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Chan, Kenneth. Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee Films: Police Procedural Colludes with Supernatural-Martial Arts Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424592.003.0009.

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Through a close analysis of Hong Kong director Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010), this chapter argues that the film’s successful appeal to local and global Chinese audiences is based on a conservative reading of the familiar cultural trope of modernity versus tradition, as mirrored in the supposed tensions between the police procedural and the horror/supernatural elements in the wuxia shenguai genre. These tensions are problematic precisely because their narrative and rhetorical purpose is to shore up the deterministic logic of Chinese cultural history, the
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Solomon, William. The Rise of Slapstick Modernism; or, the Birth of the Uncool. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040245.003.0008.

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This chapter follows the full-fledged rise of slapstick modernism in the late 1950s and 1960s. After surveying this field with help from Jack Kerouac's tribute to the Three Stooges in Visions of Cody, the chapter examines Joseph Heller's Catch-22 for insight into the sociopolitical importance of technically mastering the rhetorical dimensions of language—verbal tropes in particular. Heller's humor made an essential contribution to the development of a countercultural sensibility. In his novel, jokes serve as the means of carving out a space for alternative attitudes toward ideologically coerci
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Haskell, John. The Religion/Secularism Debate in Human Rights Literature. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805878.003.0007.

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The tension between religion and secularism within the field of human rights is a popular topic in contemporary international legal scholarship. In the first section of the chapter, I map the arguments between Christianity, Islam, and liberal secular perspectives: on the one hand, exploring the different styles of treatment available within scholarship, and on the other hand, demonstrating how they bear a constitutive relationship to each other that reveals a common aesthetic sensibility and set of disciplinary assumptions among concerned scholars. Whatever differences exist in the texts, the
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Gotman, Kélina. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840419.003.0001.

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‘Choreomania’ borrows from and extends the Orientalist trope described by Edward W. Said: imagined as feminine, exotic, and ancient, so-called choreomaniacs were also described in colonial medical and anthropological literature as jagged and unpredictable. ‘Epidemic hysterias’ involving frenzied dancing, or individual ticking and jerking, constitute an alternative history of gestural modernity, opposite to the smooth and efficient movement of ‘torque’. The fantasy of dance-like neuromotor disorder disrupting the smooth march of modernity constitutes choreomania as a swarm-like madness whose co
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Hindmarsh, D. Bruce. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190616694.003.0001.

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Evangelicals reprised the biblical trope of the “one thing needful” (the unum necessarium) but emphasized singular devotion not in the context of cloister or vestry but in the wider world. This book gives an account of this dynamic spirituality in the new social space of a modernizing society where the traditional bonds of ancien régime society were weakening. It describes the emergence of evangelical spirituality but views devotion, culture, and ideas all together. Evangelical devotion appeared alongside the rise of Modernity, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution, and in the midst
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Wang, David Der-wei. Chinese Literary Thought in Modern Times. Edited by Carlos Rojas and Andrea Bachner. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199383313.013.31.

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Theory has both enriched contemporary Chinese literary studies and generated discontent. Rather than uncritically embracing or rejecting theory, this chapter probes the discourse of Chinese literary thought in Chinese modernity as an engagement with Chinese traditions as well as modern Western theoretical practice. Contrary to the perception that the May Fourth era was a period of total antitraditionalism, intellectuals at the time appear to have been radical comparativists when analyzing foreign importations and traditional legacies. This chapter introduces three cases—the dictum ofshi yan zh
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Hamera, Judith. The Labors of Michael Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199348589.003.0002.

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Chapter 1 establishes Michael Jackson’s deindustriality, which is too frequently ignored in favor of white artists like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever or Bruce Springsteen. Jackson is the exemplary transitional subject of the deindustrial; his popularity peaked as manufacturing sector contractions became increasingly visible as national problems. His racial assertiveness and virtuosic dancing marked his own extraordinary social mobility while conjuring an industrial imaginary that was both fictively racially inclusive and apparently in the process of collapsing. Jackson simultaneously i
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Githire, Njeri. Epilogue. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038785.003.0006.

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This chapter summarizes key themes and presents some final thoughts. This book has attempted to show the return of the cannibal in contemporary Caribbean and Indian Ocean writing, a return that is as much thematic as it is historical, economic, and political. As an archetypal othering trope, cannibalism is considered the antithesis of cosmopolitan ideals, ideals that persistently appeal to the elite for whom international mobility is synonymous with modernity, style, and indulgence. These elitist models of global interactions marginalize the knowledge and wisdom from which Caribbean and Indian
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Bishop, Stephen L. Scripting Shame in African Literature. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348431.001.0001.

