Culture, Languages and Literature Publications 2017–18
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Cover image: Favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (shutterstock.com/ Skreidzeleu).
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Empty Spaces Confronting emptiness in national, cultural and urban history Edited by Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating
Empty spaces: confronting emptiness in national, cultural and urban history
A history of the French in London: liberty, equality, opportunity
Edited by Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating
Edited by Debra Kelly and Martyn Cornick
IHR Conference Series
Institute of Historical Research
Institute of Historical Research
978‑1‑905165‑86‑5 (hb), 516pp, £40
978‑1‑909646‑49‑0 (hb), £40
978‑1‑905165‑87‑2 (ebook), £32
978‑1‑909646‑50‑6 (ebook), £32 December 2017
How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining ‘nothingness’? Why have a variety of historical actors, from colonial powers to artists and urban dwellers, sought to construct, control and maintain (physically and discursively) empty space, and by which processes is emptiness discovered, visualised and reimagined? This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality, along with national and imperial narratives, from Brazil to Russia and Ireland. It considers the visual as an object of historical analysis, including the art of Edward Hopper and the work of the British Empire Marketing Board, while concluding with a section that examines constructions of emptiness in relation to capitalism, development and the (re)appropriation of urban space. In doing so, it foregrounds the importance of emptiness as a productive prism through which to interrogate a variety of imperial, national, cultural and urban history. sas.ac.uk/research/publications
IHR Conference Series
May 2013
This book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of the French in London, and explores the multiple ways in which this presence has contributed to the life of the city. The capital has often provided a place of refuge, from the Huguenots in the 17th century, through the period of the French Revolution, to various exile communities during the 19th century, and on to the Free French in the Second World War.It also considers the generation of French citizens who settled in post-war London, and goes on to provide insights into the contemporary French presence by assessing the motives and lives of French people seeking new opportunities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It analyses the impact that the French have had historically, and continue to have, on London life in the arts, gastronomy, business, industry and education, manifest in diverse places and institutions from the religious to the political via the educational, to the commercial and creative industries.
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The emergence of postThe personal impact hybrid identities: a of Nazi persecution: experiences and life stories comparative analysis of Mary Fulbrook Bithell Memorial Lectures
national identity formations in Germany’s hip-hop culture
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Marissa Munderloh
978‑0‑85457‑264‑9 (pb), 40pp, £5
Bithell Series of Dissertations 46
November 2017
Institute of Modern Languages Research
The experience of surviving Nazi persecution had an impact on the whole of the rest of people’s lives and on the transformation of their identity. The character of this impact varied not only according to their age, status and experiences at the time of persecution, but also according to later circumstances in which they sought to make new lives. The effect on the second and subsequent generations similarly varied not only with parental experiences but also with the different contexts in which children grew up. In this lecture Mary Fulbrook outlines some key issues and aspects of how particular post-war contexts affected the ways in which people gave significance and expression to their memories of the past.
