Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Guillermina De Ferrari Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Michael D'Arcy / Mathias Nilges (Hg.) The Contemporaneity of Modernism Literature, Media, Culture Klappentext Bibliographische Daten At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the condition of contemporary art and...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Roger Whitson Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Steampunk is more than a fandom, a literary genre, or an aesthetic. It is a research methodology turning history inside out to search for alternatives to the progressive technological boosterism...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Elizabeth DeLoughrey / Jill Didur / Anthony Carrigan (Hg.) Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities Postcolonial Approaches Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Matthew Bush / Tania Gentic (Hg.) Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Grappling with the contemporary Latin American literary climate and its relationship to the pervasive technologies that shape global society, this bookvisits Latin American literature,...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Hazel Smith The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship Intermedia, Voice, Technology, Cross-Cultural Exchange Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book explores the relationship between words and music in contemporary texts, examining, in particular, the way that new technologies are changing the literature-music relationship. It brings an eclectic and...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Casey Cothran / Mercy Cannon (Hg.) New Perspectives on Detective Fiction Mystery Magnified Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Jeffrey Clapp / Emily Ridge (Hg.) Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture Modern and Contemporary Perspectives Klappentext Bibliographische Daten With contributions from an international array of scholars, this volume opens a dialogue between discourses of security and hospitality in modern and contemporary literature and culture. The chapters in...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen David Aberbach National Poetry, Empires and War Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Nationalism has given the world a genre of poetry bright with ideals of justice, freedom and the brotherhood of man, but also, at times, burning with humiliation and grievance, hatred and lust for revenge, driving human kind, as the Austrian poet Grillparzer put it, ‘From humanity via...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Gill Rye / Victoria Browne / Adalgisa Giorgio / Emily Jeremiah / Abigail Lee Six (Hg.) Motherhood in Literature and Culture Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Ryan Trimm Heritage and the Legacy of the Past in Contemporary Britain Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Bringing together heritage studies and literary studies, this book examines heritage as a ubiquitous trope in contemporary Britain, a seemingly inescapable figure for relations to the past. Inheritance has been an important metaphor for characterizing cultural and...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Chris Andrews / Matt McGuire (Hg.) Post-Conflict Literature Human Rights, Peace, Justice Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace. Essays...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Hanna Meretoja / Colin Davis (Hg.) Storytelling and Ethics Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative Klappentext Bibliographische Daten In recent years there has been a huge amount of both popular and academic interest in storytelling as something that is an essential part of not only literature and art but also our everyday lives as well as our...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Karen Elizabeth Bishop (Hg.) Cartographies of Exile A New Spatial Literacy Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperative inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental to mapping, and the varied forms of description proper to...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Jolene Zigarovich TransGothic in Literature and Culture Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms explicitly engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Anna Thiemann Rewriting the American Soul Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and neurocognitive approaches to trauma in literature, their impact on cultural representations of collective trauma in the United States,...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Arnaud Schmitt The Phenomenology of Autobiography Making it Real Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Taking a fresh look at the state of autobiography as a genre, The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real takes a deep dive into the experience of the reader. Dr. Schmitt argues that current trends in the field of life writing have taken the focus...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Naya Tsentourou Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion Bodies at Prayer Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Miton and Early Modern Devotional Culture analyses the representation of public and private prayer in John Milton’s poetry and prose, paying particular attention to the ways seventeenth-century prayer is imagined as embodied in sounds,...
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Seit 2013 gibt es unter @AVLdigital auf Twitter Neuigkeiten aus der Komparatistik. Und seit 2016 die Förderung des Fachinformationsdienstes Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (FID AVL) begann, verbreiten wir alle Nachrichten, die uns aus der komparatistischen Forschungscommunity übermittelt werden, oder uns zu Augen und Ohren kommen. Deshalb freuen wir uns ganz besonders, dass wir in dieser Woche die 500-Follower-Marke überschritten haben. Für uns ist das ein gutes...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Sarah Falcus / Katsura Sako (Hg.) Contemporary Narratives of Dementia Ethics, Ageing, Politics Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Bunty Avieson / Fiona Giles / Sue Joseph (Hg.) Still Here Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss explores the history, ethics, and cross-cultural range of memoirs focusing on illness, death, loss, displacement, and other experiences of trauma. From Walt Whitman’s Civil War...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Cameron Fae Bushnell Postcolonial Readings of Music in World Literature Turning Empire on its Ear Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the ways in which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world literature. Bushnell argues that Western music’s conventions for...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Caroline Brown The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Shira Wolosky Feminist Theory Across Disciplines Feminist Community and American Women's Poetry Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women’s writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women’s poetry from the...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Andrew Taylor / Áine Kelly (Hg.) Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film The Idea of America Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing...
