Author: Chretien de Troyes File Type: epub The twelfth-century French poet Chretien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. In this book, a translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chretiens major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor it is ironic and sometimes bawdy the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Author: Annie Bourneuf
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The fact that Paul Klee (18791940) consistently intertwined the visual and the verbal in his art has long fascinated commentators from Walter Benjamin to Michel Foucault. However, the questions it prompts have never been satisfactorily answereduntil now. InPaul Klee, Annie Bourneuf offers the first full account of the interplay between the visible and the legible in Klees works from the 1910s and 1920s. Bourneuf argues that Klee joined these elements to invite a manner of viewing that would unfold in time, a process analogous to reading. From his elaborate titles to the small scale he favored to his metaphoric play with materials, Klee created forms that hover between the pictorial and the written. Through his unique approach, he subverted forms of modernist painting that were generally seen to threaten slow, contemplative viewing. Tracing the fraught relations among seeing, reading, and imagining in the early twentieth century, Bourneuf shows how Klee reconceptualized abstraction at a key moment in its development. **Review Bourneufs cogent and scholarly discussion illuminates Klees critical engagement with the ideas and practices of other artists, including Kandinsky, van Doesburg and Moholy-Nagy. . . . This book offers a salutary lesson for artists who mistakenly imagine painting to be simply about technique and making and who have constructed an illusory division between practice and theory. Bourneuf effectively demonstrates how Klees artwork is itself a critique of theories and practices, and she conjures up for the reader the muscularity of artists thinking about art in that period. (Times Higher Education) Bourneufs analysis of Klees most important and prolific creative phase reinforces [an] understanding of the artist as a highly intelligent strategist. . . . Recommended. (Choice) For the leading artcritics and theorists of Klees day, to mix poetry with visual art, to integrate words with images, to conflate reading with looking, was to be vilified as literary. His resistance to this orthodoxy and his deft, thoughtful, ingenious negotiation of this difficult terrain in the early years of his maturity is the subject of Bourneufs impressive book. No one has previously treated this issue, so critical for understanding Klees complex and idiosyncratic art, with the rigor, sensitivity, and sheer intellectual zest that Bourneuf has brought to it. Her book will have a decisive impact not only on Klee scholarship but on modern art studies more generally. (Charles W. Haxthausen, Williams College) By far the historically most thorough and perceptive investigation of the role of reading and writing in Klees work, this study is an excellent contribution to Klee scholarship and certainly the best book on him available today. Bourneuf introduces a significant number of little-known passages from Klees own writings or early criticism into the discussion, and her interpretations of individual works are masterfully crafted. (Ralph Ubl, University of Basel) Klee continues to fascinate us as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, but we are also drawn to his activities as a teacher, theorist, and writer. Bourneuf has provided a wonderfully provocative and nuanced reading that highlights the sometimes ambiguous and even ambivalent tension that arose for Klee at the intersection of these activities. This is a sophisticated work that contributes to the scholarship on Klee, the history of abstraction, and the historiography of modernism as well as the critical issues that frame image makingwriting and readingseeing. (Anna Sigridur Arnar, Minnesota State University Moorhead) About the Author Annie Bourneuf is assistant professor of art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Author: Alia Mamdouh
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This first novel by an Iraqi woman to be published in English in the United States is a hallucinatory incantationan ode to a city(with) its private courtyards and public baths where the women in Hudas life rage and pray and love and scream.Ms. Magazine Now in paperback, Naphtalene captures a fierce and defiant young girl as she struggles to form her identity in 1950s Baghdad amid a world of unfulfilled women and family tragedies. Iraqi exile Alia Mamdouh is a journalist, essayist, and novelist living in Paris who received the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Literature in 2004.
Author: Charles M. Katz
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Policing Gangs in America describes the assumptions, issues, problems, and events that characterize, shape, and define the police response to gangs in America today. The focus of this 2006 book is on the gang unit officers themselves and the environment in which they work. A discussion of research, statistical facts, theory, and policy with regard to gangs, gang members, and gang activity is used as a backdrop. The book is broadly focused on describing how gang units respond to community gang problems, and answers such questions as why do police agencies organize their responses to gangs in certain ways? Who are the people who elect to police gangs? How do they make sense of gang members - individuals who spark fear in most citizens? What are their jobs really like? What characterizes their working environment? How do their responses to the gang problem fit with other policing strategies, such as community policing?
Author: Arthur Coleman Danto
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Over a decade ago, Arthur Danto announced that art ended in the sixties. Ever since this declaration, he has been at the forefront of a radical critique of the nature of art in our time. After the End of Art presents Dantos first full-scale reformulation of his original insight, showing how, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art has deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vasari helped define for it in the Renaissance. Moreover, he leads the way to a new type of criticism that can help us understand art in a posthistorical age where, for example, an artist can produce a work in the style of Rembrandt to create a visual pun, and where traditional theories cannot explain the difference between Andy Warhols Brillo Box and the product found in the grocery store. Here we are engaged in a series of insightful and entertaining conversations on the most relevant aesthetic and philosophical issues of art, conducted by an especially acute observer of the art scene today. Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts, these writings cover art history, pop art, peoples art, the future role of museums, and the critical contributions of Clement Greenberg--who helped make sense of modernism for viewers over two generations ago through an aesthetics-based criticism. Tracing art history from a mimetic tradition (the idea that art was a progressively more adequate representation of reality) through the modern era of manifestos (when art was defined by the artists philosophy), Danto shows that it wasnt until the invention of Pop art that the historical understanding of the means and ends of art was nullified. Even modernist art, which tried to break with the past by questioning the ways of producing art, hinged on a narrative. Traditional notions of aesthetics can no longer apply to contemporary art, argues Danto. Instead he focuses on a philosophy of art criticism that can deal with perhaps the most perplexing feature of contemporary art that everything is possible.
