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Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational
Literature and the New Europe
Häftad, 2015
1572 kr
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In recent years postnational theory has become a primary tool for the analysis of European integration. Though interpretations of the concept vary, there is a wide consensus about postnationalism as a way to forge a European identity beyond a particular national history. In line with the German …
Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century English, German and Russian Literature
(En)gendering Barriers
Häftad, 2015
1815 kr
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Kathryn Ambrose offers a new approach to the Woman Question in mid- to late-nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature. Using a methodological framework based on feminist theory and post-structuralism, she provides a re-vision of canonical texts (such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, …
Fear and Fantasy in a Global World
Häftad, 2015
1858 kr
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At a time when the mass media insist on bombarding us with news about natural, political and economic disasters, words, ideas and images associated with such “crises” and “catastrophes” shape to a great extent collective memory and current imagination. Fear and Fantasy in a Global World seeks to …
Imaginary Films in Literature
Häftad, 2015
1701 kr
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Since cinema is a composite language, describing a movie is a complex challenge for critics and writers, and greatly differs from the ancient and successful genre of the ekphrasis, the literary description of a visual work of art. Imaginary Films in Literature deals with a specific and significant …
Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present
Fields of Action, Fields of Vision
Av Claire Bowen
Inbunden, 2018
2042 kr
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Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present examines representations of war in literature, film, photography, memorials, and the popular press. The volume breaks new ground in cutting across disciplinary boundaries and offering case studies on a wide variety of fields of vision and action, and types …
Policing Literary Theory
Inbunden, 2018
2153 kr
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The present age of omnipresent terrorism is also an era of ever-expanding policing. What is the meaning — and the consequences — of this situation for literature and literary criticism? Policing Literary Theory attempts to answer these questions presenting intriguing and critical analyses of the …
On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture
Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe
Inbunden, 2018
2001 kr
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On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture offers a polyphonic account of mutual interpenetrations of literature and new media. Shifting its focus from the personal to the communal and back again, the volume addresses such individual experiences as immersion and emotional reading, …
Literary Transnationalism(s)
Inbunden, 2018
2415 kr
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Goethe in 1827 famously claimed that national literatures did not mean very much anymore, and that the epoch of world literature was at hand. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, in the so-called "transnational turn" in literary studies, interest in world literature, and in how texts move …
Literature as Document
Generic Boundaries in 1930s Western Literature
Av Carmen Bergh
Inbunden, 2019
2028 kr
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Literature as Document considers the relationship between documents and literary texts in Western Literature of the 1930s. More specifically, the volume deals with the notion of the “document” and its multifaceted and complex connections to literary “texts” and attempts to provide answers to the …
Global Healing
Literature, Advocacy, Care
Inbunden, 2020
3928 kr
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Read an interview with Karen Thornber.In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of diseases and other serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful …
Poetic History of the Oceans
Literature and Maritime Modernity
Av Søren Frank
Inbunden, 2022
2223 kr
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What is the ocean’s role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements with the sea? In order to answer these questions, Søren Frank covers an …
Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures
Transfer, Mediality and Situativity
Av Olaf Terpitz
Inbunden, 2020
2237 kr
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In the past years, reflections on Jewish literatures and theoretical and methodological approaches discussed in Comparative Literature have converged. Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures. Transfer, Mediality and Situativity brings together close readings and contextualizations of …
In Search of Singularity
Poetry in Poland and China Since 1989
Av Joanna Krenz
Inbunden, 2022
2588 kr
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In Search of Singularity introduces a new “compairative” methodology that seeks to understand how the interplay of paired texts creates meaning in new, transcultural contexts. Bringing the worlds of contemporary Polish and Chinese poetry since 1989 into conversation with one another, Joanna Krenz …
Serial Killers and Serial Spectators
Cultures, Narratives, and Representations
Inbunden, 2024
1715 kr
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Serial murder is a global entertainment industry where the serial killer emerges as one of the most significant cultural figures of our time. No longer an exclusively Anglo-American phenomenon, narratives of serial killing are widespread in India, China, Japan, and other cultures. This book asks …
Ultraminor World Literatures
Häftad, 2022
944 kr
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This pathbreaking collection explores a new concept in world literature studies. Going beyond the binary opposition of “major” and “minor” literatures, the ultraminor encompasses the literatures of smaller but vibrant regional and linguistic communities. Using cases as varied as the literatures of …
