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Content: Lockdown Cultures is both a cultural response to our extraordinary times and a manifesto for the arts and humanities and their role in our post-pandemic society. This book offers a unique response to the question of how the humanities commented on and were impacted by one of the dominant crises of our times: the Covid-19 pandemic. While the role of engineers, epidemiologists and, of course, medics is assumed, Lockdown Cultures illustrates some of the ways in which the humanities understood and analysed 2020-21, the year of lockdown and plague. Though the impulse behind the book was topical, underpinning the richly varied and individual essays is a lasting concern with the value of the humanities in the twenty-first century. Each contributor approaches this differently but there are two dominant strands: how art and culture can help us understand the Covid crisis; and how the value of the humanities can be demonstrated by engaging with cultural products from the past. The result is a book that serves as testament to the humanities' reinvigorated and reforged sense of identity, from the perspective of UCL and one of the leading arts and humanities faculties in the world. It bears witness to a globally impactful event while showcasing interdisciplinary thinking and examining how the pandemic has changed how we read, watch, write and educate. More than thirty individual contributions collectively reassert the importance of the arts and humanities for contemporary society.

Note: Includes index. , List of figures〈/i〉〈br〉〈i〉List of contributors〈br〉Foreword〈br〉Acknowledgements〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉Introduction〈br〉〈i〉Maurice Biriotti〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part I: Politics〈/b〉1 'Give me liberty or death'〈br〉〈i〉Lee Grieveson〈/i〉2 Translating Covid-19 information into Yiddish for the Montreal-area Hasidic community〈br〉〈i〉Lily Kahn, Zoë Belk, Kriszta Eszter Szendrői, and Sonya Yampolskaya〈/i〉3 Shakespeare and the plague of productivity〈br〉〈i〉Harvey Wiltshire〈/i〉4 The decolonial option and the end of the world〈br〉〈i〉Izabella Wodzka〈/i〉5 Distant together: creative community in UK DIY music during Covid-19〈br〉〈i〉Kirsty Fife〈/i〉6 Now are we cyborgs? Affinities and technology in the Covid-19 lockdowns〈br〉〈i〉Emily Baker and Annie Ring〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part II: History〈/b〉7 Reflections on Covid-like pathogens in ancient Mesopotamia〈br〉〈i〉Markham J. Geller〈/i〉8 Handwashing save slives: producing and accepting new knowledge in Jens Bjørneboe's Semmelweis (1968)〈br〉〈i〉Elettra Carbone〈/i〉9 Experience and coping with isolation: what we can see from ethnic Germans in Britain 1914-18〈br〉〈i〉Mathis J. Gronau〈/i〉10 Unexpectedly withdrawn and still engaged: reflections on the experiences of the Roman writer and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero〈br〉〈i〉Gesine Manuwald〈/i〉11 The Gallic Sack of Rome: an exemplum for our times〈br〉〈i〉Elizabeth McKnight〈/i〉12 On Spinalonga〈br〉〈i〉Panayiota Christodoulidou〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part III: Performance, identity and the screen〈/b〉13 The thing itself〈br〉〈i〉Alexander Samson〈/i〉14 Towards a new history: The corona-seminar and the drag king virus〈br〉〈i〉Helena Fallstrom〈/i〉15 'In spite of the tennis': Beckett's sporting apocalypse'〈br〉〈i〉Sam Caleb〈/i〉16 Screening dislocated despair: projecting the neoliberal left-behinds in 〈i〉100 Flowers Hidden Deep〈/i〉〈br〉〈i〉Nashuyuan Serenity Wang〈/i〉17 A digital film for digital times: some lockdown thoughts on 〈i〉Gravity〈/i〉〈br〉〈i〉Stephen M. Hart〈/i〉18 The Great Plague: London's Dreaded Visitation, 1665〈br〉〈i〉Justin Hardy〈/i〉〈i〉 〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part IV: Literature and writing〈/b〉19 Lessons for lockdown from Thomas Mann's 〈i〉The Magic Mountain〈/i〉〈i〉Jennifer Rushworth〈/i〉20 The locked room: On reading crime fiction during the Covid-19 pandemic〈br〉〈i〉Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen〈/i〉21 The weight of the shrinking world〈br〉〈i〉Florian Mussgnug〈/i〉22 A voice-mail lyric for a discipline in crisis: On Ben Lerner's 'The Media'〈br〉〈i〉Matthew James Holman〈/i〉23 20,000 leagues under confinement〈br〉〈i〉Patrick Bray〈/i〉24〈i〉 〈/i〉Reflections on Guixiu literary cultures in East Asia〈br〉〈i〉Tzu-Yu Lin〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part V: Personal reflections〈/b〉25 At home: Vaughan Williams' 'The Water Mill; and new meaninsg of 'quotidian'〈br〉〈i〉Annika Lindskog〈/i〉26 The habit of freedom〈br〉〈i〉Naomi Siderfin〈/i〉27 Pandemic dreaming〈br〉〈i〉Adelais Mills〈/i〉28 In pursuit of blandness: On re-reading Jullien's 〈i〉In Praise of Blandness〈/i〉 during lockdown〈br〉〈i〉Emily Furnell〈/i〉29〈i〉 〈/i〉Blinded lights: going viral during the Covid-19 pandemic〈br〉〈i〉Sarah Moore〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part VI: Visual responses〈/b〉30 Morphologies of agents of the pandemic〈br〉〈i〉SMRU (The Social Morphologies Research Unit : Davdi Burrows,Martin Holbraad, John Cussans, Kelly Fagan Robinson, Melanie Jackson, Dean Kenning, Inigo Minns, Lucy Sames, Hermione Spriggs, Mary Yacoob)〈/i〉31 Wildfire〈br〉〈i〉John Thomson and Alison Craighead〈/i〉32 Poems from 〈i〉Gospel Oak〈/i〉〈br〉〈i〉Sharon Morris〈/i〉33 I have a studio (visit) therefore I exist〈br〉〈i〉Carey Young, Alice Channer, Anne Hardy and Karin Ruggaber〈/i〉34 Inventory〈br〉〈i〉Jayne Parker〈/i〉35 After a long time or a short time〈br〉〈i〉Elisabeth S. Clark〈/i〉36 When the roof blew off〈br〉〈i〉Joe Cain〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈i〉Index.

