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Cultural Dynamics of Play
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. Play engages us entirely. It may absorb all our attention, experience, knowledge, wisdom, understanding, cunning and wit, as well as physical agility and strength. There definitely are more than two sides to the play story. This book addresses the broad questions of what play consists in, how it is perceived, why it is important, and in what way(s) it influences our life. With contributions from Canada, Great Britain, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, The United States of America as well as Trinidad and Tobago, this volume provides a comparative intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective on the complexity of the concept of play, traces its origins, patterns, and mechanisms, as well as sheds light on the inter-relationships of different aspects of play as they are present in and shape the human condition.
Contemporary Second- and Third-Person Autobiographical Writing
This book explores 21st-century uses of the second- and third-person perspective in Anglophone autobiographical narratives by canonical male writers. Through detailed readings of contemporary autobiographical works by Paul Auster, Julian Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie, the study demonstrates the multiple aesthetic, rhetorical, and un/ethical implications of the choice of narrative perspective as well as the uncommon step of articulating the self from a perspective which is not I. Drawing on (rhetorical) narratology and autobiography theory, the book engages with questions and tensions of subjectivity and relationality, the interplay of distance and proximity resulting from the narr...
Ideology and Rhetoric
The discovery of America and its further development into a modern state and a nation are the clear instance of how ideology and rhetoric are entwined and how they can encompass widely disparate viewpoints. The essays collected in this book address the topical issues of modern American Studies: cultural difference and otherness; gender, race and ethnicity; class and power. They represent new texts and contexts, approached through the revision, reevaluation, and reconfiguration of cannons, thus accommodating the expectations of the heterodox audience. Femininity reconsidered; an ideology of passing away in contemporary world of technical development; race captured within the framework of iden...
In Search of (Non)Sense
[…] it would seem natural to assume that the disciplines of literary studies and linguistics should by rights converge regularly to exchange views as each pursues its own goals. Is such a convergence possible on the question of sense and nonsense? James W. Underhill (this volume) The contributors to the present volume have focused their attention on two sets of problems that are leitmotifs in all the articles gathered. Firstly, should literary semantics – the linguistic study of texts/discourses marked with the feature of ‘literariness’ and ‘poeticalness’ – strive after an interpretation of all such texts at all costs? Are all literary texts interpretable? How do we cope with s...
W kręgu Yukiguni
Trwająca niemal pół stulecia aktywność pisarska Kawabaty Yasunariego (1899–1972), pierwszego japońskiego noblisty, autora uznanych powszechnie na całym świecie wybitnych dzieł, takich jak przyswojone polszczyźnie Tancerka z lzu, Kraina śniegu, Tysiąc żurawi, Śpiące piękności, Głos góry czy Meijin–mistrz go, przypada na okres, kiedy historyczne doświadczenia Japonii obejmowały zarówno imponujące sukcesy, jak i dotkliwe porażki, entuzjazm duchowego otwarcia na świat, jak i próby nacjonalistycznej izolacji, pokojowy rozkwit, jak i agresywną ekspansję. Wobec wszystkich dramatycznych i przełomowych dotknięć losu, nie tylko w życiu kraju, ale też we własnej in...
A Life in Words
An inside look into Paul Auster's art and craft, the inspirations and obsessions, mesmerizing and dramatic in turn. A remarkably candid, and often surprisingly dramatic, investigation into one writer's art, craft, and life, A Life in Words is rooted in three years of dialogue between Auster and Professor I. B. Siegumfeldt, starting in 2011, while Siegumfeldt was in the process of launching the Center for Paul Auster Studies at the University of Copenhagen. It includes a number of surprising disclosures, both concerning Auster's work and about the art of writing generally. It is a book that's full of surprises, unscripted yet amounting to a sharply focused portrait of the inner workings of one of America's most productive and successful writers, through all twenty-one of Auster's narrative works and the themes and obsessions that drive them.
Stadt und Straße
Stadt und Straße - wie und warum werden gerade diese Orte oft zu außergewöhnlichen literarischen Anfangsorten gemacht? Sascha Pöhlmann wendet sich in doppelter Absicht an ein Publikum, das sich für US-amerikanische Literatur (etwa von Walt Whitman, Don DeLillo, Jack Kerouac oder Kathy Acker) interessiert, aber nicht den akademischen Fachdiskurs verfolgt. Erstens will er dieser Leserschaft ein Konzept nahebringen, das zentral für die amerikanische Kulturgeschichte ist: nämlich die Idee des Anfangs. Zweitens will er dadurch eine neue Perspektive auf bekannte Klassiker der amerikanischen Prosa eröffnen und zugleich weniger bekannte, aber nicht minder bedeutsame Texte erschließen.
