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41 produkter
Plots of War
Modern Narratives of Conflict
Av Isabel Capeloa Gil, Adriana Martins
Inbunden, 2012
1823 kr
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Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflict discusses the dynamics of change and transformation that underlie the troubled project of modernity and shows how deeply it has been shaped by war and violence. The narrative of war, the emplotment of violence in historic and mainly in symbolic terms, is …
Architecture of Modern Culture
Towards a Narrative Cultural Theory
Inbunden, 2012
1962 kr
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These collected essays contain fundamental contributions to contemporary cultural analysis and theory as well as exemplary interpretations of film, literature and other media. Central issues of current cultural studies are addressed: cultural narratives, cultural identity, collective memory and …
Panic and Mourning
The Cultural Work of Trauma
Av Daniela Agostinho, Elisa Antz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1863 kr
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‘Panic’ and ‘mourning’ are two pivotal constructs that often emerge and interplay under circumstances of conflict, violence, crisis, and catastrophe, both natural and man-made. Whereas panic tends to crop up during the experience of violent events, mourning, on the other hand, relates to the …
National Habitus
Ways of Feeling French, 1789–1870
Inbunden, 2014
1822 kr
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No detailed description available for "The National Habitus".
Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain
Av Barbara Korte, Frédéric Regard
Inbunden, 2014
1765 kr
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Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its …
Cultural Life of Money
Av Isabel Capeloa Gil, Helena Gonçalves da Silva
Inbunden, 2015
1765 kr
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No detailed description available for "The Cultural Life of Money".
Rousseau Between Nature and Culture
Philosophy, Literature, and Politics
Av Anne Deneys-Tunney, Yves Charles Zarka
Inbunden, 2016
1727 kr
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Rousseau has been seen as the inventor of the concept of nature; in this collective volume philosophers and literary specialists from France and the United States examine how Rousseau's philosophy can be reinterpreted from the point of view of a constant dialectical debate between nature and …
Tracing Global Democracy
Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma
Inbunden, 2016
1919 kr
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Focused on the recently hotly debated topic at the crossroads of various human and social sciences, this book investigates the emergence of the cosmopolitan idea of literature and its impact on the reconfiguration of the European and non-European political spaces. The birthplace of this idea is its …
9/11: Culture, Catastrophe and the Critique of Singularity
Inbunden, 2016
1765 kr
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Even though much has been said and written about 9/11, the work developed on this subject has mostly explored it as an unparalleled event, a turning point in history. This book wishes to look instead at how disruptive events promote a network of associations and how people resort to comparison as a …
Narrative(s) in Conflict
Av Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Clemens Ruthner
Inbunden, 2017
1765 kr
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Narrative/s in Conflict presents the proceedings of an international workshop, held at the Trinity Long Room Hub Dublin in 2013, to a wider audience. This was a cross-disciplinary cooperation between the comparative research network 'Broken Narratives' (University of Vienna), the research strand …
National Habitus
Ways of Feeling French, 1789–1870
Häftad, 2017
280 kr
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No detailed description available for "The National Habitus".
Disruption in the Arts
Textual, Visual, and Performative Strategies for Analyzing Societal Self-Descriptions
Av Lars Koch, Tobias Nanz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1962 kr
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The volume examines from a comparative perspective the phenomenon of aesthetic disruption within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of contemporary art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content, but rather from …
Tracing Global Democracy
Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma
Häftad, 2017
347 kr
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Focused on the recently hotly debated topic at the crossroads of various human and social sciences, this book investigates the emergence of the cosmopolitan idea of literature and its impact on the reconfiguration of the European and non-European political spaces. The birthplace of this idea is its …
Enemy in Contemporary Film
Av Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz
Inbunden, 2018
1863 kr
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While filmic representations of ‘enemies’ are legion, film studies have so far neglected the way in which filmic mediations of enemy images have contributed to shaping cultural memories. The present volume investigates the (de)(re)constructions of enemy images in international film since the 1970s. …
Many Voices of Europe
Mobility and Migration in Contemporary Europe
Av Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Nicole Shea
Inbunden, 2020
1712 kr
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This volume explores the rich, evolving body of contemporary cultural practices that reflect on a European project of diversity, new dynamics between and across cultures in Europe, and its interactions with the world. There have been calls across Europe for both traditional national identities and …
Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, and Survival
