Culture, Languages and Literature Publications 2018–19
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We mark your memory: writings from the descendants of indenture
Rethinking the past in Cuba: a tribute to Alistair Hennessy
Edited by David Dabydeen, Maria del Pilar
Edited by Antoni Kapcia
Kaladeen and Tina K. Ramnarine
Institute of Latin American Studies
School of Advanced Study
978‑1‑908857‑41‑5 (pb), 250pp, £25
978‑1‑912250‑07‑3 (pb), 212pp, £11.99
978‑1‑908857‑42‑2 (ebook), £20
978‑1‑912250‑08‑0 (ebook), £8 April 2018
Indenture, whereby individuals entered, or were coerced, into an agreement to work in a colony was open to abuse from recruitment to plantation. Hidden within this little known system of 19th and early 20th century labour migration are even more neglected stories of exploited and unfree labour under the British Empire. These include indentured histories from Madeira to the Caribbean, from West Africa to the Caribbean, and from China to the Caribbean, Mauritius and South Africa. To mark the centenary of indenture’s abolition in the British Empire (2017–20) this volume brings together, for the first time, new writing from across the Commonwealth and beyond. It is a unique and important attempt to explore, through the medium of poetry and prose, the indentured heritage of the 21st century.
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April 2018
This collection of essays and research articles has been designed, by its breadth of expertise and discipline, to pay suitable homage to the seminal influence and contribution made by the late Alistair Hennessy towards the development of Cuban studies. For that reason, it includes a judicious mixture of the old and the new, including several of the leading and internationally well-established experts on Cuban history, politics and culture, but also some up-and-coming researchers in the field. That mixture and the combination of topics (some addressing the past directly, others assessing the present within a historical context) reflect Hennessy’s own crossdisciplinary and open-minded approach to the study of the history of Cuba.
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Urban microcosms (1789–1940) Edited by Margit Dirscherl and Astrid Köhler imlr books Institute of Modern Languages Research 978‑0‑85457‑266‑3 (pb), 282pp, £25
November 2018 The notion of cities and towns as ‘movers and shakers of civilization’ and ‘engines and agents of change’ (Peter Borsay) will be familiar to anyone working on 19th or early 20th century history and culture. One effect of such an approach is to subsume towns under cities, another is to attribute to the imagined urban entity one singular willpower, with nuances and differences disregarded. However, anyone who happens to have lived in both a small town and a big city knows that the two differ considerably both with regard to atmosphere and social fabric. To treat the two as the same is to miss something important. Change happens locally, and the forces that foster the change are by no means the prerogative of conglomerations ̶ they are equally at work in places very far removed from big cities. Accepting that there may not be urban entities nor singular willpowers at work, this volume focuses on places, spaces and processes, not on metropolitan molochs but on smaller units of urban life, and seeks to increase our understanding of the changes that happened in the long nineteenth century in Europe, and hence of modernisation and modernity itself.
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Roy Pascal and Georg Lukács: towards a re-evaluation of the history of Marxist literary criticism in Britain? Helmut Peitsch Bithell Memorial Lectures Institute of Modern Languages Research 978‑0‑85457‑267‑0 (pb), 250pp, £20 August 2018
Was Roy Pascal a left-winger in, or an outsider to academic German studies? Did he carry out pioneering research from 1934 or only after 1960? The term ‘Marxist’ to characterise Pascal’s literary criticism from the 1930s to the 1950s does not feature, and his biographers have so far been silent as to his relations with the work of the most prominent international representative of Marxist literary criticism of the period, Georg Lukács, overlooking that Pascal wrote the ‘Foreword’ to Lukács’s Studies in European Realism which appeared in 1950. But they were not the only ones to contribute to this kind of silence: by bringing in British Marxists who were not Germanists, Helmut Peitsch expands the range of questions to enable a re-evaluation of Marxist literary criticism in Britain.
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Writing and the West German protest movements: the textual revolution
Glanz und Abglanz: two centuries of German Studies in the University of London
Mererid Puw Davies
John L. Flood and Anne Simon
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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 December 2016
The 1960s protest movements marked an astonishing moment for West Germany. They developed a political critique distinctive for its overwhelming emphasis on culture and the symbolic. 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. sas.ac.uk/publications
April 2017
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). 5
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The personal impact of Nazi persecution: experiences and life stories Mary Fulbrook Bithell Memorial Lectures
The emergence of posthybrid identities: a comparative analysis of 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 2018
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
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.
