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Dragonfly Dreaming
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The Explicit Material
The Explicit Material gathers varied perspectives from the discourses of conservation, curation and humanities disciplines to focus on aspects of heritage transmission and material transitions. The authors observe and explicate the myriad transformations that works of different kinds - manuscripts, archaeological artefacts, video art, installations, performances, film, and built heritage - may undergo: changing contexts, changing matter, changing interpretations and display. Focusing on the vibrant materiality of artworks and artefacts, The Explicit Material puts an emphasis on objects as complex constructs of material relations. By so doing, it announces a shift in sensibilities and understandings of the significance of objects and the materials they are made of, and on the increasingly blurred boundaries between the practices of conservation and curation.
Second Skin
Aktuelle öffentliche, mediale und politische Debatten fokussieren auf Körper und Kleidung im Zusammenhang mit Religion. »Second Skin« bietet anhand der Kategorien Identität, Repräsentation, Produktion und Rezeption sowie Regulierung einen kulturwissenschaftlichen Zugang zu Kleidung, Körper und Religion. Ausgehend von einem Konzept des Körpers als prozessuale, identitätsstiftende Grundlage der Person über die Analyse von Praktiken und Repräsentationen von Körper und Kleidung bis hin zur Analyse öffentlicher Machtdiskurse und Selbstregulierungen tragen in diesem Band Forschende aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen zu einer religionstheoretischen Erfassung von Kleidung bei.
Business Rhetoric in German Novels
Argues on the evidence of nine major German novels that literature and business have in common a reliance on language, understood in a creative, performative, and rhetorical sense.
Lloyd's List
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The Short Story in German in the Twenty-first Century
Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume analyzes German-language short-story writing in the twenty-first century, aiming to establish a framework for further research into individual authors as well as key themes and formal concerns. An introduction discusses theories of the short-story form and literary-aesthetic questions. A combination of thematic and author-focused chapter...
