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Relationship Among Ethical Value And Fraud Diamond In Banking Industry During Pandemic
Authors: WULANDITYA Putri , ARDIANTO Herwin , SISTIYARINI Evi
Published: September 2022

The occurrence of an economic crisis and the company's operating conditions that are different from usual during the pandemic can result in the emergence of loopholes in committing fraud. This study aims to investigate the relationship between ethical values and the fraud diamond, namely, pressure, opportunity, rationalization, and capability against bank employee fraud during the pandemic. Thus, this research is expected to make a theoretical contribution to the development of fraud theory and a practical contribution to policymakers in preventing fraud in the banking industry. The methods research is a quantitative study with primary data sourced directly from online survey responses. The respondents of this research are followed by 133 bank employees in Indonesia. Based on the Rank Spearman Correlation test, the factors that significantly influence bank employee fraud during the pandemic are ethical values, opportunity, rationalization, and capability. Pressure has no significant effect on bank employee fraud. Furthermore, rationalization has a significant relationship with all variables tested, especially on capabilities, ethical values, and employee fraud. These results suggest that the banking industry anticipates wrong rationalizations from employees regarding fraudulent acts. Instilling ethical values is believed to be able to direct the right rationalization so that employees do not take advantage of their abilities to commit fraud in the workplace.
The Effect Of Work Motivation, Leadership Style And Work Stress On Performance
Authors: HERMAN Neksi Widi , RONY Zahara Tussoleha , SYARIEF Faroman
Published: September 2022

The performance of organizational members supports personnel in carrying out all the tasks that are their responsibility. If a person works for work, can complete the given on time, can always contribute, and has a good attitude and behavior under the work standards set by the organization and the values ??prevailing in the environment and leadership factors are something else that cannot be done. Each person’s performance will not be separated from a person’s ability and the organization’s work environment in which they work. Separated from the development of police institutions (including the National Police Research and Development Agency). The research method used in this study is a quantitative method with the SPSS causal survey software. Research design research data collection through field observations, surveys, and direct interviews with related parties. The population in this study were members of the Jianbang Bureau of the National Police Training Center. The sampling technique in this study uses a saturated sampling technique with a total of 106 members. The study results explain that work motivation has a significant effect on performance. Leadership style has a considerable influence on personnel performance. There is insufficient evidence that job stress has a significant negative impact on work performance and motivation; leadership style and work stress simultaneously significantly affect employee performance.
Clean and Healthy Life Behavior (PHBS) of Elementary School Students Against Environmental-Based Disease Incidence in Kupang City in 2021
Authors: AGUSTINA Agustina , EKAWATI Cristina , WANTI Wanti , SULUH Debora G.
Published: September 2022

School-age is a period of vulnerability to diseases such as diarrhea, intestinal worms, caries, and anemia. This research is an analytical observational study with a cross-sectional research design with a sample of 937 elementary school students spread throughout the city of Kupang. The data analysis technique used the Chi-square test to determine the relationship between the variables studied with significant values with the help of the SPSS program. The incidence of environmental-based disease experienced by elementary school students is diarrhea and the lowest is malaria. The personal hygiene variable shows a good category, and the results of statistical tests show no relationship between personal hygiene and the incidence of environmental-based diseases. The results also show a relationship between the consumption of healthy food and the incidence of environmental-based diseases. The variable of using healthy latrines is in a good category. There is a relationship between the use of clean and healthy latrines with the incidence of environmental-based diseases. The variable presence of mosquito larvae showed free of larvae. The waste disposal variable shows that the highest level of waste disposal in the respondent's house indicates the category is not good. Hygiene variables, the presence of larvae, and waste disposal have no relationship with the incidence of environmental-based diseases in elementary school children, while the variables of healthy food consumption habits and use of latrines have a relationship with the incidence of environmental diseases. Disease-based primary school children.
Application Of The Co-Creation Concept Of Written Batik Design For Fashion Design In The Teenage And Current Market Segment
Authors: RAHAYU Rahayu , SUDARMIATIN Sudarmiatin , HERMAWAN Agus
Published: September 2022

Entering the era of globalization, business development in any field has challenges, with so many varied Batik market segments, it is necessary to develop a more appropriate design by involving consumers to provide ideas or, more precisely, holding a co-creation of batik motifs by involving consumers from several market segments. Through the use of the co-creation concept, the purpose of this research is to transform a written batik product design based on local knowledge into a fashion design for the youth and contemporary market segment. This concept is a concept that gives consumers the freedom of ideas to create designs or revise existing designs according to the wishes of consumers. However, within limits provided by the Kudubanjar Batik Center as a producer, so with innovation and creation, new values will emerge in the design. Fashion for the teen and contemporary market segments because currently consumers tend to be able to play a role in the desired fashion design process. The method used for this design is to conduct FGD research to explore alternative fashion design creations. From the results of the FGD, a design sketch is prepared, which is then used as a guide for co-creation. Besides that, consumers are also free to design according to their wishes and current design trends. Based on the results of the research that has been done, there are eight fashion designs with the creation and innovation of batik motif designs designed based on local wisdom.
Liquidity, Managerial Ownership and Price to Book Value on Stock Prices in Transportation Sub Sector Companies
Authors: KARANG I Wayan Gede Agus Putra , SASTRI Ida Idam Manik , KAWISANA Putu Gede Wisnu Permana
Published: September 2022

