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Razprave, zbrane v tej knjigi, se ukvarjajo z »mo?nimi pesniki« (po Haroldu Bloomu), poleg njih pa v vlogi sprožilca misli nastopi karizmati?ni profesor primerjalne književnosti Dušan Pirjevec, tudi sam nedvomno velika osebnost. Osojnik prepri?ljivo pokaže, da so Sre?ko Kosovel, Iztok Geister - Plamen, Aleš Kermauner, Matjaž Hanžek, Jure Detela in Taja Kramberger na izzive svojega?asa odgovorili vsak na svoj, estetsko inovativen in s tem globoko politi?en na?in. Kosovelove konstruktivisti?ne pesmi so nizi nenadnih prekinitev, zmontirana stanja, jezikovne montaže, ki odkrivajo v konvencionalni poeziji zamol?ana stanja. Poezija Taje Kramberger je strukturno identi?na Kosovelovi poeziji, kajti v njej pride do izraza univerzalno potla?eni glas. Jureta Detelo je zanimala eti?na dimenzija svetosti življenja, razvil je neantropocentri?ni na?in gledanja živali, tj. zaznavanje drugih bitij kot njih samih, in s tem nov na?in ubesedovanja. V eksperimentalni poeziji, kot so jo ustvarjali Geister, Kermauner in Hanžek, pa ne gre zgolj za ukinitev referencialne funkcije; s tem, ko so se osredoto?ili na ozna?evalce (?rke, besede), so namre? prikazali »brezno absolutne praznine?loveške biti v svetu«. Ta heideggerjanski zastavek razkriva enega od izvirov Osojnikove misli, vsekakor ne edinega. Avtorju je treba priznati, da je dobro obveš?en mislec, njegova prava odlika pa je po mojem mnenju strastno zavzemanje za resnico poezije. Obseg: 212 strani Cena: 3,99 EUR

In occasione del centenario della nascita dello scrittore, il convegno Mito, tradizione, immagini di Pasolini, che si è svolto nell'Università per stranieri di Perugia, ha inteso indagare l'eredità dell'autore nel mondo attraverso i miti, le immagini, le ideologie che la sua opera di poeta e di narratore, di regista, di polemista e di saggista ha trasmesso nella contemporaneità. Il libro che raccoglie gli Atti del convegno è articolato in due sezioni. Una prima rivolta a rilevare aspetti significativi dell'opera di Pasolini nel contesto della tradizione italiana e occidentale (i modelli letterari e ideologici che ne definiscono l'identità italiana da Dante a Gramsci; i miti, le immagini della sua poesia, dei suoi discorsi pubblici, del suo cinema che nella lunga durata, e fino all'attualità, hanno avuto fortuna anche fuori dall'Italia). Una seconda sezione che riguarda la ricezione all'estero, nel contesto europeo e in paesi distanti.

Das Handbuch erschließt erstmals alle biographischen Phasen und sämtliche Facetten der Arbeit des gattungsübergreifend produktiven Schriftstellers, bildenden Künstlers und engagierten Zeitgenossen Günter Grass. Der jederzeit umstrittene Künstler und Zeitgenosse zählt unumstritten zu den wirkmächtigsten deutschsprachigen Schriftstellern des 20. Jahrhunderts und er wird, zumal im Ausland, immer wieder als der wichtigste Autor der Nachkriegsliteratur in Deutschland angesehen. Bestätigt wurde seine herausragende Position im Jahr 1999 mit der Verleihung des Nobelpreises an Grass. Das Lebenswerk des deutschsprachigen Autors mit kaschubischen Wurzeln, der aus einer der infolge des Zweiten Weltkriegs für immer verlorenen, ehemals deutschen Ost-Provinzen stammt, stellt eine Art Brennspiegel dar, mit dessen Hilfe sich Deutschlands Entwicklung von den Kriegs- und Nachkriegsjahren bis hinein ins 21. Jahrhundert verfolgen, vielleicht sogar besser begreifen lässt. Das eine breite Öffentlichkeit ansprechende Handbuch möchte einen aktuellen, klar gegliederten Zugang zu diesem Lebenswerk bieten, zugleich will es neue Perspektiven auf Werk, Autor und ihre Rezeption eröffnen und jedenfalls zur lebendigen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Autor und allzeit unbequemen Zeitgenossen Grass beitragen.

This book dives into the world of Chinese interpreting, exploring fundamental challenges and topics such as consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, medical, courtroom and media interpreting, as well as interculturality. The book establishes a strong theoretical foundation, delving into principles and techniques for successful Chinese interpreting, before proceeding to examine note-taking in consecutive interpreting, strategies for effective information organization, and providing valuable insights through practical examples. The authors explore the realm of Chinese simultaneous interpreting, examining techniques for conveying meaning in real-time and addressing the unique challenges of medical interpreting. The book also covers the impact of technology on interpreting, the integration of artificial intelligence, and ethical considerations. With its theoretical foundations, practical examples, and in-depth exploration of various topics, this book serves as an indispensable resource for aspiring interpreters, practitioners seeking to enhance their knowledge, and researchers aiming to investigate the intricate world of Chinese interpreting.

Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender – seit über 140 Jahren die bewährte Dokumentation der zeitgenössischen deutschsprachigen Literaturszene – umfasst in seiner 74. Ausgabe Einträge zu ca. 9.000 Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern. Ohne literaturkritische Wertung stellt der Literatur-Kalender die lebenden Verfasserinnen und Verfasser schöngeistiger Literatur in deutscher Sprache vor – unabhängig von Staatsangehörigkeit und geographischem Lebens- und Wirkungsbereich. Die Artikel informieren über Adressen, Lebensdaten, Mitgliedschaften in Fachverbänden und literarischen Vereinigungen, literarische Preise sowie die Veröffentlichungen der Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller. Neu bearbeitet und aktualisiert wurden auch die umfangreichen Verzeichnisse im Anhang: über 1.000 literarische Übersetzerinnen und Übersetzer (mit Sprachenregister), über 700 Verlage, über 500 Literaturpreise mit den Preisträgern der letzten Jahre, mehr als 500 Fachverbände und literarische Vereinigungen, Literaturhäuser, etwa 200 literarische Zeitschriften und Periodika sowie literarische Agenturen, Kulturredaktionen von Rundfunk- und Fernsehanstalten und literarische Feuilletons werden aufgeführt.

Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children's Literature showcases the work of prominent scholars of children's literature from Ukraine and the diaspora as it traces the history of books written, marketed for, and circulating among young people since the rise of Ukraine's nationhood in the nineteenth century. This book encompasses a full range of texts and genres (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, poetry, picturebooks, graphic novels), with special attention given to the most important authors and works as defined by aesthetics (“literary excellence”), popularity, or historical and cultural significance. In its focus on ideology and historical context, the collection takes an interdisciplinary and transnational approach. It places titles and trends in broader context, considering the socio-political situation, changing taste, and the history of institutions that shape the production and reception of children's literature. The collection addresses folklore and the beginnings of a distinct tradition of Ukrainian children's literature produced in the nineteenth century; the role played by children's literature in the maintenance of the Ukrainian literary tradition during the Soviet era; and the flourishing Ukrainian book market, with the appearance of numerous new genres and forms, and the growing significance of Ukrainian books around the world. The collection highlights the importance of familiarizing non-Ukrainian students and scholars of children's literature with the richness of the country's literary history and cultural distinctiveness. Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children's Literature is intended primarily for scholars of children's literature and culture, including specialists in the fields of literary studies, education, and Slavic studies.

Das Jahrbuch beleuchtet das komplexe Spektrum an Emotionen, das mit Exilerfahrungen verbunden ist und neben Trauer und Heimweh auch Angst, Wut, Erleichterung und Dankbarkeit umfasst. Wie die Beiträge zu historischen und aktuellen Exiltexten zeigen, ist es gerade die Literatur, die dieses bislang unzureichend erforschte Themenfeld nuanciert verhandelt und so ein Archiv für eine erst noch zu schreibende Gefühlsgeschichte des Exils darstellt.

Cet ouvrage porte sur l'étude du monde imaginaire, essentiellement les images dans les romans de Raymond Radiguet,'Le Diable au corps'et'Le Bal du comte d'Orgel'. Cette thèse de doctorat, soutenue à l'université de Lyon, a été publiée une première fois en 1991 aux Editions Didier Erudition. Comme ce livre est introuvable dans les librairies depuis 1995, car il est épuisé, une réédition de l'ouvrage s'imposait. Cela fait 100 ans, le 2 décembre 2023, que'Le Diable au corps'a été publié, l'année même de la mort de Raymond Radiguet, à seulement 23 ans, le 12 décembre 2023. Cet écrivain, dont la publication du premier roman,'Le Diable au corps', a suscité un immense scandale, et qui s'est vendu, dès sa sortie, à un très grand nombre d'exemplaires, est devenu très vite un mythe, quasiment à l'égal d'Arthur Rimbaud auquel Jean Cocteau l'a comparé. Et le mythe continue...Calogero GIARDINA, docteur ès- lettres de l'université de Lyon, est l'auteur de cinq ouvrages et d'une série de travaux universitaires publiés en France, dans de nombreux pays d'Europe et aux Etats -Unis. Il est spécialiste de stylistique et de linguistique. Ses travaux portent notamment sur des auteurs comme Raymond Radiguet, auquel il a consacré sa thèse, Antoine Furetière, Eugène Ionesco, Jules Laforgue et Boris Vian. Il a enseigné à l'université de Lyon, de Dijon et de Besançon. Ses domaines de recherche sont la création verbale et l'utilisation du cliché dans la littérature française.

Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema discusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special focus on time travel. Each chapter is written by professors and scholars from various countries, including the US, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Taiwan, South Africa, Qatar, Russia, Ukraine and Australia. The book addresses themes of racism, sexism, feminism, and social injustice as well as dystopian futures. This will appeal to students and scholars studying science fiction, dystopian literature, world literature, and world cinema.

