Comparative literature Books
De Gruyter Ko-Erinnerung
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De Gruyter Theater as Metaphor
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De Gruyter Réécriture und Rezeption
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De Gruyter Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, and Survival: Camp Literature in a Transnational Perspective
Book SynopsisThe concept of “camp narratives” rather than “Holocaust narratives” or “Gulag narratives” is based on the assumption that literary accounts of camp experiences share common traits, aesthetically as well as thematically. The book presents readings of camp literature that underscore the similarities between texts about Soviet gulag camps, Nazi camps and about other camp experiences. While literature about Nazi concentration camps still serves as a point of reference for camp narratives in the same way that the Holocaust serves as a point of reference for other genocidal operations, socialist labor and penal camps have become transnational lieux de mémoire in their own right since 1989. This volume intends to provide a theoretical frame as well as an overview of several important European camp literatures and case studies of iconic camp narratives and to take a comparative and transnational perspective on the genre of the camp narrative.
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De Gruyter Literarische Wissenschaftsgeschichte Und Wissenschaftstheorie: Kehlmann - del Giudice - Serres
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De Gruyter Experiencing Ethics with Sterne and Musil: A relentless character construction
Book SynopsisExperiencing ethics not only refers to being confronted with a situation in which one must choose a course of action; it also makes reference to giving a narrative account of the circumstances and chain of events leading to such crossroads. Between both there is a chasm, a space of indeterminacy into which R. Musil and L. Sterne delve with aesthetic means. Their poetics move in opposite directions, but by following them to their last critical consequences this study reveals a kindred ethical stance.This interpretation sheds light on the ethics revolving around character construction by examining the constraints thwarting any attempt to complete a biographical account or convey a protagonist that led his or her life. Neither Musil nor Sterne posit a narrative agenda that could reach a last chapter or lead to a groundwork determining their ethics. A closer look into their tight-knit prose reveals that both rely on the narrating, on a skill that must be incessantly cultivated through a digressive or essayistic style.Equipped with a vast theoretical repertoire, this approach makes a strong case for a new constellation in comparative literature.
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De Gruyter Narrativity, Coherence and Literariness: A Theoretical Approach with Analyses of Laclos, Kafka and Toussaint
Book SynopsisThe search for the defining qualities of narrative has produced an expansive range of definitions which, largely unconnected with each other, obscure the notion of “narrativity” rather than clarifying it.The first part of this study remedies this shortcoming by developing a graded macro model of narrativity which serves three aims. Firstly, it provides a structured overview of the field of narrative elements and processes. Secondly, it facilitates the classification of narratological approaches by locating them on different stages of narrativity. Finally, it focuses attention on narrative dynamics as interpretative processes by which readers seek to produce narrative coherence.The second part of this study identifies three different narrative dynamics which characterise Laclos’s "Dangerous Connections," Kafka’s "Castle" and Toussaint’s novels. Wagner bases her analyses of these dynamics not only on the texts themselves but also on the ways in which literary scholars imbue the texts with narrative coherence.This book provides a long overdue systematisation of the jumbled field of theories of narrativity and opens new perspectives on the difficult relationship between narrative theory and interpretation.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man
Book SynopsisThe first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world. Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative writer, and obsessively engaged in almost endless deferral via variations and metaphoric possibilities in his novel project, The Man without Qualities. This lifelong process of writing is embodied in the unfinished novel by a recurring metaphor of self-generating de-centered circle worlds. The present study analyzes this structure with reference to Musil's concepts of the utopia of the Other Condition, Living and Dead Words, Specific and Non-Specific Emotions, Word Magic, andthe Still Life. In contrast to most recent studies of Musil, it concludes that the extratemporal metaphoric experience of the Other Condition does not fail, but rather constitutes the formal and ethical core of Musil's novel. Thefirst study to utilize the newly published Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's literary remains (a searchable annotated text), The World as Metaphor offers a close reading of variations and text genesis, shedding light not onlyon Musil's novel, but also on larger questions about the modernist artist's role and responsibility in consciously re-creating the world. Genese Grill holds a PhD in Germanic Literatures and Languages from the GraduateSchool and University Center of the City University of New York.Trade ReviewGrill's meticulously researched study offers a persuasive and original interpretation of [Musil's] novel. . . . [T]his book is highly recommended for a deeper understanding of Musil's brilliant and still relevant modernist work. * JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES *Grill's book is a careful meditation on the poetics of metaphor that she finds organizing Musil's novel. Grill has mined the Nachlaß to good effect, making available important material and new considerations of the novel. