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From Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them
Authors: Pickover Clifford A
Published: November 2023

Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion--whose ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives and our understanding of the universe. Throughout this fascinating book, Clifford Pickover invites us to share in the amazing adventures of brilliant, quirky, and passionate people after whom these laws are named. These lawgivers turn out to be a fascinating, diverse, and sometimes eccentric group of people. Many were extremely versatile polymaths--human dynamos with a seemingly infinite supply of curiosity and energy and who worked in many different areas in science. Others had non-conventional educations and displayed their unusual talents from an early age. Some experienced resistance to their ideas, causing significant personal anguish. Pickover examines more than 40 great laws, providing brief and cogent introductions to the science behind the laws as well as engaging biographies of such scientists as Newton, Faraday, Ohm, Curie, and Planck. Throughout, he includes fascinating, little-known tidbits relating to the law or lawgiver, and he provides cross-references to other laws or equations mentioned in the book. For several entries, he includes simple numerical examples and solved problems so that readers can have a hands-on understanding of the application of the law. A sweeping survey of scientific discovery as well as an intriguing portrait gallery of some of the greatest minds in history, this superb volume will engage everyone interested in science and the physical world or in the dazzling creativity of these brilliant thinkers.
Hard Hats, Rednecks, And Macho Men
Authors: Nystrom Derek
Published: November 2023

Everywhere you look in 1970s American cinema, you find white working-class men. They bring a violent conclusion to Easy Rider, murdering the film’s representatives of countercultural alienation and disaffection. They lurk in the Georgia woods of Deliverance, attacking outsiders in a manner that evokes the South’s recent history of racial violence and upheaval. They haunt the singles nightclubs of Looking for Mr. Goodbar, threatening the film’s newly liberated heroine with patriarchal violence. They strut through the disco clubs of Saturday Night Fever, dancing to music whose roots in post-Stonewall homosexuality invite ambiguity that the men ignore. Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men argues that the persistent appearance of working-class characters in these and other films of the 1970s reveals the powerful role class played in the key social and political developments of the decade, such as the decline of the New Left and counterculture, the re-emergence of the South as the Sunbelt, and the rise of the women’s and gay liberation movements. Examining the “youth cult” film, the neo-Western “southern,” and the “new nightlife” film, Nystrom shows how these cinematic renderings of white working-class masculinity actually tell us more about the crises facing the middle class during the 1970s than about working-class experience itself. Hard Hats thus demonstrates how these representations of the working class serve as fantasies about a class Other-fantasies that offer imaginary resolutions to middle-class anxieties provoked by the decade’s upheavals. Drawing on examples of iconic films from the era-Saturday Night Fever, Cruising, Five Easy Pieces, and Walking Tall, among others-Nystrom presents an incisive, evocative study of class and American cinema during one of the nation’s most tumultuous decades.
Grotesque Relations
Authors: Edmunds Susan
Published: November 2023

In this book, Susan Edmunds explores he relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the U.S. welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as maternalist reformers developed an inverted discourse of social housekeeping in order to call for state protection and regulation of the home. Modernists followed suit, turning the genre of domestic fiction inside out in order to represent new struggles on the border between home, market and state. dmunds uses the work of Djuna Barnes, Jean Toomer, Tillie Olsen, Edna Ferber, Nathanael West, and Flannery O'Connor to trace the significance of modernists' radical reconstitution of the genre of domestic fiction. Using a grotesque aesthetic of revolutionary inversion, these writers looped their depictions of the domestic sphere through revolutionary discourses associated with socialism, consumerism and the avant-garde. These authors used their grotesque discourses to deal with issues of social conflict ranging from domestic abuse and racial violence to educational reform, public health care, eugenics, and social security. With the New Deal, the U.S. welfare state realized maternalist ambitions to disseminate a modern sentimental version of the home to all white citizens, successfully translating radical bids for collective social security into a racialized order of selective and detached domestic security. The book argues that modernists engaged and contested this historical trajectory from the start.
Introduction
Authors: Madsen Finn
Published: November 2023

The Swedish legal system primarily provides two alternative methods for resolving legal disputes: litigation before courts of law or arbitration. In arbitration proceedings, two or more parties agree to refer the dispute for adjudication by an arbitral tribunal consisting of one or more arbitrators. The arbitrator or arbitrators may have been selected by the parties or the parties may also have assigned this task to a third party. The parties are afforded the possibility to determine to a large extent the form of the proceedings and the preconditions on which the dispute is to be adjudicated. The arbitral tribunal conclusively determines the dispute through the issuance of an award. The award cannot be appealed substantively and, provided it fulfils certain basic requirements, it may be forcibly executed in a manner corresponding to the enforcement of court judgments.
Choice of Forum and CISG: Remarl,s on the Latter’s Impact on the Former
Authors: Ferrari* Franco
Published: November 2023

