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Narratives at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium
This volume offers a cross-disciplinary approach to narratives in the 21st century, in response to the growing scholarly concern with the decreasing explanatory capacity of theoretical concepts and narrative configurations originating in postmodernism. The essays collected here meet this conceptual gap by offering cutting-edge research from a variety of disciplines, such as literary studies and design and media studies, as well as social sciences, all of which employ narrative models to explore the distinctive patterns which shape contemporary conceptions of the 3rd millennium.
An Ethics Beyond
This study examines the fiction of contemporary American author George Saunders in terms of how it presents situations applicable to the chief notions of posthumanist ethics and how these conceptions concern nonhuman animals, which are prevalent in his writing. Posthumanist ethics can help us understand what is at play in Saunders’s fiction. Meanwhile, his texts can help us understand what is at stake in posthumanist ethics. This interdisciplinary project may be beneficial both to conceiving new notions of ethics that are more inclusive and, more implicitly, to understanding the relevance of Saunders’s fiction to the current American sociocultural climate.
Sporting Realities
Despite the increasing number of popular and celebrated sports documentaries in contemporary culture, such as ESPN's 30 for 30 series, there has been little scholarly engagement with this genre. Sports documentaries, like all films, do not merely showcase objective reality but rather construct specific versions of sporting culture that serve distinct economic, industrial, institutional, historical, and sociopolitical ends ripe for criticism, contextualization, and exploration. Sporting Realities brings together a diverse group of scholars to probe the sports documentary's cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts. It considers and critiques the sports documentary's visible and powerful position in contemporary culture and forges novel connections between the study of nonfiction media and sport.
Distanz durch Nähe
Kritisches Design basiert vielfach auf Ironie, Störung oder Verfremdung und schafft Distanz. Die Autorin forscht nach Alternativen im Neuen Materialismus und in Theorien über den Animismus – ein durch die Kolonialzeit geprägter Begriff, der in den 1990er-Jahren eine Revision erfuhr. Wie könnten Kritik und Reflexion funktionieren, wenn man den Menschen mit seiner Umwelt verwoben begreift? In dem Buch werden vier animistische Praktiken identifiziert und für das Design diskutiert. Kritische Distanz entsteht hier paradoxerweise durch Nähe. Die Praktiken spielen mit einem Wechsel zwischen dem Eigenen und dem Anderen und sind (selbst)reflexiv. Sie eignen sich insbesondere für das Erforschen und Gestalten vernetzter oder anthropomorpher Artefakte (etwa IoT-Devices, Voice Assistants), deren Grenzen zueinander und zum Menschen verschwimmen.
Anna
Step into the heart of Ukraine’s tumultuous upheaval with Anna, a resilient soul born into a Mennonite farm family. Reforms following the 1917 socialist revolution shattered her once-peaceful countryside’s tranquillity, plunging the nation into chaos and lawlessness. In the ensuing battleground, the ideals of justice clash with violent revolutionaries and looting gangs, leaving devastation in their wake. Fleeing the horrors, Anna’s family seeks refuge in Eastern Siberia, only to find themselves labelled again as “dangerous social elements” under the Soviet iron-fisted regime. In the shadow of the Gulag’s torture prisons and forced labour camps, Anna and her family confront the ha...
Anna's Dance: A Balkan Odyssey
It’s 1968. The world is in turmoil. So is twenty-three-year-old Anna Rossi, who questions everything about her life, from her mostly Jewish heritage to her fear of intimacy. Summer in Europe with a childhood friend offers a perfect way to escape her demons. When her friend abandons her in Italy, Anna makes the rash decision to travel on with strangers. Her journey takes a perilous turn, leading her into conflict in Eastern Europe and into the heart of the Balkans. Love, Intrigue, Betrayal—Anna must find the strength to survive.
The Oligarch's Wife
A wonderfully rich and vibrant novel which tells the story of one of Russia's post-Communist Oligarchs and the two women who marry him, from impoverished boyhood, through unimaginable power and wealth, to the moment when he finally overreaches himself.
The Book of Anna
Russia, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: the almost-living portrait that the Tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscripts she wrote just before her death, one of which opens a trapdoor to a wild feminist fairytale. Across the city, Clementine, an anarchist seamstress, and Father Gapón, the charismatic leader of the proletariat, tip the country ever closer to revolution. Boullosa lifts the voices of coachmen, sailors, maids, and seamstresses in this playful, polyphonic, and subversive revision of the Russian revolution, told through the lens of Tolstoy’s most beloved work.
Anna
BOOK DESCRIPTION The relative tranquility of a small Shtetl (village or area of a village where Jews were allowed to live in Russia) was shattered by a devastating pogrom led by the Czar's elite soldiers, the Cossacks. Two young girls' lives are dramatically and definitively changed forever; Anna, the youngest daughter of an educated Jewish family and Petrovena, a village peasant girl; and both by an unusual Cossack Officer, Nicholai Kollenoff. While ANNA is completely a work of fiction, actual events and people are part of the book, and of course, pogroms were a very real part of Russian Jewish life. This epic novel takes the reader on a journey with Anna, Petrovena, and Nicholai through some of the most important events of the first half of the Twentieth Century including two world wars and the Russian Revolution. It is populated with unusual characters, some of which the reader will love while others will be hated. Action moves from Russia to France and the United States with interesting twists and turns that will keep the readers' interest alive until the last word.
Anna
Anna has once again landed in jail. First, she poisoned her lover's wife and served ten years in prison. On her release, she meets her lover once more and becomes romantically involved, only to find out he deceived her from the very beginning. She only meant to harm him for the harm he had caused her, but she went too far. Anna now has another sentence to serve and struggles to look forward to some sort of future. To do this, she must reinvent herself and survive.
