecka, George SteinmannTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors VII 1 Introduction: Exploring Nature’s Texture  Sigurd Bergmann and Forrest Clingerman Part 1: Seeing 2 With-In: Towards an Aesth/Ethics of Prepositions  Sigurd Bergmann 3 The Atmospheric Turn  Karolina Sobecka Part 2: Wondering 4 Wonder and Ernst Haeckel’s Aesthetics of Nature  Whitney Bauman 5 Art without an Object but with Impact  George Steinmann 6 Between Science and Art: An Anthropological Odyssey  Tim Ingold Part 3: Connecting 7 The Black Wood: Relations, Empathy and a Feeling of Oneness in Caledonian Pine Forests  Reiko Goto and Tim Collins 8 Cultivated and Governed or Free and Wild? On Assessing Gardens and Parks Aesthetically  Arto Haapala 9 Where Embodiment Meets Environment: A Meditation on the Work of Hans Breder and Ana Mendieta with an Accompanying Interview with Hans Breder  J. Sage Elwell 10 Conclusion: The Aesthetic Roots of Environmental Amnesia: The Work of Art and the Imagination of Place  Forrest Clingerman Index

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Book SynopsisSeen and Unseen explores how visual mediums construct visual cultures that create limited perspectives of issues and groups, specific to this volume, the representation of Islam and Muslims. It deals with fixed and stereotypical visual representations and explores alternative and challenging representations that are reconstructing existing belief systems.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction. Visual Cultures of Islam: The Seen, Unseen and the in Between  Sanaz Fotouhi and Esmaeil Zeiny Part 1: Imaging Histories 1 The Arrest of Diponegoro: Visual Orientalism and Its Alternative  Syed Farid Alatas 2 Images of the Prophet Muhammad: Brief Thoughts on Some European-Islamic Encounters  Christiane Gruber Part 2: Unseen Reality 3 Nightmarish Visions? Shifting Visual Representations of the ‘Islamic’ Terrorist Throughout the ‘War on Terror’  Jared Ahmad 4 Oil and Women: Invisibility as Power in Nawal El-Saadawi’s Love in the Kingdom of Oil  Layla Hendow 5 ‘World Hijab Day’: Positioning the Hijabi in Cyberspace  Raihanah M. M. Part 3: Interrogating Visual Representations 6 Contemporary Bruneian Cinema in the Context of Sharia Law  D. Bruno Starrs 7 Visual Discourses of (Un)veiling: Revisiting Women of Allah  Esmaeil Zeiny 8 Visibility and Veiling: Iranian Art on the Global Scene  Hoda Afshar 9 From Woman to Tehran: The Shifting Representations of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Book Covers by Iranian Writers in English  Sanaz Fotouhi

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Book SynopsisDans La Miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique, divers artistes contemporains et spécialistes en architecture, littérature ou psychologie clinique s’interrogent sur les nouvelles fonctions ludiques, didactiques, cognitives, artistiques de la miniature depuis le début des années 1960. In La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique, contemporary artists and specialists in architecture, literature and clinical psychology focus on the new playful, cognitive, didactic and artistic functions of the miniature since the early 1960s.Table of ContentsTable des matières Remerciements Liste des Figures Microbiographies des contributeurs Introduction : La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique  Évelyne Thoizet et Isabelle Roussel-Gillet Partie 1 Potentiel cognitif d’une miniature 2 La miniature et l’enfant : perspectives cliniques  Florence Pandit Partie 2 Maison de poupée(s) 3 Les maisons de poupées   Danielle Constantin 4 Du musée au roman de Jessie Burton, une maison miniature comme dispositif esthétique actif  Isabelle Roussel-Gillet Partie 3 « Petits mondes » en littérature 5 Tobie Lolness ou les deux infinis pascaliens revisités à la loupe de la miniaturisation  Laurence Olivier-Messonnier 6 De la miniature au livre monde : La Vie mode d’emploi de Georges Perec  Éléonore Hamaide-Jager 7 Lire « La Vue » de Raymond Roussel, et au-delà  Mathieu Jung Partie 4 Paysages en miniature 8 Entretien avec Didier Massard  Isabelle Roussel-Gillet et Évelyne Thoizet 9 L’Aquascape : un paysage dans l’aquarium  Quentin Montagne 10 Le végétal en miniature dans l’Encyclopédie poétique et raisonnée des herbes de Denise Le Dantec  Rachel Bouvet Partie 5 Questions d’échelle en architecture 11 D’une montagne, l’autre Pensées en forme de saxifrage  Nadja Maillard 12 Du figment au fragment, Miniature et conception architecturale  Églantine Bigot-Doll Partie 6 Mutations technologiques : la miniature à la scène, à l’écran et à l’exposition 13 Rôle de la maquette et transduction dans la peinture scénographique  Entretien avec Camille Courier de Mèré 14 Entre miniaturisme et minimalisme : Maestà d’Andy Guérif  Bruno Thibault 15 L’effet miniature du cinéma à la création plastique récit d’un parcours  Karen Luong 16 Des trous, des petits trous, encore des petits trous  Frédérique Joseph-Lowery Bibliographie générale des œuvres et essais cités Résumés des articles Index

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Book SynopsisLegibility in the Age of Signs and Machines offers a compelling reflection on what the notion of legibility entails in a machinic world in which any form of cultural expression – from literary texts, films, artworks and museum exhibits to archives, laws, computer programs and algorithms – necessarily partakes in ever-more complex processes of (mass) mediation. Divided over four clusters focusing on desire, justice, machine and heritage, the chapters in the volume explore what makes something legible or illegible to whom or, indeed, what; the kinds of reading, processing or navigating such il/legibility facilitates or forecloses; and the role critical (media) theory, literary studies and the Humanities in general can play in tackling these and related issues. Contributors: Ernst van Alphen, Anke Bosma, Siebe Bluijs, Sean Cubitt, Colin Davis, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, David Gauthier, Giovanna Fossati, Isabel Capeloa Gil, Pepita Hesselberth, Yasco Horsman, Janna Houwen, Looi van Kessel, Esther Peeren, Seth Rogoff, Roxana Sarion, Frederik Tygstrup, Inge van de Ven, Ruby de Vos, Peter Verstraten, Tessa de Zeeuw

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Book SynopsisMuch has been written in Canada and South Africa about sexual violence in the context of colonial legacies, particularly for Indigenous girls and young women. While both countries have attempted to deal with the past through Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and Canada has embarked upon its National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, there remains a great deal left to do. Across the two countries, history, legislation and the lived experiences of young people, and especially girls and young women point to a deeply rooted situation of marginalization. Violence on girls’ and women’s bodies also reflects violence on the land and especially issues of dispossession. What approaches and methods would make it possible for girls and young women, as knowers and actors, especially those who are the most marginalized, to influence social policy and social change in the context of sexual violence? Taken as a whole, the chapters in Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speaking Back through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence which come out of a transnational study on sexual violence suggest a new legacy, one that is based on methodologies that seek to disrupt colonial legacies, by privileging speaking up and speaking back through the arts and visual practice to challenge the situation of sexual violence. At the same time, the fact that so many of the authors of the various chapters are themselves Indigenous young people from either Canada or South Africa also suggests a new legacy of leadership for change.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables The Life You Stole  Hannah Batiste 1. Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speak Back through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence  Claudia Mitchell and Relebohile Moletsane Part 1: What’s Engagement Got to Do with It? 2. Sisters Rising: Shape Shifting Settler Violence through Art and Land Retellings  Sandrina De Finney, Shantelle Moreno, Anna Chadwick, Chantal Adams, Shezell-Rae Sam, Angela Scott and Nicole Land 3. “Just Don’t Change Anything”: Engaging Girls in Participatory Visual Research to Address Sexual Violence in Rural South Africa  Astrid Treffry-Goatley, Relebohile Moletsane and Lisa Wiebesiek 4. “We Are Strong. We Are Beautiful. We Are Smart. We Are Iskwew”: Saskatoon Indigenous Girls Use Cellphilms to Speak Back to Gender-Based Violence  Jennifer Altenberg, Sarah Flicker, Katie MacEntee and Kari-Dawn Wuttunee 5. Pictures Speak for Themselves: Youth Engaging through Photovoice to Describe Sexual Violence in Their Community  Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi, Sinakekelwe Khumalo, Zaynab Essack and Candice Groenewald 6. Using Drawings to Explore Sexual Violence with Orphaned Youth in and around a Township Secondary School in South Africa  Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi and Relebohile Moletsane 7. Using Participatory Visual Methodologies to Engage Secondary School Learners in Addressing Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues  Brian B. Sibeko and Samkelisiwe F. Luthuli Part 2: Engaging Images 8. Seeing Things: Schoolgirls in a Rural Setting Using Visual Artefacts to Initiate Dialogue about Resisting Sexual Violence  Marianne Adam and Naydene de Lange 9. (Ad)Dressing Sexual Violence: Girls and Young Women Creatively Resisting through Dress  María Ezcurra and Claudia Mitchell 10. Affective Possibilities for Addressing Sexual Violence through Art: Reflections across Two Sites  Pamela Lamb 11. In Contrast: Media Coverage and Annie Pootoogook’s Drawings of Sexual Violence and Sexual Happiness  Haidee Smith Lefebvre 12. Curating Children’s Drawings: Exploring Methods and Tensions in Children’s Depictions of Sexual Violence  Fatima Khan Part 3: Reflections and Re-Imaginings 13. A Collective Triologue on Sexualised Violence and Indigenous Women  Marnina Gonick, Veronica Gore and Lisa Christmas 14. Girls and Young Women Creatively Addressing Sexual Violence Online: Exploring the Successes, Challenges, and Possibilities  Laurel Hart 15. How We See It: What Can Girls and Young Women Learn from National and Transnational Dialogue about Sexual Violence  Bongiwe Maome 16. Methodological Reflections on a Visual Participatory Study on Resilience Processes of African Girls with a History of Child Sexual Abuse  Sadiyya Haffejee, Twinky Banda and Linda Theron 17. Unsettling: Musings on Ten Years of Collaborations with Indigenous Youth as a White Settler Scholar  Sarah Flicker List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMuch has been written in Canada and South Africa about sexual violence in the context of colonial legacies, particularly for Indigenous girls and young women. While both countries have attempted to deal with the past through Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and Canada has embarked upon its National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, there remains a great deal left to do. Across the two countries, history, legislation and the lived experiences of young people, and especially girls and young women point to a deeply rooted situation of marginalization. Violence on girls’ and women’s bodies also reflects violence on the land and especially issues of dispossession. What approaches and methods would make it possible for girls and young women, as knowers and actors, especially those who are the most marginalized, to influence social policy and social change in the context of sexual violence? Taken as a whole, the chapters in Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speaking Back through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence which come out of a transnational study on sexual violence suggest a new legacy, one that is based on methodologies that seek to disrupt colonial legacies, by privileging speaking up and speaking back through the arts and visual practice to challenge the situation of sexual violence. At the same time, the fact that so many of the authors of the various chapters are themselves Indigenous young people from either Canada or South Africa also suggests a new legacy of leadership for change.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables The Life You Stole  Hannah Batiste 1. Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speak Back through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence  Claudia Mitchell and Relebohile Moletsane Part 1: What’s Engagement Got to Do with It? 2. Sisters Rising: Shape Shifting Settler Violence through Art and Land Retellings  Sandrina De Finney, Shantelle Moreno, Anna Chadwick, Chantal Adams, Shezell-Rae Sam, Angela Scott and Nicole Land 3. “Just Don’t Change Anything”: Engaging Girls in Participatory Visual Research to Address Sexual Violence in Rural South Africa  Astrid Treffry-Goatley, Relebohile Moletsane and Lisa Wiebesiek 4. “We Are Strong. We Are Beautiful. We Are Smart. We Are Iskwew”: Saskatoon Indigenous Girls Use Cellphilms to Speak Back to Gender-Based Violence  Jennifer Altenberg, Sarah Flicker, Katie MacEntee and Kari-Dawn Wuttunee 5. Pictures Speak for Themselves: Youth Engaging through Photovoice to Describe Sexual Violence in Their Community  Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi, Sinakekelwe Khumalo, Zaynab Essack and Candice Groenewald 6. Using Drawings to Explore Sexual Violence with Orphaned Youth in and around a Township Secondary School in South Africa  Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi and Relebohile Moletsane 7. Using Participatory Visual Methodologies to Engage Secondary School Learners in Addressing Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues  Brian B. Sibeko and Samkelisiwe F. Luthuli Part 2: Engaging Images 8. Seeing Things: Schoolgirls in a Rural Setting Using Visual Artefacts to Initiate Dialogue about Resisting Sexual Violence  Marianne Adam and Naydene de Lange 9. (Ad)Dressing Sexual Violence: Girls and Young Women Creatively Resisting through Dress  María Ezcurra and Claudia Mitchell 10. Affective Possibilities for Addressing Sexual Violence through Art: Reflections across Two Sites  Pamela Lamb 11. In Contrast: Media Coverage and Annie Pootoogook’s Drawings of Sexual Violence and Sexual Happiness  Haidee Smith Lefebvre 12. Curating Children’s Drawings: Exploring Methods and Tensions in Children’s Depictions of Sexual Violence  Fatima Khan Part 3: Reflections and Re-Imaginings 13. A Collective Triologue on Sexualised Violence and Indigenous Women  Marnina Gonick, Veronica Gore and Lisa Christmas 14. Girls and Young Women Creatively Addressing Sexual Violence Online: Exploring the Successes, Challenges, and Possibilities  Laurel Hart 15. How We See It: What Can Girls and Young Women Learn from National and Transnational Dialogue about Sexual Violence  Bongiwe Maome 16. Methodological Reflections on a Visual Participatory Study on Resilience Processes of African Girls with a History of Child Sexual Abuse  Sadiyya Haffejee, Twinky Banda and Linda Theron 17. Unsettling: Musings on Ten Years of Collaborations with Indigenous Youth as a White Settler Scholar  Sarah Flicker List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThey were named the “throwaways.” Children with learning differences engaged in artmaking as sensemaking to promote issues of social justice in K-12 schools. For the first time, children with learning differences, teachers, staff, and school leaders come together and share how they understand the role artmaking as sensemaking plays in empowering disenfranchised populations.Trade Review“This is an inspiring book which re-establishes the primacy of the arts in enabling learners to understand their own identities and begin the long journey to self-hood. It is long overdue and will go a long way to creating a more balanced curriculum than the sole concentration on math and science." - Fenwick W. English, R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership, School of Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Could this book be the WAKE-UP call that the field of educational administration has so desperately needed? In these inspirational, though often heartbreaking “first-telling” stories by “throwaway” children and their caring teachers and school leaders, we see the answers to leadership for social justice, if only we ourselves had the courage to stand up and shout. Intellectually, to see giants such as Elliot Eisner, Howard Gardner and especially Maxine Greene brought together by the author, Christa Boske, once again brings hope that we will find our way out from the quantitative prison of management theories which hold public education hostage under the guise of productivity and school improvement.” - Ira Bogotch, Professor of Educational Leadership, Florida Atlantic University and Co-Editor (with Carolyn Shields) of the new International Handbook on Social (In)Justice and Educational Leadership "A phenomenal book for a time such as this and for students, teachers, staff, administrators, parents, professors, and community such as us. If we subscribe to the "all children can learn" philosophy, then we must acknowledge that arts-based education is vital for children to succeed. This should be required reading in Schools and Colleges of Education across this country." - Judy A. Alston, Professor in the Department Doctoral Studies and Advanced Programs, Ashland University and Author of School Leadership and Administration - 9th edition “In this beautifully crafted book, Christa Boske concludes that "artmaking actively engag[es] children in developing a critical consciousness, and stronger sense of self." All school leaders need to read this research and understand how to encourage and support teachers and community members in capturing the power of first-tellings.” - Margaret Grogan, Professor, Dean of the College of Educational Studies, Chapman University and Effie H. Jones Humanitarian Award from the American Association of School Superintendents (AASA) ‘This text courageously affords children who have been marginalized to have not only voice but a demand that their humanity cannot be disregarded simply because of their learning differences. The alignment of leadership, social justice, the call for policy and practice reform and art making as sense making opens notions of educational leadership to new frontiers that have long needed to have men explored. Christa Boske dares to combine authors who challenge educators to transform their thinking regarding students with learning differences. Additionally, Boske requires readers to advocate for ways to diminish the minimizing of students’ humanity because of intellectual challenges that have historically cast students in a negative light. The book demands that we search deeply to unearth ways to welcome the creativity of children as a means to give voice to their very being. It is a call and challenge for policy transformation through a critical leadership that is grounded in social justice, equity, and celebrating difference.” - Michael Dantley, Professor, Dean of the College of Education, Health and Society, Miami University and Master Professor Award from the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) “Boske and her contributors have created a volume that a poignant chorus of first-tellings of resilience and oppression. This is an excellent read for those engaged in the work of improving society through service to learners and their families, teachers, and school leaders. Aspiring educators and leaders in both educational policy and school administration would do well to absorb the jaw dropping and profound stories offered by some of the most vulnerable in our society. As readers we are given us no choice but to catch our breath mid-chapter to consider simultaneously the power of art beyond traditional understandings, and our responsibility to the everyday experiences of learners and educators. The magic of this effort is rooted in the elegant examination of the overlooked and obscured truths about the power of self-expression in the face of strife. I simply could not put it down.” - Autumn Tooms Cyprès, Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, St. John’s University and President, International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership "This book provides tangible evidence of the power of providing students on the margins with the tools to make their voices heard. We need to take the education of students with disabilities seriously in a wholistic, inclusive and enriching fashion and this work provides key insights into this essential work." - George Theoharis, Professor, Syracuse University and Author of The School Leaders Our Children Deserve: Seven Keys to Equity, Social Justice, and School ReformTable of ContentsList of Figures 1 Introduction: Artmaking as Sensemaking as a Portrait of Resilience for Children with Learning Differences  Christa Boske PART 1: Children Voices 2 You Can’t Get in My Shoe  S 3 The Cage  N 4 One of the Best (Because I Worked so Hard on This)  C 5 “Acception”  T 6 Princess  A 7 The Flame of Anger  L 8 I Want People to Listen  J 9 Animal Land  L 10 Helping Hands  M 11 Treat Women Like Flowers-They Are Gentle  J 12 Magna Shoe  P 13 Deep Blue  L 14 Barricade  A 15 My Story  S 16 Freedom  V 17 The Cycle #Dark Side  The Old Me (Author) and the New Me (Author) 18 I Look Fabulous  A 19 Born for Bred  M PART 2: Adult Voices 20 Born for Bred  A 21 The Tension of Duality  B 22 Diversity Is My Degree  C 23 Adversity  D 24 The Sky Is the Limit  E 25 They Lived Their Art  F 26 The Children Touch My Heart  G 27 Raw: The Thread That Connects Us  H 28 Confronting Anxieties on a Small Scale  I 29 Leading through Artmaking: Recognizing the Power of Arts-Based Approaches  J 30 Developing My Approach to Working with Children  K 31 The “Red R” Kid: Disrupting My Deficit-Laden Label  L 32 Living the Dream  M 33 Afterword: The Power of the Artmaking as Sensemaking  Christa Boske

