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Medallion of Judge of Ukraine: Element of Judicial Symbolism
Authors: Kravchuk Oleksii , Ostashchuk Ivan
Published: January 2022

The authors argue that the symbolic elements of the judicial system of Ukraine appear not only as a manifestation of conservative tradition, but also designed to retransmit the meanings of fair and impartial justice. For this purpose, they consider the example of the recently approved medallion of a judge of Ukraine (2020) with historical context of the formation of judicial symbols in 1991 – 2021. The close attention of experts and the public of Ukraine to the judicial reform, which has been going on in Ukraine for several years, also concerns the procedure of judicial proceedings. After all, this procedure is characterized by certain rules and attributes, to understand the meaning of which it is important to analyze the historical perspective of the formation of the traditions of litigation in European civilization.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the semantic connotations of the medallion of judges of Ukraine in the context of judicial symbols to reveal its meaning in the modern judicial process. The following scientific methods were used: historical and cultural (in the representation of general cultural features and conditions of formation and formation of the tradition of judicial symbolism in Western civilization), semiotic (in the explication of semantic connotations of visual images of the approved medallion of a judge of Ukraine), systemic (in full modern Ukrainian judiciary).

The context of the formation of judicial symbols in the paradigm of European traditional culture of the Middle Ages and the New Age, in which the symbolism and metaphorical understanding of reality were important in the picture of the world, is studied in the article. The development of legislation on judicial symbols in Ukraine is represented.

New medallion of a judge of Ukraine approved in 2020 as a part of the official judicial symbols is presented. There are main two symbols, scales and a column on the modern medallion of the judge. In the symbol of scales from archaic times, the idea of trial of the person was conventionally put. The Old Testament notions of Yahweh as a fair judge were transformed in the medieval Christian worldview of Jesus Christ, who will administer the Last Judgment. The ideas of reliability, stability, freedom and justice are the main symbolic connotations of the symbol of the column.

It is highlighted that the semantic connotations of the judge's medallion are intended to represent not only the historical aspect of the traditional nature of the court session as part of one of the oldest and most important institutions of the state. They also signify the personal traits of a judge required to administer fair justice.

Keywords:medallion of judge of Ukraine, court dress, judicial symbols, column symbol, scale symbol, symbolic meaning.
Sentralitas Aktor dan Distribusi Jaringan Komunikasi Kelompok Prostitusi di Media Sosial Twitter
Authors: Tayibnapis Radita Gora , Tarsani Oni
Published: January 2022

Fenomena prostitusi di Indonesia kian menggeliat, di masa COVID 19 para pelaku prostitusi semakin menyebar dengan membentuk jaringan-jaringan baru perdagangan wanita di media sosial. Pembentukan jaringan di media sosial semakin memudahkan para pelaku prostitusi membentuk kelompok dan subkelompok baru sehingga akses untuk melakukan komunikasi antarpelaku prostitusi semakin mudah di media sosial. Upaya untuk menganalisis, peneliti menggunakan Teori Jaringan Sosial untuk menganalisis jaringan komunikasi antarpelaku prostitusi dan Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) untuk mendalami permasalahan perluasan jaringan dan pembentukan jaringan melalui metode campuran sekuensial eksplanatori. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa para pelaku prostitusi dapat melakukan perluasan jaringan secara masif melalui jaringan media sosial yang sudah meluas transaksi jaringannya. Selain itu, para pelaku prostitusi online di Twitter tersebar di seluruh kota di Jawa bahkan jaringan tersebut juga dapat meluas hingga luar Pulau Jawa. Motif dari perdagangan jasa seksual online ini tidak terlepas dari kebutuhan ekonomi.

Kata kunci: prostitusi, sentralitas aktor, subkelompok, metode campuran, jaringan komunikasi
Sistem Informasi Geografis Pemetaan Tempat Pembungan Sampah Sementara di Kota Pekanbaru Dengan Mencari Rute Terdekat Menggunakan Algoritma A Star (A*)
Authors: Hutabalian Maruba , Sunanto Sunanto , Januar Al Amien
Published: January 2022

