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Prophecy as social influence : Cassandra, Anne Neville, and the Corpus Christi manuscript of Troilus and Criseyde -- The science of female power in John Metham's Amoryus and Cleopes -- A women's "crafte" : sexual and chivalric patronage in Partonope of Blois -- Creative revisions : competing figures of the patroness in Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal

This edited collection offers an exploration of American literature in the age of Trumpismunderstood as an ongoing sociopolitical and affective realityby bringing together analyses of some of the ways in which American writers have responded to the derealization of political culture in the United States and the experience of a new American reality after 2016. The volumes premise is that the disruptions and dislocations that were so exacerbated by the political ascendancy of Trump and his spectacle-laden presidency have unsettled core assumptions about American reality and the possibilities of representation. The blurring of the relationship between fact and fiction, bolstered by the discourses of fake news and alternative facts, has not only drawn attention to the shattering of any notion of shared reality, but has also forced a reexamination of the purpose and value of literature, especially when considering its troubled relation to the representation of America. The authors in this collection respond to the invitation to reassess the workings of fiction and critique in an age of Trumpism by considering some of the most recent literary responses to the (new) American realit(ies)including works by Colson Whitehead, Ben Winters, Claudia Rankine, Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Egan, and Steve Erickson, to name but a few, some of which were composed in the run-up to the 2016 election but were able to accurately and incisively imagine the world to come.

The Hellenistic period marks a major turning-point in the development of Greek epigram: Before, epigrams were composed to be inscribed on an object (mainly on grave stones and votive offerings). While "stone epigrams" continue to be written, Hellenistic poets now start to compose "book epigrams" chiefly designed to be read on a scroll; many of these texts toy with the possibility of being inscribed on a monument and through this tension offer aesthetic pleasure to the reader. They frequently employ inscriptional language; at the same time, they modify it and often become a vehicle for poetological statements. The author investigates whether the generic modifications and expansions that may be observed in book epigrams are in turn reflected in metrical inscriptions of Hellenistic (and later) times, and how these were readapted to suit the needs of a real inscription.

Governments may bargain with parties in parliament to silence them. This insight follows from the agenda-setting literature, which emphasises the power of the opposition to criticise the government. The literature on legislatures points to the fear of loss of future voter support as a motivation for majority building. However, it does not name factors that can cause such uncertainty. One such factor is opposition criticism. This article argues that majority building does not only involve an exchange of policy support; governments use legislative coalitions to dampen unwanted opposition blame. By offering the opposition noteworthy policy influence in legislative coalitions, governments avoid opposition criticism in return, in addition to having initiatives passed. In order to test this argument, a large dataset is compiled on opposition criticism in parliament and the media before and after the 325 bargained legislative agreements settled in Denmark from 1973 to 2003. It is found that such agreements are more likely amidst opposition criticism and that they dampen opposition criticism

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Bible for the New Age: Berlin, 1930-1933 -- 2. Man Plans, and Hitler Laughs: Paris, 1933-1940 -- 3. Spinning the Historical Threads: New York, 1940-1966 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

In response to an invitation from the editor of Enterprise & Society, last year David Sicilia and I put out a call for papers for a special issue of the journal that would focus on gender and business history. The call elicited twenty-five submissions, an impressive array of scholarship from authors who addressed the subject from a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches. From these submissions, we chose the four articles that appear in this volume and three others that will be published in the next issue of Enterprise & Society (June 2001). We made our final selections on the basis of thematic, national, and organizational representativeness and on the ways in which the articles complemented each other and revealed aspects of the "state of the field." Let me thank the more than fifty referees who generously read and commented anonymously on the original submissions. I enjoyed working with them, with the authors, and with David in this communal endeavor.

"This study explores German literary figures' reflections on the empire from the Enlightenment to the Romantic era. It helps shed light on a central theme often overlooked in the gaps between disciplines. The Holy Roman Empire never became a quantité négligeable for writers like Wieland, Herder, Schiller, and Goethe, nor for Jean Paul, Eichendorff, and Kleist. Instead, it formed an important reference point for their thinking and writing"--

Literature. The war of discourses: Lolita and the failure of a transcendental project ; The poetics of the ITR discourse: in the 1960s and today ; The progressor between the imperial and the colonial ; Cycles and continuities in contemporary Russian literature ; Fleshing/flashing the discourse: Sorokin's master trope ; Pussy Riot as the trickstar ; The formal is political - Film. Post-Soc: transformations of socialist realism in the popular culture of the late 1990s-early 2000s ; War as the family value: My Stepbrother Frankenstein by Valery Todorovsky ; A road of violence: My Joy by Sergei Loznitsa ; In denial: The Geographer Drank His Globe Away by Aleksandr Veledinsky ; Lost in Translation: short stories by Mikhail Segal

Elizabeth Swann investigates the relationship between the physical sense of taste and taste as a figurative term associated with knowledge and judgment in early modern literature and culture. She argues that - unlike aesthetic taste in the eighteenth century - discriminative taste was entwined with embodied experience in this period. Although taste was tarnished by its associations with Adam and Eve's fall from Eden, it also functioned positively, as a source of useful, and potentially redemptive, literary, spiritual, experimental, and intersubjective knowledge. Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England juxtaposes canonical literary works by authors such as Shakespeare with a broad range of medical, polemical, theological, philosophical, didactic, and dietetic sources. In doing so, the book reveals the central importance of taste to the experience and articulation of key developments in the literate, religious, and social cultures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.