It is commonly understood that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods1 (CISG)2 constitutes a “substantive law convention’’3 and that, among other topics not dealt with, it does not (directly) set forth Rule On Jurisdiction.
Preliminary Agreements and CISG Contracts
Authors: Torsello* Marco
Published: November 2023

This chapter focuses on the notion of sale adopted under the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (hereinafter “CISG”) and considers whether and to what extent that notion is broad enough to include preliminary agreements. Twenty-five years after the adoption of the CISG, one might assume a fundamental notion such as that of sale to be a clear and undisputed one. One might also consider the task undertaken here as merely consisting in measuring the overlaps of well-defined concepts. Scholarly writings and court decisions show that this is not entirely the case, however, and that, in particular with regard to transactions that are at some variance with the historically and socially most common notion of sale, there is still place for discussion of the precise sphere of application of the CISG. The notion of preliminary agreements, on the other hand, seems rather non-distinctive, the more so because (with the exception of a few jurisdictions) it is not a normative notion, although it describes a common practice in both domestic and international commerce.
Contract Formation: UCC andCISG
Authors: Murray John E
Published: November 2023

The principles and rules of contract formation appear so fundamental that significant exploration may be viewed as superfluous. The application of the law of contract formation, however, quickly reveals complexity and even frustration. Formation issues are sometimes like the performance of Mozart sonatas-too easy for children and too difficult for artists.
CISG Articles 14 Through 24
Authors: Viscasillas* Pilar Perales
Published: November 2023

Uniform international interpretation of the 1980 Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) in particular and in general of all of the substantive uniform law instruments prepared by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is certainly an ideal goal. It is, however, difficult to achieve for many reasons, particularly because there is not a unique court to dictate that uniform interpretation of the Convention. That is why the method choosen by UNCITRAL—comparative judicial interpretation—is one of the key elements to the future success of UNCITRAL legal texts.
Delivery Terms and the Passing of Risi<: Drafting Clauses Related to CISG Articles 66-70
Authors: Erauw* Johan
Published: November 2023

When drafting a contract provision relating to transfer of risk, it is important to keep in mind principles of party autonomy as well as the impact of trade customs and usages under CISG Article 9. Generally speaking, the clearer the communication between parties and the better the drafting of the agreement, the greater the chances of success in moving from negotiation to performance of a sale of goods. The CISG, in very broad terms, presumes that the intentions of the parties are in line with trade usages. Careful drafting can avoid the risk of ambiguities surrounding vague trade usages, and will prevent disputes and surprises. Such drafting requires an understanding of the applicable law. This chapter deals with drafting for delivery terms and the passage of risk when the applicable law is the CISG.
Drafting Contracts to Deal with Insecurity and Prospective Breach (Articles 71, 72, 73(2))
Authors: Walter* Mark S
Published: November 2023

Almost any situation to which these CISG provisions are appropriately applied conjures up the age-old segue to preachy wisdom, “and, the moral of the story is ... ”The moral, in fact, seems to be: never take on a task when it appears that you cannot complete performance. Or, on the other side of the coin, if it looks like your trading partner cannot perform, he probably can’t.
The UNCITRAL Digest, the Right to Interest, and the Interest Rate Controversy
Authors: Alstine* Michael P Van
Published: November 2023

The issue of an aggrieved party’s right to interest has the curious status of being among the most routine and at the same time most controversial subjects under the U.N. Sales Convention. CISG Articles 78 and 84(1) grant to an aggrieved party a basic, and largely uncontroversial, right to interest for unpaid sums. Unfortunately, in the charged political and economic environment at the negotiation of the Convention in the 1970s, the drafters were unable to agree on an appropriate interest rate.
The Proliferation of BITs: Conﬂicts of Treaties, Proceedings and Awards
Authors: Sacerdoti Giorgio
Published: November 2023

The considerable number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in force has given rise to conflicts when, in relation to the same subject matter, a right of action exits for a given investor (or related investors) under different BITs. In fact, two recent international disputes, the CME v. Czech Republic and Lauder Czech Republic arbitrations, have attracted widespread attention as the first example in which this situation has arisen. The same acts by the Czech Republic were subject to two separate arbitrations conducted concurrently. The two cases, however, underwent conflicting procedures, were dealt with under conflicting governing treaty provisions and resulted in seemingly conflicting awards. This situation has highlighted the risks inherent in the current international investment regime of intricate, non-coordinated networks of BITs. The fundamental risk is that this glaring inconsistency could potentially bring a backlash against international investment.
Water Can Flow Uphill A Narrative of Central Arizona
Authors: Redman Charles L , Kinzig Ann P
Published: November 2023