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *[A] worthy contribution to international Musil research. Grill obtains with it the rare status of a researcher who at one and the same time explains a thesis and carries it out in her own writing. For her painstaking work in the archive the study earns the particular praise and interest of those who want to concern themselves more deeply with the canonical works of modernism such as The Man without Qualities. * MUSIL-FORUM *[P]rovides an invaluable structure - the best I've encountered - for assessing the later sections and unfinished draft material of The Man Without Qualities. . . . Grill's major achievement is in bringing together the disparate, unpublished material of Musil's last years into a structure that clarifies, at least somewhat, Musil's ambitions. . . . For illuminating the join between the earlier and latter sections of [Musil's novel] in a way that gives real shape to the whole, Grill's book is tremendous. * DAVID AUERBACH, WAGGISH.ORG *[I]nspired and textually knowledgeable . . . . [A] spirited and enthusiastic defence of the creative literary act as a kind of utopian 'révolution permanente' . . . forever avoiding closure . . . . The reader is led through a rich textual landscape, from quotation to quotation (including material from the Klagenfurt electronic edition . . .), but the overall impression thus generated is of a self-referential and secular artistic universe that is loaded with theological expectations - something that would surely have made Musil smile. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Failure to Reconcile as Modernist Success Circles Repeatability and Crime Word Magic Still Life: (Not) Doing What Isn't Done Conclusion
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WW Norton & Co The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Book SynopsisHow do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasising the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His work became the playbook for Hollywood, with its many male-centric quest narratives. Unsatisfied with Campbell’s once-canonical work, Maria Tatar explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on social missions. Using the domestic arts and storytelling skills, they have displayed audacity, curiosity and care as they struggled to survive and change the reigning culture. Animating figures from Ovid’s Philomela, her tongue severed yet still weaving a tale about sexual assault, to Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander, a high-tech wizard seeking justice for victims of a serial killer, The Heroine with 1,001 Faces creates a luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present.Trade Review"Our ur-narratives, Tatar shows, return again and again to the abuse and silencing of women, and the heroines she selects in myths, fairy tales, novels, television series, news stories and films use storytelling to ‘rescue, restore, or fix things’. Starting with Philomela, who was raped and had her tongue cut out, Tatar reminds us that contemporary Philomelas are everywhere, only today we cut out their tongues with confidentiality agreements and by creating situations, as Ronan Farrow said of Harvey Weinstein, in which a woman’s silence will benefit her more than speaking out ever could." -- Frances Wilson - Literary Review
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
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University Press of Florida Transnational Hispaniola: New Directions in
Book SynopsisIn addition to sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a complicated and at times painful history. Yet Transnational Hispaniola shows that there is much more to the two nations' relationship than their perceived antagonism. Rejecting dominant narratives that reinforce opposition between the two sides of the island, contributors to this volume highlight the connections and commonalities that extend across the border, mapping new directions in Haitianist and Dominicanist scholarship.Exploring a variety of topics including European colonialism, migration, citizenship, sex tourism, music, literature, political economy, and art, contributors demonstrate that alternate views of Haitian and Dominican history and identity have existed long before the present day. From a moving section on passport petitions that reveals the familial, friendship, and communal networks across Hispaniola in the nineteenth century to a discussion of the shared music traditions that unite the island today, this volume speaks of an island and people bound together in a myriad of ways.Complete with reflections and advice on teaching a transnational approach to Haitian and Dominican studies, this agenda-setting volume argues that the island of Hispaniola and its inhabitants should be studied in a way that contextualizes differences, historicizes borders, and recognizes cross-island links.Contributors: Paul Austerlitz, Nathalie Bragadir, Raj Chetty, Anne Eller, Kaiama L. Glover, Maja Horn, Regine Jean-Charles, Kiran C. Jayaram, Elizabeth Manley, April Mayes, Elizabeth Russ, Fidel J. Tavárez, Elena ValdezPublication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Wits University Press Foundational African Writers