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Content: A brief popular history, dealing with the last half of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th.

Language: English

Subjects: Theology

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Note: Originally published A.S.Barnes,1963

Language: English

Author information: Liptzin, Solomon 1901-1995

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Content: From the second half of the nineteenth century through to World War II, Eastern Europe, especially the territories that formerly made up the Pale of Settlement in the Tsarist Empire, witnessed a Jewish cultural flowering that went hand-in-hand with a multifaceted literary productivity in the Hebrew and Yiddish languages. Accompanied and sometimes directly affected by the dramatic political ruptures of the era, many authors experimented with various modernist poetics in the context of a culturally and literarily closely interwoven milieu. This beautifully illustrated catalogue presents for the first time some of the key figures of the era, including in each case a portrait of the author and a close reading of selected texts, including Yosef Ḥayim Brenner, Leah Goldberg, Moyshe Kulbak, and Deborah Vogel. Of particular interest here is the productive entanglement of cultures and literatures, of cultural contact and transfer, and the significance of space and place for the development of modern Jewish literatures.

Note: Text auf Englisch, einzelne Auszüge auf Jiddisch oder Hebräisch

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe In their surroundings Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023 ISBN 9783525306116

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Subjects: German Studies

Keywords: Osteuropa ; Literatur ; Jiddisch ; Hebräisch ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Author information: Koller, Sabine 1971-

Author information: Gordinsḳi, Naṭashah 1979-

Author information: Gal-ʿEd, Efrat 1956-

Author information: Ṿais, Yifʿat 1962-

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ISBN: 1-280-04557-4 , 9786613519016 , 3-16-151771-7