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to date to be dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses the impact of princely patronage on the production of books, the formation and management of libraries in religious institutions, their size and their physical setting. It documents the significance of private collections and their interaction with institutional libraries and the role of charitable endowments (waqf ) in the life of libraries. The market as a venue of intellectual and commercial exchanges and a production centre is explored with references to prices and fees. The social and professional background of scribes and calligraphers occupies a major place in this study, which also documents the chain of master-calligraphers over the entire Mamluk period. For her study the author relies on biographical dictionaries, chronicles, waqf documents and manuscripts.Trade Review"The Book in Mamluk Egypt and Syria is highly informative and makes use of all the available information, clearly a product of serious research and passion for the author’s subject. It is also a product of love for the book itself and for bibliophiles, full with all sorts of interesting stories and remarks..." Sotiris S. Livas, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 28 (2019) “[…] it is a comprehensive summary of our existing state of knowledge, and paints a lively and entertaining picture of lives lived among books in Mamluk Egypt and Syria.” Paul Auchterlonie, University of Exeter in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 141, No. 4 (2021).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Figures Note to the Reader Introduction 1 The Legacy  1 The Classical Heritage  2 The Fatimid and Ayyubid Legacies 2 Mamluk Libraries  1 Patronage of the Mamluk Book  2 A Palace Library?  3 The Libraries of Religious Institutions  4 The Librarians in Religious Institutions 3 Private Libraries and Endowments 4 Book Circulation and Storage  1 Borrowing Practices  2 The Size of Libraries  3 The Size of Books  4 The Physical Setting 5 The Market  1 Location and Environment  2 Dealers and Publishers  3 Value, Prices, and Fees 6 The Mamluk Scribe: Background and Formation  1 Terminology and Definition  2 Writing and Copying  3 From Oral to Written Books and Back  4 Books from the Barracks 7 The Mamluk Master Calligraphers  1 The Art and Practice of Calligraphy  2 Teaching Writing and Calligraphy  3 The Social and Cultural Contexts  4 Calligraphers and Craftsmen  5 Calligraphers and the Aristocracy 8 The Chain of Mamluk Calligraphers  1 The Syrian School  2 The Egyptian School Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book can be viewed as a series of investigations into the ongoing imbrications of the practices of art, ethics and education as conducted within each author’s specific context of practice as artist, educator, researcher. It constitutes an international anthology of explorations that are by no means exclusive but conscious of the ongoing iterations, mutations and individuations of relations between art, ethics and education, which, in turn, seek to expand how we might conceive these terms as practices. This ongoing evolution reminds us that as practices art, ethics and education are always incomplete processes affected by and affecting their specific milieus and environments. Chapters within the book cover a wide range of ethical questions and educational contexts, broaching subjects as varied as higher education, artificial intelligence, animal ethics, transcultural encounters, collaborative art, the education of senior citizens and experiences of conflict. Art, ethics and education are not conceived in terms of established orders, representations, ideals, criteria or bodies of knowledge and practice, but rather in terms of dynamic, relational processes and their potentialities, that arise within specific locations, cartographies and ecologies of practice. The notions of art, ethics and education are viewed in terms of assemblages that have the capacity to generate new modes of practice that may question established values and advance new overlappings of aesthetic, ethical and political relations. Contributors are: Dennis Atkinson, Hashim Al Azzam, John Baldacchino, Bazon Brock, Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Sahin Celikten, Ana Dimke, Brian Grassom, Leena Hannula, Brian Hughes, jan jagodzinski, Timo Jokela, Mira Kallio-Tavin, Joachim Kettel, Guillermo Marini, Catarina Martins, Joe Sacco, Francisco Schwember, Juuso Tervo, Raphael Vella and Branka Vujanovic.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Creative Ethics in Art and Education  Carl-Peter Buschkühle PART 1: Neoliberalism, Education and Creativity Introduction to Part 1: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 2 The Fabrication of the Chameleonic Citizen of the Future through the Rhetoric of Creativity: Governmentality, Competition and Human Capital  Catarina S. Martins 3 Ethics in Higher Art Education  Mira Kallio-Tavin PART 2: Moral Inquiry and Political Correctness Introduction to Part 2: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 4 Art for Democracy in Crisis  Brian Hughes 5 Ethics in Aesthetics? How Much Ethics Can Art Tolerate?  Joachim Kettel PART 3: Non-sense, Disobedience and Alterity Introduction to Part 3: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 6 A ‘MOST AMIABLE UNION’: The Ethics of Art’s Practice as a Pedagogical Aesthetics  John Baldacchino 7 Meditation on a Glow Stick: Slow Pedagogy and Ontogenetic Ethics  Dennis Atkinson 8 The Illumined Mind: Education, Ethics and Art  Brian James Grassom PART 4: Abstention and Disappearance Introduction to Part 4: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 9 On the Aesthetics of Abstention  Bazon Brock 10 Not in the Name of: Time and Disappearances in Ethics of Art Education  Juuso Tervo PART 5: Documenting a Politics of Hatred Introduction to Part 5: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 11 Photography as Cultural Symptomatology within a Post-Yugoslav Condition: The Case of Sarajevo  Branka Vujanović 12 The Work Speaks for Itself: An Interview with Joe Sacco  Raphael Vella PART 6: Arts-Based Research, Community and the Environment Introduction to Part 6: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 13 Ethics of Arctic Sustainable Art: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Dialogue  Timo Jokela 14 Lifelong Learning in a Non-Formal Cultural Environment  Leena Hannula 15 Art-Based Research in Vulnerable Educational Contexts: Lessons from Two Elementary Schools in Santiago de Chile  Francisco Schwember and Guillermo Marini PART 7: Contested Geographies Introduction to Part 7: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 16 An Ethics of the Archipelago: Collaborative Translations in Art Education  Raphael Vella 17 Sculpture as Transcultural Education  Hashim Al-Azzam 18 The Aesthetics of Migration  Sahin Celikten PART 8: Animal Ethics, the Anthropocene and Transhumanism Introduction to Part 8: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 19 Art Pedagogy and Animal Ethics  Ana Dimke 20 Death after Life: The Ethico-Political Response of Artists towards the Anthropocene  jan jagodzinski 21 Dürer as Machine: Transhumanism and Artistic Thinking  Carl-Peter Buschkühle PART 9: Conclusions 22 How to Explore Something Nobody Will Notice  Raphael Vella 23 Art, Ethics and Education: Speculative Futures  Dennis Atkinson

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Book SynopsisJoseph Beuys significantly influenced the development of art in recent decades through his expanded definition of art. In his art and reflections on art, he raised far-reaching questions on the nature of art and its central importance for modern education. His famous claim, “Every human is an artist,“ points to the fundamental ability of every human to be creative in the art of life – with respect to the development of one’s own personality and one’s actions within society. Beuys saw society as an artwork in a permanent process of transformation, a ‘social sculpture‘ in which every person participated, and for which everyone should be educated as comprehensively as possible. Beuys describes pedagogy as central to his art. This book thus examines important aspects of Beuys’s art and theory and the challenges they raise for contemporary artistic education. It outlines the foundational theoretical qualities of artistic education and discusses the practice of ‘artistic projects’ in a series of empirical examples. The author, Carl-Peter Buschkühle, documents projects he has undertaken with various high school classes. In additional chapters, Mario Urlaß discusses the great value of artistic projects in primary school, and Christian Wagner reflects on his collaboration with the performance artist Wolfgang Sautermeister and school students in a socially-disadvantaged urban area. Artistic education has become one of the most influential art-pedagogical concepts in German-speaking countries. This book presents its foundations and educational practices in English for the first time.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures 1 Joseph Beuys and the Artistic Education  1 Freedom and the Challenge to Be an Artist of Living  2 The Polar Play of Artistic Thinking  3 The Decentralized Subject of Postmodernity  4 Identity and the Coherent Self 2 Beuysf Extended Concept of Art  1 Art as Evolution of Mind  2 Emancipation of the Mythical Age . Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Christ  3 Progress of Science – Kant, Newton, Helmholtz, Marx  4 Calvary Cross – Materialism  5 Christ and Man at Play  6 Humans as Artists and the Social Sculpture  7 Exercising Artistic Communication  8 Future Perspectives: Artistic or Artifijicial Thinking 3 Beuyse Artworks as Lessons  1 The eWarmth Qualityf of Artistic Thought  2 eThe Chieff . Revolution of Communication through Art  3 Creating New Flows of Energy  4 Political Statement and Shamanistic Revolution  5 The eChieff as Artistic Education 4 Artistic Learning through Artistic Projects  1 The River Metaphor  2 Pedagogy in Artistic Projects  3 Structural elements of the Artistic Project  4 Experiment  5 Contextuality  6 Polarities as Tensions and Tools of the Artistic Learning Process 5 Artistic Projects as Practice of Artistic Education  1 Research Aspects  2 "Head with a Story"h  3 Aspects of Artistic Education 6 Variations of Artistic Projects  1 "Freedom and Dignity"  2 "The Leaf Principle – Bionic"  3 Diffferent Topics – Diffferent Ways of Artistic Learning 7 Studying Artistic Education  1 Becoming a Generalist  2 Art Educators Have to Be Artists  3 Providing Time and Space for Artistic Studies  4 Should I Study One Medium or More?  5 Giving Grades for Artistic Studies?  6 Visual Studies – Pictorial Sciences  7 The Contemporary Relevance of Art History  8 The Role of Philosophy  9 Relevant Philosophical Disciplines  10 Pedagogy – The Art of Artistic Education  11 Educational Studies  12 Art Pedagogy as Art  13 Interdisciplinary Studies in Artistic Projects  14 Experiencing and Reflecting Polarities  15 Critical Reflection and Imagination in Pedagogy  16 Existential Creativity – Artistic Education as a Mental Attitude 8 Art Class as a Construction Site  Mario Urlass  1 How Can We Bring Students into Educational Situations Which Foreground the Self and the World? 9 On the Educational Potential of Art: A Requiem for Schonau  Christian Wagner  1 Introduction  2 Pupils, Art, and Economic Utility  3 Pupils as Performers: Dying and Death from Diffferent Perspectives  4 Artistic Thinking as a Teaching Process  5 Schonauer Requiem: A Requiem for Schonau  6 Concluding Remarks References

