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Reading Foreign Bodies in Musil’s Die Versuchung der stillen Veronika
Authors: Martz Brett
Published: March 2013

Criticism of Robert Musil’s Die Versuchung der stillen Veronika has often understood the representation of the “foreign body” in the novella as a reference to psychoanalysis or trauma. Working through all versions and revisions of this novella, this article instead analyzes the theme of the foreign body broadly conceived as a dilemma of the split between the self and the objectified other. The problems caused by this split provide a thematic commentary on the novella’s widely recognized difficulty, which emerges as a consequence of Musil’s strained attempts to design a work that is intended to be felt rather than understood in terms that would objectify it.
Atemschrift: Ernst Jandl’s Experimental Poetics of Affirmation
Authors: Stuckatz Katja
Published: March 2013

The paper argues that materiality, performativity, and corporeality constitute the core of Ernst Jandl’s poetics and manifest his unwavering trust in the expressive capabilities of poetic language. This reading of Jandl’s work takes issue with its dominant interpretation as an instance of linguistic skepticism. In a broader sense, the paper aims to show the need to reevaluate the character of post–World War II experimental poetry as affirmative rather than as a symptom of language’s disintegration.
Historical Rupture and the Devastation of Memory in Adalbert Stifter’s Der Hagestolz
Authors: Gordon Kevin A.
Published: March 2013

This article examines how Stifter’s novella Der Hagestolz uses the desert, dust, and sand to address questions of memory and oblivion. The article proposes that the dust covering the people and objects in the text points to their erasure from memory and that attempts to keep the dust at bay represent efforts to preserve the human experience that these things have the power to contain and transmit. The text’s rhetorical similarities to Walter Benjamin’s thoughts on history and historiography are emphasized. In addition, Heidegger’s reading of the growing desert in Nietzsche’s poem “Unter den Töchtern der Wüste” is incorporated to suggest that Stifter’s text similarly casts doubt on the possibility of all memory, even generational memory.
Performing Cannibalism: Werner Schwab’s ÜBERGEWICHT, unwichtig: UNFORM
Authors: Henderson Heike
Published: March 2013

This article focuses on the role of cannibalism, both within the context of Schwab’s 1991 play and as a reflection of modern Austrian society. Performativity, anthropological studies of cannibalism, and Artaud’s theater of cruelty provide the framework for my analysis. Language and corporeality, both intrinsically connected to performativity and cruelty, emerge as crucial elements of Schwab’s theatrical dissolution of boundaries.
Literary Awards and the Practice of Aesthetic Judgment: Lessons of the Ingeborg Bachmann Preis
Authors: Rebien Kristin
Published: March 2013

The televised competition for the Bachmann Preis invites the public to observe all stages of an award decision, including the deliberations of the jury. The public jury deliberations reveal a number of basic principles that are representative of juried awards in general, such as the process by which individual reading preferences and judgments of taste are amalgamated into a collective verdict on an award winner.
Der Wiener Privatdetektiv Markus Cheng—Charlie Chan in Österreich?
Authors: Sturm-Trigonakis Elke
Published: March 2013

This article investigates the Austrian characteristics of Heinrich Steinfest’s two Viennese detective novels in comparison to US ethnic detectives in order to define “austriacity” in both novels, first on the stylistic level and second, on the thematic level through the use of representative fictive figures, a realistic Austrian setting, and the shaping of Austrian identity, particularly in comparison with Germans.
Pathogenic Polemics: Heldenplatz and the "Bernhard Virus"
Authors: Davis Jack
Published: March 2013

This article traces the trope of "infectious" speech in scholarship on Thomas Bernhard, the literary reception of Bernhard's works, and the narrative dynamics of these works themselves. The author argues that the text of the play Heldenplatz and the ensuing scandal surrounding it represent the most salient example of this biologically inflected discourse, which casts Bernhard's language as at once irresistible and dangerous, as poisonous and salutary. In reframing fascist speech but directing its polemic thrust against the National Socialist past, Bernhard seems to interpolate the narrative dynamics of his texts onto the media, launching a literary "vaccination" of the Austrian public sphere that uncannily recalls the Nazi biopolitical imagination even as it inveighs against it.
"Alles Ist Unter der Oberfläche Noch Lebendig": Penetrating the Schöner Schein through Satire in Josef Haslinger's Opernball and Robert Menasse's Schubumkehr
Authors: Souchuk Anna
Published: March 2013

In the novels Opernball and Schbumkehr , written by Josef Haslinger and Robert Menasse, respectively, satire is manifested in Reso Dorf and Adolf König: secondary but nevertheless significant characters that represent a critique of Austrian attitudes toward self-representation. Dorf, Vienna's police commissioner, is a parody of the mannerisms and populist rhetoric of the now-deceased Jörg Haider in Haslinger's Opernball . Adolf König, the Social-Democratic mayor of Komprechts, a township on the Austrian-Czech border, strives in Schubumkehr to revitalize his district as a tourist destination by reframing its landscape and defunct glassmaking factory and marketing both to the public under the guise of ecotourism. The motivation behind both strategies is the appealing representation and marketability of Austria as a profitable tourist destination created for visitors. Haslinger and Menasse appropriate the tradition of Austrian satire in their novels and direct their critiques at Austrian politics and other spheres of power in the late twentieth century.
Quoting the Language of Nature in Karl Kraus's Satires
Authors: Linden Ari
Published: March 2013

