Author: Shun-Liang Chao File Type: pdf How are we to define what is grotesque, in art or literature? Since the Renaissance the term has been used for anything from the fantastic to the monstrous, and been associated with many artistic genres, from the Gothic to the danse macabre. Shun-Liang Chaos new study adopts a rigorous approach by establishing contradictory physicality and the notion of metaphor as two keys to the construction of a clear identity of the grotesque. With this approach, Chao explores the imagery of Richard Crashaw, Charles Baudelaire, and Rene Magritte as individual exemplars of the grotesque in the Baroque, Romantic, and Surrealist ages, in order to suggest a lineage of this curious aesthetic and to cast light on the functions of the visual and of the verbal in evoking it. **Review There is much to admire in this stimulating and well-researched study, not least its invitation to reconsider the significance not only of the grotesque itself, but also of other influential and related aesthetic terms such as the sublime, the uncanny, and the fantastic. (Damian Catani Modern Language Review, 106.4, 2011, 1129-31) Succeeds in its aims to define the grotesque, give insight into its use of visual and verbal media, and demonstrate its progression through time... a well-reasoned and well-researched book that is a welcome contribution to the study of the Grotesque, as well as to the literature on Crashaw, Baudelaire and Magritte. (unsigned notice Forum for Modern Language Studies, 48.3, June 2012, 357-58) About the Author Shun-Liang Chao completed a PhD in European Comparative Literature at University College, London. He is currently teaching English and Comparative Literature in Taiwan.

Author: Leigh Goodmark File Type: pdf DecriminalizingDomesticViolenceasks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partnerviolencein the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in which the criminal legal system harms rather than helps those who are subjected to abuse andviolencein their homes and communities, and shares how it drives, rather than deters, intimate partnerviolence. The book examines how social, legal, and financial resources are diverted into a criminal legal apparatus that is often unable to deliver justice or safety to victims or to prevent intimate partnerviolencein the first place. Envisioned for both courses and research topics indomestic violence, familyviolence, gender and law, and sociology of law, the book challenges readers to understand intimate partnerviolencenot solely, or even primarily, as a criminal law concern but as an economic, public health, community, and human rights problem. It also argues that only by viewing intimate partnerviolencethrough these lenses can we develop a balanced policy agenda for addressing it. At a moment when we are examining our national addiction to punishment, Decriminalizing Domestic Violence offers a thoughtful, pragmatic roadmap to real reform. **Review A pleasure to read... highly recommended. --CHOICE From the Inside Flap Visionary and comprehensive, this long-awaited book provides one of the most thoughtful and comprehensive analyses of criminalization yet. It is balanced in its analysis and brave in its critique of the ways that current approaches to intimate partner violence have failed to respond to the complexity of the problem(s). Goodmark has made a profound contribution to legal scholarship, the public policy debates, and, perhaps most importantly, the activist antiviolence community looking for social justice solutions. Beth E. Richie, author of*Arrested Justice Black Women, Violence, and Americas Prison Nation * Goodmark offers a brave and decisive critique of our commitment to governing the problem of domestic violence through crime control and an alternative vision for protecting victims. Jonathan Simon, author ofMass Incarceration on Trial A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

Author: James Ker-Lindsay File Type: pdf Over the past fifty years the Cyprus Problem has come to be regarded as the archetype of an intractable ethnic conflict. Since 1964, the United Nations has been at the forefront of efforts to find a political solution to the dispute between the islands Greek and Turkish communities. And yet, despite the active involvement of six Secretaries-General (U Thant, Kurt Waldheim, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Boutros Boutros Ghali, Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-Moon), every attempt to reach a mutually acceptable solution has failed. Here, James Ker-Lindsay draws together new and original perspectives from the leading experts on Cyprus, including academics, policy-makers, politicians and activists. All have addressed one deceptively simple question Can Cyprus be solved? Resolving Cyprus presents a comprehensive overview of the Cyprus Problem from a variety of approaches and offers new and innovative ideas as to how to tackle one of the longest running ethnic conflicts on the world stage. This represents an essential contribution to the body of work on Cyprus, and will be required reading for all those following the debates surrounding the Cyprus problem. **Review Is there an answer to the Cyprus Question? James Ker-Lindsay asked 30 ... leading experts to say if they really thought five decades of divisions on the island could be resolved. The richly differing answers he received are a showcase of the best and clearest thinking about why five major rounds of talks have failed. Fresh, thoughtful and cliche-free writing. Hugh Pope, Deputy Director, Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group As the UN Peacekeeping mission on the island marks its 50th anniversary, the Cyprus Problem has become part of modern history. But that does not mean that it is impossible to solve. Without attempting to propose a blueprint, James Ker-Lindsay has assembled a balanced expert panel with a range of ideas about the settlement process and potential solutions. Sir David Madden KCMG, former British High Commissioner to Cyprus About the Author James Ker-Lindsay is Eurobank EFG Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of South East Europe at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. His previous books on Cyprus include The Work of the UN in Cyprus Promoting Peace and Development ( 2001, edited with Oliver Richmond), Britain and the Cyprus Crisis, 1963-64 (2004), EU Accession and UN Peacemaking in Cyprus (2005), The Government and Politics of Cyprus (2009, edited with Hubert Faustmann), The Cyprus Problem What Everyone Needs to Know (2011), and An Island in Europe The EU and the Transformation of Cyprus (2011, edited with Hubert Faustmann and Fiona Mullen). From 2006-2011, he served as co-editor of The Cyprus Review, the leading journal dedicated to social science and history in Cyprus. In addition to his academic work, he has advised a number of government and international organisations, including the Council of Europe, the European Commission and the United Nations. He is also a regular media commentator, and has covered Cyprus politics for the Economist Intelligence Unit.**

Author: Marie-Louise von Franz File Type: epub These collected essays by the distinguished psychoanalyst Marie-Louise von Franz offer fascinating insights into the study of dreams, not only psychologically, but also from historical, religious, and philosophical points of view. In the first two chapters, the author offers general explanations of the nature of dreams and their use in analysis. She examines how dreams can be used in the development of self-knowledge and describes how C. G. Jung worked with his own dreams, and the fateful ways in which they were entwined with the course of his life. The rest of the book records and interprets dreams of historical personages Socrates, Descartes, Themistocles and Hannibal, and the mothers of Saint Augustine, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, and Saint Dominic. Connections are revealed between the personal and family histories of the dreamers and individual and collective mores of their times. Dreams includes writings long out of print or never before available in English translation.