Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature.Romantic Vacancy argues that, at the cult of sensibility's height, Romantic writers found alternative tropes of affect to express movement beyond sensation and the body. Grappling with sensibility's claims that sensation could be translated into ideas and emotions, poets of vacancy rewrote core empiricist philosophies that trapped women and men in sensitive bodies and, more detrimental...

For most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering threatened the spiritual nature of life, the source of compassion in human society. A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels them consequently surfaced in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature. Roman...

Ein inspirierender Ratgeber für alle die wissen möchten, wie wir unsere Welt gemeinsam besser machen können.Der bekannte Buddhist Matthieu Ricard und die Empathie-Forscherin Tania Singer sind Herausgeber dieses wissenschaftlichen Ratgebers. Dieser fasst die Mind & Life Conference 2016 in Brüssel zusammen, die unter der Schirmherrschaft des Dalai Lama zum Thema "Fürsorge und Macht" stattfand. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Fragestellung, welche Forschungsergebnisse heute dazu beitragen kön...

Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for examining and addressing pathways of interaction between biological and social aspects of chronic and acute suffering in populations. While much research to date addresses known syndemics such as those involving HIV, diabetes, and mental illness,...

Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama.For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human wellbeing and compassion. These conversations, which began as private meetings, are now part of the Mind & Life Institute and Mind & Life Europe. This book documents a recent M...

Calwyn knows nothing about the world beyond the Wall. She's never seen the golden stone of the city of kalysons or the wide waters of the Bay of Sardi. She hasn't heard the windworker's melodies in the Isles of Firthana or the occasional explosions from the colleges of Mithates. She knows only the rounds of her life as a novice ice priestess in Antaris, tending her bees, singing her chantments, and dreaming.Enter Darrow, who speaks to Calwyn of discord in Tremaris, where chanters a...

Fiction without boundaries celebrates the nascent spring in this issue full of adventure, romance, and fantasy. Enjoy works from short stories to a generous novella as you while away your long moments of social separation during a global pandemic. All positive stories, all happy endings.In this issue:RUSALKA (Kate Pavelle) – Stella Vodnansky’s coming of age ceremony should’ve taken place when she was sixteen. She failed, then failed again. Now at twenty-two, she’d rather dr...

In The Art of Touch: Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond, the unique voices of thirty-nine of some of the most creative thinkers of our times have been brought together to consider the profound impact of one of our five main senses: touch.Psychologists, healers, massage therapists, academics, creative writers, and others reflect on or tell personal stories about what it means to be able to touch or experience touch, or to have to go without it—as so many did and ...

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings continue to resonate in remarkable ways. Shelley addressed climate change, women's liberation, nonbinary gender, and political protest, while speaking to Indigenous, queer/trans, disabled, displaced, and working-class communities. He still inspires artists and social justice movements around the world today. Yet Percy Shelley for Our Times reveals an even more farsighted writer, one whose poetic methodology went beyond the didactic po...

Life gets interesting for friends - or enemies - who rise to the occasion and find that their feelings for the other guy are... complicated. Burning Rubbers delivers delicious suspense and dangerous romance. Guns are blazing, enemies are scheming, and both cars and lives spin out of control – and our intrepid heroes still fall for each other:Table of Contents"Flux" by Olivette Devaux"Diversion" by Eden Winters"Being Here : an M/M Novel" by Ada O'Fl...

Fiendish suspense. Shocking twists.Twelve diabolical tales.New York Times bestselling author and highly acclaimed storyteller Jeffery Deaver-the undisputed "grand master of the plot twist" (Booklist)-returns with a dazzling new collection of short stories. In these twelve electrifying tales (including six written just for this anthology) Deaver proves once again his genius for the unexpected-in his world, appearances are always deceiving.A devoted h...