The geographies of Swinging London

The processes of modernisation that re-capitalised London in the post-war period can be located in both dominant and resistant movements. Many aspects of the city's discursive fabric in the 1950s and 1960s were underpinned by a similar geographical imagination. This geographical imagination was characterised by a desire to visualise and represent nature and the real afresh and can be found in modernist architecture and planning aesthetics, Pop Art, Op Art, Angry realist writing, the style of Swinging London, and the tactics of counter-cultural rebellion in the city. Acknowledged geographies of modernity and anti-modernity are therefore questionable. Similarly, the geographies of power and resistance are constituted by more than spatial tactics and moral or behavioural boundaries as they are often rendered. An approach that understands hegemonic processes in terms of geographical imaginations allows an analysis that moves beyond outward manifestations of resistance and enables an engagement with the less palpable aspects of dissent such as ideology and aesthetics.     

The Swinging Gate: Katherine Mansfield's Missionary Vision

At the age of thirteen, Mansfield wrote “I want to be a Maori missionary” in her Book of Common Prayer. “The Swinging Gate: Katherine Mansfield's Missionary Vision” by Richard Cappuccio argues that Mansfield's initial diary entry is a lens through which one can read her interests in, rebellion against, and modifications of her Anglican background. The article discusses close readings of her poems “The Sea Child,” “The Butterfly,” and “To L.H. B.” as well as two of her stories — “Prelude,” and “How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped.” In addition it draws on journals and letters to focus on a relationship between Maori systems of belief, her affinities with Frank Harris's “A Holy Man (After Tolstoi),” and her final observations about G. I. Gurdjieff.     

The Fictions of Biblical History

Book reviewed in this article:
The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth ofIsrael , by Thomas L. Thompson     

论近代英国版权制度的形成

近代英国版权制度形成早、影响大。它起源于都铎王朝统治时期 ,中经资产阶级革命的洗礼 ,于 1 8世纪初期最终形成。欧美各国及世界其他国家都纷纷仿效 ,先后制定了自己的版权法。因此 ,对近代英国版权制度形成问题的探讨 ,不仅对我们深入理解当代西方乃至世界版权制度具有重要理论价值 ,而且对捍卫我国版权安全以及借鉴国外优秀文化成果具有重要实践意义。