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Playing across a Divide
Authors: Brinner Benjamin 
Published: October 2011

Abstract
In the last decade of the twentieth century and on into the twenty-first, Israelis and Palestinians saw the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords, the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the escalation of suicide bombings and retaliations in the region. During this tumultuous time, numerous collaborations between Israeli and Palestinian musicians coalesced into a significant musical scene. Following the bands Bustan Abraham and Alei Hazayit from their creation and throughout their careers, as well as the collaborative projects of Israeli artist Yair Dalal, this book demonstrates the possibility of musical alternatives to violent conflict and hatred in an intensely contested, multicultural environment. These artists' music drew from Western, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and Afro-diasporic musical practices, bridging differences and finding innovative solutions to the problems inherent in combining disparate musical styles and sources. Creating this new music brought to the forefront the musicians' contrasting assumptions about sound production, melody, rhythm, hybridity, ensemble interaction, and improvisation. The author traces the tightly interconnected field of musicians and the people and institutions that supported them as they and their music circulated within the region and along international circuits. The book argues that the linking of Jewish and Arab musicians' networks, the creation of new musical means of expression, and the repeated enactment of culturally productive musical alliances provides a unique model for mutually respectful and beneficial coexistence in a chronically disputed land.
Arab Musicians in Israel and the West Bank
Authors: Brinner Benjamin 
Published: October 2011

Abstract
Music flourishes as an essential element of celebration, but quality languishes under the tyranny of the lowest common denominator. Jamal Sa'id, a popular Palestinian drummer, summed up his experience playing for weddings and other celebrations in the West Bank and Israel when we spoke in Jerusalem in the early 1990s. Most have withdrawn completely from this mainstream; those who continue to participate do so for the sizable income or to fulfill social obligations. But this mainstream is not the only show in town. Frustrated musicians seek out or create other opportunities. Presentation of Arab art music in a prestigious setting in West Jerusalem boosted their standing as musicians and offered them a small measure of recognition in Israeli society. Cassettes and compact discs serve different purposes for consumers and musicians. Consumers buy them in order to hear their favorites or to satisfy their curiosity about new singers.
Diakonia
Authors: Collins John N 
Published: October 2011

Abstract
This is the first comprehensive study of the Greek word “diakonia”, from which the word “deacon” is derived. Diakonia and its cognates appear frequently throughout the New Testament, but its precise meaning has long been disputed. Today, it is usually translated as “service” or “ministry”. As this book shows, this understanding of diakonia has been important to the development of a modern consensus about the nature of Christian ministry. Based on the understanding that diakonia is “service” and that the diakonos (deacon) is a “servant”, nearly all Christian bodies today agree that the central idea of ministry is that of helping the needy, and that the “servant” church should be humbly devoted to helping the world, after the model of Jesus. This is an exhaustive study of diakonia in Christian and non-Christian sources from about 200 bce to 200 ce. The book finds that in all such sources the word is used to mean “messenger” or “emissary”, and has no implications of humility or of helping the needy. This discovery undermines much of the theological discussion of ministry that has taken place over the past fifty years.
Some Parameters
Authors: Dollimore Jonathan 
Published: October 2011

AbstractThis book emerges at the intersection of diverse perspectives, including biography, literary and cultural theory, theodicy, social history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, feminism, and the emerging field of lesbian and gay studies. Several interrelated issues recur, two especially: one is the complex, often violent, sometimes murderous dialectic between dominant cultures and subordinate cultures, groups, and identities; the other concerns those conceptions of self, desire, and transgression which figure in the language, ideologies, and cultures of domination, and in the diverse kinds of resistance to it. One kind of resistance, operating in terms of gender, repeatedly unsettles the very opposition between the dominant and the subordinate. The book calls this sexual dissidence. Equally illuminating is the history of the early modern period, to which the book repeatedly turns. More exactly, it moves between the post-modern and the early modern.
Becoming Authentic
Authors: Dollimore Jonathan 
Published: October 2011

AbstractThis chapter takes up the subsequent history of André Gide's transgressive ethic. It is fair to say that Gide's sexual nonconformity was a source of and stimulus to radical insight. One response to this is the intense hostility already noted. Another is to ignore it. A third response is to recognize but downplay it, as did Enid Starkie. Emphasis to the passage is meant only to highlight, in the very talk of the personal, an absence of precisely that ‘personal’ empathy which animated Gide's politics; that Starkie unwillingly displays that lack in a discussion of exactly that which in Gide helped inspire it as revealing but not untypical. What is suggested in this case is the way an older view of homosexuality as a behaviour survives within the newer account of it as an identity.
Towards the Paradoxical Perverse and the Perverse Dynamic
Authors: Dollimore Jonathan 
Published: October 2011

