Focusing on visuality and ekphrasis, the book explores how Anglophone postcolonial and transcultural literatures engage with the power of images in shaping cultural visibility. It delves into the implications of visual practices, highlighting their role in regulating perceptions and representations within diverse cultural contexts. This analysis opens new avenues for understanding the interplay between visual culture and postcolonial discourse.
Welche Rolle spielten fremde Dinge im 18. Jahrhundert für die Produktion von Evidenz? Eine Diskussion der Konsequenzen für geläufige Aufklärungskonzepte. Die Modernisierungsprozesse des 18. Jahrhunderts fallen zusammen mit dem Beginn der Konsumgesellschaft, als deren wichtigstes Merkmal die größere Präsenz fremder Dinge in fast allen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen gelten kann. Die Fülle neuer Dinge, vor allem die von Reisen mitgebrachten Exotika, machte die Schaffung neuartiger Ordnungen des Wissens notwendig. Aus dem Inhalt: Ulrike Gleixner: Bestände von Weltensammlern des 18. Jahrhunderts in der Herzog August Bibliothek Johannes Kaminski: Fremdkörper Kaffee: Das Importprodukt als ökonomischer und diätischer Störfaktor natürlicher Zirkulation Martin Mulsow: Alchemische Substanzen als fremde Dinge Dirk Werle: Kleine und große Dinge in hymnischen Gedichten des 18. Jahrhunderts. Illustriert an Klopstocks »Gestirnen« und Höltys »Hymnus an den Mond«
Bringing together innovative and internationally renowned experts, this volume provides concise presentations of the main concepts and cutting-edge research fields in the study of culture (rather than the infinite multitude of possible themes). More specifically, the volume outlines different models for the study of culture, explores avenues for interdisciplinary exchange, assesses key concepts and traces their travels across various disciplinary, historical and national contexts. To trace the travelling of concepts means to map both their transfer from one discipline, approach or culture of research to another, and also to identify the transformations which emerge through these processes of transfer. The volume serves to show that working with (travelling) concepts provides a unique strategy for research and research design which can open up a wide range of promising perspectives for interdisciplinary exchange. It offers an exemplary overview of an interdisciplinary and international approach to the travelling concepts that organize, structure and shape the study of culture. In doing so, the volume serves to initiate a dialogue that exceeds disciplinary and national boundaries and introduces a self-reflexive dimension to the field, thus affording a recognition of how deeply disciplinary premises and nation-specific research traditions affect different approaches in the study of culture.
This volume offers a systematic framework for approaching and understanding the complex history of English literature. Designed to stimulate and facilitate the independent study of English literature, the volume provides concise surveys of mahor periods and genres in the history of English literature (from the Old English period to Victorianism). Each chapter offers cultural background information, an overview of major genres, discussion of represantative key texts, study questions as well as annotaded suggestions for further reading-your ideal companion for exam preparations, lectures and seminars!
Analysing and interpreting narrative texts§Throughout the book, the authors provide many text analyses which convincingly illustrate the utility and applicability of concepts and methods needed for analysing and interpreting narrative texts. These literary examples should also enable students to situate the material covered within broader contexts of narrative theory and help apply narrative theory in the practice of literary interpretation.
The intricate relationship between narration and identity has become an important topic in the field of literary and cultural studies. The volume shows that the questions of identity that pervade many cultural spheres can be illuminated by looking at narrative modes of sense-making, especially as manifested in literature, and that studies of narrative forms benefit from being considered in terms of their relationship to human identity. The contributions to the volume approach the interfaces of narrative and identity from various theoretical angles and provide a critical assessment of some of the most important aesthetic forms which literature can employ to explore the multi-layered relationship between narrative and identity. While there is a unifying focus on 20th-century literature, the contributions register a growing awareness of (inter)cultural differences, highlighting the way in which narrative forms of identity construction are subject to historical and cultural variability.