Russian-Jewish writer Leonid Tsypkin (1926–82), a doctor by trade, wrote primarily “for the drawer,” fearing professional consequences if he were to publish his fiction. Despite Tsypkin's almost complete lack of readership during his lifetime, his work has received international posthumous recognition, with Susan Sontag calling his work “among the most beautiful, exalting, and original achievements of a century's worth of fiction.” Tsypkin's autobiographical writing explored the impossibility of being both a Russian writer and a Soviet Jew, employing indirection and referentiality. In the first book-length appraisal of Tsypkin and his work, Brett Winestock considers Tsypkin's fiction as part of a transnational literary response to the horrors of the twentieth century, a reception that helps explain his much-belated international readership. Through close readings of Tsypkin's work in the context of late-Soviet cultural worlds, Winestock makes an important contribution to studies of Jewish Soviet writing and identity.

L'auteur s'est inspiré des éléments d'histoire racontés par sa mère lors de la déportation des Arméniens d'Anatolie avec ses parents, frère et sœur.Il a un réel souci d'exactitude de la réalité historique qu'en tant qu'enfant elle ne pouvait pas connaitre, mais qu'il souhaite livrer à la connaissance du lecteur.En écrivant ce manuscrit, il a pu éprouver les situations traumatiques, l'effroi et la douleur affective.Pour lui-même, l'orphelinat de sa mère devient un manque de filiation maternelle et son désir d'écriture s'inscrit dans un contexte de transmission et d'héritage à construire.

Die zum Reflexionsbild erstarrte Frauenleiche ist ein zentrales Motiv der europäischen Kunst, das sein russisches Kulturspezifikum durch die Verbindung mit der orthodoxen Ikone erhält. Die Studie untersucht die Transformationen lebendiger Frauenfiguren zu toten Bildkörpern und geht deren Funktions- und Bedeutungsvielfalt nach. Die hier betrachteten (Bewegt-)Bilder und Texte stellen den weiblichen Leichnam als (Heiligen-)Bild in vielschichtige ästhetisch produktive Spannungsfelder: zwischen Kult und Kunst, Dies- und Jenseits, Form und Zerfall, Ethik und Ästhetik. Insofern sie dabei auch das Verhältnis von Russland und (West-)Europa sowie zwischen Tradition und sich anbahnender Moderne verhandeln, problematisieren die Werke virulente Fragen der Zeit, Umbrüche und Krisen sowohl ästhetisch-poetologischer als auch religiöser, philosophischer, medialer, ethischer und sozialer Natur.

This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It builds on the idea that theory is historically constituted as it is “always becoming something else” as Leslie Fiedler claimed in the 1950s, arguing that the historical constitution of theory relies on theory's procedural nature. In order to assess theory's procedural challenge to the fundamental notions that all the disciplines within an episteme have brought to the fore, it addresses these questions: What are the procedures theory has relied on? Are they a secret to its resistance, or is resistance its primary procedure? And if so, a resistance to what? Secondly, if resistance were theory's principal vehicle, at which point does resistance, conceptualized only procedurally (as resisting something, questioning anything, criticizing whatever), display hallmarks of a disciplinary closure that must call for new resistances, and perhapsfor a fundamentally another kind? The book turns to what theory does in order to avoid a partial answer to what theory is.

The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field, followed by six sections: Perspectives: broad overviews engaging fields such as biosemiosis, kinship praxis, and philosophical approaches Experiments: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crises Earth and Water: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systems Waste/Toxicity/Precarity: poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate change Environmental Justice and Activism: examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural change Region and Place: an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; and Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities: investigations of gender, ethnicity, and race as they intersect with ecological concerns Each section includes an overview and summary addressing the specific essays in the section. These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics. Contributions from leading scholars working across the globe make The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics a landmark textbook and reference for a variety of researchers and students.

This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts. It first looks at ancient editorial practices, and at their impact on modern editions. Contributions analyze how, through time, the perception of what a text was may have changed, and influenced how scholarly texts were made accessible. The second section looks at the historical, political and social contexts within which editions and translations of ancient scientific texts were produced. Finally, the last two parts examine the specificities of editions and translations that bore on scholarly documents. Not only is there a focus on how the elements specific to scientific texts—such as diagrams and numbers—were treated, but case studies analyzing the specific work carried out to edit mathematical and astronomical texts of the past are also offered to the reader. The scholarship displayed in this work lays the foundation for further studies on the history of critical editions and raises questions to those who make scholarly translations and critical editions today.

Ce volume réunit 16 contributions de chercheurs internationaux autour d'un sujet encore peu étudié en traductologie, à savoir la traduction de la littérature grand public et de la vulgarisation. Par leur vocation populaire, la vulgarisation scientifique et la littérature grand public souffrent traditionnellement d'un manque de reconnaissance dans la recherche, malgré un lectorat très vaste. La vulgarisation scientifique s'inscrit aujourd'hui dans une démarche reconnue et encouragée, qui consiste à diffuser les résultats de la recherche en dehors des cercles des initiés. Elle procède de la simplification d'un discours plus spécialisé via une démarche de réécriture, voire de traduction intralinguistique. La littérature grand public partage les mêmes objectifs de large diffusion et d'accessibilité, sans pour autant procéder d'une réécriture à partir de formes plus spécialisées. Romans populaires, paralittérature, bestsellers sont autant de termes qui essayent de cerner une catégorie fuyante, vouée à évoluer au cours de l'histoire et à canoniser parfois les feuilletons d'antan. Le critère d'inclusion dans nos analyses est le succès public de ces ouvrages, ce qui permet d'élargir le spectre à des textes littéraires n'affichant pas nécessairement une vocation « populaire » — vocation par ailleurs difficile à identifier — mais qui touchent un public large. L'ouvrage est organisé en 5 grandes sections : Approches théoriques, Approches historiques, Vulgarisation scientifique, Littérature grand public, Expériences de traduction. Le lecteur y trouvera des réflexions théoriques, des études de cas à l'échelle européenne et des retours d'expérience de deux traducteurs de bestsellers littéraires.