Camp Literature in a Transnational Perspective
Av Anja Tippner, Anna Artwińska
Inbunden, 2019
1712 kr
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The concept of “camp narratives” rather than “Holocaust narratives” or “Gulag narratives” is based on the assumption that literary accounts of camp experiences share common traits, aesthetically as well as thematically. The book presents readings of camp literature that underscore the similarities …
Zeitgeist – How Ideas Travel
Politics, Culture and the Public in the Age of Revolution
Av Maike Oergel
Inbunden, 2019
1675 kr
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This book investigates the emergence of the modern concept of zeitgeist, the notion of a pervasive contemporary coherence, in the late 18th century. It traces zeitgeist’s descent from genius saeculi and investigates its association with public spirit and public opinion before surveying its …
Cultural Life of Money
Av Isabel Capeloa Gil, Helena Gonçalves da Silva
Häftad, 2018
375 kr
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The book discusses how culture simultaneously shapes and is shaped by the economy. Over the past few years, as the world has staggered from one financial crisis to another, the neat separation of economics and culture has been consistently challenged. To understand the current state of affairs, it …
Questioning the Canon
Counter-Discourse and the Minority Perspective in Contemporary German Literature
Inbunden, 2021
1302 kr
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To what extent do minority writers feel represented by the literary canon of a nation and its body of "great works"? To what extent do they adhere to, or contest, the supposedly universal values conveyed through those texts and how do they situate their own works within the national tradition? …
Terrorizing Images
Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature
Av Charles Ivan Armstrong, Unni Langas
Inbunden, 2020
1649 kr
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It is broadly accepted that “terrorizing” images are often instrumentalized in periods of conflict to serve political interests. This volume proposes that paying attention to how images of trauma and conflict are described in literary texts, i.e. to the rhetorical practice known as “ekphrasis”, is …
Enemy in Contemporary Film
Av Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz
Häftad, 2020
489 kr
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While filmic representations of ‘enemies’ are legion, film studies have so far neglected the way in which filmic mediations of enemy images have contributed to shaping cultural memories. The present volume investigates the (de)(re)constructions of enemy images in international film since the 1970s. …
Negotiations of Migration
Reexamining the Past and Present in Contemporary Europe
Av Annimari Juvonen, Verena Lindemann Lino
Inbunden, 2021
1622 kr
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At a time when migration is mostly discussed in terms of “conflict” and “crisis”, it is decidedly important to acknowledge the discursive traditions, narrative patterns, and conceptual categories that continue to inform how migration is represented, analyzed and theorized in contemporary Europe. …
Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change
Av Jan Alber
Inbunden, 2021
1863 kr
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Climate change and the apocalypse are frequently associated in the popular imagination of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together climatologists, theologians, historians, literary scholars, and philosophers to address and critically assess this association. The …
Zeitgeist – How Ideas Travel
Politics, Culture and the Public in the Age of Revolution
Av Maike Oergel
Häftad, 2020
391 kr
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This book investigates the emergence of the modern concept of zeitgeist, the notion of a pervasive contemporary coherence, in the late 18th century. It traces zeitgeist’s descent from genius saeculi and investigates its association with public spirit and public opinion before surveying its …
Post-imperial Literature
Translatio Imperii in Kafka and Coetzee
Inbunden, 2021
1801 kr
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Cold War Europe
A Space of Communication
Inbunden, 2024
1121 kr
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The Cold War is often stereotypically depicted as a period of complete separation between Eastern and Western Europe, a time of little communication and exchange between what is often called the “Eastern bloc” and the capitalist West . European integration, it is thought, was a Western project …
Asymmetric Ecologies in Europe and South America around 1800
Av Susanne Schlünder, Rolando M. Carrasco
Inbunden, 2022
1623 kr
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This volume proposes new ways of understanding the historical semantics of the relationship between humans and nature in South America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The authors in this volume use the notion of asymmetry to discuss the representations of and forms of knowledge …
Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, and Survival
Camp Literature in a Transnational Perspective
Av Anja Tippner, Anna Artwińska
Häftad, 2021
344 kr
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The concept of “camp narratives” rather than “Holocaust narratives” or “Gulag narratives” is based on the assumption that literary accounts of camp experiences share common traits, aesthetically as well as thematically. The book presents readings of camp literature that underscore the similarities …
Rousseau Between Nature and Culture
Philosophy, Literature, and Politics
Av Anne Deneys-Tunney, Yves Charles Zarka
Häftad, 2021
337 kr
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Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain
Av Barbara Korte, Frédéric Regard
Häftad, 2021
337 kr
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Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its …