Permasalahan sampah yang mendasar adalah masih banyaknya masyarakat yang membuang sampah tidak pada tempat dan waktunya sehingga beberapa titik lokasi sampah belum di-monitoring dan belum diketahui lokasinya. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah merancang dan membangun sebuah sistem informasi geografis pemetaan Tempat Penampungan Sampah Sementara (TPSS) dengan mencari rute terdekat titik lokasi-lokasi sampah yang berada di sekitaran mereka, sehingga masyarakat mengetahui tempat pembuangan sementara yang resmi dari Dinas Lingkungan Hidup dan Kebersihan Kota Pekanbaru. Dalam pengembangan sistem menggunakan Algoritma A-star, karena Algoritma A* (A Star) merupakan salah satu algoritma pencarian rute yang optimal dan komplit. Optimal berarti rute yang dihasilkan adalah rute yang paling baik dan komplit. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah membuat sistem informasi geografis pemetaan tempat pembuangan sampah di Kota Pekanbaru menggunakan algoritma A-Star dengan mencari rute terdekat yang tersebar di kota pekanbaru. Sistem ini diharapkan dapat bermanfaat bagi masyarakat dan instansi terkait untuk dapat saling bekerja sama dan berinteraksi dengan teknologi untuk mengatasi permasalahan sampah dengan lebih baik.
PERAN PEMERINTAH DESA DALAM MEMBERDAYAKAN MASYARAKAT MELALUI DANA DESA (DI DESA BUBE, KECAMATAN SUWAWA, KABUPATEN BONE BOLANGO, PROVINSI GORONTALO)
Authors: Djafar Indri Septiani , Djafar Lucyane , Lukum Roni , Kamuli Sukarman
Published: January 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuaniuntuk mengetahui bagaimana peran pemerintah desa idalam meningkatkan ipemberdayaan masyarakat iDesa Bube, iapa saja ifaktor penyebab ikurangnya ipemberdayaan masyarakat desa Bube iserta bagaimana iupaya pemerintah idesa untuk meningkatkan pemberdayaan masyarakat idesa Bube. Penelitian iini menggunakan imetode kualitatif, iMelalui pendekatan iini, peneliti imendeskripsikan data itemuan penelitian idari informasi isesuai dengan ikenyataan yang iada di ilapangan. Prosedur pengumpulan idata yaitu idengan melakukan iobservasi, wawancara idan dokumentasi. Hasil ipenelitian ini imenunjukan bagaimana peran pemerintah idesa dalam imeningkatkan pemberdayaan imasyarakat desa, ipemerintah desa iBube telah imelakukan perannya idengan cukup baik terutama iperan pemerintah idesa sebagai ifasilitator, motivator idan inovator isudah cukup ibaik terutama ipada pelaksanaan iprogram pemberdayaan imasyarakat. Adapun iFaktor penyebab ikurangnya pemberdayaan imasyarakat desa, iyaitu dapat idilihat dari ikondisi penduduk idan partisipasi imasyarakat yang imenyebabkan kurangnya pemberdayaan masyarakat idi Desa iBube serta iUpaya-upaya yang dilakukan pemerintah desa dalam meningkatkan pemberdayaanimasyarakat desa, iyaitu dengan imemberikan akses,ipartisipasi, kontrol ijuga manfaat iyang baik ikepada masyarakatidesa Bube..
THEODOR FONTANE’S NOVEL “EFFI BRIESTˮ: PSEUDO-GOTHIC FEATURES
Authors: Алексеева Марина Геннадьевна
Published: January 2022

В статье исследуются жанровые особенности супружеского романа Теодора Фонтане “Effi Briestˮ. Роман, жанр которого определяется как поэтический реализм, изобилует псевдоготическими элементами. Их вычленение, установление значимости межжанровых вкраплений обусловливает актуальность исследуемой проблемы. В результате применения метода лингвистического анализа текста в работе были выделены и описаны признаки готического романа, актуализированные писателем в виде клишированных амплуа героев - злодей и юная жертва, клишированных мотивов - путешествия, мотив экзотики, мотивы сна и сновидений, в виде типичных топологических маркеров - прóклятое место и в каноническом стержне романа - преступлении или исчезновении какого-либо героя в прошлом. Элементы готического романа переоцениваются в дальнейшем повествовании, они последовательно нейтрализуются главными героями, при этом выявляются дополнительные личностные характеристики главных персонажей, например, «мистицизм» барона Инштеттена, его страсть воспитывать окружающих, в том числе методом запугивания. Нивелирование и изымание из повествования готических элементов, действия героев вопреки готическим канонам, например, желание Эффи вернуть «счастливые дни в доме с привидениями» или примирение, пусть и через посредников, «злодея» и «жертвы», способствуют выделению признаков жанра «поэтический реализм», подчеркивают критическую оценку Т. Фонтане Прусской Германии, противопоставление гуманистического начала прогрессу, власти и культуре.

This article explores the genre features of Theodor Fontane’s marital novel “Effi Briestˮ. The novel, the genre of which is defined as poetic realism, is replete with pseudo-gothic elements. The identification of those elements and ascertainment of the significance of inter-genre inclusions make the problem under research relevant. The method of linguistic analysis of the text made it possible to identify and describe the features of the Gothic novel actualized by the writer in the form of clichéd characters (the villain and the young victim), clichéd motives(travel, exotic motive, motives of sleep and dreams), typical topological markers(cursed place), and the canonical core of the novel (the crime or disappearance of a character in the past). The elements of the Gothic novel are reevaluated in the further narrative, they are consistently neutralized by the main characters, while revealing additional personal characteristics of the main characters, such as ‘mysticism’ of Baron Instetten, his passion to educate others, even employing intimidation. Neutralization and removal of Gothic elements from the narrative, the actions of the characters contrary to Gothic canons, such as Effie’s desire to return ‘happy days in a haunted house’ or the reconciliation, even through intermediaries, of ‘villain’ and ‘victim’, contribute to the identification of signs of the genre ‘poetic realism’, emphasize T. Fontane’s critical assessment of Prussian Germany, the opposition of the humanist principle to progress, power and culture.
FORMATION OF SELF-CONTROL AMONG SENIOR SCHOOLCHILDREN IN STUDYING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH THE HELP OF LEARNING DIARY
Authors: Хрисанова Елена Геннадьевна , Савельева Анна Ивановна
Published: January 2022

