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  1. New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature
    From ''Native'' to Transnational /
    Author: Matthes, Frauke.
    Published: 2023.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    'Frauke Matthes probes themes of difference, desire and cultural (dis-)location in contemporary German fiction, illuminating the ambivalent and varied realities of masculinity in compelling readings of texts by five prominent male authors. With its... more

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    'Frauke Matthes probes themes of difference, desire and cultural (dis-)location in contemporary German fiction, illuminating the ambivalent and varied realities of masculinity in compelling readings of texts by five prominent male authors. With its welcome emphasis on writers who are culturally 'other' to a hegemonic German mainstream, the study diversifies and deepens critical perspectives on lived and imagined masculinities within the wider landscape of global neoliberal ecocidal capitalism.'--Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Professor of German, University College Cork, Ireland The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium when transnational developments have noticeably shaped Germany's self-perception as a nation. This book examines the social and political impact of transnationalism with reference to current discourses of masculinity in novels by five contemporary male German-language authors. Specifically, it analyses how conceptions of the masculine interact with those of nationality, ethnicity, and otherness in the selected texts and assesses the new masculinities that result from those interactions. Exploring how local discourses of masculinity become part of transnational contexts in contemporary writing, the book moves a consideration of masculinities from a "native" into a transnational sphere. Frauke Matthes is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author and co-editor of several books and articles on contemporary German-language writing, masculinities in literature, and transnational and world literature. .

     
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    ISBN: 9783031103186
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series: Global Masculinities
    Subjects: European literature.; Sex.; Comparative literature.; Ethnology-Europe.; Culture.; European Literature.; Gender Studies.; Comparative Literature.; European Culture.
    Scope: XV, 277 p., online resource.
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    1 Introduction: Contesting Masculinity in Contemporary German Literature -- 2 Men without Women: Clemens Meyer -- 3 Masculinity in Conflict: Maxim Biller -- 4 Masculinity and Religion: Navid Kermani -- 5 Masculinity across Borders: Feridun Zaimoglu -- 6 Men in Crisis: Ilija Trojanow -- 7 Conclusion: Towards 'New' Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature.
  2. Sensation Fiction and Modernity
    The Meanings of Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain /
    Author: Green, James Aaron.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the form of nervous subjects and technologically-enabled mobility, Green contends that sensation fiction... more

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    This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the form of nervous subjects and technologically-enabled mobility, Green contends that sensation fiction also depicts modernity in the form of intellectual and moral discontinuity. Through closely historicist readings of novels by Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Rhoda Broughton, this book traces how discontinuity is manifested in the suspenseful plotting of these fictions, through which readers are challenged to revise conventional assumptions about the world and adopt more contingent perspectives. The study demonstrates that reading for this sense of modernity does not merely uncover the genre's engagements with various mid-century contexts. More fundamentally, it broaches a new sense of the function and significance of sensation fiction: the acclimatization of its readers to the discontinuities of modern existence.

     
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    ISBN: 9783031498343
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; European literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; European Literature.
    Scope: X, 231 p., online resource.
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    1: Introduction -- 2: 'Straight through those clear blue eyes into his soul': dreams of transparency in mary elizabeth braddon's the trail of the serpent (1860) -- 3: 'The curse that has always followed us': (dis)inheriting the past in joseph sheridan le fanu's wylder's hand (1864) -- 4: 'Short-spanned living creatures': evolutionary perspectives and the fate of progress in rhoda broughton's not wisely, but too well (1867) -- 5: 'Can I say I believe in it too?': hesitation and the difficulties of decision in wilkie collins's armadale (1866) -- 6: Conclusion.
  3. Studies of Literature from Marginalized Nations in Modern China, with a Focus on Eastern European Literature
    Author: Song, Binghui.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Singapore :, Singapore : ; Imprint: Springer,

    This book presents the first systematic study of the 100-year history of translation, research, reception, and influence of Central and Eastern European literature in China from the late Qing Dynasty to the end of the twentieth century. This study of... more

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    This book presents the first systematic study of the 100-year history of translation, research, reception, and influence of Central and Eastern European literature in China from the late Qing Dynasty to the end of the twentieth century. This study of Eastern European literature from the perspective of Sino-foreign literary relations is based on extensive research into the translation and reception of Central and Eastern European writers such as Milan Kundera, Sándor Petőfi, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Julius Fucik, and Bertolt Brecht. Since the late nineteenth century, the major Chinese writers have paid special attention to the literature of the marginalized Eastern European nations when they have to translate from translations since few of them understand Eastern European languages. The book seeks to identify what attracted the founders of new Chinese literature to Eastern European literature and to define its unique significance for the construction of modern Chinese literature. .

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Subjects: European literature.; Civilization; Culture.; European Literature.; Cultural History.; Sociology of Culture.
    Scope: XI, 254 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color., online resource.
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    Literary Eastern Europe from the Viewpoint of Sino-Foreign Literary Relations -- The Beginnings of the Chinese Translation of Eastern European Literature in the Late Qing and Early Republic of China -- Translating the Literature of the Weak and Small Nations in the May Fourth Era -- Translation and Introduction of Eastern European Literature in the 1930s and 1940s -- Translating the Literature of Marginalized Nations and the Construction of a National Culture in the People's Republic of China.-Sándor Petőfi from the Perspective of Modern China - The Chinese Translation of His Epigram -- The Different Reception of Henryk Sienkiewicz, Julius Fučík and Bertolt Brecht in China -- Milan Kundera in China -- Esperanto and the Translation of the Literature of the Marginalized Nations -- The Research and Translation of Eastern European Literature in the first 60 years of the PRC -- National Consciousness VS. Cosmopolitan Consciousness: Rabindranath Tagore in China -- The Significance of the Literature of Marginalized Nations in Sino-Foreign Literary Relations - With a Focus on Eastern European Literature.
  4. Frankreich. Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Politik, Kultur, Mentalitäten
    Eine landeskundliche Einführung /
    Author: Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  J.B. Metzler :, Stuttgart : ; Imprint: J.B. Metzler,

    Das weitere Erstarken rechter Parteien und die Corona-Pandemie haben zu politischen und wirtschaftlichen Konflikten in Frankreich geführt. Doch was sind die Hintergründe der aktuellen Situation, wie ist die französische Gesellschaft strukturiert, wie... more

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    Das weitere Erstarken rechter Parteien und die Corona-Pandemie haben zu politischen und wirtschaftlichen Konflikten in Frankreich geführt. Doch was sind die Hintergründe der aktuellen Situation, wie ist die französische Gesellschaft strukturiert, wie funktioniert das politische System? - Diese Einführung beschreibt die politischen, wirtschaftlichen, sozialen, kulturellen und mentalen Strukturen, die die gegenwärtige Situation der französischen Gesellschaft prägen und vermittelt ein grundlegendes Verständnis für unser Nachbarland. Ausführlich beschäftigt sich der Autor mit dem historischen Gedächtnis Frankreichs, den Medien, den Kulturinstitutionen sowie mit den für Frankreichs Kulturpolitik wichtigen Bezügen zu den frankophonen Staaten und Kulturen außerhalb Europas. - Für die fünfte Auflage wurde der Band umfassend aktualisiert und erweitert.

