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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Literary Perversion: The Invention of Masochism at the Fin-de-siècle -- 2 The Gendered Fantasy of Masochistic Aesthetics: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs -- 3 Lesbian Desire Rewrites Venus in Furs: Monika Treutand Elfi Mikesch's Seduction: The Cruel Woman -- 4 Cross-Dressing for Platonic Love: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's The Love of Plato -- 5 Male Femininity as Sacrificial Corpse: Kutluğ Ataman's Lola and Billy the Kid -- Postscript -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

This book traces how iconic writers - including Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley - shaped their response to the loss of loved ones in the First World War through their embrace of mysticism.

This paper aims at exploring Edward Said's motives in choosing Freud's Moses and Monotheism as a (pre)-text to his lecture on Freud and the Non-Europeans and his memoir Out of Place. In addition, the paper will contrapuntally address the question of verity and the undermining of the notion of "pure identity." In a postcolonial sense, my paper will uncover the "overlapping identities," if any, between Freud and Said in an attempt to resolve the paradox of "identity," be it national, religious, or ethnic in the "Middle Eastern" (con)-text. The displacement of Said's family and people, when he was still a young man, left powerful impacts on his personality. That influenced him in realizing the evils of colonial systems through, in part, remaking the life and works of Franz Fanon, and participating in establishing the so-called post colonial approaches in the transformation of the understanding of identity, exile and culture. Said's personality developed from (Orientalism) into a more universal humane identity, which made Tom Mitchell compare his ideas with the works of Goya.

According to a corpus of representative texts and standard minimal Marxist definitions, the "proletariat" of proletarian literature is, by definition, revolutionary, and by implication, male; this is the specific subset of the working class entrusted with the historic mission of abolishing the class system. Women's texts of nonrevolutionary socialism from across the global North-South divide, however, confront us with new figures and concepts for thinking unorganized resistance, everyday exigencies, and the shape of the ethical within globalization. This essay studies the conventions and notations of such proletarian internationalist feminist texts from the global South, focusing specifically on the figure of a dispersed collective subject. It brings together contemporary protest literature published by Dabindu--a collective comprised of garment factory worker-activists and feminists from the free trade zone regions of Sri Lanka--with Tillie Olsen's classic field-defining literature from the proletarian moment in the U.S. Can we speak of a collective subject of feminism within economic globalization? Whose interest does staking a claim for such a heterogeneous class subject--one that figures "unity in dispersal"--serve? What are the conditions and constraints for conceptualizing historical agency and class struggle according to these terms, given that we occupy a conjuncture that has been described by some in epochal terms as the "feminization of the proletariat," by others as the "NGO-ization of feminism"? Toward answering these questions, "Rethinking Working-Class Literature" turns to the methodological resources of Marxism and comparative literature. This essay ultimately seeks to articulate the terms of a feminist class politics in the shadow of economisms like "comparative advantage" and "outsourcing."

The latest recommendations issued by the European Commission go towards the revision of their policy on dissemination and preservation of scientific information: the aim is to promote access to the results of the community-funded research by especially implementing the open access policy within 'Horizon 2020', the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020). The growth of "fast" documentation - which is not long-term preserved or not available in stable URLs and repositories - pushed the European Commission to produce a set of guidelines for the management of documentation at-large and of specialized documentation produced within funded projects in particular. Those guidelines try to conciliate the visibility of the project activities in two directions: "a) better quality and user-friendliness of project websites, triggering higher popolarity b) better visibility for the projects and the European Commission due to a more standardized format". The EC guidelines proved to be a very useful tool for optimizing and handling information on the dedicated portals of the community-funded projects: the general recommendations, for example, focus the attention on the importance of using social media as well as webmaster tools and virtual meeting facilities (as web streaming) and of adopting an "eu" domain. Moreover, specific directives are given not only for the structure of the project homepage but often for the web site framework as well: homepage, project overview, consortium, management structure, scientific methodology and expected documentation. Given this scenario, the web sites of these projects represent an essential vehicle for both the acquisition and the diffusion of grey literature and could also become an important resource within an European infrastructure able to overcome the disconnected and scattered nature of their content in order to optimise their riutilization. Although the term "grey literature" (GL) has never been explicitly mentioned in the Commission guidelines, it is widely known that a good amount of documentation produced within the EC projects is made up of deliverables, e-newsletters, brochures, posters, flyers, videos, project factsheets, photographs. Starting from this condition, this paper analyses the GL production available on European Projects dedicated web sites, using a sample of projects selected from EU-CORDIS. The aim of the survey is then to identify, measure, evaluate the usability and availability of grey literature provided by the European Commission projects web sites in order to verify whether this type of literature is compliant with EU recommendations. It is also important to assess to which extent grey literature is reusable for "nourishing" the European platform infrastructures devoted to the storage, dissemination and conservation of such research product.

Der Film wird immer wieder in Konkurrenz zur Literatur gesetzt - von Künstlern und Lehrern, Wissenschaft und Politik. Oft geht dabei die Angst vor dem Film mit der Angst um das Buch einher. Doch welche Argumente und versteckten Motive prägen den Wettstreit der Medien? Wie beeinflusst er unsere Erziehung über Generationen hinweg bis zur Gegenwart? Volker Pietsch eröffnet eine Vielfalt an Perspektiven zu einer Geschichte von 120 Jahren Theorie und Kulturpolitik - und damit eine anregende Studie für alle, die sich für die eigene Medienbiographie interessieren. Zugleich erwächst aus der Diskurskritik ein neuer, umfassender Vergleich der beiden Künste, der auch als Grundlage für die pädagogische Praxis dienen kann.

