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  1. Studies in the Life and Works of Michail Kuzmin
    Contributor: Malmstad, John E. (Publisher)
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    <P>Neben der Zeitschrift Wiener Slawistischer Almanach erscheinen seit 1980 auch 2-3 Mal jährlich Sonderbände (seither 94 Ausgaben) mit literaturwissenschaftlichem oder linguistischem Schwerpunkt. Die literarische Reihe umfasst Monographien oder... more

     

    Neben der Zeitschrift Wiener Slawistischer Almanach erscheinen seit 1980 auch 2-3 Mal jährlich Sonderbände (seither 94 Ausgaben) mit literaturwissenschaftlichem oder linguistischem Schwerpunkt. Die literarische Reihe umfasst Monographien oder Tagungsbeiträge aus allen Bereichen der aktuellen slavischen Literaturwissenschaft und weit darüber hinaus (Medientheorie, Kulturwissenschaft, Literaturkritik).

    Die Beiträge oder Monographien erscheinen in der Regel in deutscher, russischer oder endlischer Sprache. Publikationsvorschläge an aage.hansen-loeve@lrz.uni.-muenchen.de

     
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    Contributor: Malmstad, John E. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literature & literary studies
    Other subjects: Biographie; Kuzmin; Life; Literaturwissenschaft; Malmstad; Michail; Russland; Slavische Studien; Slavistik; Studies; Works
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (212 p.)
  2. Integrating Food into Urban Planning
    Contributor: Cabannes, Yves (Publisher); Marocchino, Cecilia (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to take a central and active... more

     

    The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to take a central and active part in understanding how food is produced, processed, packaged, transported, marketed, consumed, disposed of and recycled in our cities.

    While there is a growing body of literature on the topic, the issue of planning cities in such a way they will increase food security and nutrition, not only for the affluent sections of society but primarily for the poor, is much less discussed, and much less informed by practices. This volume, a collaboration between the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL and the Food Agricultural Organisation, aims to fill this gap by putting more than 20 city-based experiences in perspective, including studies from Toronto, New York City, Portland and Providence in North America; Milan in Europe and Cape Town in Africa; Belo Horizonte and Lima in South America; and, in Asia, Bangkok and Tokyo.

    By studying and comparing cities of different sizes, from both the Global North and South, in developed and developing regions, the contributors collectively argue for the importance and circulation of global knowledge rooted in local food planning practices, programmes and policies.

     
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    Contributor: Cabannes, Yves (Publisher); Marocchino, Cecilia (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Development studies; Food & society; Urban communities; Sociology; Food security & supply; Sustainability; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: food; planning; urban; food security
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (376 p.)
  3. Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation : Exploring the Work of Atxaga, Kundera and Semprun
    Author: Hulme, Harriet
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation engages with translation, in both theory and practice, as part of an interrogation of ethical as well as political thought in the work of three bilingual European authors: Bernardo Atxaga, Milan Kundera and Jorge... more

     

    Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation engages with translation, in both theory and practice, as part of an interrogation of ethical as well as political thought in the work of three bilingual European authors: Bernardo Atxaga, Milan Kundera and Jorge Semprún. In approaching the work of these authors, the book draws upon the approaches to translation offered by Benjamin, Derrida, Ricœur and Deleuze to highlight a broad set of ethical questions, focused upon the limitations of the monolingual and the democratic possibilities of linguistic plurality; upon our innate desire to translate difference into similarity; and upon the ways in which translation responds to the challenges of individual and collective remembrance.

    Each chapter explores these interlingual but also intercultural, interrelational and interdisciplinary issues, mapping a journey of translation that begins in the impact of translation upon the work of each author, continues into moments of linguistic translation, untranslatability and mistranslation within their texts and ultimately becomes an exploration of social, political and affective (un)translatability. In these journeys, the creative and critical potential of translation emerges as a potent, often violent, but always illuminating, vision of the possibilities of differentiation and connection, generation and memory, in temporal, linguistic, cultural and political terms.

     
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    Language: English
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    Subjects: Translation & interpretation; Literature & literary studies; Literary theory; Literary reference works
    Other subjects: Atxaga; Kundera; Semprún; translations; interpretation
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (286 p.)
  4. Architecture and Resilience : Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    Contributor: Trogal, Kim (Publisher); Bauman, Irena (Publisher); Lawrence, Ranald (Publisher); Petrescu, Doina (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not... more

     

    Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not resilient. Our urban infrastructures, our buildings, our economies, our ways of managing and governing are still too tightly bound to models of unrestrained free-market growth, individualism and consumerism. Research has shown that the crises arising from climate change will become increasingly frequent and increasingly severe. It is also known that the effects of climate change are not evenly distributed across places and people, and neither are the resources needed to meet these challenges. We will need specific responses in place that engage with, and emerge from, citizens ourselves.