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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. sas.ac.uk/publications
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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Television drama in Spain and Latin America
Brazil: essays on history and politics
Paul Smith
Leslie Bethell
imlr books
Institute of Latin American Studies
Institute of Modern Languages Research
978‑1‑908857‑54‑5 (pb), 240pp, £25
978‑0‑85457‑265‑6 (pb), 280pp, £25
978-1-908857-58-3 (ebook), £20
July 2018
While much research has been carried out on TV formats and remakes in the Englishspeaking world, almost nothing has been published on the huge and dynamic Spanishspeaking sector. This book addresses two major topics within current cultural, media, and television studies: the question of fictional genres and transnational circulation. It discusses and analyses series since 2000 from Spain (in both Spanish and Catalan), Mexico, Venezuela, and (to a lesser extent) the US, employing both empirical research on production and distribution and textual analysis of content. The three genres examined are horror, biographical series, and sportsthemed dramas; the three examples of format remakes are of a period mystery (Spain, Mexico), a romantic comedy (Venezuela, US), and a historical epic (Catalonia, Spain).
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May 2018
This volume consists of seven essays by leading professor of Brazilian studies, Leslie Bethell, on major themes in modern Brazilian history and politics: Brazil and Latin America; Britain and Brazil (1808-1914); The Paraguayan War (1864-70); The decline and fall of slavery (18501888); The long road to democracy; Populism; The failure of the Left. The essays are new, but they draw on book chapters, journal articles and public lectures delivered in the ten years since his retirement as founding director of the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies in 2007. In a fascinating autobiographical introduction, ‘Why Brazil?’ Professor Bethell describes how, from the most unlikely of backgrounds, he became a historian of Brazil and how he came to devote much of his long academic career to the promotion and development of Brazilian studies around the world.
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Empty Spaces Confronting emptiness in national, cultural and urban history Edited by Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating
A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective Edited by Francisco Ferreira with Billie Jean Isbell Institute of Latin American Studies 978‑1‑908857‑24‑8 (pb), 280pp, £25 978‑1‑908857‑25‑5 (ebook), £20 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/publications
Empty spaces: confronting emptiness in national, cultural and urban history Edited by Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating IHR Conference Series Institute of Historical Research 978‑1‑909646‑49‑0 (hb), £40 978‑1‑909646‑50‑6 (ebook), £32 November 2018
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, 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. 9
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Ernst Kitzinger and the making of Byzantine art history
Philosophy and medicine in the formative period of Islam
Edited by Felicity Harley-McGowan and Henry Maguire
Edited by Peter Adamson and Peter Pormann
Warburg Institute Colloquia 30
Warburg Institute
Warburg Institute
978‑1‑908590‑54-1 (pb)
978‑1‑908590‑53-4 (pb) 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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Warburg Institute Colloquia 31
January 2018
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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Books
The Afterlife of Aldus Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade
Edited by Jill Kraye and Paolo Sachet
Shaping knowledge: the transmission of the Liber Floridus Hanna Vorholt
The afterlife of Aldus: posthumous fame, collectors and the book trade
Warburg Institute Studies and Texts 6
Jill Kraye and Paolo Sachet
Warburg Institute
Warburg Institute Colloquia 32
978‑1‑908590‑72‑5 (pb), 356pp, £55
Warburg Institute
November 2017
978‑1‑908590‑55‑8 (pb), 300pp, £30
The encyclopedic compilation Liber Floridus, created by the Flemish canon Lambert of SaintOmer in the early twelfth century, survives not only in the form of his famous autograph, but also in a considerable number of later manuscripts which transformed the knowledge assembled by him and which became starting points for new appraisals of their texts and images. Shaping Knowledge examines the processes which determined this transfer over the centuries and evaluates the specific achievements of the different generations of scribes and illuminators.
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June 2018
Marking the the legacy of Aldus Manutius on the 500th anniversary of his death, this book examines how the notion of ‘Aldine books’ has changed over 500 years in Europe and North America, from the early days of the Aldine press to modern and contemporary book collecting and the antiquarian trade. The volume also includes a catalogue of the exhibition ‘Collecting the Renaissance: The Aldine Press (1494–1598)’, held in the British Library in conjunction with the colloquium. Addressing a wide readership of scholars, booksellers and collectors, The Afterlife of Aldus aims to stimulate further research on areas fundamental for understanding Aldus’s longlasting fortuna. The conference, the exhibition and this volume have received generous financial support from the Bibliographical Society, CERL and Bernard Quartich Ltd.
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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 Yeats Annual Published by Open Book Publishers in association Courtauld Institutes with the Institute of English Studies 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 is intended as an interdisciplinary forum for scholars specialising in art history, the history of ideas and cultural history. Usually the subjects discussed either centre on or have some connection with Western, typically European cultures; therefore, too, the JWCI provides a home for research into the many interconnections between those cultures and others which have flourished beyond European borders - particularly, but by no means limited to, the cultures and learning of the Near East. Topics include the arts in their various forms, religion, philosophy, science, literature and magic, as well as intellectual, political and social life, from Antiquity to the dawn of the contemporary era.
Edited by Warwick Gould ISSN 0278-7687 Vol. 19 (2013) ISBN 978-1-783740 17 8 www.ies.sas.ac.uk/publications/yeats-annual
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Founded in 1937, soon after the arrival of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg in London, the Journal of the Warburg Institute became the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes two years later and has flourished as a collaborative enterprise since that time.
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