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Book SynopsisArtistic Mentoring as a Decolonizing Methodology: An Evolving Collaborative Painting Ethnography with Maya Artists Pedro Rafael González Chavajay and Paula Nicho Cúmez illuminates the collaborative, holistic teaching processes of artistic mentoring, a decolonizing arts-based methodology, focused on the Indigenous expert as partner and mentor.Table of ContentsOsiyo: Welcome in Cherokee  Christine Ballengee Morris Foreword  Luke Eric Lassiter Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction Mentor Biographies Pedro Rafael González Chavajay  Joseph Johnston Paula Nicho Cúmez  Joseph Johnston Salvador Cúmez Curruchich  Joseph Johnston PART 1: The Artist as Mentor: The Mentoring Relationship as a Teaching Method and Paintings as Didactic Tools Introduction to Part 1: The Artist as mentor Pastor Maya (Maya Pastor) 1 Personal and Cultural Narrative as Inspiration: A Painting and Pedagogical Collaboration with Two Maya Artists  A Problem of Perspective  A Problem of Practice  Perspective and Practice in Context  Decolonizing Methodologies  Results  Life as Text  Discussion  Applications  Conclusion 2 Where Lived Experience Resides in Art Education: A Painting and Pedagogical Collaboration with Paula Nicho Cúmez  Introduction  Reflections on Feminist Pedagogy  Female Kaqchikel Maya Painting and Teaching Processes  Owning One’s Narrative in Collaboratively Produced Paintings  Weaving Women’s Iconography in Paintings  Fusion: One Imagines the Painting into Being  Kaqchikel Women Painters’ Iconography: Personal in Cultural  Maya Women Painters as Role Models  Asserting Female Ways of Connected Knowing and Teacher/Student Role Reversals  A Feminist Teacher’s Strategy: To Elicit  Conclusion PART 2: The Artist as Historian: Paintings as Historical Documents, Sites for Cultural Transmission, and Platforms of Protest and Resistance Introduction to Part 2: The Artist as Historian, Massacre en Atitlán (Massacre in Atitlán)  Painting as a Site for Claiming Maya History 3 Maya Paintings as Teachers of Justice: Art Making the Impossible Possible  The Maya Painting Movement in Context  Our Values Must Be Salvaged and Presented to Our Children 4 Crossing Borders 5 Advocating for Justice: A Maya Painter’s Journey  A Story of Courage  The Anthropology of Genocide: Annihilating Difference (Hinton, 2002)  A Brief Overview of Guatemalan History  A Tragic Moment in History: Massacre in Santiago Atitlán December 3, 1990  Pedro Rafael González Chavajay’s Story PART 3: The Artist as Ethnographer: Collaborative Ethnography, Decolonizing Research Practice, and the Ethics of Representation Introduction to Part 3: The Artist as Ethnographer, Nuestra Amistad (Our Friendship) 6 “Coming of Age in Methodology”: Two Collaborative Inquiries with Shinnecock and Maya Peoples  Diane’s Research Story  Shinnecock Museum  Kryssi’s Research Story  Conclusion: Closing the Distance Section 1: Ethical Changes in Representation Phase One – Participants and Research Process 7 Visual Privileging: Subjectivity in Collaborative Ethnography 8 Decolonizing Development through Indigenous Artist-Led Inquiry  Speaking with, Not for or about Others  The Recounting of Tales, Myths and Readings  Approaching Arts-Based Inquiry with Eyes Wide-Open  Researching in Ways that Might (Dis)Serve Multiple Populations  Conclusions Section 2: Ethical Changes in Representation Phase Two – Relational Presentation 9 Indigenous Methodologies: A Collaborative Painting with Maya Painter Paula Nicho Cúmez  Introduction  A Collaborative Painting with Maya Painter Paula Nicho Cúmez  Conclusion 10 The Inseparability of Indigenous Research and Pedagogy: A Collaborative Painting of a Maya Tz’utuhil Grieving Ritual  Sharing Pain and Happiness  We Shared This  La Consolación  Oh What a Wonderful Theme  You Were the Author of This Painting  You Were There  Reality of a Community  This Painting Carries Something Important  We Have Gotten to Know Each Other  Part of a Larger Story PART 4: The Artist as Teacher: Transformations of the Academy and the Artist/Teacher Introduction to Part 4: The Artist as Teacher, La Consolacion (Condolence) Section 1: Transformations: Curricular Applications to Teaching 11 Learning OUTSIDE the Box: How Mayan Pedagogy Informs a Community/University Partnership  Inroads: Art Education  Connections: Transferring Knowledge across Cultures  The Specifics  How It Unfolded: Step by Step  Negotiating Learning  Leadership: Novices Become Experts  Cultural Narratives: Paths to Learning  Co-Mentoring, Friendship, and the Co-Construction of Knowledge  Conclusions and Implications Situated Learning: The Local Context 12 Maya Teaching Methods: Transformers of Content and Pedagogy in Higher Education  Part One: Working out of Maya Studios  Part Two: Walk the Talk  Conclusion Section 2: Transformations: Self-Reflections of the Artist/Teacher 13 Interior Paths: Transformations of a Painter  El Rapto del Gallo (Abduction of the Rooster): The Absence of Presence in Art Education  Vendedora De Gallos (Seller of Roosters): Paths in as Lived Experience  Conclusion: Who Rules the Roost? 14 Decolonizing Methodologies and the Ethics of Representation: A Collaborative Ethnography with Maya Artists Pedro Rafael González Chavajay and Paula Nicho Cúmez  Introduction: Ethnography in Art Education  Description of the Study: A Collaborative Ethnographic Study  Language  Dismantling Concepts: Research, Benefits, Researcher Subjectivity  Confidentiality and Representation: How Will the Results Be Disseminated?  Discussion: A Growing Discomfort  Conclusion 15 Conclusion  Discoveries  Through the Lens of Life and Death  Reciprocity and Relationship  Doing Arts Thinking  Expanding the Possibilities: Arts Thinking Grounded in Indigenous Perspectives  Artistic Mentoring as a Decolonizing Methodology Index

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Book SynopsisArtistic Mentoring as a Decolonizing Methodology: An Evolving Collaborative Painting Ethnography with Maya Artists Pedro Rafael González Chavajay and Paula Nicho Cúmez illuminates the collaborative, holistic teaching processes of artistic mentoring, a decolonizing arts-based methodology, focused on the Indigenous expert as partner and mentor.Table of ContentsOsiyo: Welcome in Cherokee  Christine Ballengee Morris Foreword  Luke Eric Lassiter Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction Mentor Biographies Pedro Rafael González Chavajay  Joseph Johnston Paula Nicho Cúmez  Joseph Johnston Salvador Cúmez Curruchich  Joseph Johnston PART 1: The Artist as Mentor: The Mentoring Relationship as a Teaching Method and Paintings as Didactic Tools Introduction to Part 1: The Artist as mentor Pastor Maya (Maya Pastor) 1 Personal and Cultural Narrative as Inspiration: A Painting and Pedagogical Collaboration with Two Maya Artists  A Problem of Perspective  A Problem of Practice  Perspective and Practice in Context  Decolonizing Methodologies  Results  Life as Text  Discussion  Applications  Conclusion 2 Where Lived Experience Resides in Art Education: A Painting and Pedagogical Collaboration with Paula Nicho Cúmez  Introduction  Reflections on Feminist Pedagogy  Female Kaqchikel Maya Painting and Teaching Processes  Owning One’s Narrative in Collaboratively Produced Paintings  Weaving Women’s Iconography in Paintings  Fusion: One Imagines the Painting into Being  Kaqchikel Women Painters’ Iconography: Personal in Cultural  Maya Women Painters as Role Models  Asserting Female Ways of Connected Knowing and Teacher/Student Role Reversals  A Feminist Teacher’s Strategy: To Elicit  Conclusion PART 2: The Artist as Historian: Paintings as Historical Documents, Sites for Cultural Transmission, and Platforms of Protest and Resistance Introduction to Part 2: The Artist as Historian, Massacre en Atitlán (Massacre in Atitlán)  Painting as a Site for Claiming Maya History 3 Maya Paintings as Teachers of Justice: Art Making the Impossible Possible  The Maya Painting Movement in Context  Our Values Must Be Salvaged and Presented to Our Children 4 Crossing Borders 5 Advocating for Justice: A Maya Painter’s Journey  A Story of Courage  The Anthropology of Genocide: Annihilating Difference (Hinton, 2002)  A Brief Overview of Guatemalan History  A Tragic Moment in History: Massacre in Santiago Atitlán December 3, 1990  Pedro Rafael González Chavajay’s Story PART 3: The Artist as Ethnographer: Collaborative Ethnography, Decolonizing Research Practice, and the Ethics of Representation Introduction to Part 3: The Artist as Ethnographer, Nuestra Amistad (Our Friendship) 6 “Coming of Age in Methodology”: Two Collaborative Inquiries with Shinnecock and Maya Peoples  Diane’s Research Story  Shinnecock Museum  Kryssi’s Research Story  Conclusion: Closing the Distance Section 1: Ethical Changes in Representation Phase One – Participants and Research Process 7 Visual Privileging: Subjectivity in Collaborative Ethnography 8 Decolonizing Development through Indigenous Artist-Led Inquiry  Speaking with, Not for or about Others  The Recounting of Tales, Myths and Readings  Approaching Arts-Based Inquiry with Eyes Wide-Open  Researching in Ways that Might (Dis)Serve Multiple Populations  Conclusions Section 2: Ethical Changes in Representation Phase Two – Relational Presentation 9 Indigenous Methodologies: A Collaborative Painting with Maya Painter Paula Nicho Cúmez  Introduction  A Collaborative Painting with Maya Painter Paula Nicho Cúmez  Conclusion 10 The Inseparability of Indigenous Research and Pedagogy: A Collaborative Painting of a Maya Tz’utuhil Grieving Ritual  Sharing Pain and Happiness  We Shared This  La Consolación  Oh What a Wonderful Theme  You Were the Author of This Painting  You Were There  Reality of a Community  This Painting Carries Something Important  We Have Gotten to Know Each Other  Part of a Larger Story PART 4: The Artist as Teacher: Transformations of the Academy and the Artist/Teacher Introduction to Part 4: The Artist as Teacher, La Consolacion (Condolence) Section 1: Transformations: Curricular Applications to Teaching 11 Learning OUTSIDE the Box: How Mayan Pedagogy Informs a Community/University Partnership  Inroads: Art Education  Connections: Transferring Knowledge across Cultures  The Specifics  How It Unfolded: Step by Step  Negotiating Learning  Leadership: Novices Become Experts  Cultural Narratives: Paths to Learning  Co-Mentoring, Friendship, and the Co-Construction of Knowledge  Conclusions and Implications Situated Learning: The Local Context 12 Maya Teaching Methods: Transformers of Content and Pedagogy in Higher Education  Part One: Working out of Maya Studios  Part Two: Walk the Talk  Conclusion Section 2: Transformations: Self-Reflections of the Artist/Teacher 13 Interior Paths: Transformations of a Painter  El Rapto del Gallo (Abduction of the Rooster): The Absence of Presence in Art Education  Vendedora De Gallos (Seller of Roosters): Paths in as Lived Experience  Conclusion: Who Rules the Roost? 14 Decolonizing Methodologies and the Ethics of Representation: A Collaborative Ethnography with Maya Artists Pedro Rafael González Chavajay and Paula Nicho Cúmez  Introduction: Ethnography in Art Education  Description of the Study: A Collaborative Ethnographic Study  Language  Dismantling Concepts: Research, Benefits, Researcher Subjectivity  Confidentiality and Representation: How Will the Results Be Disseminated?  Discussion: A Growing Discomfort  Conclusion 15 Conclusion  Discoveries  Through the Lens of Life and Death  Reciprocity and Relationship  Doing Arts Thinking  Expanding the Possibilities: Arts Thinking Grounded in Indigenous Perspectives  Artistic Mentoring as a Decolonizing Methodology Index

