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  1. Anthologisches Schreiben
    eine ästhetisch-politische Konstellation bei Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Walter Benjamin und Rudolf Borchardt
    Author: Saner, Fabian
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Brill | Fink, Paderborn

  2. Zeitgeistjournalismus
    Zur Vorgeschichte deutschsprachiger Popliteratur: Das Magazin »Tempo«
    Author: Steenbock, Kristin
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Zeitgeistjournalismus, wie er sich in Deutschland besonders in der »Tempo« zeigte, stellte in den 1980er Jahren einen wichtigen Kontext von Popliteratur dar. Er verstärkte und prägte die Lifestyle-Richtungen der Zeit, ihre Wertmaßstäbe sowie... more

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    Zeitgeistjournalismus, wie er sich in Deutschland besonders in der »Tempo« zeigte, stellte in den 1980er Jahren einen wichtigen Kontext von Popliteratur dar. Er verstärkte und prägte die Lifestyle-Richtungen der Zeit, ihre Wertmaßstäbe sowie Darstellungsweisen und lieferte die ästhetischen Grundlagen für das Entstehen einer Oberflächenästhetik in der Literatur. Der bunte, leicht zu konsumierende, modische Prätext rückt die Unliebsamkeit der Popliteratur innerhalb der deutschsprachigen Literaturgeschichte erstmals in den Vordergrund.Kristin Steenbock schlägt einen neuen, kritischen und informierten Perspektivwechsel auf deutschsprachige Popliteratur vor und beleuchtet Themen wie Gender Bias, Postheroismus und den westdeutschen Blick über die wiedervereinigte Nation hinweg.

     
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  3. How We Read : Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound
    Contributor: Heller, Kaitlin (Publisher); Akbari, Suzanne Conklin (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    "What do we do when we read? Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our “work reading” overlaps with our “pleasure reading,” and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive,... more

     

    "What do we do when we read?

     

    Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our “work reading” overlaps with our “pleasure reading,” and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive, sometimes active, and can even be an embodied form.

     

    The contributors to this volume share their own histories of reading in order to reveal the shared pleasure that lies in this most solitary of acts – which is also, paradoxically, the act of most complete plenitude. Many of the contributors engage in academic writing, and several publish in other genres, including poetry and fiction; some contributors maintain an active online presence. All are engaged with reading’s capacity to stimulate and excite as well as to frustrate and confuse. The synergies and tensions of online reading and print reading animate these thirteen contributions, generating a sense of shared community. Together, the authors open their libraries to us. This is how we read."

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Heller, Kaitlin (Publisher); Akbari, Suzanne Conklin (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781950192328
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: reading; writing; libraries; poetics; memory; university life; literary studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (186 p.)
  4. The Imagery of Interior Spaces
    Contributor: Bauer, Dominique (Publisher); Kelly, Michael J. (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    On the unstable boundaries between “interior” and “exterior,” “private” and “public,” and always in some way relating to a “beyond,” the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of... more

     

    On the unstable boundaries between “interior” and “exterior,” “private” and “public,” and always in some way relating to a “beyond,” the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature — from the odd room over the womb, secluded parks, and train compartments, to the city as a world under a cloth — reveal a common defining feature: these interiors can all be analyzed as codes of a paradoxical, both assertive and fragile, subjectivity in its own unique time and history. They function as subtexts that define subjectivity, time, and history as profoundly ambiguous realities, on interchangeable existential, socio-political, and epistemological levels. This volume addresses the imagery of interior spaces in a number of iconic and also lesser known yet significant authors of European, North American, and Latin American literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries: Djuna Barnes, Edmond de Goncourt, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Benito Pérez Galdós, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil, Jules Romains, Peter Waterhouse, and Émile Zola.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Bauer, Dominique (Publisher); Kelly, Michael J. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781950192205
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    Subjects: Literary theory
    Other subjects: literary studies; interior design; architecture; cultural studies; spatiality
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (244 p.)
  5. Lektüren Interventionen: Literatur und die Zeichen der Zeit Ausgewählte Studien
    Author: Hillis Miller, J.
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Open Humanities Press

    This new collection of J. Hillis Miller’s essays centres on the question “why and to what end should we read, teach, and spend our time with literary and/or cultural studies?” At a time when electronic media seem to dominate the market completely,... more

     

