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Narrated Communities – Narrated Realities
Narration as Cognitive Processing and Cultural Practice
Häftad, 2015
1449 kr
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Culture studies try to understand how people assume identities and how they perceive reality. In this perspective narration, as a basic form of cognitive processing, is a fundamental cultural technique. Narrations provide the coherence, temporal organization and semantic integration that are …
Katherine Mansfield’s French Lives
Inbunden, 2016
1827 kr
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Katherine Mansfield’s French Lives explores how both the literary, cultural, editorial and biographical influence of French arts and philosophy, and life as an émigré in France shaped Mansfield’s evolution as a key modernist writer, while setting her within the geographies and cultural dynamics of …
Venus as Muse
From Lucretius to Michel Serres
Häftad, 2015
1572 kr
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This volume deals with the enduring presence of one of Western culture's most fascinating and influential figures in ancient, modern, and postmodern art and literature: Venus/Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality. The collection, which is the first of its kind, seeks to explore …
Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965)
Häftad, 2015
1497 kr
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Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) is a study of a-physiognomic descriptions of the face. It demonstrates that writers such as George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Nicolay Gogol, Virginia Woolf and Witold Gombrowicz vigorously …
Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures
Inbunden, 2015
2443 kr
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This collective monograph analyzes post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe through the paradigm of postcoloniality. Based on the assumption that both Western and Soviet imperialism emerged from European modernity, the book is a contribution to the development of a global postcolonial discourse based …
Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740-1920
The Lebenskraft-Debate and Radical Reality in German Science, Music, and Literature
Inbunden, 2016
2315 kr
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This pioneering book evaluates the early history of embodied cognition. It explores for the first time the life-force (Lebenskraft) debate in Germany, which was manifest in philosophical reflection, medical treatise, scientific experimentation, theoretical physics, aesthetic theory, and literary …
E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cosmopolitanism, and the Struggle for German Opera
Inbunden, 2015
3114 kr
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In this first monograph on E. T. A. Hoffmann and opera, Francien Markx examines Hoffmann’s writings on opera and the challenges they pose to established narratives of aesthetic autonomy, the search for a national opera, and Hoffmann’s biography. Markx discusses Hoffmann’s lifelong fascination with …
Literature and Cultural Memory
Inbunden, 2017
2629 kr
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Cultural Memory, a subtle and comprehensive process of identity formation, promotion and transmission, is considered as a set of symbolic practices and protocols, with particular emphasis on repositories of memory and the institutionalized forms in which they are embodied. High and low culture as …
Oscar Wilde in Vienna
Pleasing and Teasing the Audience
Av Sandra Mayer
Inbunden, 2018
2458 kr
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Oscar Wilde in Vienna is the first book-length study in English of the reception of Oscar Wilde’s works in the German-speaking world. Charting the plays’ history on Viennese stages between 1903 and 2013, it casts a spotlight on the international reputation of one of the most popular …
Self-reflection in Literature
Inbunden, 2019
2315 kr
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Self-reflection is fundamental for human thinking on many levels. Philosophy has described the mind's capacity to observe itself as a core element of human existence. Political and social sciences have shown how modern democracies depend on society's ability to critically reflect on their own …
Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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Read an interview with Norbert Bachleitner.In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy ‘take stock’ of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field …
Human-Animal Interactions in the Eighteenth Century
From Pests and Predators to Pets, Poems and Philosophy
Inbunden, 2021
1413 kr
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How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of intense human-animal interactions: from love to cultural identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates, classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and …
Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English
The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies
Av Ralf Hertel, Eva-Maria Windberger
Inbunden, 2021
1844 kr
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Empowerment as a concept is making its impact on the field of literary studies. This volume shows its intricate relation to contemporary fiction in English, applying a broad range of approaches such as feminist, transcultural, and intersectional studies. Dealing with genres as diverse as dystopia, …
Brussels 1900 Vienna
Networks in Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, and other Cultural Practices
Inbunden, 2021
2458 kr
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This co-edited volume offers new insights into the complex relations between Brussels and Vienna in the turn-of-the-century period (1880-1930). Through archival research and critical methods of cultural transfer as a network, it contributes to the study of Modernism in all its complexity.Seventeen …
Georg Brandes
A Pioneer of Comparative Literature and a Global Public Intellectual
Inbunden, 2023
2086 kr
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Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was one of the leading literary critics in Europe of his time. His Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature (1872-1890) was a foundational text to the field of comparative literature and extolled by Thomas Mann as the “Bible of the young intellectual Europe at the …