This narrative of an Arizona case study explores the relationship between ecological and human systems in the Salt River Valley of central Arizona during the past millennium, with a focus on the 140-year period of European American settlement. Our subject matter is the changing mosaic of Sonoran Desert landscape, irrigated farmland, and urban settlement. We examine how evolving patterns of perception, valuation, and use of water and land have been influenced by, and in turn have influenced, climate, environment, settlement, and agrarian landscapes. The logic for studying this region is strengthened by its presence within the CAP LTER project, one of only two urban sites in a national network of 26 sites. Our research perspective derives from two underlying concepts: (1) human management of surface and groundwater resources in this arid region has fundamentally altered both natural and human-modified landscapes, and (2) the technological and social aspects of this relationship have advanced over a relatively short time and are proceeding rapidly. Hence, this locale constitutes an excellent laboratory for examining the interplay between ecological and human systems.
Damages Under the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
Authors: Zeller Bruno
Published: November 2023

Damages Under the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, Second Edition presents a practical and detailed analysis of the methods used to determine and calculate damages under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Incorporating both worldwide judicial and arbitral decisions, Damages Under the CISG, Second Edition, is a unique and comprehensive guide to fully understanding this important area of law. It provides authoritative guidance on the differences that exist between uniform international instruments and domestic laws and offers comparative analysis of the calculation of damages under the civil and common law systems. The fault system and causation principle are compared with the foreseeability principle, one of the key considerations under Article 74 of the CISG. Where applicable to understanding damages issues, the UNIDROIT Principles and the Principles of European Contract Law are referenced in depth. These principles have been updated and the information revamped for the second edition, as well as additional information on fundamental breach of contract.
The Memory of Love
Authors: Hawley John Stratton
Published: November 2023

Surdas is unarguably the best known poet in Vrajbhasha, the most widely understood of the medieval Hindi literary dialects. He is the foremost Hindi poet of Krishna devotion and his verses are canonical in the Krishnaite tradition, which today is particularly vital in Western India. The verses are sung popularly throughout the Hindi-speaking regions. As with most legendary poet-singers in Indian oral tradition, Surdas’s authorship has been attributed to a great many verses. In his case, these constitute a very large corpus of devotional lyrics to Krishna, known in Hindi as the Sur Sagar, “Sur’s Ocean.” In this volume, Jack Hawley offers a selection of his charming translations of the most appealing of these poems, arranged according to such themes as “Krishna growing up,” “the pangs and politics of love,” and “The Ramayana.” Hawley’s monumental annotated translation and commentary on the full corpus of lyrics attributed to Surdas, accompanied by Kenneth Bryant’s edition of the complete Vrajbhasha text, will be published within the next few years in our South Asia Research series. In the meantime, this abridged edition will appeal to a wide range of scholars and students of Hinduism and Indian culture.
Wyndham Lewis, Soldier of Humor
Authors: North Michael
Published: November 2023

A more unlikely fan of Disney than Wyndham Lewis is hard to imagine.2 An implacable critic of the “infant-cult” (TWM, 68), Lewis could not even bring himself to join in the worldwide enthusiasm for Chaplin. What he called “the pathos of the small” (TWM, 66) seemed to excite in him not sympathy but disgust, and some of his most extreme thunderations are aimed at “the worship of the ridiculous” (Tarr, 15) that he identified especially with screen comedy. For someone who was repelled by the “doll-like face,” the “tiny wrists,” the “small body” (TWM, 67) of the Tramp, Mickey Mouse must have seemed a most disgusting rodent indeed. And yet, it turns out that Lewis was a lifelong fan of movie cartoons (CWB, 160) and that his very real admiration for Disney was but part of a genuine interest in film comedy that subsisted side by side with his public diatribes against it.
Tibetan Ritual
Authors: Cabezón José Ignacio
Published: November 2023

Ritual is one of the most pervasive religious phenomena in the Tibetan cultural world. Despite its ubiquity and importance to Tibetan cultural life, however, only in recent years has Tibetan ritual been given the attention it deserves. This is the first scholarly collection to focus on this important subject. Unique in its historical, geographical and disciplinary breadth, this book brings together eleven essays by an international cast of scholars working on ritual texts, institutions and practices in the greater Tibetan cultural world - Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia. While most of the chapters focus on Buddhism, two deal with ritual in Tibet's indigenous Bon religion. All of the essays are original to this volume. An extensive introduction by the editor provides a broad overview of Tibetan ritual and contextualizes the chapters within the field of Buddhist and Tibetan studies. The book should find use in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on Tibetan religion. It will also be of interest to students and scholars of ritual generally.
The Roles of the Playwright
Authors: Hapgood Robert
Published: November 2023

The roles that a playwright may play within the performance¬ ensemble have received surprisingly little attention. Where modern Western theatre is concerned, what has been written on the subject reads like propaganda issued from entrenched positions or communiques from an on-going battle. The combat has concentrated mostly on questions of primacy. Some one of the participants in the performance-ensemble may be felt to be dominant throughout, in which case there is talk of a dramatist’s theatre or a director’s theatre or an actor’s theatre.
The Treasonable Practices Act
Authors: Barrell John
Published: November 2023

