Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon--'a history book for Scots'.
In seiner Studie analysiert Patrick Siegmann das Schreiben von Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard und Rainald Goetz, in welchem eine fortdauernde Auseinandersetzung mit dem Hass auf verschiedene Weisen thematisiert wird.
The book aims at interrogating the contemporary problematic of neoliberalism and its relationship to culture and ideology through the lens of a theoretical synthesis interweaving the emancipatory aesthetics of Herbert Marcuse, Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking analysis of the cultural logic of late capitalism, and the late Mark Fisher's work on "e;post-capitalist desire"e; and "e;acid communism.
Drawing on a selection of carefully curated autobiographical and fictional portrayals of the dementia experience, this book gives voice to some of the most pressing ethical issues that commonly arise in the context of a dementing disorder, and calls attention to various forms of narrative resistance in contemporary American literature on early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).