     
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    ISBN: 9783476059017
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    Edition: 5th ed. 2024.
    Subjects: European literature.; Ethnology; Culture.; Europe; European Literature.; European Culture.; European Politics.
    Scope: VIII, 335 S. 96 Abb., 76 Abb. in Farbe., online resource.
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    Einleitung -- Raum und Bevölkerung -- Wirtschaft -- Gesellschaft -- Staat und Nation -- Politik -- Kultur und Medien -- Anhang.
  5. William Blake's Visions
    Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia /
    Author: Worrall, David.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his 'visions' can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and visual... more

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    This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his 'visions' can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and visual hallucinations derived from several types of synaesthesia. Over a long period of time, Blake has been celebrated as a 'visionary,' yet his 'visions' have not been discussed. Worrall draws on an understanding of neuroscience to examine both Blake's visual art and writings, and discusses the lack of evidence pointing towards psychosis or pathological ill-health, thus questioning the rumours pertaining to Blake's insanity. David Worrall is Emeritus Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on both William Blake and Eighteenth-Century Theatre.

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
    Subjects: European literature.; Literature, Modern; Medicine and the humanities.; European Literature.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Medical Humanities.
    Scope: XV, 262 p., online resource.
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    Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: The Physiology of Blake's Hallucinations -- CHAPTER TWO: Perceiving More Than Perception -- CHAPTER THREE: Klüver Form-Constant Visual Hallucinations -- CHAPTER FOUR: Agents Inducing Klüver Visual Hallucinations- CHAPTER FIVE: Blake's Synaesthesia -- CHAPTER SIX: Blake's Synaesthesia II: The Visionary Heads -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Blake's Synaesthesia III: the Testimony of Crabb Robinson -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Discussion and Conclusion. .
  6. German-Language Nature Writing from Eighteenth Century to the Present
    Controversies, Positions, Perspectives /
    Contributor: Dürbeck, Gabriele. (editor.); Kanz, Christine. (editor.)
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This volume examines the topic of German-language nature writing in a broad historical context spanning more than two centuries. It brings together contributions on the debates of the category 'Nature Writing' by numerous renowned international... more

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    This volume examines the topic of German-language nature writing in a broad historical context spanning more than two centuries. It brings together contributions on the debates of the category 'Nature Writing' by numerous renowned international scholars. It discusses literary texts of natural history, nature exploration, nature poetry perception and reflection by German-speaking authors since the 18th century, including texts by Ulrike Draesner and on Esther Kinsky's writing. The book asks whether the here discussed texts can, should, or may also be labeled as 'Nature Writing' and how this new perspective on German literary history might change traditional classifications such as "Naturlyrik" (nature poetry) in German literary history. Gabriele Dürbeck is Professor of Literature and Culture Studies at the University of Vechta, Germany. Christine Kanz is Professor of Modern German Literature within the "Cluster Mitte" co-operation in Linz and Salzburg, Austria and is Visiting Professor at Ghent University, Belgium. .

     
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    Contributor: Dürbeck, Gabriele. (editor.); Kanz, Christine. (editor.)
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    ISBN: 9783031509100
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment,
    Subjects: Ecocriticism.; Literary form.; Literature; European literature.; Ecocriticism.; Literary Genre.; Literary History.; European Literature.
    Scope: XIV, 348 p., online resource.
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    1. Introduction -- 2. Is there a German-speaking Nature Writing? Broken Traditions and Transnational References -- 3. Barthold Heinrich Brockes and Nature Writing -- 4. "Sie scheinen zu fliehen ": Nature and Poetry in Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Italienische Reise (1813/17) -- 5. How to make nature speak? Novalis' Lehringe zu Sais -- 6. Nature Writing in Transcendental Perspective: Friedrich Hölderlin and Henry David Thoreau -- 7. Humboldtian Writing for the Anthropocene -- 8. Living Still: Stifter's Poetics of Nature -- ANKE KRAMER: Fluid "Homeland". Water and Nature Writing in Theodor Fontane's Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg -- 9. From Brehm's Animal Life to a Report for an Academy. Franz Kafka's Animal History as an Early Commentary on Writing about Nature -- 10. Roses, Figs, Gardens in the Work of Gertrud Kolmar and Ilse Langner -- 11. Wilhelm Lehmann: Nature Writing as a Theory of Behavior -- 12. On the Natural History of Nature Writing. Linné's Disciples.-13. The Representation of Alaska in Peter Handke's Langsame Heimkehr (1979) from the Point of View of Nature Writing -- 14. Nature Writing: On the Usefulness of a New Genre Concept for the Understanding of Sebald's Prose on the Example of the Essay Die Alpen im Meer -- 15. Esther Kinsky's Terrain Texts: A 'Non-Modern' Genre of the Nany Possible Ecologies -- 16. German Nature Writing: Notes on a Representational Gap, on the German Tradition of the Popular Nature Book, and on the Phenomenon 'Peter Wohlleben' -- 17. From Both Sides Now: Nature Writing at Literary Festivals.
  7. Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908-1979
    Author: Svelstad, Per Esben.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters... more