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Book SynopsisThe inspiration for this book arose out of a large international conference: the ninth World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) organized under the theme of Culture/Environment. Similarly, the theme for this book focuses on the Culture/Environment nexus. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 consists of a series of research studies from an eclectic selection of researchers from all corners of the globe. Part 2 consists of a series of case studies of practice selected from a wide diversity of K-Postsecondary educators. The intent behind these selections is to augment and highlight the diversity of both cultural method and cultural voice in our descriptions of environmental education practice. The chapters focus on a multi-disciplinary view of Environmental Education with a developing view that Culture and Environment may be inseparable and arise from and within each other. Cultural change is also a necessary condition, and a requirement, to rebuild and reinvent our relationship with nature and to live more sustainably. The chapters address the spirit of supporting our praxis, and are therefore directed towards both an educator and researcher audience. Each chapter describes original research or curriculum development work.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables 1. Culture and Environment: Weaving New Connections  David B. Zandvliet Part 1 2. A Methodological Approach to the Study of Environmental Education through Drawings  Antonio Fernández Crispín, Marisela de Niz Robles, Verónica Ruíz Pérez, Norma A. Hernández and Javier Benayas del Álamo 3. Paradigms in the Relationship between Human Beings and Nature in the Andes  Germán Vargas Callejas 4. Using a Digital Picture Book to Promote Understanding of Human-Wildlife Conflict  Shiho Miyake 5. Examining the Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Sustainable Living in the North Rupununi (Guyana)  Paulette Bynoe 6. How Many Butterflies Will Lose Their Habitats? Communicating Biodiversity Research Using the Example of European Butterflies  Karin Ulbrich, Elisabeth Kühn, Oliver Schweiger and Josef Settele 7. The Agroecological Movement in Galicia (Spain)  Kylyan M. Bisquert and Pablo Á. Meira 8. The Sacred Sites of Dan Populations in Côte d’Ivoire: Environmental Conservation Factors  Dien Kouaye Olivier 9. From the Bubble to the Forest: Nature School Environmental Education  Barry Wood 10. Developing and Motivating Young Leaders for Sustainability: A Developmental Framework  Patricia Armstrong and Annette Gough Part 2 11. Teaching Global Indigenous Content to Young Learners  Sophia Hunter and Carolynn Beaty 12. Climate Change and Agricultural Production: Hands-on Active Classroom Learning in Estonia  Margit Säre 13. Outdoor Education in the Slovenian School System Supports Cultural and Environmental Education  Darja Skribe Dimec 14. Environmental Power Plant Project: Environmental Education in a Conservation Area  Micheli Kowalczuk Machado, Estevão Brasil Ruas Vernalha and João Luiz Hoeffel 15. A Pilot Program on Avifauna in French Guiana  Judith Priam and Jean-Pierre Avril 16. Renewable Energies: A Thematic Connection between Subjects  Nelson Arias Ávila, Verónica Tricio Gómez, Jessica Mayorga Buchelly and Jenny Ortega Vásquez 17. The Environmental Sustainability Game  Mauricio Guerrero Alarcon, Olivia Leon Valle and Alfonso Rivas Cruces 18. Drawing Meaning from Nature: Observation, Symbols and Stories  Zuzana Vasko and Robi Smith 19. Youth Engagement for Environmental Education and Sustainable Lifestyles  Brian Olewe Waswala, Otieno Nickson Otieno and Jared Buoga 20. Case Studies for Maintaining and Enhancing Urban Greenery  Kieu Lan Phuong Nguyen, Ho-Wen Chen, Khanh Ly Le and Xuan Hoan Nguyen 21. Integrating Teaching and Learning Around the Seven Sustainable Development Goals of the Well-Being of Future Generations Act 2015 (Wales)  Carolyn S. Hayles 22. Sustainable Education: Essential Contributions to a ‘Quadruple Helix’ Interaction and Sustainable Paradigm Shift  Dirk Franco, Alain De Vocht, Tom Kuppens, Hilda Martens, Theo Thewys, Bernard Vanheusden, Marleen Schepers and Jean Pierre Segers 23. Communicating about Greater Burlington Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development (GBRCE) with Sustainability Stories  Thomas R. Hudspeth 24. Ecomuseums in Saskatchewan: Viewing Networks and Partnerships through a Regional and Project-Specific Lens  Adela Tesarek Kincaid, Glenn C. Sutter and Anna M. H. Hall 25. Weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Indigenous Youth Education: A Case Study in an Indigenous Rice Paddy Cultural Landscape, Taiwan  Kuang-Chung Lee 26. Discovering Nature in the Technological Age  Dylan Leech

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Book SynopsisHow to Do Things with Affects develops affect as a highly productive concept for both cultural analysis and the reading of aesthetic forms. Shifting the focus from individual experiences and the human interiority of personal emotions and feelings toward the agency of cultural objects, social arrangements, and aesthetic matter, the book examines how affects operate and are triggered by aesthetic forms, media events, and cultural practices. Transgressing disciplinary boundaries and emphasizing close reading, the collected essays explore manifold affective transmissions and resonances enacted by modernist literary works, contemporary visual arts, horror and documentary films, museum displays, and animated pornography, with a special focus on how they impact on political events, media strategies, and social situations. Contributors: Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Maria Boletsi, Eugenie Brinkema, Pietro Conte, Anne Fleig, Bernd Herzogenrath, Tomáš Jirsa, Matthias Lüthjohann, Susanna Paasonen, Christina Riley, Jan Slaby, Eliza Steinbock, Christiane Voss.Trade Review"The major strengths of How to Do Things with Affects [...] are the multidisciplinary exemplification of a very general schema and the refinement of what exactly is meant by the stylish phrase, 'to restore agency to form.' Scholars working to recuperate literature and art as suitable objects of inquiry in affect studies will find several essays here that bolster that effort. All in all, if something of a formalist turn is underway in affect theory, How to Do Things with Affects [...] is an enriching volume that can serve as an introduction to that turn or an abundant development of it. - Stephanie Amon, Afterimage (2020) 47 (2): 93–96.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Mapping Affective Operations  Ernst van Alphen and Tomáš Jirsa PART 1 Triggering the Affects 1 Reading Irony through Affect: the Non-Sovereign Ironic Subject in C.P. Cavafy’s Diary  Maria Boletsi 2 (An)Aesthetics of Affect: the Case of Hyper-Realism  Pietro Conte 3 Relational Affect: Perspectives from Philosophy and Cultural Studies  Jan Slaby 4 (Nearly) Nothing to Express : Horror : some Tread : a Toroid  Eugenie Brinkema 5 Integrating Affect and Language: Essayism as an Affective Practice in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities  Anne Fleig and Matthias Lüthjohann PART 2 Sensations, Resonances, and Transformations 6 Affective Disfigurations: Faceless Encounters between Literary Modernism and the Great War  Tomáš Jirsa 7 Monstrous Resonances: Affect and Animated Pornography  Susanna Paasonen 8 Reading for Affects: Francis Bacon and the Work of Sensation  Ernst van Alphen PART 3 Affects as Triggers 9 Affectively Effective: Affect as an Artistic-Political Strategy  Mieke Bal 10 Affect Is the Medium  Christiane Voss 11 Et in Academia Ego: Affect and Academic Writing  Bernd Herzogenrath 12 The Arab Spring’s Stranger: the Affective Media Phenomenon of The Girl in the Blue Bra  Christina Riley 13 Affective Exchange in Portraiture: to Follow J. Jackie Baier into the Photographic Dissolve  Eliza Steinbock Name Index

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Book SynopsisPop culture emerged in the first decades of the twentieth century as a reaction to the restrictive social traditions of colonial America. It spread quickly and broadly throughout the bustling urban centers of the 1920s—an era when it formed a partnership with technology and the business world. This coalition gave pop culture its identity, allowing it to thrive and form alliances with artistic and literary movements. But pop culture may have run its course with the rise of meme culture. This publication revisits the social, psychic, and aesthetic roots of pop culture, suggesting that meme culture has fragmented its historical flow, thus threatening to bring about its demise.Table of ContentsMemes and the Future of Pop Culture  Marcel Danesi  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Origins  3 The Protestant Ethic  4 The Roaring Twenties  5 Theorizing Pop Culture  6 Technology and the Marketplace  7 Literary-Artistic Bricolage  8 Carnival, Archetype, and Mythology Theories Revisited  9 Sociobiology and the Theory of Memes  10 Meme Culture  11 The Simulacrum  12 Meme Culture versus Pop Culture  13 The “Communal Brain”  14 The Global Village  15 The “Corso” and “Ricorso” of History  16 The Tetrad  17 The Future  References

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Book SynopsisCore texts addressing creativity in a number of contexts show that creativity as a scientific subject has received principally the attention of Western scholars. Is this due to the fact that Western cultures are more creative or sensitive to creativity than the Eastern cultures? The editors strongly believe that this is more due to the differences in understanding and practising creativity in the West and East than to an Eastern indifference to creativity. Arts-Based Education: China and Its Intersection with the World investigates the field of arts-based educational practices and research. It argues that reflections on these themes must necessarily be reframed and re-read beyond the limits of colonialist oppositions and suggests a constructive and reflexive approach to theory and methodology, which takes into account intercultural and critical perspectives in these studies. This volume is the tangible product of the acknowledgement that China and Chinese culture deserves a more systematic and up-to-date dissemination through recent studies that bring together the arts, learning and creativity. It is clustered around two themes: (1) China and its communication with the world through arts-based education in international contexts, and (2) the development of arts education in China.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Part 1: China and Its Communication with the World through Arts-Based Education in International Contexts 1 Reframing the Arts and Creativity in Chinese Education  Tatiana Chemi, Lihong Wang and Xiangyun Du 2 Intercultural Learning, Undergraduate Ethnomusicology Courses, and Postcolonialism: A Reflection on Challenging Stereotypes of the ‘Inferior Other’ in Chinese Music  Derrick Tu 3 Eurasian Theatre and the Pedagogy of Actor: The Work of Mei Lanfang  Pierangelo Pompa and Tatiana Chemi 4 Chinese Calligraphy Teaching in Non-Chinese Contexts  Lei Ma 5 Embodied Learning: Hypothesis for an Action-Based Physical Approach to Teaching Chinese Characters  Tatiana Chemi and Pierangelo Pompa 6 Write Your Name  Beili Xiang Part 2: The Development of Arts Education in China 7 Children’s Art as Creative Interpretations of the World  Yanjie Yang 8 Action Research for the Integration of Folk Handicraft into the Kindergarten Curriculum  Wang Di 9 Development and Current Status of Art Education in China: From Policy to Practice  Yanjie Yang 10 A Comparative Study on Early Childhood Art Curriculum between Korea and China  Xiaohua Li 11 Overview on the Evaluation of Children’s Art Education  Chen Huangchao Index

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Book SynopsisCore texts addressing creativity in a number of contexts show that creativity as a scientific subject has received principally the attention of Western scholars. Is this due to the fact that Western cultures are more creative or sensitive to creativity than the Eastern cultures? The editors strongly believe that this is more due to the differences in understanding and practising creativity in the West and East than to an Eastern indifference to creativity. Arts-Based Education: China and Its Intersection with the World investigates the field of arts-based educational practices and research. It argues that reflections on these themes must necessarily be reframed and re-read beyond the limits of colonialist oppositions and suggests a constructive and reflexive approach to theory and methodology, which takes into account intercultural and critical perspectives in these studies. This volume is the tangible product of the acknowledgement that China and Chinese culture deserves a more systematic and up-to-date dissemination through recent studies that bring together the arts, learning and creativity. It is clustered around two themes: (1) China and its communication with the world through arts-based education in international contexts, and (2) the development of arts education in China.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Part 1: China and Its Communication with the World through Arts-Based Education in International Contexts 1 Reframing the Arts and Creativity in Chinese Education  Tatiana Chemi, Lihong Wang and Xiangyun Du 2 Intercultural Learning, Undergraduate Ethnomusicology Courses, and Postcolonialism: A Reflection on Challenging Stereotypes of the ‘Inferior Other’ in Chinese Music  Derrick Tu 3 Eurasian Theatre and the Pedagogy of Actor: The Work of Mei Lanfang  Pierangelo Pompa and Tatiana Chemi 4 Chinese Calligraphy Teaching in Non-Chinese Contexts  Lei Ma 5 Embodied Learning: Hypothesis for an Action-Based Physical Approach to Teaching Chinese Characters  Tatiana Chemi and Pierangelo Pompa 6 Write Your Name  Beili Xiang Part 2: The Development of Arts Education in China 7 Children’s Art as Creative Interpretations of the World  Yanjie Yang 8 Action Research for the Integration of Folk Handicraft into the Kindergarten Curriculum  Wang Di 9 Development and Current Status of Art Education in China: From Policy to Practice  Yanjie Yang 10 A Comparative Study on Early Childhood Art Curriculum between Korea and China  Xiaohua Li 11 Overview on the Evaluation of Children’s Art Education  Chen Huangchao Index

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Book SynopsisArts education research has increased significantly since the beginning of the new millennium. This peer-reviewed book, the first of two volumes, captures some of the exciting developments in Canada. There is geographical diversity represented from across this large country, as well as theoretical and methodological diversity in the chapters. There is also a sense of togetherness with those, and other, diversities. There are calls to action and calls to play. We hear voices of artists, researchers, and artist researchers. The life histories of others, and of the self, are presented. Perspectives on Arts Education Research in Canada, Volume 1: Surveying the Landscape provides a wide spectrum of current research by members of the Arts Researchers and Teachers Society (ARTS)/La societé des chercheurs et des enseignants des arts (SCEA), a Special Interest Group (SIG) within the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS), which is in turn, is a constituent association of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). Contributors are: Bernard W. Andrews, Julia Brook, Susan Catlin, Genevieve Cloutier, Yoriko Gillard, Kate Greenway, Michael Hayes, Nané Jordan, Sajani (Jinny) Menon, Catrina Migliore, Kathryn Ricketts, Pauline Sameshima, and Sean Wiebe.Trade Review"This compendium offers critical perspectives utilizing various arts-based research methodologies reflective of the richness and diversity of the multicultural landscape of Canada. A must-read for all arts educators and researchers." – Rodger Beatty, Brock University "What a feast! This book presents a fascinating panoply of post-qualitative research in Canada. With a diverse range of methods, including a/r/tography, auto-ethnography, life history, embodied poetic narrative, historiographic poiesis, proestry, stitching a story cloth and more, artist/scholars leverage the power of the arts to explore, come to know, and represent. Addressing topics from disaster relief to Indigenous arts education to the tortures of teaching practice the authors evocatively demonstrate the enormous potential of researching with and through the arts to enliven understanding." – Benjamin Bolden, UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Queen’s University “This compilation offers new directions in arts-based and arts-informed research with profound implications for pedagogy and practice. You will find in the pages of this book, engaging and thought-provoking ideas from arts education scholars in Canada. I felt inspired by each contribution and am convinced that this book provides timely and valuable insights for future research in arts education.” – Susan O’Neill, Dean, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser UniversityTable of ContentsForeword  John J. Guiney Yallop Preface List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 From Paris to Belfast: A Canadian Life Writing Journey Home  Nané Jordan 2 Imagination: The Generation of Possibility  Pauline Sameshima, Sean Wiebe and Michael T. Hayes 3 Creating Complex and Diverse Communities of Meaning Makers with Help from Remington  Kathryn Ricketts 4 Historiographic Poiesis and Adoption Ephemera: Journeys in Arts-Based Research  Kate Greenway 5 Arts-Based Methods, Transformation, and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Arts-Based Research  Genevieve Cloutier 6 KIZUNA: A Creative Journey  Yoriko Gillard 7 A Story Cloth of Curriculum Making: Narratively S-t-i-t-c-h-i-n-g Understandings through Arts-Informed Work  Sajani (Jinny) Menon 8 Being and Becoming an Artist: Exploring the Life Histories of Five Indigenous Artists from the Northwest Territories  Julia Brook and Susan Catlin 9 Tensions in the Mentor-Mentee Relationship in Teacher Education: An Artistic Inquiry  Caterina Migliore 10 Responsive Inquiry: Employing a Musical Metaphor to Conceptualize an Arts-Based Research Strategy for the Electronic Field  Bernard W. Andrews