In the months following the arrests of May I794, the SCI was dying if not quite dead, and the membership of the LCS had melted away: Mary Thale estimates that from June to December it declined from a peak of 800 paid-up members to less than a third of that number. Following the acquittals, however, numbers increased dramatically; in some weeks by as many as 200 new members a week, to a new peak, never again surpassed, of some 3,ooo. By the summer the society felt confident enough to take a new political initiative, and on 29 June a public meeting was held in St George’s Fields, Southwark, while large musters of mounted militia, and four pieces of artillery, were standing by at Clapham Common and Kennington.
Openings
Authors: Nuttall A D
Published: November 2023

What is the difference between a natural beginning and the beginning of a story? Some deny that there are any beginnings in nature, except perhaps for the origin of the universe itself, suggesting that elsewhere we have only a continuum of events, into which beginnings are variously `read’ by different societies. This book argues that history is full of real beginnings but that poets and novelists are indeed free to begin their stories wherever they like. The ancient poet Homer laid down a rule for his successors when he began his epic by plunging in medias res, `into the midst of things’. Later writers, however, persistently play off the `interventionist', in medias res opening against some sense of a `deep’, natural beginning: Genesis or the birth of a child. The author also outlines how the inspiring Muse of epic gives way to the poet’s ego, dies, revives and dies again. Ranging from Greek and Roman epic to the modern novel via Dante, Milton, Wordsworth, Sterne and Dickens, A. D. Nuttall has written an ambitious and original book which will be of interest to a wide variety of readers.
Samuel Beckett’s Theatre
Authors: Worth Katharine
Published: November 2023

In this uniquely personal account of Samuel Beckett's theatre, Katharine Worth draws on a wealth of remarkable material - her own work producing and directing productions of Beckett's plays, often with leading actors such as Patrick Magee, but also with students; the experience of watching other productions; her successful adaptation of Beckett's novella, Company, for the stage; and conversations and correspondence with Beckett himself. The book focuses on the power that Beckett's theatre has to fascinate us with the ordinary small experiences of life as well as its great mysteries. The strange life-journeys taken on his stage are seen to be the universal journey; the endless story-telling about it a process we all engage in. The critical discussion highlights the unique fusion on Beckett's stage of cosmic scenery and humorous individualism. It takes in at one end influential forerunners such as Maeterlinck, Yeats, and Dickens and at the other the lively contemporary performances, sometimes controversial, that testify to the enduring human appeal and magnetism of Beckett's plays and stage fiction.
Poems (1935)
Authors: McDonald Peter
Published: November 2023

It was MacNeice himself who asserted that ‘the best English poets have been those most successfully determined by their context’, going on to claim that (in 1935) ‘The English context is now more congenial to poets than it has been for a long time.’ While this alone is enough to suggest that isolating the poet from the literary/political milieu of England in the r 93os is something of a distortion, it must be qualified by what MacNeice wrote earlier in the same essay, that ‘the generalisations so often offered by poets themselves we must accept only as dramatic; they are not scientific rules but are merely a moment in the context of the poet’s life and work, just as one character in a play can give the lie to another character’.
From Jonson To Mil Ton: Elegies 1603—1638
Authors: Kay Dennis
Published: November 2023

Henry’s court had attracted men of diverse ages and interests. With its dissolution, those elements, once held together by the hopes reposed in the Prince, were scattered forever. Henry’s death provided new—and to many conclusive—evidence that the world was speeding to its end, and fragmenting as it did so. After that event, there would never again be an occasion when so many writers addressed their minds and wits to a common subject: nor indeed would there be again such a wide range of options for the elegist to choose from. The increasingly self-conscious politicization of literary discourse during the reigns of James I and Charles I had as an incidental consequence the effect of turning the elegy into a highly political genre, one where the poet’s choice of mode was an expression of political view, and where, under the veil of literary commentary, political and religious points might be made more or less obliquely.
Hopkins
Authors: White Norman
Published: November 2023

`To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life/Among strangers': so begins one of the darkest and most overtly autobiographical of Hopkins's poems, written in Ireland a few years before his death. In this major new biography, more deeply researched, fully documented, and comprehensive than any before it, Norman White uses the intimate evidence of the poems, letters, and journals, his personal knowledge of the places where Hopkins lived, and all surviving documentary records, to explore the life of the priest-poet who constantly felt himself `the stranger' in his world. It was more than just the enforced restlessness of his life following his conversion and the decision at twenty-four to become a Jesuit - though Hopkins’s writings again and again reveal his responsiveness to place, and his poignant sense of having no true home. His inner life was also an unresolved search for answers to his own difficult temperament: a series of crises, in fact, to which his responses were typically extreme, and ultimately unsatisfying. His vivid apprehension of beauty and particularity - in language, in the characters of men, in natural things, in what he perceived as the nature of Christ - was fuelled as much by longing as by calm assurance of belief. It is just this that makes him a supreme poet not only of nature but of the religious condition: the experience of both faith and despair. Norman White investigates Hopkins’s background and Oxford student life, and the Roman Catholic world which he entered, carefully and without prejudgements, setting his development and the movement of his thought against the background of Victorian England. The turmoil of Hopkins's strange personality, which often militated against his chances of happiness and success, is fully explored, as is the effect of his austere profession on his highly original writings - the journals and poems that are among the most remarkable works of literature in the English language.
‘What shall I do for the land that bred me?’
Authors: White Norman
Published: November 2023

