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Includes a first-hand account of the experience of
depersonalization Examines depersonalization in relation to
well-known literary texts, including Camus's The Strange and
Sartre's Nausea, and shows how the concept of depersonalized
writing can be found in the work of literary theorists, including
T.S. Eliot, Roland Barthes and Viktor Shklovsky Explores how
creative writers can make use of the lessons learned from the study
of depersonalization to arrive at a deeper understanding of writing
Religions are at their core about creating certainty. But what
happens when groups lose control of their destiny? Whether it leads
to violence, or to nonviolent innovations, as found in minority
religions following the death of their founders or leaders,
uncertainty and insecurity can lead to great change in the mission
and even teachings of religious groups. This book brings together
an international range of contributors to explore the uncertainty
faced by new and minority religious movements as well as
non-religious fringe groups. The groups considered in the book span
a range of religious traditions (Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism,
Islam), old and new spiritual formations such as esotericism, New
Age and organized new religious movements, as well as non-religious
movements including the straight edge movement and the British
Union of Fascists. The chapters deal with a variety of contexts,
from the UK and US, to Japan and Egypt, with others discussing
global movements. While all the authors deal with twentieth- and
twenty-first-century movements and issues, several focus explicitly
on historical cases or change over time. This wide-ranging, yet
cohesive volume will be of great interest to scholars of minority
religious movements and non-religious fringe groups working across
religious studies, sociology and social psychology.
In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of
the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized
people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world
from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered
visually benign by white Europeans, these amulet pouches, commonly
known as “mandingas,” were used across Africa, Brazil, and
Portugal and contained myriad objects, from herbs and Islamic
prayers to shells and coins. Drawing on Arabic-language narratives
from the West African Sahel, the archives of the Portuguese
Inquisition, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European travel and
merchant accounts of the West African Coast, and early
nineteenth-century Brazilian police records, Rarey shows how
mandingas functioned as portable archives of their makers’
experiences of enslavement, displacement, and diaspora. He presents
them as examples of the visual culture of enslavement and critical
to conceptualizing Black Atlantic art history. Ultimately, Rarey
looks to the archives of transatlantic slavery, which were meant to
erase Black life, for objects like the mandingas that were created
to protect it.
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Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of
nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are
emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of
butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a
joyous incantation to the 'witchy-beetle, forkin-robin' of dialect.
Francis's love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and
The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hooke's
microscopic observations. There are tributes to the poets Basho,
Dafydd ap Gwilym and W. S. Graham, to fireworks, apple varieties
and hot toddies. And, in a moving elegy for a friend killed in a
parachute accident, Francis shows us a vertiginous vision of a
world where even the dead 'sleep on the wing'.
From his first publications in the early 1940s, to his final works
of the late 1970s, W. S. Graham has given us a poetry of intense
power and inquisitive vision - a body of work regarded by many as
among the best Romantic poetry of the twentieth century. Graham
died in 1986 with much of his work gathered in Collected Poems
1942-1977. However, two posthumous collections - Uncollected Poems
(1990) and Aimed at Nobody (1993) - have unearthed a wealth of
important new material and heightened the need to retell the full
publication story. This New Collected Poems, edited by poet and
Graham scholar Matthew Francis and with a foreword by Douglas Dunn,
offers the broadest picture yet of Graham's work.
In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of
the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized
people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world
from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered
visually benign by white Europeans, these amulet pouches, commonly
known as “mandingas,” were used across Africa, Brazil, and
Portugal and contained myriad objects, from herbs and Islamic
prayers to shells and coins. Drawing on Arabic-language narratives
from the West African Sahel, the archives of the Portuguese
Inquisition, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European travel and
merchant accounts of the West African Coast, and early
nineteenth-century Brazilian police records, Rarey shows how
mandingas functioned as portable archives of their makers’
experiences of enslavement, displacement, and diaspora. He presents
them as examples of the visual culture of enslavement and critical
to conceptualizing Black Atlantic art history. Ultimately, Rarey
looks to the archives of transatlantic slavery, which were meant to
erase Black life, for objects like the mandingas that were created
to protect it.
This valuable book is the first to bring together theory and policy
with analysis and expertise on practices in key areas of the public
realm to explore what religious literacy is, why it is needed and
what might be done about it. It makes the case for a public realm
which is well equipped to engage with the plurality and
pervasiveness of religion and belief, whatever the individual's own
stance. It is aimed at academics, policy-makers and practitioners
interested in the policy and practice implications of the
continuing presence of religion and belief in the public sphere.