     

    This volume takes resilience as a transformative concept to ask where and what architecture might contribute. Bringing together cross-disciplinary perspectives from architecture, urban design, art, geography, building science and psychoanalysis, it aims to open up multiple perspectives of research, spatial strategies and projects that are testing how we can build local resilience in preparation for major societal challenges, defining the position of architecture in urban resilience discourse.

     
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    Contributor: Trogal, Kim (Publisher); Bauman, Irena (Publisher); Lawrence, Ranald (Publisher); Petrescu, Doina (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Architecture
    Other subjects: architecture; resilience; urban design; art; geography; building science; psychoanalysis
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (280 p.)
  5. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity : Volume 1: The Middle Ages
    Author: Ziolkowski, Jan M.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre... more

     

    "This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.

    Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today.

    The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity is a rich case study for the reception of the Middle Ages in modernity. Spanning centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post)modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass, postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards.

    Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies."

     
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  6. The Transformative Power of the Copy : A Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approach
    Author: Forberg, Corinna; Stockhammer, Philipp W.
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP), Heidelberg

    This volume offers a fresh perspective on the copy and the practice of copying, two topics that, while the focus of much academic discussion in recent decades, have been underrepresented in the discourse on transculturality. Here, experts from a wide... more

     

    This volume offers a fresh perspective on the copy and the practice of copying, two topics that, while the focus of much academic discussion in recent decades, have been underrepresented in the discourse on transculturality. Here, experts from a wide range of academic disciplines present their views on the copy from a transcultural perspective, seeking not to define the copy uniformly, but to reveal its dynamic and transformative power. The copy and the practice of copying are thus presented as constituents of transculturality via thought-provoking contributions on topics spanning time periods from antiquity to the present, and regions from Asia to Europe. In so doing, these contributions aim to create the basis for a novel, interdisciplinary discourse on the copy and its transcultural impact throughout history.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783946054146; 9783946054160; 9783946054153
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    Subjects: The arts: general issues; Interdisciplinary studies; History; Cultural studies
    Other subjects: asia; copy; europe; transcultural perspective; transformative power; Mimesis
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (414 p.)
  7. Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands : Kalimpong as a “Contact Zone"
    Author: Viehbeck, Markus
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP), Heidelberg

    This collaborative study investigates the hill station of Kalimpong and the larger Eastern Himalayan borderlands as a paradigmatic case of a “contact zone.” In the colonial and early post-colonial era, this space enabled a variety of encounters:... more

     

    This collaborative study investigates the hill station of Kalimpong and the larger Eastern Himalayan borderlands as a paradigmatic case of a “contact zone.” In the colonial and early post-colonial era, this space enabled a variety of encounters: between (British) India, Tibet, and China, but also Nepal and Bhutan; between Christian mission and Himalayan religions; between global flows of money and information and local markets and practices. Using a plethora of local and global historical sources, the contributing essays follow the pathways of people from diverse cultural backgrounds and investigate the new forms of knowledge and practice that resulted from their encounters and their shifting power relations. The volume provides not only a nuanced historiography of Kalimpong and its adjacent areas, but also a conceptual model for studying transcultural processes in borderland spaces and their colonial and post-colonial dynamics.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9783946054573; 9783946054580; 9783946054566
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    Subjects: Asian history; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: kalimpong; transkulturality; himalayas; Buddhism; Darjeeling; India; Lepcha people; Tibet; Tibetan people
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (360 p.)
  8. Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India
    Author: Cubelic, Simon; Michaels, Axel; Zotter, Astrid
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP), Heidelberg

    study of religion|indology|anthropology|history|tibetology more

     

    study of religion|indology|anthropology|history|tibetology

     
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    ISBN: 9783946054719; 9783946054702
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    Subjects: Asian history; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: study of religion; indology; anthropology; history; tibetology; Nepal
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (538 p.)
  9. The Literariness of Media Art
    Author: Benthien, Claudia; Lau, Jordis; Marxsen, Maraike M.
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    “Language can be this incredibly forceful material—there’s something about it where if you can strip away its history, get to the materiality of it, it can rip into you like claws” (Hill in Vischer 1995, 11). This arresting image by media artist Gary... more

     

    “Language can be this incredibly forceful material—there’s something about it where if you can

    strip away its history, get to the materiality of it, it can rip into you like claws” (Hill in Vischer

    1995, 11). This arresting image by media artist Gary Hill evokes the nearly physical force of

    language to hold recipients in its grip. That power seems to lie in the material of language itself,

    which, with a certain rawness, may captivate or touch, pounce on, or even harm its addressee.

