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L’attribution du prix Nobel de littérature, avec le cortège de revendications et de fiertés qui l’accompagne, conduit, chaque année, à un réagencement de la carte européenne et mondiale des littératures – réagencement qui, presque toujours, révèle des conflits de...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust us all into a warped, disjointed ‘coronatime,’ which has both uncontrollably accelerated, and interminably decelerated, or got frozen. Just like the pandemic, this book provides a chance to reevaluate neoliberalism’s temporal regimes of...
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Das schwierige Erbe der Diktaturvergangenheit in Lateinamerika wirft einen langen Schatten bis in die Gegenwart. Mit wachsender historischer Distanz treten die Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede des kulturellen Umgangs mit den jeweiligen Ausformungen staatlicher...
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Is it really a man’s world? At a time when masculinity is being challenged, this book explores the links between reading and writing and how they have historically been associated with masculine privilege. This book focuses on the representation of masculinity as a...
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The book focuses on contemporary staff-centred mystery novels set in the academic domain, written by scholars who enrich the generic convention of the detective novel with their academic expertise.The author delineates the academic mystery genre conventions and their...
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This book is a reflection on the Jewish presence in two European capitals, Warsaw and Berlin, in the first half of the 20th century. It was inspired by the works of Polish-Jewish, Yiddish and German-Jewish authors, as well as by the connections between urban spaces and...
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When, in 1948, Tony Harrison entered Leeds Grammar School as a scholarship boy, he found himself, as Richard Hoggart saw, “at the friction point of two cultures”. His schooling introduced him to the “classics”; but it also deprived him of a clear identification with the...
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Swiss Maid: Verborgene Kräfte und Schätze in der Erfolgsgeschichte der Schweiz untersucht die Arbeit und Leistungen von einfachen Frauen und wie sie die Schweiz mitgestaltet haben. Frauen waren tätig in religiösen Institutionen, in der Hauswirtschaft, auf Bauernhöfen,...
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Attempts to approach the topic of drink and literature and the question of how far this is interconnected with the habits of the writers can be considered within the wider frame of what is called drinking studies. This is an interdisciplinary field which is a composite...
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Affective Landscapes: Representation of Terrorism and Violence by Basque Female Authors draws from contemporary social and cultural theory of affect to analyze the Basque Country’s political violence since the birth of the terrorist organization E.T.A. The study focuses...
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Am Beispiel von Grimmelshausens Der seltzame Springinsfeld entfaltet diese Studie die These, dass Schelmenromane ein Drittes der Ökonomie zur Darstellung bringen können, das neben der Haushaltsführung und dem Marktgeschehen keinen Platz im gelehrten Diskurs hat....
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For over 300 years, Danube Swabians had maintained their German dialect and culture in Hungary and Yugoslavia. The events after WWII, including expulsion from their homes and ethnic persecution, radically destabilized this minority’s conception of Heimat. Written...
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Texts, Images, Practices offers multidisciplinary readings of various texts of culture, including social and political phenomena, novels, memoirs, letters and articles in the press, musical, theatrical adaptation and food. The authors draw from a variety of...
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Has censorship always been a threat to authorship and artistic production? How did the mass market, the reading public, political or economic concerns influence authors’ creativity and literary production in the late nineteenth century? Was self-censorship an...
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Tomasz Garbol’s book reconstructs Czeslaw Milosz’s poetic vision of the world after the Fall. The entry point to this approach is the conviction about the ambivalence of previous interpretations of Milosz’s works, especially about his bipolar poetic worldview (his...
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Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes zielen darauf ab – in interdisziplinärer Annäherung und unter Rückgriff auf den vielschichtigen Begriff der «Textur» – die Spuren zu erforschen, die die um den Mittelmeerraum entstandenen komplexen Herrschaftsverhältnisse in den Gebilden...
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This monograph provides an outlook for the translation in Europe during the Middle Ages. It has been one of the main activities for DHuMAR research project; as such, it is the first volume of a series focused on the history of Medieval translation.
This volume takes the...
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Maciej Nowak’s book is the first monograph on the writings of Andrzej Bobkowski (1913–1961), a Polish émigré writer from the millieu of Jerzy Giedroyc’s Kultura journal. Bobkowski is famous for his diary Wartime Notebooks: France 1940–1944, translated into many...
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We live in an era of global anxiety – about rising nationalism, civil and human rights struggles, the ramifications of declining white male hegemony, about driving ourselves and other species toward extinction. So it’s no surprise that we also seek transcendence of our...
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Der Band widmet sich der Kriegsberichterstattung im Spannungsfeld von Literatur und Journalismus. Im Zentrum stehen unterschiedliche Kriegs- und Konfliktherde der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts sowie des 21. Jahrhunderts, die sich in ein (post-)koloniales...
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