Accolades such as the best TV show of the twentieth century or the longest-running scripted series on American prime-time television have elevated The Simpsons to the pop culture pantheon, while also suggesting the very vintage character of the program.
On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China.
Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradition in motion.
This book argues that the songs on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding are deeply concerned with the fractures in collective memory and politics contemporary with its composition and recording.
ENGEver since Karl Jaspers's axial age paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman history and culture.
Literaturkritik hat heute zwischen feuilletonistischer Debatte, YouTube-Kanal und universitärem Seminar viele neue Formen angenommen und in der digitalen Form ihre Reichweite enorm ausgedehnt.
This book examines drone warfare – primarily understood now as an issue of technology, military strategy, and law – through popular cultural forms: fiction, film, drama, theater, art, performance, and dance.
This book explores the significance of corporeality in literature through a “South-South” comparison of the works of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez and Congolese author Sony Labou Tansi.
This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to construct China's independent cultural identity.
This book examines William Blake as a ‘mystic’ and the movements and authors that contributed to this definition during and after his lifetime, with a particular focus on his influence on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Celtic Modernist writers.
This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval Icelandic sagas but weaving in examples from Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and the Pet Shop Boys.
This book explores the significance of corporeality in literature through a “South-South” comparison of the works of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez and Congolese author Sony Labou Tansi.
This book examines William Blake as a ‘mystic’ and the movements and authors that contributed to this definition during and after his lifetime, with a particular focus on his influence on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Celtic Modernist writers.
This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval Icelandic sagas but weaving in examples from Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and the Pet Shop Boys.
This volume aims to present a critical and interdisciplinary reflection on diversity and migration mainly grouped into three axes of work: research methodologies applied to these topics; discourse analysis in intersectional narratives; and, knowledge transference into plural societies.
Literaturkritik hat heute zwischen feuilletonistischer Debatte, YouTube-Kanal und universitärem Seminar viele neue Formen angenommen und in der digitalen Form ihre Reichweite enorm ausgedehnt.
This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to construct China's independent cultural identity.
This book examines drone warfare – primarily understood now as an issue of technology, military strategy, and law – through popular cultural forms: fiction, film, drama, theater, art, performance, and dance.
This volume aims to present a critical and interdisciplinary reflection on diversity and migration mainly grouped into three axes of work: research methodologies applied to these topics; discourse analysis in intersectional narratives; and, knowledge transference into plural societies.
Moritz Schweiger untersucht in seiner Studie die Existenz eines populärkulturellen Wissens, das über das Hintergrundwissen zu einzelnen Titeln oder Genres hinausreicht.
Moritz Schweiger untersucht in seiner Studie die Existenz eines populärkulturellen Wissens, das über das Hintergrundwissen zu einzelnen Titeln oder Genres hinausreicht.
The book presents twentieth-century Polish literature as an example of Eastern European modernism while foregrounding the understanding of modernity in Polish literature.
The book presents twentieth-century Polish literature as an example of Eastern European modernism while foregrounding the understanding of modernity in Polish literature.