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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781032423418 , 9781032423432
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Natural history ; Applied ecology
    Abstract: The apricot has a strong economic value in disputed areas along the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border. It is also an important asset for migrant workers investments. This paper argues that tree's life cycle produces power relations, bonding communities in times of conflict, but also increasing vulnerability and tensions over water supply. The research shows how the apricot tree life cycle can govern the mobility choices of owners, and how recognition of its common value can give rise to cross-border acts of solidarity aimed at preserving the trees
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    Exeter : University of Exeter Press
    ISBN: 9781804131305 , 9781804131299
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (196 p.)
    Keywords: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers ; Literature: history & criticism ; Classic fiction (pre c 1945) ; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
    Abstract: Described as the most widely read and influential serious writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains relevant in our own era of contested media. He continues to attract a large readership. This book is about Orwell’s post-war cultural moment c. 1948. Taking his Diaries of the time as inspiration, together with his famous final novel, 1984 (published 1949), and treating them as contiguous texts, Brian May considers the gaps, equivocations, and contradictions in Orwell's message and asks what Orwell would have written next. But 1948 is more than a work of literary criticism: rather, it balances critical discussion with creative intervention, being one-half literary-critical commentary, and one-half fictional departure – a novella titled “From the Archives of Oceania,” which quotes, parodies and pastiches Orwell's Diaries, offering a possible prequel. Together these elements offer a resource for the reader to interrogate anew such difficult issues as Orwell's sexism and anti-Semitism; to explore the tensions between various intertwining strands of thought that cast Orwell as both realist and idealist, Puritan and individualist; and to better understand Orwell's curious affection for the natural world. 1948 will appeal to all readers and critics of Orwell, but also to students of dystopian fiction, "revisionary" fiction and "reception study," which highlights the audience’s contribution to an artwork's meaning
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781003298083 , 9781032286914 , 9781032287010
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (375 p.)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume contributes to overcoming this alternative by focusing on strategies of ambiguity (and the strategic avoidance of ambiguity) both at the production and the reception end of communication. The authors examine ways in which speakers and hearers may use ambiguous words, structures, references, and situations to pursue communicative ends. For example, the question is asked what it actually means when a listener strategically perceives ambiguity, which may happen both synchronically (e.g. in conversations) as well as diachronically (e.g. when strategically ambiguating biblical texts in order to make them applicable to moral lessons). Another example is the question of whether ambiguity awareness increases the strategic use of ambiguity in prosody. Moreover, the authors enquire not only into the effects of ambiguous meanings but also into the strategic use of ambiguity as such, for example, as a response to censorship or as a means of provoking irritation. This volume brings together several contributions from linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, psychology, and theology, and it aims to provide a systematic approach to the strategic production and perception of ambiguity in a variety of texts and contexts. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781003435891 , 9781032268446 , 9781032231426
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: general ; Philosophy of mind ; Disability: social aspects
    Abstract: This chapter examines representations of mental conditions in the dystopian backdrop for transhumanism in Netflix’s series Maniac. In the quest for human perfectionism, vulnerabilities are exposed and intensified by technological disruption. The transhumanist promise of human enhancement is presented in the series as hindering basic affect, self-awareness, and emotional response that in turn makes for human relational interdependence. Accordingly, it focuses on how the invulnerable transhuman figure is posed as a threat to subjectivity and autonomy. Vulnerability studies, ethics of care, neuroscientific theories on emotional sensations (interoception and exteroception awareness), and posthumanism give support to the chapter’s main thesis that this series posits characters’ fundamentally relational essence for wellbeing as based on rather different ethical grounds from those seen in the transhumanist paradigm, which is based on individualism, independence, autonomy and/or self-sufficiency via technology. For this study, theories on transhumanism, vulnerability, emotional, and ethical studies are introduced to give way to the analysis of the series. Firstly, the chapter explores Maniac’s representation of technology and mental health in a setting where characters seem to be in search of connections to move on to a discussion of the implications of relational and emotional engagement for characters’ wellbeing and autonomy
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781032497334 , 9781032501925
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (51 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval ; Literary theory ; Philosophy of language
    Abstract: In the Paradiso, Dante attempts to emphasize the heightened tension between the limits of human language and the need to put into words a content that deals with divine ineffability. It is a content-stuff that is not codified, and Dante is faced with the problem of narrating his experience that is not comprehensible to humans. The author will analyze those multimodal linguistic and non-linguistic strategies Dante utilizes to allow the reader to gain an idea of his ineffable journey in the afterlife precisely through his Florentine vernacular
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Center of Latin American Studies, University of Kansas
    ISBN: 9798218301309
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (338 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American
    Abstract: Justicia Social: Reivindicaciones del arte de creación colectiva es una compilación de artículos críticos en homenaje a Patricia Ariza, exministra de Cultura de Colombia. Este libro relata la historia de la resistencia artística y política en Colombia, resaltando el papel fundamental de Patricia Ariza como poeta, actriz, dramaturga, escritora y feminista. Ariza ha encabezado las reivindicaciones de las mujeres y las víctimas del conflicto armado en el país. Como integrante del movimiento Nadaísta y sobreviviente al genocidio de la Unión Patriótica (UP), es una mujer libertaria que desafía los protocolos establecidos, una poeta comprometida con el destino de su nación
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : A. Francke Verlag
    ISBN: 9783381108527 , 9783381108510 , 9783381108534
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary Criticism ; Comparative Literature
    Abstract: This study connects the idiosyncratic modernism of Wyndham Lewis, co-founder of the Vorticist art movement, with works of several artists from the British art rock tradition, among them Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, art-punk pioneers Wire and electronic pop musician John Foxx. By taking a transdisciplinary and intermedial approach to texts from two fields normally studied in isolation and staking out the elements of a shared modernist ethos, the book presents a new perspective on both fields relevant to scholars of literature, popular culture, and the visual arts alike. While the book rests on sound research from the fields of literary criticism, art history, and pop theory, the structure and writing of the book is fundamentally designed to be accessible and comprehensible to non-scholarly readers
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    Cambridge : Open Book Publishers
    ISBN: 9781800648845 , 9781800648852 , 9781800648906 , 9781800648876 , 9781800648890
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (460 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers ; Computing & information technology ; Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; James Joyce;Composition analysis;Genetic editing;Joyce's Ulysses;Literary analysis
    Abstract: This book is a treasure trove comprising core writings from Hans Walter Gabler‘s seminal work on James Joyce, spanning fifty years from the analysis of composition he undertook towards a critical text of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, through the Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, to Gabler‘s latest essays on (appropriately enough) Joyce’s sustained artistic innovation. Not only does this span of essays trace the evolution of Gabler’s thinking about Joyce’s originality and creative energy. It also reflects the development and maturation of Gabler‘s own genetic criticism and his methodology of genetic editing, which grows in depth and complexity across the collection. The reader will explore Joyce’s life and works through Gabler’s incisive eye, while also examining a progress of his reflections on his edition of Ulysses and the past controversy that beset it. This classic compendium combining well-seasoned scholarship and fresh criticism is an essential read for critics of Modernism, digital humanists, scholars and students of James Joyce, and anyone interested in the art of literary analysis
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781003214953 , 9781032103594 , 9781032103600
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (13 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Children’s & teenage literature studies ; Children's Literature
    Abstract: Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations. Offering five distinct sections, this volume: Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children’s literature Describes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children Considers the production, distribution, and valuing of children’s books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives, highlighting context as a driver of content Maps how children’s texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers, sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author’s identity, sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed “other,” and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice Explores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children’s literature, highlighting issues such as retranslation, transnationalism, transculturality, and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children’s literature Methodically presented and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9783111025568 , 9783111023533 , 9783111025698
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (340 p.)
    Keywords: linguistics ; Literature: history & criticism ; Interaktionale Linguistik ; Anthropologische Linguistik ; Prosodieforschung ; Konversationsanalyse ; Interactional Linguistics ; Anthropological Linguistics ; Prosody Research ; Conversation Analysis
    Abstract: Der Band versammelt zentrale Arbeiten von Susanne Günthner, die in ihrer thematischen Vielfalt stets Sprache in ihrem Sitz im Leben, der Interaktion und in ihrer Fülle an sozialen und kulturellen Funktionen betrachten. Die vorliegenden Beiträge spiegeln dabei die Bandbreite ihrer langjährigen Forschung wider, die von der Analyse grammatischer Strukturen interaktionaler Sprache – wie z.B. Projektorkonstruktionen oder Diskursmarker – über die Beschäftigung mit sprachlichen Mustern in kommunikativen Praktiken und Gattungen bis hin zu anthropologisch-linguistischen Perspektiven u.a. auf doing gender, auf die kommunikative Konstruktion von Kultur oder auf Aspekte medizinischer Kommunikation reicht. ; Der Band versammelt zentrale Arbeiten von Susanne Günthner, die in ihrer thematischen Vielfalt stets Sprache in ihrem Sitz im Leben, der Interaktion und in ihrer Fülle an sozialen und kulturellen Funktionen betrachten. Die vorliegenden Beiträge spiegeln dabei die Bandbreite ihrer langjährigen Forschung wider, die von der Analyse grammatischer Strukturen interaktionaler Sprache – wie z.B. Projektorkonstruktionen oder Diskursmarker – über die Beschäftigung mit sprachlichen Mustern in kommunikativen Praktiken und Gattungen bis hin zu anthropologisch-linguistischen Perspektiven u.a. auf doing gender, auf die kommunikative Konstruktion von Kultur oder auf Aspekte medizinischer Kommunikation reicht
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    ISBN: 9783111078489 , 9783111077826 , 9783111078830
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (175 p.)
