Literary studies: from c 2000 Books
Universitatsverlag Winter Vladimir Sorokins Diskurse: Ein Handbuch
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Universitatsverlag Winter Seeing and Perceiving: Synesthetic Perception,
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Universitatsverlag Winter Jahrbuch Literatur Und Medizin: Bd. XII
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Universitatsverlag Winter Wenn Die Waffen Sprechen, Schweigen Die Musen
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Universitatsverlag Winter Roboter, Kunstliche Intelligenz Und
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Universitatsverlag Winter Am Ende: Lebensbilanzen in Der Zeitgenossischen
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Universitatsverlag Winter Mitdenken: Paul Celans Theorie Der Dichtung Heute
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Universitatsverlag Winter Poetik Der Grenzverschiebung: Kinderliterarische
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Universitatsverlag Winter Sprachheimaten Und Grenzgange: Festschrift Fur
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Universitatsverlag Winter Political Changes and Transformations in
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Universitatsverlag Winter Literarische Spielaspekte Bei Robert Walser,
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Universitatsverlag Winter The Traumatic Celebration of Beauty in Alan
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Universitatsverlag Winter Paul Austers Autobiographische Werke: Stationen
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Universitatsverlag Winter Poetische Berge: Alpinismus Und Literatur Nach
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Universitatsverlag Winter Teaching the Posthuman
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Universitatsverlag Winter Ernst Junger Und Carl Schmitt - Eine Ambivalente
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Universitatsverlag Winter Spuren Lesen Und Zeichen Deuten: 11 Versuche Zum
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Universitatsverlag Winter Krankheit Und Heilung in Den Werken Doris
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Universitatsverlag Winter Lucken: Zwischen
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Universitatsverlag Winter Corporeal Battlegrounds: Laboring Bodies and
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Universitatsverlag Winter Okologische Erinnerungsorte Des Erhabenen:
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Universitatsverlag Winter Zur Aktualisierung Des Schelmenromans Im 20. Und
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Transcript Verlag Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining
Book SynopsisMarkus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother, Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroesand Marlon James' The Book of Night Women delineate how these texts engage in a fruitful dialogue with African diaspora theory about the complex relation between the local and transnational and the enduring effects of slavery. Reflecting on the ethics of narration, this study is particularly attentive to the risks of representing anti-black violence and to the intricacies involved in (re-)appropriating slavery's archive.
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Transcript Verlag Pandemic Protagonists: Viral (Re)Actions in
Book SynopsisDuring the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to ?pandemic fictions? or started to produce their own ?Corona Fictions? across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Thereby they provide new insights into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.
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Transcript Verlag Ecopoetic Place-Making: Nature and Mobility in
Book SynopsisAmerican ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and can thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. Judith Rauscher analyses the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed in this study challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries for our contemporary world on the move.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post–Soviet Esotericism
Book Synopsis"Aleksandr Prokhanov (born 1938) is a prizewinning novelist and also, as editor of the weekly newspaper Zavtra, a leading figure in Russian imperial patriotism. Ever since 1991, when he signed (and reputedly wrote) the manifesto for the failed putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev, he has been an influential voice in Russian political culturehelping to turn the irreconcilable opposition of the 1990s towards Empire, grappling with the difficult question of whether to endorse Vladimir Putin as a savior or expose him as a fraud, and promulgating a bewildering series of conspiracy theories in which Russian and international affairs are explained in the most extravagant terms. He has also been a remarkably prolific writer, and the best of his novels are real works of literature, at once muck-raking and lyrical, with Moscow scandal interwoven so tightly with the mystical yearnings of cosmism that the reader can hardly prise them apart. The same themes flow backwards and forwards between Prokhanovs fiction and his non-fiction: World conspiracies, space exploration, the resurrection of the dead, Stalin as a supernatural redeemerthese and other preoccupations recur again and again in his leading articles as well as in his novels. This book does not seek either to justify Prokhanov or to denounce him: It seeks to understand him as perhaps the most eminent representative of a school of thought that is here defined as post-Soviet esotericism. Esotericist ideas, some of them strikingly reminiscent of beliefs that flourished in the early Christian centuries, have acquired wide resonance in Russia since the collapse of the USSR. Post-Soviet esotericism thus represents a rare and valuable opportunity to examine a belief system of this nature in the process of its emergence. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with modern Russian literature or politics, and also more broadly to descriptive logicians and students of negative esotericism. "
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Orhan Pamuk -- Critical Essays on a Novelist
Book SynopsisThis collection of new essays brings together scholarly examinations of a writer who -- despite the prestige that the Nobel Prize has earned him -- remains controversial with respect to his place in the literary tradition of his home country. This is in part because the positioning of Turkey itself in relation to the cultural divide between East and West has been the subject of a debate going back to the beginnings of the modern Turkish state and earlier. The present essays, written mostly by literary scholars, range widely across Pamuks novelistic oeuvre, dealing with how the writer, often adding an allegorical level to the personages depicted in his experimental narratives, portrays tensions such as those between Western secularism and traditional Islam and different conceptions of national identity.