This article focuses on the less "punitive" (Walter Benjamin) dimension of Karl Kraus's notorious practice of quotation: namely, his invocation of nature in its multitude of forms and functions. Rather than advocating a return to a prelapsarian state of nature, as was often the case with his contemporaries, Kraus attempts to endow nature with a de-humanized, non-subjective voice . In so doing, he is able to mount a nuanced critique of the anthropocentrism that resulted in war and unbridled capitalist exploitation. Addressing both Kraus's critique of the press—which destroys natural resources without yielding a product commensurate to the bounty provided by nature in its initial iteration—as well as of sentimental poetry (represented by Heine), this article further shows that Kraus does not reject the technological and cultural advancements that have accompanied modernity—only their employment toward destructive ends.
On Display: Conditions of Critique in Austria
Authors: Norberg Jakob
Published: March 2013

Postwar Austrian literature features an unusual number of writers whose literary attacks are directed at their own nation. How do we account for the high concentration of tirades in Austria? Thomas Bernhard's Alte Meister provides a possible answer. For Bernhard, the work of art is the primary object of critical judgment. The crucial site for this critical judgment is the museum, since it puts artworks on display in a nonreligious context, as artifacts divested of sacred meaning and no longer insulated from critical assessment. Bernhard's novel indicates that Austria as a whole has become the object of sustained critique because it has elevated the museum to the status of the paradigmatic state institution. The critical judgments of authors are directed toward Austria because this nation has put itself on display and hence turned itself into an object of critical assessment. As a country that is also a museum, Austria is not the worst of nations, but it is the most criticizable.
Women and Hidden Jews under Fascist Rule: Roberto Bassi’s Evidence
Authors: Shapiro Michael
Published: March 2013

After spending his working life as dermatologist, Roberto Bassi (born in 1931) wrote a memoir, Scaramucce sur Lago Ladoga , which was published in Italian in 2003 and which also exists in an unpublished English translation entitled Skirmishes on Lake Ladoga . Bassi, the grandson of a rabbi, recounts the life of his family in Venice, from the time of his birth, through the period when Italian Jews lived under the racial laws which were enacted in 1938, and during the years, 1943–44, in which he lived under a false identity in a secular orphanage in Rome. In each phase of the memoir, Bassi recounts the central roles played by the women in his life, his mother and grandmother, of course, as well as the directress of the orphanage who agreed to hide him and his sister from the Nazis.
A Cultural Language for the Folk: The Creation of a “Popular” Kulturshprakh in Yidish far ale , 1938–39
Authors: de Bloeme Jordana
Published: March 2013

This paper looks at the popular Yiddish language journal Yidish far ale, published by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, from 1938 to 1939. It treats the journal as part of YIVO’s attempt to combat Polish linguistic acculturation by edifying its audience in a standardized language, while simultaneously drawing linguistic material from readers as holders of the national language. By looking at the relationship between the journal’s editor, Noah Prylucki, and members of YIVO’s philological section, as well as readers of the journal, it argues that the journal was instrumental in defining a standardized form of Yiddish as a national language and reconciling it with the folksshprakh , or language of the people . Yidish far ale represents YIVO’s contradictory mandate as an institution that promoted scholarship in Yiddish and as representative of Polish Jewry, as well as its relationship with other Yiddishist institutions. The contradictory nature of a “popular” kulturshprakh was not lost on Prylucki and other contributors to the journal. Dialectical debates within the journal illuminate the tumultuous relationship between the Yiddishist intelligentsia and the Yiddish-speaking masses, as well as the very nature of a kulturshprakh. Yidish far ale represents an example of cultural continuity under a threat of linguistic acculturation into Polish society.
The Burden of Inheritance
Authors: Berger Alan L. , Milbauer Asher Z.
Published: March 2013

Nicole Krauss’s A History of Love and Great House are paradigmatic third-generation representations of inheriting the Holocaust trauma. Krauss attests that her interest is in response to catastrophic loss and in a survivor’s ability to deal with the trauma of dispossession, exile, and the capacity to “start a second life.” This article focuses on images and symbols utilized by the third generation to find adequate artistic means by which the third-generation artist comes to grips with the intergenerational transmission of memory within a postmodern context. Krauss’s novels instantiate Cathy Caruth’s observation that “History is not only the passing on of a crisis but also the passing on of a survival that can be possessed within a history larger than any single individual or any single generation.”
Guests and Hosts in A. B. Yehoshua’s The Liberated Bride
Authors: Omer-Sherman Ranen
Published: March 2013

