This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers.
This book examines how the early twentieth-century Irish Renaissance (Irish Literary Revival) inspired the Chinese Renaissance (the May Fourth generation) of writers to make agentic choices and translingual exchanges.
This book explores the emergence and development of multilingual fiction series, a relatively new phenomenon propelled by the globalization of media industries and the consolidation of streaming platforms as central vectors in the production and consumption of audiovisual entertainment content.
This book examines how the early twentieth-century Irish Renaissance (Irish Literary Revival) inspired the Chinese Renaissance (the May Fourth generation) of writers to make agentic choices and translingual exchanges.
Lou Andreas-Salomés Werk ist ein wichtiger Teil der Moderne – einer Moderne,die sich dadurch ausweist, dass sie sich eindeutigen Klassifi zierungen verweigert.
Dieser interdisziplinäre Aufsatzband eröffnet neue Zugänge zum Werk Lou Andreas-Salomés – einer derfaszinierendsten Intellektuellen der frühen Moderne:Sie laden dazu ein, das umfangreiche Werk einer Autorin wiederzuentdecken, deren Ruhm als »Muse« berühmter Männer wie Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke und Sigmund Freud den Blick auf ihr eigenes Schaffen lange Zeit verstellt hat.
The powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor Dostoevskii continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first century, even though we are far removed from Dostoevskii's Russia.
This volume widens the field of Soviet literature studies by interpreting it as a multinational project, with national literatures acting not as copies of the Russian model, but as creators of a multidimensional literary space.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines Leo Tolstoy's unorthodox and provocative approach to spirituality, as presented in his numerous literary and his philosophico-religious works.
Seit der Jahrtausendwende sind in Deutschland zahlreiche Prosawerke jüngerer Autoren und Autorinnen erschienen, die den Umbruch von 1989/90 und dessen gesellschaftliche Folgen aus jugendlicher Perspektive thematisieren.
Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the nineteenth century through the application of fresh theoretical approaches and attention to aspects of literary childhoods that have only recently begun to be illuminated.
The title of this monograph, Polish Jewish Re-Remembering, refers to the post-1989, thirty-year-long process of reviving attention to Polish-Jewish relations in historical, cultural, and literary studies, including the impact of Jews on the development of Polish culture, their presence in Polish social life, and the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Poland.
This volume explores our cultural celebration of food, blending lobster festivals, politicians' roadside eats, reality show "e;chef showdowns,"e; and gravity-defying cakes into a deeper exploration of why people find so much joy in eating.
Aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven zeigen die Beiträger:innen des Bandes, auf welche Weise in ausgewählten literarischen Texten Fragen nach globalen Veränderungen beantwortet werden.
50 Jahre nach Erich Maria Remarques Tod werden von der aktuellen Remarque-Forschung auch bislang wenig beachtete Aspekte vermehrt in den Blick genommen.
Die literarische und filmische Auseinandersetzung mit technischer Entwicklung in all ihren Formen vermag auf gesellschaftliche Debatten zu reagieren und sie in der Fiktion um neue Gedankengänge zu erweitern.
Trotz der demonstrativen Verkündung seines »Todes« oder seiner Reduzierung auf eine bloße »Funktion« des Textes hört der Autor nicht auf, die Debatten der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften zu beherrschen.
»Imaginarien des Bösen« befasst sich mit der räumlichen Darstellung des Bösen in ausgewählten Werken von José Eustasio Rivera, Jorge Luis Borges und Alejo Carpentier.
This book explores the emergence and development of multilingual fiction series, a relatively new phenomenon propelled by the globalization of media industries and the consolidation of streaming platforms as central vectors in the production and consumption of audiovisual entertainment content.
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom The Sopranos to streaming: the scandalous behind-the-screens story of the TV revolution by the author of the cult film classic Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.
Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the nineteenth century through the application of fresh theoretical approaches and attention to aspects of literary childhoods that have only recently begun to be illuminated.
The hotly anticipated book from 'one of the all-time pop-culture greats' (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.
In diesem Buch erzählt ein Blaulichtreporter aus dem schönen Land Brandenburg die Geschichten von Helden und Opfern, denen er auf seinen Einsätzen begegnet ist.
This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary history, focusing on Turkish, French and German literary traditions.
Dieser Band in der Reihe »Welt | Gestalten« richtet einen aktualisierten Blick auf das heterogene Feld der Kriegs- und Konfliktdarstellungen und untersucht mit modernen Ansätzen – anlässlich des russischen Krieges in der Ukraine – das mediale Spannungsfeld unterschiedlicher Medientypen, Inszenierungen und rezeptiven Dynamiken.
Against a backdrop of increased online distribution of media, this book provides an in-depth analysis of how the platformisation of television is both shaping and being shaped by the changing sports media market.
If the mere mention of Shakespeare fills you with dread, evoking memories of arduous afternoons spent in stuffy classrooms with eccentric English teachers, it is time to reconsider that far from being three-hour marathons of unintelligible boring rubbish, Shakespeare's plays are in fact exciting, tragic, funny and often downright rude - full of memorable plots, great insults, filthy jokes and eccentric characters.
The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television is the first study to investigate the ways in which the creative use of anachronism in historical fictions can allow us to rethink the relationship between past and present.
The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television is the first study to investigate the ways in which the creative use of anachronism in historical fictions can allow us to rethink the relationship between past and present.
In fantastic worlds like Gondor, Westeros, Ankh-Morpork, Waterdeep, and Hogsmeade, the societies that inhabit them play important roles in capturing the feel of their settings.
In fantastic worlds like Gondor, Westeros, Ankh-Morpork, Waterdeep, and Hogsmeade, the societies that inhabit them play important roles in capturing the feel of their settings.
