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Vladimir Nabokov and the Ideological Aesthetic
A Study of his Novels and Plays, 1926–1939
Häftad, 2017
948 kr
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This book argues that ideology is a prism through which the work of Vladimir Nabokov needs to be considered. It is thus the first attempt to foreground questions of ideology and politics within a field that has historically been resistant to such readings.The perception of Nabokov as an apolitical …
Asian Fusion
New Encounters in the Asian-German Avant-Garde
Häftad, 2020
835 kr
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«This book is pertinent reading for anyone interested in understanding how the continuing legacy of the Nazi period shapes the German-speaking world today and affects non-White Germans. Rupprecht’s study thus represents a humanistic-political intervention in the face of resurging racism and …
Cannibal Angels
Transatlantic Modernism and the Brazilian Avant-Garde
Häftad, 2021
669 kr
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In the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the Atlantic interacted to create a modern style for Brazil. Their works shaped Brazilian national expression and self-definition for the twentieth century and into the present, with …
Other '68s
Lineages and Legacies of May ’68
Av Álvaro J. Vidal Bouzon, Adam Sharman m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
485 kr
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May ’68 has inspired cultural, social and political movements across the world but has also been used to criticise them. This book interrogates the consideration of the revolts in France as the pinnacle or even paradigm of a particular avatar in a revolutionary lineage that would include the …
European Vistas
History, Ethics and Identity in the Works of Claudio Magris
Av Remko Smid
Häftad, 2019
850 kr
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Claudio Magris is one of Italy’s – and Europe’s – most renowned thinkers and writers. He is considered an authority on central European literature and culture and is frequently interviewed about his hometown Trieste, the region called Mitteleuropa and the European Union. But what makes Magris such …
Culture of Discontinuity?
Russian Cultural Debates in Historical Perspective
Häftad, 2023
870 kr
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This volume brings together diverse contributions from an international team of scholars, asking what has sustained Russian cultural development across the centuries and how Russian culture has evolved to this day. It covers a broad range of Russian life, literature and arts, and sets debates in …
Cures for Modernity
Medicine in Interwar Russian and Czech Literature and Cinema
Av Julia Sutton-Mattocks, Christian Emden m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
804 kr
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«This monograph makes an original and significant scholarly contribution, in addition to being a gripping read. Not only is it the first book in English to compare Russian and Czechoslovak literature and film of the interwar period in such a comprehensive way, but it does so via the growing …
Interrupted Stories
Multilingualism in Post-Yugoslav Literature in Germany and Austria
Av Iga Nowicz, Christian Emden m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
755 kr
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Written in response to a brutal ethnic conflict that shocked Europeans in the 1990s, post-Yugoslav literature addresses issues that are still pertinent today. Looking at questions of language, gender, memory and identity, this book sheds new light on texts by three post-Yugoslav authors writing in …
Biological Discourses
The Language of Science and Literature Around 1900
Häftad, 2017
1118 kr
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The relationship between biological thought and literature, and between science and culture, has long been an area of interest by no means confined to literary studies. The Darwin Anniversary celebrations of 2009 added to this tradition, inspiring a variety of new publications on the cultural …
When Novels Perform History
Dramatizing the Past in Australian and Canadian Literature
Av Rebecca Waese, Christian Emden m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
825 kr
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How do you bring history alive? This book explores the use of dramatic modes – such as melodrama, metatheatre, and immersion – to bring immediacy and a sense of living presence to works of literature rooted in history. Focusing on Australian and Canadian literature from the late 1980s to the …
Other People’s Pain
Narratives of Trauma and the Question of Ethics
Av Martin Modlinger, Philipp Sonntag
Häftad, 2011
557 kr
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How do we approach other people’s pain? This question is of crucial importance to the humanities, particularly literary and cultural studies, whenever they address narratives of terror and genocide, injustice and oppression, violence and trauma. Talking about other people’s pain inevitably draws …
Dialectic and Paradox
Configurations of the Third in Modernity
Av Ian Cooper, Bernhard Malkmus
Häftad, 2013
814 kr
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From Hegel to the present, the humanities and social sciences have revealed the volatile power of third agency. Systems of thought and practice are often disturbed by the presence of a figure that exceeds traditional binary oppositions. The articles in this volume trace the role of these triadic …
Constructions of Melancholy in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature
Häftad, 2012
1153 kr
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Melancholy has become a central theme of German literature since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The rapidly changing sociopolitical circumstances of the post-1989 period and the continued burden of the Nazi past have directly contributed to this upsurge in melancholy themes. This book traces …
Playing False
Representations of Betrayal
Av Kristina Mendicino, Betiel Wasihun
Häftad, 2013
1308 kr
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Betrayal has never gone out of fashion. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon – from antiquity to the present, from the realm of politics to the most personal relationships. This book gathers essays by scholars from the fields of philosophy, comparative literature, classics, English literature, German …
Invisibility Studies
Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture
Av Kristin Veel
Häftad, 2014
682 kr
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Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these changes make their marks on various cultural fields and investigate the cultural significance of these …
Cultural Transformations of the Public Sphere
Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Av Bernd Fischer, May Mergenthaler
Häftad, 2015
915 kr