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978‑0‑85457‑261‑8 (hb), 260pp, £20 978‑0‑85457‑256‑4 (ebook), £16 May 2017
German hip-hop culture is best known for its rap music and rappers’ portrayal of their lives in Germany’s urban centres. Few studies have looked at German hip-hop’s other main art forms, such as graffiti art, dance and music, in conjunction with rap, or considered their joint contribution to the creation and development of German popular culture and contemporary identity. This book breaks new ground by offering a comparative analysis of rappers, DJs, dancers, graffiti artists and their practices in the German cities of Hamburg and Oldenburg. In so doing, it reveals a variety of individual narratives on what it means to be German and to understand how German identities are managed and expressed through hip-hop’s different tools and art forms. It illustrates complex and perhaps even contradictory views of this ever-changing dynamic and the relationship of national belonging. The book proposes a new form of identity – the post-hybrid – so contributing to the ongoing debate on cultural belonging and integration in Germany. sas.ac.uk/research/publications
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Glanz und Abglanz: two centuries of German Studies in the University of London
Writing and the West German protest movements: the textual revolution
John L. Flood and Anne Simon
Mererid Puw Davies
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Institute of Modern Languages Research
978‑0‑85457‑263‑2 (pb), 230pp, £20
978‑0‑85457‑251‑9 (pb), 282pp, £25
April 2017
December 2016
In 1943, in the midst of a London still reeling from the Blitz, initial plans were laid for an institute devoted to rebuilding relations between English and German scholars and academics once hostilities had ceased. Established in 1950, the institute served for more than half a century as a research centre and focal point for researchers the world over. However, German Studies in London has a much older tradition which goes back almost two centuries. Glanz und Abglanz tells the fascinating tale of German Studies in London from its beginnings at the ‘godless institution of Gower Street’, and of the remarkable personalities whose energy and commitment ensured that the discipline flourished. The story is told through two essays: ‘Taught by Giants’ outlining the history of the subject in London from 1826, and ‘Sehr schön, Piglet?’ ‘Ja, Pooh’ following the development of the Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures and showcasing its remarkable library. The volume is rounded off with an account of the magnificent collection of rare books assembled by Robert Priebsch (1866– 1935) and August Closs (1898–1990). sas.ac.uk/research/publications
The 1960s protest movements marked an astonishing moment for West Germany. They developed a political critique, but are above all distinctive for their overwhelming emphasis on culture and the symbolic. In particular, reading and writing had a uniquely prestigious status for West German protesters, who produced an extraordinary textual culture ranging from graffiti and flyers to agit-prop poetry and autobiographical prose. By turns witty, provocative, reflective and offensive, the avant-garde roots of anti-authoritarianism are as palpable in their texts as their debt to high literature. But due to this culture’s (apparently) anti-literary tone, it is frequently overlooked by traditional criticism. This volume presents close readings and analyses of emblematic examples of texts, some forgotten, others better known, embedding them in historical, cultural, theoretical and aesthetic context, and illuminating representative moments and preoccupations in anti-authoritarian culture, from the Vietnam War to the Nazi past, to dirt and hygiene. They outline an anti-authoritarian poetics, revealing often hidden tensions and contradictions in relation to the German past and questions of authority. 5
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mit worten lûter unde glanz: Metapoetics in Konrad von Würzburg’s Trojanerkrieg
Women political prisoners in Germany: narratives of self and captivity, 1915–91 Kim Richmond
Esther Laufer
Bithell Series of Dissertations 43
Bithell Series of Dissertations 45
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Institute of Modern Languages Research
978‑0‑85457‑247‑2 (hb), 200pp, £20
978‑0‑85457‑253‑3 (hb), 310pp, £20 November 2016
How can you fathom a bottomless abyss? How can you capture ineffable beauty in words? How do you narrate the master of all stories? These are the challenges that seasoned poet Konrad von Würzburg set himself when at the end of the 13th century he composed his account of the Trojan War from a multitude of sources. Konrad has long been recognized as an exceptionally self-conscious author who frequently reflects on the nature, status and function of poetry, and who at times appears more concerned with the sparkling surface of his discourse than with the events he narrates. Taking these observations as a starting point, this study presents the first comprehensive treatment of metapoetics in the Trojanerkrieg. In highlighting the pitfalls of metapoetic interpretation and mapping out possible conceptualisations of textuality, language and poetry in Middle High German poetry, as well as the relationship between secular and religious literature, this study also makes a broader contribution to medieval literary studies. 6
February 2016
One of the few major enquiries into women’s narratives of political incarceration, this volume examines first-person accounts written against a backdrop of momentous historical events in 20th-century Germany. Rosa Luxemburg’s prison letters are the starting point for the study, which explores the ways in which writing is used as a response to incarceration: how does the writer ‘perform’ femininity within the de-feminizing context of prison? How does she negotiate a self-representation as a ‘good’ woman? Central to this investigation is an awareness of the role of language as a means of empowerment within the disempowering environment of prison. As a key female political figure in 20th-century Germany, Luxemburg wrote letters from prison that encapsulate prevalent notions about womanhood, prison, and political engagement that are perceptible in the study’s subsequent texts. The narratives provide examples of the role of language in resisting an imposed identity as ‘prisoner’, ‘criminal’, and object of the prison system.