    This new collection of J. Hillis Miller’s essays centres on the question “why and to what end should we read, teach, and spend our time with literary and/or cultural studies?” At a time when electronic media seem to dominate the market completely, and jobs follow the money flows into electronic and technical fields, literary and cultural studies might appear as a decorative addenda but not really necessary for the process of growth and development, neither in business nor in the area of personal development. This question is not really new, it has many facets, requires differentiated answers which depend and mirror the political and cultural climate of a society. Der vorliegende Band ist eine neue thematisch orientierte Zusammenstellung von Hillis Millers jüngeren Arbeiten, die alle um die eine Frage kreisen: warum und wozu Literaturwissenschaft, oder im erweiterten Sinne ‚Kulturwissenschaft‘ - im Zeitalter der elektronischen Medien und der vorwiegend nachgefragten technologischen Berufe der heutigen Zeit weder in der Geschäftswelt noch in der persönlichen Entwicklung? Diese Frage ist nicht ganz neu, hat viele Facetten und erfordert differenzierte Antworten, die vom politischen und kulturellen Klima einer Gesellschaft abhängen.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Reif-Hülser, Monika (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781785420337
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Cultural studies
    Other subjects: cultural studies; literary studies; literaturwissenschaft; kulturwissenschaft; Franz Kafka; Lyrik
  6. Literature Matters
    Author: Hillis Miller, J.
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Open Humanities Press

    This new collection of J. Hillis Miller’s essays centres on the question “why and to what end should we read, teach, and spend our time with literary and/or cultural studies?” At a time when electronic media seem to dominate the market completely,... more

     

    This new collection of J. Hillis Miller’s essays centres on the question “why and to what end should we read, teach, and spend our time with literary and/or cultural studies?” At a time when electronic media seem to dominate the market completely, and jobs follow the money flows into electronic and technical fields, literary and cultural studies might appear as a decorative addenda but not really necessary for the process of growth and development, neither in business nor in the area of personal development. This question is not really new, it has many facets, requires differentiated answers which depend and mirror the political and cultural climate of a society.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Reif-Hülser, Monika (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781785420351
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Cultural studies
    Other subjects: cultural studies; literary studies; Franz Kafka; Friedrich Nietzsche; The Cares of a Family Man; United States; World literature
  7. Japanizität aus dem Geist der europäischen Romantik : Der interkulturelle Vermittler Mori Ogai und die Reorganisierung des japanischen ‚Selbstbildes‘ in der Weltgesellschaft um 1900
    Author: Morikawa, Takemitsu
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    After the opening of the country in the middle of the 19th century, Japan quickly moved towards becoming an industrialized world power. But the romanticist syndrome, imported from Europe by Mori Ogai since the 1890s, especially enchanted young... more

     

    After the opening of the country in the middle of the 19th century, Japan quickly moved towards becoming an industrialized world power. But the romanticist syndrome, imported from Europe by Mori Ogai since the 1890s, especially enchanted young intellectuals and drove their search of a Japanese cultural identity. The goal was, internally, to integrate the entire population, and externally, to make the country distinguishable from the »West« ─ paradoxically, in a spirit of European Romanticism. Takemitsu Morikawa investigates these remarkable developments and retraces the rise and canonization of the alleged self-image of modern Japan. Seit der Öffnung des Landes in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bewegte sich Japan rasant auf dem Weg zur industrialisierten Weltmacht. Das dort seit den 1890er Jahren durch Mori Ogai aus Europa ‘eingeführte’ romantische Syndrom jedoch verzauberte insbesondere die jungen Intellektuellen und trieb sie zur Suche nach der japanischen kulturellen Identität an. Ziel war es, nach innen die gesamte Bevölkerung zu integrieren und nach außen das Land vom »Westen« unterscheidbar zu machen ─ und zwar paradoxerweise im Geist der europäischen Romantik. Takemitsu Morikawa geht diesen bemerkenswerten Entwicklungen auf den Grund und zeichnet die Entstehung und die Kanonisierung des vermeintlichen Selbstbildes des modernen Japan nach.

     
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  8. Contemporary Australian Literature : A World Not Yet Dead
    Author: Birns, Nicholas
    Published: 20151201
    Publisher:  Sydney University Press, Sydney

    Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world;... more

     

    Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia's distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance.

     

    In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward.

     

    Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice - one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it.

