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Davíð Stefánsson’s ‘Delirium’ (1919): A New Translation with Introduction
Get PDFDavíð Stefánsson was an Icelandic poet born in 1895 in Fagriskógur, a farm in the North of Iceland.[i] He was an ambitious and esteemed poet, whose work occupied a central place in the Icelandic literary canon and borrowed from many traditions including folklore, Romanticism, Symbolism, the Gothic, and, in the poem translated into English here, decadence. Given that Davíð was writing from a remote island in the North Atlantic Ocean, a place with more sheep than people, it is not obvious how or why he started exploring decadent themes, which traditionally tend to reflect preoccupations with plenitude, artifice, and urban cityscapes. It is the pervasive nature of decadence itself, however, and its parasitic relationship with other major movements and tendencies like Romanticism, Realism, and Symbolism, that ensured that decadent aesthetics found their way into the work of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers like Davíð.
 
Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018
Get PDFThis is the text of a keynote presentation to the Second World War Research Group’s Annual Conference in 2019. It reflects on the centenary commemorations for 1914-1918 from the perspective of a First World War historian to suggest some lessons for the forthcoming centenary of the Second World War. As such it discusses the relationship between history, memory and national identity, the role of historians in shaping that relationship, and the actions that need to be taken in anticipation of the centenary. Taking inspiration from Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries 1912-1923 it explores the potential of a similar approach for Britain’s commemoration of the Second World War
The Women Who Watched the Waves: The Women’s Air Raid Defense Organisation in World War II Hawaii
Get PDFFollowing the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, a small group of women in Honolulu formed the WARD, the Women’s Air Raid Defense organisation. The WARD by working with the US military and dedicating itself to the aerial defence of the Hawaiian Islands released men for combat duty in the Pacific. Using primary source material held by the War Depository Archives at the University of Hawaii, this note seeks to highlight this largely unknown organisation and examine the contributions of American and Hawaiian women to the military defence of Hawaii – an aspect of American history that has been all-but-forgotten
Preface by the Editor-in-Chief
No full textAs this merciless and traumatizing year draws to a close, I am pleased to welcome Volupté readers, new and old, to this bi-lingual issue on translation. I leave it to our Guest Editors, Matthew Creasy and Stefano Evangelista, to introduce the contributions and affirm the importance of decadence for translation studies, but I would like to acknowledge the work of their Decadence and Translation Network and the series of events in Oxford, London, Strasbourg, Glasgow, and Paris from 2018 to 2020 that brought translators, publishers, poets, curators, and academics together in convivial surroundings to share ideas about the way in which the concept and the practice of translation sit at the heart of British and French decadent literature. The Network events had so many highlights it is difficult to choose one that stands out, but the gathering of scholars in Strasbourg in June 2019 under the hospitable wing of Guy Ducrey is surely one of them. The Network has had considerable impact, inspiring new projects, partnerships, collaborations, and friendships, and it has provided a fruitful space for new thinking about the translational, transnational, and transcultural nature of decadence. It is my fervent hope that despite the petty-minded and destructive Brexit impulse international collaboration at individual and institutional levels continues to flourish and grow
Anti-Imperialist Pamphleteering: Understanding Global Jihad in Wartime India, 1914-1918
Get PDFIn 1914, the German Foreign Office envisaged a plan to stir up the subject populations of Britain, France and Russia. Colonial Muslims had a critical place in this plan, as contemporary Orientalist thought made the Germans believe these Muslims could easily be encouraged to rebel by a call for Jihad. In particular, the German Foreign Office believed Indian Muslims to be a disgruntled section of a subject population. The German government launched a campaign to spread jihadi propaganda to incite them into rebellion against the British imperial government. This Research Note contextualises the jihadi propaganda disseminated in India, in the broader transnational network of the German ‘programme for insurrection’. It also examines how it exploited the old Wahabi network for this purpose
Matilda Greig, Dead Men Telling Tales, Napoleonic War Veterans and the Military Memoir industry, 1808-1914
Get PDFWłodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny, Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912-1916
Get PDFA European History of Michael Howard’s War in European History
Get PDFMichael Howard’s War in European History, published in 1976, was one of his most influential works. This article traces its reception in France, Italy and West Germany, contextualising the book within the post-Second World War development of military history in those countries. The ‘war and society’ approach for which Howard is celebrated developed along distinctive lines in each, so international scholars focused on different aspects of the book. War in European History was also used by Umberto Eco to explore the relationship between force and power. His insights offer fresh ways to examine more recent developments in the field of military history