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The dynamic between the biographer and the subject is, perhaps, one of the most fascinating aspects of biography as a genre. How does the biographer stage the illusion that is the narrative life, the illusion that the subject assumes a living form through words? In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total freedom to the biographer in this creative act. Ideally, a biography's backbone is structured by accurate historical facts. But its spirit lies elsewhere....
| Автор | Rana Tekcan |
Nadia Anwar presents a compelling reading framework for the study and analysis of selected post-independence Nigerian dramas, using the conceptual parameters of metatheatre, a theatrical strategy which foregrounds the process of play-making by breaking the dramatic illusion. She argues that distancing, as a function of metatheatre, creates a balanced theatrical experience and environment in terms of the emotive and cognitive levels of reception of a particular performance. Anwar's book...
| Автор | Nadia Anwar |
This volume addresses a problem of high controversy: Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena has often been seen as a taboo, as only authentic testimonies, documents, or at least ‘unliterary’, prosaic approaches were considered appropriate for dealing with the topic. However, from the very beginning of Holocaust literature and culture, there were tendencies towards literarization, poetization, and ornamentalization. Nowadays, aesthetic approaches—also in provocative,...
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Forming a pair with the voice, the gaze is a central structuring element of Samuel Beckett’s creation. And yet it takes the form of a strangely impersonal visual dimension testifying to the absence of an original exchange of gazes capable of founding personal identity and opening up the world to desire. The collapse of conventional reality and the highlighting of seeing devices—eyes, mirrors, windows—point to the absence of a unified representation. While masks and closed spaces show the visible...
| Автор | Llewellyn Brown |
In this fascinating book, Johanna Emeney examines the global proliferation of new poetry related to illness and medical treatment from the perspective of doctors, patients, and carers in light of the growing popularity of the medical humanities. She provides a close analysis of poetry from New Zealand, the USA, and the UK that deals with sociological and philosophical aspects of sickness, ailment, medical treatment, care, and recuperation.
| Автор | Johanna Emeney |
"In the wake of the fear that gripped Europe after the fall of Constantinople (1453), the English dramatists joined most continental artists (literary and visual) in representing the Ottoman Turks in plays inspired by historical events. As the many subjective elements involved in the stereotyping of the Turks in these plays—revolving around complex themes such as tyranny, captivity, war, and conquests—arose from their perception of Islam, Ottoman milieu as a dramatic setting provided for...
| Автор | Esin Akalın |
Beckett’s Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate’s post-war prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close-readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett’s prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett’s live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from...
| Автор | Rhys Tranter |
G. Stedman: Editorial – Cultural Studies. State of the Art – S. Berg: Locating the Political in Cultural Studies – R. Emig: Cultural Studies and Literary Studies. A Troubled Relation – J. Schwarzkopf: The Relationship of History to Cultural Studies – U. Göttlich: Media and Communication Science in Germany and its (Inter)relations with Media and Cultural Studies – Reviews: Monika Seidl, Roman Horak & Lawrence Grossberg, eds. (2010), About Raymond Williams – Jürgen Kramer (2011), Taking...
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This study investigates how Janet Frame weaves together literary sources from her extensive reading to create a web of intertextual relationships. Patricia Neville traces Frame’s passion for books beginning with her childhood and earliest published work in the Otago Daily Times. Drawing on new research and through close readings of Frame’s novels, she discusses the effects of Frame’s borrowings from the Bible and Shakespeare and from writing from New Zealand, Britain, France, and the USA. A...
| Автор | Patricia Neville |
R. Nate / V. Gutsche: „Introduction“ – O. Berezenska / A. L. Borgstedt / C. Engelhardt / P. Franz / E.-M. Kocher: “Europe – A Collective Identity?” – K. Farrell: “Beyond Multiculturalism” – K. Kazzazi: “On ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’ Kinds of Multilingualism: The Influence of Language Prestige on Multilingual Identity” – K. Luttermann: “Languages in Dialogue for European Identity” – P. Ruspini: “The European Migration System and the Development of the EU External Migration Policy: A Critical Review” –...
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From New National to World English Literature offers a personal perspective on the evolution of a major cultural movement that began with decolonization, continued with the assertion of African, West Indian, Commonwealth, and other literatures, and has evolved through postcolonial to world or international English literature. Bruce King’s extensive Introduction discusses the personalities, writers, issues, and contexts of what he considers the most important change in culture since Modernism....
| Автор | Bruce King |
Anthony Barron explores the relationship between the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the forms and themes of Beckett’s critical and creative writings. He shows that Beckett’s aesthetic preoccupations are consonant with some of Schopenhauer’s seminal arguments regarding the arational basis of artistic composition and appreciation and the impotence of reason in human affairs. While Beckett’s critical writings are, in places, formidably opaque, this work examines the ways in which such texts can be...