Tomorrow morning’, Hopkins wrote on 17 February 1887, ‘I shall have lbeen three years in Ireland, three hard wearying wasting wasted years.’ At Stonyhurst he started checking the passing of time with marked anniversaries, and in Dublin he was more conscious than ever of existing at a particular moment, with more years behind than ahead. In August he wrote to Bridges: ‘ “Getting old”-you should never say it. But I was forty three on the 28th of last month and already half a week has gone.’ He had developed a self-consciousness about his appearance. Bridges’s friend Wooldridge had undertaken to paint a portrait of him in oils, using as a guide the photograph taken in I 879 in the Oxford studios of Coles and Foreshaw; when Hopkins visited Bridges it would be finished from life.
Media: Image and Word
Authors: Gray Douglas
Published: November 2023

We turn from the mental ‘furniture’ of readers, hearers, and writers, and from the mentalités which condition them—and which they themselves may change or adapt—to the more immediate and practical context of book production. In medieval illustrations we find images of scribes writing, later of printers at work in their shop, of audiences listening, and of authors or translators presenting their book to a patron. The production of books is a vast and fascinating area of study: ‘texts, their distinct versions, their different physical modes, and their comprehension in social contexts—in a word the sociology of texts’.
Later Prose Romance: Caxton to Berners
Authors: Gray Douglas
Published: November 2023

Caxton, Malory’s editor, was himself a prolific producer of prose romances. Later in 1485, the year of his Morte Darthur, he produced two: Charles the Grete and Paris and Vienne. He had already published a number—the Recuyell of the Hystoryes of Troye (?1473–4, while he was still in Bruges), Th’istories of Jason (1477), Godefroy of Boloyne (or The Siege and Conqueste of Jerusalem) in 1481—and produced others later—The Four Sons of Aymon and Blanchardin and Eglantyne in 1489, and the Eneydos (1490). All were translated from French, and represent a number of popular types––stories of antiquity, of the crusades, and of romantic love. The bulk is impressive, but, by and large, the quality is not.
Romances and Tales
Authors: Gray Douglas
Published: November 2023

If fifteenth-century lyrics have in the past often been underestimated, the verse romances of the period have often been simply ignored. This is partly due to the conviction that the fifteenth century is an age of decadence in general, and partly to a view that they were about to disappear with the advent of romance in prose. But this is very misleading. Romances in verse were not instantly or totally destroyed by the new fashion; nor do they in general have an ‘air of obsolescence’. The picture in fact seems more complicated and much more interesting. We can see some evidence of continuity as well as some evidence suggesting attempts to accommodate new modes of thought, new social groupings, new demands from an increasingly important audience of readers.
Verse: Wintoun, Hary, The Kingis Quair, The Quare of Jelusy, The Buke of the Howlat
Authors: Gray Douglas
Published: November 2023

The poetry is the glory of the period. In spite of all the losses, what has survived is of remarkable quality, and of a remarkable variety, with the work of the famous ‘makars’ as its high point. It was a distinct and a distinctive tradition, often a self-conscious one. Dunbar, Douglas, and Lindsay praise their Scottish predecessors and contemporaries (or many of them) as well as Chaucer. When it was rediscovered by later Scottish poets and antiquarians like Allan Ramsay or Pinkerton this distinctiveness was noted (and sometimes exaggerated).
Shakespearean Negotiations
Authors: Greenblatt Stephen
Published: November 2023

Stephen Greenblatt has been at the centre of a major shift in literary interpretation towards a critical method that places cultural creation in history. In this book - a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method - he asks how collective beliefs and experiences are shaped, moved from one medium to another, concentrated in manageable form, and offered to the public on the stage. As well as giving us a new way of understanding Shakespeare's achievement, the book is an original analysis of a cultural process. Shakespearean Negotiations provides significant insights into Henry IV and Henry V, Twelfth Night, King Lear, and The Tempest; it also includes fascinating analyses of such aspects of early modern culture as exorcism, cross-dressing, colonial propaganda, and martial law codes. It is, as well, a masterly example of a new critical method by its leading practitioner.
Middle English Literature 1100–1400
Authors: Bennett J A W
Published: November 2023