В статье рассматривается проблема формирования самоконтроля у обучающихся старших классов в процессе изучения иностранного языка. Показана актуальность данного вопроса, подтверждаемая научными изысканиями А. А. Крылова, С. Д. Якушевой, Г. К. Селевко, значимостью самоконтроля для самостоятельной учебной деятельности старшеклассников в целом и изучения иностранного языка в частности. Представлены результаты проведенного в ряде общеобразовательных школ г. Чебоксары исследования самоконтроля учебной деятельности старшеклассников: зависимость его эффективности от проявляемого к изучению того или иного предмета интереса и учебной мотивации; завышенная самооценка уровня сформированности самоконтроля учебной деятельности, демонстрируемая школьниками. В качестве технологии формирования самоконтроля у старшеклассников предложено ведение дневника учебных достижений. Раскрывается возможная структура такого дневника, включающая цели изучения иностранного языка, календарь на учебный год, календарь на каждый месяц в году, календарь на отдельные недели месяца, систему отслеживания (трекер) на месяц и др. Приводится пример ведения дневника учебных достижений в процессе подготовки к сдаче ЕГЭ по иностранному языку. Даны комментарии и рекомендации для педагогов по формированию у старшеклассников самоконтроля в учебной деятельности с использованием дневника учебных достижений.

The article discusses the problem of formation of self-control in senior students in the process of learning a foreign language; shows the urgency of this problem confirmed by the scientific research works of A. A. Krylov, S. D. Yakusheva, G. K. Selevko, and the importance of self-control skills for independent learning activities of senior schoolchildren in general and studying a foreign language in particular. The work also presents the results of the study of senior pupils’ educational activity self-control, conducted in a number of secondary schools in Cheboksary. The study demonstrated the dependence of self-control effectiveness on the interest in a particular subject and educational motivation; overestimated self-esteem of the level of educational activity self-control demonstrated by schoolchildren. The authors suggest keeping a learning diary for the formation of self-control among senior schoolchildren; provide a structure of such a diary including the goals of learning a foreign language, a calendar for an academic year, a calendar for every month of the year, a calendar for individual every week of the month; a tracking system (tracker) for a month, etc. They also present an example of keeping a leaning diaryin the process of preparing for the USE in a foreign language. The comments and recommendations are given for teachers on the formation of senior schoolchildren’s skills of self-control of educational activities using a learning diary.
Creating Value from an Ecosystem
Authors: Reed Matt , Langford Joss
Published: January 2022

Innovation ecosystems need to create a value chain that meets the aims of all of the entities involved. Everyone involved in ecosystem development needs to strike a balance between the immediate and real priorities of their own organisation, and the wider and perhaps more diffuse priorities of the system itself. These may not always appear to be directly aligned; however these systems are only successful when there is a value chain that meets the aims of all organisations involved and this value can be realised by concerted action amongst all the agents. All entities must therefore be able to recognise this value and be prepared to act in concert. This chapter is based on a case study of the innovation ecosystem for sports footwear, including DyeCoo, Nike and Adidas. DyeCoo had patented the world's first waterless dying technology, with the potential to significantly reduce the impact on the environment and reduce processing costs.
Aligning Capabilities and Outcomes
Authors: Reed Matt , Langford Joss
Published: January 2022

Perhaps the most natural way for a researcher from a company to discuss a potential research project with an academic is in terms of a set of common research outcomes. These are the specific knowledge outputs that both partners imagine may be produced during the course of the project. In this type of project, negotiations will likely focus on the timelines involved in generating the outcomes, payment milestones, other resources required for success, and the allocation of any intellectual property (IP) that is created during the project. For an ad-hoc project with a university, it is hard to avoid aligning a company interest and an academic interest like this. However, there are risks in this approach for longer projects. Whereas a university might be comfortable waiting three or four years for a PhD student to answer a research question, at a company, business priorities can change much more rapidly than that, which can lead to a significant misalignment of desired outcomes over the same time frame.
Death as Dehumanisation in Sophocles’ Philoctetes
Authors: Blanco Chiara
Published: January 2022

Chapter six develops the discussion on Greek drama by looking at the ways in which Sophocles presents death in the Philoctetes as a process of gradual dehumanization, starting from social exclusion and leading towards absolute isolation not only from the world of the living, but also from the very nature of man itself. Taking her cue from the agria nosos which Philoctetes endures in Sophocles’ tragedy, Blanco explores how the long-rotting wound inflicted by the bite of the serpent affects Philoctetes’ human nature on its most basic level. Blanco further investigates how the serpent bite triggers a process of dehumanization which eventually leads Philoctetes to a state of apparent death. Philoctetes, Blanco argues, is not part of human community, and his relation with the landscape evokes a hunting-based self-sustained beast of prey, rather than a human being.
Socrates’ Conception of the Underworld
Authors: Benitez Rick
Published: January 2022

