A long-overdue reassessment of post-1918 Salzburg as a distinct Austrian cultural hub that experimented in moving beyond war and empire into a modern, self-consciously inclusive, and international center for European culture.
With the research of German-language children's and youth literature and its media associations in the period from 1900 to 1945 as well as the recording of all data in an online portal for research and visual analysis, an innovative contribution to the historiography of children's and youth literature is available.
The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age argues that the humanist ideal of Bildung, the cultivation of the potentialities of the self through self-reflection, travel, and varied social intercourse, has been revitalized in an age of genocidal violence.
Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that hope emerges from the potentiality of the here and now, rather than the future, and as intimately entangled with negotiations of structures of belonging.
The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism.
Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that hope emerges from the potentiality of the here and now, rather than the future, and as intimately entangled with negotiations of structures of belonging.
From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, 'redemptive hybridism' - a new way of reading texts full of possibility and genre blending - emerges as a key trajectory for post-postmodernity.
From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, 'redemptive hybridism' - a new way of reading texts full of possibility and genre blending - emerges as a key trajectory for post-postmodernity.
Dans le contexte du postcolonialisme et de la mondialisation, la notion de Weltliteratur (littérature mondiale), forgée par Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, connaît un regain d'intérêt dans les études de littérature française et les études comparatistes.
This book is an in-depth study of the category "e;stranger"e; as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers.
This book is an in-depth study of the category "e;stranger"e; as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers.
Kompakt, übersichtlich, vollständig – so präsentiert dieser Band das prüfungsrelevante Wissen zu den Umbrüchen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur um 1900.
This book examines the various ways in which colonialism in Zimbabwe is remembered, looking both at how people analyse, perceive, and interpret the past, and how they rewrite that past, elevating some players and their historical agency.
Drawing on a global history of politicized writing, this book explores literature's utility as a mode of activism and aesthetic engagement with the political challenges of the current moment.
This book argues that the poetry of Cesar Vallejo announces the event, as a moment of irruption of a truth that destabilises the usual state of reality.
This book examines the literature of African-American author Richard Wright and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, arguing that Wright was not only the foremost proponent of minoritarian protest literature, but also a groundbreaking minoritarian exponent of philosophical literature.
Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory argues that the train is a loaded trope for reconfiguring narrative theories past their "e;spatial turn.
This book focuses on Ireland's lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation's fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life.
This book argues that the poetry of Cesar Vallejo announces the event, as a moment of irruption of a truth that destabilises the usual state of reality.
Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O'Carroll Kelly offers a thorough examination of narrative devices, satirical modes, cultural context and humour in Howard's texts.
Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O'Carroll Kelly offers a thorough examination of narrative devices, satirical modes, cultural context and humour in Howard's texts.
In times that are rife with complex manifestations of identity politics, writing classrooms across the world are hosting heated debates about what it means for authors to write about experiences outside their own.
Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and underrepresented storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters hegemonic methods.
Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's Beyond Tula is an uproarious romp through the earnestly boring and unintentionally campy world of early Soviet "e;production"e; prose, with its celebration of robust workers heroically building socialism.
This book focuses on Ireland's lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation's fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life.
Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and underrepresented storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters hegemonic methods.
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.
New York Elegies attempts to demonstrate how descriptions and evocations of New York City are connected to various stylistic modes and topical questions urgent to Ukrainian poetry throughout its development.
This book examines the literature of African-American author Richard Wright and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, arguing that Wright was not only the foremost proponent of minoritarian protest literature, but also a groundbreaking minoritarian exponent of philosophical literature.
Campus Fictions argues that the academic novel balances utopian and regressive tendencies, reinforcing the crises we face in higher learning while simultaneously signposting hope for a worn institution.
Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory argues that the train is a loaded trope for reconfiguring narrative theories past their "e;spatial turn.
Die Beiträge widmen sich aus internationaler Perspektive zentralen Texten im Werk von Erich Maria Remarque und ihrer Rezeption: Neben Analysen der Motive und Erzählstruktur von Remarques Werk stehen zentrale Berichte über die Rezeption und Übersetzungsgeschichte in Katalonien und Russland im Fokus.
Erich Maria Remarque war als Autor in so unterschiedlichen Medien wie Literatur, Film und Comic tätig oder als Journalist, Herausgeber und Komponist aktiv.
Der Dichter und Naturforscher Adelbert von Chamisso unternahm von 1815 bis 1818 eine Reise um die Welt; die handschriftlichen Originaltagebücher der Reise blieben in seinem Nachlass verborgen und werden hier erstmals in einer sorgfältig edierten und kommentierten zweibändigen Ausgabe vorgelegt, mit Erläuterungen, Essays und Glossaren.
Der ägyptische Schriftsteller Sonallah Ibrahim gewährt in seinem Notizbuch einen Einblick in zwei seiner Romane, die in einem eher dokumentarischen Stil geschrieben sind, eine persönliche Geschichte mit dem politischen Umfeld verweben und Exzerpte von Zeitschriften und Ansprachen zitieren.