     
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  9. The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits
    Contributor: Smith, James L. (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    What strange transactions take place in the mobile spaces between loci? How does the flow of forces between fixed points enliven texts, suggest new connections, and map out the dizzying motion of myriad interactions? The essays in this volume were... more

     

    What strange transactions take place in the mobile spaces between loci? How does the flow of forces between fixed points enliven texts, suggest new connections, and map out the dizzying motion of myriad interactions? The essays in this volume were first presented at the 2014 New Chaucer Society Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland where a meeting of minds in a shared intermediate space initiated dialogue from diverse perspectives and wended its way through the invisible spaces between concrete categories, objects, and entities. The resulting volume asks a core question: what can we learn by tarrying at the nexus points and hubs through which things move in and out of texts, attempting to trace not the things themselves or their supposedly stable significations, but rather their forms of emergence and retreat, of disorder and disequilibrium? The answer is complex and intermediate, for we ourselves are emerging and retreating within our own systems of transit and experiencing our own disequilibrium. Scholarship, like transit, is never complete and yet never congeals into inertia.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Smith, James L. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781947447370
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
    Other subjects: literary studies; medieval literature; Chaucer; network theory; sociology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (136 p.)
  10. Bathroom Songs: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet
    Contributor: Edwards, Jason (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    Bathroom Songs: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet is the first book of essays to consider the poetry of one of the twentieth- and early twenty-first-century’s most important literary, affect, and queer theorists. Acclaimed as one of the “truly... more

     

    Bathroom Songs: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet is the first book of essays to consider the poetry of one of the twentieth- and early twenty-first-century’s most important literary, affect, and queer theorists. Acclaimed as one of the “truly innovative” poets of her generation by Maud Ellmann, Sedgwick’s work as a poet is, perhaps, less well known, but is no less compelling than her ground-breaking trilogy of queer theoretical texts: Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Epistemology of the Closet, and Tendencies.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Edwards, Jason (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781947447318
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Other subjects: literary studies; queer studies; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; psychoanalysis; autobiography
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (306 p.)
  11. Massa por Argamassa : A "Libraria de Babel" e o Sonho de Totalidade
    Author: Basile, Jonathan
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    "Mass by Mortar presents an in-depth exploration of one of the greatest illusionists in literature, Jorge Luis Borges. His tale" The Library of Babel "is an illustrious example of its playful ability, though not only because of the inverted world... more

     

    "Mass by Mortar presents an in-depth exploration of one of the greatest illusionists in literature, Jorge Luis Borges. His tale" The Library of Babel "is an illustrious example of its playful ability, though not only because of the inverted world imagined in it in the past. which a library, which supposedly contains all possible combinations of all letters, words, and books, is searched by devout librarians for divinely prefabricated truths, for one also has to deal with the irony of Borges's narration, which constantly puts check the narrator's claims about the universality of the library, including the very possibility of exhausting the possible meanings through a combinatorial process. "Massa por Argamassa apresenta uma exploração profunda de um dos maiores ilusionistas da literatura, Jorge Luis Borges. Seu conto “A Biblioteca de Babel” é um exemplar ilustre de sua capacidade lúdica, embora não somente devido ao mundo invertido que nele é imaginado, no qual uma biblioteca, que supostamente contém todas as combinações possíveis de todas as letras, palavras e livros, é vasculhada por bibliotecários devotos em busca de verdades divinamente pré-fabricadas. Pois também é preciso lidar com a ironia da narração de Borges, que constantemente põe em xeque as afirmações do narrador sobre a universalidade da biblioteca, incluindo a própria possibilidade de exaurir os significados possíveis através de um processo combinatório.

     

    Borges direcionava seus leitores para sua obra de não-ficção para que descobrissem o verdadeiro autor da ideia da biblioteca universal. Mas seus ensaios supostamente históricos são notoriamente repletos de referências falsas e contradições. Seja na verdade ou na ficção, Borges nunca atinge uma conclusão estável sobre as premissas atomistas da biblioteca universal – seria possível encontrar um conjunto de caracteres capaz de expressar todo o significado possível, ou estariam essas letras, assim como suas histórias e ensaios, se multiplicando e dividindo em uma incompletude incansável?

     

    Embora muitos leitores de Borges o veem como um presságio de nossas tecnologias digitais, eles muitas vezes dão crédito demais a nossas invenções ao fazê-lo. Aqueles que elidem a necessária incompletude da Biblioteca de Babel a comparam com a Internet, assumindo que ambos seriam arquivos totais de todo o pensamento e expressão possíveis. Embora as imaginações de Borges tenham contribuído para a criatividade digital (libraryofbabel.info é certamente uma evidência disto), elas o fazem demonstrando a necessária incompletude de todos os projetos totalizadores, independentemente de seu refino tecnológico. No final, Basile guia os leitores em direção à ideia de que uma exposição fictícia/imaginária possui certo poder sobre a tecnologia."