    Series Statement: Literatur und Archiv
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: general ; Museology & heritage studies ; Literaturarchiv ; affective turn ; Archivtheorie
    Abstract: Archive sind Orte der Diskretion, die jede Menge an Indiskretionen aufbewahren: geheime Liebeskorrespondenz, Aufkündigungen enger Freundschaften, Schnorrbriefe, juristische Verfolgung von Verrissen, Kampf um geistiges Urheberrecht zwischen Plagiat und Paranoia, Diarien voll Schimpf und Schande. Was bedeutet die Arbeit mit diesen Dokumenten für den Archivar/die Archivarin? Welche Formen von Beziehungen zwischen Archivar_in, Autor_in und Archivalie sind vor dem Hintergrund zeit-, kultur- oder wissensgeschichtlicher Formationen, hinsichtlich politischer, geschlechtlicher oder minoritärer Perspektiven denkbar? Während die Theoretisierung des Verhältnisses von Autor_innen und Forscher_innen zum (Literatur-)Archiv bereits die Gründung von Archiven für Literatur um 1900 begleitet und seither verschiedentliche Innovationen erfahren hat, steht eine vergleichbare Reflexion der Arbeit von Archivar_innen für Literatur noch aus. Vor dem Hintergrund einer unter dem Schlagwort ‚affective turn‘ versammelten Vielzahl historischer, epistemologischer und soziologischer Zugänge zu Affekten, Emotionen, Gefühlen sollen Möglichkeiten einer systematischen Reflexion im Sinne einer ‚teilnehmenden Objektivierung‘ (Bourdieu) archivarischer Arbeit erkundet werden. ; Archive sind Orte der Diskretion, die jede Menge an Indiskretionen aufbewahren: geheime Liebeskorrespondenz, Aufkündigungen enger Freundschaften, Schnorrbriefe, juristische Verfolgung von Verrissen, Kampf um geistiges Urheberrecht zwischen Plagiat und Paranoia, Diarien voll Schimpf und Schande. Was bedeutet die Arbeit mit diesen Dokumenten für den Archivar/die Archivarin? Welche Formen von Beziehungen zwischen Archivar_in, Autor_in und Archivalie sind vor dem Hintergrund zeit-, kultur- oder wissensgeschichtlicher Formationen, hinsichtlich politischer, geschlechtlicher oder minoritärer Perspektiven denkbar? Während die Theoretisierung des Verhältnisses von Autor_innen und Forscher_innen zum (Literatur-)Archiv bereits die Gründung von Archiven für Literatur um 1900 begleitet und seither verschiedentliche Innovationen erfahren hat, steht eine vergleichbare Reflexion der Arbeit von Archivar_innen für Literatur noch aus. Vor dem Hintergrund einer unter dem Schlagwort ‚affective turn‘ versammelten Vielzahl historischer, epistemologischer und soziologischer Zugänge zu Affekten, Emotionen, Gefühlen sollen Möglichkeiten einer systematischen Reflexion im Sinne einer ‚teilnehmenden Objektivierung‘ (Bourdieu) archivarischer Arbeit erkundet werden
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9788215064581
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Literature & literary studies ; Literary theory ; Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Skjønnlitteraturens ungdommer er saftrike slyngelalderskikkelser. Slyngelalderen er en rampete, utforskende og uforutsigbar livsfase. Den skjønnlitterære ungdommen er, som ungdom ellers, i en prosess der de både skal finne ut av seg selv og kaste seg ut i verden. Selv om dette gjør skjønnlitterær ungdom saft- og næringsrik for den litterære fortolkeren, har de sjeldent fanget litteraturforskerens interesse. Den ellers så omsvermede ungdommen har rett og slett vært oversett som litterært tema og motiv. I denne boken retter vi derfor blikket mot ungdom i skjønnlitteraturen. Hvilken plass og funksjon har ungdom i litteraturen? Artiklene i antologien viser at enkelte bruker litteraturen for å vise ungdom hva de bør være, mens andre er opptatt av å utvide forståelsen av ungdom gjennom skildringer av hva ungdom er. Artiklene belyser skjønnlitterær ungdom fra 1700-tallet fram til vår tid, og de tydeliggjør samlet sett at saftrik ungdom florerer i litteraturen, også der man trodde de kanskje ikke fantes. Ungdom bør følgelig betraktes som et sentralt og kraftfullt litterært motiv. Artiklene i antologien dekker et bredt spekter: Her undersøkes både kjente og ukjente og eldre så vel som nyere tekster. Nedslagene er hovedsakelig i skandinavisk litteratur, men linjene trekkes også mot Europa. Boken retter seg mot studenter, undervisere og forskere i lærerutdanningene og i litteraturvitenskap og mot alle andre som har interesse for skjønnlitteratur og ungdom
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781847013460
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: general ; Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) ; Literary Criticism ; African ; Literary Criticism ; Modern ; 21st Century ; Foreign Language Study ; African Languages
    Abstract: Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers. Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere University, the dominance in the global canon of African literatures written in European languages over those in indigenous languages continues to be an issue. This volume of re-examines this central question of African literatures to ask, What is the state of African literatures in African languages today? Contributors discuss the translation of Gurnah's novel Paradise to Swahili, and Osemwegies ;Ọrọ Epic;lt; to English, and Wolof wrestlers panegyrics. They analyse Edo eco-critical poetry, and the poetics of Igbo mask poetry, and morality in early prose fiction in indigenous Nigerian languages. Other essays contribute a semiotic analysis of Duruaku ;A Matter of Identity, and the decolonization of trauma in Uwem Akpan Say Youre One of Them. Overall, the volume paints a complex image of African cultural production in indigenous languages, especially in the ways Africas oral performance traditions remain resilient in the face of a seemingly undiminished presence of non-African language literary traditions
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    ISBN: 9783662669495 , 9783662669488
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (467 p.)
    Series Statement: Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Media studies ; Religion: general ; Cultural studies ; Language: reference & general ; Translationswissenschaft ; Übersetzung aus dem Englischen ; Englische Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit ; John Milton ; Andreas Gryphius ; John Bunyan ; Englische Frömmigkeitsliteratur in Deutschland ; Jane Leade ; Francis Bacon
    Abstract: Ein interdisziplinärer Band im Open-Access: Die Aufwertung der Volkssprachen in der Frühen Neuzeit führte zu einer Intensivierung und internationalen Öffnung der europäischen Übersetzungskultur. Der Gebrauch des Englischen bleibt in dieser Zeit allerdings weitgehend auf die Insel beschränkt, während die Sprache auf dem Kontinent noch wenig geläufig ist. Erst seit dem 18. Jahrhundert gewinnt sie an internationaler Bedeutung und steigt schließlich zur modernen Weltsprache auf. Der Band fokussiert auf die vormoderne Situation und untersucht in 19 literatur-, kunst-, philosophie- und frömmigkeitsgeschichtlichen Fallstudien die deutsche Rezeption der frühneuzeitlichen englischen Literatur und Kultur. Mit Blick auf das bislang unzureichend erforschte deutsch-englische Interaktionsfeld erhellt er ebenso ausgewählte Personen, Institutionen und Wissensfelder wie Werkübertragungen, Gattungstransformationen und Übersetzungspraktiken, die den bereits in dieser Zeit bemerkenswert dichten Austausch zwischen England und dem Alten Reich prägten. Welche Netzwerke und Medien ermöglichten z.B. die Rezeption einflussreicher Denker und Dichter wie Bacon, Hobbes oder Milton im deutschsprachigen Raum; wie kam es gleichsam im Mutterland des Protestantismus zu einer auffallend intensiven Übersetzung englischer Erbauungsliteratur; welche Rolle spielten Parallelübersetzungen oder auch Übersetzungen aus zweiter Hand, etwa dort, wo der kulturelle Transfer über eine dritte Sprache wie das Französische oder Niederländische erfolgte? Auf solche Fragen werden im Band neue Antworten gegeben
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    ISBN: 9781003435891 , 9781032268446 , 9781032231426
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: general ; Philosophy of mind ; Disability: social aspects
    Abstract: Introduction: Aiming to provide a theoretical introduction that further informs the analyses conducted in subsequent chapters, this chapter will review the synergies operating among the different conceptualizations of vulnerability and various well-established theories that explore the materiality of the body and its affects from multifold viewpoints. Divided into three sections, the first explores some of the most salient critical proposals related to vulnerability and the body by manifesting the semantic multiplicity that applies to these terms. This is a necessary step to sketch an operational frame in which to contextualize the literary and filmic research endeavor of the collection. The second section ponders on the ethical and aesthetic features that make possible the integration of complementary and competing configurations of vulnerability in the production of literary texts and audiovisual productions and explores its salient elements that place literature and film as a privileged sites of expansion, critical reflection, and challenge of vulnerability both as a universal condition as well as a particular and specific manifestation in historical, geopolitical, social, and cultural and natural dimensions. Finally, the chapter closes with a brief description of the twelve essays collected in the volume by discussing their organizational logics and their distinct contribution to it
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    ISBN: 9781003435891 , 9781032268446 , 9781032231426
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: general ; Philosophy of mind ; Disability: social aspects
    Abstract: After the emergence and development of Performance and Theatre Studies in literary theory, the invisibility of gendered vulnerability denounced through fictional characters has recently raised an interesting debate turning spectators into active participants in the process of negotiating ethical agency. The intersection of vulnerability and precarity in contemporary theatre might offer a challenging approach to be explored due to the ontological connections between the two concepts. Under the light of Alyson Cole’s (2016) “All of Us Are Vulnerable, But Some Are More Vulnerable than Others: The Political Ambiguity of Vulnerability Studies, an Ambivalent Critique”, Isabell Lorey’s (2015) State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious, and Judith Butler’s (2012) “Precarious Life, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Cohabitation,” among other sources, the objective of this chapter is to explore the nexus between gendered forms of vulnerability and other factors inherent to social and economic precarity present in the plays of the Welsh playwright Gary Owen Iphigenia in Splott (2015) and In the Pipeline (2010). The analysis will demonstrate the necessity to (re)structure social bonds according to the condition of mutual cohabitation and shared responsibility by illuminating the complexity of the precarity/vulnerability ambivalence exposed in the plays
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    ISBN: 9781032497334 , 9781032501925
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (65 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval ; Literary theory ; Philosophy of language
    Abstract: In this chapter the author lays out a theoretical groundwork for a semiotic theory of multimodality in the Divine Comedy. The analysis is not comprehensive of all modes, but limited to key-modal forms that Dante’s text authorizes in order to understand the formation of codes based on different forms of articulation and how different modes of articulation may interact with one another in a multimodal arrangement to achieve strong, functional signification in general and, where necessary, working toward the formation of new ontologies intimating human transcendence in terms of signification
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Cornell University Press
    ISBN: 9781501773846 , 9781501773839
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (346 p.)
    Keywords: Asian history ; Buddhism ; Literature: history & criticism ; Chinese Buddhist, poetry, East Asian religious studies, Buddhism, Tang poetry, meditation, literature
    Abstract: Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the latter half of Tang-dynasty China, asserted a bold new vision of poetry that proclaimed the union of classical verse with Buddhist practices of repetition, incantation, and meditation. Mazanec traces the historical development of the poet-monk as a distinct actor in the Chinese literary world, arguing for the importance of religious practice in medieval literature. As they witnessed the collapse of the world around them, these monks wove together the frayed threads of their traditions to establish an elite-style Chinese Buddhist poetry. Poet-Monks shows that during the transformative period of the Tang-Song transition, Buddhist monks were at the forefront of poetic innovation
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781003312154 , 9781032319629 , 9781032319643
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (213 p.)
    Series Statement: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
    Keywords: Australian literature History and criticism 21st century ; Human ecology in literature ; Human ecology and the humanities ; Cosmology in literature ; Ecocriticism ; Fiction & related items ; Literature: history & criticism ; Applied ecology ; Natural history ; Literary criticism
    Abstract: This book presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land-use from the impact of British colonial rule, yet there is a rich history of Indigenous land-ethics and cosmological thought. By using the age-old idea of ‘cosmos’—the order of the world—to foreground ideas of a good order and chaos, reciprocity and more-than-human agency, this book interrogates the Anthropocene in Australia, focusing on notions of colonisation, farming, mining, bioethics, technology, environmental justice and sovereignty. It offers ‘cosmological readings’ of a diverse range of authors—Indigenous and non-Indigenous—as a challenge to the Anthropocene’s decline-narrative. As a result, it reactivates ‘cosmos’ as an ethical vision and a transculturally important counter-concept to the Anthropocene. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell argues that the arts can help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the planet, and to address the very real social and environmental problems of our era. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, and postcolonial, transcultural and Indigenous studies, with a primary focus on Australian, New Zealand, Oceanic and Pacific area studies
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    ISBN: 9781943208746
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (284 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Non-graphic art forms ; Literature: history and criticism;Non-graphic art forms
    Abstract: Abiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies looks for pathways that better connect two often siloed disciplines. This edited collection brings together different disciplinary experiences and perspectives to this objective, weaving together researchers, artists, instructors, and authors who have found ways of bridging Indigenous and Hispanic studies through trans-Indigenous reading methods, intercultural dialogues, and reflections on translation and epistemology. Each chapter brings rich context that bears on some aspect of the Indigenous Americas and its crossroads with Hispanic studies, from Canada to Chile. Such a hemispheric and interdisciplinary approach offers innovative and significant means of challenging the coloniality of Hispanic studies
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    ISBN: 9781003285038 , 9781003859468 , 9781032257914 , 9781003859499
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p.)