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Poets as readers in From North Africa to nineteenth-century France: France: family migration in critical reflections text and film Edited by Joseph Acquisto, Adrianna M. Paliyenko and Catherine Witt
Isabel Hollis-Touré
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Institute of Modern Languages Research
Institute of Modern Languages Research 978‑0‑85457‑246‑5 (pb), 274pp, £25 October 2015
This volume of essays focuses on how poets approach reading as a notion and a practice that both inform their writing and their relationship to their readers. The 19th century saw a broadened and increasingly self-conscious concern with reading as an interpretive and political act, with significant implications for poets’ individual practice, which they often forged in dialogue with other poets and artists of the time. Covering the 1830s to the late 1990s, a period rich in poetic innovation, the essays examine a wide range of authors and their diverse approaches to reading as inscribed in - and related to - creative writing, and articulate the many ways in which reading developed as an active engagement key to the critical thought that drove poetic creation at the dawn of aesthetic modernity.
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imlr books 9 978‑0‑85457‑240‑3 (pb), 166pp, £25 March 2015
Over the past four decades immigration to France from the Francophone countries of North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) has changed in character. For much of the 20th century, migrants who crossed the Mediterranean to France were men seeking work, who frequently undertook manual labour, working long hours in difficult conditions. Recent decades have seen an increase in family reunification - the arrival of women and children from North Africa, either accompanying their husbands or joining them in France. Contemporary creative representations of migration are shaped by this shift in gender and generation from a solitary, mostly male experience to one that included women and children. Just as the shift made new demands of the ‘host’ society, it made new demands of authors and filmmakers as they seek to represent migration. This study reveals how text and film present new ways of thinking about migration, moving away from the configuration of the migrant as man and worker, to take into account women, children, and the ties between.
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Shaping migration between Europe and Latin America: new approaches and challenges
A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective
Edited by Ana Margheritis
Edited by Francisco Ferreira with Billie Jean Isbell
Institute of Latin American Studies
Institute of Latin American Studies
978-1-908857-45-3 (pb), 250pp, £25
978‑1‑908857‑24‑8 (pb), 280pp, £25
978-1-908857-46-0 (ebook), £20
978‑1‑908857‑25‑5 (ebook), £20
February 2018
This volume focuses on two world regions, historically linked by human mobility and cultural exchange but now responding to significant demographic changes and new migration trends. These changes include the reversal in the direction of flows; the greater heterogeneity of migrant groups; the strong pull of women leaders in family migration projects; the concentration of newcomers in non-traditional destinations; the emergence of new migration cross-regional corridors; the increase in non-voluntary displacements; and the development of new forms of citizenship beyond borders. The study of these issues has until now largely remained compartmentalised by area studies approaches, focused either on Latin America or Europe as regions with distinct trajectories and interests, and concentrated at the national level of politics and policies. In contrast, this volume aims at making a unique contribution by providing an integrated view revolving around the link between the two regions alongside an analysis that gives due consideration to global, national, regional and local dynamics. 8
December 2016
This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities, mostly in Peru but also in neighbouring countries. These ethnographies were published between the 1970s and 2000s, following different theoretical and thematic approaches, and they often transcended the boundaries of case studies to become important reference works on key aspects of Andean culture. These include, for example, the symbolism and ritual uses of coca in the case of Catherine J. Allen; agricultural rituals and internal social divisions in the case of Peter Gose; social organisation and kinship in the case of Billie Jean Isbell; the use of khipus and concepts of literacy in the case of Frank Salomon; and the management and ritual dimensions of water and irrigation in the case of Ricardo Valderrama and Carmen Escalante. In their chapters the authors revisit their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal aspects of their ethnographies. sas.ac.uk/research/publications
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Philosophy and medicine in the formative period of Islam Edited by Peter Adamson and Peter Pormann
Ernst Kitzinger and the making of Byzantine art history
Warburg Institute Colloquia 31
Edited by Felicity Harley-McGowan and Henry Maguire
Warburg Institute
Warburg Institute Colloquia 30
978‑1‑908590‑54-1 (pb)
Warburg Institute
January 2018
978‑1‑908590‑53-4 (pb)
Many of the leading philosophers in the Islamic world were doctors, yielding extensive links between philosophy and medicine. The 12 papers in this volume explore these links, focusing on the classical or formative period (up to the 11th century AD). One central theme is the Arabic reception of Greek figures who worked on medicine or medical topics, including Hippocrates, Aristotle and Galen. Several of the luminaries of philosophy in the early Islamic world are also studied, including Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, al-Fārābī, and Avicenna. Conversely, the volume also includes research on the use of philosophical ideas in medical authors, including Άlī ibn Ridwān. Attention is also given to the connections between medicine and Islamic theology (kalām). As a whole, the book provides both a survey of the kinds of work being done in this relatively unexplored area, and a springboard for further research.