Chapter seven examines Plato’s Apology, where Socrates describes one view of what might await us after death in terms of a familiar conception of the Underworld. There are the souls of heroes, kings, and great criminals as well. As Socrates’ description proceeds, however, we find that his conception of life and activity in the Underworld is very different from the traditional one. In fact, by the standards of his contemporaries, Socrates’ conception of the Underworld would seem bizarre, in that it involves an eternity of conversation and reasoning. Benitez argues that Socrates’ conception of the Underworld uses familiar ideas to convey an unfamiliar view to his audience, and to make that view seem attractive. Beneath the mythological trappings lies a view about death in which what survives is impersonal. In addition, there is an unusual lesson about life in Socrates’ conception, namely that the best life is like the best death: rational and impersonal. The appeal of this view may lie in the way that anxiety over death is lessened by the Socratic life.
Events and Sensibility in Claude Simon’s L’Acacia
Authors: Hughes Edward J.
Published: January 2022

Describing a family whose class composition is atypical, Claude Simon’s L’Acacia (1989) tells the story of the protagonist’s parents: a bourgeois mother and a peasant father. The frame provided by class schism and misalliance intersects with a wider frame of global conflict. With his father killed in action in the First World War, the protagonist will in turn experience defeat in a cavalry regiment in Northern France in late Spring 1940. In these parallel sets of adversarial relations (social class and military combat), the characterization of rivals in L’Acacia sees them drawn productively into strange forms of contiguity. The effect created of indistinction and equalization extends to Simon’s use of narrative poetics. A key feature of the chapter is how the act of prose composition captures what Rancière refers to as individual acts of sensibility – in this category, private recollections of war are captured in tense narrative sequences that convert event into prose happening. Word collocations translate an individual’s experience, in turn making it democratically available to the anonymous reader. In this way, Simon’s textual practice exemplifies what Rancière presents as the democratic practice that is prose-writing.
A Solitary Emancipation
Authors: Hughes Edward J.
Published: January 2022

The theme of intense probity associated with the workplace in Péguy in Chapter 2 is extended here through analysis of Marie Ndiaye’s La Cheffe, roman d’une cuisinière (2016). The novel’s narrator describes the eponymous heroine, who is to become an award-winning chef, as being involved in vital ministry. As with Péguy, the hymn to labour in Ndiaye, far from being oriented towards an emancipatory view of class struggle, acquires a near-delirious, often private character. In Ndiaye’s novel, where work is associated with ceremonial and nostalgia, class and the practice of language intersect. In a fluent, confident prose narrative, oral inhibition forms, paradoxically, a recurring thematic feature. The eponymous heroine displays a reticence about language and more precisely about the patter associated with bourgeois ritual around culinary pleasure. A particular feature of the chapter is how the channelling of the artisanal through a highly wrought literary language shows how literary poiesis aligns with meticulous craft as practised via bodily kinetics and the manual.
Convocation, or On Ways of Being Together
Authors: Hughes Edward J.
Published: January 2022

In his first novel, Sortie d’usine [Factory Exit] (1982), François Bon foregrounds the experience of manual work. In a see-saw movement between book and life, the narrator senses a transitional zone in which ‘the unknown of the real’ might resonate. His later work Daewoo (2004) again explores factory life. A piece of social documentarism, it tells of the effects of de-industrialization in modern-day Lorraine. Fringe spaces such as the deserted car factory become sites of workers’ contestation. Bon sees Daewoo variously as a project and an investigation, as récit and as theatre. This generic range reflects a resourceful attempt to grasp the historical process behind modern-day societal fracture and to garner expressions of collective consciousness and the energies of social contestation. Cautious about the claims he makes for Daewoo, Bon fears in particular the inadequacy of writing to capture the lived reality confronting women factory workers whose labour has been rendered redundant in an age of global capitalism. His aspiration is to have their engagement with aesthetic production generate restorative play from their experience of marginalization. Convocation, which feeds into Daewoo’s experimental character, conveys the affective charge associated with collective, egalitarian aspiration.
Fragmented narratives and languages of power
Authors: Broderick Céire
Published: January 2022

The multiple, cyclical, and fragmented narratives in the novels of Mercedes Valdivieso and Gustavo Frías are the focus of this chapter. It is argued that by creating such narratives, the authors construct what Homi K. Bhabha denotes as a ‘third space’ which facilitates hybridity, destablising fixed notions of identities that the patriarchal and colonial hierarchies seek to perpetuate. This is complemented by a discussion of the power dynamics in the colonial society that are simultaneously undermined and reinforced through the use and perceived prestige of languages.
A world for us Complicating European perspectives
Authors: Broderick Céire
Published: January 2022

Marriage as a hybridising tool and means of increasing social and economic capital, as well as the transplanting of ideas and traditions from the Global North to the Global South through the colonial mission are the principal focus of this chapter. Through analysis of the protagonists’ narrative and dialogue with secondary characters, this chapter highlights the futile efforts to reproduce customs in a context that is geopolitically and socio-historically removed from the situation in which they were conceived. Frías’ protagonist’s call for a new world that is hybrid and specific to their experience, and neither wholly European nor indigenous, is read in the context of contemporary Chile.
Theatrical Shakespeare
Authors: Owens Rebekah
Published: January 2022

The reader is invited to explore how a director can tell the story of the play in a setting that embraces the expectations of realism in cinema, but still pays homage to the theatrical origins of the work. Using Franco Zeffirelli’s film of Romeo and Juliet and Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, this chapter explores how both of these directors used their experience and training in theatre to create a version of the play that did not compromise on the work’s theatrical origins. Attention is drawn to the setting of the film which acts as a backdrop to the action and to the respect accorded to the early modern language of the play.
Life and Death in Egypt during the 25th Dynasty
Authors: David Rosalie
Published: January 2022