Muslim–Christian Romance in Times of Captivity
Av Eva Simmons
Inbunden, 2025
2433 kr
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Imagine being captured in war, or kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery. The terror you would feel. Throughout most of the Middle Ages and later, such atrocities were commonplace: Christians and Muslims fought battles, and enslaved their conquests. Members of these two religions were supposed …
Musicalization of Fiction
A Study in the Theory and History of Intermediality
Av Werner Wolf
Häftad, 1999
1458 kr
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This volume is a pioneering study in the theory and history of the imitation of music in fiction and constitutes an important contribution to current intermediality research.Starting with a comparison of basic similarities and differences between literature and music, the study goes on to provide …
Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds
English Fantasies of Venice
Häftad, 1999
633 kr
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Half a millennium of English and American fantasies of Venice: this collection of essays by leading critics in the field explores the continued and continuing fascination of travellers, writers, artists, theatre workers and film makers with the amphibious and ambiguous city in the lagoon. There is …
Musical Ekphrasis in Rilke's Marien-Leben
Häftad, 2000
1201 kr
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In 1923, the twenty-seven-year-old Paul Hindemith published a composition for voice and piano, entitled Das Marienleben, based on Rainer Maria Rilke's poetic cycle of 1912. Twenty-five years later, the composer presented a thoroughly revised, partially rewritten version. The outcome of this …
Kafka's Novels
An Interpretation
Häftad, 2003
1901 kr
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Kafka's three novels, to be understood as an ever more intricate portrayal of the inner life of one central character (Henry James's 'centre of consciousness'), each reflecting the problems of their self-critical creator, are tantamount to dreams. The hieroglyphic, pictorial language in which they …
Waking the Face That No One Is
A Study in the Musical Context of Symbolist Poetics
Häftad, 2004
868 kr
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Poetry and music have seldom been more closely associated than at the end of the nineteenth century, and the texts in which Baudelaire and Wagner, Mallarmé and Scriabin, Maeterlinck and Debussy evoked the reader’s and the listener’s states of mind are unusually rich in suggestion. Can poetry …
Medieval German Voices in the 21st Century
The Paradigmatic Function of Medieval German Studies for German Studies
Häftad, 2000
1201 kr
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As witnessed by a tremendous upsurge in medieval research, academic meetings, innovative interpretive approaches, enrolment numbers, and public interest, Medieval Studies are proving once again to be a vibrant field of investigations both inside and outside of academia. Nevertheless, there is a …
Beiträge zur Rezeption der britischen und irischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts im deutschsprachigen Raum
Häftad, 2000
2586 kr
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Anhand einer Reihe von Fallstudien setzt der Band ein erweitertes Konzept von Rezeptionsgeschichte in die Praxis um. Nach diesem Konzept umfaßt die Erforschung der Rezeptionsgeschichte die buchhandelsgeschichtlichen Grundlagen, die Übersetzungen und Bearbeitungen, die Aufnahme auf der Bühne und die …
Allegory and the Work of Melancholy
The Late Medieval and Shakespeare
Häftad, 2004
1287 kr
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Written using critical theory, especially by Walter Benjamin, Blanchot and Derrida, Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare reads medieval and early modern texts, exploring allegory within texts, allegorical readings of texts, and melancholy in texts.Authors studied …
Bidding for the Mainstream?
Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s
Av Barbara Korte, Claudia Sternberg
Häftad, 2004
1501 kr
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This book looks at a sector of black and Asian British film and television as it presented itself in the 1990s and early 2000s. For this period, a ‘mainstreaming’ of black and Asian British film has been observed in criticism and theory and articulated by an increasing number of practitioners …
Schwindelerfahrungen
Zur kulturhistorischen Diagnose eines vieldeutigen Symptoms
Häftad, 2003
966 kr
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Kaum eine Erfahrung dürfte ein bündigeres Resümee der Befindlichkeiten der Gegenwartskultur, ihrer Verunsicherungen und Verlockungen, ihrer Erwartungen und Zweifel geben als jene des Schwindels, in der Angst und Lust nah beieinander liegen und Taumel und Täuschung zweideutig ineinander …
Duras et Musil
Drôle de couple? Drôle d’inceste?
Häftad, 2002
1344 kr
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La lecture de L’Homme sans qualités de Robert Musil aurait laissé une plaie douloureuse dans sa vie et dans son œuvre, affirme Marguerite Duras. À partir de cet été 1980 si décisif où elle rencontre Yann Andréa et où elle recommence, après un long silence, à écrire sur l’inceste latéral, cette …
‘This Anguish, Like a Kind of Intimate Song’
Resistance in Women’s Literature of World War II
Häftad, 2004
1385 kr
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The romanticized image of the heroic male resistance fighter in World War II belies a truth that is both darker and more personal. This literary history explores, for the first time, the reality of European women’s roles in fighting Nazism. By comparing the resistance literature of French and …
Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture
Public Culture in Hamburg 1700-1933
Häftad, 2003
1184 kr
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The essays assembled in this volume grew out of a conference held at Cornell University in November 2001. The goal of the conference was to examine the claim that the city-state of Hamburg had a unique status in the cultural landscape of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Germany, a status based …