Series Statement: Texts and studies in ancient Judaism, 143

Content: Hauptbeschreibung One of the most controversial books in history, Toledot Yeshu recounts the life story of Jesus from a negative and anti-Christian perspective. It ascribes to Jesus an illegitimate birth, a theft of the Ineffable Name of God, heretical activities, and, finally, a disgraceful death. Perhaps for centuries, the Toledot Yeshu circulated orally until it coalesced into various literary forms. Although the dates of these written compositions remain obscure, some early hints of a Jewish counter-history of Jesus can be found in the works of pagan and Christian autho

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Peter Schäfer: Introduction; Michael Sokoloff: The Date and Provenance of the Aramaic Toledot Yeshu on the Basis of Aramaic Dialectology; The Publication of the Aramaic Texts; Previous Discussions of the Aramaic Language of the Texts; Linguistic Analysis of the Vocabulary of TY; 1. Morphology; 2. Syntax; 3. Vocabulary; Conclusions; Peter Schäfer: Agobard's and Amulo's Toledot Yeshu; Agobard; Amulo; William Horbury: The Strasbourg Text of the Toledot; 1.; 2.; 3.; Adina M. Yoffie: Observations on the Huldreich Manuscripts of the Toledot Yeshu , The Manuscript Evidence and Implications for AuthorshipPreliminary Efforts at Dating the Huldreich; The Uniqueness of the Huldreich: Rewriting Old Traditions; Conclusion; Michael Stanislawski: A Preliminary Study of a Yiddish ""Life of Jesus"" (Toledot Yeshu): JTS Ms. 2211; 1. The editor's knowledge and citation of different narrative traditions.; 2. Talmud and trial of Jesus.; 3. Historical inaccuracy.; 4. Linguistic markers of the distinctions between Jews and Gentiles.; 5. Halachah.; 6. Attitude to Kabbalah.; 7. Ashkenization.; 8. Differences in narrative itself.; 9. Portrayal of Mary. , Pierluigi Piovanelli: The Toledot Yeshu and Christian Apocryphal Literature: The Formative YearsThe Discovery of a Strange Jewish Anti-Gospel in 1985; The Rediscovery of a Strange Christian Gospel in 1998; The Rediscovery of a Strange Gnostic Gospel in 2006-07; Here and now: The Absence of a Strange Jewish Christian Gospel; Eli Yassif: Toledot Yeshu: Folk-Narrative as Polemics and Self Criticism; Origin; Toledot Yeshu as a Volksbuch; From Victim to Villain; The Turning Point; Charisma and Polemics; The Ineffable Name; From Polemics to Self-criticism , Philip Alexander: The Toledot Yeshu in the Context of Jewish-Muslim DebateThe Toledot Yeshu and the Muslim World; Copies of the Toledot from the Muslim world; The Toledot and the Christian Gospel in the Muslim world; The Toledot Yeshu and the Muslim ""Gospel""; Summary and Conclusions; Sarit Kattan Gribetz: Hanged and Crucified: The Book of Esther and Toledot Yeshu; Introduction; Toledot Yeshu and the Book of Esther; Purim and Anti-Christianity; Toledot Yeshu as Megillah; Conclusion; Michael Meerson: Meaningful Nonsense: A Study of Details in Toledot Yeshu; The Fork; The Flower; The Water , Ora Limor and Israel Jacob Yuval: Judas Iscariot: Revealer of the Hidden TruthSefer Toledot Yeshu; The Burial; The Curse; The Joke; The Pogrom; The Legend of the Finding of the True Cross; The Biography of Judas in the Golden Legend; Epilogue: Judah, Jew, and Israel; John Gager: Simon Peter, Founder of Christianity or Saviour of Israel?; Appendix: Dating Issues; Conclusions; Galit Hasan-Rokem: Polymorphic Helena - Toledot Yeshu as a Palimpsest of Religious Narratives and Identities; Yaacov Deutsch: The Second Life of the Life of Jesus: Christian Reception of Toledot Yeshu , Paola Tartakoff: The Toledot Yeshu and Jewish-Christian Conflict in the Medieval Crown of Aragon , English

