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Deals in a comprehensive, but succinct way with poets who wrote of sex and love. It covers Greek and Roman poets, the Troubadours of Provence and also Chaucer and Shakespeare, who wrote briefly about the tyranny of sexual desire. Also, in England, Shelley and Byron, who wrote of incest. The book cites a number of Irish Writers from the modern period. These include Eavan Boland, John Montagu and Desmond Egan. The book is a contribution to the history of ideas.

Mirza Khaleel Ahmad Beg is a prominent linguist of Urdu, hailing from Lucknow. Graduated from Jamia Aligarh. Author of several books. Born in Gorakhpur. Completed primary education from here too. He received his Ph.D. degree from Aligarh University. He also served as the head of the Linguistics Department in the same university. In 1994, he started an academic trip to America and entered the Department of Linguistics at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville). He returned to India in 1996 and wrote a book on sociolinguistics.

Nicht nur die Zeit des Menschen, auch die Eigenzeiten der Literatur stehen heute in einem vielschichtigen Spannungsverhältnis zur Zeit der Natur. Doch welche Mittel besitzt die Literatur, um die menschliche Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit für die Zeiten anderer Lebewesen oder gar für planetarische Zeitmaße zu sensibilisieren? Wie geht die zunehmende Mathematisierung der Zeit in sie ein? Und in welchem Verhältnis stehen literaturhistorische Zäsuren zu Paradigmenwechseln in den Naturwissenschaften? Diesen und weiteren Fragen geht der Sammelband nach, indem er exemplarisch die Genealogie der literarischen Verzeitlichung von Natur nachvollzieht ¿ von den kosmischen Fiktionen um 1800 bis zu den Geschichten vom Anthropo-, Cthulhu- und Kapitalozän, die das 21. Jahrhundert prägen.¿

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which stretches beyond their literal importance. Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr, the tooth of a Buddhist lama, or the cloak of a Sufi saint, relics are material conduits to the immaterial world. Yet relics aren't just a feature of religion. The exact same sense of the transcendent animates objects of political, historical, and cultural significance.From Abraham Lincoln's death mask to Vladimir Lenin's embalmed corpse, Emily Dickinson's envelopes to Jimi Hendrix's guitar pick, relics are the objects which the faithful understand as being more than just objects. Material things of sacred importance, relics are indicative of a culture's deepest values. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

" Beaucoup d'érudits et de lettrés s'imaginent volontiers que la Belgique est une création artificielle, ¿uvre de l'histoire et des volontés humaines, et ne s'appuyant sur aucun fait éternel de la nature: un nom emprunté à la vieille chronique des Gaules, des intérêts communs unissant les villes, quelques circonstances heureuses, des adversaires qui ne peuvent s'entendre pour en finir avec ce petit peuple, voilà, croit-on parfois, ce qui l'a fait et ce qui le maintiendra. Que l'histoire ou la vie des hommes ait fait pour lui plus que pour aucun autre, même que pour la Hollande sa voisine, cela serait facile à montrer. Mais la nature ou la vie de la terre, elle aussi, a présidé à sa naissance, justifié sa grandeur, présagé peut-être son éternité."

This collection emerged from a conference held in TU Dublin at a time when the theme of «New Beginnings» seemed particularly apposite. In the few years prior to the gathering, COVID-19 had brought the world to almost a complete standstill. The need to recalibrate, to find new and more effective ways of dealing with the climate crisis, domestic and international politics, literary expression, and technology, was clearly felt by everyone. The fourteen essays deal with literary figures such as Jonathan Swift, George Moore, Colm Tóibín, Richard Murphy, Seamus Heaney, Michael O¿Siadhail, Sally Rooney and Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Other issues broached are the diplomatic work carried out by Seán T. O¿Kelly as Ireland¿s envoy to Paris when an independent Ireland was seeking international recognition; depictions of the AIDS crisis in Irish theatre; the Neganthropocene in the French TV series Zone Blanche; new opportunities for learning through digital archives; strategies to save the rural Irish pub; innovative strategies employed by Ireland on the world stage, and the use of science to manipulate the French public¿s beliefs about COVID-19. The diversity of material and approaches guarantees that New Beginnings will appeal to a large number of readers.

This book presents an intellectual history and theoretical exploration of black humanism since the civil rights era. Humanism is a human-centered approach to life that considers human beings to be responsible for the world and its course of history. Both the heavily theistic climate in the United States as well as the dominance of the Black Church are responsible for black humanism¿s existence in virtual oblivion. For those who believe the world to be one without supernatural interventions, human action matters greatly and is the only possible mode for change. Humanists are thus committed to promoting the public good through human effort rather than through faith. Black humanism originates from the lived experiences of African Americans in a white hegemonic society. Viewed from this perspective, black humanist cultural expressions are a continuous push to imagine and make room for alternative life options in a racist society. Alexandra Hartmann counters religion¿s hegemonic grasp and uncovers black humanism as a small yet significant tradition in recent African American culture and cultural politics by studying its impact on African American literature and the ensuing anti-racist potentials. The book demonstrates that black humanism regards subjectivity as embodied and is thus a worldview that is characterized by a fragile hope regarding the possibility of progress ¿ racial and otherwise ¿ in the country.

