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The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious function of films for audiences. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with ways to view the world and the values to confront it. Lyden argues that the cultural influence of films is analogous to that of religions, so that films can be understood as representing a "religious" worldview in their own right. Thoroughly updating his examples, Lyden examines a range of film genres and individual films, from The Godfather to The Hunger Games to Frozen, to show how film can function religiously.

Motion pictures --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Religious aspects. --- Action Film. --- Aliens. --- Attitudes. --- Audience Reception. --- Autonomy. --- Backlash. --- Beliefs. --- Catharsis. --- Circuit of culture. --- Civilization. --- Clifford Geertz. --- Communitas. --- Cultural Studies. --- Death. --- Discernment. --- Disenfranchised. --- Disney. --- Diversity. --- Dualism. --- Dystopia. --- Evaluation. --- Fascism. --- Fear. --- Feminism. --- Functionalist. --- Gangster. --- Genre. --- Heroism. --- Heterosexual. --- Ideal. --- Implied Viewer. --- Influence. --- Interreligious Dialogue. --- Irrational. --- Liminal Power. --- Liminal. --- Liminality. --- Melodrama. --- Metonymy. --- Models for Reality. --- Models of Reality. --- Monstrous. --- Moral Values. --- Norms. --- Popular Culture. --- Primitive. --- Projection. --- Reductionism. --- Relationships. --- Representation. --- Robots. --- Romantic. --- Sacrifice. --- Sexist. --- Sexuality. --- Status Quo. --- Subordination. --- Suffering. --- Superhero. --- Trends. --- Utopia. --- Values. --- Vietnam War. --- Violence. --- War on Terror. --- Western.

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What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his investigation is the concept of marronage-a form of slave escape that was an important aspect of Caribbean and Latin American slave systems. Examining this overlooked phenomenon-one of action from slavery and toward freedom-he deepens our understanding of freedom itself and the origin of our political ideals. Roberts examines the liminal and transitional space of slave escape in order to develop a theory of freedom as marronage, which contends that freedom is fundamentally located within this space-that it is a form of perpetual flight. He engages a stunning variety of writers, including Hannah Arendt, W. E. B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Rastafari, among others, to develop a compelling lens through which to interpret the quandaries of slavery, freedom, and politics that still confront us today. The result is a sophisticated, interdisciplinary work that unsettles the ways we think about freedom by always casting it in the light of its critical opposite.

Fugitive slaves --- Liberty. --- Maroons. --- africana studies, slavery, enslaved, history, historical, human condition, humanity, opposition, free, escape, caribbean, latin america, systems, power, politics, political, ideals, morals, values, liminal, transitional, flight, analysis, critique, critical, academic, scholarly, research, theory, theoretical, hannah arendt, web du bois, angela davis, frederick douglass, samuel taylor coleridge, literary, literature.

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In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes such writing seriously as literature, examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to write of their experiences between the poles of cliché and exceptionality. Identifying shortcomings in the approaches taken thus far to such texts, she makes suggestions as to how to better read such narratives from the stance of literary scholarship, then demonstrates the value of a literary disability studies approach to such writing with close readings of Charlotte Roche's Schoßgebete (2011), Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht (2009), Verena Stefan's Fremdschläfer (2007), and - in the final, comparative chapter - Christoph Schlingensief's So schön wie hier kanns im Himmel gar nicht sein! Tagebuch einer Krebserkrankung (2009) and Wolfgang Herrndorf's blog-cum-book Arbeit und Struktur (2010-13). Schmidt shows that authors dealing with illness and disability do so with an awareness of their precarious subject position in the public eye, a position they negotiate creatively. Writing the liminal experience of serious illness along the borders of genre, moving between fictional and autobiographical modes, they carve out spaces from which they speak up and share their personal stories in the realm of literature, to political ends. Nina Schmidt is a postdoctoral researcher in the Friedrich Schlegel School of Literary Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Diseases in literature. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- German fiction --- Autobiographical fiction, German --- German prose literature --- History and criticism. --- German literature --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- Autobiographical Literature. --- Autobiographical Narratives. --- Autobiographical Writing. --- Contemporary German Literature. --- Disability Studies. --- Disability. --- German Authors. --- German Literature. --- Illness Experience. --- Illness Narratives. --- Illness Writing. --- Illness. --- Intimacy. --- Liminal Experience. --- Literary Analysis. --- Literary Disability Studies. --- Literary Scholarship. --- Literature on Illness. --- Literature. --- Personal Narratives. --- Political Ends. --- Reflective Approach. --- The Wounded Self. --- Wounded Self.