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Portuguese
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781950192465
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    Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Other subjects: Library of Babel; Jorge Luis Borges; technology; librarianship; digital humanities; literary studies
  12. Tar for Mortar: "The Library of Babel" and the Dream of Totality
    Author: Basile, Jonathan
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    Tar for Mortar offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature’s greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story “The Library of Babel” is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines,... more

     

    Tar for Mortar offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature’s greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story “The Library of Babel” is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the irony of Borges’s narration, which undermines at every turn its narrator’s claims of the library’s universality, including the very possibility of exhausting meaning through combinatory processing. Borges directed readers to his non-fiction to discover the true author of the idea of the universal library. But his supposedly historical essays are notoriously riddled with false references and self-contradictions. Whether in truth or in fiction, Borges never reaches a stable conclusion about the atomic premises of the universal library — is it possible to find a character set capable of expressing all possible meaning, or do these letters, like his stories and essays, divide from themselves in a restless incompletion? While many readers of Borges see him as presaging our digital technologies, they often give too much credit to our inventions in doing so. Those who elide the necessary incompletion of the Library of Babel compare it to the Internet on the assumption that both are total archives of all possible thought and expression. Though Borges’s imaginings lend themselves to digital creativity (libraryofbabel.info is certainly evidence of this), they do so by showing the necessary incompleteness of every totalizing project, no matter how technologically refined. Ultimately, Basile nudges readers toward the idea that a fictional/imaginary exposition can hold a certain power over technology

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781947447516
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    Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Other subjects: Library of Babel; Jorge Luis Borges; technology; librarianship; digital humanities; literary studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (106 p.)
  13. How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page
    Contributor: Conklin Akbari, Suzanne (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    The contributors range from graduate students and recent PhDs to senior scholars working in the fields of medieval studies, art history, English literature, poetics, early modern studies, musicology, and geography. All are engaged in academic... more

     

    The contributors range from graduate students and recent PhDs to senior scholars working in the fields of medieval studies, art history, English literature, poetics, early modern studies, musicology, and geography. All are engaged in academic writing, but some of the contributors also publish in other genres, includes poetry and fiction. Several contributors maintain a very active online presence, including blogs and websites; all are committed to strengthening the bonds of community, both in person and online, which helps to explain the effervescent sense of collegiality that pervades the volume, creating linkages across essays and extending outward into the wide world of writers and readers.

     
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    Contributor: Conklin Akbari, Suzanne (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Other subjects: academic writing; university studies; literary studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (182 p.)
  14. As If: Essays in As You Like It
    Author: West, William N.
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a play without a theme. Instead, it repeatedly poses one question in a variety of forms: What if the world were other than it is? As You Like It is a set of experiments in which its characters conditionally change an... more

     

    Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a play without a theme. Instead, it repeatedly poses one question in a variety of forms: What if the world were other than it is? As You Like It is a set of experiments in which its characters conditionally change an aspect of their world and see what comes of it: what if I were not a girl but a man? What if I were not a duke, but someone like Robin Hood? What if I were a deer? “What would you say to me now an [that is, “if”] I were your very, very Rosalind?” (4.1.64-65). “Much virtue in ‘if’,” as one of its characters declares near the play’s end; ‘if’ is virtual. It releases force even if the force is not that of what is the case. Change one thing in the world, the play asks, and how else does everything change? In As You Like It, unlike Shakespeare’s other plays, the characters themselves are both experiment and experimenters. They assert something about the world that they know is not the case, and their fictions let them explore what would happen if it were—and not only if it were, but something, not otherwise apparent, about how it is now. What is as you like it? What is it that you, or anyone, really likes or wants? The characters of As You Like It stand in ‘if’ as at a hinge of thought and action, conscious that they desire something, not wholly capable of getting it, not even able to say what it is. Their awareness that the world could be different than it is, is a step towards making it something that they wish it to be, and towards learning what that would be.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: William Shakespeare; Early Modern studies; As You Like It; cultural studies; experimentation; literary studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (136 p.)
  15. Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima
    Author: Mihic, Tamaki
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  ANU Press

    "The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster (collectively referred to as ‘3.11’, the date of the earthquake), had a lasting impact on Japan’s identity and global image. In its immediate aftermath, mainstream media presented... more

     

    "The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster (collectively referred to as ‘3.11’, the date of the earthquake), had a lasting impact on Japan’s identity and global image. In its immediate aftermath, mainstream media presented the country as a disciplined, resilient and composed nation, united in the face of a natural disaster. However, 3.11 also drew worldwide attention to the negative aspects of Japanese government and society, thought to have caused the unresolved situation at Fukushima.

     

    Spurred by heightened emotions following the triple disaster, the Japanese became increasingly polarised between these two views of how to represent themselves. How did literature and popular culture respond to this dilemma? Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima attempts to answer that question by analysing how Japan was portrayed in post-3.11 fiction. Texts are selected from the Japanese, English and French languages, and the portrayals are also compared with those from non-fiction discourse. This book argues that cultural responses to 3.11 had a significant role to play in re-imagining Japan after Fukushima."

