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Vient de paraître : Jean-Louis Haquette et Helga Meise (dir.), "From #Press to Readers: Studies in the #Materiality Of #Print Culture" The seven articles in this volume, written by French and German specialists in book history, address various aspects of the materiality of print culture, examining both the processes of book production and the paths of book circulation. They explore notions of composition, collection and circulation of texts and images, from manuscript to books designed for specific readers. They are based on a variety of sources from archive documents to the study of specific manuscript or printed copies. The perspective is transnational, taking at Gutenberg's Europe as a space for the circulation of print, and concerns early modernity, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. https://lnkd.in/dMvgAY6P

How Jesmyn Ward Is Reimagining Southern Literature https://lnkd.in/eCRGmcyQ

New African History books series lies in its departure from traditional genre constraints. Instead of fitting neatly into predefined categories, these books navigate African history’s vast and interconnected tapestry. https://lnkd.in/dD8dgddh

Our #BiblicalExegesisProject journey continues with "Delving into the World Behind the Text: Unearthing the Historical and Cultural Contexts of Biblical Passages." This post guides readers through the rich historical and cultural layers that shaped the scriptures. Understanding this background is key to grasping the full depth of biblical texts. Explore the foundations of your favorite passages and how they came to be right here: https://lnkd.in/gk-uHET8. Let’s dive deep into the past to uncover insights that resonate in the present.

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[pdf] Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries (Hackett Classics Series) Confucius digsell https://lnkd.in/ekCyXUQt This edition goes beyond others that largely leave readers to their own devices in understanding this cryptic work, by providing an entree into the text that parallels the traditional Chinese way of approaching it: alongside Slingerland’s exquisite rendering of the work are his translations of a selection of classic Chinese commentaries that shed light on difficult passages, provide historical and cultural context, and invite the reader to ponder a range of interpretations. The ideal student edition, this volume also includes a general introduction, notes, multiple appendices — including a glossary of technical terms, references to modern Western scholarship that point … Read More » https://lnkd.in/eDPM6vrV

The West and the Word: Imagining, Formatting, and Ordering the American West in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Discourse - PDF: https://lnkd.in/gyrqcB_x Western expansion in North America has mainly been described as either a linear sequence energized by nineteenth-century nation-building processes at a moving frontier, or as the practice of settler colonialism and its exploitation of resources and displacement of nonwhite peoples. This book suggests that shifting the focus from this binary pattern towards spatial imaginations and spatialization processes—a new theoretical framework developed at SFB 1199—provides novel insights into the placemaking dynamics of the American West. It brings to light a discursive diversity that often contradicts unidirectional interpretive patterns. It becomes clear that while some discourses solidified into spatial metanarratives like the character-shaping clash of civilizations at the frontier or manifest destiny, alternative spatial imaginations exist juxtaposed to or obfuscated by canonical interpretations. Making use of a variety of sources (including works of literature, poetry, newspapers, paintings, and speeches) to access spatialization processes on several sociocultural scales, the book presents a careful exploration of the parameters that inform(ed) the creation, affirmation, and subversion of spatial imagination of the American West throughout the nineteenth century from the perspective of American Studies. #AmericanWest #TheWest #AmericanStudies; #NorthAmerica; #Spatialprocesses; #Colonialism

2023 was a year of writing reviews, three of books, and dozens of article drafts and grant applications. This is one I am proud of. With two theoretical optics, namely Altman's narrative typology and Gieryn's focus on boundary work as part of knowledge production, I read a set of essays aimed at presenting a wide range of approaches to the interrelationship between activism and Roma scholarship: my "Science-in-activism, struggling for Roma: Promises and limits of Roma activism and its reflection" on "Roma activism: Reimagining power and knowledge" https://lnkd.in/eShugCWu

This week, the #CULconservation team will share their top 10 manuscripts from the the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries Project. Today's pick is one for the detail lovers: a Cistercian manuscript with an exposed medieval binding structure [CUL MS Add. 5368]. See it close up here: https://lnkd.in/ewKq6aEG All the manuscripts featured this week have received detailed conservation treatment during the #CuriousCures Project. #bookconservation #medievalmanuscripts #manuscriptconservation #paperconservation

Happy Monday! - "Delve into literary history: What is considered the world's first novel?" 📖🕰️✨ Explore the origins of storytelling and uncover the roots of the novel as we know it today. 🌟📚💫 #FirstNovel #LiteraryHistory #NovelOrigins #CaptionTrivia #LiteraryPioneers #NovelBeginnings#ReadingThroughHistory #DiscoveringClassics #LiteraryDiscoveries #HistoricalFiction #CaptionCuriosity #TriviaTime #ReadingHeritage #UnlockingThePast ------------------------------------------ A lot of scholars consider The Tale of Genji, written by Japanese courtier Murasaki Shikibu before 1021 CE, the first novel ever. But, as this article explains, there are many older works fitting the definition of a long, fictional, prose narrative. Callirhoe, from 1st century Greece, is a much older example