Sammenlignende litteratur

Mobility, Space, and Resistance: Transformative Spatiality in Literary and Political Discourse draws from various disciplines-such as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thought-to posit the productive capabilities of literature in political action and at the same time show how literary art can resist the imposition and domination of oppressive systems of our spatial lives. The various approaches, topics, and types of literature discussed in this volume display a concern for social issues that can be addressed in and through literature. The essays address social injustice, oppression, discrimination, and their spatial representations. While offering interpretations of literature, this collection seeks to show how literary spaces contribute to understanding, changing, or challenging physical spaces of our lived world.

Der vorliegende Band untersucht das Zusammenwirken von Bergdarstellungen und Traumnarrativen in Literatur und Film aus epochen- und kulturraumübergreifender sowie intermedialer Perspektive. Dabei soll der Traum in seiner ganzen semantischen Spannweite in den Fokus gerückt werden, denn die komplexe Hybridisierung von Schlaftraum, Tagträumerei und Wunschtraum scheint im Kontext von Bergnarrativen besonders sinnstiftend. Gleichzeitig wird durch die Analyse ästhetischer Bergdarstellungen in onirischen Narrativen eine Re-Evaluierung etablierter Bergtopoi angestrebt. So soll die spezifische Wissens- und Kulturpoetik der Berg-Traum-Narrative herausgestellt werden. Zwischen Selbstfindung und Entfremdung, Fiktion und Referenzialität, rückwärtsgewandter Traumabewältigung und zukunftsgerichtetem Sehnsuchtsraum konstituieren sich ästhetische Darstellungen von 'Traumbergen' und 'Bergträumen' regelmäßig durch eine ambivalente, dialektische Logik, die es zu untersuchen gilt.

Yirmi birinci yüzy¿l ile birlikte ivme kazanan NBIC (nanoteknoloji, biyoteknoloji, enformasyon teknolojileri ve bili¿im bilim) teknolojileri al¿¿¿lageldik kavramlar üzerinden yap¿lan geleneksel insan tan¿mlar¿n¿ ve insana yükledi¿imiz de¿erleri de¿i¿tirmektedir. ¿nsan¿n ve do¿an¿n 'do¿as¿n¿' de¿i¿tirmenin e¿i¿inde olan kök hücre arät¿rmalar¿, yeniden üreme biyoteknolojileri, sentetik biyoloji, insan genom ve gen-tasar¿m teknolojilerinden, klonlama teknolojileri, türler aras¿ organ nakil teknolojileri ve suni hayat ve yapay yäam ortamlar¿na kadar birçok biyomedikal, biyoteknolojik ve sibernetik bulu¿ yeni bir dönüm noktas¿n¿ ya da insanl¿k tarihinde yeni bir k¿r¿lmay¿ i¿aret etmektedir. Söz konusu geli¿melere e¿lik eden dü¿ünsel de¿i¿imler ise insana ve do¿aya dair genel geçer ve asla de¿i¿mez diye adland¿rd¿¿¿m¿z temel kategorileri sorgulayarak dönü¿ümün gereklili¿ini vurgulamaktad¿r. Posthümanizm bu dönü¿ümlerin bir yans¿mas¿ olarak, geçmi¿, bugün ve gelecek aras¿ndaki bälar¿ irdeler; bu bälamda da insan, insan-ötesi/ üstü/sonras¿/d¿¿¿/ alternatif senaryolar üretir/sunar. Bütün bu geli¿meleri ve dönü¿ümleri ele almay¿ amaçlayan Posthümanizm Serisi'nin ilk kitab¿ olan Edebiyatta Posthümanizm, Bat¿ toplumlar¿n¿ ideolojisini ve zihniyetini yüzy¿llard¿r besleyen insan¿ evrenin merkezi kabul eden anlay¿¿ biçiminin vuku buldu¿u insan/do¿a, insan/insan-olmayan gibi ikili dü¿ünce sistemini kökten çökerten posthümanizm kuramlar bütününün edebi yaz¿nda nas¿l kavramsallät¿r¿ld¿¿¿n¿ sorgulamaktad¿r. Bu bälamda, bu kitap Posthümanizm ve Edebiyat ili¿kisini derinlemesine inceleyen farkl¿ co¿rafyalarda ve farkl¿ dönemlerde yaz¿lm¿¿ çe¿itli Osmanl¿-Türk ve Bat¿ edebiyatlar¿ndan örnekleri posthümanist kuramsal yaklä¿mlar çerçevesinde analiz ederek insan ötesi yäam türlerinin edebiyattaki yans¿malar¿n¿ tart¿¿¿r. Seçilen eserlerde posthümanizmin feminizm, ekoele¿tiri, biyopolitika ve transhümanizm gibi kuramlarla birbirlerine katk¿s¿ do¿rultusunda yak¿ndan ili¿kisi incelenmektedir."Temel bir yap¿t. Türk miras¿n¿n derin bilgeli¿i ve bilgisi ile posthüman söylemi aras¿nda - veya tam tersi - köprü kuran bir yap¿ tä¿. Ne oldu¿umuzun - bireyler olarak, türler olarak, gezegen olarak - daha fazla anlä¿lmas¿na yönelik yerel ve küreselin, dünün, bugünün ve yar¿n¿n bulu¿tu¿u edebi bir geli¿im yolculu¿u."- Francesca Ferrando, New York Üniversitesi, ABD