    Keywords: Environmental science, engineering & technology ; Humanities ; Literature: history & criticism ; Translation & interpretation ; Sociology ; Cultural studies ; Sociology ; Translation ; Sustainability ; Politics ; Science and Technology studies (STS) ; actor-network theory (ANT) ; John Ødemark ; Åmund Resløkken ; Ida Lillehagen ; Eivind Engebretsen
    Abstract: This book uses sustainability to explore the interfaces between translation studies, the cultural history of knowledge, and Science and Technology studies (STS). The volume examines various material, cultural and epistemic translation practices where sustainability serves as a boundary object between natural and cultural inquiry. By turning to the intellectual traditions that influenced but were left behind by STS and actor-network theory (ANT), we aim to challenge and expand the Sociology of Translation developed in ANT. Concepts such as ‘inscription’ (Derrida), ‘actant’, ‘narrative’ (Greimas), and ‘world/worlding’ (Heidegger, Spivak) were reemployed – translated – in the canonical STS-texts. What networks of meaning were left behind in this reemployment? The book showcases a combination of cultural and knowledge historical perspectives on the construction of the Sociology of Translation and practical experiments across the registers of nature and culture is novel. There have been brilliant individual attempts to realign the Sociology of Translation with narratives and modes of enunciation, but none has related the Sociology of Translation to the networks and traditions which enabled it but to which it erased its relations and debts. This innovative work will appeal to scholars in translation studies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, medical humanities, and Science and Technology studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781003397298 , 9781032497334 , 9781032501925
    Language: Undetermined
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    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval ; Literary theory ; Philosophy of language ; semiotics, multimodality, divine comedy, Literary Criticism, Multiliteracy, language-as-writing, signification
    Abstract: semiotics, multimodality, divine comedy, Literary Criticism, Multiliteracy, language-as-writing, signification
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781032268446 , 9781032231426 , 9781003435891
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    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: general ; Philosophy of mind ; Disability: social aspects ; Literature: history and criticism ; Vulnerability, Film, Ontological, Passivity, Victimhood
    Abstract: Vulnerability, Film, Ontological, Passivity, Victimhood
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    ISBN: 9781003362364 , 9781032423418 , 9781032423432
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    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Natural history ; Applied ecology ; Nature and the natural world: general interest ; Literature: history and criticism ; Central Asia; Environmental history; Environmental humanities; Extractivism; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Post-Soviet Studies; Sustainability; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan
    Abstract: This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. A region larger than Europe, Central Asia possesses an astounding range of environments, from deserts to glaciated peaks. The volume brings into conversation scholarship from history to social anthropology, demonstrating the contribution that interdisciplinary and engaged research offers to many urgent issues in the region: from the history of conservationism to the tactics of environmental movements, from literary engagements with ‘pure nature’ to the impact of fossil fuel extraction. The collection focuses on the Central Asian republics of the former USSR, where a complex layering of nomadic and sedentary, Turkic and Persianate, Islamic and Soviet cultures ends up affecting human relations with distinct environments. Featuring state-of-the-art contributions, the book enquires into human-environment relations through a broad-brush typology of interactive modes: to extract, protect, enspirit and fear. Broadening the scope of analysis beyond a consideration of power, the authors bring into focus alternative local cosmologies and the unintended consequences of environmental policy. The volume highlights scholarship from within Central Asia as well as expertise elsewhere, offering readers diverse modes of knowledge-production in the environmental humanities. This book is an important resource for researchers and students of the environmental humanities, sustainability, history, politics, anthropology and geography of Asia, as well as Soviet and Post-Soviet studies
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    ISBN: 9781032497334 , 9781032501925
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (37 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval ; Literary theory ; Philosophy of language
    Abstract: In this study discourse is considered as the act of communication that analyzes its internal dynamic process mediating between the intention of the author embedded in the text, the intention of the text, and various, hypothetical ways in which the receiver may orient a textual discourse. It is a phenomenological model because meaning is generated by the interplay of linguistic and non-linguistic influences. In this instance, a semiotics of multimodality in discourse can prove its efficacy as it steers the reader primarily toward “a general syntax of discursive operations” in that the “universe of signification” is seen as a “praxis rather than as a stable set of fixed forms” of modalities
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    ISBN: 9781805111016 , 9781805111023 , 9781805111047 , 9781805111078 , 9781805111061
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (406 p.)
    Keywords: Literature & literary studies ; Literature: history & criticism ; Literary theory ; USA ; Biblical studies & exegesis ; Walt Whitman;King James Bible;Nineteenth-Century American poetry;Free verse;'Leaves of Grass';Literature scholarship
    Abstract: In exploring the seminal works of Walt Whitman, the great American poet, many commentators have acknowledged the underlying influence of The King James Bible. However, a study has yet to elucidate the precise manner in which the Bible has shaped Whitman’s poetic style. This is the deficit that F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp seeks to address in his new piece of literary scholarship: 'Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible'. Dobbs-Allsopp, Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, explicitly approaches Whitman from the perspective of a biblical scholar. Utilising his wealth of expertise in this field, he constructs a compelling, erudite and methodical argument for the King James Bible’s importance in the evolution of Whitman’s style – from his signature long lines to the prevalence of parallelism and tendency towards parataxis in his works. 'Divine Style' focuses on Whitman’s output in the years preceding the release of his 1855 opus 'Leaves of Grass' through the general period of the book’s first three editions. In this, Dobbs-Allsopp’s exploration of the period is exhaustive – covering not just Leaves of Grass but recently recovered notebooks, newly digitised manuscripts and additions to the corpus, such as the novel 'Life and Adventures of Jack Engle'. This is a work of careful, detailed scholarship, offering an authoritative commentary that will be a valuable resource for students of Whitman, biblical scholars and scholars of literature more generally
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    ISBN: 9783658427931 , 9783658427924
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (166 p.)
    Series Statement: Geographies of Media
    Keywords: Human geography ; Social issues & processes ; Sociology ; Society & social sciences ; Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: This open access book critically examines discussions on digitalisation and individual opportunities for socio-economic advancement. Contrary to the prevailing narratives of “digital empowerment” and opportunities for every individual, this book argues that digitalisation massively curtails social advancement opportunities, consolidating existing social relations. From a spatial perspective, Scheffer demonstrates how socially disadvantaged groups are faced with reproducing mechanisms as part of a new data economy. Surprisingly, the more intensively digital services are used, the more this happens. Building on Löw´s sociology of space and Bourdieu´s concept of habitus, this book shows how practices of social exclusion are transferred to the digital present in an innovative way. The image of “mirrored” spaces describes a new mechanism that explains social exclusion in the age of digitalisation. This book is an essential resource for researchers and students interested in socio-economic inequalities, processes of digitalisation, and digital geographies
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    ISBN: 9781032058658 , 9781003199564 , 9781032058665
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jiménez Heffernan, Julián Prepossessing Henry James
    Keywords: James, Henry ; Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literature: history and criticism ; Henry James, Fiction, Literary Criticism
    Abstract: Henry James, Fiction, Literary Criticism
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472076505 , 9780472056507
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (351 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Asian history ; Poetry
    Abstract: Wang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now, his story has never been properly told, let alone critically investigated. The significance of his biography is evident from an ongoing war on cultural memory: modern mainland China prohibits serious academic research on wartime collaboration in general, and on Wang Jingwei in particular. At this critical juncture, when the recollection of World War II is fading from living memory and transforming into historical memory, this knowledge embargo will undoubtedly affect how China remembers its anti-fascist role in WWII. In Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times, Zhiyi Yang brings us a long overdue reexamination of Wang’s impact on cultural memory of WWII in China. In this book, Yang brings disparate methodologies into a fruitful dialogue, including sophisticated methods of poetic interpretation. The author argues that Wang’s lyric poetry, as the public performance of a private voice, played a central role in constructing his political identity and heavily influenced the public’s posthumous memory of him. Drawing on archives (in the PRC, Taiwan, Japan, the USA, France, and Germany), memoires, historical journals, newspapers, interviews, and other scholarly works, this book offers the first biography of Wang that addresses his political, literary, and personal life in a critical light and with sympathetic impartiality
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    ISBN: 9781032431574 , 9781032431581
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (4 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Plato imagined a city with laws and a psychology to replace the heroic ethos, and later Greek authors developed a satiric critique of the heroic character which fed modern literature from More to Voltaire and beyond. The dystopias, real and imagined, of the twentieth century showed how utopia, having summoned the heroes it once banished, could become a fatal instrument in their hands. The utopian wish to escape from politics is another element of this modern problem of agency. The apparently irrepressible character of competitive psychology for many of the writers discussed in these pages may be discouraging, but the moral force of the utopian critique is just as resilient. It may be sobering to consider how serious are the rivals to collective happiness as the aim of social existence; it may be even more sobering to consider how firmly the imagination takes sides
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Ledizioni
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Tragedia fra le più fortunate del Seicento italiano, caduta in oblio dopo la condanna arcadica alla letteratura barocca, recuperata nel secondo dopo guerra da Benedetto Croce e incensata da Giovanni Getto, che la considerava il «capolavoro del barocco», l’Aristodemo del padovano Carlo de’ Dottori è un testo che merita indubbiamente un’aggiornata messa a fuoco dal punto di vista critico e filologico. La presente edizione si propone di gettare nuova luce sulla complessa vicenda editoriale che caratterizza la stesura di questa tragedia, pubblicando per la prima volta integralmente la versione del testo riportata nel manoscritto padovano (Biblioteca del Seminario di Padova, codice 668), offrendo in un apparato evolutivo le numerose varianti della princeps del 1657 e della stampa del 1670. Nell’introduzione e nel commento si propone inoltre una nuova interpretazione del testo, che sottolinea la rilevanza dei modelli moderni di Tasso e Marino accanto a quelli classici dichiarati dall’autore, decifra alcune allusioni alla situazione politica contemporanea della repubblica di Venezia, ed enfatizza una certa prossimità dell’Aristodemo, nella versione del manoscritto padovano, con la teologia giansenista
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    Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter
    ISBN: 9783111208824 , 9783111208572 , 9783111209845
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (170 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary theory ; Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Abstract: This collected volume explores Foucault's literary thought, in light of the recent publication of unpublished works from his first period (1960s–1970s). It aims at establishing an archeology of the texts that Foucault devotes to literary theory and to clearly literary concepts such as fiction, outside (Blanchot) or transgression (Bataille), in order to relate them to key concepts of the second Foucault (parresia, self-care, veridiction)
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    ISBN: 9781032431574 , 9781032431581
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (22 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Utopia, Dystopia, Dostoevsky, Huxley, Orwell
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472076437 , 9780472056439
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 p.)
    Keywords: Theatre studies ; Social & cultural history ; Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman by a dislocated spirit, opened in Warsaw. In the century that followed, The Dybbuk became a theatrical conduit for a wide range of discourses about Jews, belonging, and modernity. This timeless Yiddish play about spiritual possession beyond the grave would go on to exert a remarkable and unforgettable impact on modern theater, film, literature, music, and culture. The Dybbuk Century collects essays from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the play’s original Yiddish and Hebrew productions and offer critical reflections on the play’s enduring influence. The collection will appeal to scholars, students, and theater practitioners, as well as general readers
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    Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter
    ISBN: 9783110749427 , 9783110749366 , 9783110749533
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    Series Statement: Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l’Extrême Orient
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: The book offers a cultural, historical and literary study of dream narration in Chinese literature (particularly in the literary genres of xiaoshuo 小說, "petty talk" and biji 筆記, "notebook"). It considers texts from Late Imperial China (13th–19th centuries), with an emphasis on the early/mid-Qing dynasty
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    ISBN: 9783111080130 , 9783111080055 , 9783111080499
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    Series Statement: Classicism and Beyond / Il classicismo e oltre
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary theory ; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval ; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Abstract: This volume studies the profile of one of the most important figures of 16th-century Florence, Giovan Battista Gelli, highlighting some less studied aspects: not only was Gelli deeply interested in figurative art, attested in several works of his, he can also be considered one of the protagonists of the vivid debates on Dante
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    Cambridge : Open Book Publishers
    ISBN: 9781805110323 , 9781805110330 , 9781805110385 , 9781805110378 , 9781805110354
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 p.)
    Keywords: French ; Literature: history & criticism ; Literary theory ; Literary reference works ; Gender studies: women ; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
    Abstract: Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change. Each of the book’s thirty chapters introduces a prominent work by a different female author writing in French during the period, from Germaine de Staël to George Sand, from the admired salon libertine Marie du Deffand to Flora Tristan, tireless campaigner for socialism and women’s rights. Isbell draws from multi-genre writers working in prose, poetry and correspondence and addresses the breadth of women’s contribution to the literature of the age. Isbell also details the important events which shaped the writers’ lives and contextualises their work amidst the liberties both given and taken away from women during the period. This anthology fills a significant gap in the secondary literature on this transformative century, which often overlooks women who were working and active. It invites a further gendered investigation of the impact of revolution and Romanticism on the content and nature of French women’s writing, and will therefore be appropriate for both general readers, students, and academics analysing history and literature through a feminist lens
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    ISBN: 9781501504716 , 9781501513299 , 9781501504693
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (454 p.)