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection were crafted in celebration of the centenaries, in 2019, of Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele, all of whom were born in 1919. These foundational writers produced more than a half-century of writing and cultural production spanning criticism, editorials, essays, fiction, journalism, life writing and orature. The essays in the collection showcase these writers’ multifaceted engagements and generative insights on a wide range of issues, including precolonial existence, colonialism, empire, race, the language question, tradition, gender, modernity, exile, Pan-Africanism and decolonisation. A number of political and thematic threads cut across the essays, including those that explore the significance of the ‘colour line’, the role of education and cultural practices amidst the unfolding of colonial modernity, state racism and print culture in South Africa and elsewhere. Foundational African Writers examines the ways in which the centenarians’ legacies still resonate in the present and how the body of work that they produced is crucial to the genealogies and institutions of modern African and diasporic black arts and letters. Studying their works revisits established debates, provokes possibilities for interdisciplinary engagement with the imperatives of decolonisation and opens up new trajectories for future scholarship.Table of Contents List of illustrations Foreword – Simon Gikandi Acknowledgements Tribute to Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson – Jill Bradbury, Khwezi Mkhize and Makhosazana Xaba Introduction – Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize and Makhosazana Xaba Part I: Remapping and Rereading African Literature and Cultural Production Chapter 1 Foundational Writers and the Making of African Literary Genealogy: Es’kia Mphahlele and Peter Abrahams – James Ogude Chapter 2 Foundational African Literary Discourse and Dimensions of Authority – Obi Nwakanma Chapter 3 Situating Sibusiso Nyembezi in African Literary History – Sikhumbuzo Mngadi Chapter 4 A Footnote and a Pioneer: Noni Jabavu’s Legacy – Athambile Masola Chapter 5 ‘Navigations of Tyranny’: Reconsidering Es’kia Mphahlele’s Writing – Crain Soudien Chapter 6 Noni Jabavu and the Sensibilities of Early Black Educated Elites – Hugo Canham Part II: South Africa and Fugitive Imaginaries Chapter 7 (Un)Homing and the Uncanny: The (Auto)Biographical Es’kia Mphahlele – Thando Njovane Chapter 8 In the Shadows of the British Empire: Nyembezi’s Inkinsela YaseMngungundlovu – Innocentia J. Mhlambi Chapter 9 Escaping Apartheid: Race, Education and Cultural Exchange, 1955–2003 – Anne-Maria Makhulu Chapter 10 Photographing Home Life in Alexandra between the 1930s and the 1970s – Thuto Thipe 11 Down Avenues of (Un)Learning: Reading, Writing and Being – Jill Bradbury Part III: In the Eye of the Short Century: Diaspora and pan-Africanism Reconsidered Chapter 12 Es’kia Mphahlele and the Question of the Aesthetic – Khwezi Mkhize Chapter 13 ‘African Contrasts’: Noni Jabavu’s Travelogue as Kaleidoscope – Tina Steiner Chapter 14 Es’kia Mphahlele, Chemchemi and Pan-African Literary Publics – Christopher E.W. Ouma Chapter 15 The ‘Crossroads and Forkways’ of Pan-Africanism between 1948 and 1968 – Bhekizizwe Peterson Chapter 16 ‘She Certainly Couldn’t Be Conventional If She Tried’: Noni Jabavu, the Editor of The New Strand Magazine in London – Makhosazana Xaba Chapter 17 Anti-Colonial Romance and Tragedy in Peter Abrahams’ A Wreath for Udomo – Andrea Thorpe 18 Mphahlele’s Writing in the Whirlwind – Stéphane Robolin Chapter 19 From South Africa to Coyaba: Peter Abrahams’ (New) World Geographies – Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi Contributors Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Spanish American Modernismo
Book SynopsisThe first Spanish-language literary movement to originate in the New World and subsequently influence literary activity in Spain continues to be relevant to contemporary Spanish American writers. Modernismo, a literary movement of fundamental importance to Spanish America and Spain, occurred at the turn of the nineteenth century, roughly from the 1880s to the 1920s. It is widely regarded as the first Spanish-language literary movement that originated in the New World and that became influential in the "Mother Country," Spain. Characterized by the appropriation of French Symbolist aesthetics into Spanish-language literature, modernismo's other significant traits were its cultural cosmopolitanism, its philological concern with language, literary history, and literary technique, and its journalistic penchant for novelty and fashion. Despite the splendor of modernista poetry, modernismo is now understood as a broad movement whose impact was felt just as strongly in the prose genres: the short story, the novel, the essay, and the journalistic crónica [chronicle]. Conceived as an introduction to modernismo as well as an account of the current state of the art of modernismo studies, this book examines the movement's contribution to the various Spanish American literary genres, its main authors [from Martí and Nájera to Darío and Rodó], its social and historical context, and its continuing relevance to the work of contemporary Spanish American authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Sergio Ramírez, aargas Llosa. ANÍBAL GONZÁLEZ-PÉREZ is Professor of Modern Latin American Literature at Yale University.Trade ReviewA Companion to Spanish American Modernismo es una excelente introducción al Modernismo que nos da una vision general de lo fue este movimiento fundacional de la literatura hispanoamericana moderna. * REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA *A work of scrupulous scholarship. * TLS *Table of ContentsThe Modernista Age Modernismo and Journalism: the crónicas The Modernista Short Story The Modernista Essay The Modernista Novel Modernista Poetry Modernismo's Legacy Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Javier Marías