More than any other recent work of Israeli fiction, Yehoshua’s The Liberated Bride presents readers with the reality of the dissimilar status between Israeli Arab citizens and the stateless Palestinians of the occupied territories, the severe consequences that result from legal prohibitions that prevent Palestinians from the territories from residing in Israel, and other factors that divide Arabs and Israelis (including both racial bias and terrorism). Underscoring the impossibility of ever reconciling the incompatibilities of Zionist ideals with the tragic outcomes of decades of occupation, the novel also raises disquieting questions about the fate of Israel’s own Arab citizens and their sense of estrangement. Though there are famous instances of Arab characters earlier in Hebrew literature, few writers before Yehoshua really plunged their Jewish protagonists directly into the society and culture of Palestinians themselves; though the novel refuses to console the reader with any prospect of easy remedies on the horizon, the empathic worldview displayed by his imagined community of scholars affirms the essential at-homeness of the Jew in the Arab world in historical and contemporary contexts.
Biblical Narratives in Contemporary Jewish American Art
Authors: Baigell Matthew
Published: March 2013

Narratives based on a specific episode or subject in the Hebrew Bible are, surprisingly, a recent development in Jewish American art. Four such episodes are considered here: Moses’ second assent of Sinai, Jonah’s rejection and then acceptance of God’s instructions to go to Nineveh, the Noachian Flood, and sibling issues in the stories of Jacob and Esau and Leah and Rachel. They mark the emergence of a strong and important current among contemporary Jewish American artists, first, to return to biblical themes, and, second, to interpret—rather than merely to illustrate—them in personal ways.
The Triumph of the Golden Fleece: Women, Money, Religion, and Power in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Authors: Russin Robin
Published: March 2013

The Merchant of Venice remains a vital, yet problematic play. It continues to be open to a range of argument and interpretation because, as so often with Shakespeare, its essence lies beneath the surface, contained in and revealed by a strategy of ironies and antitheses. This is exemplified in the depiction of the two principal female roles: Portia, a Christian’s daughter, and Jessica, a Jew’s daughter, each burdened by and driven to challenge her father’s will. Under a veneer of romantic comedy, Shakespeare explores darker currents of lust, avarice, retribution, jealousy, sexual deceit, cruelty, religious conflict, and financial, moral, and emotional bankruptcy. Portia, with her limitless wealth, is revealed as the play’s controlling character; her actions and attitudes are ironically reflected by those of Jessica, who embodies the play’s moral perplexity. Together, they create a plot-subplot counterpoint that is crucial to understanding the play’s subversive subtext.
The images of the future of craft and design students – professional narratives of working practices in 2020
Authors: Soini-Salomaa Kristiina , Seitamaa-Hakkarainen Pirita
Published: March 2013

This study focused on alternative images of the future of craft and design students. The main research question was as follows: What are the possible alternative futures for the craft and design field, in the eyes of Finnish craft and design students? This was examined through narrative
storytelling, students’ future stories (N=72) were collected in an eDelfoi database. Data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Alternative images of the future were explored from four viewpoints: operational environment, professional key competences, operational model and
professional identity. The results challenge educators to pay much more attention to the issue of future orientation, as well as to changes in the operational environment and operational models. Further, in design education, a transition should be made from the current product-oriented model
to a process-oriented one.
What do art and design students draw at the V&A, and why?
Authors: Hinton Morna
Published: March 2013

There is concern in the education sector about art students’ relatively poor drawing skills on entry to higher education. This is ascribed to the prevalence of digital media combined with a decline in the formal teaching of drawing. At the same time sketching continues to be one
of the main ways in which students engage with museum collections. In this article I discuss the historical and contemporary context for students drawing in museums, and present the results of a qualitative study of art and design Foundation students who made drawings when they came on an
organized visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The range of objects the students chose to sketch is examined, as is the nature of the drawing experience, and the relationship between museum sketch and college work. I propose a typology of museum sketching behaviour and its relationship
to student projects.
Thumbnail sketches on idea development: The drawing board vs computer generation
Authors: Appiah Edward , Cronjé Johannes C.
Published: March 2013

This article is an outcome of a survey that sought to determine the extent to which graphic design students are inspired by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in using thumbnail sketches in their design process in a university in the developing world. In situations where
idea development in graphic design moves into the digital domain, with developing countries also embracing ICT and its technologies, change in pedagogy in graphic design education should be envisaged. The possibilities of design students avoiding the rigorous traditional use of thumbnail sketches
were put to test as students these days spend long hours on the computer in their design development. Using analytical survey, data were analysed in reference to students’ perception on ICT in the design process. It emerged that students go through their idea development now using computer-generated
ideas in their development stages against the traditional thumbnail sketches. The findings highlight a review of current pedagogy of design education, especially in the area of idea development, to reflect the emerging trends of ICT in graphic design education in developing countries.
Design Structures: Improving the quality of in-class design critiques
Authors: Simpson Anise V.
Published: March 2013

This article reports on a critiquing method called Design Structures that incorporates cooperative learning and teaching strategies in order to improve student participation during in-class design critiques (crits). The approach was used in a first-year design course and the quality
of experience for students during whole-class crits was compared with the quality of experience for students during Design Structures group crits. Quality of experience levels were consistently higher overall for students during the Design Structures crits – specifically in the areas
of self-esteem, perceived importance of task, challenge and skill. Furthermore, more design students reported being ‘in flow’ and less apathetic during decentralized crits using Design Structures methodology than during centralized crits utilizing teacher-led, whole-class instruction
strategies. This article also offers suggestions to design educators for effectively incorporating cooperative learning methodology such as Design Structures into their pedagogy.
Disturbing the text: typographic devices in literary fiction
Authors: Sadokierski Zoë
Published: March 2013