A detailed study of this mummy and coffin has provided information about the owner’s life and death. On the basis of the stylistic criteria and inscriptions, the coffin has been dated to the 25th Dynasty (c. 755–656 BC) (see p. 24). According to the hieroglyphs, the coffin belonged to a woman of high status named Takabuti, and scientific evidence strongly suggests that the mummy belonged with the coffin (see ...
The Coffin of Takabuti
Authors: Taylor John
Published: January 2022

The earliest Egyptian coffins were rectangular chests, but these were superseded at the beginning of the New Kingdom by cases shaped like a human body. Every aspect of the coffin’s form and decoration was imbued with symbolic meaning and magical potency, equipping it to play a significant role in transmitting the deceased to eternal life. The mummiform coffin was both a divine image and a manifestation of sacred space, in which the mysteries of rebirth would take place....
Takabuti’s Arrival in Belfast and the First Scientific Studies
Authors: Murphy Eileen , Glover Winifred
Published: January 2022

Takabuti was the first Egyptian mummy to come to Ireland. Her arrival in Belfast in 1834 caused great excitement, and her unwrapping the following year was the equivalent of a modern-day media spectacle.

The mummy and her finely painted anthropomorphic coffin were purchased at a mummy market in Thebes (modern Luxor) by Thomas Greg of Ballymenoch House in Holywood, Co. Down. Many Egyptian tombs were robbed over the years for the benefit of Europeans (...
Retrieval of Tissue Samples
Authors: Loynes Robert , Regan Mark
Published: January 2022

Although CT scans and X-rays provide a non-invasive method of investigating mummies and mummification, there are circumstances when obtaining samples of tissue from the mummy is necessary. Such investigations include ancient DNA analysis, proteomics, stable isotope analysis, histology (including electron microscopy), radiocarbon dating, as well as the chemical analysis of hair, packing material, resin and unguents. All of these techniques were applied to Takabuti....
Mummification Methods Used on Takabuti
Authors: Loynes Robert , Adams Judith
Published: January 2022

Although Egyptian mummies from the Predynastic and Byzantine (or Coptic) periods were natural mummies, those from other eras were usually anthropogenic in type. That is, a specific set of processes was used to preserve the body of the deceased for use in the afterlife.

The contemporary records from ancient Egypt do not contain many details of how mummification/embalming was performed. Limited archaeological evidence – the so-called embalmers’ caches – provides some information about the embalming process. An inscribed text known as the ...
Takabuti – in Life, in Death and as Part of a Museum Collection
Authors: David Rosalie , Murphy Eileen
Published: January 2022

When we set out to compile this volume, we did so with the intent of sharing the story of Takabuti so that all those who visit her in the Ulster Museum could have an opportunity to learn more about her. For too long she has lain in her case with no voice, a woman out of her time, who has often provoked a very human response in those who visit her (...
Introduction
Authors: Coffey Bysshe Inigo
Published: January 2022

The introduction recounts the reception history of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the extremes of advocacy and detraction to which he was subjected, and the charges of weakness levelled against him by Victorian readers. It explores Shelley’s manuscript history, pointing, and the ways in which critics have tried to define his intellectual trajectory. It places special emphasis on the pauses of his verse. The introduction outlines that the book will make reference to Shelley’s reading, particularly the ‘Marlow List’, his poetic technique, and his unique approach to life and thought. It seeks to offer the beginning of a new reading of Shelley.
Paradoxes and Mediation Pitfalls of the Translational Contact Zone
Authors: Ugalde Esther Gimeno
Published: January 2022

By assuming the intersection between Iberian and translation studies to be a new, fruitful disciplinary contact zone, this chapter contends that Iberian studies’ polycentric and multidirectional approach opens up the possibility for new modes of rethinking and analyzing intra-Iberian literary translation, overcoming a dualistic propensity that more often than not distorts our perspective and prevents us from discovering subtle and veiled power dynamics. Based on a study of Catalan novels translated in twenty-first-century Portugal (2000–19), it explores multiple phenomena arising from this specific contact zone, including literary biliterariness, (opaque) self-translation, and indirect translation. Ultimately, the chapter aims to examine the consequences and paradoxes resulting from the complexity of the Catalan literary landscape that become more visible when Catalan literature is translated into Portuguese.
The Beach
Authors: Cherry Brigid
Published: January 2022

The opening chapter engages with the idea that the narrative of Lost hybridises some of the common narrative structures of mainstream television series with those employed by science fiction/telefantasy series that appeal to cult and fan audiences. Accordingly, the chapter opens with an analysis of the narrative construction of the series, identifying the ways in which its themes of mystery and enigma work as the structuring narrative code. It discusses the ways in which an arc story that never attains complete closure, whilst interweaving multiple character storylines across many timelines and dispersed locations, produces a rich diegesis. Further, it explores how the complex diegesis and (lack of) resolution contribute to the mythic scale in the narrative of Lost.
Introduction
Authors: Wetmore Kevin J.
Published: January 2022

