1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452959003321

Autore

Chajes Jeffrey Howard

Titolo

Between worlds [[electronic resource] ] : dybbuks, exorcists, and early modern Judaism / / J.H. Chajes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003

ISBN

1-283-88994-3

0-8122-0155-8

Descrizione fisica

278 p

Collana

Jewish Culture and Contexts

Jewish culture and contexts

Disciplina

296.3/16

Soggetti

Dybbuk

Spirit possession

Exorcism

Mysticism - Judaism

Spiritual life - Judaism

Future life - Judaism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Emergence o/Dybbuk Possession -- Chapter 2. The Emergence o/Dybbuk Possession -- Chapter 3. The Task of the Exorcist -- Chapter 4. Dybbuk Possession and Women's Religiosity -- Chapter 5. Skeptics and Storytellers -- Arrival -- Appendix: Spirit Possession Narratives from Early Modern Jewish Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as "The Age of the Demoniac," accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but spreading rapidly westward, spirit possession, both benevolent and malevolent, emerged as perhaps the most characteristic form of religiosity in early modern Jewish society.



Adopting a comparative historical approach, J. H. Chajes uncovers this strain of Jewish belief to which scant attention has been paid. Informed by recent research in historical anthropology, Between Worlds provides fascinating descriptions of the cases of possession as well as analysis of the magical techniques deployed by rabbinic exorcists to expel the ghostly intruders.Seeking to understand the phenomenon of spirit possession in its full complexity, Chajes delves into its ideational framework-chiefly the doctrine of reincarnation-while exploring its relation to contemporary Christian and Islamic analogues. Regarding spirit possession as a form of religious expression open to-and even dominated by-women, Chajes initiates a major reassessment of women in the history of Jewish mysticism. In a concluding section he examines the reception history of the great Hebrew accounts of spirit possession, focusing on the deployment of these "ghost stories" in the battle against incipient skepticism in the turbulent Jewish community of seventeenth-century Amsterdam.Exploring a phenomenon that bridged learned and ignorant, rich and poor, men and women, Jews and Gentiles, Between Worlds maps for the first time a prominent feature of the early modern Jewish religious landscape, as "idian as it was portentous: the nexus of the living and the dead.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910131086003321

Autore

Michel Louise

Titolo

La commune / / Louise Michel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicoutimi : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2006

ISBN

1-4123-5295-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (534 pages)

Collana

Classiques des sciences sociales

Disciplina

944.0812

Soggetti

Paris (France) History Commune, 1871

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

PREMIÈRE PARTIE : L'AGONIE DE L'EMPIRE -- I.Le réveil -- II.La littérature à la fin de l'Empire. - Ma­nifestations de la paix -- III.L'Internationale. - Fondation et procès. - Protestations des internationaux contre la guerre -- IV.Enterrement de Victor Noir. - L'affaire racontée par Rochefort -- V.Le procès de Blois -- VI.La guerre. - Dépêches officielles -- VII.L'affaire de la Villette. Sedan -- DEUXIÈME PARTIE : RÉPUBLIQUE DU 4 SEPTEMBRE -- I.Le 4 septembre -- II.La réforme nationale -- III.Le 31 octobre -- IV.Du 31 octobre au 22 janvier -- V.Le 22 janvier -- VI.Quelques républicains dans l'armée et dans la flotte.Plans de Rossel et de Lullier -- VII.L'Assemblée de Bordeaux. Entrée des Prussiens dans Paris -- VIII.Soulèvements par le monde pour la liberté -- IX.Les femmes de 70 -- TROISIÈME PARTIE : LA COMMUNE -- I.Le 18 mars -- II.Mensonges de Versailles. Manifeste du comité central -- III.L'affaire du 22 mars -- IV.Proclamation de la Commune -- V.Premiers jours de la Commune. - Les mesures. - La vie à Paris -- VI.L'attaque de Versailles. - Récit inédit de la mort de Flourens par Hector France et Cipriani -- VII.Souvenirs -- VIII.Le flot monte -- IX.Les communes de province -- X.L'armée de la Commune. Les femmes de 71 -- XI.Derniers jours de liberté -- XII.Les francs-maçons -- XIII.Affaire de l'échange de Blanqui contre l'archevêque et d'autres otages -- XIV.La fin -- QUATRIÈME PARTIE : L'HÉCATOMBE -- I.La lutte dans Paris. - L'égorgement -- II.La curée froide -- III.Des bastions à Satory et à Versailles -- IV.Les prisons de Versailles. Les poteaux de Satory. - Jugements -- CINQUIÈME PARTIE : DEPUIS -- I.Prisons et pontons. - Le voyage new­calédonien. - Évasion de Rochefort. - La vie en Calédonie.



- Le retour -- II.Le retour -- APPENDICE -- I.Récit de Béatrix Excoffons -- II.Lettre d'un détenu de Brest -- III.Manifeste de la Commune à Londres -- POST-FACE : Extraits du Mémorandum d'un éditeur par Paul-Victor Stock.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155520103321

Titolo

Double-Takes : Intersections between Canadian Literature and Film / / edited by David R. Jarraway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, ON : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 2013

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-7766-1988-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Collana

Reappraisals: Canadian writers ; ; 35

Altri autori (Persone)

JarrawayDavid R

Disciplina

791.43/657

Soggetti

Film adaptations - History and criticism

Canadian literature - Film adaptations

Motion pictures and literature - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER ; TITLE PAGE ; COPYRIGHT NOTICE; DEDICATION; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE : REALISM AND ITS "OTHERS"; Beyond the National-Realist Text:  Imagining the Impossible Nation in Contemporary Canadian Cinema; Griersonian "Actuality" and  Social Protest in Dorothy Livesay's  Documentary Poems; "Stunning and Strange": Iceland as Memory and Prophecy in Alice Munro's "White Dump" and Sarah Polley's "Away from Her"; Maddin, Melodrama and  the Pre-National; Dialogic Phantasy in Bruce McDonald's Adaptive Narratives; PART TWO : ADAPTATION, FOR BETTER OR WORSE

Reading Canadian Film Credits:  Adapting Institutions, Systems  and AffectsSisters in the Wilderness:  Mythologizing Catharine Parr Traill; "Triumph" in the Backwoods:  The CBC's Take on Moodie and Traill in Sisters in the Wilderness (2000); The Director's Medium: Richard Attenborough's  De-Authorization of Grey Owl; Narrative Structure and



Narrative Voices in The English Patient:  Film and Novel-A Comparative Study; Loser Wins: The Rhetoric of High  Modernism in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz; Why They Cannot Get It Right:  A Reader's Notes about Richler on Screen

"[I]t's my nature": A Comparison of  Hagar Shipley's Pride in The Stone Angel Novel and FilmPART THREE : IDENTITY: "TO BE OR NOT TO BE"; Why Sex Matters in Canadian Film  and Literature; The Nature of Things: Coupland, Cinema and the Canadian Sixties and Seventies; Adapting Men to New Times? Engagements with Masculinism in  John Howe's Why Rock the Boat?; Filming Music: Adapting  Transnational Sound in The English Patient and Fugitive Pieces; "Something's missing":  Exploding Girlhood and Narrative in  The Tracey Fragments; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; Reappraisals: Canadian Writers

Sommario/riassunto

The widest-ranging exploration to date of the interaction between English Canadian literature and film.