Introduction
Nicola
Rehling
The Self, the Community and Nattion in 18th and
19th Centurry Literature
Homogenizing
the Masses: American Republican Ideology and the Threat of “intemperate
democracy” in Robert Munford’s The Patriots (c. 1777)
Zoe Detsi-Diamanti
The
Individual in the (Catholic) Mass: Restoration, Self and Community in
Liturgy and Literature
Rosemary A. Peters
Narrating the Individual and the Community in Elizabeth Gaskell’s
Cranford
Anna Koustinoudi
The Scapegoat
in Hardy’s Tragic Novels: Revisiting Ancient Theory
Annie Ramel
The Individual, Modernity and the Emergence of Mass Culture
Mediating
between the Mass and the Individual: Punch Caricatures of the Great
Exhibition of All Nations
Adina Ciugureanu
The
Paranoid Simulacrum in Surrealism: From Embracing Madness to the
Mechanism of a Mental Illness as the Purveyor of Individual Meaning
Despina-Alexandra Constantinidou
Individuality, Subjectivity and Community in
Mass-Mediated, “Abstract” Society
The
Bohemian Iconoclast and the Corporate Giant: Julie Taymor’s Staging of
Disney’s The Lion King, or The Portrait of the Avant-Garde Artist
as a Corporate Employee
Vagelis Siropoulos
Second-Generation West Indian Women, Television and the Dialogical Self
Kamille Gentles-Peart
Individuality, Embodiment and the Female Interpreter in Woman Times
Seven and The Interpreter
Fotini Apostolou
Prepare
for Glory: The Multiplication of the Digitally Hyperreal Hero in Frank
Miller’s/ Zack Snyder’s
300
Giorgos Dimitriadis
Staging (Dis)Connections
between the Individual and the Mass in Contemporary Literature:
From the Pathological “Mass in Person” to the Globalized Subject
Stella Butter
Review Section
Helping
Yourself to Heidegger
Reviewed by Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
Antonio
Negri’s Empire and Beyond: The Reformation of the Lexicon of
Modernity and the Imagining of a Postnational Imaginary
Reviewed by Mina Karavanta
Jameson,
Fredric. Valences of the Dialectic. London and New York: Verso, 2009
(pp 625)
Reviewed by Sean Homer
Contributors
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