    Hill’s choice of words is revealing: ‘rip into’ suggests not only a metaphorical emotional pull but

    also the literal physicality of linguistic attack. It is no coincidence that the statement comes from

    a media artist, since media artworks often use language to produce a strong sensorial stimulus.

    Media artworks not only manipulate language as a material in itself, but they also manipulate the

    viewer’s perceptual channels. The guises and effects of language as artistic material are the topic

    of this book, The Literariness of Media Art.

     
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    ISBN: 9781138091528; 9781315107981
    Subjects: Language; Literature & literary studies; Media studies
    Other subjects: Media Art; literary approach; language; Defamiliarization; New media art; Russian formalism
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (330 p.)
  10. Tweets and the Streets : Social Media and Contemporary Activism
    Author: Gerbaudo, Paolo
    Published: 20121020
    Publisher:  Pluto Press

    Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social... more

     

    Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest.

     

    Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a 'cyberspace' detached from physical reality. Instead, social media is used as part of a project of re-appropriation of public space, which involves the assembling of different groups around 'occupied' places such as Cairo’s Tahrir Square or New York’s Zuccotti Park.

     

    An exciting and invigorating journey through the new politics of dissent, Tweets and the Streets points both to the creative possibilities and to the risks of political evanescence which new media brings to the contemporary protest experience.

     
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  11. Information and Empire : Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1854
    Contributor: Franklin, Simon (Publisher); Bowers, Katherine (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary... more

     

    "From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 brings together a range of contributions to shed some light on this complex question. Communication networks such as the postal service and the gathering and circulation of news are examined alongside the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its country and its people. The inscription of space is considered from the point of view of mapping and the changing public ‘graphosphere’ of signs and monuments. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people.

    Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a field of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre-modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge habitual Western models of development. It is important reading not only for specialists in Russian Studies, but also for students and non-Russianists who are interested in the history of information and communications."

     
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    Contributor: Franklin, Simon (Publisher); Bowers, Katherine (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Social & cultural history; Cultural studies
    Other subjects: news circulation; postal service; russian empire; maps and atlases; history of communication; information; signs and monuments; communication; Apothecary; Grand Duchy of Moscow; Moscow; Saint Petersburg
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (444 p.)
  12. Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art : New Perspectives
    Contributor: Kozicharow, Nicola (Publisher); Hardiman, Louise (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture... more

     

    "In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture deeply influenced by the regime’s adoption of Byzantine Orthodoxy centuries before – questions of religion and spirituality were of paramount importance. As artists and the wider art community experimented with new ideas and interpretations at the dawn of the twentieth century, their relationship with ‘the spiritual’ – broadly defined – was inextricably linked to their roles as pioneers of modernism. This diverse collection of essays introduces new and stimulating approaches to the ongoing debate as to how Russian artistic modernism engaged with questions of spirituality in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Ten chapters from emerging and established voices offer new perspectives on Kandinsky and other familiar names, such as Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Larionov, and Natalia Goncharova, and introduce less well-known figures, such as the Georgian artists Ucha Japaridze and Lado Gudiashvili, and the craftswoman and art promoter Aleksandra Pogosskaia.

    Prefaced by a lively and informative introduction by Louise Hardiman and Nicola Kozicharow that sets these perspectives in their historical and critical context, Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives enriches our understanding of the modernist period and breaks new ground in its re-examination of the role of religion and spirituality in the visual arts in late Imperial Russia. Of interest to historians and enthusiasts of Russian art, culture, and religion, and those of international modernism and the avant-garde, it offers innovative readings of a history only partially explored, revealing uncharted corners and challenging long-held assumptions."

     
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    Contributor: Kozicharow, Nicola (Publisher); Hardiman, Louise (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Theory of art; Painting & paintings; Art treatments & subjects
    Other subjects: russia; art; spirituality; modernism; religion; history of art; Icon; Moscow; Wassily Kandinsky
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (318 p.)
  13. Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy : Volume 3
    Contributor: Webb, Heather (Publisher); Corbett, George (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno... more

     

    "Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This collection in three volumes offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante.