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    This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as "unnatural." Providing in-depth studies of a variety of texts, this book demonstrates the merits of bridging the gap between the "de-naturalizing" project of gender and queer theory on the one hand, and, on the other, the ecocritical centering of material, nonhuman environments. Per Esben Svelstad is Associate Professor of Norwegian in the Department of Teacher Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Subjects: European literature.; Sex.; Ecocriticism.; European Literature.; Gender Studies.; Ecocriticism.
    Scope: XI, 261 p. 1 illus., online resource.
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    Chapter 1: Sexualities and Environments in the Norwegian 20th Century -- Part 1: Love between Women as Challenge to the Othering of the Nonhuman -- Chapter 2: Elusive Sapphism -- Chapter 3: Urban Environments in the Lesbian Canon -- Part 2: The Gay Male Pastoral -- Chapter 4: The Political Ambiguity of Pastoral -- Chapter 5: Re-Claiming the Nonhuman -- Chapter 6: Queering the Environment .
  8. The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture
    Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud /
    Author: Laing, Roisín.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture - canonical literature, children's fiction, scientific texts, and writing by children - to argue that precocity challenges the idea of progress. It considers how... more

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    This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture - canonical literature, children's fiction, scientific texts, and writing by children - to argue that precocity challenges the idea of progress. It considers how practitioners of literature and science from Wordsworth to Freud represented human development, and the way in which Darwin's "non-progressive model of evolution" troubled the existing model of progression by stages (from childhood inexperience to adult maturity and understanding). Roisín Laing argues that the precocious child undermines the equation of growth with progress, and thereby facilitates other ways of imagining both individual and species development. The idea represented by the precocious child in Victorian culture - that the adult is not necessarily an improvement on the child, the human not necessarily an improvement on the ape - still troubles us today. Roisín Laing is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the English Studies Department and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at Durham University, UK. She has published on childhood and nineteenth-century culture in several essay collections and leading journals including The Journal of Victorian Culture and The Henry James Review.

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,
    Subjects: Children's literature.; Literature, Modern; European literature.; Children's Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; European Literature.
    Scope: X, 279 p., online resource.
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    Chapter 1-Nineteenth-Century Models of Development: Precocity Before and After Darwin -- Chapter 2-The Child: Non-Precocity in Autobiography -- Chapter 3- Lies and Imagination: Precocity in Children's Literature -- Chapter 4- The Precocious Child in Victorian Culture: Precocity in Fantasy and in Reality -- Chapter 5- Twentieth-Century Models of Development: Precocity from Darwin to Freud.
  9. Face Forms in Life-Writing of the Interwar Years
    Author: Bruś, Teresa.
    Published: 2023.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book is an interdisciplinary study of the engagement with and representation of the face across literature, photography, and theatre. It looks at how the face is an active agent, closely connected with the history of the media and the social... more

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    This book is an interdisciplinary study of the engagement with and representation of the face across literature, photography, and theatre. It looks at how the face is an active agent, closely connected with the history of the media and the social interactions reflected in media images. Focusing on the dynamic period of the interwar years, it explores a range of case studies in Poland, UK, and the US, and examines artists like Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), Virginia Woolf, Debora Vogel, Sir Cecil Beaton, Theodore Władysław Benda, and Edward Gordon Craig. Teresa Bruś argues that these writers and photographers defended the face against threats from modern life - not least, the media. She focuses on transformations of the face in life writing across a range of media and draws attention to the artists' autobiographical narratives. Teresa Bruś is Associate Professor in the Institute of English Studies at Wrocław University, Poland. She has published on various aspects of life writing and photography in journals, including Biography, European Journal of Life Writing, Prose Studies, and Connotations. She is the author of Life Writing as Self-Collecting in the 1930s: Cecil Day Lewis and Louis MacNeice (2012).

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing,
    Subjects: European literature.; Literature, Modern; Photography.; European Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Photography.
    Scope: XVI, 256 p. 16 illus., 9 illus. in color., online resource.
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    Chapter 1: Commitment to Face -- Chapter 2: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz: The Increase and Excess of Facial Expression -- Chapter 3: Virginia Woolf and Debora Vogel: A Season of Fragments -- Chapter 4: False Faces of Władysław Teodor Benda and Edward Gordon Craig. -- Chapter 5: Sir Cecil Beaton and the Art of Modern Façade -- Chapter 6: Massification of Faces in Lilliput and Picture Post -- Chapter 7 Conclusions.
  10. Unzuverlässiges Erzählen :
    Studien zur deutschsprachigen Nachkriegsliteratur /
    Author: Aumüller, Matthias.
    Published: 2023.
    Publisher:  Springer Berlin Heidelberg :, Berlin, Heidelberg : ; Imprint: J.B. Metzler,

    Die einzelnen Studien dieser Open Access-Monographie (zu Werken u.a. von A. Andersch, Th. Bernhard, H. Böll, M. Frisch, G. Grass, H. Risse, A. Schmidt, O.F. Walter und G. Wohmann) geben in der Summe einen Überblick über die Variabilität, mit der das... more

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    Die einzelnen Studien dieser Open Access-Monographie (zu Werken u.a. von A. Andersch, Th. Bernhard, H. Böll, M. Frisch, G. Grass, H. Risse, A. Schmidt, O.F. Walter und G. Wohmann) geben in der Summe einen Überblick über die Variabilität, mit der das Verfahren narrativer Unzuverlässigkeit in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Nachkriegszeit von 1945 bis 1969 realisiert wurde. Auf diese Weise werden nicht nur die verfahrenstechnischen Möglichkeiten in systematischer Hinsicht ausgeleuchtet, sondern auch die narrativen Abdrücke vermessen, mit denen das Verfahren diese literaturgeschichtliche Phase geprägt hat. Zur Verdeutlichung des literaturhistorischen Zusammenhangs schließt die Untersuchung einzelne Werke von Autoren der älteren Generation (Th. Mann, H. Broch, R. Neumann und A. Seghers) ein und endet mit einem Ausblick auf das unzuverlässige Erzählen in der DDR-Literatur.

