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Universitatsverlag Winter Johann Christoph Gottscheds 'Versuch Einer
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Universitatsverlag Winter Die Angst VOR Der Penetranz Des Wiklichen
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Universitatsverlag Winter Poietik Der Mehrsprachigkeit: Theorie Und
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Universitatsverlag Winter Schriften, Die Gehort Gehoren: Historische
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Universitatsverlag Winter Literatur Im Fieber: Zur Poetik Der Temperaturen
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Universitatsverlag Winter Bewegungsszenarien Der Moderne: Theorien Und
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Universitatsverlag Winter Theateradaptionen: Interkulturelle
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Universitatsverlag Winter Medialitat Und Materialitat 'Grosser Narrative':
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Universitatsverlag Winter Von Der Textkritik Zur Textologie: Geschichte Der
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Universitatsverlag Winter Poetik Und Praxis Der Freundschaft (1800-1933)
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Universitatsverlag Winter Der Name in Der Literatur
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Universitatsverlag Winter Volkspoesie Versus Kunstpoesie:
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Universitatsverlag Winter Laubsage Und Scheinbrucke: Aus Der Vorgeschichte
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Transcript Verlag Ritual and Narrative: Theoretical Explorations
Book SynopsisRitual and narrative are pivotal means of human meaning-making and of ordering experience, but the close interrelationship between them has not as yet been given the attention it deserves. How can models and categories from narrative theory benefit the study of ritual, and what can we gain from concepts of ritual studies in analysing narrative? This book brings together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, archaeology, biblical and religious studies, and political science. It presents theoretical explorations as well as in-depth case studies of ritual and narrative in different media and historical contexts.
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Transcript Verlag Fictocritical Strategies: Subverting Textual
Book SynopsisGerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash here signals the conjunction between a self-reflexive ficto-critical insight and a wider discursive ficto-critical motivation. In its refined form, this twofold trope shifts perspective from the prevalent generic between onto the meta-generic level of our textual practices. Ultimately, the ficto/critical is thus qualified as an unheard-of interventionist aesthetic of deconstruction directed at the ramifications of our textual cultures.Trade Review"The strengths of the work lie in the preparedness to take seriously and to interrogate existing material, whilst providing a genealogy, a set of potential definitions, and a record of key texts and authors. The work is an excellent study of how something comes into being and accounts for the many offshoots and ways of talking about ficto/criticism, which appears to have developed its own fixity." Rosslyn Prosser, TEXT 22/1 (2018)
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Transcript Verlag Poets of Protest: Mythological Resignification in
Book SynopsisMichael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying significant implications for questions of identity, democracy, and nationalism in Europe and America. Precise narratological analyses are paired with detailed, transnational readings of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin, Brown's Clotel, and Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen. The study marries literature, mythology, and politics and contributes to the study of American and German literature at large.
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Transcript Verlag Schreiben im Zwiegespräch / Writing as Dialogue:
Book SynopsisObwohl Praktiken des Lektorats und des Mentorats zum alltäglichen Bestandteil schriftstellerischer Tätigkeiten gehören, wurden sie von den Literaturwissenschaften bislang kaum untersucht.Der bilinguale Band versammelt Akteure aus dem literarischen Feld sowie der Autorschafts- und Schreibprozesstheorie, welche die Öffnung des Schreibprozesses grundlegend reflektieren. Ihre Beiträge umfassen nicht nur Erfahrungsberichte von Autor_innen, Lektor_innen und Mentor_innen sowie Einblicke in Lehrmethoden des literarischen Schreibens an Hochschulen in verschiedenen Ländern Europas, sondern auch theoretische Ansätze zu einer intersubjektiven literarischen Praxis sowie Entwürfe für dialogische Literaturbegriffe im Zeitalter des Publizierens im Internet.Although practices of editing and mentoring are part of an author's daily activities, they have previously been largely neglected by the literary studies.The bilingual volume therefore assembles players from the fields of literary production and theories of authorship and the writing process, who discuss the development towards an opening up of the creative writing process. Their contributions encompass not only reports of experiences made by authors, editors, and mentors and insights into teaching methods applied in creative writing classes at higher education institutions in different European countries. They also explore theoretical approaches to an intersubjective literary practice as well as suggestions for the definition of a dialogic notion of literature in the age of online publishing.
