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This book examines Eastern European perspectives on European identity. The contributors map narratives of Europe rooted in Eastern Europe, examining their relationship to philosophy, journalism, social movements, literary texts, visual art and popular music. The essays explore how Europeanness is conceived of in the dynamic eastern region.

This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the modern British visual imagination through a study of gardens, blue and white willow plates, the opium den, and the photograph, and literary texts.

"This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical, and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly defined theory since the computer revolution. Cognitive science, psychoanalysis, and systems theory are paralleled to current trends in literary and philosophical theory. Chapters alternate between theory and readings of literary texts, resulting in a broad but rigorously grounded framework for the relation between literature and computer science. This book is a refreshing perspective on the analog-orientated tradition of theory in the humanities - and offers the first literary-textual genealogy of the digital"--

This article analyzes Nicole Caligaris's Les Samothraces (2016), an experimental literary text about undocumented migration, in light of Theodor Adorno's aesthetic reflection on the politics of literary form and Thomas Nail's political theory of the migrant. Reading Les Samothraces against the grain, I argue that the text's literary form encodes the political tensions of its contemporary moment, namely the tension between the free movement of migrants and Europe's policing of its borders. Analysis of formal elements—literary characters, plot structure, and inclusion of photographs—that depict migrants who escape capture by regimes of surveillance shows that the text is an apology for migration and a critique of border politics.

Never say always again : reflections on the numbers game John Burrows -- Textual pathology Peter Garrard -- The human presence in digital artefacts Alan Galey -- Defining electronic editions : a historical and functional perspective Edward Vanhoutte -- Electronic editions for everyone Peter Robinson -- How literary works exist : implied, represented, and interpreted Peter Shillingsburg -- Text as algorithm and as process Paul Eggert -- "I read the news today, oh boy!" : newspaper publishing in the online world Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland

This article deals with deviation in Euphrase Kezilahabi´s novel Gamba la Nyoka (1979). We analyse four different types of deviation, namely grammatical, lexical, phonological, and semantic deviation. The objective of this study is to combine linguistic analysis with literary riticism, in order to show how these different types of deviation correspond with the overall message the author conveys in this novel, which is a political novel dealing with the era of establishing Ujamaa policies in rural Tanzania.