    Series Statement: Library of Chinese Humanities
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Regional studies
    Abstract: Li He (790-816) gained his early renown particularly for his lyrical reimaginings of lost song traditions from ancient times. The poet's premature death, along with the otherworldly quality of many of his works, led later readers to view Li He as the emblematic cursed poet, whose lyrical fascination with ancient history, with ghosts, and with celestial and demonic beings seemed to have presaged the brevity of poet's own earthly existence
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    ISBN: 9783110795110 , 9783110795080 , 9783110795158
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    Series Statement: PARADIGMS
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: general ; General studies ; Science: general issues
    Abstract: This volume examines the veritable explosion of serialized formats in all of forms representation, from painting to printing throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, and the way in which these formats encouraged experiments with the series form and raised questions of truthfulness
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    ISBN: 9781032431574 , 9781032431581
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    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Huxley’s vision of juvenile happiness kept in place by genetic engineering, compulsory promiscuity, psychological conditioning, drugs, and propaganda has been traditionally read as a warning against the dangers to modern freedom. Huxley would seem, then, to be a strong defender of the heroic protest against utopia. In fact, Huxley believed that most of the measures taken by the World State, including eugenics, would be necessary in some form, and his narrative strongly ironizes the resisters to utopian happiness. Unable to grasp either horn of the utopian dilemma, he produced a lucid and memorable version of it
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    ISBN: 9781800648449 , 9781800648456 , 9781800648470 , 9781800648487
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (898 p.)
    Keywords: Literature & literary studies ; Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers ; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
    Abstract: Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than six hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism. Prismatic Jane Eyre develops the theoretical ramifications of this idea, and reads Brontë’s novel in the light of them: together, the English text and the many translations form one vast entity, a multilingual world-work, spanning many times and places, from Cuba in 1850 to 21st-century China; from Calcutta to Bologna, Argentina to Iran. Co-written by many scholars, Prismatic Jane Eyre traces the receptions of the novel across cultures, showing why, when and where it has been translated (and no less significantly, not translated – as in Swahili), and exploring its global publishing history with digital maps and carousels of cover images. Above all, the co-authors read the translations and the English text closely, and together, showing in detail how the novel’s feminist power, its political complexities and its romantic appeal play out differently in different contexts and in the varied styles and idioms of individual translators. Tracking key words such as ‘passion’ and ‘plain’ across many languages via interactive visualisations and comparative analysis, Prismatic Jane Eyre opens a wholly new perspective on Brontë’s novel, and provides a model for the collaborative close-reading of world literature. Prismatic Jane Eyre is a major intervention in translation and reception studies and world and comparative literature. It will also interest scholars of English literature, and readers of the Brontës
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    ISBN: 9789176352069 , 9789176352083
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    Series Statement: Stockholm Studies in Romance Languages
    Keywords: Cultural studies ; Literature: history & criticism ; Northern Europe, Scandinavia ; Sociology: work & labour ; Sociology: customs & traditions
    Abstract: This study focuses on the circulation, mediation and interpretation of French-speaking literature, no longer circulating towards the center but towards the periphery. In this book, Sweden is an example of a case of non-French-speaking periphery from which the analyzes are carried out. This starting point has made it possible to reconsider the scope of literature from decentralized French-speaking geographical areas (known as peripheral) and to highlight the negotiation practices at work by the non-French-speaking periphery. By evaluating the visibility and the resemantization of these literatures on the one hand, outside the center and on the other hand, outside the French-speaking literary system, this book has brought new knowledge on the functioning of the literary transfer of French-speaking literatures outside of the French-speaking literary system. The ambition of this book has thus made it possible to (re)define the positioning and the degree of autonomy of the periphery, both Swedish and French-speaking, in relation to the Parisian center by studying the literary exchanges between Sweden and the French-speaking literary system. To achieve this goal, this research proceeds in three stages, inspired by Bourdieu's tripartite model to present a) the selection of literature translated from French into Swedish and the distribution of French-language literature in the journalistic press b) the mediating methods with which cultural agents operate and c) the representations of critical reading at work in newspapers. This project focused on the production, mediation and reception of French-speaking literature in Sweden is structured around four major studies. The three in-depth chapters (IV, V and VI) respectively deal with mediators (press actors and translators) and the analysis of the two most significant geographical areas in our data (French-speaking North Africa and Europe). of the French-speaking West). These three studies are in turn based on the analysis of production and distribution flows, carried out using all the quantitative data collected in translation and journalistic reception during the study period (1989-2019). By relying on a set of cross-sectional studies, this book examines the literary circulation of literature from peripheral French-speaking geographical areas and manages to draw conclusions that have remained invisible until now. In conclusion, three different major types of strategies emerged: a) selection practices called positioning strategies, b) mediation practices called configuration strategies and finally 3) reading practices or legitimation strategies. After observing the differences in treatment between the French-speaking literatures of the North and the South, the study ends by setting out some future proposals for the study of the transfer of French-speaking literatures to non-French-speaking peripheries. This kind of analysis contributes to rebalancing the place of French-speaking literatures in the world and shows the continual displacements and repositionings at work in which the margins of the French-speaking world, where non-French-speaking peripheral territories are part, can participate
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    ISBN: 9781032383378 , 9781032383392
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    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Chapter 3 examines the formation of the “prophetic critic” in Kaebyŏk (The opening, 1920- 1926) through distant reading. As the most influential intellectual magazine of the 1920s, Kaebyŏk introduced various social ideas of Marxism, social reform, and humanitarianism into Korea’s religious thought. Thus, this chapter analyses the digitalized version of the magazine through quantitative approaches to word-frequency and co-occurring words; in particular it employs topic modelling. Because it assigns topics by measuring the probability of keywords rather than simply locating co-occurring words, topic modelling reveals how different topics are semantically interrelated in a larger text. With this method, Chapter 3 examines the interplay between topics of art and literature and society-related themes such as nation, economic classes, and social reconstruction. It pays particular attention to the two topics of saengmyŏng (vitality) and saenghwal (ways of living or livelihood) to examine how Korean writers articulated a proto-type of Marxist realism (saenghwal) out of romanticism (saengmyŏng). In the end, Chapter 3 argues that Kaebyŏk shaped the “prophetic critic” who preemptively combined religious, social, and literary worldviews of the future to create the guiding principles for the realist fiction that would dominate the latter half of the 1920s
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    Berlin : Logos Verlag Berlin
    ISBN: 9783832552855
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (213 p.)
    Keywords: Ireland ; United Kingdom, Great Britain ; Russia ; Serbia ; Israel ; Singapore ; Hong Kong ; Algeria ; USA ; Canada ; Brazil ; 20th century ; 21st century ; Acting techniques ; Theatre direction & production ; Film, TV & radio ; Graphical & digital media applications ; Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers ; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) ; Myth & legend told as fiction ; Fiction & related items ; Philosophy: aesthetics ; Ethics & moral philosophy ; Social & political philosophy
    Abstract: This volume explores the bodies that are subjects and objects of violence; bodies that, by simply being, narrate their traumatic experience. Contributors attune to the dialogic and hybrid relations that connect bodies and environments, and to the horizons of imaginative, future-worldbuilding possibilities that they open through acts of transmission, translation, and transfer. Refracting to something other than the body’s own physicality – to multiple (multidirectional) networks – the chapters in this volume map and weave an ecosystem of interlacing bodies that are human, animal, vegetal, natural and technological; that are both singular and collective (i.e. a social body); that are situated in both the physical and virtual space; that are mythological and ephemeral; and that express naturecultural entanglements
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    ISBN: 9783030821029 , 9783030821012
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (307 p.)
    Series Statement: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary theory ; Cultural studies ; History ; Crime & criminology
    Abstract: This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s autobiographies, and Charles W. Chesnutt’s short fiction. The volume highlights how literary forms of environmental knowledge in the African American tradition were shaped by the histories of slavery and race, mainstream environmental writing traditions, and African American forms of expression and intertextuality. Turning to the Underground Railroad, debates over education and home-building, and the aesthetics of the pastoral and the georgic, Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature provides an original perspective on the African American ecoliterary tradition that uncovers new facets of canonical and understudied texts and offers new directions for ecocriticism and African American studies
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    ISBN: 9781805111184 , 9781800649163
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (410 p.)