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series: Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft,
    Subjects: Literature—History and criticism.; Literature—Philosophy.; Prose literature.; European literature.; Literary History.; Literary Theory.; Narrative Text and Prose.; European Literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource (XVIII, 563 S. 3 Abb.)
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    I. Kapitel: Theoretische Voraussetzungen -- II. Kapitel: Zur Frage nach Kontinuität und Diskontinuität – Unzuverlässiges Erzählen vor der Nachkriegsliteratur -- III. Kapitel: Abseits der Gruppe 47 – Unzuverlässigkeit und instabile Welten -- IV. Kapitel: Die Neubegründung einer Tradition im Geiste Bertolt Brechts – Max Frischs Romane -- V. Kapitel: Unzuverlässiges Erzählen nach Max Frisch -- VI. Kapitel: Unzuverlässigkeit und das Ungefähre – Otto F. Walters Herr Tourel (1962) -- VII. Kapitel: Unzuverlässiges Erzählen in Romanen der Gruppe 47 -- VIII. Kapitel: Das Wesentliche verschweigen – Gabriele Wohmanns Abschied für länger (1965) -- IX. Kapitel: Eine falsche Theorie – Alfred Anderschs Efraim (1967) -- X. Kapitel: Der Schluss als Auftakt – Unzuverlässiges Erzählen in der Literatur der DDR.
  11. Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722) /
    Author: Kullberg, Christina,
    Published: 2023.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by... more

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    This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points of entanglement, Christina Kullberg claims that the historical, social, and political messiness of the Caribbean seventeenth century make for complex representations and expressions, generating textual instability despite the travelers’ apparent desires to domesticate the islands. Taking a synoptic approach to travel narratives in French from 1620 up to the publication of Labat’s Nouveau voyage aux Isles de l’Amérique in 1722, Kullberg examines textual instances where the islands and the peoples of this period disrupt and unsettle dominant French narratives and enter productively into the construction of knowledge and the representations of the region. Kullberg’s contribution is to read French early modern travels in situ as shaped by the archipelagic geography, its history and social formations in order to interrogate both the construction and the limitations of discourses of power. .

     
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    ISBN: 3-031-23356-5
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700,
    Subjects: European literature—Renaissance, 1450-1600.; Latin American literature.; European literature.; Imperialism.; France—History.; Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.; Latin American/Caribbean Literature.; European Literature.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of France.
    Scope: 1 online resource (255 pages)
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    1. Introduction -- 2. Archipelagos -- 3. Constructing the Self between Worlds -- 4. Other tongues -- 5. Conclusion...or Alternative Beginnings. .
  12. Theorizing Literature
    Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels - and Their Analysis /
    Author: Schilling, Erik.
    Published: 2024.
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    This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels - American, English, French, German, and Italian - from the past 50 years. Works discussed include Laurent Binet's The 7th Function of Language, Italo Calvino's If... more

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    This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels - American, English, French, German, and Italian - from the past 50 years. Works discussed include Laurent Binet's The 7th Function of Language, Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Patricia Duncker's Hallucinating Foucault, Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, David Lodge's Small World, and Juli Zeh's Dark Matter. Erik Schilling shows how these works not only incorporate elements of theory in playful, intertextual ways, but productively work with theory - for instance, by elaborating the complexities of the roles of author and reader or by confronting the quest for meaning with an infinite network of signs. Schilling argues that the novels do not merely adopt theory; they create theory - and this theorizing literature requires new forms of interpretation. Erik Schilling teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of Munich, Germany. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard and Oxford and, in 2020, he was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prize of the German Research Foundation. He is the author of Authenticity: The Career of a Longing (2020) and The Historical Novel since Postmodernism: Umberto Eco and German Literature (2012).

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Subjects: Fiction.; Literature; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; European literature.; Fiction Literature.; Literary History.; Contemporary Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Literary Criticism.; European Literature.
    Scope: XIII, 205 p. 10 illus., online resource.
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    1) Introduction -- 2) Second-order literary theory -- 3) Narrating literary theory -- 4) The fragile relationship of author, reader, and Text -- 5) Topics in/of theory -- 6) Creating and interpreting fictional worlds -- 7) Beyond novels - beyond theory? -- 8) Extrapolating theory from literature -- 9) Bibliography.
  13. Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf
    Spatiality and Cultural Politics /
    Author: Banerjee, Ria.
    Published: 2024.
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    Drafty Houses is original, important, and brings together antiracist and postcolonial discourse with theories of spatiality to create a fresh analysis of familiar texts. This book concerns itself substantively with the complex gender and racial... more

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    Drafty Houses is original, important, and brings together antiracist and postcolonial discourse with theories of spatiality to create a fresh analysis of familiar texts. This book concerns itself substantively with the complex gender and racial politics of the time and of these writers in particular. Banerjee has a helpful sense of proportion, and she never shies away from these authors' failings but she is most interested in how they learned and grew. There is a comic, obvious brilliance to the way Banerjee notices Woolf's interest in interior decoration, change, and modification of living spaces as a sign of her modernity. -Anne Fernald, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Fordham University This lucid, powerfully argued book provides us with revelatory readings of three authors whose work we have perhaps decided we could no longer be surprised by: an E. M. Forster, deeply aware of and disturbed by his own liberal complacency and his complicity with colonialism; an antiauthoritarian, anticolonial T. S. Eliot, discoverable primarily in his dramatic writings; and a Virginia Woolf who turns us away from the repressive order, the cultural uniformities of London's social spaces. With revealing glimpses into her own experience as a teacher in New York, Banerjee is ultimately writing in support of what she stirringly describes as 'a humanism that might sustain us as individuals who protest the inequitable societies of which we are a part'." -John Whittier-Ferguson, Professor of English, University of Michiga This book argues that E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf engaged sustainedly with real and imagined places as sites of counter-cultural politics. These writers used architectural images in diaries, essays, novels, poems, and plays to express their dissatisfaction with imperial London: from the glorification of war to the erosion of local religious and linguistic traditions, and rigidly gendered practices in domestic and public life. Drafty Houses shows that each author experienced post-war modernity as intimate spatial dislocation-in Egypt (Forster), in the church (Eliot), or in London's museums and streets (Woolf)-and traces connections between their personal experiences and lesser read publications to theorize about the impact of places on their writerly perspectives. By closely examining each author's negotiation of space symbolic of Englishness, empire, and global politics, Drafty Houses considers the limits and the open-ended possibilities of liberal humanism, Christian conservatism, and feminist pacifism. Ria Banerjee is Associate Professor of English at Guttman Community College and Consortial Faculty at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. She has been published in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, ELN, the Eliot Studies Annual, and South Atlantic Review. .

