From Literature to Cultural Literacy

2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-42969-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 4532 g

Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues – especially issues of change and mobility – through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Segal, Naomi

Koleva, Daniela

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Naomi Segal PART I: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING 1. Section Introduction; Daniela Koleva 2. Visual Recall in the Present: Critical Nostalgia and the Memory of Empire in Portuguese Culture; Isabel Capeloa Gil 3. Textualized Memories of Politics: Turkish Coup d'état Novels; Sibel Irz?k 4. Can Developers Learn from Art? Janet Cardiff's 'The Missing Voice' in Spitalfields; Ricarda Vidal PART II: MIGRATION AND TRANSLATION 5. Section Introduction; Loredana Polezzi 6. Migrant Poet(h)ics; Borbála Faragó 7. Translating the In-Between: Literatures of Performance and the Relationship between Language, Literature and Society; Robert Crawshaw 8. Lost (and Gained) in Migration: the writing of migrancy; Mary Gallagher PART III: ELECTRONIC TEXTUALITY 9. Section Introduction; Leopoldina Fortunati 10. Non-Consumptive Reading; Susan Schreibman 11. Reading (and Writing) Online, Rather than on the Decline; Kathleen Fitzpatrick 12. I Fought the Law: Transgressive Play and the Implied Player; Espen Aarseth PART IV: BIOSOCIALITY, BIOPOLITICS AND THE BODY 13. Section Introduction; Ulrike Landfester 14. Human Enhancement: is it 'Mere' Science Fiction? The Rise and Rise of Disembodied Ethics; Heather Bradshaw-Martin 15. History in the Gene? How Biohistories are Implicated in Biopolitics and Biosocialities; Marianne Sommer 16. Between Hybrid and Graft; Uwe Wirth Index

Über Autor(innen)

Espen Aarseth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Heather G. Bradshaw-Martin University of Bristol, UK
Robert Crawshaw, Lancaster University, UK
Borbála Faragó, University of Budapest, Hungary
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, New York University, USA
Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine, Italy
Mary Gallagher, University College Dublin, Ireland
Isabel Capeloa Gil, Catholic University of Portugal
Sibel Irz?k, Sabanc? University, Turkey
Daniela Koleva, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Ulrike Landfester, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Loredana Polezzi, University of Warwick, UK
Susan Schreibman, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Naomi Segal, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Marianne Sommer, University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Ricarda Vidal, King's College London, UK
Uwe Wirth, Justus Liebig University, Germany