The magisterial Oxford History of English Literature is here reissued in its entirety, so that readers can collect any volumes that they missed on first publication, and new purchasers can obtain all thirteen published volumes at once. For the purposes of the reissue certain of the volumes have been retitled and the series has been renumbered; all volumes appear in handsome matching jackets. Of the two outstanding volumes, The Victorian Novel will be available in , (see P. 00), and The English Drama 1588-1642 will follow. Reviews of the volumes on their first publication spoke of `traditional literary scholarship at its best' and `essential basic reading for anyone who is interested in the subject'. The series - individual volumes of which can be purchased separately - should appeal to general readers and students alike.
The West Coast In The Second And First Centuries
Authors: McNicoll A W , Milner N P
Published: November 2023

In this chapter walls of three west coast sites, Teos, Ceramus, and Miletus, are examined briefly. The fortifications cover roughly the same period as those of the south coast discussed in the previous chapter. Teos ‘ fortifications are dated by inscriptions to the late third or early second century. Ceramic evidence dates Miletus ‘ south wall to the early first century. The fortifications of Ceramus are undated. These three cities ‘ defences show tactical and strategic characteristics similar to their south coast contemporaries. They also show some marked differences.
Technical Discussion
Authors: Winter Nancy A
Published: November 2023

Considerable technical skill is apparent in the manufacture of even the earliest Greek roof tiles, but improvements continue to be made throughout the Archaic period. The introduction of the concept of mass-production through the use of moulds, thought to have come to Greece with figurines from the Near East around 700 BC, may have suggested the method of production for roof tiles, although no such roof tiles exist in the Near East as models.’ From the beginning, the shape of the tiles takes advantage of the strength of the clay; in addition, the need for a tempering agent was known, to aid in even drying of the clay before firing and to reduce shrinkage during the drying process. The apparent sophistication of the design of the earliest known Greek tiles, with an elaborate network of flanges and notches for interlocking, has suggested to some that we do not yet possess the earliest examples in the series. Yet the Protocorinthian tiles which stand at the head of the known series show a complexity that belies their primitive nature. With sophistication comes refinement and simplification of design.
Introduction
Authors: Plantzos Dimitris
Published: November 2023

Among those objects of ancient art which have reached us through the lapse of ages, engraved stones may be considered among the number of the most elegant and refined by their forms, their lustre, and their use, the most precious from their material and their workmanship, the most sought for from the facility with which they can be mixed with other ornaments, and set in connection with the most precious jewels. The luxury of the ancients led them to adopt a style of workmanship which was agreeable to the most exquisite taste, whether it adorned diadems, collars, bracelets, earrings, waistbands, portions of dress, shoes, or even valuable pieces of furniture, or whether, set in a ring, it served both as a finger ring and a signet.
Royal Portraits
Authors: Plantzos Dimitris
Published: November 2023

Portraiture was in essence a Hellenistic invention. Royal portraiture in particular was conceived and developed in such a way as to comply with the ruler’s need to publicize his image to his subjects. Royal portraits of the Hellenistic period display a blend of both realistic and idealistic treatment of physical likeness, being images that project the ruler’s qualities in a heroic if not divine attitude. Thus the portrait of a king in the Hellenistic period was meant to make his subjects familiar with his likeness, but at the same time to underline their difference in status, as well as to proclaim the king’s authority to rule.
The Date Of Sālim’s Epistle
Authors: Crone Patricia , Zimmermann Fritz
Published: November 2023

We are now in a position to tackle the question of when, and indeed where, the epistle was written. Since the Khārijite and the Murji’ite parts are based on different sources,1 possibly of different dates, it seems best to start by treating them separately. Most of the chronological clues are to be found in the Khārijite parts, where many of them were first picked out by Cook. They may be presented as follows.
Heimat A German Dream
Authors: Boa Elizabeth , Palfreyman Rachel
Published: November 2023

The discourse of Heimat, meaning homeland or roots, has been a medium of debate on German identity between region and nation for at least a century. Four phases parallel Germany's discontinuous history: Heimat literature as a response to modernization and to regional tensions before the First World War; the inter-war period when Heimat divided into racist ideology, left-wing opposition, and inner resistance to the Third Reich; a post-war dialectic between escapist 1950s Heimat films and right-wing claims to the lost lands in the East to which anti-Heimat theatre and films in the 1960s and 1970s were a response, with the urban Heimat in GDR films adding a socialist twist; regionalism and green politics in the 1980s and German identity beyond Cold War divisions. A key point of reference in current debates on German history, Heimat looks likely to continue in postmodern and multicultural mode.
A Land Fit for Heroes? Ernst Wiechert’s Das einfache Leben and Marieluise Flie er’s Pioniere in lngo/stadt
Authors: Boa Elizabeth , Palfreyman Rachel
Published: November 2023

