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Re-Imagining Class
Intersectional Perspectives on Class Identity and Precarity in Contemporary Culture
2024 || Paperback || Michiel Rys e.a. || Leuven University Press
Contemporary culture not merely reflects ongoing societal transformations, it shapes our understanding of rapidly evolving class realities. Literature, theatre, and film urge us to put the question of class back on the agenda, and reconceptualize it through the lens of precarity and intersectionality. Relying on examples from British, French, Spanish, German, American, Swedish and Taiwanese culture, the contributors to this book document a variety of aesthetic strategies in an interdisciplina...
The Romero Memory
Exploring Heritages of International Solidarity
2024 || Paperback || Judith Gruber e.a. || Leuven University Press
On 24 March 1980, Salvadoran archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating mass in San Salvador. During the last years of his life, Romero had become an outspoken opponent of the oppression by El Salvador’s dictatorial regime and a beacon of peace and hope in a country torn by injustice, inequality and violence. His assassination sparked global outrage and converged with a growing international awareness of the plight of Latin America. To this day, Romero continues to inspire ...
Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking
Critical Edition and Readings of Beyond the Pleasure Principle
2024 || Paperback || Herman Westerink e.a. || Leuven University Press
Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle stands as a foundational text in psychoanalysis, delving into profound questions about life, death, pleasure and pain. Through a combination of contextualising and philosophical contributions, this critical edition and commentary sheds new light on Freud’s text. In a series of contributions spanning approaches from historical exegesis to philosophical reflections on key concepts and ideas presented in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, the evoluti...
Between Conventional and Experimental
Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture
2024 || Paperback || Regine Hess e.a. || Leuven University Press
Architectures of Resistance
Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices
2024 || Paperback || Angeliki Sioli e.a. || Leuven University Press
Borders between countries, neighbourhoods, people, beliefs, and policies are proliferating and expanding despite what self-proclaimed progressive societies wish or choose to believe. For a wide variety of reasons, the early 21st century is caught struggling between breaking down barriers and raising them. Architecture is complicit in both. It is central to the perpetuation of borders, and key to their dismantling. Architectures of Resistance: Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices appr...
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Corporate Governance from Startup to Scale-up
2024 || Paperback || Luc Sterckx || Leuven University Press
Good governance is essential to the success of start-ups and scale-ups. In this book, Luc Sterckx, an expert in internal governance and general management, provides firsthand advice on how early-stage companies can be governed in an efficient and workable manner, regardless of their limited financial resources. The book combines legal and regulatory information with practical advice on implementation, including guidance on how to set priorities. As a company transitions from a startup to a sc...
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Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility
Critical Reflections and New Perspectives
2024 || Paperback || Peter J. Freeth e.a. || Leuven University Press
Whether we allow audiences to know that a text is a translation or to see the person responsible for translating it are questions that have dominated discussions about translation throughout history. Despite becoming one of the most ubiquitous terms in translation studies, however, the concept of translator invisibility is often criticized for being vague, overly adaptable, and grounded in literary contexts. This interdisciplinary volume therefore draws on concepts from fields such as sociolo...
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Urban Culture and the Modern City
Hungarian Case Studies
2024 || Paperback || Ágnes Györke e.a. || Leuven University Press
When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European cities is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Trieste, where such notable figures as Freud, Ferenczi, Kafka, and Joyce lived and worked, are rarely studied in a translocal framework, as if Central and Eastern Europe were still a blind spot of European modernity. This volume expands the scope of literary urban studies by focusing on Budapest and Hungarian small towns, offering in-depth an...
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The Legacy of Elise Hall
Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and the Saxophone
2024 || Paperback || Kurt Bertels e.a. || Leuven University Press
The saxophone is a globally popular instrument, often closely associated with renowned male players such as Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, or more recently, Kenny G. Less well known, however, is the historical presence of female saxophonists in the nineteenth century, shortly after the instrument’s invention. Elise Hall (1853–1924), a prominent wealthy socialite in Boston at the turn of the twentieth century, defied social norms by mastering the saxophone, an unconventional instrument for...
European Literatures of Military Occupation
Shared Experience, Shifting Boundaries, and Aesthetic Affections
2024 || Paperback || Matthias Buschmeier e.a. || Leuven University Press
What does it mean to live under occupation? How does it shape the culture and identities of European nations? How does it affect the way we write and read literature? These are fundamental questions that set the stage for an in-depth exploration. Focusing on the literary works of writers from various European countries that were occupied by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Allies during and after World War II, the contributions in this edited volume seek to unravel the complex interplay ...