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; European literature.; Fiction.; Creative nonfiction.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; European Literature.; Fiction Literature.; Non-Fiction Literature.
    Scope: XII, 226 p., online resource.
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    Chapter 1- Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Spatial Renovations and Forgetting as Memorialization in Forster's Global Imaginarium -- Chapter 3 - Stage Spaces and T. S. Eliot's Exits from Secular Modernity -- Chapter 4 - Drafty Houses, Imperial Boredom, and Collecting in Woolf's Lumber Room.
  14. Jelinek-Handbuch
    Contributor: Janke, Pia. (editor.)
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  J.B. Metzler :, Stuttgart : ; Imprint: J.B. Metzler,

    Das Handbuch umfasst Biografisches, künstlerische Kontexte, das feministische und politische Engagement der Autorin, ihre ästhetischen Strategien und Schreibverfahren. In den Besprechungen ihrer Werke geht es um inhaltliche und formale Aspekte ebenso... more

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    Das Handbuch umfasst Biografisches, künstlerische Kontexte, das feministische und politische Engagement der Autorin, ihre ästhetischen Strategien und Schreibverfahren. In den Besprechungen ihrer Werke geht es um inhaltliche und formale Aspekte ebenso wie um Entstehung, Quellen und Intertexte. Mit einem lexikonartigen Teil zu Themen wie Frauenbilder, Heimat, Natur, Nationalsozialismus u. v. m. Das Kompendium greift die öffentlichen Debatten über die Autorin und Skandale auf. Die Neuauflage des Standardwerks nach 10 Jahren bringt eine Aktualisierung durch die Darstellung aller neuen Werke. Außerdem werden die Themen und Diskurse um Beiträge zu "Flucht und Migration", "Religion" sowie "Demokratie - Totalitarismus - Rechtspopulismus" erweitert.

     
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    Edition: 2nd ed. 2024.
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; European literature.; Drama.; Prose literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; European Literature.; Drama.; Narrative Text and Prose.
    Scope: XVII, 563 S. 27 Abb., online resource.
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    I. Leben und Öffentlichkeit -- II. Schreibverfahren -- III. Werk -- IV. Zentrale Themen und Diskurse -- V. Kontexte und Rezeption -- Anhang.
  15. Charlotte Brontë and Contagion
    Myths, Memes, and the Politics of Infection /
    Author: Waugh, Jo.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë's work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley... more

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    This book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë's work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), and Villette (1853). This book establishes the ways in which Charlotte Brontë was closely engaged with the political and social contexts in which she wrote, extending this to the representation and metaphorical import of illness in Brontë's novels. Waugh also posits that although miasmatic theories are often assumed to have been entirely in the ascendant in the late 1840s, the relationship between miasma and contagion was a complex one and contagion in fact remained a crucial way for Charlotte Brontë to represent disease itself, as well as to explore the relationships between the individual and social, political, and cultural contexts. Contagion and its metaphors are central to Charlotte Brontë's construction of subjectivity and of the responsibilities of the individual and the group. Jo Waugh is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at York St John University, UK.

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; European literature.; Medicine and the humanities.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; European Literature.; Medical Humanities.
    Scope: IX, 210 p., online resource.
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    Introduction -- Chapter 1 Contagion and the Brontës -- Chapter 2: Miasma and Weather: Life, Letters and Biography -- Chapter 3: Consumption: Myths of Romantic Individualism -- Chapter 4: Jane Eyre: Typhus, Heroism, and "The Common Brotherhood of Man" -- Chapter 5: Shirley: Fermentation, Barriers, and Boundaries -- Chapter 6: "Charlotte," Jane and the Subjectivity Meme -- Conclusion.
  16. British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 3
    1880s and 1890s /
    Contributor: Gavin, Adrienne E. (editor.); de la L. Oulton, Carolyn W. (editor.)
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This five-volume series, British Women's Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women's... more

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    This five-volume series, British Women's Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women's writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape of women's authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 3: 1880s and 1890s analyses confluences and developments in women's writing across two fin-de-siècle decades. Its 16 original essays reconsider fiction by canonical and lesser-known women writers, redefining the landscape of female authorship during these decades. By exploring women's fiction within the social and cultural contexts of the 1880s and 1890s, the collection distils in terms of women's writing how these decades discretely build on earlier work that is identifiably Victorian. The last two decades of the nineteenth century, in distinctive ways, witnessed literary experiment, reflection on the limits of realism, and a fruitful sense of confusion about what was ending and what was about to begin. Adrienne E. Gavin is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Co-founder and Honorary Director of the International Centre for Victorian Woman Writers (ICVWW), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She also teaches at Massey University, New Zealand. Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton is Professor of Victorian Literature and Co-founder and Co-Director of the International Centre .

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series: British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, ; 3
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; European literature.; Sex.; Fiction.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; European Literature.; Gender Studies.; Fiction Literature.
    Scope: XXIX, 313 p. 11 illus., 5 illus. in color., online resource.
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    Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Women's Writing of the 1880s -- Chapter 2: Edith Simcox on George Eliot: Transgendered Portraits in Episodes in the Lives of Men, Women, and Lovers -- Chapter 3: Domestic Metaphors and Scientific Illustration: Frances Power Cobbe and the Anti-Vivisection Movement in the 1880s -- Chapter 4: 'A ghost indeed': Spectralising the Female Householder in Margaret Oliphant's 1880s Fiction -- Chapter 5: Between the Aesthete and the Shopworker: Mind And Labour In Vernon Lee And Amy Levy -- Chapter 6: Writing for the Masses: Ouida and Newspaper Syndication -- Chapter 7: Adopting the Next Generation: Parenting in Women's Writing of the 1880s -- Chapter 8: Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves: Anna Kingsford's Dreams and Dream-Stories (1888) -- Chapter 9: 'We are one': Fellowship Ideals and Social Transformation in Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael -- Part II: Women's Writing of the 1890s -- Chapter 10: Notable or Invisible? Reassessing Women Writersof the 1890s -- Chapter 11: Exploring Women's Possibilities at the Fin de Siècle: Sarah Grand's Quest for Women's Enlightenment -- Chapter 12: New Humour, New Dialogue: Ada Leversons Contributions to Punch and The Yellow Book -- Chapter 13: George Paston's Fin-de-Siècle Feminism: Caught Between a Book and a Hard Place -- Chapter 14: 'A good deal of risk...and a chance of danger': Detection, Adventure, and Violence in Beatrice Heron-Maxwell's The Adventures of a Lady Pearl-Broker -- Chapter 15: Woman Hate, Disgust, and National Happiness in the 1890s: Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan -- Chapter 16: '[S]uch a nasty, sneering book': Class, Gender, and Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler's Concerning Isabel Carnaby -- Chapter 17: Women's Quest for Independence in the 1890s: Mary Cholmondeley's Diana Tempest and Red Pottage.
  17. Life Writing and Transcultural Youth in Contemporary France
    Azouz Begag, Maryam Madjidi, and Laura Alcoba /
    Author: Cooke, Dervila.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book analyses transcultural works of life writing relating to youth and childhood by Azouz Begag, Maryam Madjidi, and Laura Alcoba, of Algerian, Iranian, and Argentinian heritage respectively. With a strong focus on societal issues in France... more

