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  1. Literature for a Changing Planet /
    Author: Puchner, Martin,
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point... more

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    Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and activists have woken up to the power of stories in the fight against global warming. In Literature for a Changing Planet, Martin Puchner ranges across four thousand years of world literature to draw vital lessons about how we put ourselves on the path of climate change-and how we might change paths before it's too late.From the Epic of Gilgamesh and the West African Epic of Sunjata to the Communist Manifesto, Puchner reveals world literature in a new light-as an archive of environmental exploitation and a product of a way of life responsible for climate change. Literature depends on millennia of intensive agriculture, urbanization, and resource extraction, from the clay of ancient tablets to the silicon of e-readers. Yet literature also offers powerful ways to change attitudes toward the environment. Puchner uncovers the ecological thinking behind the idea of world literature since the early nineteenth century, proposes a new way of reading in a warming world, shows how literature can help us recognize our shared humanity, and discusses the possible futures of storytelling.If we are to avoid environmental disaster, we must learn to tell the story of humans as a species responsible for global warming. Filled with important insights about the fundamental relationship between storytelling and the environment, Literature for a Changing Planet is a clarion call for readers and writers who care about the fate of life on the planet.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691230429
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    Parent title: Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022; De Gruyter
    Series: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture ; ; 1
    Subjects: Climatic changes in literature.; Ecocriticism.; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
    Other subjects: Adventure Story (play).; Aeneid.; Age of Oil.; Antihero.; Aratta.; Author.; Book.; Caesar and Pompey.; City-state.; Climate change.; Colonial empire.; Colonialism.; Colonization.; Comparative literature.; Confucius.; Conquistador.; Critical reading.; Deep history.; Disaster.; Divine retribution.; Ecocriticism.; Ecology.; Economic globalization.; Edition (book).; Education.; Enkidu.; Enlil.; Environmental economics.; Epic of Gilgamesh.; Epic poetry.; Fan fiction.; Flood myth.; G. (novel).; Genre.; Global warming.; Globalization.; Hard Choices.; Headline.; Henry David Thoreau.; Hippie.; How It Happened.; Humbaba.; Immigration law.; Industrialisation.; Jataka tales.; Johannes Gutenberg.; Latin alphabet.; Latin literature.; Literary criticism.; Literary realism.; Literature.; Manifesto.; Mechanization.; Narrative.; New Narrative.; New media.; Novel.; Novelist.; Occupy Wall Street.; Odysseus.; Odyssey.; Of Education.; Orality.; Poetry.; Polyphemus.; Popol Vuh.; Preface.; Publication.; Publishing.; Ralph Waldo Emerson.; Refugee.; Renaissance humanism.; Right of asylum.; Save the Planet.; Scholarly method.; Scrutiny (journal).; Scrutiny.; Settlement movement.; Settler colonialism.; Social movement.; Sociocultural evolution.; Storytelling.; The Communist Manifesto.; The Realist.; The Various.; Think tank.; To This Day.; Trickster.; Unintended consequences.; Uruk.; Utnapishtim.; Wai Chee Dimock.; Western literature.; William H. McNeill (historian).; World economy.; World history.; World literature.; Writer.; Writing system.; Writing.
    Scope: 1 online resource (160 p.) :, 6 b/w illus.
  2. Medieval Oral Literature /
    Contributor: Reichl, Karl.
    Published: [2011]; ©2012
    Publisher:  De Gruyter,, Berlin ;Boston :

    Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. In ‘Medieval Oral Literature’ in the ‘De Gruyter Lexikon’ series, an international team of scholars has provided an... more

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    Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. In ‘Medieval Oral Literature’ in the ‘De Gruyter Lexikon’ series, an international team of scholars has provided an in-depth discussion both of theoretical issues and various poetic traditions and genres. In addition to the core areas of the European Middle Ages, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish traditions have also been included. Mittelalterliche Dichtung ist weitgehend der Mündlichkeit verpflichtet, nicht nur was den Vortrag und die Aufführung betrifft, sondern auch im Bezug auf die Überlieferung und das Dichten selbst. Obwohl in der mediävistischen Forsc

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Reichl, Karl.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110241129
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    Series: De Gruyter Lexikon
    Subjects: Epic literature; Folk literature; Literature, Medieval; Oral tradition in literature.; Medieval Literature.; Oral epic.; Orality.; Performance.
    Scope: 1 online resource (764p.)
  3. The African Novel of Ideas :
    Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing /
    Author: Jackson, Jeanne-Marie,
    Published: [2021]; ©2021
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the... more

