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First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies. Covering an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (1868–1912), it presents sophisticated analyses of the ways that experiments in literary language produced multiple new—and sometimes revolutionary—forms of sensibility and subjectivity. Along the way, Kamei Hideo carries on an extended debate with Western theorists such as Saussure, Bakhtin, and Lotman, as well as with such contemporary Japanese critics as Karatani Kojin and Noguchi Takehiko. Transformations of Sensibility deliberately challenges conventional wisdom about the rise of modern literature in Japan and offers highly original close readings of works by such writers as Futabatei Shimei, Tsubouchi Shoyo, Higuchi Ichiyo, and Izumi Kyoka, as well as writers previously ignored by most scholars. It also provides a new critical theorization of the relationship between language and sensibility, one that links the specificity of Meiji literature to broader concerns that transcend the field of Japanese literary studies. Available in English translation for the first time, it includes a new preface by the author and an introduction by the translation editor that explain the theoretical and historical contexts in which the work first appeared.

The volume includes papers presented at the II International Conference of PhD students of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the State Institute for Art Studies in Moscow Taking and Denying: Challenging Canons in Arts and Philosophy (23-25 September 2020).

In the United States, preschool education is characterized by the dominance of a variegated private sector and patchy, uncoordinated oversight of the public sector. Tracing the history of the American debate over preschool education, Andrew Karch argues that the current state of decentralization and fragmentation is the consequence of a chain of reactions and counterreactions to policy decisions dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s, when preschool advocates did not achieve their vision for a comprehensive national program but did manage to foster initiatives at both the state and national levels. Over time, beneficiaries of these initiatives and officials with jurisdiction over preschool education have become ardent defenders of the status quo. Today, advocates of greater government involvement must take on a diverse and entrenched set of constituencies resistant to policy change.

This edited volume analyses how forms of individual and societal forgetting, as envisaged in contemporary literary texts and other works of art, tie into cultural concepts of pathological memory loss how globally diverse experiences of violence and trauma are represented as relating to dementia and in what ways this affects our understanding of the fraught and entangled histories of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

La battaglia di Caporetto (24 ottobre - 9 novembre 1917) ha rappresentato un trauma nella storia italiana del Novecento. Ancor oggi, nel linguaggio comune, la parola Caporetto è sinonimo di disastro. In quella battaglia i soldati della 2a Armata vengono respinti dagli austriaci e dai tedeschi al di qua dell'Isonzo e del Tagliamento fino al Piave, mentre i Comandi militari li accusano di diserzione e tradimento. Cento anni dopo, questo volume affronta, in un'ottica pluridisciplinare e interdisciplinare, e alla luce della nozione di “trauma”, gli aspetti storici, politici e militari della disfatta. Esso fa largo spazio anche alle testimonianze dei soldati-scrittori la cui esperienza di quei giorni acquista senso se inserita in una dimensione collettiva e storica. Le stratificazioni temporali - relative tanto alla lettura storiografica, militare e politica quanto agli scritti memoriali e letterari - costituiscono un fattore importante per la riappropriazione di un evento che tocca la storia e l'identità italiane. Nel processo di rievocazione del trauma, la rappresentazione dello choc subìto tiene conto sia dell'immediatezza del vissuto che della simbolizzazione retrospettiva. Questo volume intende allora studiare i meccanismi attraverso i quali il ricordo del trauma di Caporetto prende forma nel linguaggio autobiografico o finzionale inteso anche come espressione terapeutica e luogo della resilienza.

This report describes an analysis of the effects that current employment rights protections for Reserve Component members and related support programs can have on employers, given increased mobilization of the National Guard and Reserve, and makes recommendations stemming from that analysis.

O espaço da prisão e suas práticas educativas: enfoques e perspectivas contemporâneas examina questões relativas à educação em espaços de privação de liberdade. Trata-se de obra que apresenta os efeitos do aprisionamento e o embate entre o discurso jurídico - penal, cultura prisional e cultura escolar -, analisa práticas educativas que ocorrem no interior da prisão, especificamente as referentes à educação e ao trabalho, evidencia pistas para o processo de reinserção social pela educação escolar e enfatiza a relevância de políticas locais e nacionais de educação de jovens e adultos em privação de liberdade.

