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Frontmatter --Contents --Preface and Acknowledgments --Prologue: Enticements and Forewarnings --Chapter One. How to Do, Make, and Mean Things with Words --Chapter Two. The Performance, Recording, and Mental Rehearsal of Cultural Transactions --Chapter Three. Who We Are: The Rhetoric, Grammar, and Logic of Communal Identities --Chapter Four. Society, Nature, Selves: Freedom and Diversity --Chapter Five. Four More Triads and Beyond --Epilogue: Loose Ends and Afterthoughts --Index

Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability's medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl's 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" (1893), covering genres that typically relied upon disabled or diseased characters. By tracing the patterns of focalization and narrative structure across six decades of the nineteenth century and across six genres, Articulating Bodies demonstrates that throughout the Victorian era, authors of fiction used narrative form as well as narrative theme to negotiate how to categorize bodies, both constructing and questioning the boundary dividing normalcy from abnormality. As fiction's form developed from the massive hybrid novels of the early decades of the nineteenth century to the case-study length of fin-de-siècle mysteries, disability became increasingly medicalized, moving from the position of spectacle to specimen.

6. Universal Organs: Novalis's Romantic Organology7. Between Myth and Science: Naturphilosophie and the Ends of Organology; Part III. After Organology; 8. Technologies of Nature: Goethe's Hegelian Transformations; 9. Instead of an Epilogue: Communist Organs, or Technology and Organology; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z.

Frontmatter --Vorwort --Inhalt --"Denn der Buchstabe tötet" - Reflexionen zur Schriftpräsenz aus mediävistischer Perspektive /Frese, Tobias --Hidden messages under the temple: Foundation deposits and the restricted presence of writing in 3rd millennium BCE Mesopotamia /Tsouparopoulou, Christina --Die Drohung des Unlesbaren und die Macht des Ungelesenen /Quack, Joachim Friedrich --Von offener und verborgener Sichtbarkeit. Altägyptische Einschreibungen in den Raum des Wadi Maghara (Sinai) /Morenz, Ludwig D. --Nicht verborgen, sondern goldgehöht - doch nur den Wenigsten verständlich: die Corveyer Fassadeninschrift /Krüger, Kristina --Von Innen nach Außen /Ganz, David --Überlegungen zur restringierten Präsenz mittelalterlicher Bauinschriften /Keil, Wilfried E. --Inschriftenspolien. Ihre Verwendung und Bedeutung im Mittelalter /Forster, Christian --Lauftexte und Buchstabensalat /Untermann, Matthias --Wandelbare Grabmäler - Fragen zur restringierten Präsenz von Schrift und Bild /Tripps, Johannes --Zeitkapsel und Paratext /Endres, Johannes --Zur Problematik restringierter Schriftpräsenz - Zusammenfassung dieses Bandes /Frese, Tobias ; Keil, Wilfried E. ; Krüger, Kristina --Die Autoren.

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was undoubtedly one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. He informed debate across many varied subjects and questions, from literature and philosophy to politics, ethics, religion, aesthetics, and culture. The Derrida Wordbook offers scholars, students, and researchers an extensive glossary, providing the reader with definitions of a wide range of terms employed by, or associated with, Derrida

As with many writers before and since, William Shakespeare was influenced by the events that took shape all around him. Sweeping changes to England?s politics, language, and culture that took place during his lifetime were the fertile ground from which the Bard drew inspiration. Shakespeare?s life is surveyed and the social context in which he created his greatest drama and poetry is examined.

To know the nature of a man, noted J. G. Hamann in 1759 in his 'Morsels, Crumbs, and Fragments,' you must inquire about the conditions of his life. The 24 essays in the present volume reveal Hamann's position at the crossroads of different social constellations. They raise new questions about the Königsberg scholar's ideas regarding the history of society and religion, social theory, economics, philosophy, political science, and religious studies. In this way, they help us to more precisely locate Hamann's place in the key discourses of the Enlightenment. Manfred Beetz undAndre Rudolph, Universität Halle.

Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes stehen die Fragen nach der Funktion von Schriftlichkeit als Grundlage von Literatur und Kultur sowie nach dem konkreten Verhältnis literarischer Texte zu kulturellen Kontexten. Schrift wird in diesem Horizont nicht als ein Medium unter vielen begriffen, sondern als eine Übertragungsfigur, die den Medienwechsel zwischen »Phoné« und »Graphé« immer schon prätendiert. Damit werden die unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen der Kunst und der Medien in ihrem Verhältnis zur Literalität ebenso virulent wie die kognitiven Prozesse der Sprachverarbeitung. Dass sich diese Verhältnisse als liminale Räume konturieren lassen, ist eine der Kernthesen dieses interdisziplinären Bandes.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One ''NOW BEING'': SLAVERY, SPECULATION, AND THE MEASURE OF OUR TIME -- 1. Liverpool, a Capital of the Long Twentieth Century -- 2. ''Subject '; or, the ''Type'' of the Modern -- 3. ''Madam Death! Madam Death!'': Credit, Insurance, and the Atlantic Cycle of Capital Accumulation -- 4. ''Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon'': Modernity and the Truth Event -- 5. ''Please decide'': The Singular and the Speculative -- Part Two SPECTERS OF THE ATLANTIC: SLAVERY AND THE WITNESS -- 6. Frontispiece: Testimony, Rights, and the State of Exception -- 7. The View from the Window: Sympathy, Melancholy, and the Problem of ''Humanity'' -- 8. The Fact of History: On Cosmopolitan Interestedness -- 9. The Imaginary Resentment of the Dead: A Theory of Melancholy Sentiment -- 10. ''To Tumble into It, and Gasp for Breath as We Go Down'': The Idea of Suffering and the Case of Liberal Cosmopolitanism -- 11. This/Such, for Instance: The Witness against ''History'' -- Part Three ''THE SEA IS HISTORY'' -- 12. ''The Sea is History'': On Temporal Accumulation -- Notes -- Index