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Publisher: Brill | Rodopi
ISBN: 9004309276
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Barbarism revisited revisits well-known and obscure chapters in the genealogy of barbarism from Greek antiquity to the present. Through contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives, it recasts the conceptual history of barbarism as a task for literary scholars, art historians, and cultural analysts.

Author: Christian Moser
Publisher: Brill / Rodopi
ISBN: 9789004307926
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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This title revisits well-known and obscure chapters in the genealogy of barbarism from Greek antiquity to the present. Through contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives, it recasts the conceptual history of barbarism as a task for literary scholars, art historians, and cultural analysts.

Author: Maria Boletsi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004352015
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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In a contemporary political climate where barbarians, monsters, and savages have become ubiquitous figures of otherness, Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild gathers essays which explore both the oppressive, dispossessing functions and subversive potentials of these figures in and through art and literature.

Author: Markus Winkler
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3476044858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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This two-volume co-authored study explores the history of the concept ‘barbarism’ from the 18th century to the present and illuminates its foundational role in modern European and Western identity. It constitutes an original comparative, interdisciplinary exploration of the concept’s modern European and Western history, with emphasis on the role of literature in the concept’s shifting functions. The study contributes to a historically grounded understanding of this figure’s past and contemporary uses. It combines overviews with detailed analyses of representative works of literature, art, film, philosophy, political and cultural theory, in which “barbarism” figures prominently. Diese auf 2 Bände konzipierte komparatistische und interdisziplinäre Studie in englischer Sprache geht der Geschichte des Barbarenbegriffs vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart nach. Seit der griechischen Antike spielen Bild und Begriff des Barbarischen eine eminente Rolle für das abendländische Selbstverständnis. Die Studie verbindet Epochenüberblicke mit der Analyse herausragender literarischer, philosophischer, politik- und kulturtheoretischer, aber auch bildkünstlerischer und kinematographischer Werke und legt einen besonderen Akzent auf den Beitrag ästhetischer Verfahren zur Aufdeckung der Herkunft und der Implikationen des Barbarenbegriffs.

Author: Birthe Hoffmann
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3772001769
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : de
Pages : 268

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Zum 150. Todesjahr Franz Grillparzers (1791-1872) stellt sich die Frage nach der Lebendigkeit seines OEuvres im 21. Jahrhundert. Wer Grillparzer erst einmal unter die Haut bekommen hat - seinen Sinn für den Menschen in seiner paradoxen Vielschichtigkeit und Wandelbarkeit zwischen Barbarei und Humanität, seine scharfsinnige Analyse von Machtstrukturen, von zwischenmenschlichen und interkulturellen Dynamiken, seine gebrochene poetische Sprache und facettenreiche Theatralik - muss sich immer wieder über seine relative Unbekanntheit wundern. Der Status eines österreichischen Klassikers und die Vereinnahmung für diverse identitätspolitische Zwecke scheinen sein Werk eher ins Abseits geführt zu haben statt in jene Zukunft, die ihn eigentlich erst einholen müsste. Eben dies versucht Franz Grillparzer - Neue Lektüren und Perspektiven mit einer Reihe von Aufsätzen, die die Perspektiven der internationalen Grillparzerforschung repräsentieren. Sie zielen auf die hermeneutische Provokation und transkulturelle Dimension seines OEuvres sowie auf wichtige Fragen der Dramenästhetik und der Rezeption.

Author: Svenja Frank
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331964209X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national identity. While the volume shows that these identity formations are frequently based on the construction of two Others—the US nation and a cultural-ethnic idea of Muslim communities—it also analyses examples which undermine such constructions. This much more self-critical strand in European literature unveils the Eurocentrism of a supposedly general humanistic value system through the use of complex aesthetic strategies. These strategies are in itself characteristic of the European reception as the Anglo-Irish, British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Polish perspectives collected in this volume perceive of the terror attacks through the lens of continental media and semiotic theory.

Author: Dimitris Tziovas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786732521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Since 2010 Greece has been experiencing the longest period of austerity and economic downturn in its recent history. Economic changes may be happening more rapidly and be more visible than the cultural effects of the crisis which are likely to take longer to become visible, however in recent times, both at home and abroad, the Greek arts scene has been discussed mainly in terms of the crisis. While there is no shortage of accounts of Greece's economic crisis by financial and political analysts, the cultural impact of austerity has yet to be properly addressed. This book analyses hitherto uncharted cultural aspects of the Greek economic crisis by exploring the connections between austerity and culture. Covering literary, artistic and visual representations of the crisis, it includes a range of chapters focusing on different aspects of the cultural politics of austerity such as the uses of history and archaeology, the brain drain and the Greek diaspora, Greek cinema, museums, music festivals, street art and literature as well as manifestations of how the crisis has led Greeks to rethink or question cultural discourses and conceptions of identity.

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900439771X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Shifting the focus from human interiority toward the agency of cultural objects, social arrangements and aesthetic matter, How to Do Things with Affects examines the affective operations and transmissions triggered by various aesthetic forms, media events and cultural practices.

Author: Maria Boletsi
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030364151
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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This collection rethinks crisis in relation to critique through the prism of various declared ‘crises’ in the Mediterranean: the refugee crisis, the Eurozone crisis, the Greek debt crisis, the Arab Spring, the Palestinian question, and others. With contributions from cultural, literary, film, and migration studies and sociology, this book shifts attention from Europe to the Mediterranean as a site not only of intersecting crises, but a breeding ground for new cultures of critique, visions of futurity, and radical imaginaries shaped through or against frameworks of crisis. If crisis rhetoric today serves populist, xenophobic or anti-democratic agendas, can the concept crisis still do the work of critique or partake in transformative languages by scholars, artists, and activists? Or should we forge different vocabularies to understand present realities? This collection explores alternative mobilizations of crisis and forms of art, cinema, literature, and cultural practices across the Mediterranean that disengage from dominant crisis narratives. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author: Evert Jan Van Leeuwen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100022807X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland Europe. By focusing on the development of the relationship between Britain and Ireland and continental Europe over more than two-hundred years, this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives, which have tended to focus on a narrow time-period and have missed continuities and discontinuities in our ongoing relationship with the mainland.