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Refresh 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 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 a kind of total work, and site for performative aesthetic
activity. Christin Barbarino, Katarzyna Bazarnik, Christoph Blasi,
Sarah Bodman, Helene Campaignolle(?), Zenon Fajfer, Annette
Gilbert, Susanne Gramatzki, Mareike Herbstreit, Viola
Hildebrand-Schat, Thomas Hvid Kromann, Monika Jager, 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 Wix
A COMPANION TO AMERICAN POETRY A Companion to American Poetry
brings together original essays by both established scholars and
emerging critical voices to explore the latest topics and debates
in American poetry and its study. Highlighting the diverse nature
of poetic practice and scholarship, this comprehensive volume
addresses a broad range of individual poets, movements, genres, and
concepts from the seventeenth century to the present day. Organized
thematically, the Companion's thirty-seven chapters address a
variety of emerging trends in American poetry, providing historical
context and new perspectives on topics such as poetics and
identity, poetry and the arts, early and late experimentalisms,
poetry and the transcendent, transnational poetics, poetry of
engagement, poetry in cinema and popular music, Queer and Trans
poetics, poetry and politics in the 21st century, and African
American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries. Both a
nuanced survey of American poetry and a catalyst for future
scholarship, A Companion to American Poetry is essential reading
for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academic
researchers and scholars, and general readers with interest in
current trends in American poetry.
In Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the
Japanese Empire, the author examines how writers captured various
experiences of living under imperialism in their fiction and
nonfiction works. Through an examination of texts by writers
producing in different parts of the empire (including the Japanese
metropole and the colonies and territories of Taiwan, Korea, and
Manchukuo), the book explores how women negotiated the social and
personal changes brought about by modernization of the social
institutions of education, marriage, family, and labor. Looking at
works by writers including young students in Manchukuo, Japanese
writer Hani Motoko, Korean writer Chang Tok-cho, and Taiwanese
writer Yang Ch'ien-Ho, the book sheds light upon how the act and
product of writing became a site for women to articulate their
hopes and desires while also processing sociopolitical
expectations. The author argues that women used their practice of
writing to construct their sense of self. The book ultimately shows
us how the words we write make us who we are.
K. al-Anwar al-bahiyya fi ta'rif maqamat fusaha' al-bariyya is a
work of adab attributed to the renowned litterateur and historian
of literature Abu Mansur al-Tha'alibi. The work consists of an
introduction and four chapters. The first three chapters are
concerned with knowledge ('ilm): Chapter One discusses the merit
and application of knowledge, Chapter Two the definition of
knowledge and its true meaning, and Chapter Three the conditions of
knowledge. The fourth chapter, which constitutes the bulk of the
book, is concerned with occasions on which scholars and sages made
speeches in the presence of rulers. It is divided into two parts:
Part One presents pre-Islamic (jahiliyya) speeches, incorporating
Arab, Greek, Byzantine, Persian, and Indian traditions, and Part
Two presents Islamic speeches. The work is introduced by an
analytical study discussing the attribution of the work, its
relation to the Maqamat genre, and the manuscripts used.
For many years, the historical-critical quest for a reconstruction
of the origin(s) and development of the Pentateuch or Hexateuch has
been dominated by the documentary hypothesis, the heuristic power
of which has produced a consensus so strong that an interpreter who
did not operate within its framework was hardly regarded as a
scholar. However, the relentless march of research on this topic
has continued to yield new and refined analyses, data,
methodological tools, and criticism. In this spirit, the
contributions to this volume investigate new ideas about the
composition of the Pentateuch arising from careful analysis of the
biblical text against its ancient Near Eastern background. Covering
a wide spectrum of topics and diverging perspectives, the chapters
in this book are grouped into two parts. The first is primarily
concerned with the history of scholarship and alternative
approaches to the development of the Pentateuch. The second focuses
on the exegesis of particular texts relevant to the composition of
the Torah. The aim of the project is to foster investigation and
collegial dialogue in a spirit of humility and frankness, without
imposing uniformity. In addition to the editors, the contributors
include Tiago Arrais, Richard E. Averbeck, John S. Bergsma, Joshua
A. Berman, Daniel I. Block, Richard Davidson, Roy E. Gane, Duane A.
Garrett, Richard S. Hess, Benjamin Kilchoer, Michael LeFebvre, Jiri
Moskala, and Christian Vogel.
In Reflecting Mirrors, East and West Enrico Boccaccini sheds new
light on Mirrors for Princes, the pre-modern genre of advice
literature for rulers. A popular genre in the societies that
emerged from the Late Antique oecumene, Mirrors for Princes are
considered here, for the first time, as a transcultural phenomenon
that challenges the dichotomy of the Orient and the Occident.
Traditionally, the historiographic tradition has viewed 'European'
and 'Middle Eastern' Mirrors as distinct and incommensurable.
Analyzing the contents and discourses in four Mirrors, ostensibly
separated by space, time and language, Enrico Boccaccini
convincingly draws out the surprising continuities between these
texts, while also showing how they are embedded in their own
historical, literary and political context.
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Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Gregory Zilboorg
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How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of
countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of
intense human-animal interactions: from love to cultural
identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates,
classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and literary
creativity. Dogs, cats and horses, of course, play central roles.
But this volume also features human reflections upon parrots,
songbirds, monkeys, a rhino, an elephant, pigs, and geese - all the
way through to the admired silkworms and the not-so-admired
bookworms. An exceptionally wide array of source materials are used
in this volume's ten separate contributions, plus the editorial
introduction, to demonstrate this diversity. As eighteenth-century
humans came to realise that they too are animals, they had to
recast their relationships with their fellow living-beings on
Planet Earth. And these considerations remain very much live ones
to this day.
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