    Series Statement: Semitic Languages and Cultures
    Keywords: Asian history ; Literature: history & criticism ; Language: reference & general ; Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) ; Philosophy of language
    Abstract: Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Among the most intriguing are synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other. To understand how they were planned, produced, and consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what one can call management of knowledge in a time before our own. The present volume is the product of two workshops held in 2019 and 2021 as part of the research focus Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World: Texts and Ideas between Aksum, Constantinople, and Baghdad, which was generously supported and funded by the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. Aiming to understand how synopses and lists function in the literatures of the great intellectual traditions of late antiquity—the ancient Near East, ancient philosophy, and the three monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—the volume offers a historical and transcultural perspective on synopses and lists, highlighting the centrality of these textual practices to allow storing, retrieving, selecting, and organising this knowledge. Both make deliberate – yet not always explicit – choices as to what is included and excluded, thereby creating lasting hierarchies and canons
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : The Ohio State University Press
    ISBN: 9780814215425
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary theory ; General & world history
    Abstract: Explores how digital epitexts surrounding contemporary novels by Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Catherine Lacey, Meg Wolitzer, and Dave Eggers influence audience understanding and response
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781032364070 , 9781032364094
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Political ideologies ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Social discrimination & inequality
    Abstract: It has been a decade since Diamond’s seminal and sober work on the possibilities of ‘liberation technology’ to ‘expand political, social and economic freedom’ (Diamond 2010). Since that time, the Arab supernova has electrified Twitter’s supporters, Russian paws and exquisite Cambridge algorithms have lent on the scales of a presidential campaign via social media, and China has amassed the data and technology to control its citizenry with cold efficiency. So what of liberation technology? What do we know about its impact on political participation, expression and freedom? In this chapter I review the promise and complexities of the pursuit of freedom via liberation technology. Tracing powerful forces that have darkened liberation technology’s initial promise, I look specifically at the complexities of both access to, and activism via, social media, showing how simple and naïve characterisations of its role in political engagement are misplaced. Whilst these results would appear to suggest that oppressive regimes have already snuffed out the promise of technology to support wider freedoms, recent theorising suggests that a pathway to freedom and prosperity has been opened where both the state and society have equal strength in the technology of accountability, information, and coordination, co-investing in each other’s capacity
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781032431574 , 9781032431581
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Utopian thinking has a typical opponent, the heroic-aristocratic culture which has its fullest expression in epic poetry. There is a perennial clash of values between the dignity of rank and personal achievement and rational utopian planning. Most of the major authors who have dealt with utopian themes find themselves caught in a dilemma between the inhumanity of heroic values and difficulty of imagining life without them
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472076536 , 9780472056538
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (173 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Love, and the different manifestations of it, is a common theme in literature around the world. In Cosmopolitan Love, Sijia Yao examines the writings of D. H. Lawrence, a British writer whose literature focused primarily on interpersonal relationships in domestic settings, and Eileen Chang, a Chinese writer who migrated to the United States and explored Chinese heterosexual love in her writing. While comparing the writings of a Chinese writer and an English one, Yao avoids a direct comparison between East and West that could further enforce binaries. Instead, she uses the comparison to develop an idea of cosmopolitanism that shows how the writers are in conversation with their own culture and with each other. Both D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang wrote stories that are influenced by—but sometimes stand in opposition to—their own cultures. They offer alternative understandings of societies dealing with modernism and cultural globalization. Their stories deal with emotional pain caused by the restrictions of local politics and economics and address common themes of incestuous love, sexual love, adulterous love, and utopian love. By analyzing their writing, Yao demonstrates that the concept of love as a social and political force can cross cultural boundaries and traditions to become a basis for human meaning, the key to a cosmopolitan vision
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Purdue University Press
    ISBN: 9781612498492 , 9781612498478
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    Series Statement: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Tradición literaria y cartografías cosmopolitas: la poesía de León de Greiff is an in-depth study of the literary production of the mid-20th century Colombian writer León de Greiff. This book analyses his poetic works as a complex manifestation of literary cosmopolitanism and a challenging elaboration of cultural cartographies. The study of these elements offers a novel approach to an unexplored aspect of De Greiff’s poetry. Through a careful reading of De Greiff’s seemingly disorganized assimilation of French, Spanish, English, Middle Eastern, East Asian, and Northern European literary traditions, Ramírez Rojas understands his literature as a capricious self-fashioning of a poetic genealogy. This practice challenges the classical notion of tradition and displays an alternative practice of self-creation of a literary lineage that goes beyond the borders of national affiliation, linguistic proximity, and historical continuity. This book proposes to read León de Greiff’s poems as cultural maps that reveal both a desire of connectivity with the world and a need for reorganizing the imaginary library of world literature. Ramírez Rojas contends that the haphazard collection, accumulation, and rearrangement of elements derived from various cultural sources challenges the logics of local versus global affiliations. Similarly, as León de Greiff builds a worldwide network of connections from a self-assumed position of eccentricity, his works dispute the binary division of cultural centers and peripheries, revendicating marginality as a productive condition. The study of this alternative cosmopolitanism brings de Greiff’s writings into current debates about Latin American’s cultural positionality within the frame of cosmopolitanism and world literature.Tradición literaria y cartografías cosmopolitas: la poesía de León de Greiff es un estudio de la producción poética de este escritor colombiano de mediados del siglo XX. En este libro se estudian sus textos como complejas manifestaciones de un cosmopolitismo literario y como arriesgadaa elaboraciones de cartografías poéticas. El análisis de estos elementos ofrece una nueva perspectiva de acercamiento a una temática todavía inexplorada en la obra de León de Greiff. Por medio de una cuidadosa lectura de su aparentemente caprichosa asimilación de fuentes francesas, españolas, inglesas, de medio y lejano oriente, así como también de sus fuentes escandinavas, Ramírez Rojas propone comprender la literatura greiffiana como una tarea de elaboración de una genealogía poética propia. Esta práctica cuestiona las nociones clásicas de tradición y pone en marcha un ejercicio alternativo de autoconstrucción de un linaje literario que no está limitado por fronteras nacionales, proximidad lingüística ni continuidad histórica. Este estudio plantea la posibilidad de leer los poemas de León de Greiff como mapas culturales que revelan tanto un deseo de conectividad con el mundo como una necesidad de reorganizar la biblioteca imaginaria de la literatura mundial. Ramírez Rojas propone que la azarosa acumulación y reestructuración de elementos derivados de distintas cuentes culturales pone en cuestión las lógicas de afiliación global vs. afiliación local. De igual forma, dado que de Greiff construye una red de conexiones a partir una posición de auto-asumida excentricidad, sus trabajos poéticos disputan las divisiones binarias entre centros y periferias culturales, reivindicando la marginalidad como una condición productiva. El estudio de esta manifestación de cosmopolitismo alternativo inscribe su poesía en los debates actuales sobre el posicionamiento cultural de Latinoamérica dentro del espacio cosmopolita y los círculos de la literatura mundial
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Purdue University Press
    ISBN: 9781612498553 , 9781612498522
    Language: Undetermined
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    Series Statement: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; Gender studies, gender groups
    Abstract: In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural mores from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. By analyzing the historical, cultural, religious, and interactive space of Brazil’s national identity, The Ripple Effect surveys expressive cultures and literary manifestations. It uses the martial art-dance-ritual capoeira as a lynchpin to disclose historical ambiguities and the negotiation of cultural and literary boundaries within the context of the ideological construct of a mestizo nation. The book also examines laws governing gender in Brazil and discusses honor killings and other types of violence against women. The Ripple Effect appraises the contributions that some iconic female figures have made to the development of Brazil’s distinctive cultural and literary production. Drawing on more than fifteen years of field, archival, and scholarly research, this work offers new interpretative venues, and broadens the critical focus and the methodological scope of previous scholarship. It reveals how literature and other arts can be used to document cultural norms, catalog life experiences, and analyze complex constructions of social values, ideas, and belief systems
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    Series Statement: Knowledge and Communication in the Enlightenment World
    Keywords: European history ; Literature: history & criticism ; General & world history
    Abstract: Sheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change. How do you become a citizen? Ever since printing was introduced, being a member of society increasingly involved reading and writing: for sociability and belonging, instruction and entertainment, profit and charity, spiritual awakening and political debate. Literary practices shaped and changed identities and the organisation of society during the Long Eighteenth Century. In Scandinavia, this happened locally, as well as transnationally - reading, writing and producing texts involved entanglements within and beyond the borders of the Northern European periphery of Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Focusing on 'literary citizenship', this volume uncovers the different ways in which engagements with print have mediated and established networks and communities, identities and agencies of multiple sorts in an interconnected media landscape. The result is a complex and intriguing history of the book in the Scandinavian region. This history is, on the one hand, influenced by a European market and tradition. On the other hand, it offers an important and different case of regional and local adaptation, marked by what has been termed a 'Northern Enlightenment'. This book will be of interest to scholars of European enlightenment studies and to those who are interested in the continuing debates surrounding print culture and history. This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC. This book and the research upon which it is based was supported by funds from The Research Council of Norway and the National Library of Norway. CONTRIBUTORS: Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Jon Haarberg, Ruth Hemstad, Thor Inge Rørvik, Ellen Krefting, Karin Kukkonen, Ulrik Langen, Aina Nøding, Jonas Nordin, James Raven, Janicke S. Kaasa, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Frederik Stjernfelt, Iver Tangen Stensrud and Jonas Thorup Thomsen
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    ISBN: 9783031233562 , 9783031233555
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    Series Statement: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
    Keywords: Literary studies: general ; Literary studies: post-colonial literature ; Literature: history & criticism ; Colonialism & imperialism ; European history
    Abstract: This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points of entanglement, Christina Kullberg claims that the historical, social, and political messiness of the Caribbean seventeenth century make for complex representations and expressions, generating textual instability despite the travelers’ apparent desires to domesticate the islands. Taking a synoptic approach to travel narratives in French from 1620 up to the publication of Labat’s Nouveau voyage aux Isles de l’Amérique in 1722, Kullberg examines textual instances where the islands and the peoples of this period disrupt and unsettle dominant French narratives and enter productively into the construction of knowledge and the representations of the region. Kullberg’s contribution is to read French early modern travels in situ as shaped by the archipelagic geography, its history and social formations in order to interrogate both the construction and the limitations of discourses of power
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    ISBN: 9783031281747 , 9783031281730
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (141 p.)
    Keywords: linguistics ; Sociology ; Media studies ; Society & social sciences ; Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: This open access book focuses on the textual features, or ‘strategies’, which form popularization discourse. In popularization discourse, research findings from academia are re-presented to make them noteworthy to society and influential for everyday life. Popularization involves recontextualization, or reimagination of findings in an everyday and newsworthy context, and reformulation, the use of audience-appropriate language to increase text comprehension and engagement. ‘Re-presenting research’ presents an empirically grounded, analytic framework for the analysis of popularization texts. Its applicability spans across disciplinary, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary fields, and overarches science communication, science journalism, and research communication. The book offers theoretical background information on popularization discourse, empirical underpinning of the construction of the framework, and practical applicability in examples from multiple text types and academic fields. This book acts as a guide for those working with or on popularization discourse – whether it is to analyze it or learn about it
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    ISBN: 9783110789539 , 9783110789416 , 9783110789584
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (321 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: general ; Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Abstract: By the time West Berlin was declared the European Capital of Culture of 1988, a heavily internationalized literary scene had already been developing on both sides of the Wall. In fifteen contributions, this volume traces the literary journey taken by the front, island, and capital city to become a future metropolis by looking at numerous case studies, focusing on authors who lived or were guests in Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s
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    Grenoble : UGA Éditions
    ISBN: 9782377474400 , 9782377474158
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    Series Statement: Bibliothèque stendhalienne et romantique
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: On sait que Stendhal fut un fervent lecteur de Mémoires. Le rôle joué par ces lectures dans la constitution de son œuvre n’avait guère fait, pourtant, l’objet d’études approfondies. Cette question, ici, est au cœur de l’ouvrage, qui donne à mesurer son ampleur. La fascination de Stendhal pour les Mémoires est replacée dans le contexte de l’époque : ce genre, qui connaît un essor particulier sous la Restauration, influence à la fois historiens et romanciers, dans leurs tentatives concurrentes, mais aussi leurs efforts communs pour écrire l’Histoire de leur temps. L’importance, pour l’élaboration de l’esthétique stendhalienne, de cette relation à l’écriture mémorialiste est saisie selon une triple perspective : le livre mène d’abord l’analyse de la réception critique des Mémoires par Stendhal et des leçons qu’il en tire, puis fait apparaître le lien entre ses écrits biographiques et autobiographiques et les Mémoires postrévolutionnaires et bonapartistes, et enfin étudie, à travers l’exemple du Rouge et le Noir, comment le roman stendhalien travaille le matériau fourni par les Mémoires
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    ISBN: 9783111003009 , 9783111002101 , 9783111003573
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (251 p.)
    Series Statement: MINIMA
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary theory ; Literary studies: general ; General studies
    Abstract: Gerade in Krisenmomenten treten kleine Formen und Formate in stabilisierender oder mobilisierender Funktion auf. In der Zwischenkriegszeit erscheinen sie innerhalb verschiedener medialer Konstellationen – wie etwa in Zeitungen, Flugschriften oder Lehrmaterialien – und eröffnen politische sowie ästhetische Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten, die der Band in fokussierten Materialanalysen und Fallstudien praxeologisch sowie interdisziplinär untersucht
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    ISBN: 9783110781908 , 9783110770919 , 9783110781960
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (415 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: general
    Abstract: Characteristic of the premodern Mediterranean world were the manifold connections between communities shaped by diverse traditions. German-speaking actors influenced these transcultural entanglements: as rulers, traders, spouses, refugees, soldiers, diplomats, prisoners, pilgrims. This volume thus inquires into the significance of the Mediterranean region for German literature and into the functions of its literary portrayals
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    ISBN: 9783110794106 , 9783110793994 , 9783110794298
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (614 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; General studies ; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 ; Sociology
    Abstract: Günter Grass has primarily been perceived by research and the public as an author. But he was also an influential political actor. His political work was not just limited to the Brandt era but also helped to define the Berlin Republic. By harnessing his communicative power, he shaped public discourses as an intellectual and advised top politicians, as unpublished sources and background conversations show
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    ISBN: 9783110790016 , 9783110790009 , 9783110790528
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (196 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; Literary studies: post-colonial literature ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
    Abstract: This study examines The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1880), the magnum opus of Brazilian author Machado de Assis. Those interested in literature and cultural theory will find here a shining model of that which affects the relationship between social process and cultural form. Schwarz goes beyond the paradigms of critical theory to shed new light on questions of postcolonial thought
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    ISBN: 9781032130316 , 9781032424057
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; Literary studies: general ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: This chapter draws on Judith Butler’s (2009) theorization on the uneven distribution of grievability and Achille Mbembe’s (2003) notion of necropolitics to explain different forms of subjugation to the power of death and mourning in contexts where citizens are deprived of their rights and transformed into trespassers. Theresa May’s policy of stripping terror suspects of their British citizenship is one of such contexts inspiring Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017), written in a context of Islamophobia and oppressive counter-terror politics. The chapter explores the writer’s challenge to utopian discourses on cosmopolitanism and border-crossing through her depiction of characters subjected to legal ambiguity and statelessness. Yet, it proposes that Shamsie’s postcolonial rewriting of Sophocles’s Antigone be understood in light of Butler’s (2016) rethinking of vulnerability and resistance, as it is precisely through the invocation of this rebellious figure that patronizing discourses defining the vulnerable subject (identified in the novel as female, Muslim, and immigrant) can be dismantled. Contesting orientalist and masculinist assumptions, Home Fire opens up new configurations of racialized and gendered vulnerabilities defying the dominant hierarchies of corporeal value that this chapter examines by focusing on Shamsie’s enactment of embodied interventions, transgressive expressions of mourning, and different forms of resistance to institutional violence
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Calgary Press
    ISBN: 9781773854564 , 9781773854571 , 9781773854601 , 9781773854595
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (299 p.)