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Book SynopsisArts education research has increased significantly since the beginning of the new millennium. This peer-reviewed book, the first of two volumes, captures some of the exciting developments in Canada. There is geographical diversity represented from across this large country, as well as theoretical and methodological diversity in the chapters. There is also a sense of togetherness with those, and other, diversities. There are calls to action and calls to play. We hear voices of artists, researchers, and artist researchers. The life histories of others, and of the self, are presented. Perspectives on Arts Education Research in Canada, Volume 1: Surveying the Landscape provides a wide spectrum of current research by members of the Arts Researchers and Teachers Society (ARTS)/La societé des chercheurs et des enseignants des arts (SCEA), a Special Interest Group (SIG) within the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS), which is in turn, is a constituent association of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). Contributors are: Bernard W. Andrews, Julia Brook, Susan Catlin, Genevieve Cloutier, Yoriko Gillard, Kate Greenway, Michael Hayes, Nané Jordan, Sajani (Jinny) Menon, Catrina Migliore, Kathryn Ricketts, Pauline Sameshima, and Sean Wiebe.Trade Review"This compendium offers critical perspectives utilizing various arts-based research methodologies reflective of the richness and diversity of the multicultural landscape of Canada. A must-read for all arts educators and researchers." – Rodger Beatty, Brock University "What a feast! This book presents a fascinating panoply of post-qualitative research in Canada. With a diverse range of methods, including a/r/tography, auto-ethnography, life history, embodied poetic narrative, historiographic poiesis, proestry, stitching a story cloth and more, artist/scholars leverage the power of the arts to explore, come to know, and represent. Addressing topics from disaster relief to Indigenous arts education to the tortures of teaching practice the authors evocatively demonstrate the enormous potential of researching with and through the arts to enliven understanding." – Benjamin Bolden, UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Queen’s University “This compilation offers new directions in arts-based and arts-informed research with profound implications for pedagogy and practice. You will find in the pages of this book, engaging and thought-provoking ideas from arts education scholars in Canada. I felt inspired by each contribution and am convinced that this book provides timely and valuable insights for future research in arts education.” – Susan O’Neill, Dean, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser UniversityTable of ContentsForeword  John J. Guiney Yallop Preface List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 From Paris to Belfast: A Canadian Life Writing Journey Home  Nané Jordan 2 Imagination: The Generation of Possibility  Pauline Sameshima, Sean Wiebe and Michael T. Hayes 3 Creating Complex and Diverse Communities of Meaning Makers with Help from Remington  Kathryn Ricketts 4 Historiographic Poiesis and Adoption Ephemera: Journeys in Arts-Based Research  Kate Greenway 5 Arts-Based Methods, Transformation, and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Arts-Based Research  Genevieve Cloutier 6 KIZUNA: A Creative Journey  Yoriko Gillard 7 A Story Cloth of Curriculum Making: Narratively S-t-i-t-c-h-i-n-g Understandings through Arts-Informed Work  Sajani (Jinny) Menon 8 Being and Becoming an Artist: Exploring the Life Histories of Five Indigenous Artists from the Northwest Territories  Julia Brook and Susan Catlin 9 Tensions in the Mentor-Mentee Relationship in Teacher Education: An Artistic Inquiry  Caterina Migliore 10 Responsive Inquiry: Employing a Musical Metaphor to Conceptualize an Arts-Based Research Strategy for the Electronic Field  Bernard W. Andrews

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Book SynopsisTimescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility. The individual articles approach these spaces from a variety of academic perspectives – including the realms of history, architecture, law and literary and cultural studies – in order to probe the fluid relationships between power, time and space. The contributors offer discussion and analysis of waiting spaces like ante-chambers, prisons, hospitals, and refugee camps, and also of more elusive spaces such as communities and nation-states. Contributors: Olaf Berwald, Elise Brault-Dreux, Richard Hardack, Kerstin Howaldt, Robin Kellermann, Amanda Lagji, Margaret Olin, Helmut Puff, Katrin Röder, Christoph Singer, Cornelia Wächter, Robert Wirth.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Christoph Singer, Robert Wirth and Olaf Berwald 1 Waiting in the Antechamber  Helmut Puff 2 Waiting for Railways (1830–1914)  Robin Kellermann 3 Waiting for the Man: Deferring and Spatialising Legal and Narrative Delay  Richard Hardack 4 Dickens, Reade and Galsworthy on Waiting in Solitary Confinement  Cornelia Wächter 5 The Camp as Extra-Temporal Space in E.C. Osondu’s “Waiting” and Dinaw Mengestu’s “An Honest Exit”  Christoph Singer 6 “The Waiting Must End”: Waiting for Im/Possible Events in Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the King  Kerstin Howaldt 7 Absurd Waiting in Samuel Beckett and Zakes Mda: Wartestellen and Revolutionary Waiting  Amanda Lagji 8 Waiting as Resistance: Confined Spaces in Broch and Weiss  Olaf Berwald 9 Scotland: a Nation-State in Waiting  Robert Wirth 10 How Long Will Handala Wait? A Ten-Year-Old Barefoot Refugee Child on Palestinian Walls  Margaret Olin 11 When Boredom Meets Fear: Waiting in Philip Larkin’s “The Building”  Elise Brault-Dreux 12 Waiting in Sickrooms and Victorian Houses: Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill”  Katrin Röder Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art sheds light on Indigenous justice perspectives in Indigenous literature and art. Decolonizing education, culture, and society is the revolutionary pulse of this book aimed at educational reform and comprehensive change. Select works of published literature and exhibited art are interpreted in the critical discourse presented. Indigeneity as a lens is used to deconstruct education, accountability, and policy in Canada and globally. A new hypothesis is advanced about colonization and Indigenous voicelessness, helplessness, and genocidal victimhood as unchanging conditions of humanity. Activist pushback is demonstrated in the rise of Indigenous sources originating in global Canada. While colonization dehumanizes Canadian Indigenous peoples, a global movement has erupted, changing pockets of curriculum, teaching, and research. Through agency and solidarity in public life and, gradually, education, Indigenous justice is a mounting paradigmatic force. Indigenous voices speak about colonialism as a crisis of humanity that provokes truth-telling and protest. Glimpses of Indigenous futurity offer new possibilities for decolonizing our globally connected lives. Actionable steps include educating for a just world and integrating Indigenous justice in other advocacy theories. “Compelling, interesting, important, and original. I was impressed with Carol Mullen’s knowledge as well as how she wove together this knowledge with both the literature and personal experience throughout this beautifully and soulfully written text. I appreciate how she illuminated spaces and people whose work is often relegated to dark corners.” – Pamela J. Konkol, Professor of Foundations, Social Policy, and Research at Concordia University Chicago See inside the book.Trade Review“Compelling, interesting, important, and original. I was impressed with Carol Mullen’s knowledge as well as how she wove together this knowledge with both the literature and personal experience throughout this beautifully and soulfully written text. I appreciate how the author illuminated spaces and people whose work is often relegated to dark corners.” – Pamela J. Konkol, Professor of Foundations, Social Policy, and Research at Concordia University Chicago "I believe that this book contributes much needed knowledge to the field, with earnest attention on Indigenous education. It is the first writing I have seen on this important topic that integrates Indigenous art and literature as tools for protest and meaningful change. Without a doubt, Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art breaks new ground for education in its content, frameworks, and presentation". Christopher H. Tienken, in AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice, 18 (3), Fall 2021.Table of ContentsTribute to Bernardo P. Gallegos Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Introduction About the Author 1 Frames: Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art  1 Frames Introduced  2 Specialized Terms Defined  3 Methods and Methodological Frames  4 Selection Criteria  5 Canadian Indigenous Art/ifacts  6 Viewpoints 2 Tensions: Truth-Telling about Injustice in Canada  1 Policy and Reform: Trend #1  2 Testing and Education: Trend #2  3 Diversity and Immigration: Trend #3  4 Health and Environment: Trend #4  5 Perspectives 3 Binaries: Colonizing Forces and Counterforces  1 Conceptual Framework  2 Thematic Binary Discussion  3 Viewpoints 4 Exhibits: Water and Land Politics in Aboriginal Art/ifacts  1 Erasure.Exposure Narrative Friction  2 Messages to Ponder  3 Viewpoints 5 Interventions: Pedagogies for Decolonizing Education  1 Interventions from Six Domains  2 Ten Literature-Based Tenets  3 Vigilance Practiced and in Practice  4 Perspectives 6 Futurity: Glimpses of Indigenous and Settler Struggle  1 Indigenous and Settler Futurity  2 Visions of Indigenous Education  3 Learning from the Past  4 In Light of Indigenous Justice  5 Perspectives Epilogue  1 International Linkages of Colonialism  2 Recommendations from the Literature  3 Eyes Wide Open Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art sheds light on Indigenous justice perspectives in Indigenous literature and art. Decolonizing education, culture, and society is the revolutionary pulse of this book aimed at educational reform and comprehensive change. Select works of published literature and exhibited art are interpreted in the critical discourse presented. Indigeneity as a lens is used to deconstruct education, accountability, and policy in Canada and globally. A new hypothesis is advanced about colonization and Indigenous voicelessness, helplessness, and genocidal victimhood as unchanging conditions of humanity. Activist pushback is demonstrated in the rise of Indigenous sources originating in global Canada. While colonization dehumanizes Canadian Indigenous peoples, a global movement has erupted, changing pockets of curriculum, teaching, and research. Through agency and solidarity in public life and, gradually, education, Indigenous justice is a mounting paradigmatic force. Indigenous voices speak about colonialism as a crisis of humanity that provokes truth-telling and protest. Glimpses of Indigenous futurity offer new possibilities for decolonizing our globally connected lives. Actionable steps include educating for a just world and integrating Indigenous justice in other advocacy theories. “Compelling, interesting, important, and original. I was impressed with Carol Mullen’s knowledge as well as how she wove together this knowledge with both the literature and personal experience throughout this beautifully and soulfully written text. I appreciate how she illuminated spaces and people whose work is often relegated to dark corners.” – Pamela J. Konkol, Professor of Foundations, Social Policy, and Research at Concordia University Chicago See inside the book.Trade Review“Compelling, interesting, important, and original. I was impressed with Carol Mullen’s knowledge as well as how she wove together this knowledge with both the literature and personal experience throughout this beautifully and soulfully written text. I appreciate how the author illuminated spaces and people whose work is often relegated to dark corners.” – Pamela J. Konkol, Professor of Foundations, Social Policy, and Research at Concordia University Chicago "I believe that this book contributes much needed knowledge to the field, with earnest attention on Indigenous education. It is the first writing I have seen on this important topic that integrates Indigenous art and literature as tools for protest and meaningful change. Without a doubt, Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art breaks new ground for education in its content, frameworks, and presentation". Christopher H. Tienken, in AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice, 18 (3), Fall 2021.Table of ContentsTribute to Bernardo P. Gallegos Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Introduction About the Author 1 Frames: Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art  1 Frames Introduced  2 Specialized Terms Defined  3 Methods and Methodological Frames  4 Selection Criteria  5 Canadian Indigenous Art/ifacts  6 Viewpoints 2 Tensions: Truth-Telling about Injustice in Canada  1 Policy and Reform: Trend #1  2 Testing and Education: Trend #2  3 Diversity and Immigration: Trend #3  4 Health and Environment: Trend #4  5 Perspectives 3 Binaries: Colonizing Forces and Counterforces  1 Conceptual Framework  2 Thematic Binary Discussion  3 Viewpoints 4 Exhibits: Water and Land Politics in Aboriginal Art/ifacts  1 Erasure.Exposure Narrative Friction  2 Messages to Ponder  3 Viewpoints 5 Interventions: Pedagogies for Decolonizing Education  1 Interventions from Six Domains  2 Ten Literature-Based Tenets  3 Vigilance Practiced and in Practice  4 Perspectives 6 Futurity: Glimpses of Indigenous and Settler Struggle  1 Indigenous and Settler Futurity  2 Visions of Indigenous Education  3 Learning from the Past  4 In Light of Indigenous Justice  5 Perspectives Epilogue  1 International Linkages of Colonialism  2 Recommendations from the Literature  3 Eyes Wide Open Index