    The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy website."

     
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    Contributor: Webb, Heather (Publisher); Corbett, George (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: poetry & poets
    Other subjects: commedia; italian literature; vertical readings; dante alighieri; purgatorio; paradiso; comparative; inferno; italian poetry; Divine Comedy; God; Virgil
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (264 p.)
  14. Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet : Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English
    Contributor: Roche, Gerald (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    " Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst... more

     

    " Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and they provide valuable insights into the lives of Mongghul people—their hopes, dreams, and worries. They bear testimony to the impressive plurilingual repertoire commanded by some Mongghul singers: the original texts in Tibetan, Mongghul, and Chinese are here presented in Mongghul, Chinese, and English.

    The kaleidoscope of stories told in these songs include that of Marshall Qi, a chieftain from the Seven Valleys who travels to Luoyang with his Mongghul army to battle rebels; Laarimbu and Qiimunso, a pair of star-crossed lovers who take revenge from beyond the grave on the families that kept them apart; and the Crop-Planting Song and the Sheep Song, which map the physical and spiritual terrain of the Mongghul people, vividly describing the physical and cosmological world in which they exist.

    This collection of songs is supported by an Introduction by Gerald Roche that provides an understanding of their traditional context, and shows that these works offer insights into the practices of multilingualism in Tibet. Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet is vital reading for researchers and others working on oral literature, as well as those who study Inner Asia, Tibet, and China’s ethnic minorities. Finally, this book is of interest to linguistic anthropologists and sociolinguists, particularly those working on small-scale multilingualism and pre-colonial multilingualism. "

     
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    Contributor: Roche, Gerald (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Sino-Tibetan languages; Poetry anthologies (various poets); Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: narrative songs; china’s ethnic minorities; tibet; pre-colonial multilingualism; mongghul oral literature; multilingualism; Bird; Gautama Buddha; Highland barley; Huni; Kitchen stove; Sheep
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (470 p.)
  15. Reading Today
    Contributor: Pyrhönen, Heta (Publisher); Kantola, Janna (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    New technologies are changing our reading habits. Laptops, e-readers, tablets and other handheld devices supply new platforms for reading, and we must learn to manage them by scrolling, clicking or tapping. Reading Today places reading in current... more

     

    New technologies are changing our reading habits. Laptops, e-readers, tablets and other handheld devices supply new platforms for reading, and we must learn to manage them by scrolling, clicking or tapping. Reading Today places reading in current literary and cultural contexts in order to analyse how these contexts challenge our conceptions of who reads, what reading is, how we read, where we read, and for what purposes – and then responds to the questions this analysis raises. Is our reading experience becoming a ‘flat’ one? And does reading in a media environment favour quick reading? Alongside these questions, the contributors unpack emerging strategies of reading.They consider, for example, how paying attention to readers’ emotional reactions as an indispensable component of reading affects our conception of the reading process. Other chapters consider how reading can be explored through such topics as experimental literature, the contemporary encyclopedic novel and the healing power of books.

     
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    Contributor: Pyrhönen, Heta (Publisher); Kantola, Janna (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Cultural studies; Media studies; Media, information & communication industries
    Other subjects: literature; technology; books; reading; Don Quixote; Finland; Italy
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (210 p.)
  16. Registers of Communication
    Contributor: Agha, Asif (Publisher); Frog (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices. The articles in this... more

     

    In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices. The articles in this volume investigate a series of locale-specific models of communicative conduct, or registers of communication, through which persons organize their participation in varied social practices, including practices of politics, religion, schooling, migration, trade, media, verbal art, and ceremonial ritual. Drawing on research traditions on both sides of the Atlantic, the authors of these articles bring together insights from a variety of scholarly disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, folklore, literary studies, and philology. They describe register models associated with a great many forms of interpersonal behavior, and, through their own multi-year and multi-disciplinary collaborative efforts, bring register phenomena into focus as features of social life in the lived experience of people in societies around the world.

