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Title from caption. ; Vols. 6- numbered consequetively. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Merged with: Examiner (London, England : 1808), to form: Examiner and London review.

This thematic issue is not simply about political appropriations of Rome and its empire in later times (e. g. Byzantium as a New Rome, the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation, the US as the final goal of the translatio imperii from the East to the West, etc.). Instead, it is dedicated to the role specific paradigmatic patterns related to the Roman Empire played in political imaginaries and literature. The initiative for this collection of papers originated in the research project "Empire and Transformation of Genre in Roman Literature", funded by the Slovenian Research Agency (J6-2585). A live conference on the topic was planned for 2021 but had to be called off for obvious reasons. In spite of this, the virtual exchange of ideas between the contributors amounted to forming an ad hoc research group that is supposed to come together again, in person, at a forthcoming international event.

Japanese writer and Nobel laureate Kenzaburô Ôe delivered the first in a series of lectures established at the Center for Japanese Studies to honor political theorist Masao Maruyama. In his Maruyama Lecture, "The Language of Masao Maruyama," he focuses on the problem of political responsibility in the modern world, taking Maruyama's major work as his point of departure. In a second (unrelated) lecture, "From the Beginning to the Present, and Facing the End: The Case of One Japanese Writer," Kenzaburô Ôe offers an account of his own development as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction.

"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Contents" -- "Introduction to the Transaction Edition" -- "1. History Remade" -- "2. The Center and the Fringes" -- "3. Growing Out of the Twenties" -- "4. The Thirties" -- "5. The New Partisan Review" -- "6. Writers on the Left" -- "7. The New Talent" -- "8. The Painters" -- "9. The Forties" -- "10. A Charmed Circle" -- "11. European Connections" -- "12. The Big Time" -- "13. Cultural Freedom Abroad" -- "14. Cultural Freedom at Home" -- "15. Victims and Critics" -- "16. Discovering Europe" -- "17. An American in London" -- "18. Writers in the Fifties" -- "19. Realpolitik" -- "20. Writers and Politics" -- "21. The Sixties" -- "22. Friends and Arrangements" -- "23. Coexistence" -- "24. D-Day" -- "25. Then and Now

The author critically discusses the theses about the relation between literature and politics which were presented in Vojislav Stanovcic?s work ?A Contribution of the Historical and Literary Works to the Understanding of Political Phenomena?. The first part points to the basic concepts of knowledge, symbols, notions, truth, literature and politics. The second part includes the experimental analysis of the relation between literature and politics. The conclusion underlines the claim that there is no general knowledge about the link between literature and politics and that every specific relation should be discussed separately.

This is the most comprehensive account to date of literary politics in Nazi Germany and of the institutions, organizations and people who controlled German literature during the Third Reich. Barbian details a media dictatorship-involving the persecution and control of writers, publishers and libraries, but also voluntary assimilation and pre-emptive self-censorship-that began almost immediately under the National Socialists, leading to authors' forced declarations of loyalty, literary propaganda, censorship, and book burnings. Special attention is given to Nazi regulation of the publishing ind