Studia Imagologica – serie
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18 produkter
National Stereotyping, Identity Politics, European Crises
Inbunden, 2021
2001 kr
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The articulation of collective identity by means of a stereotyped repertoire of exclusionary characterizations of Self and Other is one of the longest-standing literary traditions in Europe and as such has become part of a global modernity. Recently, this discourse of Othering and national …
“The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)
Inbunden, 2020
2007 kr
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In “The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Jitka Malečková describes Czechs’ views of the Turks in the last half century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were influenced by ideas and trends in other countries, including the European fascination with the Orient, images …
New Perspectives on Imagology
Inbunden, 2022
2272 kr
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With this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural construction and literary representation of national, usually European characters. Consisting of an …
'Gypsies' in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Books
A Comparative Study of Four National Literary Traditions
Av Jean Kommers
Inbunden, 2022
2405 kr
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This literary analysis of the representation of ‘Gypsies’ in juvenile literature is unique in its comparative scope, as well as in the special attention to rare pre-1850 narratives, the period in which juvenile literature developed as a specific genre. Most studies on the subject are about one …
European Modernity and the Passionate South
Gender and Nation in Spain and Italy in the Long Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2022
1827 kr
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In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European civilization and modernity. This book studies, for the first time in …
Beyond the Mulatta
Haunted Hybridity in Advertising
Av Lenore Todd
Inbunden, 2025
1901 kr
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Beyond the Mulatta: Haunted Hybridity in Advertising will chronicle and analyze black and mixed-race women's trajectory in postcolonial visual culture history. In contemporary western advertising, there is a frequently recurring stock figure of a particular type of black woman. This figure is a of …
Literary Images of Self and Other in Irish and Ukrainian Famine Fiction
Av Tatiana Krol
Inbunden, 2025
2257 kr
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This book is a comparative imagological study of novelistic representations of the Irish and Ukrainian Great Famines. It examines the formation of stereotypical perceptions between nations in Irish and Ukrainian fiction. Focusing on the novels The Silent People (1962) by Walter Macken, The Hungry …
Image into Identity
Constructing and Assigning Identity in a Culture of Modernity
Häftad, 2006
1458 kr
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The pervading theme of this book is the construction and allocation of identity, especially through images and imagery. The essays analyse how the dominant social discourses and imageries construct identity or assign subject positions in relation to the categories of race, nation, region, gender …
Images of the North
Histories – Identities – Ideas
Häftad, 2009
1703 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume seeks to examine and explore the various issues surrounding image construction, identity making and representations of the North, as well as the interconnectedness between those issues. The aim is to elucidate the multiple aspects of the idea of the North, both as a …
Essence and the Margin
National Identities and Collective Memories in Contemporary European Culture
Häftad, 2009
1401 kr
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With the expansion of the EU and calls for a European constitution, the question of a common European identity has become increasingly pressing in recent times. However, in the face of diverse national and regional traditions – and the absence of an obvious European cultural imaginary – the forging …
British Literature and the Balkans
Themes and Contexts
Häftad, 2010
1915 kr
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The manner in which south-east Europe is viewed by western cultures has been an increasingly important area of study over the last twenty years. During the 1990s, the wars in the former Yugoslavia reactivated denigratory images of the region that many commentators perceived as a new, virulent …
Imagology Revisited
Inbunden, 2010
3271 kr
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Imagology Revisited brings together in one volume essays written over a forty-year period on the perception and representation of foreign countries and peoples, the “other”.The book traces the emergence of national and ethnic stereotypes in the early modern age and studies their evolution and …
Getting Over Europe
The Construction of Europe in Serbian Culture
Häftad, 2011
1758 kr
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The book examines the discursive construction of the representation of “Europe” in the selected writings of leading Serbian writers and intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to being of particular significance in the process of the genesis of our understanding of …
Looking Forward, Looking Back
Images of Eastern European Jewish Migration to America in Contemporary American Children’s Literature
Av Jana Pohl
Inbunden, 2011
1748 kr
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How is the life-altering event of migration narrated for children, especially if it was caused by Anti-Semitism and poverty? What of the country of origin is remembered and what is forgotten, and what of the target country when the migration is imagined there a century later? Looking Forward, …
Education and Celtic Myth
National Self-Image and Schoolbooks in 20th Century Ireland
Häftad, 2012
2215 kr
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The book examines one aspect of the national self-image of Ireland as it was trans-generationally transmitted in the Irish National School environment through the medium of the Celtic mythology tales. Celtic mythology embodied a unique Irishness without being contentious in the wider social and …
Sardinia on Screen
The Construction of the Sardinian Character in Italian Cinema
Inbunden, 2013
3248 kr
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This volume explores how Sardinians and Sardinia have been portrayed in Italian cinema from the beginning of the 20th century until now, starting from the examination of Sardinian tropes in a wide range of texts – travel writing, fictional sources, essays and academic works. The purpose is to shed …
Reexamining the National-Philological Legacy
Quest for a New Paradigm?
Häftad, 2014
1551 kr
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Has thinking, working and teaching in terms of national literatures become obsolete in today’s globalized world of hyphenated languages, literatures and cultures? Since the rise of modern European national philologies coincided with the emergence of modern European nation-states, does the …
Dream of the North
A Cultural History to 1920
Inbunden, 2014
2839 kr
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Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and perceptions that, from the Renaissance onwards, fuelled the North’s rise to …