AbstractThis chapter shows how the pre-sexual history of the concept inheres in modern beliefs about sexual perversion, and with the objective of replacing the pathological concept with a political one. Perversion was (and remains) a concept bound up with insurrection. More generally, and in the light of that history, this chapter wants to recover perversion as not only a culturally central phenomenon, but a category from which two concepts emerge that are crucial for insurrectionary critique: the perverse dynamic and transgressive reinscription. It is the sexual sense of the word that predominates now and, before recovering the history of the concept, the chapter considers two important but opposed accounts of sexual perversion, those of Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault respectively. Opposed as they are, both nevertheless identify perversion as culturally central.
Deconstructing Freud
Authors: Dollimore Jonathan 
Published: October 2011

AbstractSigmund Freud acknowledged that his theory needed homosexuality. However, to what extent did he actually discover these ‘homosexual currents’ or rather construct something which his theory needed? It might be said that he half discovered, and more than half produced them — if only to register their paradoxical, excessive, and often fraught status in psychoanalytic theory. Whatever, once invoked, ‘homosexuality’ kept problematizing not only the prevailing categories of psychosexual normality — something which Freud clearly wanted it to do — but also the theory which needed it, and which its discovery initially enabled. The various ways in which it did so, either independently, or as a representative of the perversions, is the subject of this chapter. Before pursuing this intriguing connection between homosexuality, perversion, and deconstruction, there is another kind of problem in Freud, more mundane yet equally important. It concerns the tension between theory and evidence.
Subjectivity and Transgression
Authors: Dollimore Jonathan 
Published: October 2011

AbstractThis chapter explores how in the post-modern period, issues of transgression and subjectivity are inextricably bound together. The same is true of the earlier period, but with important differences which are often disregarded. In English studies especially the modern and the early modern have been erroneously conflated. In particular, essentialist conceptions of the self which took effective hold only in the Enlightenment, then subsequently developed within Romanticism and modernism, have been retrospectively read into the early modern period. There are far-reaching differences between early modern metaphysics and post-structuralism. The link between subjectivity and subjection, which for the (political) post-modernist has to be disclosed before it can be disarticulated, is, by comparison, both assumed and manifestly endorsed in the Renaissance. The chapter also discusses the Cartesian cogito according to Saint Augustine, René Descartes, and Jacques Lacan.
Poetry and the Realm of Politics
Authors: Erskine-Hill Howard 
Published: October 2011

Abstract
This book studies the relation between poetry and politics in 16th- and 17th-century English literature, focusing in particular on the works of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, and Dryden. The book argues that the major tradition of political allusion is not, as has often been argued, that of the political allegory of Dryden's Absalom and Architophel, and other overtly political poems, but rather a more shifting and less systematic practice, often involving equivocal or multiple reference. Drawing on the revisionist trend in recent historiography, and taking issue with recent New Historicist criticism, the book offers new and thought-provoking readings of familiar texts. For example, Shakespeare's Histories, far from endorsing a conservative Tudor myth, are shown to examine and reject divine-right kingship in favour of a political vision of what the succession crisis of the 1590s required. A forgotten political aspect of Hamlet is restored and an anti-Cromwellian strain is identified in Milton's Paradise Lost. This book shows how some of the most powerful works of the period, works which in the past have been read for their aesthetic achievement and generalized wisdom, in fact contain a political component crucial to our understanding of the poem.
The Complex Sentence
Authors: Mitchell Bruce 
Published: October 2011

Abstract
A complex sentence consists of a principal clause and one or more subordinate clauses. The latter are clauses introduced by a relative pronoun or by a subordinating conjunction. This chapter discusses syntactic structure of complex sentences in Old English covering punctuation, subordination and hypotaxis, correlation and anticipation, the order and arrangement of clauses, semi-subordination, and the position of subordinate clauses.
The Logic of Duplicity and Design in Under Western Eyes
Authors: Sturgess Philip J. M. 
Published: October 2011

Abstract
This chapter, the first practical application of the author's theoretical approach, looks in detail at a novel where the question of narrative logic in its Aristotelian dimension is a fundamental one. Under Western Eyes offers an intriguing challenge in this respect. We can make an a priori decision that the category of pseudocontradictions does not apply in this case, since such a category is relevant only for those works which disregard entirely the problem of contradiction. In other words, this category applies almost exclusively to postmodernist fiction.
The Apotheosis of Freedom
Authors: Mcfarland Thomas 
Published: October 2011

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This chapter examines the literature on the apotheosis of freedom. It suggests that if the transcendence called love resides at the very apex of human meaning, a similar extreme elevation is occupied by the concept of freedom. They also share an exalted place in human esteem, and they both impoverish any situation from which they are absent. This chapter analyses relevant passages from the works of several authors, including Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Lord Byron.
Paradoxes of Transcendence
Authors: Mcfarland Thomas 
Published: October 2011