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Book SynopsisJoseph Beuys significantly influenced the development of art in recent decades through his expanded definition of art. In his art and reflections on art, he raised far-reaching questions on the nature of art and its central importance for modern education. His famous claim, “Every human is an artist,“ points to the fundamental ability of every human to be creative in the art of life – with respect to the development of one’s own personality and one’s actions within society. Beuys saw society as an artwork in a permanent process of transformation, a ‘social sculpture‘ in which every person participated, and for which everyone should be educated as comprehensively as possible. Beuys describes pedagogy as central to his art. This book thus examines important aspects of Beuys’s art and theory and the challenges they raise for contemporary artistic education. It outlines the foundational theoretical qualities of artistic education and discusses the practice of ‘artistic projects’ in a series of empirical examples. The author, Carl-Peter Buschkühle, documents projects he has undertaken with various high school classes. In additional chapters, Mario Urlaß discusses the great value of artistic projects in primary school, and Christian Wagner reflects on his collaboration with the performance artist Wolfgang Sautermeister and school students in a socially-disadvantaged urban area. Artistic education has become one of the most influential art-pedagogical concepts in German-speaking countries. This book presents its foundations and educational practices in English for the first time.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures 1 Joseph Beuys and the Artistic Education  1 Freedom and the Challenge to Be an Artist of Living  2 The Polar Play of Artistic Thinking  3 The Decentralized Subject of Postmodernity  4 Identity and the Coherent Self 2 Beuysf Extended Concept of Art  1 Art as Evolution of Mind  2 Emancipation of the Mythical Age . Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Christ  3 Progress of Science – Kant, Newton, Helmholtz, Marx  4 Calvary Cross – Materialism  5 Christ and Man at Play  6 Humans as Artists and the Social Sculpture  7 Exercising Artistic Communication  8 Future Perspectives: Artistic or Artifijicial Thinking 3 Beuyse Artworks as Lessons  1 The eWarmth Qualityf of Artistic Thought  2 eThe Chieff . Revolution of Communication through Art  3 Creating New Flows of Energy  4 Political Statement and Shamanistic Revolution  5 The eChieff as Artistic Education 4 Artistic Learning through Artistic Projects  1 The River Metaphor  2 Pedagogy in Artistic Projects  3 Structural elements of the Artistic Project  4 Experiment  5 Contextuality  6 Polarities as Tensions and Tools of the Artistic Learning Process 5 Artistic Projects as Practice of Artistic Education  1 Research Aspects  2 "Head with a Story"h  3 Aspects of Artistic Education 6 Variations of Artistic Projects  1 "Freedom and Dignity"  2 "The Leaf Principle – Bionic"  3 Diffferent Topics – Diffferent Ways of Artistic Learning 7 Studying Artistic Education  1 Becoming a Generalist  2 Art Educators Have to Be Artists  3 Providing Time and Space for Artistic Studies  4 Should I Study One Medium or More?  5 Giving Grades for Artistic Studies?  6 Visual Studies – Pictorial Sciences  7 The Contemporary Relevance of Art History  8 The Role of Philosophy  9 Relevant Philosophical Disciplines  10 Pedagogy – The Art of Artistic Education  11 Educational Studies  12 Art Pedagogy as Art  13 Interdisciplinary Studies in Artistic Projects  14 Experiencing and Reflecting Polarities  15 Critical Reflection and Imagination in Pedagogy  16 Existential Creativity – Artistic Education as a Mental Attitude 8 Art Class as a Construction Site  Mario Urlass  1 How Can We Bring Students into Educational Situations Which Foreground the Self and the World? 9 On the Educational Potential of Art: A Requiem for Schonau  Christian Wagner  1 Introduction  2 Pupils, Art, and Economic Utility  3 Pupils as Performers: Dying and Death from Diffferent Perspectives  4 Artistic Thinking as a Teaching Process  5 Schonauer Requiem: A Requiem for Schonau  6 Concluding Remarks References

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Book SynopsisDestination for artists and convalescents, playground of the rich, site of foreign allure, the French Riviera has long attracted visitors to its shores. Ranging through the late nineteenth century, the Belle Epoque, the ‘roaring twenties’, and the emancipatory post-war years, Rosemary Lancaster highlights the contributions of nine remarkable women to the cultural identity of the Riviera in its seminal rise to fame. Embracing an array of genres, she gives new focus to feminine writings never previously brought together, nor as richly critically explored. Fiction, memoir, diary, letters, even cookbooks and choreographies provide compelling evidence of the innovativeness of women who seized the challenges and opportunities of their travels in a century of radical social and artistic change.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Part 1: Art and Illness 1 Marie Bashkirtseff’s Quest for Glory: the Nice Years and After  Epilogue 2 ‘Ordered South’: Katherine Mansfield in Menton  Epilogue Part 2: High Life on the Riviera 3 Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo  Epilogue 4 Bronislava Nijinska: The Ballets Russes Years  Epilogue 5 The Riviera and the Rich: Rebecca West’s The Thinking Reed (1936)  Epilogue Part 3: The Mediterranean Idyll 6 Rebirth in Saint-Tropez: Colette’s Break of Day  Epilogue 7 An Invented Childhood: Honoria Murphy in Antibes  Epilogue 8 Flavours of the South: the Culinary Revolutions of Elizabeth David and Julia Child  Epilogue Selective Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book can be viewed as a series of investigations into the ongoing imbrications of the practices of art, ethics and education as conducted within each author’s specific context of practice as artist, educator, researcher. It constitutes an international anthology of explorations that are by no means exclusive but conscious of the ongoing iterations, mutations and individuations of relations between art, ethics and education, which, in turn, seek to expand how we might conceive these terms as practices. This ongoing evolution reminds us that as practices art, ethics and education are always incomplete processes affected by and affecting their specific milieus and environments. Chapters within the book cover a wide range of ethical questions and educational contexts, broaching subjects as varied as higher education, artificial intelligence, animal ethics, transcultural encounters, collaborative art, the education of senior citizens and experiences of conflict. Art, ethics and education are not conceived in terms of established orders, representations, ideals, criteria or bodies of knowledge and practice, but rather in terms of dynamic, relational processes and their potentialities, that arise within specific locations, cartographies and ecologies of practice. The notions of art, ethics and education are viewed in terms of assemblages that have the capacity to generate new modes of practice that may question established values and advance new overlappings of aesthetic, ethical and political relations. Contributors are: Dennis Atkinson, Hashim Al Azzam, John Baldacchino, Bazon Brock, Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Sahin Celikten, Ana Dimke, Brian Grassom, Leena Hannula, Brian Hughes, jan jagodzinski, Timo Jokela, Mira Kallio-Tavin, Joachim Kettel, Guillermo Marini, Catarina Martins, Joe Sacco, Francisco Schwember, Juuso Tervo, Raphael Vella and Branka Vujanovic.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Creative Ethics in Art and Education  Carl-Peter Buschkühle PART 1: Neoliberalism, Education and Creativity Introduction to Part 1: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 2 The Fabrication of the Chameleonic Citizen of the Future through the Rhetoric of Creativity: Governmentality, Competition and Human Capital  Catarina S. Martins 3 Ethics in Higher Art Education  Mira Kallio-Tavin PART 2: Moral Inquiry and Political Correctness Introduction to Part 2: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 4 Art for Democracy in Crisis  Brian Hughes 5 Ethics in Aesthetics? How Much Ethics Can Art Tolerate?  Joachim Kettel PART 3: Non-sense, Disobedience and Alterity Introduction to Part 3: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 6 A ‘MOST AMIABLE UNION’: The Ethics of Art’s Practice as a Pedagogical Aesthetics  John Baldacchino 7 Meditation on a Glow Stick: Slow Pedagogy and Ontogenetic Ethics  Dennis Atkinson 8 The Illumined Mind: Education, Ethics and Art  Brian James Grassom PART 4: Abstention and Disappearance Introduction to Part 4: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 9 On the Aesthetics of Abstention  Bazon Brock 10 Not in the Name of: Time and Disappearances in Ethics of Art Education  Juuso Tervo PART 5: Documenting a Politics of Hatred Introduction to Part 5: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 11 Photography as Cultural Symptomatology within a Post-Yugoslav Condition: The Case of Sarajevo  Branka Vujanović 12 The Work Speaks for Itself: An Interview with Joe Sacco  Raphael Vella PART 6: Arts-Based Research, Community and the Environment Introduction to Part 6: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 13 Ethics of Arctic Sustainable Art: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Dialogue  Timo Jokela 14 Lifelong Learning in a Non-Formal Cultural Environment  Leena Hannula 15 Art-Based Research in Vulnerable Educational Contexts: Lessons from Two Elementary Schools in Santiago de Chile  Francisco Schwember and Guillermo Marini PART 7: Contested Geographies Introduction to Part 7: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 16 An Ethics of the Archipelago: Collaborative Translations in Art Education  Raphael Vella 17 Sculpture as Transcultural Education  Hashim Al-Azzam 18 The Aesthetics of Migration  Sahin Celikten PART 8: Animal Ethics, the Anthropocene and Transhumanism Introduction to Part 8: Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Dennis Atkinson and Raphael Vella 19 Art Pedagogy and Animal Ethics  Ana Dimke 20 Death after Life: The Ethico-Political Response of Artists towards the Anthropocene  jan jagodzinski 21 Dürer as Machine: Transhumanism and Artistic Thinking  Carl-Peter Buschkühle PART 9: Conclusions 22 How to Explore Something Nobody Will Notice  Raphael Vella 23 Art, Ethics and Education: Speculative Futures  Dennis Atkinson

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Book SynopsisArts education research in Canada has increased significantly since the beginning of this century. New forms of arts-based research, such as ethnodrama and a/r/t/ography, have arisen and made significant contributions to the literature. Researchers in departments/schools/faculties of dance, drama, music, visual arts, media studies, cultural studies and education have been successful in acquiring peer-reviewed grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to undertake large-scale projects and disseminate the findings internationally. The purpose of this edited collection, entitled Perspectives on Arts Education Research in Canada, Volume 2: Issues and Directions, is to provide an overview of the current research undertaken across the country, thereby providing a valuable resource for students, professors and research associates working in the arts disciplines, media studies, education, and cultural studies. Contributors are: Bernard W. Andrews, Kathy Browning, Ranya Essmat Saad, Maia Giesbrecht, Shelley M. Griffin, Rita Irwin, Glenys McQueen-Fuentes, Laura Nemoy, Lori Lynn Penny, Jennifer Roswell, Michelle Searle, Alison Shields, Anita Sinner, Darlene St. Georges, Peter Vietgen, John L. Vitale, Jennifer Wicks, Kari-Lynn Winters, and Thibault Zimmer.Table of ContentsForeword: Developing Critical Mass in Arts Education Research  Pauline Sameshima Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Constructions of Arts Zones: Inclusions of Diverse Learners through Artistry and Literacy  Kari-Lynn Winters, Shelley M. Griffin, Peter Vietgen, Glenys McQueen-Fuentes, Debra McLauchlan and Jennifer Rowsell 2 Art making in Arts-Based Educational Research Dissertations  Alison Shields and Rita Irwin 3 Facing the Music: Exploring the Fears of Pre-Service Generalists in the Music Classroom  John L. Vitale 4 Enhancing Educational Decision-Making: Arts-Informed Inquiry as a Feature of Collaborative Evaluations  Michelle Searle 5 Musical Creativity and Music Education  Maia Kim Giesbrecht 6 Photographic Art Educator  Kathy Browning 7 Where Is the Music in Music Theory Pedagogy?  Lori Lynn Penny 8 Becoming Research Stories: Practices of Life Writing in Visual Art Education  Anita Sinner, Seonjeong Yi, Darlene St. Georges, Ranya Essmat Saad, Thibault Zimmer and Jennifer Wicks 9 Artists Helping Teachers: Learning to Teach the Arts in Professional Development  Bernard W. Andrews 10 Beyond the Art of Listening: Music Research in Medical Education  Laura Nimoy

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Book SynopsisArts education research in Canada has increased significantly since the beginning of this century. New forms of arts-based research, such as ethnodrama and a/r/t/ography, have arisen and made significant contributions to the literature. Researchers in departments/schools/faculties of dance, drama, music, visual arts, media studies, cultural studies and education have been successful in acquiring peer-reviewed grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to undertake large-scale projects and disseminate the findings internationally. The purpose of this edited collection, entitled Perspectives on Arts Education Research in Canada, Volume 2: Issues and Directions, is to provide an overview of the current research undertaken across the country, thereby providing a valuable resource for students, professors and research associates working in the arts disciplines, media studies, education, and cultural studies. Contributors are: Bernard W. Andrews, Kathy Browning, Ranya Essmat Saad, Maia Giesbrecht, Shelley M. Griffin, Rita Irwin, Glenys McQueen-Fuentes, Laura Nemoy, Lori Lynn Penny, Jennifer Roswell, Michelle Searle, Alison Shields, Anita Sinner, Darlene St. Georges, Peter Vietgen, John L. Vitale, Jennifer Wicks, Kari-Lynn Winters, and Thibault Zimmer.Table of ContentsForeword: Developing Critical Mass in Arts Education Research  Pauline Sameshima Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Constructions of Arts Zones: Inclusions of Diverse Learners through Artistry and Literacy  Kari-Lynn Winters, Shelley M. Griffin, Peter Vietgen, Glenys McQueen-Fuentes, Debra McLauchlan and Jennifer Rowsell 2 Art making in Arts-Based Educational Research Dissertations  Alison Shields and Rita Irwin 3 Facing the Music: Exploring the Fears of Pre-Service Generalists in the Music Classroom  John L. Vitale 4 Enhancing Educational Decision-Making: Arts-Informed Inquiry as a Feature of Collaborative Evaluations  Michelle Searle 5 Musical Creativity and Music Education  Maia Kim Giesbrecht 6 Photographic Art Educator  Kathy Browning 7 Where Is the Music in Music Theory Pedagogy?  Lori Lynn Penny 8 Becoming Research Stories: Practices of Life Writing in Visual Art Education  Anita Sinner, Seonjeong Yi, Darlene St. Georges, Ranya Essmat Saad, Thibault Zimmer and Jennifer Wicks 9 Artists Helping Teachers: Learning to Teach the Arts in Professional Development  Bernard W. Andrews 10 Beyond the Art of Listening: Music Research in Medical Education  Laura Nimoy

