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Symbolism 12/13

[Special Focus – Jewish Magic Realism]

AvRüdiger Ahrens,Klaus Stierstorfer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

3 219 kr

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Magic realism has become a significant mode of expression in Jewish cultural production. This special focus of Symbolism for the first time explores in a comparative and transnational approach the magic realist engagement of Jewish writers, artists, and filmmakers from the Diaspora and from Israel with issues of identity, oppression and persecution as well as the Holocaust.

Symbolism 14

[Special Focus – Symbols of Diaspora]

AvRüdiger Ahrens,Klaus Stierstorfer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

2 382 kr

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Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and theorizing symbols from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in critical writings of theorists of diaspora. What kinds of symbols and symbolic practices, contributors ask, are germane to the representation, both emic and etic, of diasporics and diasporas? How are specific symbols and symbolic practices analyzed across the academic fields contributing to diaspora studies? Which symbols and symbolic practices inform the academic study of diasporas, sometimes unconsciously or without being remarked on? To study these phenomena is to engage in a dialogue that aims at refining the theoretical and methodological vocabulary and practice of truly transdisciplinary diaspora studies while attending to the imperative of specificity that inheres in this emerging field. The volume collects a range of analyses from social anthropology, history and ethnography to literary and film studies, all combining readings of individual symbolic practices with meta-theoretical reflections.

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Symbolism 15

[Special Focus – Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes]

AvRüdiger Ahrens,Klaus Stierstorfer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

1 839 kr

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While paratexts – among them headnotes, footnotes, or endnotes – have never been absent from American literature, the last two decades have seen an explosion of the phenomenon, including (mock) scholarly footnotes, to an extent that they seem to take over the text itself. In this Special Focus we shall attempt to find the reasons for this astonishing development. In our first (diachronic) section we shall explore such texts as might have fostered the present boom, from fictions by Edgar Allan Poe to Vladimir Nabokov to Mark Z. Danielewski. The second (synchronic) section, will concentrate on paratexts by David Foster Wallace, perhaps the “father” of the post-postmodern footnote, as well as those to be found in novels by Bennett Sims, Jennifer Egan and Junot Diaz, among others. It appears that, while paratexts definitely point to a high degree of self-reflexivity in the author, they equally draw attention to the textual and authorial functions of the works in which they exist. They can thus cause a reflection on the boundaries between genres like fiction, faction, and autobiography, as well as serving to highlight a host of pedagogical and social concerns that exist in the interstices between fiction and reality.

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Symbolism 16

AvRüdiger Ahrens,Florian Klägerm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

1 839 kr

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Essays in this special focus constellate around the diverse symbolic forms in which Caribbean consciousness has manifested itself transhistorically, shaping identities within and without structures of colonialism and postcolonialism. Offering interdisciplinary critical, analytical and theoretical approaches to the objects of study, the book explores textual, visual, material and ritual meanings encoded in Caribbean lived and aesthetic practices.

Symbolism 17: Latina/o Literature

The Trans-Atlantic and the Trans-American in Dialogue

AvRüdiger Ahrens,Florian Klägerm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

1 560 kr

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The complex nature of globalization increasingly requires a comparative approach to literature in order to understand how migration and commodity flows impact aesthetic production and expressive practices. This special issue of Symbolism: An International Journal of Critical Aesthetics explores the trans-American dimensions of Latina/o literature in a trans-Atlantic context. Examining the theoretical implications suggested by the comparison of the global North-global South dynamics of material and aesthetic exchange, this volume highlights emergent Latina/o authors, texts, and methodologies of interest in for comparative literary studies. In the essays, literary scholars address questions of the transculturation, translation, and reception of Latina/o literature in the United States and Europe. In the interviews, emergent Latina/o authors speak to the processes of creative writing in a transnational context. This volume suggests how the trans-American dialogues found in contemporary Latina/o literature elucidates trans-Atlantic critical dialogues.

