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"While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance of classical drama ceased at the end of antiquity the ideals of Jews and Christians had already been shaped by it in profound and lasting ways. Readers are invited to explore how gods and heroes famous from Greek drama animated the imaginations of ancient individuals and communities as they articulated and reinvented their religious visions for a new era. In this study, Friesen demonstrates that Greek theater's influence is evident within Jewish and Christian intellectual formulations, narrative constructions, and practices of ritual and liturgy. Through a series of interrelated case studies, the book explores how particular plays, through text and performances, scenes, images, and heroic personae, retained appeal for Jewish and Christian communities across antiquity. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach across classical, Jewish, and Christian studies, bringing together these separate avenues of scholarship to produce fresh insights and a reevaluation of theatrical drama in relation to ancient Judaism and Christianity. Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era allows students and scholars of the diverse and evolving religious landscapes of antiquity to gain fresh perspectives on the interplay between gods and heroes-both human and divine-of Greeks and Romans, Jews and Christians as they were staged in drama and depicted in literature"-- Provided by publisher.

• Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent
• Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women's Lives
• Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi's
• Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile
• Caste, Class, and Women's Identity in Bessie Head's Maru
• Sisters of the Soil: Women's Resistance in Muthoni Likimani's
• Passbook Number F.
• Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko's Faceless
• Voices from the Diaspora in African Women's Fiction
• Unveiling Women's Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila
• Aboulela's Translator and Minaret
• Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
• Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego's Adua
• Afropolitan Energies in the 21st Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and
• Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Conclusion: Narrating African Women's Lives in Africa and the Diaspora.

Poems.

"Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature is a foray into current debates about the nature of the literary. What is literary? Is literarity a thing? Are there still aesthetic standards of taste? Is the category of literary aesthetics an obstacle to understanding the uses of literature? What does it mean to count the reading of literature as an experience in its own right? What would be the deficits to human experience without literature? Attending to the Literary addresses all of these questions with a view to challenging the notion of literarity as merely representative of experience. On the contrary, Alan Singer shows how literarity is an enacting of experience. Through close readings of an eclectic repertoire of literary sentences-culled from the genres of fiction, poetry and drama--Singer demonstrates how syntax stages human capacities for attending ever more consequentially to the world of practical experience. These stagings of forms of attention involve readers in the drama of reason giving and expand the possibilities of rational imagination. Attending to the Literary speaks to a broad audience of readers for whom the question "Why literature matters?" remains an urgent intellectual challenge"-- Provided by publisher.

• On the margins: understanding peripheral journalism
• Strong state, weak field: the forces shaping journalism in Rwanda
• Founding myths: stories as building blocks of journalism practice
• Underbaked or unrealized: "underdevelopment" as a journalistic keyword
• Money matters: the news values of business pressure
• Bridging worlds: working global while living local
• Conclusion: What is weak journalism good for? The power and potential of peripheral practice.

Novel.

"This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan. With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of authors whose works break free from the confines of hegemonic Japanese literary endeavour. By demonstrating how the texts analysed step outside the space of 'Japan', they accordingly foreground the volatility of textual expression related to that space. Authors discussed include Takahashi Mutsuo and Nagai Kafū, both of whom take literary inspiration from geographical sites outside Japan Several chapters examine the work of exemplar border-crossing poet, novelist and essayist, Itō Hiromi. There are discussions of the work of Tawada Yōko whose ability to publish in German and Japanese marks her also as a representative writer of border-crossing texts. Two chapters address works by Murakami Haruki who, although clearly affiliating with western cultural form, is rarely discussed in specific border-crossing terms. The chapter on Ainu narratives invokes topics such as translation, indigeneity and myth, while an analysis of Japanese prisoner of war narratives notes the language and border-crossing nexus. A vital collection for scholars and students of Japanese literature"-- Provided by publisher.