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    This book analyses transcultural works of life writing relating to youth and childhood by Azouz Begag, Maryam Madjidi, and Laura Alcoba, of Algerian, Iranian, and Argentinian heritage respectively. With a strong focus on societal issues in France from the turn of the millennium to early 2024, including the intersections between the postcolonial and the transcultural, it analyses the authors' relationship with France and the "home" country, and the problematic pull of return. Each author uses life writing in a transpersonal manner, and expresses multiple cultural belongings. Begag displays playful yet compulsive self-reinvention, Madjidi uses autofiction in a search for authenticity, and Alcoba's approach highlights the difficulties of dealing with traumatic personal and national memory. A substantial overview is given of each author's œuvre, along with societal context for the country of origin or descent, followed by close textual analysis. This is a companion volume to Dervila Cooke's 2024 monograph on Québec. Dervila Cooke teaches in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University. She is the author of Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec (2024), Present Pasts: Patrick Modiano's (Auto) Biographical Fictions (2005) and editor of New Work on Immigration and Identity in Contemporary France, Québec, and Ireland (2016), and of Modiano et l'image (2012).

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Subjects: European literature.; Fiction.; Creative nonfiction.; European Literature.; Fiction Literature.; Non-Fiction Literature.
    Scope: XV, 297 p., online resource.
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    1. Blended Stories -- 2. Azouz Begag: Questions of Home in a French Writer of Algerian Descent -- 3. Maryam-Madjidi: Multiple Belongings, Authenticity, and the Dilemmas of Self-Acceptance -- 4. Laura Alcoba's Autofictional Memorials of Youth -- 5 Creating Places to Inhabit : "In-between" Self Expression in France.
  18. Nordic Joyce
    Author: Lawton, Mary.
    Published: 2024.
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    This book compares the interrelationship of Irish writer James Joyce's literary works and specific Nordic literature in translation, employing an onomastic and etymological framework. It elucidates the importance of these frequent Scandinavian... more

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    This book compares the interrelationship of Irish writer James Joyce's literary works and specific Nordic literature in translation, employing an onomastic and etymological framework. It elucidates the importance of these frequent Scandinavian associations and how they inform and shape his literary work. The development of Joyce's work shows a sustained interest in contemporary Nordic and Old Norse medieval literature. By analysing Joyce's works and paratexts alongside a cross-section of important texts - Dubliners (1907) with Hans Christian Andersen's "Lykkens Kalosker" ("The Goloshes of Fortune") and "Den Lille Havfrue" ("The Little Sea Maid"), Exiles (1914) with Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken (1899), and specific medieval writing (Old Norse sagas and poetry) with Joyce's critical essays and later works, including Ulysses and Finnegans Wake - this book shows that Joyce's use of Nordic material in his writing constitutes a more extensive set of connections than previously thought. Dr Mary Lawton is an independent scholar based in Cork, Ireland. She obtained her PhD at University College Cork and is the 2024 O'Donnell Fellowship holder in Irish Studies. .

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Subjects: European literature.; Comparative literature.; Children's literature.; European Literature.; Comparative Literature.; Children's Literature.
    Scope: XIV, 308 p. 22 illus., 3 illus. in color., online resource.
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    1 Introduction: Comparatively Speaking -- 2 "Danes; variously catalogued": A Scandinavian Portrait of Ireland -- 3 Joyce and Nordic Writers -- 4 Dubliner and Dane: Joyce and Hans Christian Andersen -- 5 Joyce's Aural Modernism: Hljóð (Musical Sound) -- 6 A Walking Tour of Dublin and Copenhagen -- 7 Stephen's Saga: 'Old Cawcaws Huggin and Munin for his Strict Privatear' -- 8 Conclusion.
  19. The Poesy of Scientia in Early Modern England
    Contributor: Mukherji, Subha. (editor.); Swann, Elizabeth L. (editor.)
    Published: 2024.
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    This book explores interconnections between the modes of knowing that we now associate with the rubrics 'literature' and 'science' at a formative point in their early development. Rather than simply tracing lines of influence, it focuses on how both... more

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    This book explores interconnections between the modes of knowing that we now associate with the rubrics 'literature' and 'science' at a formative point in their early development. Rather than simply tracing lines of influence, it focuses on how both literary texts and natural philosophy engage with materiality, language, affect, and form. Some essays are invested in how early modern science adopts and actively experiments with rhetorical and poetic modes and expression, while others emphasize a shared investment in natural philosophical topics-alchemy, chance, or astrology for example-that move among the period's observational texts and its literature, highlighting the participation of literary texts in the production of experimental knowledge. Organised around the broad themes of creation and transformation, mediation and communication, and interpretation and imaginative speculation, the essays collectively probe the presumed dichotomy between science's schematizing and taxonomic ambitions, and the fertile and volatile creative energies of literary texts. Subha Mukherji is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Palgrave mini-series Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England, and was Principal Investigator of the 5-year interdisciplinary ERC project, Crossroads of Knowledge, out of which the series, and this volume, emerge. She has published widely on early modern drama and law, law and literature, the poetics of space, literary epistemologies and Shakespeare. Her most recent work is Crossings: Migrant Knowledge, Migrant Forms (co-edited with Natalya Din-Kariuki and Rowan Williams), forthcoming with punctum books in 2024. She is writing a book on Knowing Encounters and editing Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII for the Cambridge Shakespeare Editions series. Elizabeth Swann is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies at Durham University, UK. Her previous publications include a monograph, Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England (2020), and she has a new short book, Science as Child's Play in Seventeenth-Century England: Innocence, Experience, and Experiment, forthcoming with Palgrave Pivot in 2024.