Von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart wird erzählerisches Handeln immer wieder durch bildhafte Ausdrücke veranschaulicht, die den Erzähler in logikwidrigem Kontakt mit der erzählten Welt darstellen und sich damit narratologisch als Metalepsen beschreiben lassen. Dieses Buch behandelt zwei sachlich entgegengesetzte, aber dennoch verwandte metaleptische Bilder des Erzählens: Im einen erscheint der Erzähler als anwesender Beobachter ("wir finden unseren Helden in x"), im anderen als unmittelbarer Urheber der Handlung ("wir haben unseren Helden nach x gebracht"). Beide Bilder werden anhand aussagekräftiger Beispiele von den Anfängen in der frühgriechischen Dichtung über Verwendungen in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit bis zu Weiterentwicklungen im modernen Roman verfolgt. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei den impliziten Konzepten des Erzählens, die in den jeweiligen Verwendungen greifbar werden. Tatsächlich zeigen sich hinter den formalen Konstanten teils tiefgreifende Unterschiede, die einen Einblick in epochenspezifische Erzählverständnisse ermöglichen. Damit leistet das Buch nicht nur einen Beitrag zu einer Geschichte abendländischen Erzählens, sondern führt exemplarisch den Nutzen der Diachronen Narratologie vor Augen.

In Anknüpfung an Genettes Paratext-Verständnis (als ,Beiwerk' zum Buch) geht der Band an literarischen, philosophischen und musikalischen Beispielen der Frage nach, wie editorisch mit jenen Elementen umzugehen ist, die mit dem zu edierenden Text bzw. Werk materiell verbunden sind, aber nicht seine eigentlichen Textsorten (,Peritexte') bilden. Dies betrifft etwa Nachworte zu Auflagen, Werbetexte im Buch, überhaupt alle materiellen Bestandteile des Werkes als medialer Erscheinungsform (Umschlag eines Buches, Bindungen einer Handschrift, Formate, Papiere etc.), nicht zuletzt aber auch die Formen, durch die die Schriftzeichen repräsentiert werden (Layout von Handschriften- und Buchseiten, Typografie, Grafie, Farbgestaltung etc.). Sollen überhaupt - und wenn ja, wie - peritextuelle Elemente des Werkes editorisch dargestellt werden? Auch auf der Ebene der ,Epitexte', also jener nicht mit dem Text/Werk verbundenen Materialien wie Tagebuch- und Notizbucheinträge, Briefäußerungen oder anderer Egomaterialien sowie sonstiger Verlautbarungen zum Werk (autoreigen oder fremd), geht der Band dieser Abgrenzungsfrage nach.

Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway's influential "e;Cyborg Manifesto"e; was published. With sections exploring reproductive technologies, new ways of imagining femininity and motherhood via artificial means, queer readings of gender as a social technology, and posthuman visions of a world beyond gender, this book demonstrates how feminist speculative fiction offers an urgently needed response to the intersections of women's bodies and technology. This collection brings together authors from Europe, Japan, the US and the UK to consider speculative films and texts, reproductive technologies and food futures, and opportunities to rethink family, aging, gender and sexuality, and community through feminist speculative fiction, a social technology for building better futures.

Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments explores the intersection between imaginaries of disability and representations of work, welfare and the nation in twentieth and twenty-first century Scottish literature. Disorienting effects erupt when non-normative bodies and minds clash with the structures of capitalist normalcy. This book brings into conversation Scottish studies, disability studies and Marxist autonomist theory to trace the ways in which these "e;crip enchantments"e; are imagined in modern Scottish writing, and the "e;autonomist"e; narratives of disability by which they are evoked.

[headline]A reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster delves into Maurice Blanchot's enigmatic, and deeply influential, notion of the disaster - a term Blanchot famously refuses to define. By exploring the novels of Jon McGregor, Mike McCormack, David Mitchell, Jeanette Winterson and Maggie Gee, Jonathan Boulter suggests that we can think of literature, the space of the imagination, as the place where some conception (ethical, ecological, or ontological) of the disaster emerges. These novels, all in some ways about the disaster, just as they are inflected by the disaster, become the place where an understanding of critical events - death, ecological catastrophe, pandemics - is possible. [bio]Jonathan Boulter is Professor of English at Western University, London, Canada. His previous publications include Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose (2019), Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience (2015), Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (2011), Samuel Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008), and Interpreting Narrative in the Novels of Samuel Beckett (2001).