Stock prices in transportation sub-sector companies are still fluctuating and tend to decline. This indicates that investors' confidence in companies in transportation sub-sector companies is decreasing due to declining stock prices which are assumed to decrease the company's performance, so this causes the market response and investors are not optimistic in investing their capital in companies in transportation sub-sector companies. This study aims to empirically examine the effect of liquidity, managerial ownership and price to book value (PBV) on stock prices in transportation sub-sector companies in 2018-2020. The research method used purposive sampling. This type of data uses quantitative data and secondary data sources. Methods of data collection using the study of documentation. The data analysis technique used multiple linear regression test. The results show that liquidity has no significant effect on stock prices in transportation sub-sector companies in 2018-2020. Managerial ownership and price to book value (PBV) have a positive and significant effect on stock prices in transportation sub-sector companies in 2018-2020.
Efficiency Of Regional Development (Study For Establishing Regional Regulations In South Bolaang Mongondow Regency On Cooperation Between Local Governments)
Authors: GOBEL Rahmat Teguh Santoso , MUHTAR Mohamad Hidayat
Published: September 2022

Inter-regional cooperation is a system of working relationships carried out by two or more regions that are in a level and balanced position to achieve a common aim of enhancing people's welfare. South Bolaang Mongondow Regency's government is highly concerned about the significance of collaboration, both with neighboring regions, In this paper there 2 (two) research questions, namely; 1). What is the urgency of inter-regional cooperation in regional development?; 2). What are the philosophical, sociological and juridicial considerations for the information of a draft regional regulation on the implementation of Regional Coopertaion in South Bolaang Mongondow Regency?. The urgency of inter-regional cooperation found by the author is as follows; 1). Public Service Improvement; 2). Border Area; 3). Spatial Order 4).Disaster Management and Handling Potential Conflicts; 5). Poverty Reduction and Regional Disparities; 6). Increasing Role of Provinces; 7). Regional Expansion. And the Implementation of Regional Cooperation in South Bolaang Mongondow Regency required much deliberations and considerations in philosophical foundation, sociological foundation, and juridicial foundation. These considerations are as follows; a). Philosophical Foundation, The philosophical basis is a consideration or reason that demonstrates that the regulations formed base on Pancasila and 1945 Constitution; b). Sociological Foundation, Cooperation based on the needs and considerations of efficiency, effectiveness of public services and carried out in a mutually beneficial manner; c). Juridicial Foundation, The juridical or normative basis of a rule or rule, if the rule is part of a certain legal rule which in the legal rules points one to another.
The Concept Of Delegation Of Local Government Authority (Study Of Financial Supervision And Management)
Authors: TOLANG Petrus Avelino Framayuka , DIBABA Solomon Dessalegn
Published: September 2022

The development of regional autonomy has placed various new authorities possessed by the regions. One of these powers is the delegation of some regional authorities to sub-districts to support regional programs and policies. The sub-district itself has the authority, duties and functions, one of which is regarding financial management and supervision. The research method used is normative research with an approach to legislation. The results of the study show that the concept of delegating regional authority to sub-districts has been comprehensively regulated in Law Number 23 of 2014 concerning Regional Government. In the financial management and supervision of the sub-district, it is placed as a coordination line for the village in determining the APBDES which is regulated in PP Number 43 of 2014 Article 101 and Permendagri Number 113 of 2014 Article 23, namely the regent/mayor can delegate the implementation of the evaluation of the draft village regulation on APBDes to the sub-district head or other designations. In addition, the sub-district head has a role in submitting the APBDes Realization Report and the APBDes Realization Accountability Report to the regent/mayor.
Seen from a Distance
Authors: Paton Fiona
Published: September 2022

Despite his lifelong production of significant verse, Harold Norse has remained a marginal literary figure whose commitment to his artistic calling has never been fully understood. This essay charts his distinctive weaving together of poetic influences within the context of T.S. Eliot’s essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” with particular emphasis on the role of William Carlos Williams as his primary mentor. While Norse is now primarily associated with the Beat Generation, he deserves recognition as an American poet who evolved independently through the serious study and practice of poetry, and whose voice harmonises with the Beats whilst maintaining its own individual tone.
Hidden History
Authors: Hemmer Kurt
Published: September 2022