Explore the history of Beelzebub in old world manuscripts, with a guide who takes pride in defying expectations, and know that you will learn something that you would not have otherwise found, without first diving deep. Meticulous and thorough, Armada not only reviews ancient grimoires, she shares an abundance of insightful information about the material, and how it may relate to each other. This earliest edition could become rare! Purchasing it is the perfect opportunity to show your support, especially given the circumstances surrounding its publication (these are expounded upon within the prologue).

This Palgrave Pivot offers new readings of Maria Edgeworth's representations of slavery. It shows how Edgeworth employed satiric technique and intertextual allusion to represent discourses of slavery and abolition as a litmus test of character - one that she invites readers to use on themselves. Over the course of her career, Edgeworth repeatedly indicted hypocritical and hyperbolic misappropriation of the sentimental rhetoric that dominated the slavery debate. This book offers new readings of canonical Edgeworth texts as well as of largely neglected works, including: Whim for Whim, "e;The Good Aunt"e;, Belinda, "e;The Grateful Negro"e;, "e;The Two Guardians"e;, and Harry and Lucy Continued. It also offers an unprecedented deep-dive into an important Romantic Era woman writer's engagement with discourses of slavery and abolition.  

The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture - a worldview shaped by the completeness, permanence, and authority of the printed word. As a technology, print at its birth was as disruptive as the digital migration of today. Now, as the internet ushers us past print culture, journalist Jeff Jarvis offers important lessons from the era we leave behind. To understand our transition out of the Gutenberg Age, Jarvis first examines the transition into it. Tracking Western industrialized print to its origins, he explores its invention, spread, and evolution, as well as the bureaucracy and censorship that followed. He also reveals how print gave rise to the idea of the mass - mass media, mass market, mass culture, mass politics, and so on - that came to dominate the public sphere. What can we glean from the captivating, profound, and challenging history of our devotion to print? Could it be that we are returning to a time before mass media, to a society built on conversation, and that we are relearning how to hold that conversation with ourselves? Brimming with broader implications for today's debates over communication, authorship, and ownership, Jarvis' exploration of print on a grand scale is also a complex, compelling history of technology and power.

Pacific Literatures as World Literature is a conjuration of trans-Pacific poets and writers whose work enacts forces of "becoming oceanic" and suggests a different mode of understanding, viewing, and belonging to the world. The Pacific, past and present, remains uneasily amenable to territorial demarcations of national or marine sovereignty. At the same time, as a planetary element necessary to sustaining life and well-being, the Pacific could become the means to envisioning ecological solidarity, if compellingly framed in terms that elicit consent and inspire an imagination of co-belonging and care. The Pacific can signify a bioregional site of coalitional promise as much as a danger zone of antagonistic peril. With ground-breaking writings from authors based in North America, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hawaii, and Guam and new modes of research - including multispecies ethnography and practice, ecopoetics, and indigenous cosmopolitics - authors explore the socio-political significance of the Pacific and contribute to the development of a collective effort of comparative Pacific studies covering a refreshingly broad, ethnographically grounded range of research themes. This volume aims to decenter continental/land poetics as such via long-standing transnational Pacific ties, re-worlding Pacific literature as world literature.

