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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the Middle Ages to the present day. The contributors engage with a variety of theorists from Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Michel Serres to Jean-Luc Nancy to foreground the distinctive means by which literary texts engage with, open up, or make uncertain dominant views of the nature of perception. Considering the ways in which literary texts intersect with and diverge from scientific, epistemological, and philosophical perspectives, these essays explore a wide variety of literary moments of sensation including: the interspecies exchange of a look between a swan and a young Indigenous Australian girl; the sound of bees as captured in an early modern poem; the noxious smell of the ''Great Stink'' that recurs in the Victorian novel; the taste of an eggplant registered in a poetic performance; tactile gestures in medieval romance; and the representation of a world in which the interdependence of human beings with the purple hibiscus plant is experienced through all five senses. The collection builds upon and breaks new ground in the field of sensory studies, focusing on what makes literature especially suitable to engaging with, contributing to, and challenging our perennial understandings of, the senses.
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Engelska, 20231 904 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the Middle Ages to the present day. The contributors engage with a variety of theorists from Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Michel Serres to Jean-Luc Nancy to foreground the distinctive means by which literary texts engage with, open up, or make uncertain dominant views of the nature of perception. Considering the ways in which literary texts intersect with and diverge from scientific, epistemological, and philosophical perspectives, these essays explore a wide variety of literary moments of sensation including: the interspecies exchange of a look between a swan and a young Indigenous Australian girl; the sound of bees as captured in an early modern poem; the noxious smell of the ''Great Stink'' that recurs in the Victorian novel; the taste of an eggplant registered in a poetic performance; tactile gestures in medieval romance; and the representation of a world in which the interdependence of human beings with the purple hibiscus plant is experienced through all five senses. The collection builds upon and breaks new ground in the field of sensory studies, focusing on what makes literature especially suitable to engaging with, contributing to, and challenging our perennial understandings of, the senses.
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British Writers in Occupied Germany offers an original account of the contribution of British mid-century writers and their works to the moral, political, and intellectual re-orientation of Germany after World War II (1945^–^55), as well as an examination of the literature that emerged from the encounters these writers had with the defeated country. At a moment when interest in the socio-political agency of the writer and the function of literature is intensifying, this book revaluates mid-century writers such as Stephen Spender, T. S. Eliot, and Elizabeth Bowen and their commitment to democratizing postwar Germany. Drawing on a wide range of previously overlooked archival material, it explores what motivated these writers, which forms their engagement took, which institutions propagated their activities, and to what extent the 'projection of Britain' in occupied Germany was influenced by British experiences in the colonies, where literature had been viewed as a valuable means of guidance and the shaping of character. Through its analysis of some of the earliest accounts of British-German encounters against the backdrop of the devastation of the war, the book furthermore changes what we think we know about the British postwar understanding of the Germans and of the British self-image. When reconsidered in the light of this history, the ruins of Germany (particularly those of Nuremberg) emerge not only as tropes of decay and death, but also as prompts used by mid-century British writers to remember Germany's multi-layered past and to contemplate the future that must inevitably be shaped by that past and its ruins.