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New Perspectives on Imagology
With this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural construction and literary representation of national, usually European characters. Consisting of an instructive introduction and 21 articles, the book relates this sub-field of comparative literature to contemporary political developments and enriches it with new interdisciplinary, transnational, intersectional, and intermedial perspectives. The contributions offer [1] a reconsideration and update of the field’s methods, genres, and theoretical frames; [2] trans-/post-national, migratory, and marginalized perspectives beyond the European nation-state; [3] insights into geopolitical dichotomies such as Orient/Occident; [4] intersectional approaches considering the entanglements of national images with notions of age, class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity/race; [5] investigations of the role of national images in visual narratives and music.
Contemporary Migration Literature in German and English
Up until now, ‘migration literature’ has primarily been defined as ‘texts written by migrant authors’, a definition that has been discussed, criticised, and even rejected by critics and authors alike. Very rarely has ‘migration literature’ been understood as ‘literature on the topic of migration’, which is an approach this book adopts by presenting a comparative analysis of contemporary texts on experiences of migration. By focusing on specific themes and motifs in selected texts, this study suggests that migration literature is a sub-genre that exists in both various bodies of literature as well as various languages. This book analyses English and German texts by authors such as Monica Ali, Dimitré Dinev, Anna Kim, Timothy Mo, Preethi Nair, Caryl Phillips, Hamid Sadr, and Vladimir Vertlib, among others.
Figures of Radical Absence
What is there to see in invisible artworks, empty books, or blank screens? How do formal absences generate meaning? Constructing an argument by way of montage, this book is an annotated inventory of textual, visual, and conceptual figures of absence. Spanning different media, it reveals a creative tradition that uses absence not as a negative aesthetic category, but as a productive state of radical indeterminacy with its own politics and poetics. Although post-structuralism highlighted the importance of what is offstage, lost, forgotten, hidden or discarded, silent or silenced, the poetics and politics of absence (much like its ethics and aesthetics) have rarely been discussed across media a...
The Languages of World Literature
This volume opens the series of papers presented at the Vienna Congress of AILC/ICLA 2016, beginning with eight keynotes. Thirty-four further papers are dedicated to the central theme of the conference: the linguistic side of world literature, under different focal points. The volume further contains five roundtables, the papers of a workshop of the UNESCO memory of the worlds programme, a presentation of the avldigital.de platform, as well as several bibliographically enriched overviews of the special lexicography of comparative literature, up to date versions of the ICLA publications, and an example of multiple translations of a famous modern classic.
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Contributeurs: Elisabeth Bekers, Jeannot Moukouri Ekobe, Mahamadou Famanta, Sandra Folie, Drago? Ivana, Katarzyna Lipinska, Ileana Mihaila, Polo B. Moji, Deborah Nyangulu, Jeannette Oholi, Anne Potjans, Dobrota Pucherova, Nadjib Sadikou, Lindokuhle Shabane, Laura Steindorf, Daniel Syrovy, Lisa Tackie, Dominic Thomas, Margriet van der Waal et Gianna Zocco.
The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms
The fourth volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress “The Many Languages of Comparative Literature” includes articles that study thematic and formal elements of literary texts. Although the question of prioritizing either the level of content or that of form has often provoked controversies, most contributions here treat them as internally connected. While theoretical considerations inform many of the readings, the main interest of most articles can be described as rhetorical (in the widest sense) – given that the ancient discipline of rhetoric did not only include the study of rhetorical figures and tropes such as metaphor, irony, or satire, but also that of topoi, which wer...
Il nuovo nel piatto
Dal succo d’acero allo zucchero di palma, dal bulgur al kuzu, dalle alghe al caviale di limone, dal riso thai a quello nero e rosso, dai funghi che promettono vigore e longevità ai semi che guariscono ogni male, dal caffè più costoso del mondo «fatto» da un uccellino indonesiano alle infinite sfumature del tè. Cibi ma anche bevande, frutta e verdura, fiori e radici, sali e spezie, infusi e tè, cereali alternativi, dolcificanti... Prodotti che negli ultimi decenni hanno invaso pacificamente i nostri confini, arricchendo la lista della spesa e cambiando, un po’, le nostre abitudini a tavola. Cosa sono? Da dove arrivano? Come si usano? Dove si comprano? Per la prima volta tutte le ri...