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Transcript Verlag Digital Media and Textuality – From Creation to
Book SynopsisDue to computers' ability to combine different semiotic modes, texts are no longer exclusively comprised of static images and mute words. How have digital media changed the way we write and read? What methods of textual and data analysis have emerged? How do we rescue digital artifacts from obsolescence? And how can digital media be used or taught inside classrooms? These and other questions are addressed in this volume that assembles contributions by artists, writers, scholars and editors such as Dene Grigar, Sandy Baldwin, Carlos Reis, and Frieder Nake. They offer a multiperspectival view on the way digital media have changed our notion of textuality.
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Transcript Verlag Because of You – Understanding Second–Person
Book SynopsisSecond-person storytelling is a continually present and diverse technique in the history of literature that appears only once in the oeuvre of an author. Based on key narratives of the post-war period, Evgenia Iliopoulou approaches the phenomenon in an inductive way, starting out from the essentials of grammar and rhetoric, and aims to improve the general understanding of second-person narrative within literature. In its various forms and typologies, the second person amplifies and expands the limits of representation, thus remaining a narrative enigma: a small narrative gesture - with major narrative impact.
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Transcript Verlag An Organon of Life Knowledge – Genres and
Book SynopsisCan fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the construction and circulation of 'life knowledge'. Echoing the resurgence of short story scholarship in recent years, it thus contributes a genre-focused perspective to the growing field of 'literature and knowledge' studies. Drawing on stories from the late 19th century to the present by authors such as Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Junot Díaz, and Alice Munro, Michael Basseler examines how knowledge about life and how to live it is generically constituted and, vice versa, how literary genres such as the short story are embedded in broader cultural frameworks of knowledge production.
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Transcript Verlag Philology in the Making – Analog/Digital Cultures
Book SynopsisPhilological practices have served to secure and transmit textual sources for centuries. However - this volume contends -, it is only in the light of the current radical media change labeled "digital turn" that the material and technological prerequisites of the theory and practice of philology become fully visible. The seventeen studies by scholars from the universities of Budapest and Cologne assembled here investigate these recent transformations of our techniques of writing and reading by critically examining core approaches to the history and epistemology of the humanities. Thus, a broad praxeological overview of basic cultural techniques of collective memory is unfolded.Trade Review"A large number of the contributions [contain] far-reaching theoretically ambitious considerations, which indicate the blatant need for research in the philological history of science." Friederike Schruhl, JLTonline, 22.03.2020, translated from German
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Transcript Verlag Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact
Book SynopsisWhat makes a reading experience "powerful"? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers who tackle the question by investigating the effects and reader responses generated by selected extracts of literary prose. The twelve contributions theorize this widely-used, but to date insufficiently studied notion, and provide insights into the therefore still mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection explores a variety of stylistic as well as readerly and psychological features responsible for short- and long-term effects - topics of great interest to those interested or specialized in literary studies and narratology, (cognitive) stylistics, empirical literary studies and reader response theory.
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Transcript Verlag The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age: A Digital
Book SynopsisWhat distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, José Calvo Tello combines methods from Linguistics (lexicography), Literary Studies (genre theory), and Computer Science (machine learning, natural language processing). Located in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, this study analyzes a newly developed corpus of 358 Spanish novels of the silver age (1880-1939), which includes authors like Baroja, Pardo Bazán, or Valle-Inclán. Calvo Tello's key result is a graph-based model of literary genre that reconciles recent theoretical approaches.
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Transcript Verlag Writing Facts: Interdisciplinary Discussions of a
Book Synopsis"Fact" is one of the most crucial inventions of modern times. Susanne Knaller discusses the functions of this powerful notion in the arts and the sciences, its impact on aesthetic models and systems of knowledge. The practice of writing provides an effective procedure to realize and to understand facts. This concerns preparatory procedures, formal choices, models of argumentation and narrative patterns. By considering "writing facts" and "writing facts", the volume shows why and how "facts" are a result of knowledge, rules, and norms as well as of description, argumentation, and narration. This approach allows new perspectives on "fact" and its impact on modernity.
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Transcript Verlag On Making Fiction: Frankenstein and the Life of
Book SynopsisFiction is generally understood to be a fascinating, yet somehow deficient affair, merely derivative of reality. What if we could, instead, come up with an affirmative approach that takes stories seriously in their capacity to bring forth a substance of their own? Iconic texts such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and its numerous adaptations stubbornly resist our attempts to classify them as mere representations of reality. Friederike Danebrock shows how these texts insist that we take them seriously as agents and interlocutors in our world- and culture-making activities. Drawing on this analysis, she develops a theory of narrative fiction as a generative practice.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon World Literature in Motion – Institution,
Book SynopsisBy bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls the international literary space, their power does not operate unilaterally and modes of intercultural circulation do exist beyond their control. The title World Literature in Motion highlights the fact that world literature is always already the product of certain modes of conceptual and material mobility and mediation.