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This thirteenth volume of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies explores some of the many facets of Neo-Futurism from the second half of the twentieth century to the present day. It looks both at the revival and the continuation of Futurist aesthetics, whether in explicit or palimpsest form, in a variety of media: literature, visual art, design, music, architecture, theatre and photography. The essays delve into the broad spectrum of artistic research and offer a good dozen case studies that document, with a transnational and interdisciplinary orientation, the manifold forms of Neo-Futurism in various parts of the world. They investigate how historical Futurism's intellectual and artistic perspective was appropriated and developed further in a more or less conscious, faithful and original way, all the while confronting its progenitor's cultural, social and political misconceptions. Interdisciplinary contributions to neo-futurism as a global phenomenon

Ireland possesses an early and exceptionally rich medieval vernacular tradition in which memory plays a key role. What attitudes to remembering and forgetting are expressed in secular early Irish texts? How do the texts conceptualise the past and what does this conceptualisation tell us about the present and future? Who mediates and validates different versions of the past and how is future remembrance guaranteed? This study approaches such questions through close readings of individual texts. It centres on three major aspects of medieval Irish memory culture: places and landscapes, the provision of information about the past by miraculously old eye-witnesses, and the personal, social and cultural impact of forgetting. The discussions shed light on the relationship between memory and forgetting and explore the connections between the past, present and future. This shows the fascinating spatio-temporal identity constructions in medieval Ireland and links the Irish texts to the broader European world. The monograph makes this rich literary sources available to an interdisciplinary audience and is of interest to both a general medievalist audience and those working in Cultural Memory Studies.

This book offers a cutting-edge compilation of studies on (re)conceptualized traditions in a wide variety of discourses such as the language of emotion, folklore, religion and morality, the natural environment, idioms and proverbs. It also raises complex theoretical and methodological questions regarding the cultural-cognitive linguistic approach to metaphors and figurative language, embodiment, diachronic and corpus linguistics, and pragmatics. The languages under scrutiny range from well-documented to minority varieties, and even to endangered languages and dialects. Building from the assertion that cultural conceptualizations are rendered as manifestations of the interplay between language, culture, and the collective cognition of communities as handed down from generation to generation, this edited book discovers and rebuilds traditional cultural cognition. Employing analytical tools provided by the cultural-cognitive linguistic framework, the authors investigate how the field is being revitalized and renegotiated in present-day cultural contexts, and how it contributes to shaping our contemporary understanding of the world. It is useful for academics and students interested in cultural and cognitive linguistics, ethnosemantics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and religious studies. Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Obwohl eines der prominentesten Themen literarischer Texte, fand das Reisen in der Literaturwissenschaft lange Zeit wenig Beachtung. Stärker in den Blick rückte es erst die sozialgeschichtlich orientierte Reiseliteraturforschung der 1980er Jahre, die sich allerdings vor allem für Reiseberichte im engeren Sinn interessierte. Seither wurde die Frage des ‚Reisen Schreibens‘ in vielfältiger, auch fiktionale Literatur berücksichtigender Weise neu akzentuiert, ohne dass dieses weite Gebiet jedoch systematisch erfasst worden wäre. Das Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über einschlägige Texte, Topoi und Schreibweisen sowie den Stand und die wichtigsten Tendenzen der zunehmend medien- und kulturwissenschaftlich ausgerichteten Forschung. In über hundert Einzelartikeln verhandelt es das Schreiben über Reisen in seiner ganzen Bandbreite zwischen Dokumentation und Fiktion, pragmatischem Bericht und poetischem Projekt, nüchterner Aufzeichnung und ästhetischem Experiment. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der deutschsprachigen Literatur; die Einbeziehung weiterer Medien und Sprachen versteht sich aber auch als Einladung zu einer stärker transphilologisch und intermedial ausgerichteten Reiseforschung.

Dieses Handbuch stellt das erste Nachschlagewerk zur Weltliteratin Friederike Mayröcker dar, die in ihrer enormen Produktivität ein nahezu unüberschaubares Œuvre vorgelegt hat. Ihr oft als komplex charakterisiertes Werk wird anhand von Einzeldarstellungen der wichtigsten Lyrik- und Prosabände präsentiert und durch Beiträge zu poetischen Motiven und Verfahren näher beleuchtet. Untersuchungen zu Mayröckers Fortschreibung literarischer und künstlerischer Traditionen verorten das Werk im kulturellen Kontext. Gerahmt wird der Fokus auf das Werk durch Beiträge zum Leben und zur Wirkung der Autorin. Sie geben einen Überblick über Mayröckers Schreibleben und ihre Inszenierungen von Autorschaft, über die intermedialen Bearbeitungen ihrer Texte in Form von Vertonungen, Visualisierungen und Theateraufführungen, über ihre Rezeption im Feuilleton sowie die Übersetzungen im angloamerikanischen, französischen, italienischen, spanischen und russischen Sprachraum. Nicht zuletzt mit den Materialien im Anhang, darunter eine Auswahlbibliographie und eine Übersicht über die Archivbestände, bildet das Handbuch ein unverzichtbares Nachschlagewerk für Mayröcker-Kenner/innen und alle, die es werden wollen.