Author: Randall Lesaffer
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Specialists from every European country analyze peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the 1919 Peace of Versailles in this collection. Emphasizing the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and medieval, concepts on modern practices, the book recalls the reader to before the epochal Peace Treaties of Westphalia of 1648. Its broader perspective allows for a reassessment of the role of the sovereign state in the modern international legal order.Book DescriptionIn this edited collection, specialists from all over Europe analyse peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the Peace of Versailles of 1919. An important place is given to the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and medieval, concepts on modern practices. This book goes back further in time beyond the epo chal Peace Treaties of Westphalia of 1648, and this broader perspective allows for a reassessment of the role of the sovereign state in the modern international legal order. About the AuthorRandall Lesaffer is Professor of Legal History, Tilburg University.
Author: Florian Znaniecki
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Author: Martin Amis
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John Self, consumer extraordinaire, rolls around New York and London, making deals, spending wildly and doing reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbingeverything he can to sate his massive appetites alcohol, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, this is a tale of life lived without restraint of money, the terrible things it can do and the disasters it can precipitate. The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, drugs, porn and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, it is a tale of life lived without restraint of money and the disasters it can precipitate. From the Trade Paperback edition. The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, drugs, porn and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, it is a tale of life lived without restraint of money and the disasters it can precipitate.
Author: Pilling David
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bA revelatory and entertaining book about the pitfalls of how we measure our economy and how to correct them, by an award-winning editor of The Financial TimesbbrbbrbbA near miracle Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Dont Tell You About CapitalismbrbrbIn The Growth Delusion, author and prize-winning journalist David Pilling explores how economists and their cult of growth have hijacked our policy-making and infiltrated our thinking about what makes societies work. Our policies are geared relentlessly towards increasing our standard measure of growth, Gross Domestic Product. By this yardstick we have never been wealthier or happier. So why doesnt it feel that way? Why are we living in such fractured times, with global populism on the rise and wealth inequality as stark as ever?brbrIn a book that is simultaneously trenchant, thought-provoking and entertaining, Pilling argues that we need to measure our...
Author: Marco Armiero
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In the age of climate change, the possibility that dramatic environmental transformations might cause the dislocation of millions of people has become not only a matter for scientific speculation or science-fiction narratives, but the object of strategic planning and military analysis. Environmental History of Modern Migrations offers a worldwide perspective on the history of migrations throughout thenineteenthandtwentieth centuries and provides an opportunity to reflect on the global ecological transformations and developments which have occurred throughout the last few centuries. With a primary focus on the environmentmigration nexus, this book advocates that global environmental changes are not distinct from global social transformations. Instead, it offers a progressive method of combining environmental and social history, which manages to both encompass and transcend current approaches to environmental justice issues. This edited collection will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental history and migration studies, as well as those with an interest in history and sociology. **Review At last, a careful look at the linkages between migration and environmental change in modern history! With an admirably international set of authors, this collection ranges far and wide, both geographically and conceptually. It should be a landmark in both global environmental history and the history of migration. J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University, USA All too often, studies that claim to be ground-breaking fail to live up to the brag. This stimulating and very timely collection of essays exploring the multiple and complex connections between human migration and biophysical environments represents a refreshing exception. In a study that is politically committed to the cause of socio-environmental justice as well as intellectually innovative, the authors engage with key notions such as corporeal ecology, environmental nativism, nativist environmentalism and the environmental refugeemigrant. Editors Marco Armiero and Richard Tucker, who remind us that migrants are themselves nature on the move, are to be congratulated for launching a new research area within environmental history of urgent contemporary importance internationally. Peter Coates, University of Bristol, UK This innovative and timely volume will surely change the way we think about the history of immigration. As these essays show, modern migrations are not only a social and political processes they also have important environmental dimensions. Covering a wide geographic rangefrom Polynesia to Siberia, from Brazil to China, the authors lay the groundwork for a new research agenda. Linda Nash, University of Washington, USA The editors have assembled an innovative group of contributors who challenge scholars of migration and environmental studies to develop a new analytical lensone that posits mobile humans as part of nature and nature as constitutive of mobile cultures and societies. A must-read. Donna Gabaccia, University of Toronto, Canada About the Author Marco Armiero is Director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, where he is also Associate Professor of Environmental History He is the author of A Rugged Nation. Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy (2011) and co-editor of A History of Environmentalism. Local Stories, Global Struggles (2014) and Nature and History in Modern Italy (2010). Armiero is a senior editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism and Environmental Humanities. Richard Tucker is Adjunct Professor in the School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, USAHis earlier publications addressed the history of environmental change in the colonial and tropical world, including Insatiable Appetite The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (2000) and A Forest History of India (2010). His recent work addresses the environmental history of warfare.He is author of numerous essays and co-editor of several multi-author books on the subject, including Natural Enemy, Natural Ally Toward an Environmental History of War (2004).