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- Shame is one of the most frequent underlying emotions expressed throughout sub-Saharan African literature, yet studies of such literature almost universally ignore the topic in favour of a focus on the struggle for independence and the postcolonial situation, encompassing a search for individual, national, and ethnic identities and questions of corruption, changing gender roles, and conflicts between so-called tradition and modernity. Shame, however, is not antithetical to these investigations and, in fact, the persistent trope of shame undergirds many of them. This book locates these expres
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Vivian, Bradford. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190611088.003.0001.

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The Introduction argues that witnessing constitutes an important social, political, and moral mode of address in modern public culture. It justifies this main claim while also explaining the basic methodology of the book. The Introduction accordingly defines the following key concepts intrinsic to this study: public culture, relevant notions of modernity and late modernity, rhetorical commonplaces, and witnessing itself. The Introduction thereafter outlines the intended scholarly contributions of the book—including, most especially, an account of witnessing as a rhetorically adaptable medium o
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Vivian, Bradford. Impossibility. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190611088.003.0006.

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This chapter argues that the very prospect of witnessing in late modern public culture is defined by countervailing imperatives: the publicly lauded ideal that bearing witness to the past allows forgiveness, as compared to philosophical, theological, or literary arguments that it is impossible to effectively bear witness to atrocious violence or indescribable tragedy. The combined wisdom of frequently invoked postwar commonplaces holds that witnessing is, in a rhetorical sense, both imperative and impossible. This aporia warrants deeper consideration of the rhetorical, as well as political and
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Shome, Raka. Afterword. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038730.003.0007.

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This book has examined the ways that white femininity, as an assemblage of power, is utilized in the production of a national modernity by using the case of Princess Diana. It has shown how transnational relations and contexts (even when they are not apparent) are always embedded in the processes through which white femininity and the nation articulate each other. It has also illustrated the complex and multifaceted role that white femininity (as a racial formation) plays in the management of contemporary liberal logics of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism. The book concludes with a discuss
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Lothian, Alexis. Old Futures. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479811748.001.0001.

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Old Futures traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media. Centering works by women, queers, and people of color that are marginalized within most accounts of the genre, the book offers a new perspective on speculative fiction studies while reframing established theories of queer temporality by arguing that futures imagined in the past offer new ways to queer the present. Imagined futures have been central to the creation and maintenance of imperial domination and t
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Pollmann, Judith. Past and Present: The Virtues of Anachronism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797555.003.0003.

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Many scholars have argued that modernity and modern memory became possible only once people in the West gave up on a much older, pre-modern and anachronistic way of thinking about the past, which privileges the similarities rather than the differences between past and present. Yet early modern people were both well aware of, and interested in, the existence of change. The widespread use of historical analogies, and the anachronistic thinking that enabled this, was therefore not the result of ignorance or innocence. Rather it was a matter of choice and one, very effective, rhetorical technique
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Yelle, Robert A. Semiotics. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198729570.013.15.

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Within those disciplines pursuing semiotic approaches to religion, recent decades have been characterized by a shift toward the pragmatic and performative dimensions of discourse. Roman Jakobson’s analysis of the poetic function of language has been extended to ritual, which in some cases deploys poetry to enhance rhetorical performance. The metricalization of ritual often constructs indexical icons that mirror and converge with real-world events that ritual seeks to bring about. The ability of the sign to figure something absent intersects with the general problem in religion concerning how (
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Connolly, Joy. Past Sovereignty. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803034.003.0005.

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Ideas of self-sovereignty and self-sacrifice drew American and French revolutionaries to Roman virtuous exemplars—and into errors of reception, according to prominent contemporaries. Focusing on Benjamin Constant’s and Edmund Burke’s critique of the excited pleasure revolutionaries take in imitating Roman models, this chapter asks what insight into the mechanisms of political change we may gain by studying the revolutionary desire for Rome and the rage felt by the opponents of revolution against that desire. Constant and Burke, insofar as they discuss how the liberal free autonomous self rules
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DeLucia, JoEllen, and Juliet Shields, eds. Migration and Modernities. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474440349.001.0001.

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Migration and Modernities recovers a comparative literary history of migration by bringing together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the uneven emergence of modernity. The collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating how mobility unsettles the geographic boundaries, temporal periodization, and racial categories we often use to organize literary and historical study. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed
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