Pascale Casanova’s World of Letters and Its Legacies
Häftad, 2022
944 kr
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Pascale Casanova’s World of Letters and Its Legacies proposes a wide-ranging appraisal of the work, influence and intellectual profile of a major figure in the humanities and social sciences, from sociology to literary theory and criticism. Both a tribute to the life and work of Pascale Casanova …
Robert van Gulik and His Chinese Sherlock Holmes
The Global Travels of Judge Dee
Inbunden, 2023
1887 kr
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In the post-war mid-century Robert van Gulik produced a series of stories set in Imperial China and featuring a Chinese Judge: Judge Dee. This book examines the author’s unprecedented effort in hybridising two heterogenous crime writing traditions – traditional Chinese gong’an (court-case) fiction …
Abyss as a Concept for Cultural Theory
A Comparative Exploration
Inbunden, 2024
1901 kr
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This edited volume provides a comparative exploration of corresponding concepts of the abyss in various languages and cultures. Fourteen chapters investigate ancient cultures such as Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Old Norse, but also more contemporary American, African and Asian languages, …
Literatures of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature
Proceedings of the 22nd Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
Av Péter Hajdu
Inbunden, 2023
1675 kr
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The 2019 congress of the International Comparative Literature Association attracted many hundreds of scholars from all around the world to Macau. This volume contains a modest selection of papers to discuss the four hottest fields of the discipline: the future of comparison, the position of …
World Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Häftad, 2023
1008 kr
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What is the role of literature in our global landscape today? How do local authors respond to the growing worldwide power of English and the persisting effects of the colonial systems that paved the way for globalization today? These questions have often been approached very differently by …
Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy
Global and Transnational Perspectives
Inbunden, 2023
1692 kr
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This collection focuses on the specific issue of controversy as a cross-sectional aspect of contemporary children’s and YA literature, in a spectrum stretching from national experiences, to explore the impact of specific historical, economic and social environments on the rise of controversies; to …
Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa
Inbunden, 2024
1273 kr
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What is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors transform center-periphery relationships to the former metropolises of …
Performative Identities in Culture
From Literature to Social Media
Inbunden, 2024
1944 kr
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This book's primary task is to test the contemporary value of performance and performativity. Performative Identities in Culture: From Literature to Social Media undertakes this task via a host of chapters on a vast spectrum of performativity-related topics such as: literature (British, American, …
Locations of (World) Literature
Inbunden, 2025
1460 kr
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Location matters, for critics, readers and texts. This book explores the notion of location not simply as geographical, historical, or cultural context but as a standpoint, a position, an orientation, a necessarily partial and particular perspective, however ample it may be, from which writers …
World Literature in and for Pandemic Times
Inbunden, 2025
1284 kr
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Exploring the emotional and political ramifications of pandemics worldwide, the contributors to this collection treat material from wisdom literature and philosophy to historical fiction, poetry, graphic novels, and hypertexts, and they discuss works from Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Cuba, …
Comparative Literature and China
Methods and Perspectives
Inbunden, 2026
1571 kr
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This book aims at an exploration of Chinese literary studies in comparative, cross-cultural, transnational, and global contexts. It is one of the first of its kind in dealing with methodological and theoretical issues regarding Chinese, comparative, and world literature in recent years. …
Signs of Change
Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000–2000
Inbunden, 2004
2449 kr
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Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000–2000 focuses on the changing relationships between what gradually emerged as the Arts and Christianity, the latter term covering both a stream of ideas and its institutions. The book as a whole is …
On Verbal / Visual Representation
Word & Image Interactions IV
Häftad, 2005
1264 kr
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The twenty-one essays collected in this volume offer a broad range of critical views on the intricate interdependence between verbal and visual representation. Drawing on recent research, scholars from Europe, America and Asia approach the topic from a host of different angles, exploring topics …
Orientations
Space / Time / Image / Word
Av Claus Clüver
Häftad, 2005
1775 kr
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Based on papers presented at the Fifth Triennial Conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS/AERTI) held in 2002 in Hamburg, the twenty-two essays in this volume cover a wide array of intermedial relations and a great variety of media, from medieval architecture to …
Caribbean Interfaces
Häftad, 2007
2153 kr
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Contemporary research on Caribbean literature displays a rich variety of themes, literary and cultural categories, forms, genres, languages. Still, the concept of a unified Caribbean literary space remains questionable, depending upon whether one strictly limits it to the islands, enlarges it to …
