Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868)
Little Women is one of the most popular American children’s books of all times, and only rather recently have scholars (re)discovered the ways in which it can also speak to adult audiences. Tracing the development of the March sisters from “little...
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Little Women is one of the most popular American children’s books of all times, and only rather recently have scholars (re)discovered the ways in which it can also speak to adult audiences. Tracing the development of the March sisters from “little women” to adults, the novel touches upon various aspects central for the self-conception of the American nation in the second half of the nineteenth century, ranging from an increasing influence of the capitalist marketplace to the changes regarding women’s roles. This essay foregrounds the main character Jo, focusing not just on Alcott’s criticism of the gendered restrictions that women had to face but also on their implications for female writers. Moreover, this essay briefly discusses the novel’s portrayal of the growing importance of consumption, ranging from its significance for the characters’ identity to the commodification of literature.
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Right or Obligation?: Privacy in Henry James The Bostonians
https://www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/978-3-8253-7988-9/Brittner_ua_Eds_We_the_People_PDF/
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Visuelle Kompetenz durch multimodale Bild/Texte
http://www.wvttrier.de/top/beschreibungen/ID1367.html
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Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000)
White Teeth is a realistic and comic family saga about the intertwined lives of three families of different ethnic affiliations. The novel spans the twentieth century, connecting the colonial past in Jamaica and India with the postcolonial present in...
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White Teeth is a realistic and comic family saga about the intertwined lives of three families of different ethnic affiliations. The novel spans the twentieth century, connecting the colonial past in Jamaica and India with the postcolonial present in London. In this metahistorical novel, narrative comments, the characters’ unreliable versions of the past, and the twisted plots develop an ironic comedy of history characterized by repetition as a farce. Both first-generation and second-generation immigrants struggle for recognition. However, they develop different strategies in constructing their positions and identities through assimilation, transcultural hybridization, or the delimitation of their cultures in opposition to the permissive and capitalist Western society. The cosmopolitan and multicultural metropolis becomes the site of intercultural conflicts and transcultural blending. ; www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110369489/html
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Romantic Travel Books
Romantic travel books add introspection to observation. The shift towards sentiment, aesthetic experience, and self-reflection locates perception in the embodied observer rather than the disembodied eye, inviting phenomenology as a useful approach....
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Romantic travel books add introspection to observation. The shift towards sentiment, aesthetic experience, and self-reflection locates perception in the embodied observer rather than the disembodied eye, inviting phenomenology as a useful approach. Rather than only serving as ideal representatives of universalized Englishness or Britishness, Romantic travel writers tend to reveal divisions within the self and the nation. The selection of examples provides an insight into the shared quality and the differences of Romantic travelogues in terms of the authors’ class and gender, the regions travelled, the modes and genres of writing, and their functions: The Scottish physician Mungo Park explores the region of the Niger River in West Africa, constructing the self as both empirical observer and suffering hero. The aristocrat William Beckford rejects the educative function of the Grand Tour to Europe for the sake of subjective experience and the realm of his imagination. The radical writer Mary Wollstonecraft puts Scandinavia on the British map from the perspective of a sentimental and educated woman. ; www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110376692/html.
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Mungo Park in Africa: The Traveller's Embodied Self at Risk
http://www.wvttrier.de/top/Beschreibungen/ID1471.html
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Intermedial Framing
Analyses of intermediality in narrative fiction have mainly focused on the evocation of images in the main body of the text. More recently, intermedial research has started to include visual material in multimodal narratives. The present essay...
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Analyses of intermediality in narrative fiction have mainly focused on the evocation of images in the main body of the text. More recently, intermedial research has started to include visual material in multimodal narratives. The present essay explores an issue neglected by these two approaches, namely the interplay between visual illustration and verbal representation as interdependent framing devices. The examples under scrutiny offer multiple framings and frame-breaks, provoking reflections on representation, media, and interpretation. ; www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110311075/html
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