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Content: Lockdown Cultures is both a cultural response to our extraordinary times and a manifesto for the arts and humanities and their role in our post-pandemic society. This book offers a unique response to the question of how the humanities commented on and were impacted by one of the dominant crises of our times: the Covid-19 pandemic. While the role of engineers, epidemiologists and, of course, medics is assumed, Lockdown Cultures illustrates some of the ways in which the humanities understood and analysed 2020-21, the year of lockdown and plague. Though the impulse behind the book was topical, underpinning the richly varied and individual essays is a lasting concern with the value of the humanities in the twenty-first century. Each contributor approaches this differently but there are two dominant strands: how art and culture can help us understand the Covid crisis; and how the value of the humanities can be demonstrated by engaging with cultural products from the past. The result is a book that serves as testament to the humanities' reinvigorated and reforged sense of identity, from the perspective of UCL and one of the leading arts and humanities faculties in the world. It bears witness to a globally impactful event while showcasing interdisciplinary thinking and examining how the pandemic has changed how we read, watch, write and educate. More than thirty individual contributions collectively reassert the importance of the arts and humanities for contemporary society.

Note: Includes index. , List of figures〈/i〉〈br〉〈i〉List of contributors〈br〉Foreword〈br〉Acknowledgements〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉Introduction〈br〉〈i〉Maurice Biriotti〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part I: Politics〈/b〉1 'Give me liberty or death'〈br〉〈i〉Lee Grieveson〈/i〉2 Translating Covid-19 information into Yiddish for the Montreal-area Hasidic community〈br〉〈i〉Lily Kahn, Zoë Belk, Kriszta Eszter Szendrői, and Sonya Yampolskaya〈/i〉3 Shakespeare and the plague of productivity〈br〉〈i〉Harvey Wiltshire〈/i〉4 The decolonial option and the end of the world〈br〉〈i〉Izabella Wodzka〈/i〉5 Distant together: creative community in UK DIY music during Covid-19〈br〉〈i〉Kirsty Fife〈/i〉6 Now are we cyborgs? Affinities and technology in the Covid-19 lockdowns〈br〉〈i〉Emily Baker and Annie Ring〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part II: History〈/b〉7 Reflections on Covid-like pathogens in ancient Mesopotamia〈br〉〈i〉Markham J. Geller〈/i〉8 Handwashing save slives: producing and accepting new knowledge in Jens Bjørneboe's Semmelweis (1968)〈br〉〈i〉Elettra Carbone〈/i〉9 Experience and coping with isolation: what we can see from ethnic Germans in Britain 1914-18〈br〉〈i〉Mathis J. Gronau〈/i〉10 Unexpectedly withdrawn and still engaged: reflections on the experiences of the Roman writer and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero〈br〉〈i〉Gesine Manuwald〈/i〉11 The Gallic Sack of Rome: an exemplum for our times〈br〉〈i〉Elizabeth McKnight〈/i〉12 On Spinalonga〈br〉〈i〉Panayiota Christodoulidou〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part III: Performance, identity and the screen〈/b〉13 The thing itself〈br〉〈i〉Alexander Samson〈/i〉14 Towards a new history: The corona-seminar and the drag king virus〈br〉〈i〉Helena Fallstrom〈/i〉15 'In spite of the tennis': Beckett's sporting apocalypse'〈br〉〈i〉Sam Caleb〈/i〉16 Screening dislocated despair: projecting the neoliberal left-behinds in 〈i〉100 Flowers Hidden Deep〈/i〉〈br〉〈i〉Nashuyuan Serenity Wang〈/i〉17 A digital film for digital times: some lockdown thoughts on 〈i〉Gravity〈/i〉〈br〉〈i〉Stephen M. Hart〈/i〉18 The Great Plague: London's Dreaded Visitation, 1665〈br〉〈i〉Justin Hardy〈/i〉〈i〉 〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part IV: Literature and writing〈/b〉19 Lessons for lockdown from Thomas Mann's 〈i〉The Magic Mountain〈/i〉〈i〉Jennifer Rushworth〈/i〉20 The locked room: On reading crime fiction during the Covid-19 pandemic〈br〉〈i〉Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen〈/i〉21 The weight of the shrinking world〈br〉〈i〉Florian Mussgnug〈/i〉22 A voice-mail lyric for a discipline in crisis: On Ben Lerner's 'The Media'〈br〉〈i〉Matthew James Holman〈/i〉23 20,000 leagues under confinement〈br〉〈i〉Patrick Bray〈/i〉24〈i〉 〈/i〉Reflections on Guixiu literary cultures in East Asia〈br〉〈i〉Tzu-Yu Lin〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part V: Personal reflections〈/b〉25 At home: Vaughan Williams' 'The Water Mill; and new meaninsg of 'quotidian'〈br〉〈i〉Annika Lindskog〈/i〉26 The habit of freedom〈br〉〈i〉Naomi Siderfin〈/i〉27 Pandemic dreaming〈br〉〈i〉Adelais Mills〈/i〉28 In pursuit of blandness: On re-reading Jullien's 〈i〉In Praise of Blandness〈/i〉 during lockdown〈br〉〈i〉Emily Furnell〈/i〉29〈i〉 〈/i〉Blinded lights: going viral during the Covid-19 pandemic〈br〉〈i〉Sarah Moore〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part VI: Visual responses〈/b〉30 Morphologies of agents of the pandemic〈br〉〈i〉SMRU (The Social Morphologies Research Unit : Davdi Burrows,Martin Holbraad, John Cussans, Kelly Fagan Robinson, Melanie Jackson, Dean Kenning, Inigo Minns, Lucy Sames, Hermione Spriggs, Mary Yacoob)〈/i〉31 Wildfire〈br〉〈i〉John Thomson and Alison Craighead〈/i〉32 Poems from 〈i〉Gospel Oak〈/i〉〈br〉〈i〉Sharon Morris〈/i〉33 I have a studio (visit) therefore I exist〈br〉〈i〉Carey Young, Alice Channer, Anne Hardy and Karin Ruggaber〈/i〉34 Inventory〈br〉〈i〉Jayne Parker〈/i〉35 After a long time or a short time〈br〉〈i〉Elisabeth S. Clark〈/i〉36 When the roof blew off〈br〉〈i〉Joe Cain〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈i〉Index.