Harold Norse’s relationship with Charles Bukowski started when the poet/painter Kay Johnson received a message for Norse mailed within a letter to her at the Beat Hotel in Paris from Bukowski in late April 1963. From then until August 1972 Norse and Bukowski kept in touch regularly. Both Norse and Bukowski were physically ill when their correspondence began; throughout their exchange a dark cloud hangs over both men as they question their chances at literary immortality. But for Bukowski their communication was a bolster that helped him believe in his genius because someone of Norse’s stature had bet on him. They finally met in January 1969. At the beginning of their relationship, Bukowski may have been influenced by Norse’s poetics more than we have previously suspected, yet the relationship between Norse and Bukowski tragically fell apart. It was a fractured relationship that went from mutual admiration to a fierce rivalry. Both writers shared connections to the Beats and the little magazine publishing scene. Along with Philip Lamantia, they appeared together in Penguin Modern Poets 13 (1969). Bukowski lauded Norse’s poetics, but he was also cruelly homophobic. Their relationship sheds light on the struggles of two literary outsiders.
Creative Coexistence or Creative Co-resistance? Transcultural Complexity in the Work of Street Artist ‘Combo’
Authors: Kiwan Nadia
Published: September 2022

This chapter looks into the transcultural complexity in the works of Combo Culture Kidnapper, a street artist based in Paris. It also notes that Combo's work challenges the rise of antisemitism and Islamophobia and the polarizing narratives on Jewish–Muslim relationships amidst the contemporary period in France and Israel. Additionally, Combo's artistic practice tends to emphasise transcultural creative production, co-production, and interaction. His practice of conveying coexistence has a chance of changing preconceptions regarding the relationships between Jews and Muslims. However, Combo runs the risk of essentializing the communities he wants to give visibility. Thus, the co-optation with the French institutional landscape has resulted in Combo's work undergoing political neutralization.
Screening Cosmopolitan and Mediterranean Marseille
Authors: Rappas Ipek Çelik
Published: September 2022

This chapter expounds on how the media of moving images contributed to or resisted the renovation of Marseille. These include the images of resistance against elitist understanding and top-down application of cosmopolitanism and Mediterranean-ness. Billions of Euros were spent to dispel and rehabilitate the city's bad reputation concerning gang and drug-related violence. Thus, the role of the film industry and visual representation of cities in films and TV series have become increasingly significant in the post-industrial city's economic revival through the promotion of culture and heritage tourism. Certain Marseille films distil the city's Mediterranean identity into a more sterile cosmopolitanism that could be easily marketed to tourists.
The Role of Legal Agreements in Developing Christian–Jewish Relations in Polish Towns and Cities
Authors: Węgrzynek Hanna
Published: September 2022

This chapter explores the nature of legal agreements and how they affected local communities, Jewish and otherwise, in sixteenth-century Poland. At the time, Jewish privileges, especially those granted by towns, caused much controversy. Royal privileges guaranteed Jews the freedom to settle and to do business in Poland. From the point of view of the townspeople, they infringed on their rights in the areas of commerce and crafts: the Jews became another social group, alongside the clergy and the nobility, living and working in the town but outside the local municipal laws which regulated competition. This was significant, especially given the increase in numbers of local Jewish communities at the beginning of the sixteenth century, and it led to a growing number of conflicts. Such clashes were common in large cities, which were the most attractive from an economic standpoint and where the largest Jewish communities were located. As a result, urban centres had to come to terms with their presence while seeking to have as much influence as possible over the conditions under which Jewish economic activity took place. This led to the emergence of legal agreements.
Brainstorm
Authors: Maddrey Joseph
Published: September 2022

The makers of Brainstorm (1983) spent more than a decade transferring the revolutionary concept of an ‘empathy machine’ from page to screen, only for the famously troubled production to be met with critical and commercial indifference on release. But since 1984 the film has continued to inspire viewers to imagine possibilities for the future. As a result, Brainstorm now seems less like a fixed piece of film history than an idea in evolution. The screen story embodies the ambitions of sci-fi cinema going back to the 1950s, as well as the turbulent culture of the western world in the 1960s and 1970s. It also foreshadows technological breakthroughs around the turn of the twenty-first century, making the film startlingly relevant to our digitally enhanced information age. To fully appreciate the film's ‘ultimate experience’, it helps to understand exactly how the film evolved. This book aims to provide context for such an understanding, beginning with a brief history of science fiction cinema and setting up a careful consideration of multiple drafts of the Brainstorm screenplay by three different screenwriters: Bruce Joel Rubin, Philip F. Messina, and Robert Stitzel. It also briefly examines the production history of the film (including the tragic death of star Natalie Wood), the career of the director and special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull, the particulars of the completed film, and the film's influence on future storytellers like James Cameron.
The Lord of the Rings Factsheet
Authors: Dawson Anna
Published: September 2022

This section includes a short synopsis and release dates for the three films in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, together with a list of key cast and production credits.
Introduction
Authors: Dawson Anna
Published: September 2022