    Keywords: Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; Literary studies: poetry & poets ; Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art, sculpture, installation, and performance. They called it “borderblur.” Borderblur Poetics traces the emergence and proliferation of this node of poetic activity, an avant-garde movement comprising concrete poetry, sound poetry, and kinetic poetry, practiced by poets and artists like bpNichol, bill bissett, Judith Copithorne, Steve McCaffery, Penn Kemp, Ann Rosenberg, Gerry Shikatani, Shaunt Basmajian, among others. Author Eric Schmaltz demonstrates how these poets formed an alternative tradition, one that embraced intermediality to challenge the hegemony of Canadian literature established during the heydays of cultural nationalism. He shows the importance of intermediality as a driving cultural force and how its proliferation significantly altered Canadian cultural expression. Drawing on a combination of archival research, historical analysis, and literary criticism, Borderblur Poetics adds significant nuance to theories and criticisms of Canadian literature
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781032431574 , 9781032431581
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground offers the most profound and conflicted treatment of the utopian dilemma. Utopian planning, symbolized by the Crystal Palace in London built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, threatens the narrator’s vanity and sense of freedom, yet he cannot conceal from himself the irrational and shameful basis of his resistance to the happiness it represents
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    ISBN: 9781032130316 , 9781032424057
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; Literary studies: general ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach (2017) narrates the misadventures of young Irish Catholic Anna Kerrigan in her pursuit of a diving career in the New York docks during WWII. These misadventures are heavily conditioned by the accumulation of a series of structural vulnerabilities intersecting class, gender, religion, immigration, and disability, as well as political and economic corruption, which are emphasized against the backdrop of an impossible American Dream. The structural oppressions visibilized by Egan in this novel will thus serve to reflect on how the purported national invulnerability underlying USA’s imperialism in the second half of the 20th century was in fact based on obscuring national vulnerabilities that strongly resonate at the beginning of the new millennium. This chapter explores Egan’s formal experimentation with historical fiction as a calculated risk that draws its narrative strengths from the spectacularization of vulnerability while exposing the novel’s formal belatedness as a case of vulnerable narrative
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472075195 , 9780472055197
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.)
    Series Statement: Class
    Series Statement: Culture
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: For much of the twentieth century, the iconic figure of the U.S. working class was a white, male industrial worker. But in the contemporary age of capitalist globalization new stories about work and workers are emerging to refashion this image. Living Labor examines these narratives and, in the process, offers an innovative reading of American fiction and film through the lens of precarious work. It argues that since the 1980s, novelists and filmmakers—including Russell Banks, Helena Víramontes, Karen Tei Yamashita, Francisco Goldman, David Riker, Ramin Bahrani, Clint Eastwood, Courtney Hunt, and Ryan Coogler—have chronicled the demise of the industrial proletariat, and the tentative and unfinished emergence of a new, much more diverse and perilously positioned working class. In bringing together stories of work that are also stories of race, ethnicity, gender, and colonialism, Living Labor challenges the often-assumed division between class and identity politics. Through the concept of living labor and its discussion of solidarity, the book reframes traditional notions of class, helping us understand both the challenges working people face and the possibilities for collective consciousness and action in the global present
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Liverpool University Press
    ISBN: 9781789621723
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    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism amongst Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near-consensus amongst climate scientists that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas are sufficient to alter global weather patterns to disastrous effect. The resultant climate crisis is simultaneously both a natural and a socio-cultural phenomenon and in this book Milner and Burgmann argue that science fiction occupies a critical location within this nature/culture nexus. Science Fiction and Climate Change takes as its subject matter what Daniel Bloom famously dubbed ‘cli-fi’. It does not, however, attempt to impose a prescriptively environmentalist aesthetic on this sub-genre. Rather, it seeks to explain how a genre defined in relation to science finds itself obliged to produce fictional responses to the problems actually thrown up by contemporary scientific research. Milner and Burgmann adopt a historically and geographically comparatist framework, analysing print and audio-visual texts drawn from a number of different contexts, especially Australia, Britain, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan and the United States. Inspired by Williams's cultural materialism, Bourdieu's sociology of culture and Moretti's version of world systems theory, the book builds on Milner’s own Locating Science Fiction to produce a powerfully persuasive study in the sociology of literature
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    ISBN: 9783110784305 , 9783110784169 , 9783110784350
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 p.)
    Series Statement: Religious Minorities in the North
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: post-colonial literature ; Medieval history ; Social & cultural history ; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism ; Medieval European archaeology
    Abstract: The study investigates the relationship between Norse and Saami peoples in the medieval period and focuses on the multifaceted portrayal of Saami peoples in medieval texts. Through a systematic analysis of the sources, influenced by postcolonial methodologies rooted in interpretations of archaeological material, it demonstrates the many possibilities for reading and including Saami peoples in our narration of medieval Fennoscandian history
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781032332918 , 9781032332925
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Colonialism & imperialism ; Urban communities ; Politics & government
    Abstract: At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’s deep word hoard also helped him to develop a minimalist style, which was not only a means of living sustainably in the city, but in its humour and close attention to detail a way to make greening the city more of a joy than a duty. In this way, Vladislavić created a culture of sustainability
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472133420 , 9780472221189
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (254 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval ; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
    Abstract: In Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus, author Arum Park explores two notoriously difficult ancient Greek poets and seeks to articulate the complex relationship between them. Although Pindar and Aeschylus were contemporaries, previous scholarship has often treated them as representatives of contrasting worldviews. Park’s comparative study offers the alternative perspective of understanding them as complements instead. By examining these poets together through the concepts of reciprocity, truth, and gender, this book establishes a relationship between Pindar and Aeschylus that challenges previous conceptions of their dissimilarity. The book accomplishes three aims: first, it shows that Pindar and Aeschylus frame their poetry using similar principles of reciprocity; second, it demonstrates that each poet depicts truth in a way that is specific to those reciprocity principles; and finally, it illustrates how their depictions of gender are shaped by this intertwining of truth and reciprocity. By demonstrating their complementarity, the book situates Pindar and Aeschylus in the same poetic ecosystem, which has implications for how we understand ancient Greek poetry more broadly: using Pindar and Aeschylus as case studies, the book provides a window into their dynamic and interactive poetic world, a world in which ostensibly dissimilar poets and genres actually have much more in common than we might think
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    ISBN: 9782722606227 , 9782213725505
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Leçons inaugurales
    Keywords: The arts ; Theory of art ; Art styles not defined by date ; Electronic, holographic & video art ; Films, cinema ; Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: general
    Abstract: L’Europe réunit une grande variété de langues et de cultures. À la fois une et plurielle, elle véhicule un rêve culturel d’intégration. Comment faire vivre ensemble des langues, des littératures, des cultures, en respectant leur diversité ? Mieke Bal aborde cette question en interrogeant les notions de frontières (géographiques, linguistiques, culturelles), d’identité (qu’elle rejette pour sa « fixité »), d’identification. Elle propose un voyage dans la sémiosphère européenne sur les traces de Henri Cartier-Bresson, d’Edvard Munch et d’autres artistes-penseurs, montrant que leurs œuvres donnent corps aux processus d’intergration qu’elle invite à penser. Diversité, union : le débat autour de ces enjeux est essentiel pour la construction de l’Europe
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    London : UCL Press
    ISBN: 9781800083240 , 9781800083257 , 9781800083264 , 9781800083271
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (176 p.)
    Series Statement: Comparative Literature and Culture
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Poetry by individual poets ; Literary studies: poetry & poets
    Abstract: Yet what surprises me most of all at this time is that what I have written consists, as it were, almost entirely of quotations. – Compositions so produced are to poetry what mosaic is to painting. – It is the craziest mosaic technique you can imagine – and the very mind which directs the hands in formation is incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process.Shelley with Benjamin: A critical mosaic is an experiment in comparative reading. Born a century apart, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Walter Benjamin are separated by time, language, temperament and genre – one a Romantic poet known for his revolutionary politics and delicate lyricism, the other a melancholy intellectual who pioneered a dialectical method of thinking in constellations. Yet, as the above montage of citations from their works demonstrates, their ideas are mutually illuminating: the mosaic is but one of several images that both use to describe how literature lives on through practices of citation, translation and critical commentary. In a series of close readings that are by turns playful, erotic and violent, Mathelinda Nabugodi unveils affinities between two writers whose works are simultaneously interventions in literary history and blueprints for an emancipated future. In addition to offering fresh interpretations of both major and minor writings, she elucidates the personal and ethical stakes of literary criticism. Throughout the book, marginal annotations and interlinear interruptions disrupt the faux-objective and colourblind stance of standard academic prose in an attempt to reckon with the barbarism of our past and its legacy in the present. The book will appeal to readers of Shelley and Benjamin as well as those with an interest in comparative literature, literary theory, romantic poetics, and creative critical writing
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    ISBN: 9783662662892 , 9783662662885
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (392 p.)
    Series Statement: Neue Romantikforschung
    Keywords: Literary theory ; Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; Literature & literary studies
    Abstract: Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die rege Wiederaufnahme des Romantischen in der literarischen Landschaft um 1900. Es zeichnet die vergessene Diskursgeschichte einer sogenannten ‚Neuromantik‘ nach, um anschließend zu analysieren, was genau sich in diesen Texten im Vergleich zur historischen Romantik verändert hat. Die Neoromantik der Jahrhundertwende lässt sich damit als eine folgenreiche Station in der internationalen Kulturgeschichte wiederentdecken, die zugleich das Romantik-Bild des 20. Jahrhunderts entscheidend geprägt hat
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    ISBN: 9783031082153
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.)
    Series Statement: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
    Keywords: Sociology ; Literature: history & criticism ; Artificial intelligence ; Human geography ; Ethics & moral philosophy
    Abstract: This open access book contributes to the discourse of Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) from an African perspective. It is a unique collection that brings together prominent AI scholars to discuss AI ethics from theoretical and practical African perspectives and makes a case for African values, interests, expectations and principles to underpin the design, development and deployment (DDD) of AI in Africa. The book is a first in that it pays attention to the socio-cultural contexts of Responsible AI that is sensitive to African cultures and societies. It makes an important contribution to the global AI ethics discourse that often neglects AI narratives from Africa despite growing evidence of DDD in many domains. Nine original contributions provide useful insights to advance the understanding and implementation of Responsible AI in Africa, including discussions on epistemic injustice of global AI ethics, opportunities and challenges, an examination of AI co-bots and chatbots in an African work space, gender and AI, a consideration of African philosophies such as Ubuntu in the application of AI, African AI policy, and a look towards a future of Responsible AI in Africa. This is an open access book
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781003266945 , 9781032211428 , 9781032211411
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (193 p.)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Abstract: Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Providing a comparative analysis of their anthropological and poetic works, this volume explores the divergent representations of cultural others and the uses of ethnographic studies for cultural critique. This volume aims to illuminate central questions, including: Why did they choose to write poetry about their ethnographic endeavors? Why did they choose to write the way they wrote? Was poetry used to approach the objects of their research in different, perhaps ethically more viable ways? Did poetry allow them to transcend their own primitivist, even evolutionist tendencies, or did it much rather refashion or even amplify those tendencies? This in-depth examination of these ethnographic poems invites both cultural anthropologists and students of literature to reevaluate the Boasian legacy of cultural relativism, primitivism, and residual evolutionism for the twenty-first century. This volume offers a fresh perspective on some of the key texts that have shaped twentieth- and twenty-first-century discussions of culture and cultural relativism, and a unique contribution to readers interested in the dynamic area of multimodal anthropologies
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    ISBN: 9781032331041 , 9781032331058
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: “Fusion of Horizons: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on The Merchant of Venice” integrates new horizons into the reading of The Merchant of Venice, particularly horizons about the culture of credit. It delves into the changing nature of money, credit, and debt in the emerging capitalist era in relation to religious and ethnic issues in order to disclose the cause of Antonio’s melancholy. It is the argument that the gradual commercialization, materialization and symbolization of an individual in the nascent capitalist era fill Antonio with inexpressible melancholy. Shakespeare, through Antonio, manifests his concerns and worries about a future society preoccupied with money and symbolic economy
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    ISBN: 9783111028729 , 9783111029313
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 282 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Gegenwartsliteratur
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Husser, Irene Elfriede Jelineks Theater des (Post-)Politischen
    Dissertation note: Dissertation WWU Münster 2019
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    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; General studies ; Hochschulschrift ; Jelinek, Elfriede 1946- ; Politisches Theater ; Jelinek, Elfriede 1946-
    Abstract: Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a boom in political literature however, the possibilities of political writing in the present must be renegotiated. The challenges of a post-political climate of lack of alternatives are met by Elfriede Jelinek’s theatrical work, which – as the field- and discourse-analytical investigation shows – strives to reclaim a democratic culture of the agon
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 258-279
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Iberoamericana Vervuert
    ISBN: 9783968694726 , 9788491923695 , 9783968694719
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 p.)
