Comparative literature

This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The first volume of the new series "e;European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies"e; focuses on the relation between the avant-garde, modernism and Europe.

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit intermedialer U.

This book compares the nineteenth-century settler literatures of Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States in order to examine how they enable readers to manage guilt accompanying European settlement.

First published in 1992, Images of Disability on Television examines the frequency and nature of disability on British and American television and how it is perceived and presented by programme makers.

Since 2010 "e;curation"e; has become a marketing buzzword.

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.

Im Rahmen seines Kulturprogrammes und der Europäisierung des norwegischen Königshofes ließ König Hákon Hákonarson (geb.

This book examines how translation facilitated the Western conquest of China and how it was in turn employed by the Chinese as a weapon to resist the invasion in the late Qing 1811-1911.

This critical anthology sets out to explore the boom that horror cinema and TV productions have experienced in Spain in the past two decades.

This book examines the meaning of home through the investigation of a series of public and private spaces recurrent in Italian postcolonial literature.

This creative writing textbook introduces students to ecofiction: narrative writing that focuses on the environment.

Cultural Memory in Seamus Heaney's Late Work considers the ways that memory functions in Heaney's poetry.

This book examines the multiple ways that popular media mainstream and reinforce neoliberal ideology, exposing how they promote neoliberalism's underlying ideas, values and beliefs so as to naturalize inequality, undercut democracy and contribute to the collapse of social notions of community and the common good.

Stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle Eastrecovered and retold at lastIn 1923, the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange uprooted and swapped nearly two million Christians and Muslims, ';pacifying' the so-called Near East through ethnic partition and refugeehood.

How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and SenegalSacred Language, Vernacular Difference offers a new understanding of Arabic's global position as the basis for comparing cultural and literary histories in countries separated by vast distances.

Jakob Arjounis Texte erzählen von Verlierern und Betrügern, die verzweifelt bis perfide versuchen, ihre Umwelt oder auch sich selbst zu täuschen.

Due to the diversity of perspectives and methodologies within the relative uniformity of the subject, this collection of papers offers a rich overview of the multidisciplinary research on Arabic literature.

With twelve original essays that characterize truly international ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory, ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations, postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer ecologies.

In this work, the author contends that we should create a comparative framework for the study of imaginary worlds in the social sciences.

This trilingual volume sets out to address the forms of otherness and types of the Other through the example of case studies of European literatures and to look at them from an intercultural perspective.

The Lively Audience (1986) studies television from the children's own point of view.

Offering a radical reassessment of 1930s British literature, this volume questions the temporal limits of the literary decade, and broadens the scope of queer literary studies to consider literary-historical responses to a variety of behaviours encompassed by the term 'queer' in its many senses.

Stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle Eastrecovered and retold at lastIn 1923, the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange uprooted and swapped nearly two million Christians and Muslims, ';pacifying' the so-called Near East through ethnic partition and refugeehood.

At the time when this book was originally published, broadcasting in Britain had become a huge industry undergoing major changes.

Unlike many children's television shows, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood did more than simply entertain or occupy children's attention.

This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature.

Drawing from theories of the political economy of communication, this book offers readers a comprehensive data-rich assessment of contemporary sports television and its evolution.

The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought.

Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites-supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums-that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century.

What is it like to make television comedy?

The 17 contributions in this volume pursue a positioning of the philologies, which - based on the 'Volksgeist' (popular spirit) of the 19th century and the cultural studies of the 20th century - must reposition themselves in the 21st century.

Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history.

This book highlights the unique history and cultural context of retranslation in Turkey, offering readers a survey of the diverse range of fields, disciplines, and genres in which retranslation has assumed a central position.

This book highlights the unique history and cultural context of retranslation in Turkey, offering readers a survey of the diverse range of fields, disciplines, and genres in which retranslation has assumed a central position.

Originally published in 1996, ethnic minorities in the UK made up over 5% of the population yet were hardly represented in the hundreds of hours of terrestrial broadcast television each week.

This volume explores drag in global online spaces as a distinct departure from the established success, and limitations, of RuPaul's Drag Race.

From HGTV and the Food Network to Keeping Up With the Kardashians, television is preoccupied with the pursuit and exhibition of lifestyle.

Wozu vergleichen - und was überhaupt?

Law and Order Special Victims Unit (SVU) is more popular than any other American police procedural television series, but how does its unique focus on sex crimes reflect contemporary popular culture and feminist critique, whilst also recasting the classic crime narrative?