| Автор | Anthony Barron |
Ein solides Basiswissen in den Kerngebieten der deutschen Sprachwissenschaft ist für jeden Studierenden unverzichtbar. Diese Einführung fasst deshalb Phonetik und Phonologie, Graphematik, Morphologie, Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik zusammen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem für die Analyse von Sprache praktisch anwendbaren Wissen. Der Band bietet eine ideale Grundlage für Einführungskurse in die germanistische Linguistik, kann aber auch zur eigenständigen Arbeit verwendet werden. Praktische...
| Автор | Karin Pittner |
The voice traverses Beckett's work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very words they utter, it proves to be incessant. It can alternatively be violently intrusive, or embody a calming presence. Literary creation will be charged with transforming the mortification it inflicts into a vivifying relationship to language. In the exploration undertaken here, Lacanian...
| Автор | Llewellyn Brown |
The writing of Canada’s aboriginal peoples is, predictably, replete with colonial history and (post-)colonial horrors. It is also replete with myth – from the ubiquitous trickster to all sorts of ghosts that have come to haunt First Nations people in a (post-)colonial, globalized world. This study looks at four contemporary First Nations novels to trace these ghosts – Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach, Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen, and Drew Hayden Taylor’s The Night Wanderer and Motorcycles...
| Автор | Georg Hauzenberger |
The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the center of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethe’s authority, a previously hidden chapter in the intellectual history of the period ranging from the late eighteenth century to the threshold of Modernism, is the focus of Literature and the Cult of Personality. Marginal as well as canonical writers...
| Автор | Gregory Maertz |
I. Habermann: Introduction – M. Gardiner: The British Reliance on Identity – M. Tönnies: Northern Landscapes and Anti-Thatcherite Positioning British Colour Photography of the 1980s – N. Böhm-Schnitker: There is no such thing as political memory!? The Iron Lady (2011) as ‘psycho-geography’ – F. Hofmeister: A Fatal Attraction? Europe and the Failure of the English Regions – B. Schaff: Killing Fields and Poppy Fields. Towards a Topography of the Western Front in the British Cultural Memory – N....
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From the early years of the Weimar Republic until the collapse of Hitler’s regime, demonizing modernist art as a symptom of the corruption of German culture was a standard trope in National Socialist propaganda. But how consistent and thorough was Nazi censorship of modernist artists? Maertz’s pioneering research unearths the persistence of recognizable modernist styles in painting and sculpture produced under the patronage of the Nazi Party and German government institutions, even after the...
| Автор | Gregory Maertz |
This book explores the central fictional minds in three of Ian McEwan's most popular narratives. Mind presentation constitutes the main part of characterization in the second phase of McEwan's writing, where his plot structure depends to a large degree on the presentation of the characters’ mental workings. In Amsterdam (1998), Atonement (2003), and On Chesil Beach (2007), the construction process of the fictional minds, the degree their functioning is impacted by their experiences,...
| Автор | Karam Nayebpour |
The ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of World Literature, often referencing the major metropolitan centres of cultural and literary production, do not always accommodate voices from the margins and writing within minority genres such as the short story. Katherine Mansfield is a supreme example of a writer who is positioned between a number of different borders and boundaries: between modernism and postcolonialism; between the short story and other genres...
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Das vorliegende Buch unter dem Titel Leben und Werk von Gabriela Zapolska ist ein Sammelband von Skizzen, die 2011 während der vom Institut für polnische Literatur organisierten wissenschaftlichen Konferenz an der Nikolaus Kopernikus Universität zu Thorn (Polen) vorgetragen wurden. Gabriela Zapolska (1857-1921) ist eine der bekanntesten Autorinnen der polnischen Moderne. Ihr Leben und Werk wirkt inspirativ auf den Geist der nachfolgenden Generationen der Literaturforscher. Zapolska ist nicht nur...
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In a collection of sixteen essays, Gagiano addresses more than twenty texts from various African regions and periods. The works discussed here range from transcriptions of ancient (Khoikhoi/San) folktales to some of the classic texts of the African English literary canon and include recent writing about urgent contemporary social and gender issues. As the title indicates, Annie Gagiano's focus is on the way these texts engage with the forces that damage and threaten life and quality of life...
| Автор | Annie Gagiano |
This collection of new essays brings together scholarly examinations of a writer who—despite the prestige that the Nobel Prize has earned him—remains controversial with respect to his place in the literary tradition of his home country. This is in part because the positioning of Turkey itself in relation to the cultural divide between East and West has been the subject of a debate going back to the beginnings of the modern Turkish state and earlier. The present essays, written mostly by...
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“Carmen Sylva, when she discovered that I was writing, instead of laughing at me and being ironical about my modest attempts at literature, encouraged me from the very first in every way. She was getting old, her imagination was running dry, and she declared that mine had come just in time to replace hers, which was a generous thing to say. She declared that it was a happy and blessed discovery that I could hold a pen, and no end of kind and enthusiastic things. She spurred me on to write, and...
| Автор | Elisabeth of Romania |