The First World War marked a huge watershed, both material and mental, as the great adventure, on which so many had euphorically embarked, turned into an orgy of senseless violence. Hopes nurtured by the more romantic enthusiasts that the cleansing flames of war would sweep aside the base materialism of a decadent modern age were dashed as trench warfare turned out to bea peculiarly modern affair of incompetent bureaucracy presiding over organized mass slaughter. In the German case, around two million men died in the war. A further eleven million who served in the armed forces survived, many of them, however, wounded or permanently maimed. Yet at the end of the war in the winter of 1918/19, the vast edifice of the German military forces unravelled with astonishing speed as over six million soldiers demobilized themselves and returned home within a period of some four months. But the very speed with which the army disintegrated left a vacuum. Faced with a collapse of discipline as the navy mutinied and the regular army melted away, the government turned to the Freikorps, paramilitary groups of right-wing mercenaries, for help in putting down revolutionary uprisings in Berlin and Munich in 1919, an action with fatal long-term effects in cementing the enmity between the social democrats and the communists and so setting the seeds for the later failure to form a united front against the National Socialists. The train of violence can seem in retrospect to have a fatal inevitability. As well as brutally putting down their fellow Germans, the Freikorps were used against Polish irregulars in the troubles accompanying the implementation of the Treaty of Versailles which provided for border changes and the loss of one seventh of former German territory with 6.5 million inhabitants, around half of whom were German-speakingand of whom some 700,000 came to Germany as refugees.
Spyscreen
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2023

Spy screen is a genre study of English-language spy fiction film and television between the 1930s and 1960s. Taking as his focus many well-known films and television series, Toby Miller uses a wide range of critical approaches - from textual interpretation, audience studies, and cultural history, through auteurism, imperial history, class, and governmentality, to genre, cultural imperialism, and gender. Beginning with an overview of the social and political background to the history, production, and analysis of spy fiction, topics discussed include the first canonical espionage movie, The 39 Steps, key film noir texts such as Gilda and The Third Man, the figure of popular spies, including James Bond, and the importance of women to the genre. The result is not just an insightful new study of key texts in this popular genre; it is an important intervention in the methodology and practice of Screen Studies.
Primo Levi’s Ordinary Virtues
Authors: Gordon Robert S C
Published: November 2023

Primo Levi was perhaps the most humane and eloquent writer of testimony to emerge from the Nazi Holocaust. But he also went beyond testimony in his work, tackling many of the founding ethical questions of what it is to be human, 'how to live'. Whether in accounts of the concentration camps, essays, science-fiction, autobiography, poetry, or fiction, he always approached his writing with a questioning, ethically open and alert eye. This book explores the extraordinary depth of Levi the ethical writer across his entire oeuvre for the first time, by way of thirteen so-called 'ordinary virtues', that is the ways and means Levi forges for practically and compassionately engaging with the world. It draws on a wide range of recent thinking about Holocaust literature and the general relationship between literature and ethics. From the book a new understanding of Levi's importance as both witness and writer emerges, enhancing his status as one of the key literary figures of the twentieth century.
Play
Authors: Gordon Robert S C
Published: November 2023

In Chapter 6, a swathe of Levi’s ethics was described, in the Pavesian vocabulary he was fond of, as an ‘ethics of maturity’. Practical intelligence and the acknowledgement of its limits, openness and responsiveness to others, knowledge about the world, and other virtues were all characterized as both cause and symptom of growth into a sort of moral maturity. But as was also suggested there, prior to this maturity, and in many ways a prerequisite of it, was a certain child-like sense of unguided discovery and accident, best summed up in the phrase ‘la liberti di sbagliare’ (‘the freedom to make mistakes’), used to capture the much-missed youthful excitement of Levi and Sandro’s rash mountain-climbing expeditions ‘to taste bear’s meat’.
Soundings in French Caribbean Writing Since 1950
Authors: Gallagher Mary
Published: November 2023

Over the second half of the twentieth century, a substantial flow of writing emerged from the French-held Caribbean. Much of this work is both theoretically knowing and poetically potent and has attracted international attention to the literary resonances of the uniquely complex geo-historical situation of the Caribbean, and indeed of the Americas in general. Much of its passion, pertinence, and appeal inheres in its approach to time and to space, an approach still reverberating with the shock of displacement and its various after-tremors: an exploded sense of diversity; radical relativization; the profound expropriations of enslavement; colonial erosion. Through readings of high-profile as well as lesser known writing, this book tracks some of the more striking tensions and tropisms at work in the French Caribbean imagination of space and time and their intersection. It studies generic interplay, textual palimpseste, narrative structure, and other dynamics of writing that realize and manipulate the intersections of time and space, history and memory, writing and rewriting, voice and text, referential space and (inter)textual space, as well as cultural theory and literary practice, identity and difference, place and displacement. In this way, it probes both the strains and the stresses, and also the insights and gravitations that make for the particular 'French Caribbean' timbre of this volume of writing. This specific vibration, while illuminating Caribbean, New World, and post-colonial thinking in general, also encourages wider reflection on global resonances of displacement and dislocation and on more general issues such as the role of writing, and of narrative in particular, in the confrontation of absence and presence, loss and desire, distance and diversity. This book locates the problematic of time/space in relation to historiographical, geo-cultural, and phenomenological thinking and it also takes account of the detonation of critical interest in what is broadly termed post-colonial writing. Its fundamental concern, however, is to show how a particular corpus of writing has, in the space of half a century, and from a bracing position of hyper-relationality, responded imaginatively and poetically to the challenge of envisioning place, and of relating space to time.
The Voice
Authors: Frith Simon
Published: November 2023