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In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the social, ritual, and historical context from which tragedy itself rises. Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' Bacchae builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. This volume presents the argument that the Dionysiac poetics of the play characterize a world view and an art form that can admit logical contradictions and hold them in suspension.

Bacchantes in literature --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Mythology, Greek --- Bacchantes dans la littérature --- Tragédie grecque --- Mythologie grecque --- Drama --- Théâtre --- Euripides. --- Dionysus --- Pentheus, --- In literature --- Dionysus (Greek deity) in literature --- Pentheus (Greek mythology) in literature --- Tragedy --- Euripides --- Euripide --- Bacchantes dans la littérature --- Tragédie grecque --- Théâtre --- In literature. --- Dionysos (Divinite grecque) dans la litterature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Achelous. --- Actaeon. --- Amphitryon. --- Anaxagoras. --- Anthesteria. --- Archelaus of Macedon. --- Artemis. --- Bacchylides. --- Cronos. --- Demeter. --- Democritus. --- Dionysiac poetics. --- Dithyrambus. --- Echidna. --- Evil Mother. --- Golden Age. --- Heracles. --- Heraclitus. --- Icarius. --- Iophon. --- Macedon. --- Melanthus. --- adolescence. --- agriculture. --- anagnorisis. --- boundaries. --- brochos. --- cannibalism. --- carnival. --- catharsis. --- chthonic. --- culture-hero. --- doubling. --- enclosure. --- epiphany. --- flight. --- forest. --- gates. --- hair. --- hands. --- hunt. --- kentron. --- kingship, sacred. --- landscape. --- libation. --- liminal. --- loom. --- male womb. --- metamorphosis. --- mountain. --- myth. --- narthex. --- nature. --- Bacchus --- Bakchos --- Dionís --- Dionisas --- Dioniso --- Dionīss --- Dionisu --- Dioniz --- Dionizi --- Dionizo --- Dionizos --- Dionüszosz --- Dionysos --- Dionýzos --- Diyonizosse --- Διόνυσος --- Дионис --- ديونيسوس --- 디오니소스 --- דיוניסוס --- ディオニューソス --- 狄俄倪索斯 --- Βάκχος --- Діоніс

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Modern developments of Fourier analysis during the 20th century have explored generalizations of Fourier and Fourier–Plancherel formula for non-commutative harmonic analysis, applied to locally-compact, non-Abelian groups. In parallel, the theory of coherent states and wavelets has been generalized over Lie groups. One should add the developments, over the last 30 years, of the applications of harmonic analysis to the description of the fascinating world of aperiodic structures in condensed matter physics. The notions of model sets, introduced by Y. Meyer, and of almost periodic functions, have revealed themselves to be extremely fruitful in this domain of natural sciences.

Cypriot archaeology --- landscape archaeology --- South-Eastern Provence --- hilltop fortresses --- settlement organisation --- Byzantine settlements of eastern Crete --- Graeco-Roman period --- church architecture --- maritime cultural landscapes --- spatial scales in networks --- Roman imperialism --- connectivity --- resource procurement --- hunting --- Moesia Superior --- ancient sanctuaries --- metals trade --- gateways --- entanglements --- economy --- trading mechanisms --- ancient port cities --- trade links --- Populonia --- Roman mining --- central flow theory --- sacred areas --- central places --- river valley --- marginality --- Byzantine bath-houses --- settlement location --- settlement status --- networks --- Mediterranean archaeology --- liminal landscape --- identity --- nodal points --- assemblages --- site location --- Hauran (Syria/Jordan) --- materiality --- religion --- network relationship qualities --- viewshed analysis --- resource management --- Cyprus --- eschatia --- Marseille --- central place theory --- Secular Byzantine architecture --- Byzantine Mochlos --- centrality --- aridity --- settlement organization --- Roman urbanism --- urban culture of Byzantium --- surface survey --- political economy --- supply basin --- water --- central place --- byzantine and medieval port towns --- Marmarica (NW-Egypt) --- sacred space --- Bronze Age --- island and coastal archaeology --- urbanism --- ideology --- medieval Crete --- new materialisms --- political power --- bird hunting --- Arles --- Timacum Minus --- social networks --- byzantine and medieval Peloponnese --- Roman archaeology --- interaction