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Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus

Über die Epochen hinweg haben sich literarische Werke und Genres explizit oder implizit mit dem Kapitalismus auseinandergesetzt. Doch gerade die vergangenen Jahrzehnte, in welchen der Kapitalismus nach Mark Fisher zum ausweglosen Vorstellungshorizont avanciert ist, zeugen von einer vermehrten Infragestellung des Kapitalismus in der literarischen Produktion sowie der Literaturwissenschaft. Vor diesem Hintergrund vereint der interdisziplinäre Sammelband Beiträge aus der Germanistik, Romanistik, Amerikanistik und Anglistik, die den Blick auf verschiedene zeitgenössische Manifestationen des globalen Kapitalismus und deren literarische oder filmische Repräsentationen richten.

Nationalism and the Postcolonial
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Nationalism and the Postcolonial

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-08-16
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The contributions in Nationalism and the Postcolonial examine forms, representations, and consequences of ubiquitous nationalisms in languages, popular culture, and literature across the globe from the perspectives of linguistics, political science, cultural studies, and literary studies.

Absent Rebels: Criticism and Network Power in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

Absent Rebels: Criticism and Network Power in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction

Absent Rebels: Criticism and Network Power in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction focuses on the relationship between literary dystopia, network power and neoliberalism, explaining why rebellion against a dystopian system is absent in so many contemporary dystopian novels. Also, this book helps readers understand modern power mechanisms and shows ways how to overcome them in our own daily lives.

Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century

Since the turn of the 21st century, the television series has rivalled cinema as the paradigmatic filmic medium. Like few other genres, it lends itself to exploring society in its different layers. In the case of Great Britain and Ireland, it functions as a key medium in depicting the state of the nation. Focussing on questions of genre, narrative form, and serialisation, this volume examines the variety of ways in which popular recent British and Irish television series negotiate the concept of community as a key component of the state of the nation.

Renaissancen des Realismus?
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 254

Renaissancen des Realismus?

Repräsentationen sozialer Ungleichheiten in Literatur und Film werfen die Frage auf, wer was wie darstellt – eine Problematik, die sich für Narrative, Fiktionen und Figurationen wie für die analytischen Betrachtung von Mediendarstellungen und öffentlichen Diskursen gleichermaßen stellt. Schon die traditionelle Literatur, die immer auch als ein Archiv sozialer Erfahrung aufgefasst werden kann, unterliegt stilistischen, thematischen und genretypischen Bindungen, die epochenweise unterlaufen oder konterkariert wurden. Allerdings verraten die Zugangsbedingungen zu Bildung sowie zu kanonischer Literaturproduktion und -rezeption auch in der Moderne sowie der jüngsten Gegenwart soziale Ungl...

Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias

Serial storytelling has the advantage of unlocking rather than simplifying the complexities of digital culture. With their worldbuilding potential, TV series open up new artistic horizons, particularly for the dystopian genre. Situated at the nexus of dystopia, complex TV, and a metamodern cultural logic, Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias offers readers novel insights into the dynamics of serial dystopias in the contemporary streaming landscape. Introducing the term 'complex serial dystopias' to describe series that allow audiences to engage with the dystopian premise from multiple angles, the book examines four Anglo-American series, including Black Mirror, Mr. Robot, Westworld, and Kiss Me First. The in-depth analyses trace the variety of ways in which these series offer critical reflections on the human-technology entanglement in digital culture.

The Transformative Power of Literature and Narrative: Promoting Positive Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

The Transformative Power of Literature and Narrative: Promoting Positive Change

Narrative plays a central role for individual and collective lives - this insight has arguably only grown at a time of multiple social and cultural challenges in the 21st century. The present volume aims to actualize and further substantiate the case for literature and narrative, taking inspiration from Vera Nünning's eminent scholarship over the past decades. Engaging with her formative interdisciplinary work, the volume seeks to explore potentials of change through the transformative power of literature and narrative - to be harnessed by individuals and groups as agents of positive change in today's world. The book is located at the intersection of cognitive and cultural narratology and is concerned with the way literature affects individuals, how it works at an intersubjective level, enabling communication and community, and how it furthers social and cultural change.

Popliteratur 3.0
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 296

Popliteratur 3.0

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The Television Genre Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

The Television Genre Book

In this new edition of The Television Genre Book, leading international scholars have come together to offer an accessible and comprehensive update to the debates, issues and concerns of the field. As television continues to evolve rapidly, this new edition reflects the ways in which TV has transformed in recent years, particularly with the emergence of online streaming services such as Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max and Amazon Prime. It also includes a new chapter on sports TV, and expanded coverage of horror, political thrillers, Nordic noir, historical documentary and docu-drama. With analyses of popular shows like Stranger Things, Killing Eve, The Crown, Chernobyl, Black Mirror, Fleabag, Breaking Bad and RuPaul's Drag Race, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of television genre for scholars and students alike.

Community in Contemporary British Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Community in Contemporary British Fiction

Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore the ongoing crises, developments and possibilities inherent in the task of representing community in the present. Including an extended critical introduction that positions the individual chapters in relation to broader conceptual questions, chapters combine close reading and engagement with the latest theories and concepts to engage with the complex regionalities of the United Kingdom, with representation of writers from all parts of the UK including Northern Ireland. Including specific focus on ...