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Publication was suspended from July 30, 1864, to Sept. 2, 1865, inclusive. Sept. 9 to Dec. 30, 1865, are called "New ser., no. 1-17." ; Mode of access: Internet. ; In July 1869 the Round table was merged into the Citizen, which continued as the New York citizen and round table.

This article sets out to review the extant literature on civil society. Indeed the literature on civil society abounds with several views and perspectives, especially on the theoretical debates on the concept. However, in order to avoid the unnecessary entanglement of the unending theoretical debates that have characterized the subject, the article focuses on the activities and operations as well as the usefulness of civil society in the twenty first century. The article consequently tries to identify the literature that discusses the activities of civil society across the globe. It begins by giving a general background to the concept of civil society. This is then followed by discussions on civil society and how it relates to democracy and democratic consolidation and development in different parts of the world with particular emphasis on Africa. It then examines the activities of CSOs in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region (with emphasis on Malaysia). It further examines the changing nature of CSOs in the midst of global crisis by discussing how civil society has operated in challenging times amidst financial crisis, terrorism, etc. It concludes by suggesting some new ways of understanding civil society.

A brief account of law and literature -- Literature v. law: institutions, procedures, and justice -- Natural law and fundamental justice -- Property -- Contract and tort -- Sexuality -- Evidence and truth -- On trial -- Vigilantism and extrajudicial action -- Toward law and humanities.

This study is, to a large extent, influenced by the Marxist doctrine on the relationship between literature and society. It has been assumed by the marxist literary theorists that literature as the upper level of society is determined by the lower level namely the economic. Meanwhile, it is also suggested that literature is a part of social-realism suggesting that literary writer must describe the reality within society and then make socialistic propaganda. This study, by concentrating on this contadictory statementnconcerning literature, sees that arcadia theory may be applicable in order to explain the relationship beetween literature and society. The theory assumes that a writer of a certain class, aristocracy for instance, must adapt his way of struggling against a certain condition to his own social background. In this way, it has been found that Amir Hamzah who was of the aristocratic family must fight against his own society by the use of 'hidden' propaganda rather than a straight forward or bottom-up approach.

"This study develops the important work carried out on American literature through the frameworks of transnational, transatlantic, and trans-local studies to ask what happens when these same aspects become intrinsic to the critical narrative. Much cultural criticism since the 1990s has sought to displace perceptions of American exceptionalism with broader notions of Atlanticism, transnationalism, world-system, and trans-localism as each has redefined the US and the world more generally. This collection shows how the remapping of America in terms of global networks, and as a set of particular localities, or even glocalities, now plays out in Americanist scholarship, reflecting on the critical consequences of the spatial turn in American literary and cultural studies. Spanning twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry, fiction, memoir, visual art, publishing, and television, and locating the US in Caribbean, African, Asian, European, and other contexts, this volume argues for a re-modelling of American-ness with the transnational as part of its innate rhetoric.0It includes discussions of travel, migration, disease, media, globalization, and countless other examples of inflowing"--OCLC

"War was the first subject of literature; at times, war has been its only subject. In this volume, the contributors reflect on the uneasy yet symbiotic relations of war and writing, from medieval to modern literature. War writing emerges in multiple forms, celebratory and critical, awed and disgusted; the rhetoric of inexpressibility fights its own battle with the urgent necessity of representation, record and recognition. This is shown to be true even to the present day: whether mimetic or metaphorical, literature that concerns itself overtly or covertly with the real pressures of war continues to speak to issues of pressing significance, and to provide some clues to the intricate entwinement of war with contemporary life. Particular topics addressed include writings of and about the Crusades and battles during the Hundred Years War; Shakespeare's treatment of war; Auden's 'Journal of an Airman'; and War and Peace."-- Publisher description

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎List of Figures and Tables -- ‎Figures -- ‎Tables -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Part 1. Sociology of Literature -- ‎Chapter 1. Sociology and Literature -- ‎Chapter 2. The 'English' Ideology: Literary Criticism in England and Australia -- ‎Chapter 3. The Protestant Epic and the Spirit of Capitalism -- ‎Chapter 4. On the Beach: Apocalyptic Hedonism and the Origins of Postmodernism -- ‎Chapter 5. Loose Canons and Fallen Angels -- ‎Chapter 6. Dissenting, Plebeian, but Belonging Nonetheless: Bourdieu and Williams -- ‎Chapter 7. Deconstructing National Literature: Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory -- ‎Chapter 8. It's the Conscience Collective, Stupid: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art -- ‎Chapter 9. Science Fiction and the Literary Field -- ‎Chapter 10. World Systems and World Science Fiction -- ‎Part 2. Cultural Materialism -- ‎Chapter 11. Considerations on English Marxism -- ‎Chapter 12. Literature, History and Post-Althusserianism -- ‎Chapter 13. The Revolutions in Favour of Capital -- ‎Chapter 14. Cultural Materialism, Culturalism and Post-Culturalism: The Legacy of Raymond Williams -- ‎Chapter 15. Cultural Studies and Cultural Hegemony: Comparing Britain and Australia -- ‎Chapter 16. Class and Cultural Production: The Intelligentsia as a Social Class -- ‎Chapter 17. Left Out? Marxism, the New Left and Cultural Studies -- ‎Chapter 18. From Media Imperialism to Semioterrorism -- ‎Part 3. Science Fiction -- ‎Chapter 19. Utopia and Science Fiction in Raymond Williams -- ‎Chapter 20. Darker Cities: Urban Dystopia and Science Fiction Cinema -- ‎Chapter 21. Postmodern Gothic: Buffy, The X-Files and the Clinton Presidency -- ‎Chapter 22. Framing Catastrophe: The Problem of Ending in Dystopian Fiction

This article provides a systematic study of Canon-Mocking Literature, an important cultural phenomenon in contemporary China. From the combined perspective of stylistics and cultural studies, the article suggests that Canon-Mocking Literature is a subversion of the discursive order of traditional canons, including their underlying aesthetics, morality, and cultural codes. The productive pleasure of Canon-Mocking Literature – that is of parody, collage, and pastiche – thus derives from the undermining of authority within certain limits. The second half of the article analyzes the relationship between the rise of Canon-Mocking Literature and the spread of cynicism in the sociohistorical context of contemporary China. It concludes that Canon-Mocking Literature is a means of cultural resistance and escape in a post-totalitarian society and possesses the dual character of both critique and compromise.