This edited collection focuses on the nexus between literary consumption, memory and collective identity formation in Russia from the 1980s until today. It challenges perceived notions about the reduced social significance and identity-building potential of contemporary Russian literature. Drawing on a diverse set of primary source materials, ranging from memoirs, diaries and essays to fan art and BookToks, the collection seeks to do justice to the diversity of an enormous reading public that is often routinely referred to as the ‘Russian reader'. The case studies explore the reading habits and self-understanding of very different audiences that are dispersed along regional, gender, generational and technological divides. In doing so, this collection examines both the continuities and shifts in the multifaceted relationship between literary consumption, memory and identity during the profound and ongoing transformations in Russian society and its literary landscape.

At the time of his death in 1965, at the age of 79, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro had been writing fiction, plays, essays, poems, and translations almost without interruption for more than fifty-five years. In this series of meditations on seven of Tanizaki's novels and novellas, the renowned translator Anthony Chambers focuses on the thread of fantasy that Tanizaki weaves throughout his work. He examines Tanizaki's subtle use of storytelling devices to evoke his characters'alternate sense of reality and to encourage the reader's participation in their fantasies. Employing his intimate knowledge of Tanizaki's works, Chambers superbly evokes the beauty and truth Tanizaki's characters find in their ideal worlds.

This book analyzes the philosophical dimensions of fairy tales from cultures all around the world. Though there is a robust literature that analyzes fairy tales from sociological and historical perspectives and psychology has also focused on mining these stories for insights, this book is unique in its focus on fairy tales as philosophical texts. Bringing together scholars from a truly global range of philosophical and literary traditions, this book shows that fairy tales encapsulate the human dilemma of living in the world, trying to make meaning, and charting a course through good and evil. The book's contributors study fairy tales from East Africa, Australia, Jewish Eastern Europe, Iran, Korea, Turkey, Indigenous North America, and beyond. Ending with a section on Philosophy for Children, this book will also be of interest to scholars and practitioners in this subfield, in addition to scholars of philosophy and popular culture and philosophy of literature.

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years.Building on the pioneering research in the first edition, the collection reorganises historical coverage of the genre to emphasise new geographical areas of cultural production and the growing importance of media beyond print. It also updates and expands the range of frameworks that are relevant to the study of science fiction. The periodisation has been reframed to include new chapters focusing on science fiction produced outside the Anglophone context, including South Asian, Latin American, Chinese and African diasporic science fiction. The contributors use both well- established critical and theoretical approaches and embrace a range of new ones, including biopolitics, climate crisis, critical ethnic studies, disability studies, energy humanities, game studies, medical humanities, new materialisms and sonic studies.This book is an invaluable resource for students and established scholars seeking to understand the vast range of engagements with science fiction in scholarship today.Chapter 39 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Ce livre tente d'appréhender l'évolution du territoire de la Chine ancienne face à ses régions avoisinantes (Tibet-Qinghai, Xinjiang, Mongolie, Mandchourie) au fil du temps jusqu'au XXe siècle. L'idée d'un empire chinois pacifiste immobile millénaire dissimule des dynamiques de puissance territoriale examinées ici à l'échelle temporelle des règnes dynastiques des Chinois Han et de royaumes non-Han souvent désignés « d'empires nomades des steppes ». La Chine a tenté de séparer la zone steppique de son espace historique pour y contenir les incursions nomades. Son périmètre s'est ainsi restructuré par des politiques de voisinage face aux régions frontalières nord et ouest qui retiennent ici notre attention. On peut illustrer des faits inhérents à l'histoire des dynasties pour des périphéries convoitées ou sous leur contrôle à des dates clés de leur règne. En cherchant à « faire parler » une documentation cartographique, on y décèle conquêtes et reculs survenus au pourtour de la Chine. En retenant la notion sociologique « d'interactions », on circonscrit enfin les dynamiques modelant les actions entre la Chine ancienne et ses voisinages sous l'angle des rapports de forces politiques.

Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über den Inhalt des Gilgamesch-Epos und macht vertraut mit dem kulturellen Umfeld, in dem dieses älteste Werk der Weltliteratur entstanden ist. Es erläutert den Mythos, erklärt seine historischen Bezüge, stellt seine Protagonisten vor und informiert über seine Verbreitung, seine literarische Gestaltung, seine anthropologischen Aspekte und seine Rezeptionsgeschichte.