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    An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to today. Examining works from the Gold Coast, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, and tracing how such writers as J. E. Casely Hayford, Imraan Coovadia, Tendai Huchu, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and Stanlake Samkange reconcile deep contemplation with their social situations, Jeanne-Marie Jackson offers a new way of reading and understanding African literature.Jackson begins with Fante anticolonial worldliness in prenationalist Ghana, moves through efforts to systematize Shona philosophy in 1970s Zimbabwe, looks at the Ugandan novel Kintu as a treatise on pluralistic rationality, and arrives at the treatment of “philosophical suicide” by current southern African writers. As Jackson charts philosophy's evolution from a dominant to marginal presence in African literary discourse across the past hundred years, she assesses the push and pull of subjective experience and abstract thought.The first major transnational exploration of African literature in conversation with philosophy, The African Novel of Ideas redefines the place of the African experience within literary history.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691212401
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    Subjects: African fiction (English); African fiction (English); Philosophy in literature.; Thought and thinking in literature.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
    Other subjects: African literature.; African philosophy.; Age of Enlightenment.; Ambivalence.; Americanah.; Assassination.; Author.; Bildung.; Career.; Chinua Achebe.; Civility.; Colonialism.; Comparative literature.; Cosmopolitanism.; Criticism.; Critique.; Cross-cultural.; Dambudzo Marechera.; Death and the King's Horseman.; Decolonization.; Determination.; Digression.; Duke University.; Dynamism (metaphysics).; Edward Said.; Elleke Boehmer.; Epistemology.; Explanation.; First principle.; Genre fiction.; Ghostwritten.; Harare.; His Family.; Historical fiction.; Historiography.; Ideology.; Imperialism.; Inception.; Individualism.; Individuation.; Institution.; Intellectual history.; J. E. Casely Hayford.; Kwame Gyekye.; Liberalism.; Literary criticism.; Literary fiction.; Literature.; Lobengula.; Mathematician.; Modernity.; Mukherjee.; Nadine Gordimer.; Nancy Armstrong.; Narrative.; New York University.; Novel.; Novelist.; Orality.; Pennsylvania State University.; Personhood.; Philosopher.; Philosophical fiction.; Philosophy.; Political philosophy.; Politics.; Post-structuralism.; Poverty porn.; Publishing.; Queen Mary University of London.; Racism.; Radicalism (historical).; Rationality.; Reason.; Religion.; Robert Mugabe.; Self-actualization.; Sensibility.; Sibling.; Spirituality.; Stanford University.; Structuring.; Subjectivity.; Suggestion.; Suicide by hanging.; Suicide.; The Other Hand.; Theory.; Things Fall Apart.; Thought.; Trade-off.; Treatise.; Truism.; Uganda.; University of Bristol.; University of Cape Town.; University of Houston.; Writer.; Writing.; Zimbabwe.
    Scope: 1 online resource (232 p.)
  4. Orality and language
    Contributor: Devy, G. N. (Publisher); Davis, Geoffrey V. (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London

    Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of the society, culture and literature among indigenous peoples. This book, thefourth inafive-volume series, deals with the two key... more

     

    Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of the society, culture and literature among indigenous peoples. This book, thefourth inafive-volume series, deals with the two key concepts of language and orality of indigenous peoples from Asia, Australia, North America and South America. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts fromacross the globe, it looks at the intricacies of oral transmission of memory and culture, literary production and transmission, and the nature of creativity among indigenous communities. It also discusses the risk of a complete decline of the languages of indigenous peoples, as well as the attempts being made to conserve these languages. Bringing together academic insights and experiences from the ground, this unique book, with its wide coverage, will serve as a comprehensive guide for students, teachers and scholars of indigenous studies. It will be essential reading for those in social and cultural anthropology, tribal studies, sociology and social exclusion studies, politics, religion and theology, cultural studies, literary and postcolonial studies, andThird World and Global South studies, as well as activists working with indigenous communities.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Devy, G. N. (Publisher); Davis, Geoffrey V. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781000214499; 9781000214659; 9781000214574; 9781003102595
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    Edition: 1st edition
    Series: Key concepts in indigenous studies
    Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Orality.; Sociolinguistics.; SOCIAL SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCE
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 162 Seiten), Diagramme, Karten
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    Enthält Literaturangaben

    Online-Erscheinungsdatum: 30 October 2020
  5. Opacity - minority - improvisation
    an exploration of the closet through queer slangs and postcolonial theory
    Author: T., Anna
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld ; De Gruyter, Berlin

    The expression »to come out of the closet« calls for an analysis of how language and notional as well as social spaces interact and intersect to constitute »queer«. This performative book, a product of artistic research, is an exploration of the... more

     

    The expression »to come out of the closet« calls for an analysis of how language and notional as well as social spaces interact and intersect to constitute »queer«. This performative book, a product of artistic research, is an exploration of the proverbial closet through linguistics, queer, and post-colonial theory. It is a project in which opacity, minority, and improvisation happen on the levels of content, analysis, and typography. 11 queer slangs from around the world become part of an exploration of queerness and knowledge from the Periphery through autoethnography, Édouard Glissant's concept of opacity, José Muñoz's disidentifications, and Gloria Anzaldúa's performative writing. Theory, personal accounts, and art are interwoven to offer an interdisciplinary reading of the slangs as queer methods of survival and resistance.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839451335
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    RVK Categories: LB 44000
    Series: Queer studies ; volume 27
    Subjects: Cultural Studies.; Culture.; Gender Studies.; Gender.; Language.; Orality.; Periphery.; Political Art.; Postcolonialism.; Queer Theory.; Queerness.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (228 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Überarbeitete Fassung der echten Hochschulschrift

    Dissertation, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, 2016