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Content: Lockdown Cultures is both a cultural response to our extraordinary times and a manifesto for the arts and humanities and their role in our post-pandemic society. This book offers a unique response to the question of how the humanities commented on and were impacted by one of the dominant crises of our times: the Covid-19 pandemic. While the role of engineers, epidemiologists and, of course, medics is assumed, Lockdown Cultures illustrates some of the ways in which the humanities understood and analysed 2020-21, the year of lockdown and plague. Though the impulse behind the book was topical, underpinning the richly varied and individual essays is a lasting concern with the value of the humanities in the twenty-first century. Each contributor approaches this differently but there are two dominant strands: how art and culture can help us understand the Covid crisis; and how the value of the humanities can be demonstrated by engaging with cultural products from the past. The result is a book that serves as testament to the humanities' reinvigorated and reforged sense of identity, from the perspective of UCL and one of the leading arts and humanities faculties in the world. It bears witness to a globally impactful event while showcasing interdisciplinary thinking and examining how the pandemic has changed how we read, watch, write and educate. More than thirty individual contributions collectively reassert the importance of the arts and humanities for contemporary society.

Note: Includes index. , List of figures〈/i〉〈br〉〈i〉List of contributors〈br〉Foreword〈br〉Acknowledgements〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉Introduction〈br〉〈i〉Maurice Biriotti〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part I: Politics〈/b〉1 'Give me liberty or death'〈br〉〈i〉Lee Grieveson〈/i〉2 Translating Covid-19 information into Yiddish for the Montreal-area Hasidic community〈br〉〈i〉Lily Kahn, Zoë Belk, Kriszta Eszter Szendrői, and Sonya Yampolskaya〈/i〉3 Shakespeare and the plague of productivity〈br〉〈i〉Harvey Wiltshire〈/i〉4 The decolonial option and the end of the world〈br〉〈i〉Izabella Wodzka〈/i〉5 Distant together: creative community in UK DIY music during Covid-19〈br〉〈i〉Kirsty Fife〈/i〉6 Now are we cyborgs? Affinities and technology in the Covid-19 lockdowns〈br〉〈i〉Emily Baker and Annie Ring〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part II: History〈/b〉7 Reflections on Covid-like pathogens in ancient Mesopotamia〈br〉〈i〉Markham J. Geller〈/i〉8 Handwashing save slives: producing and accepting new knowledge in Jens Bjørneboe's Semmelweis (1968)〈br〉〈i〉Elettra Carbone〈/i〉9 Experience and coping with isolation: what we can see from ethnic Germans in Britain 1914-18〈br〉〈i〉Mathis J. Gronau〈/i〉10 