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Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures. Transfer, Mediality and Situativity brings together contributions on Jewish literatures with methodologies and theories discussed in Comparative and World Literature Studies. The contributions highlight dynamic literary processes in various historical and cultural contexts.

The Avgust Pavel's Vend nyelvtan or Prekmurje Slovene Grammar (1942) offers linguists insight into a key part of the remarkable variation in Slovene. A peripheral area of Slovene, the Prekmurje dialect is in contact with German, Hungarian, and Croatian Kajkavian.

What is video game culture? This volume avoids easy answers and deceitful single definitions. Instead, the collected essays included here navigate the messy and exciting waters of video games, of culture, and of the meeting of video games and culture.

Exploring Spirituality and Sexuality: An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Field is a collection of scholarly essays which focuses on the multiple interrelations of spirituality and sexuality, including such facets as intimate relationships, inner cultivation, gender empowerment, gender empowerment, sex education, eroticism, and ecstasy embodiments.

Dans Lire l'Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre, Christina Kullberg propose une étude de l'établissement français aux Antilles et une analyse théorique de l'exotisme à travers une lecture critique de l'histoire naturelle et morale du missionnaire dominicain Du Tertre. In Lire l'Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre, Christina Kullberg offers a study of the French early colonization in the Caribbean and a theoretical a...

La littérature du XXIe siècle débute avec le triomphe du document, des écritures d'enquête et d'information qui refusent la fiction. Ce volume vise est à inventorier et à comprendre les territoires de la non-fiction, désormais devenu un genre littéraire essentiel. The literature of the 21st century begins with the triumph of the document, the investigative and informative writings that reject fiction. The aim of this volume is to inventory and...

Shifting the focus from human interiority toward the agency of cultural objects, social arrangements and aesthetic matter, How to Do Things with Affects examines the affective operations and transmissions triggered by various aesthetic forms, media events and cultural practices.

This volume reflects on what legibility entails in today's machinic world. It asks what makes cultural expressions, from literary texts, films, artworks and museum exhibits to archives, laws and algorithms, il/legible to whom or what, and with what consequences.

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In Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age André van der Braak uses Charles Taylor's A Secular Age to describe the encounter between Japanese Zen Buddhism and Western modernity. He proposes how Dōgen's thought offers resources for a reimagining of Zen.

Highlighting neo-Victorian biofiction's crucial role in reimagining and augmenting the historical archive, this volume explores the complex ethical consequences of a creative movement of historiographic revisionism, combining biography and fiction in a dialectic tension of empathy and voyeuristic spectacle.

In André du Bouchet: Poetic Forms of Attention, Emma Wagstaff presents the creative and critical writing of a major twentieth-century poet and shows how reading his work advances our understanding of attention.

Analyzing daily therapeutic routines, the book takes the praxis turn to colonial medicine. Despite the extraordinary nature of the hospital under investigation, this fresh perspective draws an image of biomedicine as an inherently incoherent practice.

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Theatre scandals may cause dynamic changes within cultural systems. The case studies in this volume present a wide cultural and chronological variety of such scandals, illustrating the various causes, processes and interactions that characterize these shocking moments in theatre history.

A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature offers a comprehensive, comparative and generic analysis of developments of travel writing in Anglophone and Polish literature from the Late Medieval Period to the twenty-first century. These developments are depicted in a wider context of travel narratives written in other European languages.

Violence: Probing the Boundaries around the World includes implicit and explicit contributions to the conceptualisation of violent processes across the world, the circumstances that enable them to exist and opens ways to think valuable interventions.

Early Psychoanalytic Religious Writings presents, in one edited volume, many of the foundational writings in the psychoanalytic study of religion. These translated works by Abraham, Fromm, Pfister, and others, complement Freud's seminal contributions and provide a unique window into the origins of psychoanalytic thinking.

World Political Theatre and Performance brings together scholars and practitioners from multiple locations to analyse counter-hegemonic theatre and performance. International case studies are framed by a common reflection on the meaning of radical practice in the face of global neoliberalism.

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