This introductory chapter explains how the aim of the book is to provide the tools for studying Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy using the tools and theories of Media and Film Studies. It explicitly points out that it is not a study guide to Tolkien’s source text, although the author will discuss its origins in Chapter 1, Origins.
Film Language
Authors: Dawson Anna
Published: September 2022

This chapter explores the variety of technical and craft skills employed by the filmmakers throughout The Lord of the Rings trilogy. These include: uses of the camera (i.e. different shots); editing techniques (e.g. flashbacks); sound and soundtrack; locations used; costume and production design; and special effects.
Carnal Knowledge: Reading the Body of South African Writing
Authors: Pechey Graham
Published: September 2022

The question considered in this chapter is where we are to place the discourse called “literature” once knowledge is thought of as incarnated. The bulk of the chapter takes South African literature and culture as an example of how a postcolonial understanding of a colonial social text can deliver insights that resonate far beyond the twentieth century and the territory of South Africa itself. Njabulo Ndebele’s short story “The Prophetess” is analysed; it shows a rethinking of the notion of holiness as a matter of intersubjectivity, subsisting not in but between bodies. Bessie Head’s short story “The Wind and a Boy” serves as a further example of this phenomenon. The chapter also considers Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K, noting in K the grotesque body in its deeply chastened postcolonial, postmodern guise, and closes with the consideration of the writer and evangelist Tiyo Soga and the prophets Ntsikana and Makana alongside the writers Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle, and the story is brought up to the modern era with discussions of Nelson Mandela, the poet Roy Campbell, and the charismatic religious leader Isaiah Shembe.
Coetzee’s Purgatorial Africa: The Case of Disgrace
Authors: Pechey Graham
Published: September 2022

In this chapter, Coetzee’s Disgrace is placed in the context of those other modern European literary constructions of sub-equatorial Africa that project the subcontinent as a purgatorial space beyond the pre-modern options of the infernal and paradisiacal. This high-cultural intertext, mediated by the hero’s (cultivated) consciousness, deserve as much weight as the contemporary historical transformation of South Africa, seen here as replaying some of the motifs of its early colonial beginnings. In the old frontier territory to which he goes after his “disgrace”, Lurie encounters the new temporal “frontier” of decolonization. The chapter moves on to anchor this wider argument textually in: first, a description of the novel’s narrative mode as a stylistic hybrid; and second, the hero’s habit of inwardly experimenting with the shapes and meanings of words. South Africa’s late entry into Africa propels Lurie into a dissidence beyond the grand design of “nation building”; he becomes a minister of rites which are at best tangential to that design’s imperatives, and which elude even his sophisticated verbal grasp. We are given “Africa” as the synonym for an afterlife at once of searing hurt and quietly glowing vision.
Introduction
Authors: Graves Andrew
Published: September 2022

An overview of the books aims and objectives
Island of Terror
Authors: Graves Andrew
Published: September 2022

A look at what makes British horror tick, with an examination of the darker side of UK cinema, its camp appeal, uniqueness and untranslatable charm. Just where does Prevenge sit within that pantheon and how does it incorporate contemporary influences such as Ben Wheatley and older points of reference such as Theatre of Blood, Hammer Horror and Amicus style productions.
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Authors: Graves Andrew
Published: September 2022

A look at the ways in which the film subverts the traditional slasher or Giallo style film, placing the female ‘monster’ at the heart of the narrative; and how each plot turn and murder set up become entertaining set pieces, which skilfully address the inherent sexism and inequality still present within 21st century culture.
Karaism
Authors: Lasker Daniel J.
Published: September 2022

Karaite Judaism emerged in the ninth century in the Islamic Middle East as an alternative to the rabbinic Judaism of the Jewish majority. Karaites reject the underlying assumption of rabbinic Judaism, namely, that Jewish practice is to be based on two divinely revealed Torahs, a written one, embodied in the Five Books of Moses, and an oral one, eventually written down in rabbinic literature. Karaites accept as authoritative only the Written Torah, as they understand it, and their form of Judaism therefore differs greatly from that of most Jews. Despite its permanent minority status, Karaism has been an integral part of the Jewish people continuously for twelve centuries. It has contributed greatly to Jewish cultural achievements, while providing a powerful intellectual challenge to the majority form of Judaism. This book is the first to present a comprehensive overview of the entire story of Karaite Judaism: its unclear origins; a Golden Age of Karaism in the Land of Israel; migrations through the centuries; Karaites in the Holocaust; unique Jewish religious practices, beliefs, and philosophy; biblical exegesis and literary accomplishments; polemics and historiography; and the present-day revival of the Karaite community in the State of Israel.
The Golden Age in the Land of Israel
Authors: Lasker Daniel J.
Published: September 2022