Unexpectedly withdrawn and still engaged: reflections on the experiences of the Roman writer and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero〈br〉〈i〉Gesine Manuwald〈/i〉11 The Gallic Sack of Rome: an exemplum for our times〈br〉〈i〉Elizabeth McKnight〈/i〉12 On Spinalonga〈br〉〈i〉Panayiota Christodoulidou〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part III: Performance, identity and the screen〈/b〉13 The thing itself〈br〉〈i〉Alexander Samson〈/i〉14 Towards a new history: The corona-seminar and the drag king virus〈br〉〈i〉Helena Fallstrom〈/i〉15 'In spite of the tennis': Beckett's sporting apocalypse'〈br〉〈i〉Sam Caleb〈/i〉16 Screening dislocated despair: projecting the neoliberal left-behinds in 〈i〉100 Flowers Hidden Deep〈/i〉〈br〉〈i〉Nashuyuan Serenity Wang〈/i〉17 A digital film for digital times: some lockdown thoughts on 〈i〉Gravity〈/i〉〈br〉〈i〉Stephen M. Hart〈/i〉18 The Great Plague: London's Dreaded Visitation, 1665〈br〉〈i〉Justin Hardy〈/i〉〈i〉 〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part IV: Literature and writing〈/b〉19 Lessons for lockdown from Thomas Mann's 〈i〉The Magic Mountain〈/i〉〈i〉Jennifer Rushworth〈/i〉20 The locked room: On reading crime fiction during the Covid-19 pandemic〈br〉〈i〉Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen〈/i〉21 The weight of the shrinking world〈br〉〈i〉Florian Mussgnug〈/i〉22 A voice-mail lyric for a discipline in crisis: On Ben Lerner's 'The Media'〈br〉〈i〉Matthew James Holman〈/i〉23 20,000 leagues under confinement〈br〉〈i〉Patrick Bray〈/i〉24〈i〉 〈/i〉Reflections on Guixiu literary cultures in East Asia〈br〉〈i〉Tzu-Yu Lin〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part V: Personal reflections〈/b〉25 At home: Vaughan Williams' 'The Water Mill; and new meaninsg of 'quotidian'〈br〉〈i〉Annika Lindskog〈/i〉26 The habit of freedom〈br〉〈i〉Naomi Siderfin〈/i〉27 Pandemic dreaming〈br〉〈i〉Adelais Mills〈/i〉28 In pursuit of blandness: On re-reading Jullien's 〈i〉In Praise of Blandness〈/i〉 during lockdown〈br〉〈i〉Emily Furnell〈/i〉29〈i〉 〈/i〉Blinded lights: going viral during the Covid-19 pandemic〈br〉〈i〉Sarah Moore〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈b〉Part VI: Visual responses〈/b〉30 Morphologies of agents of the pandemic〈br〉〈i〉SMRU (The Social Morphologies Research Unit : Davdi Burrows,Martin Holbraad, John Cussans, Kelly Fagan Robinson, Melanie Jackson, Dean Kenning, Inigo Minns, Lucy Sames, Hermione Spriggs, Mary Yacoob)〈/i〉31 Wildfire〈br〉〈i〉John Thomson and Alison Craighead〈/i〉32 Poems from 〈i〉Gospel Oak〈/i〉〈br〉〈i〉Sharon Morris〈/i〉33 I have a studio (visit) therefore I exist〈br〉〈i〉Carey Young, Alice Channer, Anne Hardy and Karin Ruggaber〈/i〉34 Inventory〈br〉〈i〉Jayne Parker〈/i〉35 After a long time or a short time〈br〉〈i〉Elisabeth S. Clark〈/i〉36 When the roof blew off〈br〉〈i〉Joe Cain〈/i〉〈/p〉〈p〉〈i〉Index.