The introduction relates a personal anecdote about Ed Warren, cautioning the author against seeing demons. The horror film fan, however, wants to see demons, and The
Conjuring is an example of how cinema summons them. The film is contextualized within the world of twenty-first century horror cinema, as well as its own “Conjuring universe.” The introduction also offers summaries of the film’s plot, the film’s production history, and the contents of the volume itself.
ARTIST | SURGEON: ‘You were my best work’
Authors: Conolly Jez , Westwood Emma
Published: January 2022

Discussion of the importance of artistry, be it through artistic creativity, surgical prowess or filmmaking choices, with an examination of the identity crisis experienced by post-war American middle class working men.
SKIN | MEAT | FLUID: ‘Sure you don’t want this chicken?’
Authors: Conolly Jez , Westwood Emma
Published: January 2022

Discussion of the film’s structure, surface and substance, its stylistic and literal fluidity and the commodification processing of man as meat.
SOUND | VISION: ‘Of course, the photography is not too professional… but I think it’s clear enough’
Authors: Conolly Jez , Westwood Emma
Published: January 2022

Discussion of the film’s visual style and its use of mirrors and mirroring as devices of disorientation, and a deeper examination of its cinematography, lens choices, editing style, set design and music.
Introduction
Authors: Carr Jeremy
Published: January 2022

Born into the real-life horrors of World War II, besieged from a young age by looming Nazism, an oppressive ghetto, and the threat of potential concentration camp incarceration, Polanski endured an extended period of panicked solitude and a first-hand encounter with the true terrors of mankind. Surviving and thriving, his preliminary work in radio and theatre led to enrolment in the National Film School in Lodz and the creation of several short films, many of which introduce motifs common to Polanski’s succeeding output: inhibiting confines, sexual voyeurism, surrealism, and the sinister potency of inanimate objects. His debut feature, Knife in the Water (1962), a boldly perilous thriller, garnered Polanski widespread acclaim and notoriety, including an Oscar nomination for best foreign film. But as he struggled to begin his next proposed feature, “If Katelbach Comes,” Polanski was engaged by the horror movie-seeking Compton Group, a British studio known for exploitation and soft porn fare. The resulting production was Repulsion, written by Polanski and Gérard Brach and starring Catherine Deneuve.
Isolation and Entrapment
Authors: Carr Jeremy
Published: January 2022

As it approaches the horror formula of seclusion breeding anxiety, Repulsion centres on the literal and figurative isolation of beautician Carol, as both a catalyst and product of her failing mental condition. Moving through life in an ominously advancing dream state, suggesting with each passing day the encroachment of something deeply and profoundly malignant, Carol shirks physical touch and reveals a foreboding sensitivity, which leads to public detachment and awkward social interaction. As she is scolded at home and at work and is generally overwhelmed by the perceived threats of the outside world, she regresses into an emotionally opaque, inarticulate, and impenetrable loneliness. The unrealized depth of her tortured temperament is amplified when her sister goes away on holiday, leaving this fragile young woman subject to the terrors of her own solitary imaginings. This framework will correlate not only to familiar horror tropes, from remote haunted houses to scenarios involving three or fewer characters in a singular, inaccessible site, but to subsequent Polanski productions like 1966’s Cul-De-Sac and 2002’s The Pianist.
Sex and Terror
Authors: Carr Jeremy
Published: January 2022

Sold with the sensationalistic tagline, “The nightmare world of a Virgin’s dreams becomes the screen’s shocking reality!” Repulsion situates Carol’s sexual anxiety as a fundamental stimulus for the ensuing horror. Polanski’s sexualization of Deneuve is twofold, as she is frequently seen at home in various stages of undress, yielding an enticing and ingenuous impression (the exposed vulnerability of a young woman being a recurrent horror device), while her public appearance is subject to obscene sidewalk catcalls and a series of unwanted advances. Carol overhears charges of masculine cruelty and coercion, and this provocative admonition generates a dual fear when she is herself confronted by aggressive male contact; the budding violence of the respective man’s carnal belligerence meets her own primed response, engendered by the civic caution and magnified by her volatility. Plagued by sexual repression, Carol is haunted by the sounds of her sister in the breathy throes of passion with her boyfriend, whose disconcerting presence is manifest in lingering toiletries and a discarded undershirt. Repulsion’s consequent linkage of sex and horror through the embodiment of an attractive, susceptible female figure finds resonance in supplementary studies of gendered genre experience and the “monstrous-feminine.”
Conclusion
Authors: Carr Jeremy
Published: January 2022

An open ending and Polanski’s intended ambiguity make Repulsion a psychological thriller that exceeds the norms of what he deemed a “cheap horror film.” But while the movie was greeted with generally positive appraisal, Polanski himself still viewed the production as “an artistic compromise,” deriding its technical quality in particular. Still, there can be no denying Repulsion’s reputation within the horror genre, as a unique feature in its own right and as it aligns with related horror precursors. However much he may have looked down upon the horror film generally, Polanski knew the rules of the game, and in Repulsion, he managed to adapt his unique sense of scenic configuration, tension, timing and characterization to form one of the genre’s most unique and outstanding entries. In doing so, Polanski imbued in the film an assortment of his trademark gestures, many of which would be most apparent in the remaining two films of his Apartment Trilogy, films that in many ways not only define Polanski’s cinema at large, but also established his place in the annals of horror film history.
‘Your anger is a sin’: Family Values (2011)
Authors: Waterman Rory
Published: January 2022