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The last decade has seen renewed interest in political theories of the public sphere, reacting to new challenges posed by globalization, communication technology, and intra- and international conflicts. However, the role of culture and aesthetics in the formation of the public sphere has received …
Alternative Worlds
Blue-Sky Thinking since 1900
Av Ricarda Vidal, Ingo Cornils
Häftad, 2014
881 kr
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In an attempt to counteract the doom and gloom of the economic crisis and the politicians’ overused dictum that ‘there is no alternative’, this interdisciplinary collection presents a number of alternative worlds that were conceived over the course of the last century. While change at the macro …
Men with Broken Faces
«Gueules Cassées» of the First World War
Häftad, 2015
552 kr
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Facially wounded servicemen were perhaps the ultimate victims of the First World War. They became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the war not only on the combatants but also on European societies at large. This book explores for the first time the …
Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space
Borders, Networks, Escape Lines
Av David Walton, Juan Antonio Suárez
Häftad, 2017
992 kr
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This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary and cultural studies, this volume also brings together studies that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary …
Romanticism, Reaction and Revolution
British Views on Spain, 1814–1823
Av Bernard Beatty, Alicia Laspra Rodríguez
Häftad, 2019
849 kr
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When the Peninsular War ended in 1814, the prolonged struggle had all but exhausted both British government finances and the British public’s enthusiasm for war. The authoritarian rule of Ferdinand VII aroused long-standing British suspicions of Spanish ways, which emerged in British literary works …
Cultural Memory and Historical Consciousness in the German-Speaking World Since 1500
Papers from the Conference ‘The Fragile Tradition’, Cambridge 2002. Volume 1
Av Christian Emden, David Robin Midgley
Häftad, 2004
1039 kr
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This is the first of three volumes based on papers given at the conference ‘The Fragile Tradition: The German Cultural Imagination Since 1500’ in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus of current research on the cultural, historical and literary imagination of the German-speaking world …
German Literature, History and the Nation
Papers from the Conference ‘The Fragile Tradition’, Cambridge 2002. Volume 2
Av Christian Emden, David Robin Midgley
Häftad, 2004
1243 kr
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This is the second of three volumes based on papers given at the ‘Fragile Tradition’ conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus of current research on the cultural, historical and literary imagination of the German-speaking world across the whole of the modern period. This …
Science, Technology and the German Cultural Imagination
Papers from the Conference ‘The Fragile Tradition’, Cambridge 2002. Volume 3
Av Christian Emden, David Robin Midgley
Häftad, 2005
1101 kr
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This is the third and final volume of papers given at the ‘Fragile Tradition’ conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together these volumes provide a conspectus of current research on the cultural, historical and literary imagination of the German-speaking world in the period since 1500.This volume …
Secret Sharers
Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Reception in Germany
Av Anthony Fothergill, David Robin Midgley m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
860 kr
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This is the first book-length account of Joseph Conrad’s reception in Germany, a virtually unresearched area of Conrad studies. It demonstrates that Conrad was read and used by his German readers as a cosmopolitan literary and moral voice against the prevailing nationalism of Germany in the ‘dark …
Imagining the City, Volume 2
The Politics of Urban Space
Av Christian Emden, Catherine Keen m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1174 kr
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The urban spaces we inhabit today have been moulded by a combination of historical forces – by social and economic processes, by the specific designs of urban planners, and by the regulatory and ritual practices of earlier times. As arenas of cultural activity they are also imbued with legends, …
ImageScapes
Studies in Intermediality
Av Christian Emden, Gabriele Rippl
Häftad, 2010
920 kr
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The relationship between different media has emerged as one of the most important areas of research in contemporary cultural and literary studies. But how should we conceive of the relationship between texts and images today? Should we speak of collaboration, interaction or competition? What is the …
Zeitgeschichten: Die Berliner Uebergangsjahre
Zur Verortung Der Stadt Nach Der Mauer
Av Ulrike Zitzlsperger, Christian Emden m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
1048 kr
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Berlin spielt seit 1989 bei den Diskussionen um das Thema Metropole eine besondere Rolle. Die mit dem Fall der Mauer einsetzenden Übergangsjahre waren vom Wissen um einen allgegenwärtigen Wandel und von der besonderen, wenn auch vorübergehenden Qualität des Unfertigen geprägt. In diesem Zeitraum …
Performing Femininity
Dance and Literature in German Modernism
Häftad, 2009
819 kr
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This is the first book to analyse the cultural representations of female identity that were created by the interaction between choreography and literary writing in German modernism. It explores the connections between dance, literature and gender discourses with a focus on a key period of the …
Constellations of Reading
Walter Benjamin in Figures of Actuality
Häftad, 2008
1188 kr
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How to read Walter Benjamin today? This book argues that the proper way is through an approach which recognizes and respects his own peculiar theorization of the act of reading and the politics of interpretation that this entails. The approach must be figural, that is, focused on images, and driven …
Constructions of Conflict
Transmitting Memories of the Past in European Historiography, Culture and Media
Av Katharina Hall, Kathryn N. Jones
Häftad, 2011
622 kr
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This collection of essays explores the ways in which memories of social, political and military conflicts have been transmitted by twentieth- and twenty-first-century European historiography, culture and media, and the diverse representations, or constructions of conflict, that have emerged as a …