     
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  17. Aino Kallas : Negotiations with Modernity
    Contributor: Kurvet-Käösaar, Leena (Publisher); Rojola, Lea (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "The collection, first one ever on Aino Kallas in English, highlights her significance to the artistic and intellectual horizons of modernity of Finland and Estonia as well as those of Scandinavia and Europe. In the 1920s and 30s, Aino Kallas became... more

     

    "The collection, first one ever on Aino Kallas in English, highlights her significance to the artistic and intellectual horizons of modernity of Finland and Estonia as well as those of Scandinavia and Europe. In the 1920s and 30s, Aino Kallas became an internationally renowned author and a selection of her work was translated into English. For her, participating in the immediate cultural debates in Estonia and Finland was a priority, yet her whole oeuvre is a negotiation between her more immediate contexts and the leading conceptual frameworks of aesthetics, geniality, knowledge, subjectivity, race, sexuality, nature, etc., circling in Europe at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Containing articles focusing on the question of female voice and echoes of feminist ecological thought in her fiction, a contrapuntal reading of her fiction and that of Isak Dinesen, her unknown manuscript “Bathseba”, the implications of existentialist thought for her work, Kallas’ engagement in her cultural criticism and life writings with decadent modernism, issues of race and heredity, subjectivity and borders, travel, ageing, her interpretation of Goethe, and the iconography of Kallas, the collection features the work of today’s leading Aino Kallas scholars in Finland and in Estonia. "

     
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    Contributor: Kurvet-Käösaar, Leena (Publisher); Rojola, Lea (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522227508; 9789522222602
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    Subjects: The arts; Portraits in art; Biography & True Stories; Literature & literary studies; History
    Other subjects: modernization; diaries; ageing; mourning; poetry; biography; Aino Kallas; Estonia; Estonian language; Finland; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Young Estonia
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (259 p.)
  18. Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature
    Contributor: Turunen, Risto (Publisher); Hägg, Samuli (Publisher); Sevänen, Erkki (Publisher)
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    In international research, metafictionality and other metaliterary features have typically been regarded as phenomena related to postmodernist fiction, in particular – Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature, however, discusses the metalayers of... more

     

    In international research, metafictionality and other metaliterary features have typically been regarded as phenomena related to postmodernist fiction, in particular – Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature, however, discusses the metalayers of Finnish literature from the early 20th century to the present. By analyzing different genres of Finnish literature in varying historical contexts Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature provides an abundance of new information on Finnish literature and its metaliterary phenomena for everyone interested. In the articles of this book, the metalayers of literature are discussed in experimental prose and poetry as well as in popular fiction and children’s literature.

     
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  19. Contesting Religion : The Media Dynamics of Cultural Conflicts in Scandinavia
    Contributor: Lundby, Knut (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  De Gruyter

    As Scandinavian societies experience increased ethno-religious diversity, their Christian-Lutheran heritage and strong traditions of welfare and solidarity are being challenged and contested. This book explores conflicts related to religion as they... more

     

    As Scandinavian societies experience increased ethno-religious diversity, their Christian-Lutheran heritage and strong traditions of welfare and solidarity are being challenged and contested. This book explores conflicts related to religion as they play out in public broadcasting, social media, local civic settings, and schools. It examines how the mediatization of these controversies influences people’s engagement with contested issues about religion, and redraws the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion. FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS Lynn Schofield Clark, Professor of Media, Film, and Journalism at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA Marie Gillespie, Professor of Sociology at the Open University, Birgit Meyer, Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands

     
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    Contributor: Lundby, Knut (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110502060; 9783110501711
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    Subjects: Religious issues & debates; Islamic life & practice; Media studies
    Other subjects: Scandinavian; experience; ethno-religious diversity; heritage; traditions
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (368 p.)
  20. Marina Cvetaeva : Studien und Materialien
    Contributor: Lampl, Horst (Publisher); Hansen-Löve, Aage A. (Publisher)
    Published: 1981
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    <P>The purpose of th is study is to describe certain features of Tsvetaeva's intermediate world and to demonstrate its relation to several peculiarities of Tsvetaeva's poetics, specifically, her predilection for oxymoron and the ambiguous nature and... more

     

    The purpose of th is study is to describe certain features of Tsvetaeva's intermediate world and to demonstrate its relation to several peculiarities of Tsvetaeva's poetics, specifically, her predilection for oxymoron and the ambiguous nature and behavior of her lyrical personae. Furthermore, these important structural elements are viewed as inherent in Tsvetaeva's dichotomous poetic vision. Two thematic cores, "love" and "poetry", are analyzed with particular attention given to the investigation of the nature of their opposition. An analysis of the "love"/"poetry" pair specifically serves as a vehicle for obtaining information about the intermediate world.