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V&R unipress GmbH Sarmatien – Germania Slavica – Mitteleuropa.
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V&R unipress GmbH Re-Konstruktion des Realen: Die Wiederentdeckung
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V&R Unipress Konflikte: Literarische Auseinandersetzungen Mit
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V&R unipress GmbH Der Dreißigjährige Krieg in Literatur und Kunst
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V&R unipress GmbH Ferne und Nähe: Nähe- und Distanzdiskurse in der
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Ergon Ein Blick in Den Abgrund: Die Shoah Zwischen
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Writing Underground: Reflections on Samizdat
Book SynopsisIn this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the underground phenomenon. After devoting considerable attention to the circle surrounding the band The Plastic People of the Universe and their manager, the poet Ivan M. Jirous, Machovec turns outward to examine the broader concept of the underground, comparing the Czech incarnation not only with the movements of its Central and Eastern European neighbors, but also with those in the world at large. In one essay, he reflects on the so-called Půlnoc Editions, which published illegal texts in the darkest days of the late forties and early fifties. In other essays, Machovec examines the relationship between illegal texts published at home (samizdat) and those smuggled out to be published abroad (tamizdat), as well as the range of literature that can be classified as samizdat, drawing attention to movements frequently overlooked by literary critics. In his final, previously unpublished essay, Machovec examines Jirous’s “Report on the Third Czech Musical Revival” not as a merely historical document, but as literature itself.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic From Laughter to Forgetting: A Source-Book of
Book SynopsisA comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde. In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European modernism and the avant-garde has been increased attention to texts and traditions that have long stood in the shadow of the French, German, and British traditions that dominate the canon. Yet this more expansive view of European modernism and the avant-garde has been hindered by the limited range of texts available outside the original languages. This book addresses that problem by offering a wide-ranging selection of literary, theoretical, and documentary sources from one of the most dynamic and original European avant-garde traditions: that of the first Czechoslovak Republic and of the Bohemian lands. The Czech avant-garde is in many respects the ideal “alternative” avant-garde to present in detail to a wider readership: it tracks Central European developments and was often influential internationally while being deeply embedded in particular cultural dynamics that produced original forms. This volume returns interwar Czech avant-garde writings to their place as a firmly embedded component of the European avant-garde.Table of Contents1. The Laughter of the Avant-Garde (1918-1929): Proletarian Art, Poetism, Constructivism Section IntroductionCapek, Karel: “Kritika slov”Capek, Josef: Nejskromnejší umení [extracts]Weiner, Richard: Trásnicky dejinných dnu [extracts]Šalda, F. X.: “O úpadku literatury—i mnohých vecí jiných... ”Hora, Josef: “K novému umení”U. S. DevetsilNeumann, Stanislav K.: “Devetsil”Teige, Karel: “Novým smerem”Teige, Karel: “Obrazy a predobrazy”Capek, Karel: “Poznámka k stati Karla Teiga ‘Obrazy a predobrazy‘“Capek, Karel: “Proc nejsem komunistou”Teige, Karel: “S novou generací”Vancura, Vladislav: “Rád nové tvorby”Götz, František: “O Hosta a o ty, kterí stojí za ním”Teige, Karel: “O expresionismu”Götz, František: “Trochu polemiky, trochu vyznání”Wolker, Jirí: “Proletárské umení”Literární skupina: “Naše nadeje, víra a práce”Šíma, Josef: “Reklama”Schulz, Karel: “Poetika”Štyrský, Jindrich: “Obraz”Teige, Karel: “Foto Kino Film”Teige, Karel: “Poetismus”Nezval, Vítezslav: “Papoušek na motocyklu cili o remesle básnickém”Cerník - Halas - Václavek: “Dosti Wolkera!”Nezval, Vítezslav: “Film”Teige, Karel: “Poezie pro pet smyslu”Teige, Karel: “Dada”Teige, Karel: “Vudce ceské moderny”Teige, Karel: “K teorii konstruktivismu”Kupka, František: “Tvorení v umení výtvarném”Rykr, Zdenek: TeigismTeige, Karel: “Slova, slova, slova”Štyrský, Jindrich a Toyen: “Populární uvedení do artificielismu”Voskovec, Jirí: “Želva, o které se nikdo nezminuje”Obrtel, Vít: “Harmonie”Nezval, Vítezslav: “Návestí o poetismu”Nezval, Vítezslav: “Kapka inkoustu”Teige, Karel: “Ultrafialové obrazy cili artificielismus”Teige, Karel: “Manifest poetismu”Klíma, Ladislav: Vterina a Vecnost [extracts]2. A Generation Splits: Avant-Garde in Crisis (1929-1932)Section IntroductionŠtyrský, Jindrich: “Koutek generace I”Štyrský, Jindrich: “Malá prolegomena”Václavek, Bedrich: “O marxistickou teorii umen픊toll, Ladislav: “Lidé v ‘ laboratori‘”Václavek, Bedrich: “Konec ‘revolucní‘ avantgardy”Obrtel, Vít: “O stavbe veží”Brouk, Bohuslav: “Na obranu individualismu”Obrtel, Vít: “Právo na teorii”Navrátil, Václav: “Kvart”Jakobson, Roman: “O dnešním brusicství ceském” [extracts]Capek, Josef: “Krize charakteru”3. Complicating the Real (1933-1938): Surrealism and Prague School Polyfunctionalism Section IntroductionTeige, Karel: “Básen, svet, clovek”Teige, Karel: “Deset let surrealismu” [extracts]Teige, Karel: “Socialistický Realismus a surrealismu” [extracts]Weiner, Richard: Lazebník (Poetika)Štyrský, Jindrich: “Surrealistické malírství (nekolik poznámek)”Štyrský, Jindrich: “ Surrealistická fotografie”Štyrský, Jindrich and Vítezslav Nezval: “Pokus o poznání iracionality fotografie”Štyrský, Jindrich et al: “Pokus o poznání iracionality plnicího pera”Toyen: TBCNezval, Vítezslav: “K ceskému surrealismu”Mukarovský, Jan: “Místo estetické funkce mezi ostatními”Mukarovský, Jan: “Individuum v umení”Mukarovský, Jan: “Dialektické rozpory moderního umení”Mukarovský, Jan: “Francouzská poezie Karla Capka”Ladislav Novomeský: “Cesko-slovenský kulturní vztah“Kalandra, Záviš: “Nadskutecno v Surrealismu“Kalandra, Záviš: “Cin André Bretona“Kalandra, Záviš: “Princip slasti a princip reality v umení“Chalupecký, Jindrich: “Slovo o situaci nadrealismu u nás“Brouk, Bohuslav: “Máchuv kult“Cerný, Václav: “Surrealismus proti proudu“4. Deaths of the Avant-garde (1938-1942): The Myth of EverydaynessSection IntroductionNavrátil, Václav: “K novému mýtu“Navrátil, Václav: “O krizi krizeologie“Navrátil, Václav: “O smutku, lásce a jiných vecech“Rykr, Zdenek: “K našemu modernímu umení“Soucková, Milada: “K novému románu“Chalupecký, Jindrich: “Smysl moderního umení“Chalupecký, Jindrich: “Svet, v nemž žijeme“Chalupecký, Jindrich: “Umení napodobí skutecnost“Kolár, Jirí: Nový don Quijote [extracts]
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Amsterdam University Press The Riddle of Literary Quality: A Computational
Book SynopsisWhat is literature? Can we measure ‘literariness’ in texts themselves? The innovative Computational Humanities project The Riddle of Literary Quality asked thousands of Dutch readers for their opinion about contemporary Dutch and translated novels. The public shared which novels they had read, what they really thought of them, and how they judged their quality. Their judgments of the same novels were compared with the results of computational analysis of the books. Using evidence from almost 14,000 readers and building on more textual data than ever before, Van Dalen-Oskam and her team uncovered unconscious biases that shed new light on prejudices many people assumed no longer existed. This monograph explains in an accessible way how the project unfolded, which methods were used, and how the results may change the future of Literary Studies.Table of Contents1 The Riddle 2 The National Reader Survey 3 Romance, Suspense, and Translations 4 Literary Novels Written by Women 5 Literary Novels Written by Men 6 Style, Gender, and Genre 7 The Riddle of Literary Quality Solved? Appendix 1: The Survey Appendix 2: The Books Appendix 3: The Website Bibliography Tables Figures Acknowledgements Index
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Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes Resurgence in Jane Urquhart’s Œuvre
