Manga Vision examines cultural and communicative aspects of Japanese comics, drawing together scholars from Japan, Australia and Europe working in areas as diverse as cultural studies, linguistics, ...education, music, art, anthropology, and translation, to explore the influence of manga in Japan and worldwide via translation, OEL manga and fan engagement. This volume includes a mix of theoretical, methodological, empirical and professional practice-based chapters, examining manga from both academic and artistic perspectives. Manga Vision also provides the reader with a multimedia experience, featuring original artwork by Australian manga artist Queenie Chan, cosplay photographs, and an online supplement offering musical compositions inspired by manga, and downloadable manga-related teaching resources.
Offering a comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Byzantine Empire and its sphere of influence, this volume addresses a paradox. Advanced literacy was rare ...among imperial citizens, being restricted by gender and class. Yet the state's economic, religious and political institutions insisted on the fundamental importance of the written record. Starting from the materiality of codices, documents and inscriptions, the volume's contributors draw attention to the evidence for a range of interactions with texts. They examine the role of authors, compilers and scribes. They look at practices such as the close perusal of texts in order to produce excerpts, notes, commentaries and editions. But they also analyse the social implications of the constant intersection of writing with both image and speech. Showcasing current methodological approaches, this collection of essays aims to place a discussion of Byzantium within the mainstream of medieval textual studies.
The article is a reflection on time and space categories in a narrow framework: Duat and night, in which Ra arrived from the first hours of darkness and to the first signs of dawn. Our study focuses ...on the so-called New Kingdom Books of the Netherworld (Book of Amduat, Book of Gates, Book of Caverns, and Book of the Earth), funerary compositions that decorate mainly the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.
And after Many Days (review) Levy, Michele
World Literature Today,
09/2016, Volume:
90, Issue:
5
Journal Article, Book Review
Peer reviewed
Frequent references to Paul's disappearance, inserted into chapters that predate it, chillingly evoke and underscore the loss to come. ...as Paul and Ajie listen to rock tunes in their uncle's car, ...the narrator remarks, "This was a year before the afternoon when everything changed."
La Superba (review) Paterson, Anna
World Literature Today,
09/2016, Volume:
90, Issue:
5
Journal Article, Book Review
Peer reviewed
The letters recount an interlinked series of short stories drawn from life in the old port city-La Superba-where vagrants and eccentrics cling to existence in medieval tenements and in café-bars ...around tiny squares in front of Renaissance churches; the modern, peripheral bits of Genoa, where settled people live, do not interest Ilja.
