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Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene
Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age of ecological disasters and global climate change. The volume’s eight chapters illustrate the aptness of life writing and life writing studies to critically reevaluate the role of “the human” vis-à-vis non-human others while remaining mindful of persisting inequalities between humans regarding who causes and who suffers damage in the Anthropocene age. The authors in this collection not only expand the toolbox of life writing studies by engaging with critical insights from the fields of posthumanism and ecocriticism, but, in turn, also enrich those fields by offering unique approaches to contemplate the responsibility of humans for as well as their relational existence in the posthuman Anthropocene.
Comics of the Anthropocene
Since the first Earth Day in 1970, how have US comics artists depicted the human-caused destruction of the natural world? How do these representations manifest in different genres of comics like superheroes, biography, underground comix, and journalism? What resources unique to the comics medium do they bring to their tasks? How do these works resonate with the ethical and environmental issues raised by global conversations about the anthropogenic sixth mass extinction and climate change? How have comics mourned the loss of nature over the last five decades? Are comics “ecological objects,” in philosopher Timothy Morton’s parlance? Weaving together insights from comics studies, environ...
Exploring Shifting Representations of Patriarchal Ideology in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" (1925) and Nghi Vo’s "The Chosen and the Beautiful" (2021)
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2023 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2.0, University of Bremen, language: English, abstract: The following bachelor thesis deals with patriarchal representations in Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (1925) and compares them with a contemporary representation "The Chosen and the Beautiful" by Nghi Vo (2021). Themes such as masculinity, femininity and LGBTQA+ are explored along the characters and a comparison is made between the past and present. This thesis presents the context of the two main works first. To contextualize The Great Gatsby (1925), it looks at the historical context of America in the 1920s, issues of race ...
Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century
This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America‘s most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks ― including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.
Approaches to Teaching Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway is considered a central work in Virginia Woolf's oeuvre and in the modernist canon. It not only addresses historical and cultural issues such as war, colonialism, class, politics, marriage, sexuality, and psychology but also reimagines the novel form. Moreover, Mrs. Dalloway continues to grow in its influence and visibility, inspiring adaptations in film, theater, print, and other media. Despite Mrs. Dalloway's continued popularity, many students today find the prose daunting and a barrier to their appreciation and comprehension of the novel. This volume seeks to give instructors a variety of strategies for making Woolf's work compelling and accessible to students while address...
The Republic of China on Taiwan in International Politics
This symposium volume collects papers presented by nine scholars from six countries of the European Union and the Republic of China on Taiwan at an international conference concerning the situation and the role of the ROC in international politics. The papers offer an overview of the history and current situation of the ROC's foreign policy, its relations with Communist China, the USA, and the European Union. They also discuss the security problems of the island, Taiwan's position in international organizations and its relations with the United Nations. Observers of international politics will find here up-to-date information as well as valuable systematic analysis.
Transatlantic Women
Highlights the social and textual complexity of the transatlantic world for American women writers
Woolf Studies Annual
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