Look at a song’s lyrics on the page: whose “voice” is there? Who’s talking? The answer seems to start with the pronouns, the “shifters,” not just the “I,” the apparent speaker, but the “you” and “we” and “she” which reveal various things about the speaker. Even without an explicit “I,” that is, we have an implicit one, someone who’s doing the addressing: “yot’ve got a lot of nerve, to say that you’re my friend.” The “voice” in the printed lyrics is thus articulated by the text itself, by a process that is both self-expressive and self-revealing, both declared openly and implied by the narrative.
Genre, Gesture, and Meaning in Mozart’s ‘Prague’ Symphony
Authors: Sisman Elaine R
Published: November 2023

During his glory years in Vienna in the 1780s, Mozart wrote extraordinarily few symphonies. Whether he took symphonies less seriously as a genre than piano concertos—a conclusion difficult to sustain in light of the works themselves—or simply preferred to spend the time on operas or on the featured-soloist genres fervently applauded by the Viennese, he programmed his older works and works by other composers on many of his concerts.
Monteverdi
Authors: Arnold Denis
Published: November 2023

Celebrated during his lifetime, Monteverdi disappeared from the repertory for centuries until interest in him gradually revived over the last hundred years. Denis Arnold's contribution to this revival was considerable. Here he pays tribute to Monteverdi's genius and such enduring achievements as the Vespers, other choral compositions, the operas, and the sacred and secular songs. In relating Monteverdi to the musical activity of his time, and in examining his years at the Court of Mantua and in Venice, Denis Arnold reveals a fascinating musician whose works epitomize in many varied ways the musical and cultural issues of his age. The text and appendices of this edition were revised by Tim Carter, who added a new chapter taking account of recent scholarship.
The Society of British Musicians (1834–1865) and the Campaign for Native Talent
Authors: McVeigh Simon
Published: November 2023

English music has hitherto been a garden of severest walled out from the world; although its perfume has occasionally been wavered abroad to prove its existence.
Changing Values in Nineteenth Century Performance: The Work of Michael Costa and August Manns
Authors: Musgrave Michael
Published: November 2023

The nineteenth century saw great changes in standards of orchestral performance in both the theatre and the concert hall. In the earlier years, the needs were often of a basic nature—not only for better playing and discipline of ensemble, but for greater consistency and sense of commitment.
Popular Nationalism: Griffith Rhys Jones (‘Caradog’) and the Welsh Choral Tradition
Authors: Herbert Trevor
Published: November 2023

Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis, 1146–1223), whose writings became the most frequently quoted authority for the indigenous musicianship of the Welsh, and the great hymn writer William Williams of Pantycelyn (1717–91). The presentation was made possible by ‘contributions from each of the thirteen counties of Wales, and the subscription list included not only handsome donations from the richer members of the community, but the three-penny pieces of the working men and working women of the Principality.’
Ambivalent Friendships: Music-Lovers, Amateurs, and Professional Musicians in the Late Nineteenth Century
Authors: Gillett Paula
Published: November 2023

The professional music world of the late Victorian era Was supported by an intense and complex matrix of activities in which amateur musicians played a central and well-recognized role. Amateurs—conventionally defined as those who pursue music-making for intrinsic gratification rather than as a primary source of income, but on closer examination a group whose precise constitution is far more elusive—purchased instruments and sheet music in unprecedented quantities, performed in a variety of private and public settings, engaged music teachers (mostly) for their daughters, and attended concerts.
Re-Establishing Contacts: prose rhymes in A la Recherche du temps perdu
Authors: Piette Adam
Published: November 2023

Memory is a ventriloquist here, throwing the voices of past selves into present tense speech. This personified faculty, memory become dramatic voice within the mouth, haunts the texts of Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, and Beckett. With Proust, voluntary and involuntary memory, though made triumphantly distinct in ‘Le Temps retrouvé’, often subtly inter-mingle in the ordinary courses of the human voice. I will show how Proust demonstrates this intermingling by use of a technique of key-word emphasis that mimes memory’s ventriloquist interjections. The prose rhymes are marks of a past anxiety involuntarily altering the voice as it attempts to speak of ‘other matters’.