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Colonised by Wankers
Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottish novels, this study explores the postcolonial in Scottish fiction in order to investigate the underlying discursive power relations that shape the Scottish literary imagination.
"Colonised by Wankers"
"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating. Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottish novels, this study explores the postcolonial in Scottish fiction in order to investigate the underlying discursive power relations that shape the Scottish literary imagination. The study consequently demonstrates that the analysis of Scottish national identity profits from this new angle of interpret...
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.
A Companion to Scottish Literature
A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses t...
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.
Empires and Revolutions
The European age of empires began the process of globalisation. It is also inextricably linked with revolutionary discourses: emancipation, political independence, and economic equality. These essays explore the expression of these ideas in the works of R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936) and of other Scottish writers of the period.
Notional Identities
One of the most striking features of contemporary Scottish fiction has been its shift from the predominantly realist novels of the 1960s and 1970s to an engagement with very different modes of writing, from the mixture of realism and visionary future satire in Alasdair Gray's Lanark (1981) to the Rabelaisian absurdity and excess of Irvine Welsh's Filth (1998). This development has received considerable critical attention, energising debates concerning how such writing relates to or challenges familiar tropes of identity and national culture. At the same time, however, there has been a very striking and commercially successful rise in the production of popular genre literature in Scotland, in...
The Postal Record
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Sacred Buildings
In a systematic section, this volume introduces the design, technical, and planning fundamentals of building churches, synagogues, and mosques. In its project section, it also presents about seventy realized structures from the last three decades.
