Comparative literature

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This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to represent global economic and ecological crises.

This poignant story of survival, friendship, and love begins with the the author's childhood during the Holocaust in Hungary.

The past two decades witnessed the rise of television entertainment in China.

Victoria Stilwell provides her successful programme for perfect dog training.

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century.

When the general public follow the Olympic Games on television, on the internet, even in the newspapers, they feel like they have themselves experienced the performances of the athletes.

This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture.

This book analyses the impact of economic informality on the novel form across the modern world-system, looking specifically at works by Antonio de Almeida, Machado de Assis, Dany Laferriere, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, and Masande Ntshanga.

This volume offers new perspectives on knowledge production through various forms of togetherness.

National Cultures and Foreign Narratives charts the pathways through which foreign literature in translation has arrived in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century.

Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the "e;digital native"e; who acts as an unquestioning devotee to screened technologies like the smartphone.

The book traces the literary journey that Proust's work made to China and back by means of translation, intertextual engagement, and the creation of a transcultural dialogue through migrant literature.

Cervantes is regarded as the author of the first novel and the inventor of fiction.

This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning.

In what ways is comedy subversive?

Literature reveals that the hidden strings of the human `passional soul' are the creative source of the specifically human existence.

This work brings together writings on television published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, from essays by Nick Browne and Beverle Houston to the latest historical and critical research.

This edited volume covers an array of the most relevant topics in translation cognition, taking different approaches and using different research tools.

This book explores the philosophical and theological thought of Nikos Kazantzakis.

Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit dem noch wenig erforschten politischen Spätwerk des französischen Autors Jean Genet (1910-1986) aus diskursanalytischer und feldtheoretischer Perspektive.

This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

In an age of migration, in a world deeply divided through cultural differences and in the context of ongoing efforts to preserve national and regional traditions and identities, the issues of language and translation are becoming absolutely vital.

Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of the underworld.

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.

Television in Canada has been undervalued as a cultural form.

There is a prehistory of the adultery novel, which became a pan-European literary paradigm in the second half of the 19th century.

This book examines mediation topics such as impartiality, self-determination and fair outcomes through popular culture lenses.

Since the "e;Automatic Binding Bricks"e; that LEGO produced in 1949, and the LEGO "e;System of Play"e; that began with the release of Town Plan No.

Galizien war ethnisch, konfessionell, linguistisch, sozial und politisch vielfältig.

InhaltMartin Wengeler: Kontroverse Diskurse.

Yeshayahu Leibowitz and Emmanuel Levinas were amongst the two leading Jewish thinkers to have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century.

Wir interpretieren nicht nur Texte und haben dafür eine besondere „hermeneutische Kunst“ (Schleiermacher) entwickelt,  sondern wir interpretieren auch die Welt um uns.

Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era.

This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state and the dawn of a new cosmopolitanism.

The question of why we laugh (or don't laugh) has intrigued scholars since antiquity.

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.

The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series.

This work brings together writings on television published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, from essays by Nick Browne and Beverle Houston to the latest historical and critical research.

This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space.

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