Book SynopsisA detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and popular writers in Spain today. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the full range of Marías' writing, including discussion and analysis of his literary and intellectual formation, his development as a novelist and short story writer, andhis unique perspective offered in nearly twenty-five years of newspaper columns on topics ranging from religion to football. Above all, Marías is examined as a writer of fictions. As a translator of several canonical works from English to Spanish, Marías came to appreciate the preciseness of words as well as their ambiguity, their capacity to represent as well as their propensity to distort. The author examines Marías's constant awareness of how languagecan be used to construct stories as the foundation for engaging the world as well as for imagining it. The nature of Marías's storytelling, and the way in which he imagines, form the principal focus of this Companion. David K. Herzberger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.Trade ReviewVery good insights ... a very sound in-depth study of Marías' work ... Should be sought after by all with a scholarly interest in Marías' work. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *A splendid overview [...] the most comprehensive analysis to date on the narrative of Javier Marias. The book is informative, illuminating and admirably clear. * HISPANIA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Writing in the Newspapers: Everything Under the Sun Two Early Novels: Dominios del lobo and Travesías del horizonte Two Transitional Novels: El siglo and El hombre sentimental On Oxford, Redonda, and the Practice of reading: Todas las almas and Negra espalda del tiempo Two Shakespearean Novels Tu rostro mañana Other Writings Suggested Further Reading Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Fiction of Juan Rulfo: Irony, Revolution and
Book SynopsisThis is the first extended, English-language study to focus exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years, analyzing a selection of short stories from Rulfo's collection and also two of the main characters of hismasterpiece, Pedro Páramo. This is the first extended, English-language study to focus exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years. It contains innovative analyses of a selection of short stories from Rulfo's collection, El llano en llamas (1953). It also examines in great depth two of the main characters of Pedro Páramo (1955), Rulfo's masterpiece and only novel. The book shows how Rulfo's works can be read as exercises in irony directed againstthe rhetoric of post-Revolutionary Mexican governments. It also demonstrates the relevance of certain legacies of colony in Rulfo's use of irony. Successive Mexican governments promoted a vision of post-Revolutionary society founded on specific notions of ethnicity, family, nation, education, religion and rural politics. The author combines examination of the speeches, images and newspaper articles which disseminated this vision with incisive literary analyses of Rulfo's work. These analyses are informed both by his original theory of irony, based on "internal" and "external" referents, and by existing postcolonial theories, particularly those of Homi K. Bhabha. Amit Thakkar is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Lancaster University.Trade ReviewThe reader is captivated by Thakkar's exercise of close reading and his penetrating analysis of Rulfo's work against the discourse of the post-Revolutionary state in speeches, newspaper articles, essays and murals. Read against this background, Rulfo's words acquire an additional weight ... Thakkar's remarkable insight and scholarship render this book essential reading for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of Rulfo's works. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *This book is a very welcome addition to the existing body of criticism on Rulfo and an important reminder that 'literary, symbolic, universal' and 'non-literary, regional, context specific' readings are not mutually exclusive. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Juan Rulfo and Fictional Irony Centripetal Irony in 'Nos han dado la tierra' and 'El día del derrumbe' Centrifugal Irony and 'La Unidad Nacional' Ambivalence and the Crisis of the Mimic Man: Irony and Context in 'Luvina' The Priest of Pedro Páramo:Fetishistic Stereotyping and Positive Iconography Pedro Páramo: Irony and Caciquismo Conclusion Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Gabriel García Márquez
