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The article discusses how early modern authors Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont faced challenges due to their controversial writings and financial struggles. It highlights how biographies of Nashe and Beaumont draw inspiration from Eunapius's anecdote about two poor scholars in ancient Greece, emphasizing their dedication to learning despite hardships. The biographers use the motif of shared clothing and lodgings to portray Nashe and Beaumont in a negative light, suggesting a polemical rhetorical flourish rather than historical accuracy. This analysis provides insight into the literary and personal lives of Nashe and Beaumont, shedding light on the complexities of their experiences as writers. [Extracted from the article]

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Elena Lahr-Vivaz's book, "Writing Islands: Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban Archipelago," explores the literature and collaborations of Cuban artists beyond the confines of the nation or the Caribbean. Lahr-Vivaz uses a decolonizing approach to highlight the plurality and transnational spaces of Cuba. The book examines how Cuban poets, novelists, and essayists create new spaces of identity both physically and metaphorically, and analyzes the impact of political and geopolitical changes on their artistic productions. The book includes interviews with the artists and a bibliography that would be useful for researchers in Cuban and Caribbean studies. [Extracted from the article]

Observation, on the other hand, covers both what most documentary filmmakers (aside from a relatively small circle of visual anthropologists) understand as the observational mode that was described by Bill Nichols in I Representing Reality i - roughly corresponding to what could be called fly-on-the-wall films - and the unassuming, participant filmmaking confusingly named Observational Cinema. Three chapters are dedicated respectively to Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner, and Colin Young, and they are possibly the best in the whole book, thanks to Henley's deep understanding of these three figures. Beyond Observation: Henley, Paul: Beyond Observation: A History of Authorship in Ethnographic Film. [Extracted from the article]

Gherardi's book is centred on the notions of "practices as the units of analysis of organizing" (p. 4) and "practices as locus of organizing" (p. 85). Gherardi's posthumanist approach to practice-based studies manages to convincingly and accessibly connect practice theory with much of the conceptual imagery and methods popular in actor-network thought. Exploring a Posthumanist Approach to Social Practices: A Commentary on Silvia Gherardi's How to Conduct a Practice-based study (2nd edition) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019. [Extracted from the article]

Gibbs, Raymond W Jr Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphors in Human Life, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017; 328 pp.: ISBN 9781107071148, £69.99 (hbk) From the perspectives of rhetoric and poetics, metaphor is considered valuable in terms of persuading, modifying, motivating literal meanings, and activating creativity, as well as facilitating readers' comprehension. As regards literary critiques of conceptual metaphor's role in restricting creativity, Gibbs argues conversely that conceptual metaphor is the foundation of producing and understanding novel metaphor through elaboration, combination and contextualization. In terms of deliberate metaphor theory, Gibbs notably opposes Steen's view, criticizing his use of unsubstantiated boundaries between conscious and unconscious usage of metaphor as there are no reliable textual clues (p. 85). [Extracted from the article]

Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to the geography of science while Chapter 2 provides an introduction to the geography of I collaboration i in science. While the book makes only a few references to the philosophical literature on collaboration in science, philosophers of science in practice are likely to find the book enlightening. Philosophers will perhaps be particularly interested in the quantitative data on international collaboration reported in Chapter 4 and the extensive presentation in Chapter 6 of scientific collaboration policies in the USA, the EU, and China. [Extracted from the article]

The book ends with an appendix, where the authors collate in one place all of the practical considerations presented at the end of Chapters 2 to 10. In addition, the book constitutes a highly useful resource for any practitioners, especially those based in Australia or New Zealand, who are involved in or considering collaborative public problem solving. Despite this necessity to collaborate, however, the book's authors point out that "there are multiple impediments to collaborative action in public policy spaces dominated by large, hierarchical and bureaucratic organisations with distinct institutional and administrative histories" (p. 1). [Extracted from the article]

Studying The Wreck of the Golden Mary in its entirety, this essay complicates hierarchical models of collaboration and showcases the powerful polyvocal potential of periodical forms such as the Christmas number. The Wreck, edited and compiled by Charles Dickens in 1856, includes the writing of five other authors. Restoring the links between The Wreck's parts not only recuperates the dialogic aspects of the original narrative but also highlights how a focus on individual authorship can hinder interpretive approaches to collaborative periodical writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Qui écrit? Figures de l'auteur et des co-élaborateurs du texte. XVe-XVIIIe siècle," edited by Martine Furno, part of the Métamorphoses du livre book series.

The article reviews the book "Women's Literary Collaboration, Queerness, and Late-Victorian Culture," by Jill R. Ehnenn.

The article reviews the book "Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats," by Margaret Mills Harper.

Reviews the book "Michael Field and Their World," edited by Margaret D. Stetz and Cheryl A. Wilson.

The article reviews the book "Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats," by Margaret Mills Harper.

The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the poetry collection "Lyrical Ballads," written cooperatively by Coleridge and English poet William Wordsworth. The author highlights the distinctions of each author's influence on the symbols and composition of the works, despite the modern literary trend to attribute the entire collection entirely to Coleridge.

Hinzu kommen die Autorinnen und Autoren der jeweiligen Beiträge, die hier nicht im Einzelnen aufgelistet werden können, die aber alle Rang und Namen in der Stadtplanung und -entwicklung haben. Sie verbindet das Vorhaben, einen vielstimmigen Chor anzustimmen zur «Strategie und I Erzählung i , die die Stadtentwicklung in den letzten beiden Dekaden geprägt hat» (Editorial, S. 17, kursiv hinzugefügt). Die Triade aus Kohle, Stahl und Bier wurde ‹verhältnismässig› erfolgreich überwunden und die Stadt ist für die Zukunft gut aufgestellt, vor allem wegen der «beachtlichen (Prozess-)Erfahrung und Professionalität im Umgang mit ökonomischen, städtischen, ökologischen, sozialen gesellschaftlichen Transformationen ...» (Sierau et al. im Band, S. 23). [Extracted from the article]

An essay is presented on "Angel Hair Sleeps With a Boy in My Head: The Angel Hair Anthology," an anthology of material from "Angel Hair" magazine. According to the author, it presents an avant-garde movement whose influence continues in New York and national avant-garde circles. Particular attention is given to "second-generation" poets of the mid-20th century in the anthology such as Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, and Dick Gallup and their "poetics of sociability" displayed through communal writing.

Reviews the book "Letters and Texts, 1972-1984," by Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard.

The article reviews the book "First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship," by Sophie McCall.

The article reviews the book "Models of Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Several Authors, One Pen," edited by Seth Whidden.

The article presents a review of the book "Qui écrit? Figues de l'auteur et des co-élaborateurs du texte XVe-XVIIIe siècle," edited by Martine Furno.

A review is presented of the book "Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace and Everything Else," by reporters of the Associated Press.

The article reviews the book "Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship," edited by Marjorie Stone and Judith Thompson.

Reviews the book "(First Person)2: A Study of Co-Authoring in the Academy," by Kami Day and Michele Eodice.