In conventional literary fiction, effective typography recedes. Grey rectangles of justified type are so familiar they are essentially invisible on the page, allowing the reader to slip into the world of the book unimpeded by the activity of reading. This article explores ways some
novelists use unconventional typography as a literary device, visually interrupting the reader to make a specific point. A range of typographic devices are shown to effect pace, point of view, tone of voice, characterization and to imply ephemeral documents within novels. These typographic
devices are illustrated with examples from a collection of novels including Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (2000), Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper (2005), Joanthan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) and Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark
Texts (2007). The article aims to illustrate ways authors have experimented with typographic devices to literary effect, and to encourage more experimentation with word-image interplay as a storytelling device.
Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaf of Faces’
Authors: Henry Barbara
Published: March 2013

In a poem towards the end of the first edition of Leaves of Grass, in 1860 entitled ‘Leaf of Faces’, Whitman explored a printer’s metaphor, the meaning of ‘faces’, comparing the expressive appearance of humans and that of type on the page. Within a poetic
structure that resembles both a walk and leafing through a foundry specimen book, Whitman catalogues the faces he sees, describing a human parade, or roadside signs and billboards, labels, broadsides and book pages – descriptions that address emotional and spiritual qualities and never
specify exactly whether they apply to human or type faces. As Karen Karbiener (2012) notes in her essay ‘Reading the Promise of Faces’: ‘His descriptions seldom involve physical appearance; race is never mentioned and gender rarely comes up.’ What interests the poet
is the importance of physical appearance as an indicator of deeper meaning. In type, the shapes of the letters suggest a meaning independent of their use, a subliminal expressive power that can be read instantly, before the words form in the mind. His belief in phrenology – the then-popular
study of the shape of the skull and its correlation to personality characteristics – may have led him to this idea. His employment in the printing and publishing trades from an early age – as a compositor, journalist, editor and publisher – informed a deep interest in the
design and production of his books of poetry. Printers’ jargon often turns up in his work, as veiled double-entendres perhaps only explicable to other initiates of the trade.
Engraver, communicator of content
Authors: Collins Nancy Sharon
Published: March 2013

In the hierarchy of the international typographic canon, engraved lettering has not received the acknowledgement it deserves. This article amends the international typographic canon to include the engraved letter through demonstrating how engraved lettering has significantly influenced
the evolution of typographic form. By examining four historical specimens of engraved printing, the author explains how engravers utilized materials and craft-oriented opportunities to deliver content that current trends in typography have all but forgotten. Four important works of engraved
lettering will be discussed: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid/The Great Mirror of Folly (1720?), A New Book of Cyphers (1726), George Bickham’s The Museum of Arts: or, The Curious Repository (1745?) and The Lincoln Crest & Monogram Album (c.late 1800s).
Deleted/undeleted: the liminal typography of Lowell Bodger
Authors: Joseph Michael
Published: March 2013

The letterpress broadsides of Lowell Bodger, an American artist active c.1980–2000, have been valued as demonstrations of so-called ‘pure’ typography or as examples of typography for typography’s sake. My article attempts to refute that narrow claim and establish
their rightful status as works of fine art whose technical concerns are one aspect of a deeper, imaginative engagement with the condition of liminality – the sense of being ‘betwixt and between’, or caught between conflicting views, beliefs, identities. ‘Deleted/undeleted’
analyses the visual properties of the works as well as their idiosyncratic texts (most by the artist), and draws on archival materials such as published lectures, private notes and correspondence to document the artist’s creative engagement with issues of identity.
Balancing Arabic and Latin typography
Authors: Milo Thomas
Published: March 2013

Internet necessitates and Unicode facilitates multilingual typography on a scale never seen before. As a result, multilingual typesetting, something that used to be an obscure academic specialism, suddenly sprung to the limelight. Since printing with movable type originated in Europe
in a Latin-scripted environment, other scripts still tend to be treated as a complement to Latin script and their measurements normalized accordingly. The challenge that designers are facing is to create computer typography that does justice to all scripts and cultures, according to their
own standards. This makes it all the more relevant to come to terms with Arabic.
Looking through, looking into and looking at the book: the materiality of message and medium
Authors: Jones Phil
Published: March 2013

The relationship between material, medium and message with respect to books has been a recurring source of discussion in graphic design. Such discussion punctuates the last 100 years: with divergent thoughts on the material resources of the book ranging from considering them as inert,
equivalent to a neutral substrate that carries an imprinted message, to understanding them as a set of independently meaningful material properties possessed by the physical artefact. This article reviews such different appreciations of books and the relationship between materiality and meaning-making
and reassesses them using a theoretical framework derived from cognitive linguistics and relevance theory. It suggests that both dematerialized and materialized understandings inaccurately describe the ways that meaning is made from books, and advances an account based on attention, iconicity
and relevance to describe the background processing that results in dematerialized and materialized understandings at the phenomenological level.
The body of dissolution: Becoming-imperceptible in Gus Van Sant’s Last Days (2004)
Authors: Rogers Anna Backman
Published: March 2013

