ISBN:
9783825362027
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (172 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Regensburger Beiträge zur Gender-Forschung - Band 6
Series Statement:
Regensburger Beiträge zur Gender-Forschung v.6
Parallel Title:
Print version Treasure in Literature and Culture
DDC:
395
Keywords:
Treasure troves
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Hauptbeschreibung: Treasure and treasure hunting are vast themes in literature and culture, yet have so far not received much sustained and coherent academic interest. The present collection of essays approaches treasure and treasure hunts in literature and culture from the Renaissance to the present. It asks questions about the legal, social, and cultural role of treasure, especially in connection with its links with gender and sexuality. The essays of the collection deal with Renaissance documents and their depiction of legal struggles over treasure, Romantic conceptions of the sel
Description / Table of Contents:
Vorwort; Table of Contents; Rainer Emig - Treasure in Literature and Culture: From Motif to Discourse; Jessica Malay - The Trouble with Treasure in Tudor and Stuart England; Stefan Herbrechter - Treasuring the Self: Romanticism… in Theory; Dominique Claisse - Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mother of Pearl and Other Gems; Karin Preuss - Family Treasures and Subversive Power Play in Wilkie Collins' ""The Moonstone""; Rainer Emig - Treasure Hunts: Between Decadence and Morality; Russell West-Pavlov - Treasure, Value and Signs in Conrad's Nostromo
Description / Table of Contents:
Marcin Stawiarski - Treasure and the Desire to Know: Richard Wagner's ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"" and Anthony Burgess's ""The Worm and the Ring""Carl Plasa - "The Object of His Craving": Loss and Compensation in Toni Morrison's ""Song of Solomon""; Oliver Lindner - Broken Future, Broken Narrative: Risk and the Threatened Treasure of the Environment in David Mitchell's ""Cloud Atlas"" (2004) and Margaret Atwood's ""The Year of the Flood"" (2009); Ellen Grünkemeier - Antiretroviral AIDS Medication in South(ern) Africa - a Treasure?; Notes on Contributors
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