Feliks Volkhovskii (1846-1914) was a significant figure in the Russian revolutionary movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He lived through pivotal changes ranging from the rise of ‘nihilism'in the 1860s and the growth of populism in the 1870s, through to the creation of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in the early 1900s. Imprisoned three times before he turned thirty, he spent ten years in Siberian exile before fleeing abroad to join the fight against tsarist autocracy from western Europe. Following Volkhovskii's arrival in Britain in 1890, he played a central role in the campaign to win sympathy for the Russian revolutionary movement, editing newspapers and journals including Free Russia. He also helped to smuggle propaganda into Russia as well as becoming one of the most prominent figures in the émigré leadership of the Socialist Revolutionaries. Throughout his life, Volkhovskii was also a prolific writer of poetry and short stories, and was on good terms with many leading literary figures of the time including Ford Maddox Ford and Edward and Constance Garnett. Michael Hughes's groundbreaking new biography provides a vivid history of this notable but hitherto neglected figure of both the political and literary worlds. Based on ten years of research in archives across the world and drawing on sources in multiple languages, this masterful biography explores how Volkhovskii's life illuminates broader intellectual and historical questions about the Russian revolutionary movement. It is essential reading for anyone interested in late Imperial Russia and the Russian revolution.

This proceedings book presents select papers from the International Conference on Internet and Modern Society (IMS 2022). It discusses topical issues of digital geography and the geography of the information society, especially in urban settings. Participants from all over the world consider the controversies and challenges posed by globalization, focusing on Digital Urbanism, Smart Cities, Digital Sustainability, Social Media Movements, Digital Divide, and Cyber Psychology. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students in digital humanities, as well as governmental and non-governmental cybersecurity organizations.

Welcome to a journey into the intricate world of aesthetic multilingualism. This monography delves deep into the realms where diverse linguistic and artistic codes converge to shape the very essence of aesthetic experience. From the authorial motivations to the composition, narrative framework, functional aspects, and multimodal manifestations, it unravels the complexities of code-switching as a powerful aesthetic device. Drawing from a rich tapestry of literary and artistic works, it explores how code-switching transcends linguistic boundaries to create captivating narratives and immersive artistic experiences. The outlined multidimensional approach goes beyond mere linguistic analysis, delving into the intricate interplay of semiotic resources, cultural contexts, and narrative strategies. Through meticulous examination and insightful case studies, it sheds light on the multifaceted nature of aesthetic code-switching, revealing its profound impact on artistic expression and communication. As you embark on this journey, this monography invites you to explore the diverse landscapes of aesthetic multilingualism, where words, sounds, and visuals converge to create art that transcends linguistic and cultural boundaries and captivates the imagination.

In Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan's engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period (1600–1868). Large-scale analyses of the full historical and bibliographical record—the first of their kind—document in detail the wholesale importation of Chinese fiction, the market for imported books and domestic reprint editions, and the critical role of manuscript practices—the ascendance of print culture notwithstanding—in the circulation of Chinese texts among Japanese readers and writers. Bringing this big picture to life, Fleming also traces the journey of a text rarely mentioned in studies of early modern Japanese literature: Pu Songling's Liaozhai zhiyi (Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio). An immediate favorite of readers on the continent, Liaozhai was long thought to have been virtually unknown in Japan until the modern period. Copies were imported in vanishingly small numbers, and the collection was never reprinted domestically. Yet beneath this surface of apparent neglect lies a rich hidden history of engagement and rewriting—hand-copying, annotation, criticism, translation, and adaptation—that opens up new perspectives on both the Chinese strange tale and its Japanese counterparts.

This volume lays theoretical and methodological groundwork for the analysis of Mesopotamian literature. A comprehensive first chapter by the editors explores critical contemporary issues in Sumerian and Akkadian narrative analysis, and nine case studies written by an international array of scholars test the responsiveness of Sumerian and Akkadian narratives to diverse approaches drawn from literary studies and theories of fiction. Included are intertextual and transtextual analyses, studies of narrative structure and focalization, and treatments of character and characterization. Works considered include the Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic and many other Sumerian and Akkadian narratives of gods, heroes, kings, and monsters.

Bringing together a wide selection of work on cultural linguistics and pragmatics, this comprehensive handbook offers global, comparative insights into the field. Diversity does not always imply differences, but it also offers insights into surprising similarities and parallels when it comes to expressions. By the same token, this collection shows that when we see that linguistic differences, when they exist, stem from not merely language, but from the cultural and historical context that cultivates and nurtures them. Within that paradigm, then, this handbook locates the importance of philosophy, religion (or even the lack thereof), political affiliations, and so on, in forming expressions. In addition, comparisons with other models of cultural linguistics are undertaken. These trends provide readers with a comprehensive introduction to issues in cultural linguistics, addressing the peculiarities of the field under the rubric of localized studies, and speaking to the possibilities that exist in interpretation of what metaphors are. The book highlights the complexities that are so tightly interwoven into the fabric of every word and a sentence, across cultures and linguistic traditions. A must-have collection for anthropologists, philosophers, linguists, philologists, theoreticians, rhetoricians, and scholars of poetics, this is the one-stop reference in cultural linguistics.

