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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; 1. Literature and blogs -- two sides of the same coin; Introduction; Theoretical foundations; Expanding the literary backdrop; The cross-over to blogs; Disposition of study; 2. Stop worrying and start loving shit; Introducing Wael Abbas; Issues that don't get covered in the traditional media; Inspiring activism; Spectacular video clips; The older literary story; The spirit of a rebel revealed; Concluding discussion on al-Waʿy al-Miṣrī; 3. Blogging for the Brethren; Introducing Ana Ikhwan; Facts & bureaucratic details

Serious Play: Formal Innovation and Politics in French literature from the 1950s to the present investigates how 20th- and 21st-century French authors play with literary form as a means of engaging with contemporary history and politics. Authors like Georges Perec, Monique Wittig, and Jacques Jouet often treat the practice of writing like a game with fixed rules, imposing constraints on when, where, or how they write. They play with literary form by eliminating letters and pronouns; by using only certain genders, or by writing in specific times and spaces. While such alterations of the French language may appear strange or even trivial, by experimenting with new language systems, these authors probe into how political subjects—both individual and collective—are formed in language. The meticulous way in which they approach form challenges unspoken assumptions about which cultural practices are granted political authority and by whom. This investigation is grounded in specific historical circumstances: the student worker-strike of May '68 and the Algerian War, the rise of and competition between early feminist collectives, and the failure of communism and the rise of the right-wing extremism in 21st-century France. Analysis of pronominal subjects in Perec and Wittig shows how they interrogate power struggles during May '68; both authors imagine shared textual production as the bedrock of new political communities. Moving into the 21st century, Jouet stages various "bad" communists, in order to pay tribute to dying communist communities and to unpack the ongoing legacy of communism's collapse. In the end, formal play offers an antidote to 20th- and 21st-century crises of community by creating virtual communities through the text itself.

Latgalian literature has received relatively little attention in most studies of Latvian literature, regardless of the time or the type of the studies made, be they studies of individual or collaborative nature. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, it was largely caused by prohibition of Latgalian publications printed in the Latin alphabet. In the following periods Latgalian literature was overlooked because of lack of awareness, sometimes, also by deliberate ignorance, which was dictated by the political situation. Exploration of the current situation is the goal of this study, namely, to present a summary of what has already been accomplished and to indicate the directions where new studies are urgently needed, ideally – through joint examination of Latvian and Latgalian literatures. The summary is based on the analysis of the regularities and main issues found in the works on the history of Latgalian literature. Careful analysis of the literary processes, authors and significant literary works of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as their exposure in the studies of the history of Latvian literature reveals that a short insight in publishing of Latgalian books and periodicals was given, for instance, by Teodors Zeiferts in his fundamental study 'History of Latvian Literature, Part 2 and 3' (Latviešu rakstniecības vēsture, 1923, 1925), and Jānis Niedre in 'Latvian Literature. Part 2' (Latviešu literatūra, 1953); small essays were also included in the volumes of the collaborative study developed under Ludis Bērziņš' chief editing 'History of Latvian Literature' (Latviešu literatūras vēsture, 1935–1937). However, Latgalian literature was hardly mentioned in the textbooks for the secondary schools (Vilis Plūdons 'History of Latvian literature for secondary schools, Part 1 and 2' (Latvju literatūras vēsture vidusskolām, 1927, 1928); Roberts Klaustiņš 'History of Latvian Literature' (Latviešu rakstniecības vēsture, 1907)). Neither was it paid any attention by Andrejs Upīts in his 'History of Contemporary Latvian Literature' (Latviešu jaunākās rakstniecības vēsture, 1885–1910 (1911)). This leads to a conclusion that the attitude towards the literature written in Latgalian was ambiguous in the first half of the 20th century as it was not fully incorporated in the conceptual analysis of the development processes of Latvian literature. The voluminous 'History of Latvian Literature' (Latviešu literatūras vēsture, Volume 1–6, 1956–1963), which was developed during the Soviet period, included depiction of several Latgalian writers: such as Andrivs Jūrdžs and Pīters Miglinīks (Volume 2, 1963); nevertheless they did not provide a sufficient overview of the singularity and development of Latgalian literature and its comparability with the history of Latvian literature. In the editions of the history of Latvian literature, which were written after regain of the national independence, Latgalian literature has not received any focused attention either by the authors of the 3-volume 'History of Latvian Literature' (Latviešu literatūras vēsture, 1998–2001) or by, for instance, Guntis Berelis in his monograph study 'History of Latvian Literature, from the First Writings to 1999'. Having gained no wide coverage in the historical studies of Latvian literature, Latgalian literature has been fundamentally researched in several monographic works of Miķelis Bukšs, Francis Kemps, Janīna Kursīte, Valentīns Lukaševičs, Ilona Salceviča, Alberts Sprūdžs, Anna Stafecka, Vitolds Valeinis and other researchers at various time periods. Nonetheless, the question still stands: whether and how to compare and synchronise Latgalian literature with periodisation and trends of Latvian literature in order to include it in the comprehensive overview of the literature history.

by Alfred Thomas ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 95.7503

In each vol. the appendix, consisting of state papers, etc., has separate pagination. ; Individual numbers have caption title: American review of history and politics. ; Microfilm. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Twenty years ago, Slobodan Milosevic uttered a sentence which was afterwards repeated in the literature about the Yugoslav tragedy innummerable times. The sentence "Niko ne sme da vas bije" was directed to the Serb demonstrators in Kosovo. In this text, the author analyzes the ways this sentence was translated in factional literature (non-fiction literature: essays, newspaper article, history, biographies etc.) and shows that different versions, apart from being different lexically and semantically, influence the political interpretation and understanding of the Yugoslav conflict. This text poses another, maybe even more important question: are unprecise and wrong translations of Milosevic's words a proof of what Georg Johannesen claimed - that faction is fiction. .

The article is the paper I prepared for 2019 ASMI conference (Promised Land of Pop-ulism? "Populist" Culture and Politics in Italy 1800-2019, London, 29-30 november 2019). I meant to enlighten the more or less populist character of Gabriele D'Annunzio's politics and aesthetics through his literary production and main political discourses. Af-ter his aristocratic literary outsets, the famous poet opposed a "Noble People", forged by the War, to Italian liberal elites. D'Annunzio's peculiar "populism" was connected to the "long" crisis of liberal State in Italy and it was displayed at most in the Occupation of Fiume-Rijeka, a laboratory where critics of liberal institutions, attacks to post-war democratic balance and foundation of a new national-socialist imperialism converged. The present work means to renew the studies on D'Annunzio ideology, merging cultural approach with political categories usually neglected by historiography.

In each vol. the appendix, consisting of state papers, etc., has separate pagination. ; Poole's index to periodical literature ; Mode of access: Internet.