Punk Archives for the Present from CBGB to Gilman and Beyond
We're Having Much More Fun celebrates the ways punks have built and documented their own misfit collectives since the mid-1970s, assembling alternative worlds of riotous music, art, fashion, and writing. Judith Peraino and Tom McEnaney dive into these alternative depictions, ranging across the United States and over multiple generations, ......
Beyond the Elite focuses on the everyday social history of Jews in medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. Contributors to this innovative volume discuss aspects of daily life through which non-elite Jews interacted with their Christian neighbors, while at the same time creating and ......
Beyond the Elite focuses on the everyday social history of Jews in medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. Contributors to this innovative volume discuss aspects of daily life through which non-elite Jews interacted with their Christian neighbors, while at the same time creating and ......
Modern Japan and the Possibility of Reading Otherwise
Critical Failures revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. In the Meiji era, young intellectuals posited that mastering the art of critical reading-called hihyo-was essential for Japan's advancement on the world stage. Yet, while they made concerted efforts to theorize hihyo and proposed ......
Modern Japan and the Possibility of Reading Otherwise
Critical Failures revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. In the Meiji era, young intellectuals posited that mastering the art of critical reading-called hihyo-was essential for Japan's advancement on the world stage. Yet, while they made concerted efforts to theorize hihyo and proposed ......
Service As Religious Metaphor and Social Reality in Early Medieval Europe
In Servants of God, Slaves of the Church, Lisa Kaaren Bailey uncovers the surprising intimacy between sacred devotion and coerced labor in early medieval Europe. From queens who scrubbed monastery floors to enslaved women forced into lifelong service, acts of humility and acts of subjugation often looked the same, and were interpreted through the ......
Olga Freidenberg's Diary-Theory and the Everyday Terror of Stalinism
Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies strategies of physical and moral survival. Irina Paperno brings to light the autobiographical chronicle (her "notes") of Olga Freidenberg (1890-1955), a pioneering Russian philologist and cultural theorist (and cousin of Boris ......
