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Literary Cultures and Twenty-First-Century Childhoods
In the early decades of the twenty-first century, we are grappling with the legacies of past centuries and their cascading effects upon children and all people. We realize anew how imperialism, globalization, industrialization, and revolution continue to reshape our world and that of new generations. At a volatile moment, this collection asks how twenty-first century literature and related media represent and shape the contemporary child, childhood, and youth. Because literary representations construct ideal childhoods as well as model the rights, privileges, and respect afforded to actual young people, this collection surveys examples from popular culture and from scholarly practice. Chapte...
Mario Quintana
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International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults
This edited collection explores LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, and connects this literature to greater societal, political, linguistic, historical, and cultural concerns. It brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra, looking at picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels to explore what is at stake when we write (or do not write) about LGBTQ+ topics for young readers. The topics include the representation of sexualities and gender identities; depictions of queer families; censorship; links between culture, language and sexuality/gender; translation of LGBTQ+ literature for young readers; and self-publishing. It is the first collection to expand the study of LGBTQ+ literature for young readers beyond the English-speaking world and to draw cross-cultural comparisons.
Domingos Vandelli: Natural History and Enlightened Utilitarianism
This work reconstructs the intellectual and professional trajectory of Domingos Vandelli, who played a fundamental role at the University of Coimbra, directed the Royal Cabinet of Natural History and the Ajuda Botanical Garden, and was among the founding members of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. Through the collection of scattered information from documents and fragments of sources, Lucas Braga sought to rediscover, as far as the documentation allowed, the man behind the naturalist: the young man who left his homeland in pursuit of the dream of accomplishing something greater; the scholar who, even though he was not a disciple of Linnaeus, became his most prominent correspondent; t...
Offenheitszwang
Der ästhetische Begriff der Offenheit hat mit Unbestimmtheit, Unfestgelegtheit und Möglichkeit zu tun; er steht für eine Haltung, die über ästhetische Probleme hinausweist. Vor dem Hintergrund zeitgenössischer Zeichnung werden in diesem Buch die Verabsolutierung der Offenheit in Diskurs und künstlerischer Handlung aufgezeichnet und auf Parallelen zu den sozialen Produktionsbedingungen der Flexibilisierung überprüft. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob und wie Offenheit, die zum Programm erhoben wird, in ihr Gegenteil umzuschlagen droht und sich als Geschlossenheit manifestiert.
Die Welt der Liebe
Wie ist der globale Konsum von Liebe möglich? Was geschieht, wenn lokale und globale Semantiken zusammenstoßen? Fördert diese Begegnung die Evolution der Liebessemantik – oder wird sie dadurch behindert? Dieser Band beleuchtet das Spannungsverhältnis von Globalität und Lokalität anhand von unterschiedlichen Rezeptionen der modernen, westlich geprägten Liebessemantik in verschiedenen Kulturkreisen und sozialen Schichten. Systematisch präsentieren und diskutieren die Beiträge verschiedene Rezeptionsprozesse sowie Modifikationen durch die Konfrontation mit lokalen, traditionellen Semantiken und ermöglichen so einen außergewöhnlichen Einblick in die Welt der Liebe.