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December 2017
The essays collected in this volume publish the proceedings of a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in January 2013 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernst Kitzinger. His work has been, and still is, fundamentally influential on the present-day discipline of art history in a wide range of topics. In the first half, the papers are primarily biographical, covering Kitzinger’s extraordinary career, which began in Germany, Italy and England in the tumultuous years preceding the Second World War, led to internment in Australia and eventually took him to America. The second half of the book is devoted to assessments of Kitzinger’s scholarship, including his concern with the theory of style, with the early medieval art of Britain and continental Europe, with the art of Norman Sicily, and with the sources and impact of iconoclasm.
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Petrarch’s famous men in Vernacular Aristotelianism the early Renaissance: the in Italy from the fourteenth illuminated copies of Felice to the seventeenth century Edited by Luca Bianchi, Simon Gilson and Jill Feliciano’s edition Lilian Armstrong Warburg Studies and Texts 5 Warburg Institute 978‑1‑908590‑70‑1 (pb), 272pp, £45 January 2017
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304–74) worked over many years on his long historical text devoted to the lives of ancient Roman military heroes, De viris illustribus (On Famous Men). After his death in 1374, his colleague, Lombardo della Seta, completed the unfinished text in 1379. Within a decade, De viris illustribus was translated into Italian; and in 1476 the Libro degli uomini famosi was printed in Poiano outside Verona by the eccentric humanist and scribe, Felice Feliciano (1433–79/80). The present book surveys the handillumination of 20 surviving copies of Felice’s edition in order to investigate the Renaissance fascination with the classical past, the artistic traditions of representing Uomini famosi, the technical problems of illustrating books with woodcuts and the fortuna of the 1476 edition. Two copies contain sequences of heroes painted within the woodcut borders. These provide evidence for reconstructing the appearance of the ‘lost’ frescoes of famous men painted at the end of Petrarch’s lifetime in the Carrara palace in Padua. 10
Kraye
Warburg Institute Colloquia 29 Warburg Institute 978‑1‑908590‑52‑7 (pb), 224pp, £35 January 2017
This volume is based on an international colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in June 2013, entitled ‘Philosophy and Knowledge in the Renaissance: Interpreting Aristotle in the Vernacular’. It situates and explores vernacular Aristotelianism in a broad chronological context, with a geographical focus on Italy. The disciplines covered include political thought, ethics, poetics, rhetoric, logic, natural philosophy, cosmology, meteorology and metaphysics. Among the genres considered are translations, popularising commentaries, dialogues and works targeted at women. The wide-ranging and rich material presented is intended to stimulate scholars into developing this promising area of research still further.