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Book SynopsisRefresh the Book contains reflections on the multimodal nature of the book, focusing on its changing perception, functions, forms, and potential in the digital age. Offering an overview of key concepts and approaches, such as liberature, technotexts, and bookishness, this volume of essays addresses the specificity of the printed book as a complex cultural phenomenon. It discusses diverse forms of representation and expression, both in literary and non-literary texts, as well as in artist’s books. Of special interest are these aspects of the book which resist remediation into the digital form. Finally, the volume contains an extensive section devoted to artistic practice as research, discussing the book as the synthesis of the arts, and site for performative aesthetic activity. Christin Barbarino, Katarzyna Bazarnik, Christoph Bläsi, Sarah Bodman, Zenon Fajfer, Annette Gilbert, Susanne Gramatzki, Mareike Herbstreit, Viola Hildebrand-Schat, Thomas Hvid Kromann, Monika Jäger, Eva Linhart, Bettina Lockemann, Patrizia Meinert, Bernhard Metz, Sebastian Schmideler, Monika Schmitz-Emans, Christoph Benjamin Schulz, usus (Uta Schneider & Ulrike Stoltz), Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Sakine Weikert, Gabriele WixTable of ContentsForeword  Katarzyna Bazarnik, Viola Hildebrand-Schat and Christoph Benjamin Schulz Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors The Hybrid Nature of the Book in the Age of Electronic Publishing: An Introduction   Viola Hildebrand-Schat PART 1 Methodologies/Concepts/Approaches 1 Empirical Preprocessing  Approaches from Multimodality Research for the Printed Book   Christoph Bläsi 2 Affordances of the Book  A Tentative Typology of Liberature   Katarzyna Bazarnik 3 The Book as Reading Machine and as Black Box  On Book Machines and Machine Books   Monika Schmitz-Emans 4 Varieties of Contemporary Artistic Publishing   Annette Gilbert 5 Artists’ Books and their Institutionalisation in the Digital Age   Thomas Hvid Kromann 6 Digital Bookishness and Digitally Enhanced Publications Against the Backdrop of Apologies of the Book during the Advent of Digital Media   Christoph Benjamin Schulz 7 ABC Book, Orbis Pictus, Pictorial Primer  On the Materiality of 19th-Century Concept Picture Books between the Aura of the Book Object and the Challenges of the Digital Humanities   Sebastian Schmideler 8 The Photobook  An Approach Incorporating Aspects of Activity   Bettina Lockemann 9 Spending Time within Books   Sarah Bodman 10 Re-Readings  Philosophy and Its Presentation in the (Artist’s) Book   Susanne Gramatzki 11 The Exhibition Space  On the Hybridity of the Publication Between Execution and Extension of Spatiotemporal Concepts   Viola Hildebrand-Schat 12 Bookishness and the Body of the Book/ the Body of the Reader  On the Usages of Books   Bernhard Metz PART 2 Artists’ Statements/ Artists’ Examples 13 Liberature  A New Constellation in the Gutenberg Galaxy   Zenon Fajfer 14 The Making of Artists’ Books  Craft-Based Production Processes Viewed from an Artistic Standpoint   Patrizia Meinert 15 Betwixt & Between  Some Thoughts on the Subject of the Fold and Folding in the Context of the Book   ‹usus› Uta Schneider and Ulrike Stoltz 16 : Artists’ Books in the Digital Transition  From Mechanical Typesetting to Fax Machines and Email Exchange   Monika Jäger 17 Conception – Construction – Deconstruction  An Alternative Way to Read a Book: Tobias Tank’s Hier öffnen   Viola Hildebrand-Schat 18 The Red Thread in Hier Öffnen – Ein wahrlich Einmaliges Buch (Open Here – A Truly Unique Book)  On Tobias Tank   Mareike Herbstreit 19 Visual Notes  Teju Cole’s Blind Spot/#blindspot, between Analogue and Digital Narrative Devices   Sakine Weikert 20 Jan van der Til  The Hybrid Artist’s Book   Anne Thurmann-Jajes 21 La Perfecta Casada by Elena del Rivero  Historical Text and Book Performance   Christin Barbarino 22 The Exhibition Catalogue  A Hybrid between Documentation and Seduction, Research and Cultural Business, Applied and Autonomous Art   Gabriele Wix 23 Michael Riedel  Books as Event   Eva Linhart Index

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Book SynopsisThe advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an “autonomous author” urges the law to rethink authorship, originality, creativity. AI-generated artworks are in search of an author because current copyright laws offer as a solution only public domain or fragile regulatory mechanisms. During the 20th century visual artists have been posing persistent challenges to the law world: Conceptual Art favoured legal mechanisms alternative to copyright law. The case of AI-art is, however, different: for the first time the artworld is discovering the prospective of an art without human authors. Rather than preserving the status quo in the law world, policy makers should consider a reformative conception of AI in copyright law and take inspiration from innovative theories in the field of robot law, where new frames for a legal personhood of artificial agents are proposed. This would have a spill-over effect also on copyright regulations.Table of ContentsContemporary Artificial Art and the Law Searching for an Author  Gianmaria Ajani Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Artificial Art in Search of an Author  3 Kaleidoscope: Authors and Artworks between Classic Law and the Art World  4 Artificial Authors?  5 “If a Machine Acts as Intelligently as a Human Being Then It Is as Intelligent as a Human Being”  6 Conclusion: “Art Makes Meaning”  Acknowledgments  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn the present work, a legal philosopher (Angela Condello) and a literaray scholar (Tiziano Toracca) develop the idea that a comparison between law and literature must be framed starting from the modes in which law and literature function. In this sense, they read law and literature as arts of compromising characterized by an analogous and yet, at the same time, profoundly different structure. Both, in fact, mediate conflicts between norms and transgressions, and more precisely between a principle of normativity (repression), on the one hand; and a principle of counternormativity (repressed), on the other hand. Through a progression in three steps, aimed at clarifying some peculiarities of law (1) and literature (2), by referring to examples of their interaction (3), the authors finally sketch some relevant hypotheses on why a placement across these two arts of compromising suggests some theoretical itineraries on their threshold.Table of ContentsA Theory of Law and Literature Across Two Arts of Compromising  Angela Condello and Tiziano Toracca  Abstract  Keywords  Introduction  1 Law, or of Normativity  2 Literature, or of Counternormativity  3 Mediation between Oppositions  Provisional Concluding Remarks  Acknowledgements  Index

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Book SynopsisThis co-edited volume offers new insights into the complex relations between Brussels and Vienna in the turn-of-the-century period (1880-1930). Through archival research and critical methods of cultural transfer as a network, it contributes to the study of Modernism in all its complexity. Seventeen chapters analyse the interconnections between new developments in literature (Verhaeren, Musil, Zweig), drama (Maeterlinck, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal), visual arts (Minne, Khnopff, Masereel, Child Art), architecture (Hoffmann, Van de Velde), music (Schönberg, Ysaÿe, Kreisler, Kolisch), as well as psychoanalysis (Varendonck, Anna Freud) and café culture. Austrian and Belgian artists played a crucial role within the complex, rich, and conflictual international networks of people, practices, institutions, and metropoles in an era of political, social and technological change and intense internationalization. Contributors: Sylvie Arlaud, Norbert Bachleitner, Anke Bosse, Megan Brandow-Faller, Alexander Carpenter, Piet Defraeye, Clément Dessy, Aniel Guxholli, Birgit Lang, Helga Mitterbauer, Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Silvia Ritz, Hubert Roland, Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Sigurd Paul Scheichl, Guillaume Tardif, Hans Vandevoorde.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Note on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction  Brussels 1900 Vienna: Cultural Transfers 1880–1930   Piet Defraeye, Helga Mitterbauer and Chris Reyns-Chikuma PART 1 Staging Modernisms 1 The Power of Retheatricalization and Depersonalization  Maurice Maeterlinck and Hugo von Hofmannsthal   Anke Bosse 2 Viennese Theatre Critics on Viennese Maeterlinck Productions   Sigurd Paul Scheichl 3 Arthur Schnitzler and Theatre in Belgium: 1900–1930   Piet Defraeye PART 2 Transpositions 4 Literary Exchanges from Vienna to Brussels 1880–1920   Hubert Roland 5 Stefan Zweig as a Mediator and Translator of Emile Verhaeren’s Poetry   Norbert Bachleitner 6 Concepts of Exoticism in Brussels and Vienna around 1900   Szilvia Ritz 7 Parallel Campaigns of Cultural Renewal  Art Nouveau, Robert Musil, and The Man Without Qualities   Aniel Guxholli PART 3 Transformations 8 Belgian Artists and the Secessionist Battle for Modern Art   Inga Rossi-Schrimpf 9 Another Modernity? Viennese Art Criticism and the Reception of Belgian Arts and Architecture around 1900   Sylvie Arlaud 10 Fernand Khnopff, a Painter Columnist in the Viennese Press  A London–Vienna Connection via Brussels   Clément Dessy 11 Kinderkunst between Vienna and Brussels 1900  Child Art, Primitivism, and Patronage   Megan Brandow-Faller 12 Between Brussels and Vienna  Frans Masereel’s Transnational Wordless Narratives   Chris Reyns-Chikuma PART 4 Resonances 13 Arnold Schoenberg, La Jeune Belgique, and the Dialectics of (Viennese) Modernism   Alexander Carpenter 14 Parallels and Intervals  Violinists Intersecting with Modernity   Guillaume Tardif PART 5 Café and Psyche 15 About Well-Lit Hullaballoos and Suffocating Air  Senses in the Brussels and Viennese Cafés at the Fin-de-Siècle   Hans Vandevoorde 16 Psychoanalysts Through Translation? Julien (Johan) Varendonck (1879–1924) —— Anna Freud (1895–1982)   Birgit Lang Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative study shows how the imaginary constructions of self and Other are shaping identification with Jewishness in the twenty-first century. The texts and artworks discussed in this book test a diverse range of ways of identifying as Jews and with the Jewish people, while engaging with postmodern and postcolonial discourses of hybridity and multiculturalism. This book selects six key areas in which the boundaries of Jewish identities have been interrogated and renegotiated: nation, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, and the Holocaust. In each of these areas Sicher explores how major and emerging contemporary writers and artists re-envision the meaning of their identities. Such re-envisioning may be literally visual or metaphorical in the search for expression of artistic self between the conventional paradigms of the past and new ways of thinking.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Introduction 1 Children of Partition: Inception of the Nation and Birth of the Hero  1.1 Birth of the Nation: India/Israel  1.2 Homing in and Out of Home  1.3 The Rupture of History: Blood Rituals  1.4 Parturition as Partition 2 Sephardism: Alternate Histories of the Americas  2.1 Romancing Sepharad  2.2 Sepharad in India  2.3 Postcolonial Sepharad  2.4 Crypto-Sephardism: Revealing in Order to Conceal  2.5 Sephardism in Blue: Finding Home in Multicultural Transnationalism 3 Bad Jews and New Men: Re-envisioning Masculinity  3.1 Bad Jews on the Rampage  3.2 Bad Jews on the Stage  3.3 Quiet! Loud Jews: Two Thousand Years  3.4 The J-Word  3.5 The Wicked Son  3.6 New Masculinities 4 Written on the Body: Re-envisioning Judaism in Contemporary Jewish Feminist Art  4.1 From Rubies to Rebels  4.2 Gendering the Jewish Female Body  4.3 Performing the Body  4.4 Jewish Vaginal Art  4.5 Re-envisioning the Text  4.6 Total Immersion: Mikveh Art  4.7 Signs on the Body  4.8 Writing (on) the Body  4.9 Erotic and/or Religious?  4.10 The Advent of the New Jewess 5 Jewish “Bad Girls”: Rebellious Daughters in Contemporary British Jewish Women’s Fiction and Film  5.1 Rebellious Bodies  5.2 Bad (Jewish) Girls  5.3 Naomi Alderman’s Disobedience  5.4 Charlotte Mendelson, When We Were Bad and Daughters of Jerusalem  5.5 Almost English, or How to Love in Hungarian  5.6 Jane Eyre Walks out of Shul: The Governess  5.7 Coming Out Jewish and Female 6 The “Daughter of Germany”: Desire and Power Relations in the Jewish Imaginary after Auschwitz  6.1 Inge: Daughter of Germany  6.2 Teutonia: “Negative Symbiosis”  6.3 Cristiane: Exorcising Auschwitz  6.4 Ilsa: Fetishizing Nazism  6.5 Suzanna: The Double  6.6 Tessa: The “Bad German”  6.7 Epilogue in Berlin: Entangled Histories Afterword: Instead of a Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat do we mean when we talk about the identity of a musical work and what does such an identity involve? What in fact are the properties that make it something worth protecting and preserving? These issues are not only of legal relevance; they are central to a philosophical discipline that has seen considerable advances over the last few decades: musical ontology. Taking into account its main theoretical models, this essay argues that an understanding of the ontological status of musical works should acknowledge the irreducible ambivalence of music as an “art of the trace” and as a “performative art.” It advocates a theory of the musical work as a “social object” and, more specifically, as a sound artefact that functions aesthetically and which is based on a trace informed by a normative value. Such a normativity is further explored in relation to three primary ways of conceiving and fixing the trace: orality, notation and phonography.Table of ContentsThe Normativity of Musical Works: A Philosophical Inquiry  Alessandro Arbo Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Works and Performances  2 Musical Ontology: An Overview  3 Orality, Notation, Phonography  Conclusions  Acknowledgements  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores how reproduction and reproducibility impact artistic and literary creation while also examining the ways in which reproducibility impacts our practices and disciplines. Ce volume explore l’impact de la reproduction et de la reproductibilité sur la création artistique et littéraire, mais aussi l’impact de la reproductibilité sur nos pratiques et sur nos disciplines.