Abstract
This chapter examines the literature concerning freedom and necessity. It argues that the line of thought that connects freedom and necessity forced the latter into pure transcendence. It suggests that the defining location of transcendence means that freedom does not exist in actuality and that humans find that what they call freedom is always hypothecated to the claims of the actual. This chapter analyses relevant passages from the works of several writers, including John Milton and Jean-Paul Sartre.
The Woman Reader 1837–1914
Authors: Flint Kate 
Published: October 2011

Abstract
This book provides an invaluable source of information on nineteenth-century culture and the woman reader. Why was the topic of women and reading so controversial for the Victorians and Edwardians? What was it assumed that women read, and what advice was given about where, when, and how to read? The book examines texts ranging from fiction, painting, and poetry, through medical and psychoanalytic works, advice manuals and periodicals, to autobiographies and contemporary social research, in her detailed study of this central cultural debate in nineteenth-century society. Engaging also in recent feminist theory, the book explores the manipulation of the figure of the woman reader in well-known works like Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley and Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out, in sensation novels and New Woman fiction, and in stories found in series such as The Princess’s Novelettes. This is supported by evidence from actual readers — working women, as well as the privileged — as to how they understood their own highly varied reading experiences.
With Hichens to Pretoria and Milner to Johannesburg
Authors: Lavin Deborah 
Published: October 2011

AbstractThis chapter narrates the experiences of Curtis as a volunteer during the South African War. He wrote a series of diary letters to his mother and sister from South Africa. Hichens, Max Balfour, and Curtis were fortunate not to be sent with the main CIV force to Bloemfontein. Curtis accompanied Hichens on a second expedition, to the remote Boer settlement of Keimos, to commandeer wagons. The two men complemented each other. South Africa affected Curtis forcefully as the religion in which he had been brought up. After their return to England, Max assumed an artist's life and Hichens joined Cromer's financial staff in Egypt. Curtis had returned to South Africa with a general idea of helping the Dutch. Curtis always claimed that the South African Republic had not known any real form of municipal government, discounting the old landdrosts and veld cornets as not comparable and the small-town sanitary committees as negligible.
Arnobius of Sicca
Authors: Simmons Michael Bland 
Published: October 2011

Abstract
Arnobius of Sicca, in North Africa, was a Christian convert writing in the time of the Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century ad. His most famous work, Against the Pagans, was written shortly after his conversion (c.ad 302), and is a brilliant defence of his new religion using arguments taken from the cream of pagan learning. It demonstrates exactly the nature and intensity of the conflict between pagans and Christians at this period. This book studies Arnobius and deals fully with every important aspect of his life and writing, from the complex and controversial question of the date of Against the Pagans, to the biographical data provided by Jerome, to the significance of the conflict between the African supreme deity, Saturn, and the Christian God. This book provides clear evidence to show that Arnobius' work is directly related to the anti-Christian writings of the famous Porphyry of Tyre, demonstrating how Arnobius used one work of Porphyry against another to disclose inconsistencies and contradictions in the great pagan polymath — the very method used by Porphyry in his own treatise, Against the Christians. This book discusses the philosophical background of Arnobius, arguing convincingly that he belonged to the Platonic, not Epicurean, school of thought as has often been alleged. Arnobius has hitherto been one of the most misinterpreted ancient authors. This book sets Arnobius firmly on the map as a writer of considerable interest and importance, who made a significant contribution to the final triumph of Christianity over its Graeco-Roman competitors.
God and the Gods
Authors: Simmons Michael Bland 
Published: October 2011

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This chapter explores Arnobius' understanding of the relationship between God and the gods. One of the most controversial debates related to Arnobiana concerns the exact meaning of the relationship between the Supreme God and the gods of Graeco-Roman paganism. Some have suggested that Arnobius develops a hypothetical argument about the existence of the gods. Others believe that their existence is affirmed only for polemical purposes. A good number have maintained that he believed in the existence of inferior deities. With the exception of Le Bonniec, who has studied epithets which imply the existence of subordinate deities, these scholars have not clarified exactly what Arnobius means by gods and the criteria which allow one to disengage polemics from personal views. This is important because Arnobius conveys a fine distinction between the gods of pagan religious literature and the divine beings of the Platonic tradition. If there is a pre-Christian philosophical stratum discernible in the Adversus nationes, as Le Bonniec supposes, then it is mandatory to distinguish between criticism of the Graeco-Roman gods and an intellectual acceptance of, and philosophical belief in, the Platonic gods. This is the basic methodological procedure of the present chapter.
Epilogue
Authors: Simmons Michael Bland 
Published: October 2011