This article draws upon primarily anthropological and philosophical sources: namely the work of Arnold van Gennep (1960) and Victor Turner (1969) on rites of passage (specifically the concept of liminality as a state of betwixt and between, which takes place after a stage of ritualized
separation and before re-incorporation of the ritual subject back into the social order) and, most significantly, the work of Gilles Deleuze (2005b) on crisis and the cinema of the time-image, as well as his work with Felix Guatarri on becoming and deterritorialization (1988) in order to characterize
Gus Van Sant’s film Last Days (2004) as a film of crisis and transition. Moreover, this article situates the film within the wider context of American independent cinema, which, this author argues, is not merely a cinema in crisis, but one that deals specifically with situations of liminality
and metamorphosis. Although the film can be read on a number of levels, I suggest that a very fruitful approach is to view Last Days as a study of becoming enabled through liminality. Additionally, this article explores the kind of viewing experience a film such as Last Days enables (namely,
as an art experience).
The child in wolf’s clothing: The meanings of the ‘wolf’ and questions of identity in Jack London’s White Fang
Authors: Walsh Sue
Published: March 2013

The criticism of Jack London’s work has been dominated by a reliance upon ideas of the ‘real’, the ‘authentic’ and the ‘archetypal’. One of the figures in London’s work around which these ideas crystallize is that of the ‘wolf’.
This article will examine the way the wolf is mobilized both in the criticism of Jack London’s work and in an example of the work: the novel White Fang (1906). This novel, though it has often been read as clearly delimiting and demarcating the realms of nature and culture, can be read
conversely as unpicking the deceptive simplicity of such categories, as troubling essentialist notions of identity (human/animal, male/female, white/Indian) and as engaging with the complexity of the journey in which a ‘small animal … becomes human-sexual by crossing the infinite
divide that separates life from humanity, the biological from the historical, “nature” from “culture” ’ (Althusser 1971: 206).
‘A Pool of Rrazor Bblades and Sperm’: A phantasy of white, heterosexual masculinity in Kurt Cobain’s Journals
Authors: Saint-Aubin Arthur F.
Published: March 2013

This article begins by situating Kurt Cobain’s Journals within the so-called crisis of white masculinity, which is deemed to characterize contemporary masculinities in North America. The article then identifies the central entry in the text as the one which all of the other entries
either anticipate or reiterate to some degree. The autobiographic text is read, by way of a nuanced textual analysis of this particular entry, as an unconscious phantasy (as defined by Melanie Klein). That is, the article demonstrates how the writing in Journals seems to mimic the complex
mental processes wherein meaning is generated; it demonstrates how the text stages and then attempts to mitigate an acute anxiety about the integrity and the consequences of a white, heterosexual, masculine identification.
Unfinished bodies, bodies at work and Frank from Observation: Figure and ground in the work of Dana Schutz
Authors: Mieves Christian
Published: March 2013

This article examines questions relating to the limits of representation in the work of US painter Dana Schutz (born 1976). Schutz, who gained popularity through her paintings of self-devouring characters, deals with bodies as circuits of creation and deconstruction. The representation
of the ‘unfinished’ body in process not only echoes aspects of the artistic creation process in general, but also reflects on the paradoxical link between construction and deconstruction in the production of art. The deterritorialization of the categories in/out, here/there, up/down
in her paintings therefore allows for a productive and thorough-going re-examination of the broader questions attending creation, agency and alienation as part of the aesthetic process.
REVIEWS
Authors: Goodman Carly , Parker Dr. Richard
Published: March 2013

NICK CULLATHER, THE HUNGRY WORLD: AMERICA’S COLD WAR BATTLE AGAINST POVERTY IN ASIA (2010) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 326 pp., ISBN: 978-0674050785 (hbk), £27.95

EZRAPOUND: THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS, BETSY ERKKILA (ED.). (2011) Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 480 pp., 978-0521401395 (hbk), £74.00

EZRA POUND, ENDS AND BEGINNINGS, JOHN GERY AND WILLIAM PRATT (EDS) (2011) New York: AMS Press, 250pp., 978-0404655303 (pbk), £81.95

THE KNIGHT AND THE TROUBADOUR: DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD AND EZRA POUND, MARIE-NOËLLE LITTLE (ED.)
(2011) Uppsala: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 182pp., 978-91-85214-60-0 (pbk/PDF), Available as a free PDF at http://www.dhf.uu.se/publications/other-publications/the-knight-and-the-troubadour-%E2%80%93-dag-hammarskjold-and-ezra-pound/

EZRA POUND, ALEC MARSH (2011) London: Reaktion
Books, 224 pp., 978-1861898623 (pbk), £10.95

EZRAPOUND IN CONTEXT, IRA NADEL (ED.) (2010) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 530pp., 978-0521515078 (hbk), £ 68

