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  • Performing the 'New' Europe

    Identities, Feelings and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest

    Edición de K. Fricker, M. Gluhovic ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers and limits of Europe are enacted. ... Leer más

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  • Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France

    The Politics of Disengagement

    de Daniel Just ...
    Against the background of intellectual and political debates in France during the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel Just examines literary narratives and works of literary criticism arguing that these texts are more politically engaged than they may initially appear. As writings by Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Albert Camus, and Marguerite Duras show, seemingly disengaged literary principles - such as ... Leer más

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  • The Culture of Yellow

    Or, The Visual Politics of Late Modernity

    This is the first book to explore the cultural significance of the color yellow, showing how its psychological and aesthetic value marked and shaped many of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late modernity. It contends that yellow functions during this period primarily as a color of stigma and scandal.Yellow stigmatization has had a long history: it goes back to the Middle Ages ... Leer más

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  • The Antichrist

    The Antichrist is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Koselitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo. The German title can be translated into English as either The Anti-Christ or The Anti-Christian, depending on how the German word Christ is translated. ... Leer más

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  • The Invention of Deconstruction

    de M. Currie ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Why did deconstruction emerge when it did? Why did commentators in literary studies seem to need to look back on it from the earliest moments of its emergence? This book argues that the invention of deconstruction was spread across several decades, conducted by many people, and focused on its two central figures, Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man. ... Leer más

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  • Integration of the Self and Awareness (ISA) in Learning and Teaching

    A case study of French adult students learning English the Silent Way

    The successful acquisition of a second or foreign language requires focus, motivation, and positive feedback. This case study of French adult students of English illustrates that Gattegno’s Silent Way is more than a teaching methodology. It is a science of education that integrates the self and awareness in the learning and teaching processes. This integration facilitates the personal evolution of ... Leer más

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  • Literature and the Peripheral City

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed cities. The contributors to this collection explore literary urban peripheries through readings of literature from four continents and numerous cities. ... Leer más

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  • 'Romantic' and Its Cognates

    The European History of a Word

    Edición de Hans Eichner ...
    Series series Heritage
    Ever since the word romantic and its many cognates in European languages began to be used as technical terms towards the end of the eighteenth century, the quest for a satisfactory definition of their meanings has continued unabated. This collection of essays traces the history of the word in the major European languages, showing how romantic and its cognates were first introduced, how their usage ... Leer más

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  • Scandal on Stage

    European Theater as Moral Trial

    New plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the authorities are often more extreme than the creators had envisaged, to include outrage, riots, protests or censorship. Scandal on Stage looks at ten famous theater scandals of the past two centuries in Germany and France ... Leer más

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  • From Many Gods to One

    Divine Action in Renaissance Epic

    Epic poets of the Renaissance looked to emulate the poems of Greco-Roman antiquity, but doing so presented a dilemma: what to do about the gods? Divine intervention plays a major part in the epics of Homer and Virgil—indeed, quarrels within the family of Olympian gods are essential to the narrative structure of those poems—yet poets of the Renaissance recognized that the cantankerous Olympians ... Leer más

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  • Apocalyptic Futures

    Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee

    In this book, the author argues that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, he examines the ways in which a text incorporates an apocalyptic event into its future reception. He is thus concerned with the way in which apocalyptic works solicit their future receptions.Apocalyptic Futures also sets out to articulate a new ... Leer más

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  • Writers as Public Intellectuals

    Literature, Celebrity, Democracy

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and offering alternative scenarios for understanding it. ... Leer más

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