Abstract
This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters. Arnobius was a professor of Latin rhetoric who taught in the North African city of Sicca Veneria during the reign of Diocletian. These two conclusions are significant for several reasons. First, they are significant for the history of Christianity in Roman North Africa specifically, and in the Roman Empire in general. Second, the work of Arnobius, the Adversus nationes, is to be understood as an important document resulting from the great religious conflict and competition that occurred during the Age of Diocletian.
The Gendered Gothic in Pardo Bazán'sLos pazos de Ulloa
Authors: HART STEPHEN M. 
Published: October 2011

AbstractThe role of the Gothic and that of gender in Los pazos de Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán has been touched on by other critics; this chapter explores the connections between the two. At the risk of falling into the trap of disciplinary colonialism, the chapter investigates convergences between the Gothic as understood in English Studies and what is arguably the most significant novel by a 19th-century female Spanish novelist. The main plot of the novel, on which all else hangs, is its depiction of a not only failed but also non-delineated love affair between Julián Álvarez and Nucha. Los Pazos is, indeed, an ‘oppressive ruin’ set within a decaying feudal Catholic society, symbolised by the dusty old patent of nobility Julián stumbles on soon after his arrival. Also applicable is Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's reference to ‘the trembling sensibility of the heroine’ and, the ‘impetuosity of her lover’.
The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
Authors: Tracey Michael 
Published: October 2011

AbstractPublic broadcasting was the single most important social, cultural, and journalistic institution of the twentieth century. In the 15 years preceding the publication of this book, it had been assaulted politically, ideologically, technologically, and was everywhere in retreat. This book considers the idea of public service broadcasting and examines in detail the assault made upon it, with specific emphasis on global developments and events in the United Kingdom, Japan, Europe, and the United States. It argues that public service broadcasting has been a vital and democratically significant institution now experiencing a terminal decline brought about by changes in political, economic, and technological circumstances. Based on years of research and extensive contact with leading public broadcasters around the world, the book examines the idea of public service broadcasting and how for the most part it has vainly (and often ineffectually) struggled to survive. It concludes that public broadcasting is, as was once said of Weimar, a corpse on leave. Its likely disappearance constitutes an indication of a real and deep-seated crisis within liberal democracy.
Moving Pictures
Authors: Grodal Torben 
Published: October 2011

AbstractThis book is a bold theoretical account of the role of emotions and cognition in producing the aesthetic effects of film and television genres. It argues that film genres are mental structures that integrate sensations, emotions, and actions, activating the viewer's body and mind. Using recent developments in neuroscience and cognitive science, in combination with narrative theory and film theory, the author provides an alternative account to that offered by psychoanalysis explaining identification and the correlation of viewer reaction with specific film genres. The book concludes with an analysis of the emotional structures of comic fiction, metafiction, crime fiction, horror, and melodrama. It is unique in describing a wide range of problems and issues within film studies, from a cognitive, neurophysiological, and ecological point of view.
The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake
Authors: Fisch Harold 
Published: October 2011

Abstract
In this book of the poetics of influence, the indebtedness of Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake to a common source, namely the Bible, becomes a powerful tool for displaying three fundamentally different poetic options as well as three different ways of dealing with a conflict central to western culture. In fresh and original discussions of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, and King Lear, the author discerns what he terms the metagon: not the struggle between the characters on the stage, but a struggle for the control of the play between biblical and non-biblical modes of imagining. Milton seems more single-minded in his reliance on biblical sources, yet from his analysis of Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, the author concludes that there are unresolved contradictions, both aesthetic and theological, which threaten the coherence and balance of these poems as well. Blake in his turn perceived these contradictions in the work of his predecessors, condemning both Shakespeare and Milton for allowing their writing to be curbed by Greek and Latin models and claiming for himself a more authentic inspiration — that of ‘the Sublime of the Bible’. But Blake’s marvellous achievements in the sublime mode, as for instance in his Illustrations to Job, often reverse the direction of his biblical source, replacing dialogue with monologue.
Julius Caesar: Stones or Men?
Authors: Fisch Harold 
Published: October 2011

Abstract
This chapter analyses Act II, scene i, in Julius Caesar, where the conspirators meet to plot the assassination. The scene lights up not the individual quirks of Brutus but the frightful moral chasm between the Roman world and our own. It is no longer a matter of strange language; it is not that Brutus is off-key, momentarily out of touch with reality. It is that we, the audience, have suddenly become aware of reality — a reality of the most shattering kind and different from our own. On seeing the strange and horrifying actions of Brutus and his friends, Shakespeare’s audience would inevitably call to mind a contrary ritual, of which this might seem to be a caricature, namely, that of Pontius Pilate who had washed his hands before the multitude, saying he was innocent of the blood of the crucified Saviour.