DRAFTS & FRAGMENTS FACSIMILE NOTEBOOKS, EZRA POUND (2011) New York: Glenn Horowitz, No ISBN (Boxed), $350.00

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TESTAMENT: 1923 FACSIMILE EDITION, EZRA POUND GEORGE ANTHEIL (ED.) (2011) Emeryville: Second Evening Art Publishing, 270pp., 978-0-9728859- 8-0 (pbk), $220

SELECTED POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS, EZRA POUND (2010) London: Faber & Faber, 256pp., 978-0571239009 (pbk), £16.99O

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MUST NOT GO ALTOGETHER WITH THE TIDE: THE LETTERS OF EZRA POUND AND STANLEY NOTT, EZRA POUND AND STANLEY NOTT MIRANDA B. HICKMAN (ED.) (2011) Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 432pp., 978-0773538160 (hbk), £40

EZRA POUND TO HIS PARENTS: LETTERS 1895–1929,
EZRA POUND MARY DE RACH EWILTZ, A. DAVID MOODY AND JOANNA MOODY (EDS) (2010) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 776pp., 978-0199584390 (hbk), £39

W.B. YEATS, EZRA POUND AND THE POETRY OF PARADISE, SEAN PRYOR (2011) Farnham: Ashgate Press, 250 pp., 978-1409406600 (hbk), £55

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POETI DI SALA CAPIZUCCHI: THE POETS OF THE SALA CAPIZUCCHI, CATERINA RICCIARDI, JOHN GERY AND MASSIMO BACIGALUPO (EDS) (2011) New Orleans and Rimini: University of New Orleans Press/Raffaelli Editore, 192pp., 9781608010684 (pbk), 12.45
A concretization of mediatization: How ‘mediatization works’ and why mediatized worlds are a helpful concept for empirical mediatization research
Authors: Krotz Friedrich , Hepp Andreas
Published: March 2013

The aim of the article is to outline an understanding of mediatization that might be a reference point for empirical research in various fields and contexts of present media cultures and societies. Therefore, present ideas and approaches of theorizing media-tization like for example
the concept of the media logic are discussed critically. Based on this, an understanding of mediatization is outlined that focuses on the media as modifiers of communication. Such a reflection makes it possible to substantiate mediatization research as the empirical investigation of mediatized
worlds.
Clarifying mediatization: Sorting through a current debate
Authors: Adolf Marian
Published: March 2013

Having been used in various guises and debates for quite some time the notion of mediatization (and related concepts such as mediation or medialization) promises to expand the horizon of media and communication research. Casting the role of the media in and for current western societies
as ever more central employing a range of theoretical approaches, mediatization could help to further advance our knowledge of the role of mediated communication for the creation of social realities today. Still, the recent interest in the conceptual framework has also caused confusion as
to which approaches are compatible, to which methodological scope the concept extends and what its theoretical and ideational roots are. This article tries to sort through the wealth of conceptual propositions in order to clarify a research approach that might help to reunite social, cultural
and communication theory in the face of today's media culture.
French and Latin American perspectives on mediation and mediatization: A lecture note from Germany
Authors: Averbeck-Lietz Stefanie
Published: March 2013

This article is looking at the status quo of mediatization research in French and Spanish speaking communities of communication researchers. It argues that problems of mediatization are discussed in these communities namely under the term 'mediation' (médiation, mediación).
This term does not mean exactly the same as 'mediatization as a metaconcept' which Friedrich Krotz has proposed in the last decade - but there are common lines of thinking: both, mediatization and mediation, focus on (1) communication as social and symbolic action, (2) the role of technical
media and digitalization in postmodern societies, (3) the transcultural background of changes in the lifeworld (not at least via globalization processes), structured more and more via technical mediated communication. The author outlines mediation research in France and Latin America, focusing
especially on basic readings in these fields, namely the works of Paul Béaud (for France and the francophone Switzerland) and Jésus Martín-Barbero for Latin America as well as for France. Both lines, the French and the Latin American ? which are interwoven ? are not very
well known in western and northern Europe.
Mediality: Aspects of contextual media reception
Authors: Meitz Tino G. K.
Published: March 2013

In light of developments within the field of media theory, a certain consensus has evolved in favour of approaches like mediatization and mediation. While these approaches above all focus on societal change from a media-dependent point of view, this article addresses the reverse side
of these processes, asking about media users' appropriation of media in order to experience sociality that has only just been enabled by media-use. This awareness of medial terms and conditions is characterized as recipients' acknowledgment as well as utilization of medial constraints, which
is subsequently referred to as mediality.
Potential of the ‘Un-Exchangeable Monument’: Delhi’s Purana Qila, in the time of Partition, c.1947–63
Authors: Chandra Aditi
Published: March 2013