In der französischen Spätaufklärung standen sich zwei ethische Strömungen gegenüber. Die physiokratisch-liberale Fraktion vertrat eine utilitaristische Moralauffassung im Sinne des "wohlverstandenen Eigeninteresses", eine "éthique de l'intérêt personnel bien entendu". Ihre Kritiker verfochten dagegen verschiedene Formen des Egalitarismus und traten für eine Ethik der gesellschaftlichen Solidarität und individueller Opferbereitschaft ein, die "éthique du sacrifice". Diese unterschiedlichen Positionen wurden von Zeitgenossen beschrieben, blieben jedoch in der Aufklärungsforschung unbeachtet. Reinhard Bach thematisierte diese Auseinandersetzung. Er prägte hierfür den Begriff Ethikdebatte der Spätaufklärung. Diese Arbeit betrachtet die theoretischen Schriften Mme de Staëls unter dem Blickwinkel der Ethikdebatte. Mme de Staël entwickelt hier ein eigenes Tugendkonzept, das sowohl durch ihre Auseinandersetzung mit Philosophen der französischen Aufklärung wie Montesquieu, Rousseau, Helvétius, Roederer, Sieyès und Le Mercier de la Rivière, als auch von Vertretern des deutschen Idealismus wie Kant, Fichte und Jacobi beeinflusst ist. Sie verstand ihr Ethikkonzept zugleich als Kritik und Antwort auf die utilitaristische Moral des wohlverstandenen Eigeninteresses, die nach ihren Beobachtungen im Frankreich des 18. Jahrhunderts weit verbreitet war. Wesentlich für Mme de Staëls Auffassung von Tugend sind die Selbstlosigkeit, das Gewissen, die Pflicht, die Religion, das Glück, die Freiheit, die Bildung, das Geschlecht und die Regierungsform. Mme de Staël versuchte darüber hinaus, ihr Tugendkonzept einerseits anhand von realen Personen zu exemplifizieren und es andererseits aus dem Verhalten realer Personen zu konstruieren. Dabei stilisiert sie Persönlichkeiten wie ihren Vater Jacques Necker und Mme Elisabeth, die Schwester Ludwig XVI., zu Vorbildern männlicher und weiblicher Tugend, während Napoleon ihrer Ansicht nach das Laster und somit die Moral des wohlverstandenen Eigeninteresses verkörpert. Nicht nur in Mme de Staëls theoretischen Texten spielt die Beschäftigung mit der Ethikdebatte eine zentrale Rolle, sondern dies lässt sich auch für ihre fiktionalen Texte feststellen. Die diesbezügliche Analyse beschränkt sich auf Mme de Staëls Novellen, verweist aber gegebenenfalls auf Verbindungen zu ihrem literarischen Hauptwerk, den Romanen Delphine und Corinne ou l'Italie. ; In the French Late Enlightenment there were two ethical trends. The physiocratic-liberal faction represented a utilitarian morality in the sense of "well-intentioned self-interest", an "éthique de l'intérêt personnel bien entendu". Their critics, on the other hand, advocated different forms of egalitarianism and stood up for an ethics of social solidarity and individual sacrifice, the so called "éthique du sacrifice". These different positions were described by contemporaries, but they were not taken into consideration by researchers of the Enlightment. It was Reinhard Bach who focused on both trends and coined the term ethical debate of the Late Enlightenment. This work considers the theoretical writings of Mme de Staëls under the perspective of the ethics debate. Mme de Staël developed her own concept of virtue, influenced both by her engagement with philosophers of the French Enlightenment, such as Montesquieu, Rousseau, Helvétius, Roederer, Sieyès and Le Mercier de la Rivière, as well as representatives of German idealism such as Kant, Fichte and Jacobi. She understood her ethical concept as a critique and an answer to the utilitarian morality of the well-understood self-interest, which, according to her observations in 18th-century France, was widespread. Mme de Staël's conception of virtue is characterized by selflessness, conscience, duty, religion, happiness, freedom, education, gender and the form of government. In addition, Mme de Staël attempted to exemplify her concept of virtue on the basis of real persons and, on the other hand, to construct it from the behavior of real persons. In the process, she stylizes personalities, such as her father Jacques Necker and Mme Elisabeth, sister Louis XVI, to models of male and female virtue, while Napoleon, in her opinion, embodies the vice and thus the morality of well-understood self-interest. It is not only Mme de Staël's theoretical texts in which the ethics debate plays a central role, but also in her fictional texts. The analysis in this respect is limited to Mme de Staël´s novels, but points to connections to her principal literary works, the novels Delphine and Corinne ou l'Italie.

In Informe contra mí mismo Eliseo Alberto appropriates and configures as literary genre the political informe that Cuba's socialist government has solicited from thousands of its citizens over the years. In Alberto's informe (originally "commissioned" by the Cuban government, but elaborated and marketed for the international literary community some twenty years later) the state ideological apparatus becomes, literally, the pre-text for a narrative of disillusionment. Alberto's text is more, however, than an instance of revisionist history, since the ambitious experimentation with narrative form and historiographical convention represents a serious inquiry into the nature of these discourses. Indeed, while the binaries of literature and history, poetry and politics, storytelling and argumentation structure the narrative, they are not resolved, ultimately, in favor of one term over the other, but rather performed and deconstructed. Informe contra mí mismo is published in a historical juncture in which Cuba appears to face just two choices, represented by the metanarratives of socialist revolution, on one hand, and of the inexorable globalization of capital, on the other. These choices, however, offer Cuba a national narrative either of protracted resistance to global capitalism under a totalitarian regime or of wholesale capitulation. Informe contra mí mismo begins to lay the discursive groundwork from which alternative narratives might emerge. (Cuban Stud/DÜI)

Introduction to this special issue of Moderna språk.
This special issue of Moderna Språk contains articles on Swedish mediators who have introduced, translated and reviewed literary texts from the Romance languages. More specifically, the contributions are the outcome of the symposium "Litteraturförmedlare i Sverige från 1945 till våra dagar" ('Literary mediators in Sweden from 1945 until today') which took place at Stockholm University 11–12 June 2015.

