Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a ...global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this research void and brings together case studies by scholars from different parts of the world and diverse fields. They explore how transnational and transcultural processes of translation and adaptation shape notions of the heroic in non-Western and Western cultures alike. The book provides fresh perspectives on heroism studies and offers a new angle for global and postcolonial studies.
Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into the realm of national history from the late 1990s ...onwards. »Black History - White History« assesses a number of manifestations of this new cultural historiography on screen and on stage, in museums and other accessible sites, emerging in the context of two commemorative events: the Windrush anniversary and the 1807 abolition bicentenary. It inquires into the terms on which the new historical programme could take hold, its sustainability and its representational politics.
Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a ...global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this research void and brings together case studies by scholars from different parts of the world and diverse fields. They explore how transnational and transcultural processes of translation and adaptation shape notions of the heroic in non-Western and Western cultures alike. The book provides fresh perspectives on heroism studies and offers a new angle for global and postcolonial studies.
Ultimately, Smits proposes shifting our focus on the role of periodicals, and media generally, in the production of identities “from representation, a close reading of content, to the different ...audiences that consumed media” (222). Smits used the British Newspaper Archive and similar digital collections to calculate the dissemination of titles from datasets including advertisements, postage rates, subscribers’ letters, or evidence of censorship. A hitherto neglected source, Cassell’s Illustrated Family Paper’s circulation was triple that of the Illustrated London News and thus shaped the British public’s view of the war to a significant extent.
Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a ...wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their attention between current representations of poverty and important earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today.
Wer in der Moderne von Abenteuern erzählt, setzt sich dem Verdacht der Trivialität aus. Doch ein stillschweigender Verzicht aufs Abenteuer fällt auch kanonischen Autoren der Moderne schwer. Der ...Sammelband nimmt diese Beobachtung zum Anlass einer Spurensuche. Er geht dem Verbleib des Abenteuers in literarischen und theoretischen Texten der Moderne nach. Neben klassischen Abenteuerautoren, wie Karl May oder Rider Haggard, stehen Texte von Goethe, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust u.a. im Fokus, welche das Abenteuer in einem Spannungsfeld von Integration und Zurückweisung situieren. Darüber hinaus widmet sich der Band der Bedeutung des Abenteuers im kolonialen Diskurs, in der Psychoanalyse und im Russischen Formalismus.
John Lanchester's Capital (2012) reads London as a space in which risk and chance are complexly entangled - for 'native' Londoners as well as people who come to it from all parts of the world and for ...various reasons: as businessmen, economic migrants, political refugees or talent from the Global South. Capital comes across as a 'social novel' in the nineteenth-century sense: as a panorama of social types and narrative trajectories. It is precisely this conventional mode of presentation (and its tradition of social critique) that enables Lanchester's novel to trace what risk, with both its positive and negative implications, means for the various characters whose lives before and after the 2008 crash it follows. Capital thus exposes reckless capitalism but also explores many other meanings that risk and risk-taking can have in globalised urban settings of the twenty-first century. It personalises and humanises 'risk', and it demands an ethical positioning of the readers as it juxtaposes the irresponsible risk-taking of the finance world with the risk-taking and resilience of individual people who find themselves in different forms of precarious life.
Body language in literature Korte, Barbara
Body language in literature,
c1997, 19980109, 1998, 2000, 1997, 1997-01-01
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An important interdisciplinary study, that establishes a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, based on a general history of the ...phenomenon in the English language.
John Lanchester"s Capital (2012) reads London as a space in which risk and chance are complexly entangled - for "native" Londoners as well as people who come to it from all parts of the world and for ...various reasons: as businessmen, economic migrants, political refugees or talent from the Global South. Capital comes across as a "social novel" in the nineteenth-century sense: as a panorama of social types and narrative trajectories. It is precisely this conventional mode of presentation (and its tradition of social critique) that enables Lanchester"s novel to trace what risk, with both its positive and negative implications, means for the various characters whose lives before and after the 2008 crash it follows. Capital thus exposes reckless capitalism but also explores many other meanings that risk and risk-taking can have in globalised urban settings of the twenty-first century. It personalises and humanises "risk", and it demands an ethical positioning of the readers as it juxtaposes the irresponsible risk-taking of the finance world with the risk-taking and resilience of individual people who find themselves in different forms of precarious life. (Author abstract)
Das Kränzchen, a girls’ illustrated weekly magazine, was launched in October 1888 and soon became one of the most influential publications for young bourgeois women in Germany. Like its British ...counterparts, it cast itself as a companion leading girls through a formative period of their lives. It was popular for its serialized novels but also published articles on homemaking, beauty, fashion and health, women’s education and work, travel, and enjoyment of nature. This essay shows that, while the Kränzchen had interests and intentions similar to British periodicals for girls, its unique characteristics were rooted in German society and culture.
