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The Russo-Ottoman War of 1686-1700
Get PDFA. G. Gus’kov, K. A. Kochegarov, S. M. Shamin, Russko-turetskaia voina 1686-1700 godov [The Russian-Turkish War of 1686-1700] (Moscow: Russkoe slovo, 2022)
Is it Ramadan, Curious George? International Muslims Read Children’s Books Depicting Islam
Get PDFThis study examines mixed methods data from thirty-five Muslim teachers from twenty countries regarding ten popular children’s books depicting Islam and Muslim cultures and communities. The reader-participants had a keen eye for stereotypes and praised anti-bias counter-narratives. Authorial authenticity was found to be especially valuable as non-Muslims generally created the most criticized books. Finally, since there are different interpretations of Islam and cultural diversity among Muslims, no single book was found complete and beyond critique. As with all children’s books, these books need to be read in complementary groups with attention to addressing and compensating for the weaknesses of each book
Critical Peritextual Analysis: Critical Possibilities of Peritext in Books for Young Readers
Get PDF“Peritext” refers to the components that make up the margins of a book, such as the front and back covers, the flap copy, the copyright page, the author’s note, the author and illustrator biographies, etc. In this essay, we call for readers of all ages to critically engage with the peritext. To that end, we present a framework grounded in critical literacy that we refer to as “Critical Peritextual Analysis” (CPA). This analytical tool can enable readers to rely on the peritext to engage in dialogues about power, perspective, culture, and justice. Using CPA in conjunction with critical content analysis, we examine the fringe elements in books across multiple formats, including board books, picturebooks, and early readers to demonstrate how this approach allows for more critical readings of texts. We offer CPA as a framework to enable adult and child readers alike to adopt a critical stance towards peritextual matter in order to foster critical literacy and advance justice-oriented readings of any children\u27s books
The Non-Essential Space in Manga
Get PDFThis essay examines imageries in the genre of manga that diverge from the medium’s temporal traditions and employ a compositional logic that is purely spatial. I define these exceptions as the non-essential space in manga. The non-essential space employs an alternative temporality, which I call the material time, where its depiction of time centers on the viewer’s interaction with the materiality of the pictorial elements. By employing the material time, the non-essential space is able to enclose and preserve time as it converts itself into an object-like, textured entity whose composition equates to an occupation of space.
Transnational Perspectives on Anime Conference Report
Get PDFTransnational Perspectives on Anime, supported by the Japan Foundation London, was held at Lancaster University on July 4th 2025 and featured diverse papers from across anime studies. This report covers the breadth of topics investigated during a day filled with new insights, ideas, and connections, from the Indian distribution of Doraemon to Heidi, Girl of the Alps in Spain
Семейная переписка как дипломатическое пространство в России XVIII века и вопрос выбора языка: Якоб и Петр фон Штелины (1760-е – 1780-е годы)
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Семейная переписка между Якобом фон Штелиным (1709–1785), видным российским придворным и академиком, и его сыном Петром фон Штелиным (1744–1800), российским дипломатом, представляет собой показательный пример того, как частные письма могли служить пространством для политического и дипломатического общения в России XVIII века. Письма также отражают практики самопредставления и формирования идентичности. Вся переписка велась на французском языке, несмотря на немецкое происхождение Штелиных и их многоязычие. Этот языковой выбор показывает функции французского как дипломатического и придворного языка того времени, а также как средства формирования политических и социальных сетей. Таким образом, переписка дает представление как о неформальной дипломатии, так и о культурной политике языка.The family correspondence between Jacob von Staehlin (1709–1785), a prominent Russian courtier and academician, and his son Peter von Staehlin (1744–1800), a Russian diplomat, offers a revealing example of how private letters could serve as a space for political and diplomatic exchange in eighteenth-century Russia. The letters also reflect practices of self-fashioning and identity-building. The entire correspondence is in French, despite the German origin and multilingualism of the Staehlins. This linguistic choice reveals the functions of French—as the diplomatic and court language of the time, but also as a means of cultivating political and social networks. The correspondence thus offers insight into both informal diplomacy and the cultural politics of language
Скотский двор: Литературная генеалогия басни Дениса Фонвизина “Лисица-Казнодей”
Get PDFВ статье рассматриваются исторические и политические аллюзии в “поздней” политической басне Дениса Фонвизина (1745–1792), пережившего в период ее создания глубокий психологический и идеологический кризис, совпавший по времени с моральным кризисом триумфальной екатерининской империи. Автор показывает, что эта басня, вызванная к жизни актуальными современными событиями, является не столько свидетельством политической смелости писателя и его, по словам Г. А. Гуковского, “ненависти к деспотии” и “елейному” духовенству, сколько выражением презрительного примирения с действительностью, усталости и глубокого разочарования в возможности реализации политической программы, “завещанной” его патроном и вдохновителем Никитой Паниным. Вторая часть статьи рассматривает “посмертный” период существования этой басни, оставившей заметный след в русской политической истории.This article examines the historical and political allusions in the “late” political fable of Denis Fonvizin (1745–1792), written during a period when the author was undergoing a profound psychological and ideological crisis that coincided with the moral crisis of Catherine’s triumphant empire. I argue that this fable, shaped by contemporary events, is less a testament to the writer’s political courage and his, in the words of Grigory Gukovsky, “hatred of despotism” and the “deceitful” clergy, than an expression of disdainful reconciliation with reality, exhaustion, and deep disillusionment regarding the possibility of realizing the political program “bequeathed” to him by his patron and inspirer, Nikita Panin. In the second part of the chapter, I turn to the “posthumous” period of the fable’s existence, which left a significant imprint on Russian political history.
Екатерина II и массовая аудитория XVIII века
Get PDFРецензия на: Ruth Pritchard Dawson, Catherine the Great and Culture of Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, xviii + 297 p. ISBN: 978-1-3502-4462-7
Managing Anime Employees in the Virtual Office: A Case Study of hololive
Get PDFVirtual YouTubers (or VTubers) are online personas of transnational fame who perform on digital streaming platforms using animated, motion-tracking avatars which are usually drawn in an anime style. Some of the biggest VTubers are now managed by corporate entities. The largest of these, Japan’s hololive, situates its VTubers in a virtual office with virtual anime talent managers, and the CEO of the network’s parent company even appears in mixed reality settings. This article therefore poses the question: why might a company in the business of futuristic trends such as the metaverse choose to reproduce its own highly conventional organizational structures in anime style? By examining playful depictions of managing virtual performers in hololive’s own YouTube videos, this paper argues that stories of VTuber management are indebted to the conventions of anime’s transnational, transmedia nature. This playfulness in turn represents an invitation to audiences to play with these conventions, and with the concept of the talent management organization itself