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series: Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature, ; 3
    Subjects: European literature; Poetry.; Literature, Modern; European literature.; Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.; Seventeenth-Century Literature.; European Literature.
    Scope: XVI, 371 p. 12 illus., online resource.
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    Chapter 1- Poesy and Scientia: Matters of Fancy -- Part I -The Poetics of Alchemy: Making, Metaphor, Transmutation -- Chapter 2 - 'Walking, talking minerals': Men and Metals in King Lear and Bussy d'Ambois -- Chapter 3 - The Imperfect Circle: Hester Pulter's Alchemical Forms -- Chapter 4 - From Philosopher's Stone to Phosphorus: Robert Boyle's Illuminating Experiments. -Part II -Forms of Fortune: Prognostication, Communication, Mercantilism -- Chapter 5 - Love Letters to Fortune: Queen Elizabeth's Lottery of 1567-69 -- Chapter 6 - 'The Sunne and Moone of Knowledge'? Mathematical Astrology in Rollo, Duke of Normandy -- Chapter 7 - The Plain Style, Plane Chart Navigation, and the Paradox of Disinterestedness -- Chapter 8 - Commerce, Credit, and Transaction: The Rhetorical Origins of Big Science -- Part III - Reading Nature and Scripture: Interpretation, Speculation, Imagination -- Chapter 9 - Monsignore Agucchi Reads a Letter: Sunspots, Secrecy, and Scientia in the Early Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 10 - The Jobean Apophatic and the Symphonic Unknowability of the World -- Chapter 11- 'Manure thyself': The Poetics of Fertilisation in Early Modern English Religious Writing -- Chapter 12 - 'Instruments' of the Body: The Conflicting Corporeal Hermeneutics of Francis Bacon's Medical Art -- Chapter 13 - 'Pursued Thoughts': Imagination, Raving and Meditation in the Early Boyle -- Chapter 14- Weaving a Web of Light: Science's Poetics. .
  20. Allusion in Detective Fiction
    Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers /
    Author: Bloomfield, Jem.
    Published: 2024.
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    This study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the Bible during the Golden Age of the British detective novel, and the cultural currents which novelists... more

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    This study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the Bible during the Golden Age of the British detective novel, and the cultural currents which novelists navigated whilst alluding to them. The first part traces the complex web of allusions to Shakespeare and the Bible which appear in the novels of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, examining the meanings these allusions produce. The second part explores the way in which Sayers' own collection of detective novels became a canon, on which later novelists exercised those same allusive practices. It studies allusions to Sayers' novels throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, from Gladys Mitchell and P.D. James to Reginald Hill and Sujata Massey. This study reveals allusion as a shaping force at the origin of the classic British detective novel, and a continuing element in its identity. Jem Bloomfield is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests focus around detective fiction, British mid-century writing, and the reception histories of Shakespeare and the Bible. His books include Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible (2016), Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women's Detective Fiction (2022) and Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey Through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2023). .

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series: Crime Files,
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; Religion; European literature.; Literature; European literature; Twentieth-Century Literature.; History of Religion.; European Literature.; Literary Criticism.; Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
    Scope: IX, 230 p., online resource.
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    Introduction: Shakespeare, the Bible and the Textual Crisis -- Section I -- Chapter One: Sayers, Satan, Milton, Donne -- Chapter Two: Seeing Darkly, Seeing Visions: Christie's Bible -- Chapter Three: Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women: Christie's Shakespeare -- Section II: Introduction: The New Canon -- Chapter Four: Rival Queens of Crime -- Chapter Five: Let's Have Eight Other Gaudy Nights -- Chapter Six: Sayers's Followers: Where the Bodies and the Books are Buried -- Conclusion.
  21. Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime /
    Author: Billiani, Francesca.; Pennacchietti, Laura.
    Published: 2019.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license “Francesca Billiani and Laura Pennacchietti draw brilliantly and with precision the evolution of the new architecture and of the national novel (with insights on translations of international... more

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    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license “Francesca Billiani and Laura Pennacchietti draw brilliantly and with precision the evolution of the new architecture and of the national novel (with insights on translations of international novels), whose profiles had been shaped from different angles, especially in the 1930s. These two fields, apparently so distant one from the other, had never been analysed in parallel. This book does this and uncovers several points of contact between the two, spanning propaganda and theoretical turning points.” —Chiara Costa and Cornelia Mattiacci, Fondazione Prada, Italy “This book shows convincingly how the arte di Stato during Fascism was created with the morality of a new novel as well as architecture. It is surprising to read how one of the representatives of State art, Giuseppe Bottai, is also one of the finest critics of realist novels and rationalist architecture. More than parallel endeavours, the system of the arts during the Fascist regime should be viewed as a series of intersections of cultural, political and aesthetic discourses.” —Monica Jansen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime discusses the relationship between the novel and architecture during the Fascist period in Italy (1922-1943). By looking at two profoundly diverse aesthetic phenomena within the context of the creation of a Fascist State art, Billiani and Pennacchietti argue that an effort of construction, or reconstruction, was the main driving force behind both projects: the advocated “revolution” of the novel form (realism) and that of architecture (rationalism). The book is divided into seven chapters, which in turn analyze the interconnections between the novel and architecture in theory and in practice. The first six chapters cover debates on State art, on the novel and on architecture, as well as their historical development and their unfolding in key journals of the period. The last chapter offers a detailed analysis of some important novels and buildings, which have in practice realized some of the key principles articulated in the theoretical disputes. Francesca Billiani is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and Languages at the University of Manchester, UK. Laura Pennacchietti is Research Associate in Italian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook; Data medium
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3-030-19428-0
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    Subjects: Ethnology—Europe.; Cultural heritage.; Fine arts.; European literature.; Architecture.; European Culture.; Cultural Heritage.; Fine Arts.; European Literature.; Architectural History and Theory.
    Other subjects: Culture-Study and teaching; Ethnology—Europe; Cultural heritage; Fine arts; European literature; Architecture
    Scope: 1 online resource (XVIII, 229 p. 12 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
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    1. National Novel and New Architecture -- 2. The Regime and the Creation of an 'Arte di Stato' -- 3. Constructing the Novel -- 4. Fascism and Architecture -- 5. 900 and Quadrante: Theorizing an Interdisciplinary Aesthetic Model -- 6. State Art, the Novel, and Architecture: Intersections -- 7. Novels and Buildings -- 8. Conclusion.
  22. The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing /
    Author: Zimmermann, Martina.
    Published: 2017.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 'Despite the recent spate of books about Alzheimer’s disease by doctors, patients, and caregivers, no other writer to my knowledge has attempted to do what the humanities scholar and research... more