This thesis contends that non-Indigenous Australians cannot meaningfully reconcile with Indigenous people, who continue to be dispossessed and marginalised, until they reckon with the duplicity that underpins settler-invader dominance and governmentality. I propose that the novels Dead Europe (2005) and Barracuda (2013) by Christos Tsiolkas, as well as Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2014) by Alexis Wright are written as powerful antitheses to the mythic bases that underpin the logic of settler-invader presence in Australia, and it is through literary analysis of these texts that non-Indigenous presence in Australia can be understood. This dissertation identifies strategies used by the settler-invader subject to uphold its dominance. These strategies revolve around its sense of belonging to the Australian continent, its entitlement to cherished heritage as well as meaningful reconciliation with the Indigenous Other. By exposing these strategies through the interpretation of the selected texts, the key falsehoods present in Australia's national storytelling are made plain. Interpreting the rationale behind these falsehoods suggests ways that the settler-invader episteme can come to terms with the history of its presence and relinquish the privilege that it enjoys at the expense of Indigenous people.

Frontmatter -- Letter from the General Editor -- About This Scholarly Edition -- Table of Contents -- Note on the Text -- Map: Ayyubid Cairo -- Map: The Central Near East in the 7th Century -- Tajrīd sayf al-himmah li-stikhrāj mā fī dhimmat al-dhimmah -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Bibliography -- Index of Qurʾanic Quotations -- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- About the Typefaces -- Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature -- About the Editor

This book is a reflection on the Jewish presence in two European capitals, Warsaw and Berlin, in the first half of the 20th century. It was inspired by the works of Polish-Jewish, Yiddish and German-Jewish authors, as well as by the connections between urban spaces and the formation of different varieties of modern Jewish identity. The spotlight is cast on images preserved in literary works, namely those concerning separate Jewish neighborhoods and the sphere of cultural interethnic contacts. By attempting to restore the presence of Jewish inhabitants of both cities, destroyed by the Holocaust, it may become possible to see how the imagined communities of the time were created and preserved in the texts, even if, in reality, the metropolises were transformed into necropolises.

This paper reads Virginia Woolf's biography/novel Orlando through an economic lens, specifically as a work influenced by the Co-operative Movements of the early twentieth century. Woolf viewed the dominant "New Biography" style of the 1920s, which was marked by short, "modern" character sketches and a compressed narrative structure, as complicit with a wider cultural trend towards "efficiency." The "efficiency" ethos of the interwar period implied an explicitly capitalist, and implicitly imperialist, inclination towards the elimination of all that was "wasteful" in society, refining all cultural productions (including the literary) down to those which would produce the most profitable returns for the least effort. Bucking this trend, Woolf's prose in Orlando is digressive and fantastical, and Woolf's biographer/narrator often pokes fun at the impossibilities of an "efficient" literature. My paper argues that Orlando is Woolf's attempt to create a textual economy that is guided by "co-operative" principles, not market forces. This hypothesis is corroborated by the fact that, during much of her literary career, Woolf was engaged in the Women's Co-operative Guild, a feminist and anti-capitalist organization of predominantly working-class women from the English countryside. The WCG aimed to take economic power out of the hands of factory-owners and put it into the hands of household consumers -- who were largely, of course, women -- as well as advocate for women's education and political expression. Orlando's anti-imperial and anti-traditional-marriage arguments, her disavowal of textual "efficiency," and the collaborative origins of the text itself, reflect the deep influence of the WCG and Co-operative economics in general on the biography/novel.

This article situates the ESL textbook within current scholarship on intermediality and multimodality and, with poetry as the main focus, considers how the media ecology within the covers of the ESL textbook, as well as that implied outside those covers, e.g. web pages, workbooks, audio files and so on, affects the literary text. This qualitative study of how poetry figures in the Swedish ESL textbook series Wings 7, 8, and 9 analyses the case of Emily Dickinson's poem "I heard a Fly buzz – when I died," included in Wings 9, at length to uncover the rich textual web of which a poem in a textbook forms part, as well as the resources it asks learners to mobilize in the emergent event of classroom learning.
The inclusion of poems in ESL textbooks typically requires no editorial interventions in terms of abridgement, which makes this genre useful for considering the implications of the medium on the text itself. Poems in ESL textbooks continuously interact with other texts, themes, images and tasks within the textbook. Thus, the medium of the textbook has a transformative effect on the original literary texts it comprises.