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ISBN: 9780813576008

Content: Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature “endows places with meaning.” Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding the places that shaped American writers’ lives and their art can provide deep insight into what makes their literature truly meaningful. Published on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Historic Preservation Act, Writing America is a unique, passionate, and eclectic series of meditations on literature and history, covering over 150 important National Register historic sites, all pivotal to the stories that make up America, from chapels to battlefields; from plantations to immigration stations; and from theaters to internment camps. The book considers not only the traditional sites for literary tourism, such as Mark Twain’s sumptuous Connecticut home and the peaceful woods surrounding Walden Pond, but also locations that highlight the diversity of American literature, from the New York tenements that spawned Abraham Cahan’s fiction to the Texas pump house that irrigated the fields in which the farm workers central to Gloria Anzaldúa’s poetry picked produce. Rather than just providing a cursory overview of these authors’ achievements, acclaimed literary scholar and cultural historian Shelley Fisher Fishkin offers a deep and personal reflection on how key sites bore witness to the struggles of American writers and inspired their dreams. She probes the global impact of American writers’ innovative art and also examines the distinctive contributions to American culture by American writers who wrote in languages other than English, including Yiddish, Chinese, and Spanish. Only a scholar with as wide-ranging interests as Shelley Fisher Fishkin would dare to bring together in one book writers as diverse as Gloria Anzaldúa, Nicholas Black Elk, David Bradley, Abraham Cahan, S. Alice Callahan, Raymond Chandler, Frank Chin, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Countee Cullen, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jessie Fauset, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Ginsberg, Jovita González, Rolando Hinojosa, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Lawson Fusao Inada, James Weldon Johnson, Erica Jong, Maxine Hong Kingston, Irena Klepfisz, Nella Larsen, Emma Lazarus, Sinclair Lewis, Genny Lim, Claude McKay, Herman Melville, N. Scott Momaday, William Northup, John Okada, Miné Okubo, Simon Ortiz, Américo Paredes, John P. Parker, Ann Petry, Tomás Rivera, Wendy Rose, Morris Rosenfeld, John Steinbeck, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Yoshiko Uchida, Tino Villanueva, Nathanael West, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright, Hisaye Yamamoto, Anzia Yezierska, and Zitkala-Ša. Leading readers on an enticing journey across the borders of physical places and imaginative terrains, the book includes over 60 images, and extended excerpts from a variety of literary works. Each chapter ends with resources for further exploration. Writing America reveals the alchemy though which American writers have transformed the world around them into art, changing their world and ours in the process.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Introduction: The Literary Landscape -- , 1. Celebrating the Many in One -- , 2. Living in Harmony with Nature -- , 3. Freedom’s Port -- , 4. The House that Uncle Tom’s Cabin Bought -- , 5. The Irony of American History -- , 6. Native American Voices Remember Wounded Knee -- , 7. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” -- , 8. Leaving the Old World for the New -- , 9. The Revolt from the Village -- , 10. Asian American Writers and Creativity in Confinement -- , 11. Harlem and the Flowering of African American Letters -- , 12. Mexican American Writers in the Borderlands of Culture -- , 13. American Writers and Dreams of the Silver Screen -- , Acknowledgments -- , Copyrights and Permissions -- , Index of Writers -- , Index of Historic Sites -- , About the Author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.36019/9780813576008

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813576008

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813576008