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Book SynopsisThe volume Landscapes of Affect and Emotion maps out the current approaches on emotion and affect in environmental humanities and interdisciplinary landscape studies. It discusses the contemporary emotional turn in humanities and its relation to space, place and landscape. Emotions and affects are addressed from three main angles: representation and symbolic landscape, place experience and lifeworlds, and landscape as an embodied set of practices. These are studied in terms of the changing human-nature relationship, focusing on politicisations and contestations of landscape as well as boundaries and hybridity between culture and nature.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 Emotional Turn in the Study of the Environment and Landscape  Maunu Häyrynen PART 1 2 The Red Island: Working-Class Leisure Culture in Post-War Helsinki  Simo Laakkonen and Antti Linna 3 Movements, Care and Dispersed Periurban Landscapes Evoked by Dacha Allotment Gardens of Narva  Tarmo Pikner and Hannes Palang 4 Roadside Picnic? Overcoming the Military Past  Hannes Palang and Annemarie Rammo PART 2 5 Architectural Memories of Places and Things  M. Christine Boyer 6 From Acidified Groves to Virtual Mountains: The Continuum of Utopian Landscape Types in Twenty-First Century Nordic art  Hilja Roivainen 7 Perceptions of Winter in the Notebook of Eva Christina Lindström (1823–1895)  Silja Laine PART 3 8 ‘The Penguin is to be a Norwegian Bird’: Nationalising and Naturalising an Alien Animal  Peder Roberts 9 Making the National Landscape: The Case of Koli, Eastern Finland  Juha Hiedanpää and Lasse Lovén 10 Norwegian friluftsliv (‘outdoor life’) as an Interpassive Ritual  Werner Bigell Afterword Index

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Book SynopsisThis work sets out to consider the fate of creativity and forms of cultural production as they fall into and between the regimes of cultural heritage law and intellectual property law. It examines and challenges the dualisms that ground both regimes, exposing their (unsurprising) reflection of occidental ways of seeing the world. The work reflects on the problem of regulating creativity and cultural production according to Western thought systems in a world that is not only Western. At the same time, it accepts that the challenge in taking on the dualisms that hold together the existing legal regimes regulating creativity and cultural production lies in a critically nuanced approach to the geo-political distinction between the West and the rest. Like many of the distinctions considered in this book, this is one that holds and does not hold.Table of Contents Abstract  Keywords 1  Part 1 Cultural Production and the Market for Creative Works  Part 2 Cultural Production and Community Identity  Part 3 Cultural Production and Binary Thinking  Part 4 Surviving  References

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Book SynopsisImaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities highlights the role literature and visual arts play in fostering sustainability. It weaves together contributions by international scholars, practitioners and environmental activists whose insights are brought together to illustrate how creative imaginations can inspire change. One of the most outstanding characteristic of this volume is its interdisciplinarity and its varied methods of inquiry. The field of environmental humanities is discussed together with ideas such as the role of the public intellectual and el buen vivir. Examples of ecofiction from the UK, the US and Spain are analysed while artistic practices aimed at raising awareness of the effects of the Anthropocene are presented as imaginative ways of reacting against climate change and rampant capitalism.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities  Diana Villanueva-Romero, Lorraine Kerslake and Carmen Flys-Junquera PART 1: Humanists in Conversation 1 Environmental Humanities and the Public Intellectual  Scott Slovic 2 Humanities in Transition in the European Context  Interview with Christof Mauch  Diana Villanueva-Romero 3 “El Buen Vivir” is Harmony with the Earth  Interview with Rafael Chanchari Pizuri  Juan Carlos Galeano PART 2: Interpreting Eco-Visions 4 Environmental Imagination and Wonder in Beatrix Potter  Lorraine Kerslake 5 Foregrounding Ecosystems: Thinking with the Work of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison  Chris Fremantle and Anne Douglas 6 New Worlds Beyond Reality: Imagined Futures in Laura Gallego’s  Las hijas de Tara  Irene Sanz-Alonso 7 Simon Ortiz’s Narrative and Joy Harjo’s Poems: Towards Regenerative Societies and New Worlds  Imelda Martín-Junquera 8 When Mater Takes a Position  Post-Anthropocentric Landscapes in Contemporary Art  Bárbara Fluxá Álvarez-Miranda PART 3: Inspiring Change 9 Sense of Place as an Enhancer of Empathy and Ecological Consciousness in the Baix Llobregat  Carma Casulá 10 Building Stories to Change the World: Interview with Starhawk  Carmen Flys-Junquera and Beatriz Lindo-Mañas 11 Eco-Interactions: Art and Community  Elena Sánchez-Vizcaíno and Lucía Loren Atienza Epilogue: Chickens like Celebrities: A Short Story  José Manuel Marrero-Henríquez Index

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Book SynopsisF. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent Film recalibrates the celebrated author’s early career and brings fresh understanding to the life of one of America’s truly great literary figures. Scholars have previously focused on Fitzgerald’s connection with Hollywood when he worked in Tinseltown as a screenwriter in the 1930s. However, this ground-breaking research reveals the key role that Silent Hollywood played in establishing Fitzgerald’s burgeoning reputation in the early to mid-1920s. Vividly written and drawing on a wealth of new sources, this book documents Martina Mastandrea’s exciting discovery of the first film ever adapted from a work by Fitzgerald.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Rediscovering The Chorus Girl’s Romance: “Head and Shoulders” on the Silver Screen 2. Myra Meets the Silver Screen: Howard M. Mitchell’s The Husband Hunter 3. “She Kissed Him Softly in the Adaptation”: “The Offshore Pirate” on the Silent Screen 4. “Thousands Have Read the Book, Millions Will See the Film”: The Beautiful and Damned from the Page to the Silver Screen 5. Adapting Fitzgerald’s Irish Legacy: “The Camel’s Back” from Paper to Celluloid 6. “Dreams of the Old Days”: “Memories” of the Silent Gatsby and its “Music Score” 7. “Savor of Anti-climax”: “The Pusher-in-the-Face” and the End of the “Good Old Silent Days” Conclusion Filmography Works cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume, created by seventeen interdisciplinary authors, brings together pioneering practices that introduce arts into education in Japan. The field of research ranges from kindergarten, primary and secondary school to liberal arts and postgraduate courses at university. The chapters cover both formal and informal settings, such as museums and after school programs. The genres of art include visual art, performance, dance, vocal music, and drama. Arts-based or arts-inspired methods help students’ artistic inquiry through creative or performative practices, leading to new findings that might not otherwise be described. Artistic practice makes students reflect on their own bodies, emotions, feelings, ways of life, and relationships with others, which leads to creative thinking. The volume is based on three new trends in art and education: 1) the development of Arts-Based Research in Japan since its introduction from abroad; 2) the introduction of art practice into academic research in various disciplines and diverse educational settings; and 3) the new trend in drama education and theatrical performance in Japan. Each chapter inspires and provokes discussion among researchers and practitioners in various educational settings on the future direction of art education in Japan and around the world.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables 1 Art = Research: Inquiry in Creative Practice  Kayoko Komatsu and Ryoji Namai 2 Arts-Based Research Practices in Sociology: Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Education  Masayuki Okahara and Alena Prusakova 3 What Arts-Based Research and A/r/tography Allow for Art Education in Teacher Training and Education in Japan  Koichi Kasahara 4 ABR by Learners in Liberal Arts: A Case Study of Artist Eiko Otake’s “Delicious Movement”  Yuka Hayashi and Takeshi Okada 5 Exploring as an Artist: A Study of a Practical Arts Course for Non-Arts-Major Students at a Japanese University  Kikuko Takagi and Shijun Wang 6 Constructing Design Guidelines for a Creation-Focused Contemporary Dance Educational Program for Non-Dance Majors  Yuko Nakano and Takeshi Okada 7 Music-Based/Inspired Scientific Research and Liberal Arts Education  Kazutoshi Kudo and Kiyomi Toyoda 8 Developing University Students’ Creativity through Participation in Art Projects  Takumitsu Agata and Shingo Jinno 9 The Possibility of Museum Theatre in Japan: From Hands-on to “Minds-on” through Drama Work  Yuriko Kobayashi 10 Why Can Girls Perform as Boys But Boys Reject Performing as Girls? Mapping Affects in Gender Crossing through Theater Performance in Japan  Yuko Kawashima 11 Drama Workshop with Scenario-Writing for Transnational Children: What They Know in Their Everyday and School Lives  Hiroaki Ishiguro Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume, created by seventeen interdisciplinary authors, brings together pioneering practices that introduce arts into education in Japan. The field of research ranges from kindergarten, primary and secondary school to liberal arts and postgraduate courses at university. The chapters cover both formal and informal settings, such as museums and after school programs. The genres of art include visual art, performance, dance, vocal music, and drama. Arts-based or arts-inspired methods help students’ artistic inquiry through creative or performative practices, leading to new findings that might not otherwise be described. Artistic practice makes students reflect on their own bodies, emotions, feelings, ways of life, and relationships with others, which leads to creative thinking. The volume is based on three new trends in art and education: 1) the development of Arts-Based Research in Japan since its introduction from abroad; 2) the introduction of art practice into academic research in various disciplines and diverse educational settings; and 3) the new trend in drama education and theatrical performance in Japan. Each chapter inspires and provokes discussion among researchers and practitioners in various educational settings on the future direction of art education in Japan and around the world.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables 1 Art = Research: Inquiry in Creative Practice  Kayoko Komatsu and Ryoji Namai 2 Arts-Based Research Practices in Sociology: Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Education  Masayuki Okahara and Alena Prusakova 3 What Arts-Based Research and A/r/tography Allow for Art Education in Teacher Training and Education in Japan  Koichi Kasahara 4 ABR by Learners in Liberal Arts: A Case Study of Artist Eiko Otake’s “Delicious Movement”  Yuka Hayashi and Takeshi Okada 5 Exploring as an Artist: A Study of a Practical Arts Course for Non-Arts-Major Students at a Japanese University  Kikuko Takagi and Shijun Wang 6 Constructing Design Guidelines for a Creation-Focused Contemporary Dance Educational Program for Non-Dance Majors  Yuko Nakano and Takeshi Okada 7 Music-Based/Inspired Scientific Research and Liberal Arts Education  Kazutoshi Kudo and Kiyomi Toyoda 8 Developing University Students’ Creativity through Participation in Art Projects  Takumitsu Agata and Shingo Jinno 9 The Possibility of Museum Theatre in Japan: From Hands-on to “Minds-on” through Drama Work  Yuriko Kobayashi 10 Why Can Girls Perform as Boys But Boys Reject Performing as Girls? Mapping Affects in Gender Crossing through Theater Performance in Japan  Yuko Kawashima 11 Drama Workshop with Scenario-Writing for Transnational Children: What They Know in Their Everyday and School Lives  Hiroaki Ishiguro Index

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Book SynopsisCet ouvrage réunit plusieurs chercheurs et praticiens du cinéma autour de l’étude des représentations de la peau à l’écran, dans leur double dimension formelle et signifiante, à travers seize contributions portant sur diverses traditions cinématographiques, époques et aires géographiques/culturelles. This book is a collection of sixteen articles by researchers and cinema professionals about various cinematographic traditions, periods, and geographical/cultural areas to study the representations of skin on screen, in both their formal and signifying dimensions.Table of ContentsTable des matières Prologue : le précipice de la nudité Remerciements Liste des Figures Introduction  Diane Bracco Partie 1: Poétiques de la peau 1 La page et la peau au pays des signes : The Pillow Book de Peter Greenaway  Bertrand Westphal 2 Vêtir, maquiller, frotter la peau : le miracle cutané dans les films de João Pedro Rodrigues  Fabien Meynier 3 La peau filmée et la chair du film : la puissance mystique des gestes filmiques dans L’Homme qui a surpris tout le monde (2018) de Natalia Merkoulova et Alexeï Tchoupov  Macha Ovtchinnikova 4 Cyril Collard, l’écorché vif  Éloïse Delsart 5 De la peau douce à la carne  Marianne Pistone partie 2: Peaux et identités 6 Memento ou la mémoire défaillante dans la peau  Louis Daubresse 7 L’écriture de la peau dans Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000) : du mutisme du corps tatoué à son devenir image  Isabelle Labrouillère 8 Dans la peau de l’homme moderne : Le Visage d’un autre (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)  Andrea Grunert 9 Les Yeux sans visage (Georges Franju, 1959) : tissu facial, voile et configuration du moi  Pedro Poyato 10 La peau comme lieu de (re)construction identitaire dans le cinéma de Pedro Almodóvar  Audrey Higelin 11 La caméra à fleur de peau : Pieles ou l’esthétique épidermique d’Eduardo Casanova  Diane Bracco partie 3: Filmer la peau : enjeux techniques et socioculturels 12 Artifices et techniques au service de l’acteur de cinéma : la mise en lumière de la peau (1900 à 1940)  Sylvie Roques 13 Villain ou victime ? Carnation et stigma dans le period drama britannique (Les Hauts de Hurlevent d’Andrea Arnold, 2011)  Jessy Neau 14 Le Cinema Novo et les visages du Brésil. Exposition de la peau et figurations du peuple dans Sécheresse (1963) et Terre en transe (1967)  Nicolas Piedade 15 Bâtir un imaginaire épidermique dans le cinéma centre-américain  Entretien avec Aiko Sato et Nicolás Wong Díaz 16 La peau comme matière filmique : réalisme et sensualité  Entretien avec Luis Armando Arteaga, directeur de la photographie Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisAlready in 1854, Henry David Thoreau had declared in Walden that “Most men appear never to have considered what a house is” (225). Like Thoreau, many other renowned American writers have considered what houses are and, particularly, what houses do, and they have created fictional dwellings that function not only as settings, but as actual central characters in their works. The volume is specifically concerned with the structure, the organization, and the objects inside houses, and argues that the space defined by rooms and their contents influences the consciousness, the imaginations, and the experiences of the humans who inhabit them. Winner of the Spanish Association for American Studies’ Javier Coy Award 2022 for best edited volume. Contributors are: Cristina Alsina Rísquez, Rodrigo Andrés, Vicent Cucarella-Ramon, Arturo Corujo, Mar Gallego, Ian Green, Michael Jonik, Wyn Kelley, Cynthia Lytle, Carme Manuel, Paula Martín-Salván, Elena Ortells, Eva Puyuelo-Ureña, Dolores Resano, and Cynthia Stretch.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 American Houses, American Literature  Rodrigo Andrés PART 1: Houses: Queer Affiliations and Temporalities 2 The House as Alternative to Familial Space and Time in Herman Melville’s “I and My Chimney”  Rodrigo Andrés 3 Paths Well-Trodden and “Desire Lines” in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House  Cristina Alsina Rísquez 4 Queering the American Family Home: The Aesthetics of Place and the Ethos of Domesticity in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic  Elena Ortells PART 2: The Legacy of the House Divided 5 Cape Coast Castle in the Sky: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the Im/possibility of the American Dream  Cynthia Lytle 6 The Haunted Plantation: Ghosts, Graves, and Transformation as Resistance in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman  Ian Green 7 A House is a House is a House: Toni Morrison’s Politics of Domesticity, Redemption and Healing in Beloved and Home  Mar Gallego 8 The Politics of Affect with/in the African American Mansion in Stephanie Powell Watts’s No One Is Coming to Save Us  Vicent Cucarella-Ramon 9 “A Lot More Deadly”: Gender and the Black Spatial Imaginary in U.S. Prison Writings  Eva Puyuelo Ureña PART 3: Troubled Boundaries of the Domestic Space 10 Thoreau’s Unhoused  Michael Jonik 11 Too Tight for Comfort: Shipboard Distance as the Prerequisite for Personal Intimacy in Herman Melville’s White-Jacket  Arturo Corujo 12 “Maybe There’s Nobody to Shoot”: The Disappearing Landlord in 20th-Century U.S. Fiction  Cynthia Stretch 13 Woody Guthrie’s House of Earth: A Manifesto in Adobe as a Response to Houselessness and Domicide in Post-Depression Years  Carme Manuel 14 The Arrivant in Toni Morrison’s Paradise: Deviation, Iteration, Intersection  Paula Martín-Salván 15 “A house at odds with itself”: Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered  Dolores Resano 16 Afterword: In a Fictional House  Wyn Kelley Index

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