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The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas's wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by Levinas?s deep and creative experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas?s draft novels Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska, Jean-Luc Nancy and François-David Sebbah, among others

Les études qui ont tenté d'expliquer la ségrégation dans les activités sociales de la famille, relativement à la communauté, en insistant sur son statut socio‐économique et la cohérence de son réseau (network connectedness), ont été en grande partie peu concluantes. Cette étude entreprend une critique d'évaluation de ces 2 façons d'aborder la question et explore ensuite un autre raisonnement voulant que l'explication de la ségrégation sociale puisse se retrouver dans l'expérience de travail du salarié qui la transmet à sa vie de famille. Plusieurs études théoriques et empiriques admettent l'hypothèse que la ségrégation dans les activites sociales de type primaire et centrées sur l'organisation, est une réaction aux contraintes professionnelles et aux orientations spécifiques provenant de dispositions de travail fortement bureaucratiques, de travaux automatisés et de carrières déréglées. A l'aide d'analyses de classification multiples (Multiple Classification Analysis) on a examiné ces hypothèses avec des données portant sur 105 unités familiales à salaire unique de la région de York Est, à Toronto. Les données ont confirmé ces hypothèses alternatives. Il y a eu un certain appui pour les hypothèses de statut socio‐économique, mais aucune conclusion définitive n'est ressortie de l'hypothese du réseau. Les resultats de cette recherche indiquent le besoin de remplacer les études conventionnelles centrées sur le statut socio‐économique et les réseaux communautaires par d'autres qui se pencheraient sur la participation sociale relativement aux différentes composantes de l'expérience de travail. Les implications de ces résultats sont discutées en réponse à certaines opinions qui semblent minimiser les répercussions des pressions du travail sur la vie de famille dans les communautés industrielles qui vivent dans l'abondance.Studies that have attempted to explain segregation in community‐related social activities of the family by concentrating on its SES and network connectedness have been largely inconclusive. Following a critical evaluation of these two approaches, this paper explores an alternative argument that suggests that an explanation of social segregation may be sought in the work experience of wage‐earners which they carry over to their family life. Several theoretical and empirical studies are reviewed to hypothesize that segregation in both primary and organization‐focused social activities occurs in response to occupational constraints and specific orientations that stem from highly bureaucratic work settings, mechanically‐paced jobs and disorderly work careers. Using Multiple Classification Analysis, these hypotheses are examined with data on 105 intact, single‐earner families of East York, Toronto. The data showed a greater support for these alternative hypotheses. There was some support for the SES hypothesis but no definitive findings emerged on the network hypothesis. The findings of this study indicate a need for shifting the conventional focus from SES and social networks to studies of social participation in relation to different components of the work experience. The implications of these findings are discussed for certain competing views that seem to underplay the impact of work pressures on family life in affluent industrial societies.

Introduction -- Questions Posed -- Why Medieval Mobilities Now? -- Contributions -- Part I: Bodies -- Part II: Spaces -- Part III: Transcendence -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part I: Bodies -- Introducing Bodies -- Where Do We Go from Here: Transitivity and Journey Narratives in Eleanor Rykener -- Introduction -- Early Rykener (1995-2006) -- Late Rykener (2014-2021) -- Works Cited -- Primary -- Secondary -- Reorienting Disorientation: Hildegard von Bingen's Depiction of the Female Body as Erotic, Fertile, and Holy -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- Scivias -- Richardis Letters -- Symphoniae -- Virgo -- Mulier -- Feminae -- Quia Ergo Femina: A Case Study -- Rupertsberg -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Primary -- Secondary -- Seeing Mobility in Static Images: Tools for Non-Binary Identification in Late Medieval Sources -- Introduction -- Defining Non-Binary -- Toward Non-Binary Medieval Sex/Gender -- Gendering Christ's Wounds -- Looking at Genitalia -- Serving Cunt on the Crucifix -- Christ as Trans Icon -- Conclusion: Fluidity and Futurity in Scholarship -- Works Cited -- Part II: Spaces -- Troubling Spaces: Taking up Space and Being Taken by Generative Scholarship -- "Here I Am, In This Far-Off Land Where We Are Now": Encountering and Observing Rūs Women in Ibn Faḍlān's Risala -- Ibn Faḍlān Out of Place -- Intrusions and Observational Complicity -- Women in the Risala -- Noticing Women -- Rūs Women -- A Funerary Observer -- A Funerary Interpreter? -- Where Were the Women? -- Works Cited -- Primary -- Secondary -- Disorienting Masculinity: Movement, Emotion and Chivalric Identity in Partonope of Blois -- Lost in the Wood: Romance's Expected Disorientation -- Still as Any Stone: Stasis, Sex, and Embodied Disorientation.

Im deutschsprachigen Raum ist der Krieg von 1864 zu einer Marginalie in den Geschichtsbüchern geworden. Ganz anders in Dänemark, wo der Krieg ein zentraler Bestandteil der dänischen Erinnerungskultur ist. In Absetzung von der gängigen These, der Krieg sei in der dänischen Literatur vergleichsweise wenig behandelt worden, zeichnet dieses Buch die Tradition des bellographischen literarischen Diskurses über 1864 bis in die Gegenwart nach. Das besondere Augenmerk gilt dabei den verschiedenen Kriegsnarrativen und der Frage, wie Körperlichkeit in diesen Texten verhandelt worden ist.

This article deals with the literature of perestroika and focuses on the post-Soviet period. From the period of perestroika onwards, Russian literature, in its three avatars as official Soviet literature, dissident literature in the samizdat and Russian literature published abroad, came under the single category of 'Russian Literature'. However, many diverse voices continue to exist in this now 'unified' literary scenario. The article identifies major movements, themes, critical positions and styles in contemporary Russian literature. It analyses works by major contemporary writers and also examines critical voices in the contemporary literary scene.