Comparative literature Books
V&R unipress GmbH Was ich schreibe, ist leider weder lustig noch
Book SynopsisJakob Arjounis Texte erzählen von Verlierern und Betrügern, die verzweifelt bis perfide versuchen, ihre Umwelt oder auch sich selbst zu täuschen. Sie erzählen auch von der deutschen Identität und der ihr inhärenten Ablehnung und Abgrenzung vom Fremden. Stereotypisierung und Subversion sind bei Arjouni zentrale Erzählverfahren, die den oberflächlichen Blick auf das Andere und das Eigene spiegeln, aber auch auf narrative und gattungsspezifische Stereotype zurückgreifen. Hinter Arjounis Ironie, Situationskomik und Sprachwitz scheint eine Ästhetik des Scheiterns an individuellen und gesellschaftlichen Voraussetzungen im Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit durch. Zehn Jahre nach Arjounis Tod präsentiert dieser Band Forschungsergebnisse und -tendenzen zu seinem Werk.Arjouni's texts tell the stories of losers and impostors who desperately try to uphold their identity concepts or satisfy social demands. They also adress the German' identity and its inherent rejection and demarcation from the foreign'. Stereotyping and subversion are central narrative devices in Arjouni?'s work, mirroring the superficial view of the other' and the own', but also encompassing narrative and genre-specific stereotypes. Behind Arjouni's irony, situational comedy, and wit, an aesthetic of failure to satisfy individual and social conditions in postwar Germany shines through. Ten years after Arjouni's death, this book presents research findings and tendencies on his work.
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V&R unipress GmbH Der Regionalkrimi: Ausdifferenzierungen und
Book SynopsisHeutzutage gibt es keine sicheren Orte mehr. Das Verbrechen lauert hinter jedem Mietshaus und jeder Scheune. Gemordet wird in der Nachbarwohnung, vor der Kirchentür, in der Shisha-Bar oder auf dem Kartoffelacker. Gesetzesverstöße haben sich in räumlicher Hinsicht sozusagen emanzipiert, was man auch in dem literarischen Universum des Kriminalromans beobachten kann. Großstädte, die seit jeher als Brutstätten des Bösen galten, bekamen spätestens seit den 1980er Jahren starke Konkurrenz in Form der kriminellen Provinz, die den Metropolen den Rang als Sündenräume schlechthin ablaufen möchte. Denn die Region impliziert bei weitem nicht mehr nur Geborgenheit und Abschottung vor der brutalen Außenwelt; die Region bedeutet Blutvergießen und Gewalttaten, die im Regionalkrimi narrativ verhandelt werden. Das Ziel des vorliegenden Sammelbandes besteht darin, diesen literarischen Verbrechensmodi narrativ zu Leibe zu rücken.There are no safe places these days. Crime lurks behind every apartment building and every barn. Murders are committed in neighbouring apartments, outside church doors, in shisha bars or in potato fields. From a spatial perspective, lawbreaking has emancipated itself so to speak. This can also be observed in the literary universe of crime novels. Since the 1980s large cities, which have always been regarded as hotbeds of evil, have had strong competition from the criminal province, outstripping the metropolises as sin spaces par excellence. However, the province no longer implies security and isolation from the brutal outside world. The province stands for bloodshed and acts of violence, which are narratively negotiated in local crime novels. The aim of this volume is to get to the heart of these literary modes of crime from a narrative perspective.
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V&R unipress GmbH Toujours du sentiment: Zur Poetik des
Book SynopsisMore than any other genre, the sentimental novel is subject to the prejudice of trivial rapture, which is supposed to be particularly prevalent among women. However, it is not an intrinsically female genre. Rather, women writers around 1800 must conform to the specifications of the male-dominated literary field in order to have their texts printed. One consequence of this restriction on creativity is that the boundaries of the sentimental novel are deliberately expanded and undermined. Greta Lansen examines the functionalization of sentimental codes using the examples of female authors writing in French and German around 1800.
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V&R unipress GmbH Unter dem Signum der Grenze: Literarische Reflexe
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V&R unipress GmbH Reimagined Communities: Rewriting Nationalisms in
Book SynopsisNew perspectives on representations of nationalism and its discontents in literary discourses
£64.87
Vaso Roto Ediciones S.L Economía de lo que no se pierde
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Springer International Publishing AG Mourning and Resilience in Indian Ocean Life
Book SynopsisThis volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. The two motifs that run through the chapters – mourning and resilience – are theoretical frameworks that have so far not been brought into conversation in this way. The combination of trauma studies and autobiographical analysis sharpens the focus of the discussions on Indian Ocean life writing, privileging an Indian Ocean imaginary that is transnational and cross-oceanic in its orientation and pointing to networks of connections that transcend the nation state, which is often the origin of trauma in the first place. Filling a gap in Indian Ocean studies in its close readings of trauma and resilience, the book also broadens perspectives on postcolonial life writing since little attention has been paid so far to Indian Ocean autobiographical literary products. By the same token, the volume also enriches the field of Indian Ocean literary studies by incorporating life writing as an aesthetic strategy which helps to configure Indian Ocean subjectivities.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Mourning as a Resistance Trope: Trauma, History and Memory in Indian Ocean Life Writing - Esther Pujolràs-Noguer & Felicity Hand.- Part I: Mourning Memoirs.- 2 The Ectopic Insider: Exploring the Interstices of Travel Writing, Memory and History in M.G. Vassanji’s And Home Was Kariakoo - Esther Pujolràs-Noguer.- 3 Of Father and Son: The Configuration of the Trauma of Return in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family - Esther Pujolràs-Noguer.- Part II: Female Resilience.- 4 Rhizomatic Perennials: Resilience and Survival in Kenyan Asian Memoirs - Felicity Hand.- 5 ‘Learning to wear a sari is a rite of passage’: Shailja Patel’s Inventory of the Migrant Body in Migritude - Esther Pujolràs-Noguer.- Part III: Indian Ocean Crossing.- 6 Transoceanic Connections, Past and Present. Lindsey Collen’s The Indian Ocean as a Unifying Force: A Memoir - Felicity Hand.- 7 Banyans Behind Bars: Three South African Indian Memoirs - Felicity Hand.
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Brill U Fink Literatur Und Arbeitswelten: Asthetische Und
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