This chapter considers the contemporary reception of Wendy Cope’s fourth collection, and its legacy. It also considers the themes of the collection, including her poems about family relationships and childhood. The chapter also provides detailed close readings of poems in the collection.
‘About the human heart’: Anecdotal Evidence (2018)
Authors: Waterman Rory
Published: January 2022

This chapter considers the contemporary reception of Wendy Cope’s fifth collection, and its legacy. It also considers the themes of the collection, including her poems about marriage, ageing and Shakespeare. The chapter also provides detailed close readings of poems in the collection.
‘The gift of changing’: Cope’s Poems for Children
Authors: Waterman Rory
Published: January 2022

This chapter considers Cope’s poetry for children. It begins with a consideration of her pedagogical impulses and her work written to be read to young children in schools, and ends with consideration of her long poem The River Girl (Faber 1991). The chapter also considers some of her uncollected children’s poems. It provides close readings of key poems and sections of The River Girl.
The TGWU and the Labour Movement 1922–24
Authors: Davis Mary , Foster John
Published: January 2022

This chapter looks at the increasingly polarised left/right battles within the TGWU and wider labour movement. It examines the influence of the Communist Party and rank-and-file organisations such as the National Minority Movement and the National Unemployed Workers Movement. Bevin, in opposing the communist led left, confronted the unofficial dock strikes, but was nonetheless critical of the first minority Labour government, during which two official strikes - one of London bus and tramway workers and the other of dockers were supported by the union’s leadership, despite the discomfiture caused to the labour government. The position of women in the new union is also considered.
Henry Vaughan and Thomas Vaughan
Authors: Wilcher Robert
Published: January 2022

This chapter discusses the lives and work of Henry Vaughan and his younger twin brother, Thomas. It compares what is known of their education, their marriages, and the divergence of their careers and possible estrangement as Henry remained in the family home, while Thomas pursued his alchemical research in Oxford and London until his death in 1666. An examination of their published works for evidence of their beliefs in God and Nature shows that they shared a respect for all created things and believed in the ultimate restitution of animals and plants along with humankind. Both resisted the dualistic materialism of the mid-century, but whereas Thomas’s vitalism was grounded in Hermetic philosophy, Henry’s had a more Christian emphasis.
Henry Vaughan and the Interregnum
Authors: Wilcher Robert
Published: January 2022

This chapter charts Vaughan’s journey of spiritual regeneration and recovery from political despair in the two parts of Silex Scintillans. Some of the poems published in the 1650 collection are shown to look back to more innocent times or forward to personal death and the Second Coming of Christ as alternative solutions to personal grief and the predicament of a defeated royalist under the Puritan regime. Easter poems are seen to mark the emergence of a more hopeful state of mind, which leads to a more positive engagement with the political situation. The chapter then describes how oppressors are scorned and the oppressed are encouraged in the prose works and translations of the 1650s and the poems added to the 1655 Silex Scintillans.
Experimental Cinema as Poetic Cinema: The “Grupo Goethe” and the Films of Hirsch and Caldini
Authors: Bollig Ben
Published: January 2022

Chapter One examines the work of the “Grupo Goethe,” and in particular two filmmakers, Caldini and Hirsch, who formed part of this group of experimental filmmakers who began working in the late 1960s and continue today. Intermedial and generic instability or indiscipline are central to the filmmakers’ novel and creative approaches to both film and poetry. What is of particular interest to this chapter is the conception of “poetic” cinema developed by these filmmakers and those who study them. Caldini and Hirsch’s works reveal a conception of “poetic” cinema as opposed to narrative cinema, but not linked in any strong sense to poetry as a literary genre or even a linguistic phenomenon. An assessment of their work based on close analysis of their films obliges us to rethink the easy association of “experimental” and “poetic” cinemas, before moving on to a consideration of their links to so-called “expanded cinema,” including the use of film in performance, and what this tells us about intermediality on screen.
Eyes Already Open: Gustavo Fontán’s El limonero real and La deuda
Authors: Bollig Ben
Published: January 2022

Chapter Five addresses a question posed by Gustavo Fontán’s film El limonero real (2016): how can a film adapted from a novel be almost universally considered “poetic”? What does such a classification tell us about generic constraints in different art forms, and about the process of adaptation itself? To do so, reference shall be made both to critical assessments of Fontán’s work and to other artists and thinkers of the poetic film, including Brakhage, Malick, and Pasolini. We can then see how Fontán’s aesthetic continues into his most mainstream film to date, La deuda (2019), within a radical political critique of contemporary neoliberalism, but one that also promotes, subtly, an aesthetic of respect for the other that informs Fontán’s (implicit) conception of intermediality. A key figure in this chapter is the Entre Ríos poet, Juan L. Ortiz (1896-1978), for both his epic, fluvial poetry and his ethics of encounter with the other.
The Poet as Screenwriter: Landscape and Protagonism in Papu Curotto’s Esteros
Authors: Bollig Ben
Published: January 2022

