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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 |
By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls “the international literary space”, their power does not operate unilaterally and modes of intercultural circulation do exist beyond their control. The title “World Literature in Motion” highlights the fact that world literature is always already the product of certain modes of conceptual and material mobility and mediation.
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This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of four magical realist novels: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel (1989), Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991), and Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990). The main focus of attention lies on the ways in which the novelists in question have...
| Автор | Taner Can |
L’invenzione letteraria può dare vita a un secondo scrittore, a sua volta all’opera. A sua volta colui che comunica al di là della parola, che si assume l’importante responsabilità della creazione, che intende lasciare traccia di sé. Da lui nasce il libro, sua sfida, sostegno, tormento; prova unica o reiterata. Come prende forma nel romanzo di primo grado la figura centrale dell’autore? Come si mostra l’immagine ammaliante del suo lavoro nelle storie di lotta e rinuncia, successo e mediocrità...
| Автор | Simona Bianconi |
Als »Normalverbraucher« kann man sich in unserer »Informations-Überflussgesellschaft« mitunter nur schwer zurechtfinden. Sachliche Fakten werden mit Fake News, klug recherchierte Zusammenhänge mit Halbwahrheiten oder reißerischen Plattitüden unbekümmert oder absichtsvoll zusammengerührt. Meist kommt alles wohlverpackt daher, klingt gut und scheint beim ersten Überfliegen spontan zustimmungsfähig, häufig sogar dann, wenn es sich um einander widersprechende Positionen handelt. Das Ergebnis ist...
| Автор | Manfred Steinert |
Auf mächtigen Schwingen rauschen sie heran. Mit flammendem Atem, Krallen und Rauch versetzen sie Mensch und Tier in Angst und Schrecken. Sie rauben Ritter, horten Prinzessinnen und fressen Schätze. Oder war es doch andersrum? Jetzt könnt ihr es herausfinden. In 34 Geschichten enthüllen die Drachen-Akten bahnbrechende Wahrheiten über die ältesten Wesen der Mythenwelt. Hier werdet ihr alles finden: Bestien und Biester. Abenteuer und Ungeheuer. Zauber und Zorn. Magie und Märchen.
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Ein erschreckender Titel? Apokalypse wird meistens den Prophezeiung-Vertretern zugeschrieben, ist ein Fernsehtrend mit Aliens usw. geworden, sollte vernünftig behandelt werden. In der Definition ist es bildungssprachlich ein Weltuntergang oder ein Unheil. Also eine geschichtspessimistische Grundstimmung. Die reine Übersetzung des griechischen Wortes „apokalypsis“ bedeutet Offenbarung. Das eine verschwindet, das andere kommt. Eine gewisse Neuordnung wünschen sich doch viele Menschen und...
| Автор | Manfred Behrendt |
In jedem Kapitel des Buches wird ein englischsprachiges Land oder Gebiet vorgestellt. Im Sprachlaboratorium werden sprachliche Missverständnisse und die englische Aussprache humorvoll erklärt sowie auf den Unterschied zwischen amerikanischem und britischem Englisch aufmerksam gemacht. Mit Auszügen aus Werken der englischsprachigen Literatur möchte das Buch dem Leser Freude an bekannten Werken vermitteln. Das Buch ist orientiert am Modulaufbau der Fernsehsendungen, es enthält viele Übungen zur...
| Автор | Günther Albrecht |
Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen hat mit seinen satirisch-kritischen und zugleich unterhaltsamen Romanen und Traktaten die beiden großen Diskurse der Frühen Neuzeit, Politik und Religion, begleitet, so wach und an eigener Erfahrung orientiert wie kein anderer deutscher Barockdichter. Er ist zu Antworten gelangt, die uns in ihrer Menschenfreundlichkeit über die Jahrhunderte hinweg immer noch berühren und ermutigen können. Dieter Breuer stellt hier vor, was er für den „Kern“ von...
| Автор | Dieter Breuer |
This book provides a new understanding of fictocriticism—a genre stemming from metafiction, écriture feminine, and postmodernism—via original creative and experimental writing devoted to the issue of the contemporary self, offering a reinvigoration of fictocriticism as a writing strategy. Cholewa explores questions surrounding what fictocriticism is and what it can do, and the essential paradox between theories surrounding fictocriticism suggesting how ‘freeform’ it is, yet how non-freeform...
| Автор | Pawel Cholewa |
In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women’s humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discourse in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal culture and subverts both female and male stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. Varghaiyan reveals how the rhetoric of women’s humour enables Pym’s female characters to survive in the...
| Автор | Naghmeh Varghaiyan |