Pacte d'allégeance nous invite à entreprendre un voyage exceptionnel qui débuta dans les années 1970, lors d'une rencontre décisive entre l'auteur et Serigne Abdoul Ahad Mbacké, le Khalif général des Mourides. Ce pacte d'allégeance marqua le commencement d'un périple spirituel presque initiatique, s'étendant sur plus de cinquante ans, et conduisit l'auteur au sein de l'environnement spirituel de Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba. À travers son parcours personnel et professionnel, il témoigne de l'impact profond de sa foi et de son amour pour Cheikhoul Khadim, guidé par un attachement absolu envers Serigne Touba.Cet ouvrage se présente comme un hommage sincère à Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba, une expression profonde de gratitude de la part d'un fidèle talibé. L'auteur met en lumière les bienfaits incommensurables qu'il a reçus grâce à ce pacte d'allégeance, renforçant ainsi son admiration et son attachement absolu envers la personne de Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba.Pacte d'allégeance est bien plus qu'un simple récit, il constitue un témoignage de dévotion, de foi et de reconnaissance envers un guide spirituel d'exception. Cette lecture s'impose à tous ceux en quête de vérité et de spiritualité.

The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks – including literature, visual arts, film and performances – as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing worlds, implying movement as opposed to the boundary drawing of area studies. From such a processual perspective, Africa is not a delineated area, but emerges in a variety of relations which can reach across the continent, but also the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic or Europe. Contributors are: Thierry Boudjekeu, Elena Brugioni, Ute Fendler, Sophie Lembcke, Gilbert Ndi Shang, Samuel Ndogo, Duncan Tarrant, Kumari Issur, CJ Odhiambo, Michaela Ott, Peter Simatei, Clarissa Vierke, Chinelo J. Enemuo.

F. M. Dostoevskijs Werke sind ohne eine Analyse der Originalsprache kaum zu verstehen. Die bisher veröffentlichten Übersetzungen geben deren stilistische Besonderheit meist nicht angemessen wieder, insbesondere da gleiche Wörter in beiden Sprachen abweichende Bedeutungen haben. Daher sollte der grenzüberschreitende Dialog mit dem Autor neu geführt werden und auch eine Analyse seiner Sprache miteinbeziehen. Dostoevskij gilt als schlechter Stilist. Das aber rührt vor allem daher, dass er einer rationalen Sprache eine emotional bestimmte Rede vorzieht, die auf die Magie des gesprochenen Wortes setzt, nicht auf Vernunft und Argumentation. Das dürfte auch für künftige Übersetzungen relevant sein und führt vor Augen, welche Verständnisprobleme im Ost-West-Dialog noch zu überwinden sind.

Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this volume demonstrates, offering a wide range of innovative perspectives on often neglected literary, philosophical, historical, or medical documents. Texts, images, ideas, knowledge, and objects migrated throughout the world already in the pre-modern world, even if the quantitative level compared to the modern world might have been different. In fact, by means of translations and trade, for instance, global connections were established and maintained over the centuries. Archetypal motifs developed in many literatures indicate how much pre-modern people actually shared. But we also discover hard-core facts of global economic exchange, import of exotic medicine, and, on another level, intensive intellectual debates on religious issues. Literary evidence serves best to expose the extent to which contacts with people in foreign countries were imaginable, often desirable, and at times feared, of course. The pre-modern world was much more on the move and reached out to distant lands out of curiosity, economic interests, and political and military concerns. Diplomats crisscrossed the continents, and artists, poets, and craftsmen traveled widely. We can identify, for instance, both the Vikings and the Arabs as global players long before the rise of modern globalism, so this volume promises to rewrite many of our traditional notions about pre-modern worldviews, economic conditions, and the literary sharing on a global level, as perhaps best expressed by the genre of the fable.

The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Five decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed predicament of the contemporary Iranian woman, at once subjected to long-held traditional practices and influenced by newly introduced modern social sensibilities. Highlighting her literary and cinematic innovation, this volume examines the unique place Farrokhzad occupies in Iran, both among modern Persian poets in general and as an Iranian woman writer in particular. The authors also explore Farrokhzad's appeal outside Iran in the Iranian diasporic imagination and through the numerous translations of her poetry into English. It is a fitting and authoritative tribute to the work of a remarkable woman which will introduce and explain her legacy for a 21st-century audience.This second edition includes two new chapters which explore a travelogue Farrokhzad wrote during her time in Italy, and an examination of Farrokhzad's influence on the writings of the Afghan female poet Laila Sarahat Rowshani.

Confronting Bakhtin's formative reading of Dostoevsky to recover the ways the novelist stokes conflict and engages readers—and to explore the reasons behind his adversarial approach Like so many other elements of his work, Fyodor Dostoevsky's deliberate deployment of provocation was both prescient and precocious. In this book, Lynn Ellen Patyk singles out these forms of incitement as a communicative strategy that drives his paradoxical art. Challenging, revising, and expanding on Mikhail Bakhtin's foundational analysis in Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Patyk demonstrates that provocation is the moving mover of Dostoevsky's poetics of conflict, and she identifies the literary devices he uses to propel plot conflict and capture our attention. Yet the full scope of Dostoevsky's provocative authorial activity can only be grasped alongside an understanding of his key themes, which both probed and exploited the most divisive conflicts of his era. The ultimate stakes of such friction are, for him, nothing less than moral responsibility and the truth of identity. Sober and strikingly original, compassionate but not uncritical, Dostoevsky's Provocateurs exposes the charged current in the wiring of our modern selves. In an economy of attention and its spoils, provocation is an inexhaustibly renewable and often toxic resource.