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Japan; Natural disasters; Social impact of disasters; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
    Other subjects: Fukushima; natural disaster; nuclear disaster; Japan; literary studies; popular culture; cultural studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (174 p.)
  16. The Anthology of Babel
    Contributor: Simon, Ed (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Why should there only be literary scholarship about authors who actually lived, and texts which exist? Where are the articles on Enoch Campion, Linus Withold, Redondo Panza, Darshan Singh, or Heidi B. Morton? That none of these are real authors... more

     

    Why should there only be literary scholarship about authors who actually lived, and texts which exist? Where are the articles on Enoch Campion, Linus Withold, Redondo Panza, Darshan Singh, or Heidi B. Morton? That none of these are real authors should be no impediment to interpreting their invented writings. In the first collection of its kind, The Anthology of Babel publishes academic articles by scholars on authors, books, and movements that are completely invented. Blurring the lines between scholarship and creative writing, The Anthology of Babel inaugurates a completely new literary genre perfectly attuned to the era we live in, a project evocative of Jorge-Louis Borges, Umberto Eco, and Italo Calvino.

     
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    Contributor: Simon, Ed (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781950192489
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literary essays
    Other subjects: imaginary literature; Jorge Luis Borges; literary studies; literary criticism; philosophy; labyrinths; Babel
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (398 p.)
  17. Chaostheorie und Literaturwissenschaft
    Author: Wozonig, Karin S.
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Studien Verlag, Innsbruck

    This book presents the development and present status of adaptions of chaos theory for literary studies. Furthermore the integration of these methodological approaches into a discipline that is oriented towards cultural studies is demonstrated. The... more

     

    This book presents the development and present status of adaptions of chaos theory for literary studies. Furthermore the integration of these methodological approaches into a discipline that is oriented towards cultural studies is demonstrated. The publication consists of four parts. The first part of the work deals with the issues created through questions posed by historical philosophy and historiography. It discusses how reflections on linear time, as well as on the description and explanation of sequences, circularity and synchronicities lead to an increased complexity in the semanticts of time in the notion of the objects analized. It also discusses the integration of discourses from other disciplines into literary history. It is demonstrated that both aspects - increased complexity and supplementary discourses - are highly influential in hermeneutical literary studies.

     

    The second part deals with changes in the notion of time in the modern and so-called post-modern era. It focuses especially on non-linearity, the increasing importance of historical time in the natural sciences and on the effect of this tendency on the analysis of highly complex structures outside of the natural sciences. In the third part of the publication concrete examples of the adaption of chaos theory for literary studies are examined - especially their epistemological interest, their position within the framework of the discipline and their interdisciplinary potential. This part elucidates the potential of focusing on the literary text and its particularities under the premises of chaos theory and how such an interdisciplinary approach helps to bridge the cap between the natural sciences and the humanities.

     

    In the final part of the publication the social and cultural relevance of historical knowledge as a frame of reference in times of increasing (temporal and social) complexity is examined. With reference to the explanatory power of hermeneutical procedures "chaostheoretical literary studies" are proposed as a working hypothesis. The approach is intended as a model which can be integrated into cultural analysis and not provides descriptions and explanations for highly complex literary texts, hypertexts and virtual realities, but also regards scientific and technical production and distribution of knowledge as an important part of culture and thus integrates it into its analysis. Die Publikation besteht aus vier Teilen, die zum einen die Entwicklung und den aktuellen Stand der Adaption naturwissenschaftlicher chaostheoretischer Konzepte durch die Literaturwissenschaft darstellen. Zum anderen wird die Integration der methodischen Ansätze in die Literaturwissenschaft anhand von Beispielen als theoretisch-methodische Bereicherung einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Ausrichtung der Disziplin erläutert. Der erste Teil der Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit der Problematisierung von Gegenstandsbereichen durch Fragen der Geschichtsphilosophie und Historiographie. Es wird dargestellt, wie die Diskussion von (linearer) Geschichtszeit, von Beschreibung und Erklärung von Sequenzen, Zirkularität und Gleichzeitigkeiten zur Komplexitätserhöhung nicht nur der Zeitsemantik, sondern auch des Objektbereichs Literatur bzw. Literaturgeschichte und zur Integration von Begleitdiskursen aus anderen Disziplinen in die Literaturgeschichtsschreibung führen. Es wird gezeigt, welche Auswirkungen auf eine hermeneutisch arbeitende Literaturwissenschaft diese Problematisierung historischer Grundlagen hat.

