Litteraturstudier: skønlitteratur og forfattere

Gothic literature is very popular today, and many places have become tourist attractions because they are either connected to Gothic fictions or because they generate new Gothic storytelling experiences. This book explores the socio-political significance of Gothic tourism in England.

"This book shows how South African writing can help us to understand change after apartheid. It focusses on changes in the workplace, land reform, indigenous knowledge, xenophobia, corruption and crime, arguing that literary and cultural texts have a unique and powerful capacity for illuminating these issues"--

The Smallpox Report explores the Romantic-era medical and literary narratives that made vaccination plausible, available, and desirable.

This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the twentieth century.

Med udgangspunkt i Tove Ditlevsens bøger "Barndom", "Ungdom" og "Gift" beskriver Anne Scott Sørensen den spændende måde, hvorpå erindringslitteraturen udviklede sig i Danmark i 1970’erne. Hun beskriver, hvordan Tove Ditlevsens stil og formål med bøgerne adskiller sig fra den mandlige selvbiografiske tradition, som oftest var skrevet for at høste erfaringerne fra et afsluttet livsforløb set med alderens afklarede syn."Tove Ditlevsen - erindringen som selvterapi og udtryksform" udkom i 1983 og giver en spændende vinkel på Tove Ditlevsens forfatterskab og dets helt særlige plads i dansk litteraturhistorie.idden /title /head body center h1 403 Forbidden /h1 /center /body /htmlAnne Scott Sørensen (f. 1952) er cand.phil. i nordisk sprog og litteratur og professor ved Institut for Kulturvidenskaber på Syddansk Universitet. Her forsker hun i kultur, medier og kommunikation med speciale inden for kultur- og medieanalysen og et fokus på tvær-mediale og tvær-æstetiske genrer og performative udtryksformer.Scott Sørensen har især beskæftiget sig med historiske og aktuelle former for "deltagelseskultur", fx salonkulturen i det 18.-19. århundrede, børns og unges sub- og mediekulturer i det 20. århundrede og medialiserede socialitets- og kommunikationsformer i det 21. århundrede.

Sagnet om Faust, der sælger sin sjæl til Djævelen, er blevet fortalt i forskellige afskygninger igennem århundreder og ligger også til grund for Goethes mesterværk af samme navn. Hensigten med Carl Kochs bog er at indføre læseren i Goethes Faust, således at denne opnår en dybere forståelse af værket og dets mange fortolkningsmuligheder og skjulte henvisninger.Carl Koch (1860-1925) var dansk præst og forfatter. Han blev uddannet cand.theol. i 1884 og arbejdede som lærer ved Birkerød Latinskole, før han blev kapellan og senere valgmenighedspræst. Carl Koch har skrevet en lang række bøger om blandt andet Goethe, Brorson, Kierkegaard og Jesu lignelser.

The second Annual of the International Heyer Society!COLLECTING IN ONE VOLUME: #7 - Helen#8 - The Masqueraders#9 - Pastel#10 - Beauvallet#11 - Barren Corn#12 - The Conqueror#13 - Footsteps in the Dark#14 - Devil's Cub# 15 - Why Shoot a Butler?#16 - The Convenient Marriage#17 - The Unfinished Clue#18 - Death in the StocksPlus the Weekly Post, Vol. II, with essays discussing everything from Heyer's houses to the the translated editions of her novels to Belinda's purple gown, and much, much more.Join Society Patronesses Rachel Hyland, Jennifer Kloester and Susannah Fullerton, along with some special guest contributors, in this joyous tribute to the incomparable Georgette Heyer.

One of Knut Hamsun's most famous works, it tells the story of Thomas Glahn, a lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop.

Accompanied by new notes and a new introduction, as well as previously redacted and omitted material, the new edition of Owen's Selected Letters brings together past and contemporary scholarship to provide fresh insights into Owen's character and poetic development.

The great scientific, astronomical and technological advances of the 20th century inspired the science fiction genre to imagine distant worlds and futures, far beyond the discoveries of the here and now. This book explores science fiction films, television series, novels and short stories--from Lost in Space (1965-1968) to Fringe (2008-2013) to the works of Isaac Asimov and Stephen Baxter--with a focus on their underlying concepts of physics and astronomy. Assessing accuracy and plausibility, the author considers the possibilities of solar system, interstellar and faster than light travel; intelligent planets, dark (anti-) matter, the multiverse and string theory, time travel, alternate universes, teleportation and replication, weaponry, force fields, extraterrestrial life, subatomic life, emotional robots, super-human and parapsychological powers, asteroid impacts, space colonies and many other topics.

Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction, Andrew Nyongesa investigates the role of Mother Nature in the political, cultural, religious aspects of human life in contemporary novels.

Poe and Women presents essays by scholars who investigate the various ways in which women-Poe's female contemporaries, critics, writers, and artists, as well as women characters in Poe adaptations-have shaped Edgar Allan Poe's reputation and revised his depictions of gender.

Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'. Hardy's novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardy's Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions in Hardy's life and his work provides a foundation for exploring the themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century and again in the 21st century into a definable genre, folk horror. This study analyses the subduing function of heritage drama via analysis of adaptations of Hardy's work to this financially lucrative film market. This is a market in which the inclusion of the weird and the eerie does not fit with the construction of a past and their function in creating a nostalgia of a safe and idyllic picture of England's rural past. However, there are some lesser-known adaptations from the 1970s that sit alongside the unholy trinity of folk horror: the adaptation for television of the Wessex Tales. From a consideration of the epistemological fissure that characterize Hardy's world, the book draws parallels between then and now and the manifestation of writing on conceptual borders. Through this comparative analysis, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition posits that we currently exist on a moment of fracture, when tradition sits as a seductive threat.

"This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing an extensive and deeply researched examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture"--