Die vorliegende Studie operationalisiert eines der meistdiskutierten Konzepte der Narratologie für die digitale Annotation von Erzähltexten: Binnenerzählungen. Anhand des erzählerischen und dramatischen Werks Heinrich von Kleists werden Annotationsschemata für narrative Redewiedergabe und Verfahren der computationellen Annotationsauswertung entwickelt. Das Ergebnis ist ein neues Konzept der Binnenerzählung, das auch Mikrophänomene des Erzählens in der Figurenkommunikation erfasst und transgenerisch eingesetzt werden kann. Am Beispiel von Kleist längeren Novellen und Dramen wird der Nutzen dieses Konzept vorgeführt, indem vor allem mit Verfahren der literaturwissenschaftlichen Netzwerkanalysen die zahlreichen Mikrophänome des Erzählens makroanalytisch untersucht werden.

Fall 2022 Issue of the Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal (UC Berkeley).

This book explores concepts of environmentalism and feminism in science fiction novels written by women. By extrapolating the future of climate change, the authors of these texts model how readers can apply utopian feminist and environmental theories in their own lives. Chapter One establishes an understanding of ecofeminist environmental thinking through original research conducted at the Ursula K. Le Guin archive at the University of Oregon. Chapter Two shows an example of climate change dystopia set in California in Claire Vaye Watkins¿ novel Gold Fame Citrus. The final chapters explore utopian visions of queer ecologies in books by Octavia Butler and N.K. Jemisin. Because climate change is so difficult for individuals to grapple with, a new perspective is needed to survive it. The queer ecological philosophy in these novels points to a way of life that can reduce environmental harm in an era of climate change.

Durch seine langjährige Tätigkeit als Lektor weiß Hans-Joachim Kerf, welche Fallstricke Erstautoren beim Schreiben eines Romans erwarten. Seine tiefgreifenden Erfahrungen haben zu diesem Ratgeber mit wertvollen Tipps und Anregungen geführt.

The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmilla Ulitskaya, The Time of Women by Elena Chizhova, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, and In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, and uncovers connecting thematic structures and features. Focusing on the concepts of displacement and postmemory, the book shows how these works have given voice to those on the margins of society and of ¿great history¿ whose resistance was often silent. In doing so, these women writers portray the everyday experiences and trauma of displaced women and girls during the second half of the twentieth century. This study offers new insights into the importance of these women writers¿ work in creating and preserving cultural memory in post-Soviet Russia.

Una colección de ensayos magistrales sobre la cultura de masas.>Publicados originalmente en 1964, estos textos «lúcidos, persuasivos e ingeniosos de un autor realmente particular, sustancial, brillante y muy divertido» (Kirkus Reviews) componen un libro icónico y visionario que marcó nuestra época y que a día de hoy continúa siendo una obra de referencia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION An erudite and witty collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture. In these masterful essays, in which he analyzes mass culture's ugly tastes, the reading of comics, the myth of Superman, consumer's likes and dislikes, the role of mass media as an information tool, and television's influence in today's world, Umberto Eco raises the main problem with the two different viewpoints facing mass culture today: that of those with an apocalyptic view, who see it all as a sign of an irrevocable demise, and that of those with a more positive outlook, who optimistically believe that we are living the magnificent generalization of a cultural framework. Originally published in 1964, these texts that are "lucid, persuasive, and artfully illustrated essays, by an author who is substantial, lucid, humane, and a great deal of fun" (Kirkus Reviews) make up an iconic and visionary book that marked our times and one that continues to be a work of reference in today's world.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it. Pencils were used to sketch civilization's greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw's blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. Pencil offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object. Pencils are a simple device that are deceptively difficult to manufacture. At a time when many use cellphones as banking branches and instructors reach students online throughout the world, pencil use has not waned, with tens of millions being made and used annually. Carol Beggy sketches out how the lowly pencil is still a mighty useful tool. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

This book looks at eight post Arab Spring novels in the context of Gilles Deleuze¿s and Félix Guattari¿s theory of minor literature. Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Karim Alrawi, Youssef Rakha, Yasmine El Rashidi, Omar Rober Hamilton, Saleem Haddad, and Nada Awar Jarrar all focus on the Arab world in their work; on the lives of ordinary and minority peoples; and on the revolutions of their respective nations. This volume shows how these contemporary Anglo-Arab novelists exhibit linguistic experimentation akin to Deleuze¿s and Guattari¿s theory of ¿deterritorialization¿, but in a way that is unique to Anglo-Arab writing. The selected novelists repudiate the use of metamorphosis, which is usually an essential part of the deterritorialization of a major language. Instead, their writings enact the minor practice of linguistic deterritorialization by using metaphor and by incorporating contemporary modes of protest like popular slogans, tweets, and chants. These authors challenge theconventions of minor literature and, by adopting this mode of deterritorialization, foreground the experiences of officially silenced voices.

