{"product_id":"poisoned-cornucopia-excess-intemperance-and-overabundance-across-cultures-and-literatures-9783631646205","title":"Poisoned Cornucopia: Excess, Intemperance and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume explores the notions of excess, intemperance and overabundance in cultures and literatures of both the English- and Chinese-speaking worlds. It concentrates on some aspects of literary and cultural meanings of excess(es) in various theories and practices of these antipodean territories of human experience and consciousnesses, bringing together what is common between them and what sets the West apart from the East: eroticism, drug abuse, alcoholism, urban concepts, music, food, etc. In times of a serious crisis of Western-style capitalism, growing consumerism and the collapse of traditional values, the eyes of the world are now turned to the East, seeking solutions in China, Taiwan, Singapore or Hong Kong for what may come as Eastern-style neopostmodernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Andrew Taylor: «If Music Be the Food of Love, Play on»: The Ambivalences and Necessity of Excess – Tadeusz Rachwał:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe End(s) of Excess – Magdalena Mączyńska:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eCornucopia Reversed: Overabundance and Poverty as Dehumanizing Factors in Suzanne Collins’s \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Games \u003c\/i\u003eTrilogy – Anna Branach-Kallas: Abjection, Masochism and Haunting: Traumatic Excess in Jen Sookfong Lee’s \u003ci\u003eThe End of East\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e– \u003c\/i\u003eMarek Błaszak: «[F]or me it is an enviable lot to be unhappy with you»; Or, The Surfeit of Emotions in the Abbé Prévost’s \u003ci\u003eManon Lescaut \u003c\/i\u003ein the Context of the Major Philosophical-Religious Controversies at the Turn of the 18th Century – Tomasz Pilch:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eDead or Alive; Or, When Excess Is Excess: The Composition of Herman Melville’s \u003ci\u003eMardi, and a Voyage Thither \u003c\/i\u003ein the Context of the Romantic Debate on the Nature of Literary Creation – Nainu Yang\u003ci\u003e: \u003c\/i\u003eRomantic Love and Its Images as Temporal Objects in Tswen-show Song’s \u003ci\u003eOutside the Window\u003c\/i\u003e – Zbigniew Głowala: Longing for the Forbidden: On an Excess of Restraints in the Works of David Lodge – Tomasz Gadzina:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eSpace in Australian Literature – Katarzyna Rybińska:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e«A Liquor as Burning as Life» in Guillaume Apollinaire’s Literary Output – Ryszard W. Wolny:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eEroticism: Its Excesses and Deadly Masks in Contemporary Consumer Societies – Ilona Dobosiewicz:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eFrom Godfrey’s Cordial to Opium Dens and Pipe Dreams: Opiate Use in Victorian England – Krzysztof Kosecki:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMass Culture as Excess in José Ortega y Gasset’s \u003ci\u003eThe Revolt of the Masses \u003c\/i\u003eand Hermann Hesse’s \u003ci\u003eSteppenwolf – \u003c\/i\u003eTadeusz Lewandowski: Joel Osteen, the Prosperity Gospel, and the Wages of Christian Conspicuous Consumption – Stephen Dewsbury:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eIt’s Just Not Cricket: The Bullingdon Boys at Play – John Eric Starnes: The Excess of Tolerance: American White Nationalist Fiction and the Backlash against Political Correctness – Marzena Zielonka:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eSláinte! Excessive Drinking as a Central Part of Irish Culture – Masaya Hiyazaki:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ePolitics as «Expansion of Life»: The Order without Boundaries and Osugi Sakae’s Anarchism – Yu Lin Lee:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Excess of Affect: The Technologies of History in \u003ci\u003eSeediq Bale\u003c\/i\u003e – Hung-chiung Li: Exchanging the Unexchangeable: The Profanation of Capitalism in Taiwan’s Betel-Nut Beauties and Li Ang’s «The Ghost at Dingfanpo» \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003e Aleksandra Lubczyńska:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eScenes of Perverse Nature: Excess and Transgression as Art of Existence – Daniel Broudy:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHeavy on Firepower: American Media Complicity in Unrestrained Consumption – Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eToo Much Trivia in the News? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Sensationalist Headlines in Online Newscasting – Stankomir Nicieja:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe East-Asian Megacity as a Trope in Ridley Scott’s \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner \u003c\/i\u003eand Sophia Coppola’s \u003ci\u003eLost in Translation.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044263067991,"sku":"9783631646205","price":62.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poisoned-cornucopia-excess-intemperance-and-overabundance-across-cultures-and-literatures-9783631646205","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}