Forschungsfeld: Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
Beyond Narrative
Exploring Narrative Liminality and Its Cultural Work
- Herrmann, Sebastian M.
- Kanzler, Katja
- Schubert, Stefan
- (eds.)
A theory-based exploration of the way culture travels in and out of the symbolic form of narrative: what other forms are there, and how do they mix?
Erscheinungstermin: 01. Mai 2022
Comparative Practices
Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century
- Böhm-Schnitker, Nadine
- Hartner, Marcus
- (eds.)
An investigation of the formative role of practices of comparing in British literature and culture during the long eighteenth century.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. Januar 2022
Fugitive Borders
Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
- Sawallisch, Nele
»Community« not »nation« – Nele Sawallisch argues that black autobiographical writing in 19th-century Canada functions as a form of cross-border textual community-building.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. Januar 2022
Melting Pots & Mosaics: Children of Immigrants in US-American Literature
- Heinze, Rüdiger
This work provides an extensive, comparative discussion of US-American literature about children of immigrants from different ethnic groups and different historical contexts.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. Januar 2022
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
- Spieler, Sophie
Sophie Spieler explores elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse, focusing particularly on the negotiation of merit.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. Juni 2021
Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionary Writings
- Frick, Deborah
This book investigates how women gained authority and a voice of their own in medieval and seventeenth century visionary writings.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. Mai 2021
History's Queer Stories
Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War
- Nobitz, Natalie Marena
History's Queer Stories disrupts seemingly well-established knowledge of the Second World War and its literary negotiation when adding homosexuality to the battlefield.
Erscheinungstermin: 07. Januar 2021
Power Relations in Black Lives
Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias
- Buschendorf, Christa
- (ed.)
The contributions of this volume offer new readings of Black literature and culture by applying key concepts of relational sociology by Bourdieu and Elias.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2020
Belonging and Narrative
A Theory of the American Novel
- Bieger, Laura
Laura Bieger discusses American novels from four centuries to show how the human need to belong is a driving force of literary production.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2020
DiverCity – Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon
Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a Globalizing Age
- Pooch, Melanie U.
This work provides the connecting link for exploring the triad of globalization and its effects, global cities as cultural nodal points, and cultural diversity in a globalizing age as a literary phenomenon.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018