Book SynopsisOne of the major Latin American writers of the twentieth century. This book offers discussion and analysis of the subtle writing of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez - a traditionalist who draws from classic Western texts, a Modernist committed to modernizing the conservative literary tradition in Colombia and Latin America, an internationally recognized major writer of the 1960s Boom, the key figure in popularizing what has been called "magic realism" and, finally, a Modernist who has occasionally engaged in some ofthe strategies of the postmodern. The author demonstrates that García Márquez is above all a committed and highly accomplished Modernist fiction writer who has successfully synthesized his political vision in his writing and absorbed a vast array of cultural and literary traditions. Drawing on García Márquez's interviews with Williams and others over the years, the book also explores the importance of the non-literary, the presence of oral tradition and the visual arts, thus providing a more complete insight into García Márquez's strategies as a Modernist with heterogeneous aesthetic interests, as well as an understanding of his social and political preoccupations. RAYMOND LESLIE WILLIAMS is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Riverside.Trade ReviewWell organized and sets out to guide the reader through García Márquez's major works in an order that, though not strictly chronological, is attentive to the writer's development. * TLS *Williams writes clear, unobstructed sentences and shies away from pedantic terminology, qualities that make the material accessible to students. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *This volume provides a useful summary for both students and academics alike whilst the bibliography offers an extensive list of further reading. It is an essential addition for the libraries of institutions where Latin American literature forms part of the curriculum. Given the importance of Márquez in modern literature the volume also deserves a place in the large general reference library. * REFERENCE REVIEWS *[T]his study provides an invaluable understanding of a unique writer who has become a classic in his region and the world. Essential. * CHOICE *
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms
Book SynopsisThis open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” and “Forms,” the volume proposes new theoretical approaches for the study of autofiction and the autofictional, offers fresh perspectives on many of the prominent authors in the discussion, draws them into a dialogue with autofictional practice from across the globe, and brings into view texts, forms, and media that have not traditionally been considered for their autofictional dimensions. The book, in sum, expands the parameters of research on autofiction to date to allow new voices and viewpoints to emerge.Table of Contents
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Springer International Publishing AG Maternal Modernism: Narrating New Mothers
Book SynopsisDrawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how these writers challenged, resisted, adapted and negotiated traditional ideas with their own versions of new motherhood, with needs for identities and experiences beyond maternity. Tracing the period from the end of the nineteenth century through the twentieth, this study explores how some of the numerous elements and forces we identify with modernism are manifested in equally diverse and often competing representations of mothers, mothering and motherhood. It investigates how historical personages and fictional protagonists used and were constructed within textual spaces where they engaged critically with the maternal as institution, identity and practice, from perspectives informed by gender, sexuality, nationhood, race and class. The matrifocal literatures examined in this book exemplify how feminist motherhoods feature as a prominent thematic of the long modernist era and how rebellious New Woman mothers provocatively wrote maternity into text and history.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The “persistent rebels” of Maternal ModernismChapter: The New Woman, New Modernisms, and New MotherhoodsChapter 3: Mothers in New Woman Fiction: “the terra incognita of herself”Chapter 4: “The ‘momentousness’ of motherhood”: Maternal Ideologies, Discourses, and Debates in The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review and The Freewoman: A Weekly Humanist ReviewChapter 5: “The Title Role of ‘Mother’”: Silent-Film Stardom and Celebrity Maternity in Photoplay MagazineChapter 6: “Freedom and childbearing”: Prams, Politics, and Literary Life in NewWoman Autobiographies of the Interwar EraChapter 7: “A mother, a wife, a worker and a wonder-woman”: Matroethnography, Black Feminism, and Postcolonial New Womanhood in Buchi Emecheta’s London NarrativesChapter 8: Coda: New Womanism in the Twenty-First Century
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De Gruyter The Transnational in Literary Studies: Potential
Book SynopsisThis volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and limitations of writing literary history with a transnational focus. These chapters illustrate how such a perspective loosens the epistemic stranglehold of national historiographies, but they also argue that the transnational and national agendas of literary historiography are frequently entangled. The chapters in Part 3 identify transnational genres such as the transnational historical novel, transnational migrant fiction and translinguistic theatre, and analyse the specific poetics and politics of these genres.