Chapter Six addresses the encounter between “new queer cinema” and environmental politics, through an exploration of the poet Andi Nachon’s contribution to the film Esteros (Curotto, 2016), a more subtle example of poetry’s presence on screen. By highlighting the screenwriter’s role, alongside that of the director Curotto, a number of apparently otiose leitmotifs and passing remarks come to make sense as part of a broader comment on environmental politics in Argentina. While the role of the countryside and other peripheral regions, in particular the coast, in queer cinema from Argentina has been highlighted by a number of writers (Venkatesh, 2016; Castillo, 2015; Oubiña, 2015), few such films have directly incorporated environmental concerns into their thematics and aesthetics. Thus a study of Esteros that assesses its links to Nachon’s poetry opens up the movie as a work of political critique and engagement with the non-human other, echoed in the film’s own intermedial aesthetics.
The Making of Professional Polish Jewish Historians
Authors: Aleksiun Natalia
Published: January 2022

This chapter studies the academic agenda of professional Jewish historians who received their training before 1918, in the imperial context of Austria–Hungary, at the universities of Lwów, Kraków, and Vienna, and the social and political contexts in which they were active. It shows that Polish Jewish historiography emerged as a field of interest among the Polish intelligentsia and the enlightened Jewish elite throughout partitioned Polish lands in the early to mid-nineteenth century. This new cohort boasted professional university training and saw themselves as part of the guild. In the early works of Schorr, Schiper, and Bałaban in the first decade of the twentieth century, a more substantial and critical scholarship on the history of the Jews of Poland emerged. The chapter then argues that their understanding of Polish Jewish history was shaped by their immersion in Polish historical writing and by their responses to political developments in Galicia, such as the emergence of the Jewish national movement and the increasingly complex position of the Jewish community in the region in relation to the Polish and Ukrainian national narratives.
Themes and Trends of Historical Enquiry
Authors: Aleksiun Natalia
Published: January 2022

This chapter explores the broad topics and genres of Polish Jewish historiography addressed by historians in the 1920s and 1930s. It presents the most important topics repeated in academic and popular contexts: Polish–Jewish relations in the past, with particular attention to the Jewish contribution to the country's economic prosperity and to Poland's struggle for independence, and the internal life of individual Jewish communities, their leaders, and their institutions. When writing about Polish–Jewish relations in previous centuries, and particularly in their accounts of conflict and coexistence, Jewish historians in interwar Poland paid close attention to mutual cultural influences between Jews and non-Jews, attempting to account for instances of friction and anti-Jewish violence. The chapter focuses on the ways in which Jewish historians presented Polish Jewry as a social, cultural, and political entity closely linked with the history of Poland. It assesses how Polish Jewish historical writing took on a direct political meaning as a response to the treatment of these subjects by contemporaneous Polish historiography.
Composition, Cosmopolitanism, and Musical Miscellany
Authors: DeSimone Alison C.
Published: January 2022

Chapter 4 discusses musical miscellany form the point of view of the composer, who was required to master a multitude of musical styles and languages in order to achieve prominence and patronage in London. Analysis of theatrical, vocal, and instrumental works by composers active between 1700 and 1720 indicate that their experiments with stylistic miscellany helped to shape the tastes of their audiences.
Moses vs. the Masses
Authors: Cohen J. Laurence
Published: January 2022

Through Moses, Zora Neale Hurston alludes to another figure seeking to lead his recalcitrant people to the Promised Land—Alain Locke. Like Locke, Hurston’s Moses is a cultural-nationalist, values self-reliance, and levels authoritative judgments. The benefit of reading Moses, Man of the Mountain(1939) in the context of Locke’s criticism of Hurston’s work is that it allows us to see how Hurston is engaged not only in critiquing authoritarian politics, but also in interrogating the politics of aesthetic uplift. Mosesstands as an alternative model to Locke’s conception of how to incorporate folk culture into fiction. Hurston rejects the authoritarian strand of Locke’s cultural politics by valuing folk culture on its own terms, rather than treating it as a mere source of inspiration for true art. Hurston participates in what she perceives to be an ongoing oral and literary tradition, instead of seeking to transform folk culture into something more palatable for highbrow audiences.
The End of Exodus?
Authors: Cohen J. Laurence
Published: January 2022

William Melvin Kelley exposed the predatory nature of many race leaders who would cloak themselves in Moses’s mantle. In A Different Drummer(1962), Kelley suggests that, paradoxically, those best suited to fulfill a Mosaic role are least interested in doing so. The novel juxtaposes Rev. Bennett Bradshaw, an embittered, ambitious Mosaic leader, with Tucker Caliban, an accidental Moses who embodies Henry David Thoreau’s ideal of self-reliance. Instead of organizing his fellow sharecroppers and wage laborers by condemning Southern society as Egyptian tyranny and depicting the North as Canaan, Tucker privately decides to leave his home in a fictitious Southern state. Whereas Bradshaw’s ego perverts his Mosaic aspirations, Tucker’s radical individualism inspires a mass exodus of African Americans—not through charismatic moral/political suasion but through quiet, even eccentric, acts whose motivation is obscure. Kelley’s vision of revolution as a chain reaction of individual choices, however, threatens traditional notions of racial solidarity.