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V&R unipress GmbH Reality and Truth in Literature: From Ancient to
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V&R Unipress Kunst Und Kultur Um 1968
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V&R unipress GmbH Die Metapher, Die Immer Da Ist: Studien zur
Book SynopsisFiktionalität und Poetizität, Formen des Fantastischen in der Literatur, Psychologie und Literaturwissenschaft, Literarische Imagologie und Stereotypenforschung - diese Studien befassen sich mit Grundfragen der Allgemeinen Literaturwissenschaft in theoretischen Darstellungen und Reflexionen und in exemplarischen Analysen weltliterarischer Texte der norwegischen, schwedischen, finnischen und färingischen Literatur. Hierfër untersucht Lutz Rëhling Henrik Ibsens Dramen, Selma Lagerlöfs Nils Holgersson, Edith Södergrans Aphorismen und Jørgen Frantz Jacobsens Roman Barbara. Eine kritische Geschichte der deutschen Rezeption skandinavischer Literatur von den Anfängen bis 1870 schließt den Band ab.
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V&R unipress GmbH Land Deep in Time: Canadian Historiographic
Book SynopsisLiterary exploration of what remains deep in ethnic memory in the land that remains deep in time
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Moderne Kunst, Verlag Fur Behind the Fourth Wall Fictitious Lives Lived
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The Biographer and the Subject – A Study on
Book SynopsisA good biography is a well-staged illusion. It creates - on paper - a vivid, rounded, and immediate sense of lived life. In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total freedom to the biographer in the creative act. Ideally, a biography's backbone is formed by accurate historical facts. But its soul lies elsewhere. Since the concern is life, something more is needed: Nothing dry, cold or dead, but a vibrant impression of life that is left in the air after one turns over the last page. But how does a biographer do it? The way a biographer creates a subject is largely dictated by the historical distance between them. There are three types of distance in biographical writing: First, where the biographer and the subject personally know one another; second, where the biographer is a near contemporary of the subject; and third, where biographer and subject are distinctly separated, in some cases, by hundreds of years. This study explores how some of the most accomplished biographers manage to recreate life" across time and space. She closely examines Samuel Johnson's Life of Mr. Richard Savage, James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians, Michael Holroyd's Lytton Strachey, Park Honan's Jane Austen, and Andrew Motion's Keats.Trade Review"Tekcan's initial question-asking what it is that brings life writing to life -- is an interesting one, and her case studies yield some glancing insights, particularly in the discussion of more recent biographies." -- Biography 34.4Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Eating and Drinking with the Subject: Johnson's Life of Savage and Boswell's Life of Johnson 2. Judas and the Frog Prince: Strachey's Eminent Victorians and Holroyd's Lytton Strachey 3. Too Far for Comfort: Honan's Jane Austen, Her Life and Motion's Keats Conclusion Bibliography Index
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V&R unipress GmbH Queer Reading in den Philologien: Modelle und
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Brill U Mentis Animal Poeta: Bausteine Der Biologischen Kultur-
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Spector Books The New Alphabet: DNA #1
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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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Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Construction of an Identity Course: Oriya
Book SynopsisOn representation of Oriya identity and Jagann atha in Oriya literature; a study.
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Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Theory of Literature
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Academic Foundation Canonical Texts of English Literacy Criticism:
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Cosmo Publications Cosmo Dictionary of Literary Terms
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd Toni Morrison: Literary Perspectives and Critical
Book SynopsisThis edited volume, Toni Morrison: Literary Perspectives and Critical Interpretations, presents insightful critiques and commentaries by renowned academicians, researchers and scholars.
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Editorial Anagrama De eso se trata Efectos personales
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Ediciones Akal La escritura del instante
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Editorial La Muralla, S.A. Literatura comparada e intertextualidad una
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Arco Libros - La Muralla, S.L. Lecturas del contacto manifestaciones estticas
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Anthropos Editorial LEER EL QUIJOTE
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Machado Grupo de Distribucin Con sagradas escrituras
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