Lausberg's Handbook of Literary Rhetoric, here made available for the first time in English, received high critical acclaim on its first publication in 1963. It is a monumental work of extraordinary erudition, organisation and comprehensiveness, and enjoys unrivalled authority in its formal description of rhetorical techniques. The present edition is a translation of the second edition of 1973, which was reprinted in 1990. The Handbook has for many years been a standard reference work for all engaged in the study of literature and rhetoric. This translation will ensure its accessibility to a new generation of students of rhetoric.

Il n'y a pas si longtemps de cela, des hommes qui n'étaient autres que des membres d'une même famille, des voisins ou des amis se réunissaient sagement assis autour d'un feu de bois dans l'attente d'un couscous oasien qui fumait ou confortablement allongés au clair de la lune sur les terrasses de maisons ou agréablement entourés d'amis pendant qu'un calumet dans des fumeries passait de bouche en bouche et des récits se narraient entre eux, récits soigneusement mémorisés par des femmes et par des hommes qui les tenaient de leurs lointains aïeuls de génération en génération dans une contrée verdoyante du lointain et aride Atlas Saharien. Ces récits moralisateurs constitués de monstrueux, de fables, de légendes, de mythes explicatifs, véhiculent des pans de la culture du peuple amazighe qui les a inventés, sa manière de mettre de l'ordre dans le cosmos, sa vision du monde, son Histoire, ses espoirs, ses déceptions et son âme.

This book, the first research publication on China's archery culture to appear in the English language, introduces the historic development, key concepts, and research methodologies for archery studies. Archery was the most important weapon of war in pre-modern China; at the same time, archery practice was intimately tied to Confucius'cultural and pedagogic ideals. Chinese archery was divided into the domains of military archery (wushe) and ritual archery (lishe), and may be further distinguished into han (Chinese) and hu (barbarian) archery traditions. Bringing together the leading scholars in this field, including Ma Mingda, Stephen Selby, Ma Lianzhen, Peter Dekker, and others, this book presents the most comprehensive statement on archery studies to date. In particular, it provides an in-depth survey of archery development during the Qing period and offers a unique cultural perspective to understanding China's last imperial dynasty—through the lens of Manchu archery.

Die klassische Gattung des Versepos von Milton bis Klopstock ist nach dem Ende ihrer letzten Hochphasen im europäischen Raum (je nach Sprachkultur zwischen 1750 und 1850) wenig beachtet, obschon weiterhin eine erstaunliche Breite an Formen und Inhalten zu finden ist. Das Handbuch will den bekannten klassischen und vor allem den modernen, vielsprachigen Bestand von Versepik interdisziplinär und systematisch beschreiben und dabei zugleich Wege für weitergehende Arbeiten weisen. Ein erster Teil des Handbuchs beleuchtet allgemeine literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Aspekte. Ein weiterer Teil rekapituliert die ‚klassischen'Epochen von der Antike bis ins 17. Jahrhundert. Der dritte Teil widmet sich dezidiert ausführlicher dem bis heute wohl größten offenen Feld, nämlich der Weiterentwicklung der europäischen Versepiken in den wichtigsten Sprachkulturen (v.a. Romania, anglo-amerikanischer, deutschsprachiger, slavischer Raum) seit der vorgeblichen Ablösung der alten Gattung durch die ‚modernere'Prosa bzw. Romanliteratur.

A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization. When revolutionaries seized Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising, they looked back to unrequited pasts to point the way toward radical futures—transforming the Celtic Twilight into the electric light of modern Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses. For Luke Gibbons, the short-lived rebellion converted the Irish renaissance into the beginning of a global decolonial movement. James Joyce and the Irish Revolution maps connections between modernists and radicals, tracing not only Joyce's projection of Ireland onto the world stage, but also how revolutionary leaders like Ernie O'Malley turned to Ulysses to make sense of their shattered worlds. Coinciding with the centenary of both Ulysses and Irish independence, this book challenges received narratives about the rebellion and the novel that left Ireland changed, changed utterly.

The first part of the yearbook contains ten essays on Futurist art and literature in Italy, France, Russia, Poland, Portugal and the former colony of Goa. Among other things, early Futurist publishing and propaganda initiatives by means of manifestos, press releases, and newssheets are examined, as well as Athos Casarini's artistic and political work undertaken in Italy and the USA. Articles in the second part deal with the 30th anniversary of the international Academy of Zaum as well as various conferences, exhibitions and publications celebrating the centenary of Zenitism in Serbia and Croatia. Critical responses to exhibitions, conferences and publications as well as a bibliographical section with information on 139 recent book publications on Futurism conclude the yearbook.

One of the defining features of modernism lies in its far-reaching rethinking of the relation between the human and the non-human. In the present volume, this crucial aspect of modernism's legacy is investigated from an authentically transnational perspective, taking an innovative stance on a diverse range of authors – from posthumanist classics such as Beckett and Woolf to Valentine de Saint-Point, Radoje Domanovic and Aldo Palazzeschi among others. On the one hand, this collection sheds new light on the modernist contribution to posthumanism, providing a valuable reference point for future studies on the topic. On the other, it offers a new take on the transnational dimension of modernism, highlighting unexplored convergences between modernist authors from several different national contexts.