Symbolism 2018

Special Focus: "Cranes on the Rise" - Functions of Metaphor in Autobiographical Writing

AvRüdiger Ahrens,Florian Klägerm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

1 605 kr

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This special issue of Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics explores the various functions of metaphor in life writing. Looking at a range of autobiographical subgenres (pathography, disability narratives, memoirs of migration, autofiction) and different kinds of metaphors, the contributions seek to ‘map’ the possibilities of metaphor for narratively framing an individual life and for constructing notions of selfhood.

Del 34 - Anglo-Amerikanische Studien - Anglo-American Studies

Trauma Studies and Literature

Martin Amis’s "Time’s Arrow" As Trauma Fiction

AvValentina Adami,Rüdiger Ahrens

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

395 kr

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Starting from an interdisciplinary theoretical investigation of trauma, the book analyzes the relationship between Trauma Studies and literature. In particular, it focuses on Martin Amis’s novel Time’s Arrow, where the breakdown of chronology, coherence and predictability mimics the collapse of temporality and the crisis of truth caused by trauma in the individual’s mind. Amis’s novel reproduces the shocking force of trauma through a shocking narrative form in order to avoid indifference and favour an empathetic and ethically committed reaction on the part of readers. For these reasons, Time’s Arrow represents a significant example of trauma fiction.

Del 44 - Anglo-Amerikanische Studien - Anglo-American Studies

Screening and Depicting Cultural Diversity in the English-speaking World and Beyond

AvRenée Dickason,Rüdiger Ahrens

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

591 kr

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Cultural diversity has long been and remains a complex issue for its depiction and appreciation vary according to the historical, geographical or ethical context in which it is considered or the viewpoint from which it is observed. The articles published in this volume, written by European-based specialists in their own particular fields, draw on examples taken from the five continents to explore how diversity is questioned and negotiated both within and beyond the parameters of colonial or post-colonial experience. They thus offer substantial food for thought, by discussing the real or imagined other in different locations, at different periods, through different modes of expression (moving images on the small or large screen, photographs and drawings, alone or in association with the printed word), or by suggesting the discordant richness offered by simultaneous presence of conflicting narratives.

Del 51 - Anglo-Amerikanische Studien / Anglo-American Studies

amerikanische Ostkueste - Didaktische Analysen fuer den Englischunterricht

AvSabine Hemberger,Rüdiger Ahrens

Inbunden, Tyska, 2017

923 kr

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Del 56 - Anglo-Amerikanische Studien / Anglo-American Studies

Peter Kosminsky Et La Télévision Britannique: Itinéraire d'Un Réalisateur Engagé

AvGeorges Fournier,Rüdiger Ahrens

Inbunden, Franska, 2019

601 kr

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Del 59 - Anglo-Amerikanische Studien / Anglo-American Studies

politische Dimension als didaktischer Lerngegenstand in Lehrwerken fuer den Englischunterricht

AvJanina Kuhn,Rüdiger Ahrens

Inbunden, Tyska, 2019

1 318 kr

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Del 65 - Anglo-Amerikanische Studien - Anglo-American Studies

Failure: The Humble Narrative of Unsuccessfulness in Late Modernist Fiction

British, Irish and Postcolonial Novels and Stories

AvBarbara Puschmann-Nalenz,Rüdiger Ahrens

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

781 kr

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Failure as a pervasive occurrence in life has rarely been investigated by sociology, even though the collapse of plans, unattainability of goals and breakdown of vital relationships are ordinary experiences. The study of early-21st-century fiction reveals that imaginative literature at present explores the lacunae of failure, disillusionment and collapse as central narrative themes. About fifty years after Samuel Beckett, in whose works the failing of expression became a major concern, postmillennial narratives expose disruption or defeat as subject matter and literary trope. Unheroic failure as a motif makes its variegated appearance in diverse areas of human life such as love, religion, art, and social community. The narratives explore it as the individual’s participation in common humanity.