During the Indo-Pakistan Partition, the exodus of Muslims and the influx of Hindus and Sikhs indelibly transformed Delhi. Both groups occupied some of the city’s Islamic monuments as refugee camps, of which the longest running was the sixteenth-century Purana Qila (Old Fort).
If there is one indelible act that symbolized the Partition, it was the mass movement of people and the exchange of movable property. It was through exchange that India and Pakistan acquired accoutrements of nationhood such as citizens, land and a bureaucratic apparatus. At a time when trivial
objects like furniture and something as vital as human life were considered exchangeable, the very object that had long been considered the repository of a nation’s identity – the historic monument – became an un-exchangeable asset. Using the Purana Qila as an example, this
essay suggests that during the ‘long Partition’, the modern tourist-monument carefully fashioned by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) ceased to function as such. The actions of these refugees and their refusal to leave transformed the tourist-monument into a space of protracted
negotiation and resistance. At a time when everything was exchangeable, the potential for resistance came precisely from that which could not be exchanged.
On Design and Politics of Co-producing Public Space: The Long Marches and the Reincarnation of the ‘Forecourt’ of the Pakistani Nation
Authors: Khan Ahmed Z.
Published: March 2013

The rise in the political power of social media technologies has led to claims about their democratizing and empowering functions. On the one hand, the a-spatial theorization of this ‘rise’ undermines the value and role of public space. On the other, it raises questions
about traditional ways of conceptualizing this space. With the intention of broadening the concept of public space, this article investigates key socio-political processes behind temporal events like the ‘long march’ or Occupy movements, and how spatial forms of streets and public
spaces interact in producing the image, value and meaning of public space. I assemble a theoretical framework in order to analyse a specific case: the ‘long marches’ and reincarnation of the ‘forecourt’ of the Pakistani nation that materialized in three public spaces
in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. By focusing on the spatiality of contemporary long marches, my analyses carefully unravels the intertwinement of design and politics in socio-spatial … these public spaces, and concludes that social processes and spatial forms co-define each other.
The Spatial Logic of the Crowd: The Effectiveness of Protest in Public Space
Authors: Nejad Reza Masoudi
Published: March 2013

The result of the 2009 Iranian presidential election sparked protests in the streets of Tehran. This article focuses on the spatial logic of crowd occurrence and the role played by protest location in its effectiveness. Although the symbolism of space is pronounced in crowd studies
from Gustav Le Bon to Charles Tilly, there is a lack of attention to the logic of crowd culmination and movement in relation to actual physical urban spaces. There are new studies examining how public space is utilized during times of political turmoil; these studies, however, focus mostly
on the specific place of protest, and do not examine crowd dynamics in the city at large. This article, in contrast, contributes to the understanding of the spatial logic of mass occurrence by examining the city structure as a whole. It argues that the location of a public space in a city
is far more important than its symbolic connotations, and that, following Tilly, the impact of crowds depends not only upon the what he calls WUNC equation (representing Worthiness, Unity, Numbers and Commitment of a crowd), but also on the spatial characteristics of the place of the protest.
BOOK REVIEWS
Authors: Shaw Wendy M.K. , Carabelli Giulia , Dempsey Anna M. , Farhat Ramzi , Kenney Ellen , Abou-Hodeib Toufoul
Published: March 2013

TURQUERIE AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION, 1728–1876, NEBAHAT AVCIOĞLU, (2011) Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 304 pp., 17 colour plates, 86 b/w illustrations, ISBN 9780754664222, $124.95 (cloth)

CITY AND SOUL IN DIVIDED SOCIETIES, SCOTT
A. BOLLENS, (2012) London and New York: Routledge, 278 pp., 54 b/w illus., ISBN 9780415779234, $53.95 (paperback)

HAREM HISTORIES: ENVISIONING PLACES AND LIVING SPACES, MARILYN BOOTH (ED.), (2011) Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 416 pp., 39 illus., 3 figures, ISBN 9780822348696,
$55 (paperback), ISBN 9780822348580, $89.95 (cloth)

DUBAI: THE CITY AS CORPORATION, AHMED KANNA, (2011) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 288 pp., 17 b/w illus., ISBN 9780816656301, $75 (cloth), ISBN 9780816656318, $25 (paper)

MAMLUK HISTORY THROUGH
ARCHITECTURE: MONUMENTS, CULTURE AND POLITICS IN MEDIEVAL EGYPT AND SYRIA,NASSER RABBAT (2010) London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 288 pp., 72 b/w illus., ISBN 978845119645, $80 (cloth)

OTTOMAN IZMIR: THE RISE OF A COSMOPOLITAN PORT, 1840–1880, SIBEL ZANDI-SAYEK, (2012) Minneapolis
and London: University of Minnesota Press, x + 273 pp., 55 b/w illus., 19 b/w maps, ISBN 9780816666010, $82.50 (cloth), ISBN 9780816666027, $27.50 (paperback)
CONFERENCE PRECIS
Authors: Ellis John , Wharton Alyson
Published: March 2013

‘THE CITY, LIVING HERITAGE’ THE SECOND REGIONAL EURO-MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE OF THE CONSORTIUM MONTADA, CONVENED AT THE INSTITUT MOULAY RACHID, SALE, MOROCCO, OCTOBER 11–12, 2012