     

    Teil 2 beschäftigt sich mit dem Wandel der Zeitkonzepte der Moderne und der sogenannten Postmoderne unter der besonderen Berücksichtigung von erstens Nichtlinearität und zweitens der zunehmenden Bedeutung von historischer Zeit in den Naturwissenschaften. Es werden die Auswirkung dieser Tendenz auf die Analyse von hochkomplexen Strukturen außerhalb des naturwissenschaftlichen Geltungsbereichs aufgezeigt. Im dritten Teil der Publikation werden konkrete Beispiele der Adaption von Chaostheorie durch die Literaturwissenschaft, ihre Erkenntnisinteressen und ihre Einordnung in die Disziplin bzw. ihr interdisziplinäres Potential analysiert. Verdeutlicht wird hier einerseits, wie durch Gegenstandszentriertheit mit den Prämissen der Chaostheorie die Privilegierung des literarischen Texts im kulturellen Kontext erzielt wird und wie andererseits durch Überschreitung der Disziplinengrenzen die Überbrückung der Kluft zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften gelingt.

     

    Im letzten Teil der Publikation wird die soziale und kulturelle Relevanz von historischem Orientierungswissen unter dem Vorzeichen der zunehmenden (temporalen) Komplexität von Lebenswelten untersucht. Mit Bezug auf Sinnstiftung durch hermeneutische Verfahren wird das Denkmodell "Chaostheoretische Literaturwissenschaft" vorgeschlagen, das sich in eine kulturwissenschaftliche Literaturwissenschaft einfügt und Beschreibungs- und Erklärungsmacht nicht nur für hochkomplexe literarische Texte und technikbestimmte Fiktionen (Hypertexte, virtuelle Welten) bereitstellt, sondern das auch die Wissensproduktion und -distribution der Natur- und Ingenieurswissenschaften als wichtigen Bestandteil der Kultur zu seinem Untersuchungsgegenstand macht.

     
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    Other subjects: Chaos Theory; cultural studies; literary studies; history; Chaosforschung; Erzählung; Geschichtsschreibung; Komplexität; Kulturwissenschaft; Naturwissenschaft; Nichtlineares System; Postmoderne
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  18. Incomparable Poetry : An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007–2008 and Irish Literature
    Author: Kiely, Robert
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Incomparable Poetry: An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and Irish Literature is an attempt to describe the ways in which the financial crisis of 2007-8 impacted literature in Ireland, and thereby describe the ways in which poetry engages... more

     

    Incomparable Poetry: An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and Irish Literature is an attempt to describe the ways in which the financial crisis of 2007-8 impacted literature in Ireland, and thereby describe the ways in which poetry engages with, is structured by, and wrestles with economic issues.Ireland and its contemporary poetry is a particularly suitable case study for studying the effect of the economic crisis on Anglophone poetry, because poetry in Ireland has a special relationship to the state and economy due to its status as a postcolonial nation-state. Beginning with a summary of recent Irish economic and cultural history, and moving across experimental and mainstream poetry, this essay outlines how the poetry of Trevor Joyce, Leontia Flynn, Dave Lordan, and Rachel Warriner addresses in its form and content the boom years of the Celtic Tiger and the financial crisis.Incomparable Poetry also discusses the concerns and historical contexts these poets have turned to in order to make sense of these events – including Chinese history, accountancy, sexual violence, and Iceland’s economic history. In contemporary Irish poetry, the author argues, we see a significant interest in matching capitalism’s accounting abilities, but in this attempt, these poems often end up broken by the imposition of an external conceptual framework or economic logic.

     
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    Subjects: Ireland; International economics; Literary theory
    Other subjects: capitalism; Chinese history; Ireland; financial crisis; literary studies; poetry; Irish literature
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (163 p.)
  19. Migrationsliteraturen in Europa
    Contributor: Binder, Eva (Publisher); Mertz-Baumgartner, Birgit (Publisher)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  innsbruck university press

    Looking at literary texts, the volume opens up innovative and differentiated perspectives on the socio-politically controversial phenomenon of migration. It draws on Hartmut Böhme’s notion of literature as a discursive system of actions and symbols... more

     