Este livro analisa as condicionantes da produção literária das mulheres, duranteas quase cinco décadas do regime autoritário português, de 1926 a 1974, e osmecanismos de invisibilidade que caraterizaram, muitas vezes, a receção dassuas obras. Ao problematizarem o contexto sociopolítico da Ditadura Militar e doEstado Novo, estes estudos procuram compreender as motivações que levaramum grande número de autoras a escrever, as suas estratégias de publicação, amarginalização de que foram alvo, sem esquecer o papel da crítica literária e aquestão do cânone.A obra tem como objetivo estudar estas escritoras, quase sempre esquecidas pelainstituição literária, e integrá-las no património literário português, procurando,assim, torná-las visíveis, ao destacar também o papel determinante quedesempenharam na sociedade do seu tempo. Neste sentido, contribui para aelaboração da História das Mulheres, em Portugal.

The study privileges the puppet as a new and revealing point of access to contemporary critical debates regarding performance, genre, affect, aesthetics, cultural production, political activism and the nonhuman studies. The contributors address a striking range of performance histories, aesthetic movements and theoretical positions, from the Arabic influence on Iberian shadow puppetry to the position of the puppet in post-Revolutionary Iran and the American anti-war movement; from the puppet's central role in the development of European theatre to avant-garde and modernist anti-theatre; from the puppet's place in the histories of visual art and experimental film to critiques of mass media. By paying careful attention to the specific roles and varieties of puppets in these diverse historical, political and cultural contexts, the collection provides new insights into the practices, aesthetics and ethics of puppet theatre, which serve, in turn, to interrogate anew the relationships between the human and the nonhuman, the material and the immaterial, the uncanny and the sublime.

Die Studie fasst Kreativität als Kunstprinzip, kulturelles Phänomen und genuines Prinzip der Existenz. Als Begriff für beobachtete Phänomene in Kultur und Natur - für das Sprunghafte, Dynamische, Unvorhersehbare - scheint sich Kreativität der Prognose und der Logik zu entziehen. Angesichts dieser radikalen Offenheit zielen die Erklärungsansätze auf prekäre Gegenwartsthemen zwischen Welterschaffung und Welterhaltung, Individuum und Gemeinschaft: das Verhältnis von biologischer Evolution und menschlicher Kreativität im Kampf gegen Viren, die Bedeutung von Alertheit und Ästhetik bei Evidenzmangel am Beispiel von Long-COVID, Überraschungen in der Erforschung des Universums, das Verhältnis von Schöpfungsmythen und Kunst, die Bedeutung immaterialrechtlicher Schutzsysteme und das Risiko des Scheiterns am Beispiel der übersteigerten Ambition eines vergessenen Kantkritikers. In diesem Spannungsfeld zwischen radikalem Konstruktivismus und radikalem Prädeterminismus fordern künstlerische Selbstreflexion und die Synergien von Wissenschaft und Kunst erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit.

Narrative sind immer schon Grundbestand der menschlichen, kulturellen, sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Verständigungshorizonte. Der Band Erzählhorizonte widmet sich der Auseinandersetzung mit möglichen Formen einer narrativen Ethik, indem aus inter- und transdisziplinärer Sicht dem menschlichen und lebensweltlichen Grundphänomen der Narrativität nachgespürt wird. In Diskursen, die Digitalisierung, Technik, Medizin, Politik, Medientheorie, Anthropologie, Geistesgeschichte, Literaturwissenschaft und auch Theologie umfassen, wird kritisch sowie innovativ und im Gegenwarts- und Zukunftsbezug Narrativität in ihrer tiefen ethischen Dimension beleuchtet.

Postmodernism has had its day. Are we now in the era of epimodernism? Reinterpreting the six ¿memos¿ that Italo Calvino suggested more than thirty years ago for ¿the new Millennium¿, in this acclaimed book Emmanuel Bouju identifies six new values for literature in the twenty-first century: Superficiality, Secrecy, Energy, Acceleration, Credit, and Follow Through. Based on the principal meanings of the Ancient Greek prefix epi ¿ surface, contact, origin, extension, duration, authority, and finality ¿ these values represent six different ways of relating to the legacy of modernist utopias, reorienting postmodern critique and rebooting, with all due irony, its various forms of engagement and empowerment. Equal parts cultural criticism and literary creation, this highly original essay both enacts and explores the epimodern turn in contemporary European literature. Rigorous and humorous, provocative and playful, Epimodernism helps us to understand what literature can describe, imagine, and invent in our challenging times.