    Series Statement: Clásicos Hispánicos
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Lope de Vega's lyrical career has been studied through different authorial masks that the poet adopts according to times and interests. Showing off the nickname by which he was known in life, the Phoenix reinvents himself and succeeds himself: poet of ballads, poet of Petrarchan songbooks, sacred, courtier, and even burlesque. Of all of them, the courtly or cultured Lope has not received the attention it deserves, since not even the masterpieces of that period have received updated critical editions. We are speaking, then, of a poet who, after the accession to the throne of Felipe IV, puts a pike in the publishing market with two works of difficult generic taxonomy: La Filomena (1621) and La Circe (1624). With them, Lope delves into literary subgenres little traveled by him, such as the Cervantine-style short novel. But what motivates such an authorial turn in the twenties? What is Lope pursuing with these two peculiar volumes and what strategies does he use to build this renewed self? This study addresses all these questions, and others of greater depth, whose hypotheses are ultimately intended to outline a clearer profile of the author in his full maturity
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    ISBN: 9782753593671 , 9782753588288
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (334 p.) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Interférences
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Petrella, Sara Quand les dieux étaient des monstres
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Conti, Natale 1520-1582 ; Cartari, Vincenzo 1531-1587 ; Mythologie ; Rezeption ; Kunst ; Ikonographie ; Geschichte 1550-1700
    Abstract: Le livre imprimé est le lieu privilégié pour comprendre comment s’est construit un nouveau regard sur l’Antiquité à la suite des guerres de Religion, de la mise en place de la censure des images ainsi que de la centralisation du pouvoir politique. Or, le nom de celles et ceux qui en ont déterminé la forme propre – imprimeurs, libraires, graveurs, correcteurs – ne figurent pas toujours en page de titre. Ils ont pourtant traduit, modifié et parfois déplacé des textes et des images pour répondre aux attentes d’un public friand de nouveautés. La présente enquête part d’un livre recomposé à partir d’un texte de Natale Conti et des illustrations de Vincenzo Cartari. Bricolé à la hâte dans une officine lyonnaise au début du xviie siècle, il a connu une fortune extraordinaire. Ses sources et sa postérité sont analysées à travers des figures monstrueuses entre la fable, la caricature religieuse, les sciences naturelles et la littérature de voyage, de l’Hécate à trois têtes aux démons dotés de seins pendants jusqu’aux sorcières du Brésil
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    Paris : Collège de France
    ISBN: 9782722606173
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    Series Statement: Passage des disciplines
    Keywords: linguistics ; Literature: history & criticism ; General studies ; History ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Dieu au Collège de France, volume 6 of the « Passage des disciplines » series, includes texts that were presented during the symposium “Dieu at the Collège de France”, which was held in June 2021, after the delays caused by the pandemic, as part of “Passage des disciplines. Global history of the Collège de France, 19th-20th century”. This research program and the series associated with it examines the genesis of scientific and literary fields of knowledge, their mapping and their evolution during the 19th and 20th centuries, on both national and international levels, from the standpoint afforded by the history of the renewal of academic chairs at the Collège de France. “Dieu” is, to be sure, not a new 19th discipline, or a “founder of discursivity”, as Foucault called the scholars who had invented not only new discourses, but, more broadly, discursive continents, new “épistemes”. God is certainly an ancient “inventor of discursivity” and the discursive continent that he has launched is considerably more diffuse than those which come from Freud, Darwin, Einstein or Durkheim, which were the object of preceding symposia, and, for the first three ones, of the first three volumes of the series. Yet, it seemed to us possible to examine, in collaboration with Thomas Römer, holder of the chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts, the science of God and how the Collège de France, at different times of its history, and through this institution, the university, higher education in general, the life of ideas, made way for the sciences of religion
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    ISBN: 9781800083707 , 9781800083714 , 9781800083721
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    Series Statement: Literature and Translation
    Keywords: Translation & interpretation ; Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: In the Face of Adversity explores the dynamics of translating texts that articulate particular notions of adverse circumstances. The chapters illustrate how literary records of often painful experiences and dissenting voices are at risk of being stripped of their authenticity when not carefully handled by the translator; how cultural moments in which the translation of a text that would have otherwise fallen into oblivion instead gave rise to a translator who enabled its preservation while ultimately coming into their own as an author as a result; and how the difficulties the translator faces in intercultural or transnational constellations in which prejudice plays a role endangers projects meant to facilitate mutual understanding. The authors address translation as a project of making available and preserving a corpus of texts that would otherwise be in danger of becoming censored, misperceived or ignored. They look at translation and adaptation as a project of curating textual models of personal, communal or collective perseverance, and they offer insights into the dynamics of cultural inclusion and exclusion through a series of theoretical frameworks, as well as through a set of concrete case studies drawn from different cultural and historical contexts. The collection also explores some of the venues that artists have pursued by transferring artistic expressions from one medium into another in order to preserve and disseminate important experiences in different cultural settings, media and arts
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    Leiden : Leiden University Press
    ISBN: 9789087284022
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.)
    Keywords: Travel writing ; Literature: history & criticism ; Netherlands
    Abstract: Apart from humans, animals play a pivotal role in travel literature. However, the way they are represented in texts can vary from living companions to metaphorical entities. Existing studies mainly focus on the representation of conventional or unconventional roles that are assigned to animals from around the Napoleonic age until now, roles that have been subject to change and that tell us a lot about human reflections on encounters with non-human creatures and the position of man in this rapidly changing world. In this edited volume, scholars from the Netherlands and abroad analyse the roles that animals play in Dutch travel literature from 1800 to the present. In this way, we aim to provide new insights into the relationships between man and animals, in textual expressions and real life, and to add the ‘Dutch case’ to the flourishing international field of travel writing studies
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781003131458 , 9780367674786 , 9780367674762
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (528 p.)
    Series Statement: Routledge Literature Handbooks
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Refugees & political asylum
    Abstract: This Handbook presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives, broadly defined. Interrogating who can be considered a refugee and what constitutes a narrative, the thirty-eight chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of geographical and historical contexts, and a variety of storytelling modalities. Analyzing novels, poetry, memoirs, comics, films, photography, music, social media, data, graffiti, letters, reports, eco-design, video games, archival remnants, and ethnography, the individual chapters counter dominant representations of refugees as voiceless victims. Addressing key characteristics and thematics of refugee narratives, this Handbook examines how refugee cultural productions are shaped by and in turn shape socio-political landscapes. It will be of interest to researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners committed to engaging refugee narratives in the contemporary moment. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license
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    Oslo : Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing)
    ISBN: 9788202791155 , 9788202792213 , 9788202792220 , 9788202792237
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (322 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary theory ; Phenomenology & Existentialism ; Weather
    Abstract: In her well-known song, ‘Når himmelen faller ned’ (‘When the Sky Falls Down’), the Norwegian musician Anne Grete Preus described snow as ‘celestial tipp-ex’ and a mighty ‘wonder’. But what exactly is it that snow corrects? And what gives snow its power? Snow’s Formulas: A Natural Phenomenon in Literature attempts to answer these and similar questions by discussing the motif of snow in the context of modernization processes marked by increasing instrumentalization and rationalization. Snow transforms landscapes and defies modernity’s innovations; it simultaneously obscures and accentuates, and also enchants. This process can be described in different ways: as the sublime’s breakthrough in a philosophical, aesthetic sense, or, in a poetological sense, as non-mimetic writing. This strategy plays out in language, and the objective of this study has been to investigate snow’s rhetoricity and how literary depictions of snow can be in response to the challenges of modernity. The book includes readings of texts by H.C. Andersen, Olaf Bull, Hans Børli, Paul Celan, Alexander Kielland, Jonas Lie, Tor Ulven and Tarjei Vesaas, among others. The relationship between snow and modernity is illustrated from a dual perspective. Emphasis is placed on the individual’s position and self-perception within the process of modernization, as well as on the aesthetical problems that arise when writing about snow. Snow makes a white surface; it ‘overwrites’ the ground and encourages a non-mimetic poetry. Snow can be said to be an engine of modern aesthetics that does not take language’s referential aspect for granted
    Abstract: I sin kjente låt Når himmelen faller ned betegner Anne Grete Preus snø som «himmelsk korrekturlakk» og et mektig «under». Men hva er det egentlig som snø må korrigere, og i hva består dens makt? Snøens formler: Et naturfenomen i litteraturen søker svar på slike spørsmål idet snømotivet diskuteres på bakgrunn av moderniseringsprosessen, kjennetegnet ved økende instrumentalisering og rasjonalisering. Snø forandrer landskapet og sier modernitetens nyttetenkning imot; den tildekker og aksentuerer samtidig og fortryller. Denne prosessen kan beskrives på forskjellige måter: som det sublimes gjennombrudd i filosofisk-estetisk henseende, eller, i poetologisk henseende, som en form for avrealisering. Denne strategien utspiller seg i språk, og formålet med denne studien er å granske snøens retorisitet og hvordan den litterære fremstillingen av snø svarer på modernitetens utfordringer. Boken inneholder lesninger av blant annet H.C. Andersen, Olaf Bull, Hans Børli, Paul Celan, Alexander Kielland, Jonas Lie, Tor Ulven og Tarjei Vesaas. Forholdet mellom snø og modernitet belyses fra et dobbeltperspektiv. Søkelyset rettes på individets stilling og selvforståelse i moderniseringsprosessen, men også på estetiske spørsmål som reiser seg når det diktes om snø. Snøen lager en hvit flate, den «overskriver» jorden og spiller på denne måten en amimetisk poetikk i hendene. Snø kan sies å være en pådriver av en moderne estetisk posisjon som ikke tar språkets referensielle side for gitt
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9780367569730 , 9780367569747
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: How can narrative theory account for the changing roles of storytelling and storysharing in the public sphere? This essay proposes a new concept of narrative dynamics, one that generates well-constrained descriptions of specific elements, features, or qualities of narratives, as well as programmatic claims concerning their potential uses and effects. Narrative dynamics research is equally interested in the pragmatics of strategic framing and the grand narratives of human rights, in mundane stories of everyday experience and the intangible myths and masterplots which shape organizations, institutions, and cultures. Starting with the formal characteristics and functional qualities of narrative that contribute to its interactivity, the essay discusses phenomena such as narrative aggregation and normalization, event modeling, and narrative chaff. It then demonstrates how these new concepts produce new insights in the narrative ecology of the public sphere, by analysing key moments in European migration discourses since 2015
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781032331041 , 9781032331058
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (34 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: “Literary and Cultural Hermeneutics” applies the general principles of philosophical hermeneutics to develop principles for literary interpretations. Heidegger’s ideas on language and existentialien will be addressed as they render understanding ontological and function in a fabric relationship (Bewandnisganzheit). Gadamer’s concepts of preunderstanding and the historicality of interpretation are also central to this research. On this basis, it elucidates the philosophical, the historical, and the cultural dimension, as well as a fusion of horizons in literary interpretation
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    ISBN: 9783968692630 , 9783968692623
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (754 p.)