    Looking at literary texts, the volume opens up innovative and differentiated perspectives on the socio-politically controversial phenomenon of migration. It draws on Hartmut Böhme’s notion of literature as a discursive system of actions and symbols that contributes to the self-reflection of societies, even though – or rather precisely because – the ‘disturbing’ character of literature is tolerated and controlled to a certain extent. The analyses gathered in this volume look at contemporary European literature and focus on the question of how experiences of migration are thematized and aesthetically shaped in literary texts. In doing so, concepts of migrant identity, transcultural topographies of memory, phenomena of drawing and transgressing boundaries/borders, as well as notions of in-between spaces come into focus. Particular attention is paid to questions regarding the possibility of a “poetics of migration” by examining textual phenomena such as polyperspectivity, forms of multilingualism, and techniques of pseudo-translation through the lens of transcultural narratology. Der Sammelband eröffnet innovative und differenzierte Perspektiven auf das gesellschaftspolitisch brisante Phänomen der Migration, indem das „Spielfeld“ der Literatur und damit künstlerische bzw. fiktionale Texte in den Blick genommen werden. Dabei wird Literatur im Sinne Hartmut Böhmes als diskursives Handlungs- und Symbolsystem verstanden, das zu einer Selbstbeobachtung von Gesellschaften beiträgt, obwohl – oder vielmehr weil – ihr Störcharakter bis zu einem gewissen Grad toleriert und kontrolliert wird. Im Mittelpunkt der Analysen zu ausgewählten Texten europäischer Gegenwartsliteraturen steht die Frage, wie in literarischen Texten Migrationserfahrungen thematisiert und ästhetisch gestaltet werden. Auf diese Weise rücken zum einen migratorische Identitätsentwürfe, transkulturelle Erinnerungstopographien, Phänomene von Grenzziehung und Grenzübertritt sowie Zwischenräume im Sinne des „third space“ in das Blickfeld. Zum anderen liegt ein zentrales Augenmerk auf Fragen einer „Poetik der Migration“, indem im Sinne einer transkulturellen Narratologie textuelle Phänomene wie Polyperspektivität, Formen der Mehrsprachigkeit oder Verfahren der Pseudoübersetzung untersucht werden.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Migration, immigration & emigration; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Literature & literary studies
    Other subjects: migrant literature; literary studies; transculturality; Migrationsliteratur; Literaturwissenschaft; Transkulturalität
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (248 p.)
  20. Black Love, Black Hate
    Author: Felice
    Published: 20181102
    Publisher:  The Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH

    Felice D. Blake’s Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraracial deceptions, cruelties, and contempt in Black literature. Literary criticism has tended to focus on... more

     

    Felice D. Blake’s Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraracial deceptions, cruelties, and contempt in Black literature. Literary criticism has tended to focus on Black solidarity and the ways that a racially linked fate has compelled Black people to counter notions of Black inferiority with unified notions of community driven by political commitments to creative rehumanization and collective affirmation. Blake shows how fictional depictions of intraracial conflict perform necessary work within the Black community, raising questions about why racial unity is so often established from the top down and how loyalty to Blackness can be manipulated to reinforce deleterious forms of subordination to oppressive gender, sexual, and class norms.

     
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    ISBN: 9780814213865; 9780814255032
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    Subjects: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
    Other subjects: Literature; Black studies; literary studies; literary criticism; racism; fiction
  21. Contemporary Irish Women Poets : Memory and Estrangement
    Author: Collins, Lucy
    Published: 20150914
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    This study examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Collins explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan... more

     

    This study examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Collins explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets. This book analyses, for the first time, the complex responses to the past recorded by contemporary women poets in Ireland and the implications these have for the concept of a national tradition.

     
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    Subjects: Literary studies: poetry & poets
    Other subjects: Literature; literary studies; poetry; women; ireland
  22. Hard Reading : Learning from Science Fiction
    Author: Shippey, Tom
    Published: 20160223
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as neologism, dialogism, semantic shifts, the use of unreliable narrators. It is a “high-information” genre which does not... more

     

    The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as neologism, dialogism, semantic shifts, the use of unreliable narrators. It is a “high-information” genre which does not follow the Flaubertian ideal of le mot juste, “the right word”, preferring le mot imprévisible, “the unpredictable word”. Science fiction derives much of its energy from engagement with vital intellectual issues in the “soft sciences”, especially history, anthropology, the study of different cultures, with a strong bearing on politics. Both the rhetoric and the issues deserve to be taken much more seriously than they have been in academia, and in the wider world.

     

    Hard Reading is also a memoir of what it was like to be a committed fan, from teenage years, and also an academic struggling to find a place, at a time when a declared interest in science fiction and fantasy was the kiss of death for a career in the humanities.