Le recours à la mythologie, engagé en Espagne, dans l’enthousiasme mimétique du XVIe siècle, s’est poursuivi dans la fureur du baroque jusqu’au XVIIesiècle. Non, la Fable ne fut pas l’aliment d’une « froide rhétorique » ou un « appareil de divinités poussiéreuses », selon la critique généralement partagée, mais un opérateur palpitant, « l’âme de la poésie ». Manifestation médiatrice du lyrisme où le réel et le surnaturel se confondent dans le jeu subtil entre l’univers divin et l’univers humain. Une dimension esthétique sacrée de la poésie, parfaitement admise dans une Espagne éprise d’orthodoxie, l’occasion d’un admirable syncrétisme pagano-chrétien. Il fallait être aveugle pour ne pas voir la prodigieuse originalité que donnaient aux mythes les poètes du siècle d’Or dont nous étudions deux des principaux représentants : Garcilaso et Góngora. Mobilisant le potentiel fictionnel de la mythologie, ils ont repoussé les limites de la poéticité. Chacun est soumis à une triple analyse exploratoire : un examen quantitatif des fragments mythiques, une appréhension linguistique de leurs multiples fonctions, objet d’un authentique projet poétique rendu par une pénétrante géométrie dénotant l’unité singulière de leur paysage imaginaire. Le tout aboutissant à prouver que, chez un authentique poète, jamais rien n’est inutile, surtout pas la mythologie.

A guide to the fascinating legal history of the videogame industry, written for nonlawyers.Why did a judge recall FIFA 15, a nonviolent soccer game, from French shelves in 2014? Why was Vodka Drunkenski, a character in Nintendo-Japan's Punch-Out!, renamed Soda Popinski in the US and then in Western Europe, where the pun made no sense? Why was a Dutch-American company barred by US courts from distributing a clone of Pac-Man? Julien Mailland answers all these questions and more in The Game That Never Ends, an inside look at the legal history that undergirds our favorite videogames. Drawing on a series of case studies as vignettes of the human comedy, Mailland sheds light on why and how the role of lawyers is key for understanding the videogame industry.Each chapter in The Game That Never Ends is a mini-puzzle that pieces together how an important legal issue arose, was resolved, and impacted the industry and the experience of gamers in real time. These chapters are interspersed with shorter chapters called “The Lawyer's Corner,” opportunities to dive deeper into individual cases. Lightly footnoted, these interludes connect the previous chapters together by providing a conceptual meta-analysis. Offering a comprehensive overview of the global legal history of videogames, The Game That Never Ends will leave readers with a nuanced, in-depth, and more global understanding of the videogame industry.

"Advances in Spacecraft Systems and Orbit Determinations", discusses the development of new technologies and the limitations of the present technology, used for interplanetary missions. Various experts have contributed to develop the bridge between present limitations and technology growth to overcome the limitations. Key features of this book inform us about the orbit determination techniques based on a smooth research based on astrophysics. The book also provides a detailed overview on Spacecraft Systems including reliability of low-cost AOCS, sliding mode controlling and a new view on attitude controller design based on sliding mode, with thrusters. It also provides a technological roadmap for HVAC optimization. The book also gives an excellent overview of resolving the difficulties for interplanetary missions with the comparison of present technologies and new advancements. Overall, this will be very much interesting book to explore the roadmap of technological growth in spacecraft systems.