     
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    Contributor: Lampl, Horst (Publisher); Hansen-Löve, Aage A. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literature & literary studies
    Other subjects: Cvetaeva; Lampl; Literatur; Literaturwissenschaft; Marina; Materialien; Poetik; Russland; Slawistik; Studien
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (310 p.)
  21. The International Turn in American Studies
    Contributor: Messmer, Marietta (Publisher); Frank, Armin Paul (Publisher)
    Published: 20150828
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and... more

     

    The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific, as well as hemispheric, inter-American and comparative American studies. Combining theoretical reflections and actual case studies, the collection proposes a reassessment of current developments at a time when American nations experience the paradoxical simultaneity of both weakened and strengthened national borders alongside multiple challenges to national sovereignty.

     
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  22. Digital Papyrology II : Case Studies on the Digital Edition of Ancient Greek Papyri
    Contributor: Reggiani, Nicola (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany

    The ongoing digitisation of the literary papyri (and related technical texts like the medical papyri) is leading to new thoughts on the concept and shape of the "digital critical edition" of ancient documents. First of all, there is the need of... more

     

    The ongoing digitisation of the literary papyri (and related technical texts like the medical papyri) is leading to new thoughts on the concept and shape of the "digital critical edition" of ancient documents. First of all, there is the need of representing any textual and paratextual feature as much as possible, and of encoding them in a semantic markup that is very different from a traditional critical edition, based on the mere display of information. Moreover, several new tools allow us to reconsider not only the linguistic dimension of the ancient texts (from exploiting the potentialities of linguistic annotation to a full consideration of language variation as a key to socio-cultural analysis), but also the very concept of philological variation (replacing the mono-authorial view of an reconstructed archetype with a dynamic multitextual model closer to the fluid aspect of the textual transmission). The contributors, experts in the application of digital strategies to the papyrological research, face these issues from their own viewpoints, not without glimpses on parallel fields like Egyptology and Near Eastern studies. The result is a new, original and cross-disciplinary overview of a key issue in the digital humanities.

     
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    Contributor: Reggiani, Nicola (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110547450; 9783110538526
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    Subjects: Classical texts
    Other subjects: digital strategies; ancient documents; digital papyrology; Greek
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (197 p.)
  23. The Poetry of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Shide, and Fenggan
    Contributor: Nugent, Christopher (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany

    Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly popular in nature or have... more

     

    Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly popular in nature or have failed to understand fully the colloquial qualities of the originals. This new version provides a complete Chinese/English edition of the poems, aimed at combining readability with scholarly accuracy. It will prove useful to students of Chinese poetry and of Chinese religion, as well as anyone interested in a better understanding of works that have proved so influential in the history of East Asian Buddhism and in world literature.

     
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    Contributor: Nugent, Christopher (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501501913; 9781501510564
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    Subjects: Classical texts; Literature: history & criticism; Regional studies
    Other subjects: poetry; translation; Hanshan; Shide; Fenggan; Chinese; English
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (423 p.)
  24. The Logic of Invention
    Author: Wagner, Roy
    Published: 20171101
    Publisher:  HAU Books

    In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible,... more

     

    In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible, much as specific human genes allow for language?

     

    Wagner explores what he calls “the reciprocity of perspectives” through a journey between Euro-American bodies of knowledge and his in-depth knowledge of Melanesian modes of thought. This logic grounds variants of the subject/object transformation, as Wagner works through examples such as the figure-ground reversal in Gestalt psychology, Lacan’s theory of the mirror-stage formation of the Ego, and even the self-recursive structure of the aphorism and the joke. Juxtaposing Wittgenstein’s and Leibniz’s philosophy with Melanesian social logic, Wagner explores the cosmological dimensions of the ways in which different societies develop models of self and the subject/object distinction.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Anthropology
  25. The Promise of Prosperity
    Contributor: Bovensiepen, Judith (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  ANU Press

    For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for basic rights, and from poverty to prosperity. In the eyes of the country’s political leaders,... more

     

    For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for basic rights, and from poverty to prosperity. In the eyes of the country’s political leaders, revenue from the country’s oil and gas reserves is the means by which that transformation could be effected. Over the past decade, they have formulated ambitious plans for state-led development projects and rapid economic growth. Paradoxically, these modernist visions are simultaneously informed by and contradict ideas stemming from custom, religion, accountability and responsibility to future generations. This book explores how the promise of prosperity informs policy and how policy debates shape expectations about the future in one of the world’s newest and poorest nation-states.

     
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    Contributor: Bovensiepen, Judith (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Developing countries; Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Timor-Leste; Social Policy; Economic Development; Oil
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (268 p.)