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Palaeography, manuscript illumination and humanism in Renaissance Italy: studies in memory of A. C. de la Mare
The cosmography of paradise: the other world from Ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Europe
Edited by Robert Black, Jill Kraye and Laura Nuvoloni
Edited by Alessandro Scafi
Warburg Institute Colloquia 28
Warburg Institute
Warburg Institute 978‑1‑908590‑51‑0 (pb), 488pp, £60 May 2016
Albinia de la Mare (1932–2001), OBE, FBA, Professor of Palaeography at King’s College London, was one of the last century’s outstanding palaeographers and the world’s leading authority on Italian Renaissance manuscripts. In November 2011 a conference was held to honour her memory, and this volume offers revised versions of most of the papers read on that occasion, as well as three additional contributions. Tilly de la Mare had exceptionally wide interests, including key individuals involved in manuscript and literary production alongside other important themes in the history of palaeography. These included the emergence of humanist script; the relationship between script and illumination; the competing methods of palaeography and philology; the social, political, academic, geographical and cultural contexts of manuscript copying and production; and the role of palaeography in the transmission of classical texts. sas.ac.uk/research/publications
Warburg Institute Colloquia 27 978‑1‑908590‑50‑3 (pb), 295pp, £62 June 2016
This collection of essays considers the general theme of paradise from various comparative perspectives. It focuses on the way the relationship between ‘the other world’ and the structure of the whole cosmos has been viewed in different ages and traditions around the Mediterranean basin, spanning from the ancient Near East to medieval Europe. Scholars from different subject areas discuss the various ways of viewing the relationship between paradise and the general features of the universe from within their own field. The historical formation of the notion of paradise, defined as a perfect state beyond time and space, relied heavily upon a variety of temporally and culturally conditioned concepts of the physical cosmos as a finite and imperfect realm. It is precisely the emphasis on cosmography that allows the exploration of several traditions: Sumerian, ancient Iranian, Greek, Jewish, early Christian, Gnostic, Byzantine, Islamic, Scandinavian, and Latin Western. 11
Journals
Journal of Romance Studies
Print ISSN: 14733536 Online ISSN: 17522331
Spring/Summer/Winter 2017
The journal of the Institute of Modern Languages Research
Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Journal of Romance Studies Published by Liverpool University Press in association with the Institute of Modern Languages Research
Published by Brill/Rodopi in association with the Institute of Modern Languages Research
Edited by Catherine Davies and Dominic Glynn
ISSN 1388-3720
http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/jrs
Vol. 18 ISBN 978-90-0434-351-1 www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=EXILE
The work of the Centre focuses on the history of those German-speaking emigrĂŠs who found refuge in Great Britain. It explores their personal recollections and experiences, their reception in British society, and how they enriched the life of their new country of residence in such varied spheres as the professions, industry and commerce, literature, art and culture, politics, publishing, the media, and the world of entertainment and leisure.
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ISSN 1473-3536
This journal promotes innovative critical work in the areas of linguistics, literature, performing and visual arts, media, material culture, intellectual and cultural history, critical and cultural theory, psychoanalysis, gender studies, social sciences and anthropology. Two monographic issues and one open issue are published each year. The primary focus is on those parts of the world that speak, or have spoken, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese but work on other cultures may be included. Most issues cross national and disciplinary boundaries in order to stimulate new ways of thinking about cultural history and practice.
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Journals
JOURNAL OF THE WARBURG AND COURTAULD INSTITUTES LXXX
THE WARBURG INSTITUTE University of London 2017
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes Published by the Warburg Institute ISSN 0075-4390 (print) ISSN 2044-0014 (online) Vol. LXXX (2017) ISBN 978-1-908590-06-0 www.ingentaconnect.com/content/warburg/jwci
The JWCI publishes new documentary and analytical research in the field of cultural and intellectual history. The subject matter includes art and architecture, literature, science, religion, and intellectual, political and social life, often with an emphasis on their relation to the civilisation of antiquity. Produced at the Warburg Institute and edited by members of staff there as well as at the Courtauld Institute of Art, the JWCI remains reliant on the two institutes’ extensive libraries, image collections and scholarship; in addition to the work of its editors, it depends on the collaboration of scholars at both institutes, who, along with outside experts, participate in the review process.
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Yeats Annual Published by Open Book Publishers in association with the Institute of English Studies Edited by Warwick Gould ISSN 0278-7687 Vol. 19 (2013) ISBN 978-1-783740 17 8 www.ies.sas.ac.uk/publications/yeats-annual
Yeats Annual is the leading international research-level journal devoted to the greatest 20th-century poet in the English language. ‘The admirable Yeats Annual ... a powerful base of biographical and textual knowledge. Since 1982 the vade mecum of Yeats.’ Bernard O’Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement
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