...) that traverses urban, suburban, and primitivistic reconstructions of homes, each of which “leads erotically to the next” (150). Seriality becomes not just a formal quality but a social and economic necessity: “One sojourns, or starts out, rather than settles, in a shack. Domestic duration, like childhood...

... magazines function seminally as “cultural tools” through which specifically urban,middle-class repertoires are confirmed, codified, disseminated, and transformed for and by black South Africans living in urban(izing)environments, the essay singles out their evocative power, that is, the way consumer...

...Loren Kruger; Patricia Watson Shariff This article examines the ways comics contribute to nonformal education in contemporary South Africa, especially the Heart to Heart project,produced by the Storyteller Group, and Body and Soul , by the Soul City project. While Soul City follows the urban bias...

... enjoying extraordinary popularity in the major urban centers of North America, new dialects of spoken and written Yiddish came into being there: this new vocal strain ranged from Yiddish humor magazines to the Yiddish American polyphony of Jacob Glatstein's Yidishtaytshn ( Yiddishmeanings ; 1937). After...

... the resurrection of his authorial career on his insistence that an abyss divided common and elite cultures which would bedevil elite attempts to represent the Russian common people as objects of literary and journalistic inquiry. At a moment when intellectuals and other urban elites struggled to prepare...

..., Giessen, Germany. He has published widely on literary experiences of space, narrative planning, and urban futures. His books include Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature (2014), The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning (2020), and the coedited volumes Literature and the Peripheral City (2015...

..., Giessen, Germany. He has published widely on literary experiences of space, narrative planning, and urban futures. His books include Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature (2014), The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning (2020), and the coedited volumes Literature and the Peripheral City (2015...

... the implications of the movement from detective novel to police procedural are left behind, and rather traditional, though nonhege- monic, investigators are scrutinized in Liam Kennedy’s ‘‘Black Noir: Race and Urban Space in Walter...

... numerous articles dealing with Hebrew, Jewish, and Israeli literature and culture. He is currently completing a book about urban cafe´s and modern Jewish culture and working on a book on Yiddish in Israeli literature. David G. Roskies is Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture...

... materials, like the fabric of a city street, alongside pervasive technologies. This process is evident in Attlee's ( 2017 ) work as readers navigate a space while he draws their attention to various physical urban elements, such as a market, buildings, and statues, to create a story. The real world...

... Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Currently, he is working on a book about urban transformation in post- socialist Saint Petersburg and a book about experimental...

... and National Literature Hana Wirth-Nesher is on the faculty of the Department of English at Tel Aviv Uni- versity and coordinator of the Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair on the Study of the Jewish Experience in the United States. She is the author of City Codes: Reading the Mod- ern Urban Novel...

...- phor of the outer limits of Balzacian mimesis. Music as the Other of lan- guage—paradoxically outside writing yet also its broken mirror—echoes the urban writer’s experience of exile within the crowded labyrinth of his own...

.../03335372-082 © 2009 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 714 Poetics Today 29:4 of the Soviet state was yet imaginable. This is why the essay first describes a certain new attitude to Soviet life that was emerging in the early 1980s among young urban- ites in Leningrad and then proceeds...

... Arroyo, in a feminist reading, tries to direct attention to the minor female characters in Lazarillo against the critical tendency to foreground only the protagonist and his various (male) masters. These women, she claims, are an essential part of the urban setting and the social background through...

... tendency to foreground only the protagonist and his various (male) masters. These women, she claims, are an essential part of the urban setting and the social background through which Lazarillo moves, and they appear at crucial junctures in his life. She also compares the fictional roles...

... in Lazarillo against the critical tendency to foreground only the protagonist and his various (male) masters. These women, she claims, are an essential part of the urban setting and the social background through which Lazarillo moves, and they appear at crucial junctures in his life. She...

... the hectic morning behind and attune to the fictive theocratic dictatorship Gilead in a futuristic Northern America, which is in sharp contrast to the modern urban life that surrounds your forty-minute walk through the changing scenery of Montreal, from the quietness of the Old Port through noisy roadwork...

... and their traditions. Although Said does not exactly focus on visual images, his work has given rise to a significant subfield of anti-imperialist studies of ideologically loaded visual artifacts, including art, film, photography, museum exhibits, architecture, urban geography, and other suspects. 3...

... research in Brazil centers on youth, emotion, and temporality in urban settings. Since 2014 she has studied reading practices in a Danish everyday context. Her current research project focuses on guided shared reading among psychologically vulnerable young people. Charlotte Christiansen is a PhD...