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking volume of critical essays revolving around the concept of resurgence maps the modes of conservation, transformation, and invention of the literary, visual, and cultural expressions which Jane Urquhart's singular voice has brought about on the Canadian but also international scene. Taking resurgence as the informing principle of investigation, the volume as a whole focuses on the rewriting and reconstruction of the past, on the modalities of its resurfacing or of its erasure. It raises questions about the explicit or implicit ideological repercussions of such concealment and disclosure, such rupture and resilience. Through the prism of this concept, through surveys, close textual scrutiny and comparative analyses, the book explores Urquhart's discursive practices, the way they hinge on intertextuality or citation, at the same time as upon intratextuality or self-citation. It brings to the fore the extratextual and metatextual quality of her writing together with the transmediality, the transcoding or intersemioticity which characterize the interaction between literature and the visual arts in her fictional and poetic works. The volume engages with Urquhart's entire literary œuvre, opening with a thoughtprovoking, previously unpublished address by Urquhart herself and concluding with a discussion with the author. Special emphasis has been given to A Map of Glass, with the third chapter entirely dedicated to its specific or comparative examination, but her collections of poetry and the other five novels have also garnered single or comparative critical attention from the present contributors. From The Whirlpool to A Map of Glass, the uncanny array of Urquhart's resurgent colours makes us see through the power of the written word that there is a genuine mystery in art and a real place for wonder. It is the resurgence of such innermost forces, in the creative and critical landscapes of contemporaneity, that the present collection aims at bringing forth.
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Leiden University Press Big Books in Times of Big Data
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Amsterdam University Press Idolizing Authorship: Literary Celebrity and the
Book SynopsisThough these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, there have been plenty of celebrity authors over the years and around the world. This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity throughout history. How were their images as celebrities constructed by themselves and in complicity with their fans? And how did that process and its effects differ from country to country and era to era?Table of ContentsIdolizing Authorship: An Introduction Gaston Franssen and Rick Honings Part 1: The Rise of Literary Celebrity 1. The Olympian Writer: Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) Silke Hoffmann 2. The Dutch Byron: Nicolaas Beets (1814-1903) Rick Honings 3. Enemy of Society, Hero of the Nation: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Suze van der Poll Part 2: The Golden Age of Literary Celebrity 4. From Bard to Brand: Holger Drachmann (1846-1908) Henk van der Liet 5. In the Future, When I Will Be More of a Celebrity: Louis Couperus (1863-1923) Mary Kemperink 6. À la Recherche de la Gloire: Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Sjef Houppermans 7. The National Skeleton: Ezra Pound (1885-1972) Peter Liebregts Part 3: The Popularization of Literary Celebrity 8. Playing God: Harry Mulisch (1927-2010) Sander Bax 9. Literary Stardom and Heavenly Gifts: Haruki Murakami (1949) Gaston Franssen 10. Sincere e-Self-Fashioning: Dmitrii Vodennikov (1968) Ellen Rutten 11. The Fame and Blame of an Intellectual Goth: Sofi Oksanen (1977) Sanna Lehtonen
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Bloomsbury India Kazi Nazrul Islam's Journalism: A Critique
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal:
Book SynopsisAna Paula Arnaut is Professor of Portuguese Contemporary Literature at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is a member of the Centre of Portuguese Literature, and her main fields of research are postmodernism and hypercontemporary in Portuguese Literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, and women's studies. She has published several books and articles both in national and international journals.Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of Modern and Contemporary World Literatures and Head of the English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Previously he held the Chair of Portuguese Studies at Utrecht, the Netherlands, and was President of the American Portuguese Studies Association. He is co-editor of a volume of essays on Luso-African film (2021) and author of two books on Fernando Pessoa, besides work on comparative literature.
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