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De Gruyter Werk Und Beiwerk: Zur Edition Von Paratexten
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De Gruyter Der Text und seine Kultur(en)
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De Gruyter Figuren des Versagens
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De Gruyter Utopie Und Dystopie: Beiträge Zur
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Bohlau Verlag An den Rändern der Literatur. Dokument und
Book SynopsisDie Integration der Dokumente wird als eine Geste der Spaltung betrachtet, die das Zusammenspiel der faktischen und fiktionalen Wahrheitsbehauptungen in literarischen Texten hervorhebt (Riffaterre, 1990). Dadurch kommen der dokumentarische Anspruch auf Glaubwürdigkeit und die Literarizität des Textes in Widerspruch. Daher ist die erste Prämisse des Bandes die Auswirkung des dokumentarischen Paktes (Foley, 1986) auf die Bestimmung der Literatur. Die betonte Referenzfunktion der Dokumentarliteratur führt zum ständigen Überschreiten der Grenze zwischen Fakt und Fiktion, wobei sich diese Grenze als instabil erweist und die Realität transfiguriert (A. Danto). Um die unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen des Dokumentarischen zu erfassen, wird eine kommunikativ-funktionale Bestimmung der Literatur vorgeschlagen, die vom dokumentarischen Gestus und der exponierten Text-Kontext-Beziehung ausgeht. Die nächste Prämisse ist, dass das Jahr 1989 mit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer, dem Zerfall des Ostblocks und dem Ende des Kalten Krieges als eine weitreichende politische Zäsur angesehen werden kann, die nicht nur das Aufkommen neuer dokumentarischer Verfahren in zentraleuropäischen Literaturen begünstigte, sondern auch die Grenzen des Literarischen und Dokumentarischen neu positioniert. The use of documentary is viewed as a gesture of split, as it places literary fiction between factual and fictional claims to truth (Riffaterre, 1990). In other words, the documentary claim to authenticity violates literary structural principles. As a result, the volume''s first premise is the impact of the documentary pact (Foley, 1986) on defining literature. The emphasized referential function of documentary literature results in the constant crossing of the boundary between fact and fiction, which proves unstable and transfigures reality (A. Danto). The second premise is that 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the Eastern Bloc, and the end of the Cold War, can be viewed as a wide-ranging political caesura that not only encouraged the emergence of new documentary literary practices in Central European literatures, but also repositioned the boundaries between the literary and the documentary.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Liebeswerbung Im Dialog: Die Dialoglieder Des
Book SynopsisLiebeswerbung als rhetorischer Wettstreit
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Harrassowitz Vom Wehrturm Zur Streichholzschachtel: Orte Und
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Erzahlte Religion: Theologie Und Glaube Im
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Der Mann im Untergrund: Zu einem
Book SynopsisThe work constitutes a type of masculinity in Russian literature of the second half of the 19th century and traces its development from pathetic, insect-like figures (Gogol's "The Coat", Čechov's "The Man in the Case", Andreev's "At the Window") to self-confident ones murderers (Dostoevsky's "The Gentle", Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata", Tolstaya's "Whose Guilt", Andreev's "In the Fog"). Dostoevsky's "Untergrundmensch" ("Notes from the underground") occupies a central position, the variations of which are found in numerous texts of the time. The study shows the role played by the pathological loneliness of the characters on the narrative level, and the role played by gender relations and socio-historical hierarchies. Methodologically, it is based on the gender and masculinity studies of poststructuralism. The analysis of the texts shows the helplessness of a lonely, insecure male subject who rebels against a social order.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Umrisse einer Dritten Kultur im
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