• Politics / Joseph Hone
• Religion / Ian Higgins
• Bodies and gender / Liz Bellamy
• Science, empire, and observation / Gregory Lynall
• Popular fiction / J. A. Downie
• Satire / Pat Rogers
• Travel writing / Dirk F. Passmann
• Philosophical tale / Paddy Bullard
• Advertisements and authorship / Brean Hammond
• A voyage to Lilliput / Melinda Alliker Rabb
• A voyage to Brobdingnag / Nicholas Seager
• A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, &c. / Barbara M. Benedict
• A voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms / Judith Hawley
• Critical reception / Jack Lynch
• Further voyages / Daniel Cook
• Visual culture / Ruth Menzies
• Screen media / Emrys Jones.

Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, has shocked and delighted readers worldwide since its publication in 1726. At turns a humorous and harrowing indictment of human behaviour, it has been endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted across media by other artists. The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels comprises 17 original chapters by leading scholars, written in a theoretically-informed but accessible style. As well as providing detailed close readings of each part of the narrative, this Companion relates Gulliver's Travels to the political, religious, scientific, colonial, and intellectual debates in which Swift was engaged, and it assesses the form of the book as a novel, travel book, philosophical treatise, and satire. Finally, it explores the Travels' rich and varied afterlives: the controversies it has fuelled, the films and artworks it has inspired, and the enduring need authors have felt to 'write back' to Swift's original, disturbing, and challenging story.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. A Poet of the "Ethics of the Real"
• 3.A Poet of the Language Crisis
• 4. A Poet of the "Part With No Part"
• 5. A Poet Who Announces the Event
• 6. A Poet of the Communist Event
• 7. A Poet of "Lost Causes"
• 8. Vallejo and Political: Art Beyond Death (Conclusions).

"This book explores the material and cultural history of the Ming Dynasty based on the Chinese magnum opus Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (literally The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World), written under the pseudonym of the seventeenth-century writer Xizhou Sheng. The novel weaves into its narrative, through the characters' personalities and the events it illustrates, important details of Ming material life. Through this literary snapshot of the Ming material culture as reflected in Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan, this work investigates the practices and customs of clothing, food, and travel, three of the "four major concerns of the people's livelihoods," known as yishizhuxing in Chinese. While frequenting economic dimensions and probing the impact that Ming politics had on the ethos and social economy of the period, it sheds significant light on folk customs, legal and religious practices, and the status of women, among other issues. This work aims to enrich the current Western scholarship, done primarily by Timothy Brook, Craig Clunas, and Hok-lam Chan, on the Ming material culture. The book will be of great value to students and scholars of East Asian Studies, Chinese literature and those interested in the history of material culture in general"-- Provided by publisher.

• I. Magazines and Intellectual Movements
• Goan Avant-garde, Indian Renaissance: the Revista da Índia (1913) Manifesto / Duarte Drumond Braga
• Worldly Politics and Cultural Magazines: Subtle Forms of Communal Self-assertion in Colonial Goal (1910s-1920s) / Joana Passos
• Magazines and Intellectual Movements. Literature and Politics in the Goan Periodical O Académico (1940-1943) / Helder Garmes
• The Periodical Colonial Press in Mozambique, 1947-55: Literature and Culture in the Western Indian Ocean / Giulia Spinuzza
• Augusto dos Santos Abranches: Driving Force of Cultural Transits / Ada Milani
• Virgílio de Lemos and the Political, Cultural, and Aesthetic Project of Msaho / Carmen Lúcia Tindó Secco and Marinei Almeida
• Caliban in the Indian Ocean: Rui Knopfli's Role in the Mozambican Literary System / Ana Mafalda Leite and Vanessa Riambau Pinheiro
• II. Press and Politics of Identity
• Goan Literary History in the Periodical Press: The Works of Jacinto Caetano Barreto Miranda and Vicente de Bragança Cunha / Daniela Spina
• Racial Hybrids and the Local Elite: Perceptions and Attitudes towards the "Other" in Portuguese Goa in the Nineteenth Century / Carmen Sharmila Pais
• Catholics, Konkani, and Indian Nationalism: Brief Notes on News and Politics in Goa and Bombay (c. 1890-1960).
• Dale Luis Menezes
• The Foro Indiano: The Application of Law in Goa as Seen from the Novas Conquistas? / Luís Pedroso de Lima Cabral de Oliveira
• Bharat'kar and his attempt towards Saraswat Lusitanisation / Varsha Vijayendra Kamat
• III. Writing colonial conflicts, crisis, and change
• Gatekeeping the News: Press Reports in the Koloniaal Tijdschrift Concerning the Dutch East Indies / Lisa Kuitert
• Modernity as Crisis: Migrants 'writing back' in the Colonial Goan Konkani Newspaper Amchó
• Gão (1929-1933)./ Remy Dias
• Catholic Press within the Politics of Democratization of Goan Catholicism: the Confrarias Polemics at the Newspaper Vauraddeancho Ixtt (1933-51) / Denis Evereth Fernandes
• The Angry Native in Portuguese Timor: The Rebellion of Manufahi in the Australian Press / Lúcio Sousa
• Assolna, Velim, Cuncolim Tri-conglomerate: Rebellious Voices in Gomantak / Sushila Sawant Mendes
• Negotiating Economic Blockade and Food Consumption as seen in Free Goa and the Goan Tribune / Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa.