This chapter discusses the high point in Karaite history: the Golden Age in the Land of Israel, which began at the end of the ninth century and continued until the end of the eleventh century. By the end of the tenth century, and certainly by the middle of the eleventh, the Karaites were a unified movement. The main outlines of their law, exegesis, and theology were set; the other dissident groups, such as the Ananites, seem to have disappeared or coalesced into Karaism; and the movement was set on a path that remains to this day. The main reason for these developments was the numerical and intellectual strength of the Karaite community in the Land of Israel. This was the era of classical Karaism, since it was the period of the greatest Karaite intellectual creativity. The Karaite community also generally adopted the advocacy of the Mourners of Zion movement. The chapter then considers the relationship between Rabbanites and Karaites.
The Return to Israel
Authors: Lasker Daniel J.
Published: September 2022

This chapter assesses the return of Karaites to Israel. The Karaite absorption into Israel was not easy. Like other immigrants from Islamic countries, they had to learn a new language, overcome the prejudices of the veteran, westernized Israelis, and confront the economic difficulties of settling in a poor country. They were consequently faced with the challenge of how to build an identity as Israeli Karaite Jews in the face of some hostility. Indeed, not all Israeli Rabbanite Jews were happy to welcome the Karaites in Israel, and some actively protested their immigration. Israeli Karaites are faced, therefore, with the serious problems of lack of legal status, no formal recognition, absence of sufficient government funding, and anti-Karaite prejudice. Although most Egyptian Karaites emigrated to Israel, that was not their only destination. A number of them settled in Lausanne, Switzerland, which already had a small community; others settled in Paris and Marseilles, France. The largest group arrived in the United States, concentrating in the Bay Area of California. They also had to establish a community where none existed and adapt their religious observance to the new circumstances.
Polemics and Historiography
Authors: Lasker Daniel J.
Published: September 2022

This chapter reviews the Rabbanite–Karaite debate, the fundamental question at the heart of which is: Did God reveal one Torah or two Torahs at Mount Sinai? Rabbanites argue that the written Torah is insufficient in itself to direct correct observance: it must have been supplemented by authoritative interpretations that were handed down by devoted Jews from generation to generation. The Karaites reply that God cannot be the source of a flawed revelation. Another central issue in the debate is one of historiography. It is a general rule of religious ideology that the older one's beliefs, the more authentic they are. Karaism must be understood as the original Judaism revealed at Mount Sinai. The correct question for Karaites, then, is not how Karaism arose, but how Rabbanism broke off from the one true Judaism. Thus, the historiographical battle between the two forms of Judaism is part and parcel of the intersectarian dispute.
Language and Literature
Authors: Lasker Daniel J.
Published: September 2022

This chapter focuses on Karaite languages and literatures. Over the years, Karaites have demonstrated a special affinity with the Hebrew language, making its knowledge a principle of faith. This is because they believed that their practice of Judaism was embedded in the biblical text and that, with the correct tools, it could be discovered therein, even in the absence of explicit statements. As a result, many Karaites, influenced by Muslim linguistic studies, turned to Hebrew grammar to help them understand the Bible better, even before Rabbanites expressed an interest in the subject. Karaite grammatical works are thus important for understanding the history of Jewish study of Hebrew. Karaite Hebrew creativity included the composition of poetry, usually not for its own sake but for didactic or liturgical purposes. Some of these poems have been incorporated into the Karaite prayer book. In addition, Hebrew rhymed prose at the beginning and end of Karaite compositions became standard.
Macklin as Theatre Manager
Authors: Kinservik Matthew
Published: September 2022

This chapter explores the managerial dimension of Macklin’s long career. Although often overlooked, Macklin’s experiences in theatrical management were extensive, ranging from formal managerial duties as Charles Fleetwood’s lieutenant at Drury Lane to overseeing provincial companies and independent productions to serving as the impresario of his short-lived coffeehouse and lecture hall, the British Inquisition. This managerial activity was often entrepreneurial and helped to establish, sustain, and, ultimately, revive Macklin’s acting career. His involvement in the establishment of the Crow Street Theatre and the crucial success of his farce, Love à la Mode, are best understood in the context of his managerial activities. To fully appreciate Macklin’s contributions to the stage, he needs to be included in the group of significant actor/managers of the eighteenth century.
Macklin and Song
Authors: Newman Ian
Published: September 2022

This chapter considers Macklin’s relationship to song by considering the role that song plays in several of Macklin’s most successful theatrical productions. Beginning with the songs that Thomas Arne wrote for Macklin’s Merchant of Venice, the chapter argues that song was a powerful conduit for affect that forged complicated alliances between author, actor, character and audience. The chapter also considers the association between drinking and singing in theatrical representation. It examines the legacies of the songs that Macklin included in Love à la Mode, showing how the songs moved from the theatre to wider areas of cultural production, and suggesting that song forged in the London theatre, played an important role in the development of national song traditions.
Restaging Macklin
Authors: Johnson Nicholas
Published: September 2022