Les mutations majeures qui affectèrent l’empire romain du ive siècle sont au cœur des questionnements sur l’Antiquité tardive. En premier lieu, le passage du christianisme d’un statut de secte persécutée à celui de religion d’État, mais également la domination d’une armée de plus en plus barbarisée, contrôlant les empereurs bien plus qu’elle ne les sert. On peut aussi évoquer le développement d’une administration bureaucratique étouffante. Le souverain lui-même cesse d’être le Princeps, c’est-à-dire "Premier" des magistrats, pour devenir l’émanation de la sphère divine, censée procurer au monde romain des victoires perpétuelles. L’époque est aussi marquée par la pression croissante sur Rome des peuples barbares en mouvement et la confrontation récurrente avec le rival oriental : l’empire perse des Sassanides.Or, les monnaies nous parlent de tout cela. L’iconographie monétaire, élaborée avec soin par l’administration, a en charge de diffuser un discours idéologique qui légitime le pouvoir des souverains et de l’État. Ces images, souvent massivement reproduites, sont contemporaines des bouleversements qu’elles commentent. Elles constituent une source historique authentique et majeure, quoi que sous-exploitée, pour la compréhension des enjeux du Bas-Empire. Les études rassemblées dans cet ouvrage éclairent quelques-uns des aspects les plus saillants de l’imagerie numismatique entre l’avènement de Constantin (306) et la mort de Théodose (395). Elles révèlent en particulier la dynamique de deux symboles concurrrents, parfois complémentaires mais souvent incompatibles : le Phénix, fabuleux volatile solaire aux rennaissances multiples et le Chrisme, d’abord lumineux gage de victoire apparu à Constantin, puis emblème dynastique et signe chrétien. Défrichant des voies encore trop peu empruntées, ces études de cas se veulent une incitation à examiner plus largement une imagerie souvent jugée à tort terne et répétitive, pour réinsérer pleinement la numismatique de l’empire tardif au centre des recherches historiques.

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Jan-Christian Wilkening erforscht, wie Schüler:innen mit Lernschwierigkeiten gemeinschaftlich Geschichte konstruieren, indem einerseits das historische Denken jener Gruppe und andererseits angenommene konstituierende Aspekte für die historischen Konstruktionsprozesse, wie etwa materielle und personelle Unterstützungsstrukturen, untersucht werden. Um die historischen Konstruktionsprozesse der erforschten Gruppe bestmöglich beschreiben zu können, greift der Autor auf ein ethnographisches Forschungsdesign zurück. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass performative Akte des historischen Denkens in den beobachteten historischen Konstruktionsprozessen ebenso eine Rolle spielen wie arbeitsorganisatorische, recherche- und informationsverarbeitungsspezifische Praktiken. Jan-Christian Wilkening explores how students with intellectual disabilities construct history together. Therefore, he examines both historical thinking in that group in question and adopted constituted aspects for historical construction processes such as material and personal support structures. The author draws back to an ethnographic research design in order to describe historical construction processes in the best possible way. The findings show that performative acts of historical thinking within the examined historical construction processes play an important role as well as practices related to work, research and information processing.

In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international community both produces and demands from local partners a variety of blueprints for reconstructing state and society. The aim is to re-formalize the state after what is viewed as a period of fragmentation. In reality, African economies and polities are very much informal in character, with informal actors, including so-called Big Men, often using their positions in the formal structure as a means to reach their own goals. Through a variety of in-depth case studies, including the DRC, Sierra Leone and Liberia, this comprehensive volume shows how important informal political and economic networks are in many of the continent's conflict areas. Moreover, it demonstrates that without a proper understanding of the impact of these networks, attempts to formalize African states, particularly those emerging from wars, will be in vain.

This volume – which stems from an international conference held at the University of Graz on March 2, 2020, just before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic – represents a small, but specifically targeted contribution to a field of research and discussion that has increasingly come to the fore in the last two decades, regarding the practice of covering or veiling womens’ heads or faces over different times and places. “Dress is never value free”, as anthropologists state, and veiling functions as an assertion/communication of relationship dynamics in terms of gender, social and cultural identity, phases and stages of life (puberty, marriage, death) or of religious beliefs – even reaching to a typical dichotomy of our times, the female condition between tradition and modernity.