Die Moderne hat den Tabubruch zum ästhetischen Mittel erhoben; seine Ritualisierung als Legitimation der Autonomie von Kunst macht ihn - wiederum - in liberalen Gesellschaften obsolet.
Die Arbeit wendet sich in systematischer Fortführung der Forschung einem zentralen Thema in Kafkas Romanen zu: Spuren von Körperlichkeit lassen sich in allen drei Romanfragmenten unter vielfältigen poetologischen Aspekten betrachten.
Das gut illustrierte Buch setzt bei der Literatur der Inka, Maya und Azteken ein, widmet sich ausführlich der Kolonialzeit, setzt einen besonderen Akzent auf gegenwärtige Entwicklungen sowohl in den spanisch-amerikanischen Ländern als auch im portugiesischsprachigen Brasilien.
Der vorliegende Band weit die Bedeutung der Psychoanalyse für die Grundfragen der Literaturforschung nach und die Probleme der psychoanalytischen Textbetrachtung in ihrem heutigen Forschungsstand.
Der französische Kunstkritiker, Dichter und Romancier Théophile Gautier war eine allgegenwärtige und prägende Gestalt des literarischen wie künstlerischen Lebens im 19.
This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond.
Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces explores phenomena of urban mapping in the discourses and strategies of a variety of postwar artists and practitioners of space: Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Vito Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Rebecca Solnit, Matthew Buckingham, contemporary Situationist projects.
This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures and discoveries of Sherlock Holmes.
While historiography is dominated by attempts that try to standardize and de-individualize the behavior of animals, history proves to be littered with records of the exceptional lives of unusual animals.
This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that this topic has been relatively neglected in criticism, especially in Anglophone texts, apart from the scholarship devoted to Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966).
Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship between subject and landscape, self and place.
By offering an analysis of the idea of home across the individual, interpersonal, social, and global scales, Mapping Home aims to show the extent to which self-concept is deeply tied to constructions of home in a globally mobile age.
Writing Migration through the Body builds a study of the body as a mutable site for negotiating and articulating the transnational experience of mobility.
Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging from the medieval to the postmodern.