Der Verfasser untersucht die Widerstandsliteratur unter historischem, politischem und sozialem Aspekt hinsichtlich ihrer Kontinuität. Zunächst wird die historische Bedeutung des antifaschistischen Kampfes der KPD dargelegt. In der Literatur wurden die Stilmittel Camouflage und Sarkasmus zu Gunsten einer direkten alltäglichen Gebrauchslyrik in Form von Witzen, Parolen, Verballhornung von NS-Lyrik aufgegeben. Damit sollte die Bevölkerung zum Widerstand motiviert werden. Lieder und kleine Sketche werden als Manifestationen des Ringens von KZ-Häftlingen um die Erhaltung des Selbstbewußtseins gedeutet. Die literarische Arbeit des Bundes Proletarisch-Revolutionärer Schriftsteller, seine illegalen Produktionen werden dargestellt. Zeitschriften wie "Stimme aus Deutschland" sollten die Verbindung zum Exil aufrechterhalten. In Hinblick auf die literarische Form bemerkt der Verfasser, daß die Kontinuität über die Diskontinuität (Einbringung neuer ästhetischer Ausdruckskraft) dominiert. (RR)

"For over three hundred years during the Heian period (794-1185), execution was customarily abolished in favor of banishment. During the same period, exile emerged widely as a concern within literature and legend, in poetry and diaries, and in the cultic imagination, as expressed in oracles and revelations. While exile was thus one sanction available to the state, it was also something more: a powerful trope through which members of court society imagined the banishment of gods and heavenly beings, of legendary and literary characters, and of historical figures, some transformed into spirits. This compelling and well-researched volume is the first in English to explore the rich resonance of exile in the cultural life of the Japanese court. Rejecting the notion that such narratives merely reflect a timeless literary archetype, Jonathan Stockdale shows instead that in every case narratives of exile emerged from particular historical circumstances--moments in which elites in the capital sought to reveal and to re-imagine their world and the circulation of power within it. By exploring the relationship of banishment to the structures of inclusion and exclusion upon which Heian court society rested, Stockdale moves beyond the historiographical discussion of "center and margin" to offer instead a theory of exile itself. Stockdale's arguments are situated in astute and careful readings of Heian sources. His analysis of a literary narrative, the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, for example, shows how Kaguyahime's exile from the "Capital of the Moon" to earth implicitly portrays the world of the Heian court as a polluted periphery. His exploration of one of the most well-known historical instances of banishment, that of Sugawara Michizane, illustrates how the political sanction of exile could be met with a religious rejoinder through which an exiled noble is reinstated in divine form, first as a vengeful spirit and then as a deity worshipped at the highest levels of court society."--Publisher's description

The international conference on Arts and Politics: Franco-American Perspectives organized at the University of Paris X-Nanterre under the aegis of the Institute for Social Sciences of Politics in November 2007 served as an important opportunity to bring together a number of scholars from both countries for fruitful inquiry. On that occasion, we were able to explore the frequently vexed intersections of culture and politics to whose study this journal has devoted itself for many decades. This special issue of the Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society is based on the revised translation of a selection of the papers dealing with the arts that have been published in French (Roussel 2010, with the publisher's kind permission). To some degree, comparing France and the USA must begin from their unique heritage as two important democratic republics. Yet they differ sharply with regard to political traditions, structures of governance at the national and local levels, and population composition. This is especially true of the state traditions of these countries. A strong state has been an outstanding attribute of France for centuries, almost regardless of regime, in sharp contrast to the USA, where the importance of Washington, DC, is of relatively recent vintage. Centralization in Paris of culture and cultural policy, as with most other domains, has no counterpart in the USA, where not only does decentralization of political authority predominate, but the private sector is permitted—in fact invited to play an important role in cultural activity. These principles underlie the analysis presented by Violaine Roussel in her engaging and informative general introduction to the papers she edited. On a more personal note, I wish to thank Professor Roussel and her associates for their imaginative conceptualization of the themes developed by the scholars whom she invited to participate in the conference. At its best, sociology is an ongoing conversation in which ideas are exchanged that may lead to unexpected developments in knowledge. This is what occurred to me a year after rereading a statement by Elizabeth Long (2007) on "Stories as Models," in which she proposed ways in which anecdotes and small stories that sociologists use, often to introduce their work or exemplify a point. These, she argues, are actually "carriers of theory that do important cognitive work to create or revise conceptual Int J Polit Cult Soc (2010) 23:57–62 DOI 10.1007/s10767-010-9088-2

This essay explores the concept of transnationalism, defining this term in relation both to the lived experience of transnational subjects, and to transnational texts for children. It argues that rhetorics of globalization have over-emphasized the impact and significance of global cultural and economic flows, although the production of children's books is to some extent shaped by the internationalization of publishing houses and markets. The concept of transnationalism provides a way of thinking about how children's texts address and are informed by diverse, complex influences, sometimes from a variety of cultures and languages. Transnationalism is not a new phenomenon but is visible in colonial texts which are shaped both by the particular, local ideologies of colonial nations, and also by the common concerns and interests of such nations. The essay draws on two contemporary texts to illustrate the workings of transnationalism: the film Howl's Moving Castle, and Shaun Tan's picture book The Arrival. It concludes by considering the concept of transnational literacy as a way of approaching scholarship and teaching in children's literature.Keywords: culture, ethnicity, children's publishing, postcolonialism, politics, migration, diaspora