This chapter represents an effort to identify and disseminate some of the ephemeral insights from a restaging of Macklin’s Love à la Mode in Dublin in 2017 and 2018, exploring not only the practicalities of ‘restaging’ Macklin, but also the conceptual implications, challenges, insights, and values that arose from the process. The chapter considers the problems and complications of staging eighteenth-century farce, the connections between English literary study and performance studies, balancing the academic and commercial aspects of the twenty-first century theatre, the translation of plays across time and in different cultural contexts, and practice-as-research, or ensemble-research praxis. It also considers the audience as a central component to the work of staging a farce, and the challenges this poses for rehearsal.
The ‘Invisible Lesbian’ in the Land and Water Illustrations of The Rescue
Authors: Kelly Alice M.
Published: September 2022

This chapter works to bring Immada out of the closet of the figurative Conrad archive, by attending to her materialisation in the literal digital archive Conrad First. Examining the depictions of Edith and Immada in the illustrations that accompanied The Rescue’s initial serialization in the magazine Land and Water (digitised and made available through Conrad First), this chapter positions Conrad’s novel within the decentralized, multivocal context of the periodical form, as well as the anti-canonical structure of the digital archive. By embracing the modes of embodiment, storytelling and gazing the digital age affords, the chapter argues that, far from attenuating the periodicals’ materiality, the digital archive becomes a site in which characters like Immada may take up more space than they have traditionally been allocated in the Conrad canon.
Trash Conrad Pulps, Paratexts and Protagonists
Authors: Kelly Alice M.
Published: September 2022

This chapter presents the luridly packaged editions of Conrad’s work in the mass-market ‘pulp’ paperbacks of the 1950s and 60s to explore the popular branding of literary genius. Analysing Aïssa’s depiction on pulp covers of An Outcast of the Islands, the chapter also reflects on the way paratextual marketing informs character status: Aïssa is whitewashed on the cover of 1959 Pyramid Books edition, presented as Polynesian on the 1960 Pyramid Royal cover and coded as ‘oriental’ on the 1962 Dell and 1966 Airmont prints; her portrayal on the abstract cover of 1964 Signet edition, in contrast, presents her as the novel’s main character. The chapter ultimately argues that whether she materialises to the potential reader/customer as subordinate, erotic Other or as a protagonist in her own right, these covers act as trojan horses for the anti-colonial, feminist breathing spaces that hide within.
and Nina and Taminah and Mrs Almayer
Authors: Kelly Alice M.
Published: September 2022

This chapter unpicks the structural dominance of whiteness and heteropatriarchy in Conrad scholarship, whereby his works her understood to be exclusively organised around the relationships, (repressed) emotions, and existential angst of white male characters. The chapter presents Almayer’s Folly in terms of the powerful women of colour – and crucially the relationships between them – at their centre. Moving Conrad scholarship away from reading female characters in relation to the immovable, singular, muse-like ‘pivot’, the chapter turns to the maternal bonds between Nina Almayer and her mother, as well as the queer dissonances of Taminah’s extreme emotions towards her putative heterosexual romantic rival, Nina. The chapter also details each of these characters’ respective dualistic relationships with whiteness, colonialism, and power, from Taminah’s enslavement to Mrs Almayer’s denigration to Nina’s racialization.
‘Full-Bodied’ Embodiment in Chantal Akerman’s La Folie Almayer
Authors: Kelly Alice M.
Published: September 2022

The final chapter contends that the character of Nina Almayer from Almayer’s Folly is given a feminist afterlife in Belgian film director Chantal Akerman’s 2011 film adaption La Folie Almayer. The chapter positions the film in the context of Akerman’s canon rather than Conrad’s and stresses the significance of Aurora Marion’s performance as Nina. The emphasis placed on Nina’s body in Akerman’s film, as a material, resonant vessel rather than as a sexual object, is crucial to her depiction as the narrative’s central character. This chapter proposes that because of the film’s investment in the backstory of Nina’s colonial education, La Folie Almayer constitutes an alternative version of the ‘Lingard trilogy’ that may be studied and taught in the place of canonical ‘Conradian’ texts, like Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim.
Breathing Spaces and Afterlives
Authors: Kelly Alice M.
Published: September 2022

The conclusion returns to the two central pillars of the book’s structure – breathing spaces where female characters of colour look, talk, desire, and protest, and transmedia afterlives where they outlive their creator. These fannish methodologies speak to the rise of participatory culture and the pluralising, democratising, and ultimately decolonising potential of its frameworks. Reiterating the viability of the ‘Nina trilogy’ as an object of study, the conclusion also encourages teaching Heart of Darkness alongside its postcolonial adaptations. From Swedish/Kenyan artist Catherine Anyango Grünewald’s haunting 2010 graphic novel to theatre company imitating the dog’s 2019 production (in which Marlow is reimagined as a black female Private Investigator travelling from Kinshasa into the heart of a desolate Europe), engaging with texts like Heart of Darkness through their transmedia reinventions decentres author-Gods like Conrad and focuses instead on the readers, audiences, and students who have come after him.
Introduction
Authors: Suzuki Rieko
Published: September 2022