Bryan Giemza challenges the myth of the solitary genius, both in scientific and humanistic endeavors, and demonstrates how Cormac McCarthy is the exceptional figure whose work allows and encourages us to interrogate the marriage of the sciences and humanities. Drawing from previously unsurfaced archival connections as well as a range of primary sources and interview subjects, including those close to McCarthy, Giemza places McCarthy's work within contemporary scientific discourse and literary criticism. Timely and innovative in both content and structure, the volume includes a biographical examination of the writer's love of science and the path that led him to the Santa Fe Institute and offers a rare look behind its closed doors.The book probes the STEM subjects - with chapters focused on technology, engineering, and math - within and throughout McCarthy's fictional universe and biography. The final chapter explores McCarthy's friendship with Guy Davenport and their shared interest in creating a unified aesthetic theory alongside McCarthy's essays and most recent literary projects, The Passenger and Stella Maris. In arguing that science and art are connected by aesthetics, Giemza confirms the profound truth of McCarthy's unwavering belief that "There's a beauty to science" and a language of human understanding that transcends words.

This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture. Its contributions test the applicability of narratological concepts to graphic narrative, examine aspects of graphic narrative beyond the 'single work', consider the development of particular narrative strategies within individual genres, and trace the forms and functions of graphic narrative across cultures. Analyzing a wide range of texts, genres, and narrative strategies from both theoretical and historical perspectives, the international group of scholars gathered here offers state-of-the-art research on graphic narrative in the context of an increasingly postclassical and transmedial narratology.This is the revised second edition of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels, which was originally published in the Narratologia series.

This open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples todescribe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case. Consisting of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures series, it makes continuous use of the concepts of 'cosmopolitan' and 'vernacular' - or rather, the processual terms, cosmopolitanization and vernacularization - which provide an overall structure to the analysis of literature and literary phenomena. In this way, the authors show that the semi-periphery is an ideal point of departure to further the understanding of world literature, because it is a place where the cosmopolitan (the literary universal) and the vernacular (the rootedness in a particular culture or place) interact in ways that have not yet been thoroughly explored.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Oedipus still dominates the psychoanalytic imagination, though Ulysses is a more central to Western tradition, from Homer to Joyce and Kazantzakis. W. B. Stanford's delightfully readable and erudite, survey of the Ulysses figure revolutionizes conventional accounts of this hero. For here is a Ulysses with closer ties to wife, mother, nymphs, and goddesses than his fellow warriors, a faithful husband who dallies with seductive enchantresses, a man of valor who wins by deceit-the Trojan Horse. In his brilliantly challenging foreword, "The Classicist and the Psychopath," Charles Boer brings the hero's wanderings up to the twenty-first century by examining the strange fascination of academics with Ulysses and exposing the peculiar prejudices that are hidden in Classical scholarship.

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der transnationalen Dimension der Kanonisierung von Literatur im Rahmen der griechisch-sowjetischen Literaturbeziehungen. Teil der sowjetischen ideologischen Expansion war auch ein Konzept von Weltliteratur, mithilfe dessen ein normatives ästhetisches Programm exportiert und eine ,Internationale des Geistes' etabliert werden sollte. Die Arbeit betrachtet die Übersetzung und Publikation neugriechischer Literatur in der Sowjetunion als Unterprojekt des sowjetischen Kultur- und Weltliteraturprojekts und erkundet anhand dieses literarhistorischen Fallbeispiels dessen Wege und Realisierungsstrategien. Den Forschungsgegenstand der Arbeit bilden Rezeption, Übersetzung, Publikation und Präsentation neugriechischer Literatur in der Sowjetunion in Hinblick auf narrative Strategien, Übersetzungspraktiken und Vermittlungsaktivitäten. Die Arbeit, die sowohl eine narratologische als auch eine literaturpragmatische Dimension von Kanonisierung in den Blick nimmt und sich weitgehend auf unveröffentlichtes Archivmaterial stützt, stellt die erste systematische komparatistische Untersuchung des bis dato unkartierten Bereichs der griechisch-sowjetischen Literatur- und Übersetzungsgeschichte dar.