One hundred years after his birth, W. S. Graham's words seem more
awake than ever. His subtle exploration of the paradoxes of
language, his passionate conviction of the importance of art and
the love he expresses for the people and landscapes of his native
Clydeside and adopted home of Cornwall attract more readers each
year. In startlingly original poems, he celebrates family and
friendship and probes the limits of our understanding of the world
and our place in it. Graham's New Collected Poems (2004) marked a
crucial point in the growth of his reputation, bringing together
for the first time all the poems of his seven collections as well
as some of the unpublished material that had come to light since
his death in 1986. Now, as we honour his centenary, this New
Selected Poems presents his best and most characteristic: from his
epic seafaring masterpiece 'The Nightfishing' to the quirky
metaphysics of 'Implements in their Places', as well as a selection
of his early neo-romantic poems, which Graham himself believed were
essential to a full understanding of his oeuvre, and some
remarkable uncollected work. There is no better way to make the
acquaintance of one of the greatest British poets of the twentieth
century.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was one of the most popular
books of the later Middle Ages. Purporting to describe the
circumnavigation of an English knight through Africa, India, and
the Middle East in 1322, the narrative is a fantastical collection
of sights: seas, islands, phoenixes, pyramids, rocks that enchant
ships and apes that contain human souls, interwoven with
geographical descriptions that are perfectly accurate. Matthew
Francis's new collection is a sequence of poems that celebrate and
give voice to Mandeville, in his own words, caught as he is between
physical and symbolic geographies, between a world that is round
and one that has Jerusalem at its centre. And all of it narrated in
the terse, solitary, conflicted and strangely passionate voice of
this medieval Crusoe whose very existence was disputed.
Religions are at their core about creating certainty. But what
happens when groups lose control of their destiny? Whether it leads
to violence, or to nonviolent innovations, as found in minority
religions following the death of their founders or leaders,
uncertainty and insecurity can lead to great change in the mission
and even teachings of religious groups. This book brings together
an international range of contributors to explore the uncertainty
faced by new and minority religious movements as well as
non-religious fringe groups. The groups considered in the book span
a range of religious traditions (Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism,
Islam), old and new spiritual formations such as esotericism, New
Age and organized new religious movements, as well as non-religious
movements including the straight edge movement and the British
Union of Fascists. The chapters deal with a variety of contexts,
from the UK and US, to Japan and Egypt, with others discussing
global movements. While all the authors deal with twentieth- and
twenty-first-century movements and issues, several focus explicitly
on historical cases or change over time. This wide-ranging, yet
cohesive volume will be of great interest to scholars of minority
religious movements and non-religious fringe groups working across
religious studies, sociology and social psychology.
This book provides a broad analysis of the legacy of the Obama
presidency, representing multiple perspectives across the partisan
and disciplinary divides. The chapters in this book are grouped
into three major legacy categories: domestic policy, foreign
policy, and rhetoric. Domestically, the contributors examine the
"Obama coalition" and its staying power in the age of Trump,
President Obama's legacy regarding the use of executive power, his
impact on intergovernmental relations, and his impact on the
welfare state and education. On the foreign policy front, the
central focus is on whether Obama was in fact much different from
his predecessor, what impact he had on the Middle East and
Afghanistan, and whether his pivot to Asia yielded the hoped-for
results. The contributions in this book also aim to (re-)assess the
Obama legacy in light of the subsequent efforts by his successor to
undo many of the policies embraced and implemented during the Obama
years.
This valuable book is the first to bring together theory and policy
with analysis and expertise on practices in key areas of the public
realm to explore what religious literacy is, why it is needed and
what might be done about it. It makes the case for a public realm
which is well equipped to engage with the plurality and
pervasiveness of religion and belief, whatever the individual's own
stance. It is aimed at academics, policy-makers and practitioners
interested in the policy and practice implications of the
continuing presence of religion and belief in the public sphere.
The ability of pathogenic bacteria to adapt to various chemical,
biochemical and physical conditions within the human host and their
ability to respond to stresses generated in these environments is a
central feature of infectious diseases and the outcome of bacterial
infection. This book covers the key aspects of this rapidly
developing field, including the generation of stresses by the host
immune system, bacterial response to reactive chemicals, and
adaptation to environmental conditions of anatomical niches such as
the gut, mouth and urogenital tract. It also addresses the
increasing importance of different metal ions in the pathogenesis
and survival of specific bacteria. With chapters by active research
experts in the field, the book provides a comprehensive outline of
the current understanding of this field, the latest developments
and where future research is likely to be directed.
Like his acclaimed Mandeville (2008), Matthew Francis's fourth
Faber collection explores a world of marvels, real and fantastic. A
man takes off for the moon in an engine drawn by geese, a
poltergeist moves into a remote Welsh village, and a party of
seventeenth-century Englishmen encounter the wonders of Russia -
sledges, vodka, skating and Easter eggs. The scientist Robert Boyle
basks in the newly discovered radiance of phosphorus (the noctiluca
of the title) and the theme of light in darkness is taken up by the
more personal poems in the book: phoneboxes, streetlamps,
moonlight. The joys of the world and of the imagination find their
equivalent in Francis's joy in the possibilities of language: 'A
basket of snow for the Empress / with a poem of modest triumph: / I
made this out of what does not last.'
Ruskie: Beers, Bears & Babushkas captures a slice of Russian
life; people - and businesses - as they really are. Do they all
drink vodka like there's no tomorrow? Do all the women prove their
love by cutting off their fingers? Do Moscow businessmen have their
rivals shot? Not all of them, but Matthew managed to find those who
do - with terrifying consequences.Faster than a Russian woman in
pursuit of a designer handbag, scarier than an angry babushka, and
hotter than, well, watching a famous Russian tennis player in her
underwear...Entrepreneur Matthew Francis arrives in Russia with the
intent of setting up a 'Western Style' consultancy in order to help
Russian companies expand successfully into Europe. Follow Matthew's
ups and downs in this tale of the real Russia - the Russia you
never read about in the press!
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
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