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Introduction to Literary Studies
In this volume, Mario Klarer provides the essential beginner's guide to English literary studies. Offering a concise, easy-to-understand discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts, looking at: definitions of key terms such as 'literature' and 'text' major genres, such as fiction, poetry, drama and film periods and classifications of literature theoretical approaches to texts the use of secondary resources guidelines for writing research essays. Klarer has fully updated the highly successful first edition to provide greater guidance for online research and to reflect recent changes to MLA guidelines for referencing and quoting sources. He concludes with suggestions for further reading and an extensive glossary of important literary and cinematic terms.
An Introduction to Literary Studies
An Introduction to Literary Studies provides the beginner with an accessible and comprehensive survey of literature. Systematically taking in theory, genre and literary history, Klarer provides easy to understand descriptions of a variety of approaches to texts. This invaluable guide includes sections on: fiction poetry drama film covering: a range of theoretical approaches an extensive glossary of major literary and cinematic terms guidelines for writing research papers.
Transfer Thinking in Translation Studies
The concept of transfer covers the most diverse phenomena of circulation, transformation and reinterpretation of cultural goods across space and time, and are among the driving forces in opening up the field of translation studies. Transfer processes cross linguistic and cultural boundaries and cannot be reduced to simple movements from a source to a target (culture or text). In a time of paradigm shifts, this book aims to explore the potential and interdisciplinary power of transfer as a concept and an analytical tool to account for complex cultural dynamics. The contributions in this book adopt various research angles (literary studies, imagology, translation studies, translator studies, periodical studies, postcolonialism) to study an array of entangled transfer processes that apply to different objects and aspects, ranging from literary texts, legal texts, news, images and identities to ideologies, power asymmetries, titles and heterolingualisms. By embracing a process-oriented way of thinking, all these contributions aim to open the ‘black box’ of transfer in the widest sense.
Complexity of Interaction
Everyday social life is deeply tied to the ways in which people talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with each other. This book examines language use and social interaction through the lens of complexity, focusing on how participants establish and maintain shared understanding in multi-layered situations and settings. This book will find readership among students and scholars who use video-based methods and are interested in interaction, intersubjectivity and multimodality.
(Anti-)Americanisms
"(Anti-)Americanisms" is a collection of articles presented during the international conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies in 2002. Focusing on the various propagations of American culture in literature, music, film, "the new media", architecture, politics, and ways of life, these essays question the notion of (Anti-)Americanism as an object-oriented construct, a convenient vehicle used to transport ideology. The spectrum of topics includes the historical dimensions of European Anti-Americanism, roots of Anti- Americanism in post-World-War II Austria, and the relationship between Anti-Americanism and American Studies.
Zeitlichkeit in der Textkommunikation
Kategorien der Wahrnehmbarkeit wurden als Textualitätsdimensionen lange Zeit vernachlässigt. Erst in jüngeren Arbeiten wird dezidiert darauf abgehoben, dass sie als sinnstiftende Performanzphänomene zur Erfassung von Textbedeutung und -funktion vor allem von Texten und Textsorten im öffentlichen Raum unerlässlich sind. Mittlerweile gibt es eine Vielzahl textlinguistischer Arbeiten, die sich etwa mit den Aspekten Materialitäts-, Medialitäts- und Ortsgebundenheit auseinandersetzen. Dagegen spielen zeitliche Aspekte (bislang) eine nur marginale Rolle in der Textlinguistik. Das verwundert insofern, als wir in unserer mediatisierten Textwirklichkeit mit zahlreichen Texten und Textsorten täglich zu tun haben, die nicht nur orts-, sondern auch zeitgebunden sind. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes zeigen anhand unterschiedlicher Textsorten und Handlungsbereiche, dass es geradezu unerlässlich ist, sich mit der Zeitlichkeit in der Textkommunikation zu befassen.