    Series Statement: La Cuestión Palpitante. Los siglos XVIII y XIX en España
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: The political economy of the European 18th century declares economics to be a basic human condition. This phenomenon is summed up in the present study under the term “anthropologizing of the economic” and examines how treatises by Spanish reform economists from the late 18th century are reflected in sentimental economic comedies of the late Enlightenment. For the first time since Schumpeter, the study, located at the interface between literary studies, cultural studies and the history of economic theory, offers a German-language overview of the currents of economic thought in Enlightenment Spain and its predecessors, based on current research. In doing so, she establishes references to developments in France, England and Germany on the levels of economic and theater reform. Based on the knowledge that when talking about economic people (homo oeconomicus), the economic man (vir oeconomicus) is usually meant, she develops a set of conceptual tools for Analysis of the recurring economic character types in Spanish reform theatre. By examining comedies from the period between 1762 and 1805, she differentiates between gender-specific incarnations of good and bad management in trade, industry and agriculture, ranging from the vir oeconomicus to the femina profusa are sufficient. In addition to the transfer processes between economic and theatrical discourse, the study pays special attention to the burgeoning liberalism and to a connection between the economic and the religious that is specific to Spain. For its interdisciplinary character, it was awarded the sponsorship prize of the University Society of Münster e.V
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781032422411 , 9781032422428 , 9781000826494
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (12 p.)
    Keywords: Literary studies: general ; Literature: history & criticism ; IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: The highly productive subfield of literary studies analysing digital fiction has so far primarily focussed on what makes these digital phenomena new and thus different from their analogue predecessors. This book takes these valuable approaches as a given and sets out to add another piece to the mosaic by instead foregrounding continuities, historical parallels, and pre-digital literary theory to analyse these seemingly new phenomena in a larger context of cultural production and human expression. This introductory chapter outlines the main aims of the book, provides an overview of the material considered in the analysis, and orients the reader in the overall structure of the following chapters
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Fordham University Press
    ISBN: 9780823298945
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence—scribes name themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits. While marginal notes, even biographical ones, are a common feature of medieval manuscripts, rarely do scribes make themselves so fully known. These writers address the reader directly, asking for prayers of intercession and sharing of themselves. They ask the reader to join them in not only acknowledging the labor of writing but also in theorizing it through analogy to agricultural work or textile production, tending a garden of knowledge, weaving a text out of words.By mining this corpus of articulate codices (known to a school of Iberian codicologists, but virtually unstudied outside that community), Catherine Brown recovers these scribes’ understanding of reading as a powerful, intimate encounter between many parties—authors and their text, scribes and their pen, patrons and their art-object, readers and the words and images before their eyes—all mediated by the material object known as the book. By rendering that mediation conspicuous and reminding us of the labor that necessarily precedes that mediation, the scribes reach out to us across time with a simple but profound directive: Remember the hand.Remember the Hand is available from the publisher on an open-access basis
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Lever Press
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    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781032331041 , 9781032331058
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (18 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: “Hermeneutics and Locality: Hamlet in China, Glocalizing Humanism, Glocalizing Desire” explores the cultural mobility of Shakespeare through the lens of cultural hermeneutics, focusing on the intersection of locality studies and hermeneutic principles. One version of Hamlet produced in the Chinese Context, The Banquet (Feng, Xiaogang dir., 2006) will be explored to demonstrate how adaptations are heavily influenced, if not shaped by global critical interpretations of Hamlet, demonstrating the tenacity of literary effects between textuality and performance even in radical moments of change; on the other hand, it reveals that local and typical Chinese elements are mixed with western dramatic tradition, resulting in new connotations and potentials for global Shakespearean community
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472075850 , 9780472055852
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (284 p.)
    Keywords: Theatre studies ; Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
    Abstract: Was there more to comedy than Chaucer, the Second Shepherds’ Play, or Shakespeare? Of course! But, for a real taste of medieval and Renaissance humor and in-your-face slapstick, one must cross the Channel to France, where over two hundred extant farces regularly dazzled crowds with blistering satires. Dwarfing all other contemporaneous theatrical repertoires, the boisterous French corpus is populated by lawyers, lawyers everywhere. No surprise there. The lion’s share of mostly anonymous farces was written by barristers, law students, and legal apprentices. Famous for skewering unjust judges and irreligious ecclesiastics, they belonged to a 10,000-member legal society known as the Basoche, which flourished between 1450 and 1550. What is more, their dramatic send-ups of real and fictional court cases were still going strong on the eve of Molière, resilient against those who sought to censor and repress them. The suspenseful wait to see justice done has always made for high drama or, in this case, low drama. But, for centuries, the scripts for these outrageous shows were available only in French editions gathered from scattered print and manuscript sources. In Trial by Farce, prize-winning theater historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest legal farces to English-speaking audiences in a refreshingly uncensored but philologically faithful vernacular. Newly conceived as much for scholars as for students and theater practitioners, this repertoire and its familiar stock characters come vividly to life as they struggle to negotiate the limits of power, politics, class, gender, and, above all, justice. Through the distinctive blend of wit, social critique, and breathless boisterousness that is farce, we gain a new understanding of comedy itself as form of political correction. In ways presciently modern and even postmodern, farce paints a different cultural picture of the notoriously authoritarian Middle Ages with its own vision of liberty and justice for all. Theater eternally offers ways for new generations to raise their voices and act
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    ISBN: 9783111222394 , 9783111219219 , 9783111222554
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (282 p.)
    Keywords: Literature & literary studies ; Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: general ; Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Abstract: The radical rupture in civilization, the future and defense of democracy, the fight against totalitarianism and mass hysteria, the commitment to human rights, and the utopian potential of literature – these were the topics that occupied the mind of Jewish author, intellectual, and US émigré Hermann Broch (1886–1951). This volume investigates the topicality of his thought in the context of interdisciplinary peace and democracy research
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781032058658 , 9781032058665
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (49 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
    Abstract: Chapter 3 - ABSTRACT: An ironic response to Richardson’s Pamela, The Turn of the Screw examines questions of moral hypocrisy and status inconsistency. Adopting a Fielding position, James celebrates the exemptions of a liberal conversation—or contemplation—premised both on the protection of adult secrets and the rejection of a Puritan education that prevents children from having free access to the open adult world. The first condition is represented by the detached master, an emblem of liberal privacy. The second is enforced by the governess’ sadistic impulse to have the children see what they should never see—first, that the social hierarchies can be upset, and second, that a base menial enjoys the “strange freedom” to sexually approach a governess
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis
    ISBN: 9781032332918 , 9781032332925
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (37 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Colonialism & imperialism ; Urban communities ; Politics & government
    Abstract: At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’s deep word hoard also helped him to develop a minimalist style, which was not only a means of living sustainably in the city, but in its humour and close attention to detail a way to make greening the city more of a joy than a duty. In this way, Vladislavić created a culture of sustainability
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    ISBN: 9783111027999 , 9783111027586 , 9783111028040
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (606 p.)
    Series Statement: Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 ; Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; History of the Americas ; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
    Abstract: The study writes a cultural history of transatlantic relations on the late 18th and 19th centuries. Using the example of the Neo-Spanish Dominican fray Servando Teresa de Mier (1763–1827), it examines how Hispanic American writers of the transition between the early modern and modern period transgressed geographic, cultural, and discursive border regimes, thereby preparing the political and literary independency of the previous Spanish colonies
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    ISBN: 9783110778656 , 9783110778632 , 9783110778717
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (325 p.)
    Keywords: linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Bilingualism & multilingualism ; Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: This volume provides a new set of methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of literary multilingualism in the age of national literature. Broader studies examine multilingual origins of seemingly monolingual national literatures. Case studies show that supposedly monolingual authors used multilingual techniques in their writing. The last part presents methods and theories to analyse multilingual texts within national literatures
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    ISBN: 9783111027500 , 9783111018614 , 9783111027524
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (234 p.)
    Series Statement: American Frictions
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; General studies
    Abstract: Jamaica Kincaid’s works consistently explore the long-lasting effects of colonial history on contemporary lives. Focusing on the media of text, image, and the human body, the chapters of this book show how Kincaid’s ''poetics of impermanence'' destabilize hegemonial representations of history and in their stead establish self-determined versions of the past through a multiplication of perspectives and voices
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903931 , 9780472076536
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Love, and the different manifestations of it, is a common theme in literature around the world. In Cosmopolitan Love, Sijia Yao examines the writings of D. H. Lawrence, a British writer whose literature focused primarily on interpersonal relationships in domestic settings, and Eileen Chang, a Chinese writer who migrated to the United States and explored Chinese heterosexual love in her writing. While comparing the writings of a Chinese writer and an English one, Yao avoids a direct comparison between East and West that could further enforce binaries. Instead, she uses the comparison to develop an idea of cosmopolitanism that shows how the writers are in conversation with their own culture and with each other. Both D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang wrote stories that are influenced by-but sometimes stand in opposition to-their own cultures. They offer alternative understandings of societies dealing with modernism and cultural globalization. Their stories deal with emotional pain caused by the restrictions of local politics and economics and address common themes of incestuous love, sexual love, adulterous love, and utopian love. By analyzing their writing, Yao demonstrates that the concept of love as a social and political force can cross cultural boundaries and traditions to become a basis for human meaning, the key to a cosmopolitan vision
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Purdue University Press
    ISBN: 9781612499079
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (298 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American
    Abstract: A noncommissioned officer of the Nicaraguan National Guard travels to New York to meet the famous bodybuilder, Charles Atlas. When he approaches his hero, he finds a body pierced with syringes and tubes, a cyborg of fragile artificial life. In the garden of a Central American dictator’s mansion, a prisoner is locked in a cage next to a lion’s. Nature and animal instinct will take their course. In post-Sandinista Nicaragua, an amputee policeman must face—alone and wounded—a drug gang commanded by his former guerrilla leader. Despite the gravity and violence present in many of Sergio Ramírez Mercado’s short stories and novels, his writing is governed by irony and parody. Fábula del Poder proposes a novel critical assessment of the narrative work of Ramírez, who won the Cervantes Prize in 2017, emphasizing the mechanisms of representation and criticism of power in contemporary Latin American literature. In an entertaining and dynamic way, the book applies an interdisciplinary, theoretical approach, borrowing concepts from political theory, literary criticism, video games, visual culture, and sports, and reviews the contemporary historiography of Nicaragua and Latin America.Un suboficial de la Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua viaja a Nueva York para conocer al célebre fisicoculturista Charles Atlas. Cuando logra acercarse al héroe, encuentra un cuerpo traspasado de jeringas y mangueras, un cíborg de frágil vida artificial. En el jardín de la mansión de un dictador centroamericano, un prisionero es encerrado en la jaula contigua a la de un león. La naturaleza y el instinto animal seguirán su curso. En la Nicaragua post-sandinista, un policía amputado de una pierna debe enfrentar—solo y herido—a una banda de narcotraficantes comandada por su antiguo jefe guerrillero. A pesar de la gravedad y violencia de las historias contadas en muchos de los cuentos y las novelas de Sergio Ramírez Mercado, su obra está regida por la ironía y la parodia. Fábula del Poder propone una novedosa valoración crítica de la obra narrativa de Ramírez, quien recibió el Premio Cervantes en 2017, haciendo énfasis en los mecanismos de representación y crítica del poder en la literatura contemporánea de América Latina. De manera amena y dinámica el libro utiliza un marco teórico interdisciplinario y aplica conceptos de teoría política, crítica literaria, videojuegos, cultura visual y deportiva, y repasa la historiografía contemporánea de Nicaragua y América Latina
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