The Introduction suggests a new way of integrating the ‘biographical’ and the ‘literary’ as suggested by Julie Carlson. It also takes on board the collaborative nature of the relationship of the Shelleys as recently examined by Anna Mercer, and builds on the dialogic relationship of the Brownings first established through the examination of their correspondence by Daniel Karlin. When discussing the relationships between texts, it is useful to discriminate between ‘influence’ and ‘intertextuality.’ This Introduction addresses the latter in relation to the burgeoning scholarship on “echoes” and “allusions” across Romantic and Victorian literature (e.g., book-length studies by Mark Sandy, Richard Cronin and Lucy Newlyn). By utilizing the strategic insights which they offer and building on Romantic historicism, the book aims to assimilate ‘historical consciousness’ into the notion of ‘influence.’
Valperga and Sordello
Authors: Suzuki Rieko
Published: September 2022

The two texts dealt with in this chapter explore the political strife that tore apart the city-states of medieval Italy. In their treatment of history, each attempts to (re)politicize their dramatis personae and to exploit history for their own ends, in order to proselytise on behalf of the democratic cause. The texts also concern the emotional or intellectual trauma of the writers: Valperga is about the interiority of emotional life, which reflects that of Mary Shelley. Sordello, by contrast, might be seen as a textualized rite of passage that documents and inscribes Browning’s becoming a poet in his own right. The liberties taken by Browning with historical facts also enable him to respond to Mary Shelley’s gendered argument of masculine egoism. In terms of politics, Mary Shelley remains firmly entrenched in Shelleyan Romanticism whereas Browning goes beyond a Romantic transformation of society to intimate a more practical and necessarily gradual means of changing society.
The Cenci and The Ring and the Book
Authors: Suzuki Rieko
Published: September 2022

In discussing Browning’s revisionary attempt to re-write The Cenci, this chapter focuses on four points. Firstly, it looks at the polarization of characters into good and evil. Secondly, it explores the idea of casuistry and a ‘case’ as a moral problematic that traditionally required casuistic thinking. Shelley situates the story in such terms, but without being able to reach a clear resolution, he resorts to sympathy, which readers are invited to feel with the victim-turned-aggressor. Thirdly, it describes how Browning resolves this moral dilemma by introducing the rescue theme. Finally, it argues that The Cenci is a historical play in both senses of the word: it is based on a historical event, but it also represents the historicity of the time in which Shelley composed the play. Unlike Shelley, who was only able to envision the independence of Italy obliquely, Browning was able to conceive of it more optimistically.
'Miserable Conflict and Confusion'
Authors: Scheopner Erin Kate
Published: September 2022

This book investigates the way the British national press covered Ireland and the ‘Irish question’ from the aftermath of the Easter Rising in 1916 to the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922. Bridging the fields of history and media studies, it seeks to add to our understanding of the complex relationship between the press and politics. Using a case study of 11 newspapers, Erin Kate Scheopner investigates daily press coverage from the formative 1916-22 period to offer broader contextualisation and critical analysis of what the press, the reading public, and the government recognised to be happening in Ireland. The material examined includes articles, dedicated series, editorials, cartoons, letters to the editor, and reports from outside journalists and foreign press outlets. This research confirms that the British national press were not neutral bystanders in the Irish question debate but were active participants, helping to shape and influence the course of events that led to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
Reimagining the Italian South
Authors: Polizzi Goffredo
Published: September 2022

Images of Southern Italy as a place of arrival for migrants with different origins and backgrounds are in recent years proliferating on Italian Medias as well as in contemporary Italian literature and cinema. The unprecedented perspective on the mezzogiorno which presents the region as a place where people arrive and not only as a place of departure, represents a major change in the collective imaginary on the Italian South. This perspective, today, alters and challenges in various ways the longstanding representation of the South as the forever “backward” part of the country. This book presents one of the first studies to focus entirely, through in-depth readings of a range of contemporary literary and cinematic texts, on the representation of contemporary migration to the Italian South, and on the concomitant changes in the tradition of representation of the region. Through the analysis, informed by translation theory, and by decolonial, queer and feminist critique, of the mutual construction of race, gender and sexuality, and of the translation and hybridization of langugages and cultures, in texts which tell multiple stories of mobility to and through the South, this book traces the emergence of a transnational imaginary of the mezzogiorno which offers useful tools for an urgent reconfiguration of collective and individual identities.
Introduction
Authors: Kelly Debra
Published: September 2022