     
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    Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Other subjects: Literature; literary studies; science fiction
  23. On Boredom : Essays in art and writing
    Contributor: Holmboe, Rye Dag (Publisher); Morris, Susan (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    What do we mean when we say that we are bored? Or when we find a subject boring? Contributors to On Boredom: Essays in art and writing, whichinclude artists, art historians, psychoanalysts and a novelist, examine boredom in its manifold and uncertain... more

     

    What do we mean when we say that we are bored? Or when we find a subject boring? Contributors to On Boredom: Essays in art and writing, whichinclude artists, art historians, psychoanalysts and a novelist, examine boredom in its manifold and uncertain reality. Each part of the book takes up a crucial moment in the history of boredom and presents it in a new light, taking the reader from the trials of the consulting room to the experience of hysteria in the nineteenth century. The book pays particular attention to boredom’s relationship with the sudden and rapid advances in technology that have occurred in recent decades, specifically technologies of communication, surveillance and automation. OnBoredom is idiosyncratic for its combination of image and text, and the artworks included in its pages – by Mathew Hale, Martin Creed and Susan Morris – help turn this volume into a material expression of boredom itself. With other contributions from Josh Cohen, Briony Fer, Anouchka Grose, Rye Dag Holmboe, Margaret Iversen, Tom McCarthy and Michael Newman, the book will appeal to readers in the fields of art history, literature, cultural studies and visual culture, from undergraduate students to professional artists working in new media.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781787359468; 9781787359475; 9781787359482; 9781787359499; 9781787359505
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    Subjects: Cultural studies; Literature & literary studies
    Other subjects: boredom; cultural studies; art history; psychoanalysis; literary studies; new media; visual culture
  24. Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020
    Contributor: Rubins, Maria (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    Over the century that has passed since the start of the massive post-revolutionary exodus, Russian literature has thrived in multiple locations around the globe. What happens to cultural vocabularies, politics of identity, literary canon and language... more

     

    Over the century that has passed since the start of the massive post-revolutionary exodus, Russian literature has thrived in multiple locations around the globe. What happens to cultural vocabularies, politics of identity, literary canon and language when writers transcend the metropolitan and national boundaries and begin to negotiate new experience gained in the process of migration? Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020 sets a new agenda for the study of Russian diaspora writing, countering its conventional reception as a subsidiary branch of national literature and reorienting the field from an excessive emphasis on the homeland and origins to an analysis of transnational circulations that shape extraterritorial cultural practices. Integrating a variety of conceptual perspectives, ranging from diaspora and postcolonial studies to the theories of translation and self-translation, World Literature and evolutionary literary criticism, the contributors argue for a distinct nature of diasporic literary expression predicated on hybridity, ambivalence and a sense of multiple belonging. As the complementary case studies demonstrate, diaspora narratives consistently recode historical memory, contest the mainstream discourses of Russianness, rewrite received cultural tropes and explore topics that have remained marginal or taboo in the homeland. These diverse discussions are framed by a focused examination of diaspora as a methodological perspective and its relevance for the modern human condition.

     
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  25. Mediating Vulnerability : Comparative approaches and questions of genre
    Contributor: Masschelein, Anneleen (Publisher); Mussgnug, Florian (Publisher); Rushworth, Jennifer (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    Mediating Vulnerability examines vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives. It responds to the vulnerability of species, their extinction but also their transformation. This tension between extreme danger and creativity is played out in... more

     

    Mediating Vulnerability examines vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives. It responds to the vulnerability of species, their extinction but also their transformation. This tension between extreme danger and creativity is played out in literary studies through the pressures the discipline brings to bear on its own categories, particularly those of genre. Extinction and preservation on the one hand, transformation, adaptation and (re)mediation on the other. These two poles inform our comparative and interdisciplinary project. The volume is situated within the particular intercultural and intermedial context of contemporary cultural representation. Vulnerability is explored as a site of potential destruction, human as well as animal, but also as a site of potential openness. This is the first book to bring vulnerability studies into dialogue with media and genre studies. It is organised in four sections: ‘Human/Animal’; Violence/Resistance’; ‘Image/Narrative’; and ‘Medium/Genre’. Each chapter considers the intersection of vulnerability and genre from a comparative perspective, bringing together a team of international contributors and editors. The book is in dialogue with the reflections of Judith Butler and others on vulnerability, and it questions categories of genre through an interdisciplinary engagement with different representational forms, including digital culture, graphic novels, video games, photography and TV series, in addition to novels and short stories. It offers new readings of high-profile contemporary authors of fiction including Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy, as well as bringing lesser-known figures to the fore.

     
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    Contributor: Masschelein, Anneleen (Publisher); Mussgnug, Florian (Publisher); Rushworth, Jennifer (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781800081130; 9781800081147; 9781800081154; 9781800081161; 9781800081178
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    Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Media studies
    Other subjects: comparative literature; vulnerability; genre; media studies; literary studies