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    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 'Despite the recent spate of books about Alzheimer’s disease by doctors, patients, and caregivers, no other writer to my knowledge has attempted to do what the humanities scholar and research scientist Martina Zimmermann has accomplished here: an analysis of dementia narratives attuned to the medical, political, sociological, ethical, and poetic aspects—that is, the full human experience—of living with inexorable, unforgiving cognitive decline.' - Eileen Gillooly, Columbia University, USA ‘This very fine study reflects capacious knowledge and insight into a condition that, as the author suggests, is one of the most complex and fraught for patients and caregivers, and one of the most misunderstood by policy makers. The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing offers an important intervention at a critical time, and deserves to meet with a wide readership.’ - Jane F. Thrailkill, University of North Carolina, USA This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient accounts from different languages and a range of media, focusing on the poetical and political questions these narratives raise: what images do narrators appropriate; what narrative plot do they adapt; and how do they draw on established strategies of life-writing. It also analyses how these accounts engage with the culturally dominant Alzheimer’s narrative that centres on dependence and vulnerability, and addresses how they relate to discourses of gender and aging. Linking literary scholarship to the medico-scientific understanding of dementia as a neurodegenerative condition, this book argues that, first, patients’ articulations must be made central to dementia discourse; and second, committed alleviation of caregiver burden through social support systems and altered healthcare policies requires significantly altered views about aging, dementia, and Alzheimer’s patients. Martina Zimmermann has fifteen years of research and teaching experience in Pharmacology, and is Privatdozentin at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her scholarly interests have increasingly shifted towards the Health Humanities: with an MA in Literature and Medicine, she currently researches for a book on dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the 20th Century at King’s College London, UK, funded by the Wellcome Trust.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook; Data medium
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3-319-44388-7
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; European literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; European Literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource (VIII, 167 p.)
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    Introduction: Critically Reading Dementia Narratives: Amplifying Advocacy -- Chapter 1: Of Wives and Daughters: The Stereotype of Caring Females? -- Chapter 2: From a “Care-Free” Distance: Sons Talking About Cultural Concepts -- Chapter 3: About Tradition and Triumph: Patients Popularise Dementia Narrative -- Chapter 4: On Reclaiming Authority: The Enabling Discourse of Alzheimer’s Disease -- Conclusion: Dementia Narratives – Shifter of Perspectives and Values -- Bibliography -- Works Cited -- Index.
  23. Walther von der Vogelweide /
    Author: Scholz, Manfred Günter.
    Published: 2005.
    Publisher:  J.B. Metzler :, Stuttgart : ; Imprint: J.B. Metzler,

    Für alle Germanisten und Mediävisten. Befreit von starren Interpretationsmustern stellt der Autor die Werke Walthers von der Vogelweide vor und informiert über die historischen und politischen Hintergründe. more

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    Für alle Germanisten und Mediävisten. Befreit von starren Interpretationsmustern stellt der Autor die Werke Walthers von der Vogelweide vor und informiert über die historischen und politischen Hintergründe.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3-476-05084-X
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    Edition: 2nd ed. 2005.
    Series: Sammlung Metzler,
    Subjects: European literature.; Europe, Central—History.; Literature—History and criticism.; Civilization—History.; European Literature.; History of Germany and Central Europe.; Literary History.; Cultural History.
    Scope: 1 online resource (IX, 222 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  24. Günter Grass /
    Author: Neuhaus, Volker.
    Published: 2010.
    Publisher:  J.B. Metzler :, Stuttgart : ; Imprint: J.B. Metzler,

    ( ) ein für die Deutung des Gesamtwerks und seiner Forschungsgeschichte unentbehrlicher Orientierungskompaß , charakterisierte Manfred Durzak die erste Ausgabe dieser Einführung. Auch die aktualisierte und erweiterte dritte Auflage wird diesem... more

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    ( ) ein für die Deutung des Gesamtwerks und seiner Forschungsgeschichte unentbehrlicher Orientierungskompaß , charakterisierte Manfred Durzak die erste Ausgabe dieser Einführung. Auch die aktualisierte und erweiterte dritte Auflage wird diesem Anspruch gerecht: Der Band führt in die von der Bildenden Kunst, der Lyrik und dem Theater geprägten Anfänge Günter Grass sowie in Sprache, Stil und Symbolgebrauch des Autors ein. Behandelt werden die schulrelevanten Bücher, wie Die Blechtrommel oder Katz und Maus, sowie neuere Werke in chronologischer Reihenfolge bis ins Jahr 2010.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3-476-05086-6
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    Edition: 3rd ed. 2010.
    Series: Sammlung Metzler,
    Subjects: European literature.; Literature, Modern—20th century.; Literature, Modern—21st century.; European Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Contemporary Literature.
    Other subjects: Grass, Günter, (1927-2015)
    Scope: 1 online resource (IX, 284 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

    Autobiographisches und Biographisches -- Die 50er Jahre--das Jahrzent des Bildhauerpoeten -- Das lyrische Werk -- Das dramatische Werk als Gestaltung des Grass'schen Existenzialismus -- Das epische Werk -- Die "Danziger Trilogie" -- Die Blachtrommel -- Katz und Maus -- Hundejahre -- Örtlisch betäubt -- Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke -- Literatur und Politik bei Günter Grass -- Der Butt -- Das Treffen in Telgte -- Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen sterben aus -- Die Rättin -- Zung zeigen-Totes Holz-Brief aus Altdöbern -- Unkenrufe -- Ein weites Feld -- Tagebuch und Jahrbuch : Fundsachen für Nichtleser und Mein Jahrhundert -- Im Krebsgang -- Drei autobiographische Texte.
  25. Die deutsche Kurzgeschichte /
    Author: Marx, Leonie.
    Published: 2005.
    Publisher:  J.B. Metzler :, Stuttgart : ; Imprint: J.B. Metzler,

    Nach 1945 avancierte die Kurzgeschichte zur beliebtesten Gattung der Nachkriegsliteratur. Leonie Marx zeichnet die Entwicklung der deutschen Kurzgeschichte nach und zeigt, welchen ideologischen und theoretischen Positionen diese literarische Form in... more

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    Nach 1945 avancierte die Kurzgeschichte zur beliebtesten Gattung der Nachkriegsliteratur. Leonie Marx zeichnet die Entwicklung der deutschen Kurzgeschichte nach und zeigt, welchen ideologischen und theoretischen Positionen diese literarische Form in den letzten 50 Jahren ausgesetzt war. Dass die Kurzgeschichte sich weiterhin als wandlungsfähig erweist, belegt ihre gegenwärtige Popularität im Internet.

     
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    Media type: Ebook; Data medium
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3-476-05090-4
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    Edition: 3rd ed. 2005.
    Series: Sammlung Metzler,
    Subjects: European literature.; Literature, Modern—20th century.; European Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource (VIII, 230 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.