Transgressive Truths And Flattering Lies

Author : Markus Schmitz
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839450482

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Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies by Markus Schmitz Pdf

This book explores the formative correlations and inventive transmissions of Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early 20th century Mahjar writings to contemporary transnational Palestinian resistance art. Tracing multiple beginnings and seminal intertexts, the comparative study of dissonant truth-making presents critical readings in which the notion of cross-cultural translation gets displaced and strategic unreliability, representational opacity, or matters of act advance to essential qualities of the discussed works' aesthetic devices and ethical concerns. Questioning conventional interpretive approaches, Markus Schmitz shows what Anglophone Arab studies are and what they can become from a radically decentered relational point of view. Among the writers and artists discussed are such diverse figures as Rabih Alameddine, William Blatty, Kahlil Gibran, Ihab Hassan, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Emily Jacir, Walid Raad, Ameen Rihani, Edward Said, Larissa Sansour, and Raja Shehadeh.

Author : Florian Klaeger,Klaus Stierstorfer,Marlena Tronicke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110756456

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Symbolism 21 by Florian Klaeger,Klaus Stierstorfer,Marlena Tronicke Pdf

Special Focus: Law and Literature This special focus issue of Symbolism takes a look at the theoretical equation of law and literature and its inherent symbolic dimension. The authors all approach the subject from the perspective of literary and book studies, foregrounding literature’s potential to act as supplementary to a very wide variety of laws spread over historical, geographical, cultural and spatial grounds. The theoretical ground laid here thus posits both literature and law in the narrow sense. The articles gathered in this special issue analyse Anglophone literatures from the Renaissance to the present day and cover the three major genres, narrative, drama and poetry. The contributions address questions of the law’s psychoanalytic subconscious, copyright and censorship, literary negotiations of colonial and post-colonial territorial laws, the European ‘refugee debate’ and migration narratives, fictional debates on climate change, contemporary feminist drama and classic 19th-century legal narratives. This volume includes two insightful analyses of poetic texts with a special focus on the fact that poetry has often been neglected within the field of law and literature research. Special Focus editor: Franziska Quabeck, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.

Author : Markus Schmitz
Publisher : Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3837650480

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Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies by Markus Schmitz Pdf

This book explores Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early-twentieth-century Mahjar writings to contemporary transnational Palestinian resistance art. Questioning conventional interpretive approaches, it shows what Anglophone Arab studies are and what they can become from a radically decentered relational point of view.

Author : Kira Vermond
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1771471468

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Half-Truths and Brazen Lies by Kira Vermond Pdf

"Why do we lie? What types of lies are there? What are the consequences of lying? What methods are used to detect lies? And when is it okay or even good to lie? From forgeries and hoaxes to plagiarism and placebos, [this book] offers historical anecdotes, scientific studies, and sociocultural analyses to help unpack the complex world of untruths"--Amazon.com.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848882836

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Transgressive Womanhood: Investigating Vamps, Witches, Whores, Serial Killers and Monsters by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores the theme of evil, women and the feminine, indicating both the misogynist and subversive implications of the evil woman stereotype.

Author : Alison Findlay
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472557513

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Women in Shakespeare by Alison Findlay Pdf

This is a comprehensive reference guide examining the language employed by Shakespeare to represent women in the full range of his poetry and plays. Including over 350 entries, Alison Findlay shows the role of women within Shakespearean drama, their representations on the Shakespearean stage, and their place in Shakespeare's personal and professional lives.

Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429967471

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Touchstones by Mario Vargas Llosa Pdf

One of Latin America's most garlanded novelists—and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature—Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa's brilliant readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum; incisive essays on political and social thinkers; and contemporary pieces on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq. Fantastically intelligent, inspired, and surprising, Touchstones is a landmark collection of essays from one of the world's leading writers and intellectuals.

Author : Niall Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317007395

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Transgressive Bodies by Niall Richardson Pdf

In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of non-normative bodies and how they are represented in film, media and popular culture. Examining the non-normative body in a cultural studies context, this book reconsiders the concept of the transgressive body , establishing its status as a culturally mutable term, arguing that popular cultural representations create the transgressive or freak body and then proceed to either contain its threat or (s)exploit it. Through studies of extreme bodybuilding, obesity, disability and transsexed bodies, it examines the implications of such transgressive bodies for gender politics and sexuality. Transgressive Bodies engages with contemporary cultural debates, always relating these to concrete studies of media and cultural representations. This book will therefore appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, including media and film studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, sports studies and cultural theory.

Author : Stuart Taberner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571135780

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Aging and Old-Age Style in Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser by Stuart Taberner Pdf

Explores the performance of aging in the "late style" of Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser. Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The prediction for other Western countries is scarcely different. Indeed, the aging society is seen by some as a graver threat than even global warming, with potentially unmanageable tensions relating to intergenerational relationships, work and benefits, and flows of people. This book explores the representation and performance of aging in recent "late-style" German-language fiction. It situates the authors chosen as case studies -- Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser -- in their biographical and social contexts and explores the significance of their aesthetic figuring of aging for debates raging both in Germany and internationally. In particular, the book looks at gender, generations, and trauma and their impact on how writers "narrativize" aging. Finally, it examines the "timeliness" of these different representations and late-style performances of aging in the context of the shift of social, political, and economic power away from the declining societies of theWest to the ascendant societies of the East. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the University of Leeds.

Author : Liliana Sikorska
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : IND:30000087930354

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In a Manner of Morall Playe by Liliana Sikorska Pdf

This book investigates and interprets various social ideologies in the moralities and interludes, dramatic texts of the late medieval period. Most of the selected plays have not been previously analyzed from the perspective of the linguistic and ideological content. Seen within the larger cultural context, mainly compared with other non-dramatic texts of the period, these texts represent rich sources of those social ideologies whose aim was to create principled individuals and a morally sound, well-functioning society.

Author : Aran Hansuebsai
Publisher : Jose Luis Caivano
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789741325160

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Proceedings AIC 2003 Bangkok by Aran Hansuebsai Pdf

Author : Ken Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004253209

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Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey, a Festschrift by Ken Turner Pdf

Professor Jacob Mey is one of the most respected, enterprising, industrious, scholarly and, avuncular members of the many linguistics communities in which he has worked. This collection includes invited papers that honours Professor Mey on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

Author : Robert Ferrigno
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dystopias
ISBN : 9781416567370

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Prayers for the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno Pdf

SEATTLE, 204. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. At the edge of the empire, Islamic and Christian forces fight for control, and rebels plot to regain free will....

Author : Morten Steen Hansen
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271056401

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In Michelangelo's Mirror by Morten Steen Hansen Pdf

"Explores the imitation of Michelangelo by three artists, Perino del Vaga, Daniele da Volterra, and Pellegrino Tibaldi, from the 1520s to the time around Michelangelo's death in 1564. Argues that his Mannerist followers applied imitation to identify with and/or create ironical distance from to the older artist"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Patrick Cheney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827461

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry by Patrick Cheney Pdf

This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets, and his plays. Fourteen leading international scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on all relevant topics: from Shakespeare's seminal role in the development of English poetry, the wide-ranging practice of his poetic form, and his enigmatic place in print and manuscript culture, to his immersion in English Renaissance politics, religion, classicism, and gender dynamics. With individual chapters on Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Passionate Pilgrim, 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint, the Companion also includes chapters on the presence of poetry in the dramatic works, on the relation between poetry and performance, and on the reception and influence of the poems. The volume includes a chronology of Shakespeare's life, a note on reference works, and a reading list for each chapter.