This introduction is divided into four sections in order to present the theoretical and then the historical, social and cultural contexts for the history of the development of the French restaurant in London. Firstly, ‘Foodways into the Past and Present of “Eating French” in London’ considers the approaches of cultural history and of cultural studies to food and restaurant history and how these are used in the book while also defining the use of terms such as ‘cuisine’, ‘cooking’, ‘the restaurant’, and ‘cultural capital’. Secondly, ‘Frogs and Snails on the Streets of London’ and ‘The French in London: Liberty, Equality, Opportunity’ contextualise the French restaurant and French restaurateurs within the wider French migrant communities in historical and contemporary London. Finally, ‘Living, Cooking and Eating in the Neighbour’s City’ analyses ambiguities central to the concerns of this book concerning the French presence in London, ambiguities which not only manifest themselves in social, political and migration histories but also in food history and which also circulate around French food and the French restaurant in London in many different ways and settings across a century and a half.
Continuity and (R)Evolution in the Twenty-First-Century London French Restaurant
Authors: Kelly Debra
Published: September 2022

This chapter considers continuity and (r)evolution, culinary competition and cultural change in the London French restaurant of the ‘Global Food Capital’ that is 21st century London. It is divided into four sections: ‘Changing Contexts, Evolving Trends and the Place of the French Restaurant in London as a “Global Food Capital”’; ‘Culinary Competition and the Twenty-First Century London French Restaurant’; ‘Cultural Change and the Twenty-First Century London French Restaurant’; ‘A French Restaurant ‘Instagram’ from London in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century’. In the London context – away from its roots – French culinary practice and traditions could more readily open themselves up to take in new influences, allowing the surrounding culture to permeate the French restaurant and to create something new while retaining its own identity. This final chapter explores how French continuity and evolution played out in the fast-moving London restaurant scene of the early twenty first century. It examines different types of French restaurant from haute cuisine often aimed at an international audience, to large and small mid-market restaurant groups of varied ‘French’ authenticity to the neighbourhood restaurant. A number of interviews are included with contemporary restaurateurs, along with an exploration of the identities of the ‘London French’ restaurant.
Scrooge
Authors: Fleming Colin
Published: September 2022

This Devil’s Advocate explores the cinematic wonders of Brian Desmond Hurst’s much loved 1951 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge, through the prism of horror cinema, arguing that the film has less in common with cosy festive tradition than it does with terror cinema like James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein, Robert Weine’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and F.W. Murnau’s Faust. Beginning with Charles Dickens himself, a prolific writer of ghost stories, with A Christmas Carol being but one of many, Colin Fleming then considers earlier cinematic adaptations including 1935’s folk-horror-like Scrooge, before offering a full account of the Hurst/Sim version, stressing what must always be kept at the forefront of our minds: this is a ghost story.
Tickled Bleak
Authors: Fleming Colin
Published: September 2022

This chapter considers the reputation of the film Scrooge, and that of its source material, A Christmas Carol, as being fundamentally optimistic with the actuality of the narrative, which the author contends is bleak and nightmarish, especially so as depicted in the 1951 film. He emphasises that Scrooge is being haunted. This is the chapter in which the author begins to textually analyse the film chronologically.
House of Scrooge
Authors: Fleming Colin
Published: September 2022

This chapter continues the detailed chronological textual analysis of Scrooge. It particularly remarks on the musical score and the visual echoes of German Expressionist cinema.
He Returneth and He Danceth By
Authors: Fleming Colin
Published: September 2022

This chapter concludes the detailed chronological textual analysis of Scrooge. It also returns to the autobiographical concerns of the author relating to the formative role the film has played in his life
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Authors: Kazemi Farshid
Published: September 2022

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night analyses the eponymous film within three theoretical coordinates: vampire cinema, psychoanalytic (film) theory and German Idealism. The book situates the film in the history of the vampire genre through the spectral vampire in early German expressionist cinema (Murnau’s Nosferatu, 1922) and theorizes it as part of a transnational movement in Iranian films that represents ‘the uncanny’ between the two modes of ‘the weird and the eerie,’ theorized by Mark Fisher. The film is situated in relation to the history of Iranian horror films, as well as the female vampire’s evocation of the figure of the Nightmare in Iranian myth-folklore, and the cinematic vampire’s relation to Islamicate occult sciences. The book provides an intervention in second-wave psychoanalytic film theory (Joan Copjec, Slavoj Žižek) through a Lacanian reading of the film that analyzes the female vampire as ‘the return of the repressed’ of feminine sexuality, and as the Lacanian (traumatic) Real in female sexuality for the Shi’ite clerical order in Iran. The romantic love story at the heart of the film is theorized through ideas of central figures in German Idealism, such as Hegel and Schelling. The book establishes a relation between the female vampire and the spectral vampire by linking German Idealism and its deployment of metaphors such as phantasmagoria in early magic lantern projections. The book’s central theoretical intervention is an enactment of Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Hegelian dialectics that brings out what is hidden on the surface of the film’s textual unconscious.