‘LOOKING WIDELY, LOOKING CLOSELY’, THIRD BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE HISTORIANS
OF ISLMIC ART ASSOCIATION ( HIAA), OCTOBER 18–20, 2012, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK
Surprising Alliances for Dwelling and Citizenship: Palestinian-Israeli Participation in the Mass Housing Protests of Summer 2011
Authors: Allweil Yael
Published: March 2013

Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, or Palestinian Israelis, are marginalized in a society based on Jewish nationalism, religion and ethnicity. While Israel witnessed numerous social struggles for equality and inclusion, none attempted to challenge Jewish nationalism as its core principle.
The 2011 eruption of mass social unrest, the largest since the 1970s, focused on popular demands for housing as a basic right of citizenship. Indeed, protest started with a housing act: the creation of dozens of tent camps all over the country. Protesters called for a new polity based on housing,
expressed by one of the movement’s symbols: an Israeli flag whose national/religious Star of David was replaced by a house. The right to housing was thereby proclaimed as the primary criterion for social inclusion. While the housing-based social movement initially puzzled Palestinian
Israelis, tents soon appeared in Arab towns. Palestinian-Israeli participation proved significant, forming surprising alliances among social strata previously understood as irrevocably polarized. Examining the camps of Jaffa and Qalansuwa, this article looks into the history and implications
of housing for Palestinian Israelis, and for Israeli society at large. Using Chantal Mouffe’s and Bruno Latour’s work, we ask: ‘Can dwelling be a strong enough ground for a citizenry-based polity?’
‘Small’ Architectures, Walking and Camping in Middle Eastern Cities
Authors: Türeli Ipek
Published: March 2013

Economic recession, conditions of restricted spending and austerity politics have led architects to seek ways of expanding architecture and to a mainstreaming of ‘small’ architectures, small-scale designs and short-term interventions, many of which focus on contesting and
remaking public space. Mass mobilizations of the past years, especially the protests of the so-called Arab spring, pose new opportunities for the field. This essay first frames the six case-based articles, included in this special issue, within the literature on the politics of public space
and protest. It groups the case studies around two main categories of analysis: the transformative effect of mass protests on formal public spaces (walking) and the agency of protest occupations (camping). Second, the essay identifies a lack in literature of the role (or lack thereof) played
by designers in contemporary mass mobilizations in the Islamic world. It further seeks to respond to that question by providing an overview of various approaches to social engagement in architectural research and practice, under the broad categories of ‘humanitarian design’ and
‘activism by design’ with an attention to the historical specificity of the Islamic world, the examples from which tend to be of the first, humanitarian, type.
Political Encampment and the Architecture of Public Space:TEKEL Resistance in Ankara
Authors: Batuman Bülent
Published: March 2013

The protest encampment established by the workers of TEKEL (meaning ‘monopoly’ in Turkish), the privatized former state enterprise that had held a monopoly on the production of tobacco and alcoholic beverages since 1925, stood in downtown Ankara for two and a half months
despite the harsh winter conditions of 2010. The encampment created significant political impetus although it was ultimately not successful in obtaining its goals. Nevertheless, the camp was significant in terms of the spatial formation of public space. Pursuant to the global wave of protests
in 2011, apart from being a response to the deprivation created by neo-liberalism, the TEKEL resistance also generated a particular form of urban spatial encampment. This article discusses the formation of the TEKEL encampment and the applicable embodied practices that emerged from it. The
TEKEL encampment is dealt with in two ways. On the one hand, it is investigated amidst the processes of appropriation of public urban space. On the other hand, it is explored through the lens of the TEKEL workers’ nomadic living conditions, dictated to them by the neo-liberal employment
regime.
Nostalgics, thugs and psycho-killers: Neo-fascists in contemporary Italian cinema
Authors: Leotta Alfio
Published: March 2013

Neo-fascism played a crucial role in the Italian political panorama of the second half of the twentieth century. However, despite its importance, this political movement has been significantly underrepresented in contemporary Italian cinema. Italian cinema has been traditionally characterized
by a strong political commitment and left-wing film-makers have often attempted to examine issues emerging from within groups close to their own political position. While Italian cinema is characterized by a proliferation of films that focus on left wing or communist heroes, neo-fascists have
been systematically excluded from screen representation or confined to the roles of one-dimensional villains: either dangerous, anti-social thugs like in Teste rasate/Skinheads (Fragasso, 1993); leaders of coup d'état associated with the military like in La polizia ringrazia/Execution
Squad (Vanzina, 1972) and Vogliamo i Colonnelli/We Want the Colonels (Monicelli, 1973) or vicious psycho-killers like in San Babila ore 20: Delitto inutile/San Babila 8pm (Lizzani, 1976). However, today, twenty years after 1989 and the collapse of ideologies, Italian film-makers have started
a process of historical revision that goes beyond the simplistic opposition good versus evil. This tendency is particularly apparent in recent productions such as Romanzo Criminale/Crime Novel (Placido, 2005) and particularly Mio fratello è figlio unico/My Brother Is an Only Child (Luchetti,
2007) which, while avoiding to justify or celebrate neo-fascist ideology, attempt to explore the sociocultural motivations that lie behind the political choice of Italian neo-fascists.