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Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults is a collection of essays on twentieth-century authors who cross the borders between adult and children's literature and appeal to both audiences. This collection of fourteen essays by scholars from eight countries constitutes the first book devoted to the art of crosswriting the child and adult in twentieth-century international literature. Sandra Beckett explores the multifaceted nature of crossover literature and the diverse ways in which writers cross the borders to address a dual readership of children and adults

Jazz and fascism : contradictions and ambivalences in the diffusion of jazz music under the Italian fascist dictatorship (1925-1935) / Marilisa Merolla -- Jazz in Moscow after Stalinism / Rüdiger Ritter -- Four spaces four meanings : narrating jazz in late-Stalinist Estonia / Heli Reimann -- Jazz in Poland : totalitarianism, Stalinism, socialist realism / Igor Pietraszewski -- Jazz in socialist Czechoslovakia during the 1950s and 1960s / Wolf-Georg Zaddach -- Trouble with the neighbours : jazz, geopolitics, and Finland's totalitarian shadow / Marcus O'Dair -- Performing the "anti-Spanish" body : jazz and biopolitics in the early Franco regime (1939-1957) / Iván Iglesias -- "The purest essence of jazz" : the appropriation of blues in Spain during Franco's dictatorship / Joseph Pedro -- Jazz and the Portuguese dictatorship before and after WWII : from moral panic to suspicious acceptance / Pedro Roxo -- A kind of "in-between" : jazz and politics in Portugal (1958-1974) / Pedro Cravinho -- A climbing vine through concrete : jazz in 1960s Apartheid South Africa / Jonathan -- "Fanfare for the warriors" : jazz, education, and state control in 1980s South Africa and after / Mark Duby -- From the 'Sultan' to the 'Persian side' : jazz in Iran and Iranian jazz since the 1920s / Gay Breyley -- On the marginality of contemporary jazz in China : the case of Beijing / Adiel Portugali -- Afterword : conclusions / Bruce Johnson

chapter THE METAPHYSICAL THEORY OF THE STATE LECTURE I THE OBJECTS OF SOCIAL INVESTIGATION -- chapter LECTURE II FREEDOM AND LAW -- chapter III. The Real Will -- chapter LECTURE IV THE WILL OF THE STATE -- chapter LECTURE V VARYING APPLICATIONS OF THE METAPHYSICAL THEORY -- chapter CONCLUSION.

"This book examines Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of the First Crusade and challenges the narrative of supposed brutality and amorality of warfare in this period - instead focusing on the moral and didactic concerns surrounding warfare and violence with which medieval authors wrestled. The battle oration, a rousing harangue exhorting warriors to deeds of valour, has been regarded as a significant aspect of warfare since the age of Xenophon, and has continued to influence conceptions of campaigning and combat to the present day. While its cultural and chronological pervasiveness attests to the power of this trope, scholarly engagement with the literary phenomenon of the pre-battle speech has been limited. Moreover, previous work on medieval battle rhetoric has only served to reinforce the supposed brutality and amorality of warfare in this period, highlighting appeals to martial prowess, a hatred for 'the enemy' and promises of wealth and glory. This book, through an examination of Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of the First Crusade and the decades that followed, challenges this understanding and illuminates the moral and didactic concerns surrounding warfare and violence with which medieval authors wrestled. Furthermore, while battle orations form a clear mechanism by which the fledgling crusading movement could be explored ideologically, this comparative study reveals how non-crusading warfare in this period was also being reconceptualised in light of changing ideas about just war, authority and righteousness in Christian society. This volume is perfect for researchers, students and scholars alike interested in medieval history and military studies"--