• Introduction : cybernetic thinking and modernist literature
• Feedback loops and learning from the past : Erza Pound's poetics of transmission
• The cybernetic information dialectic : patterns, randomness and newsreel in John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
• Black box subjectivity : associative language, affect, and radio blindness in Virginia Woolf's The waves
• Cultural composition, insistent spirals, and definition by contrast : Gertrude Stein as second-order cybernetic anthropologist
• Coda : retrospective and prospective readings of cybernetic aesthetics.

"In Cybernetic Aesthetics, Heather A. Love makes a new contribution to ongoing debates about modern communication networks and information culture. This book draws from cybernetics theory and terminology to interpret experimental modernist texts, illustrating how cybernetic approaches to communication emerged long before World War II"-- Provided by publisher.

"Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation is the first book-length attempt to undertake a descriptive investigation of how dialect in British and American novels and dramas are translated into Chinese. Dialect plays an essential role in creating a voice of difference for the regional, social or ethnic Others in English fiction. Translating dialect involves not only the textual representation of a different voice with target linguistic resources, but also the reconstruction of various cultural, social, and ethnic identities and relations on the target side. This book provides a descriptive study of 277 Chinese translations published from 1931 to 2020 for three fictions-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Pygmalion-with a special focus on how the Dorset dialect, African American Vernacular English, and cockney in them are translated in the past century in China. It provides a comprehensive description of the techniques, strategies, tendencies, norms and universals as well as diachronic changes and stylistic evolutions of the language used in dialect translation into Chinese. An interdisciplinary perspective is adopted to conduct three case studies of each fiction to explore the negotiation, reformulation, and reconstruction via dialect translation of the identities for Others and Us and their relations in the Chinese context. This book is intended to act as a useful reference for scholars, teachers, translators, and graduate students from disciplines such as translation, sociolinguistics, literary and cultural studies, and anyone who shows interest in dialect translation, the translation of American and British literature, Chinese language and literature, identity studies, and cross-cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• Motivations : why make a documentary?
• A big umbrella : the expansive universe of documentary filmmaking
• The mutable nature of truth : a documentary paradox
• The burden of originality : avoiding anxiety in the pursuit of uniqueness
• Facing stigma and double standards : the social status of the documentarian
• A matter of conscience : taking responsibility for project choices
• The delicate art of fundraising
• Relational filmmaking : fostering trust and collaboration with participants
• Big stories in small packages : deciding what to include and how it will fit
• Mission control : the necessity of flexibility
• Handheld cinematography : the human camera
• A blessing and a curse : the film festival game
• An anatomy of the documentary interview
• Wrapping up.

"This book is a collection of personal essays that address critical elements involved in the production of nonfiction films. Written by an experienced documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, the book draws upon practical wisdom to explore the nuances and challenges faced by filmmakers and viewers alike. Included in the text are rarely discussed ethical issues, best practices in the field, filmmaker etiquette, and a detailed analysis of interview techniques. The book also provides a candid view of how decisions are made in production that are consequential to a finished film's meaning and fidelity. Drawing on a wide range of subject matter, it will enhance the reader's understanding of the tremendous power and potential of the documentary medium. The book offers an invaluable insight into documentary filmmaking for professionals who work in the medium and students who are learning the trade and honing their skills"-- Provided by publisher.