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Fictions of Legibility
The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin
This monograph focuses on the human body as a symbolic medium through which novelistic literature negotiated its identity vis-à-vis other disciplines.
Elena Furlanetto
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Dietmar Meinel
(eds.)
A Poetics of Neurosis
Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
This volume investigates how neuroses are romanticized or vilified in literary and cultural texts to illustrate unresolved cultural tensions.
Belonging and Narrative
A Theory of the American Novel
Laura Bieger discusses American novels from four centuries to show how the human need to belong is a driving force of literary production.
Fugitive Borders
Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
»Community« not »nation« – Nele Sawallisch argues that black autobiographical writing in 19th-century Canada functions as a form of cross-border textual community-building.
TransCoding – From `Highbrow Art' to Participatory Culture
Social Media – Art – Research
Barbara Lüneburg investigates participatory multimedia art via web 2.0 from an exclusive inside view through artistic research.
Art and Economics in the City
New Cultural Maps
"Art and the City" faces the complex issues of the new multicultural urban dynamics generated by the globally emerging economic paradigm. The arts play a pivotal role!
Games and Bereavement
How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss, and Grief
Sabine Harrer explores videogames' capacity to model attachment, loss and grief. She proposes an approach to videogame design with and for grievers.
Christa Buschendorf
(ed.)
Power Relations in Black Lives
Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias
The contributions of this volume offer new readings of Black literature and culture by applying key concepts of relational sociology by Bourdieu and Elias.
Solvejg Nitzke
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Nicolas Pethes
(eds.)
Imagining Earth
Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of Our Home Planet
Imagining Earth gathers interdisciplinary perspectives on the medial, philosophical and literary conditions of the emergence and popularization of the central object of current environmental and ecocritical discussions: Planet Earth.
Resistance
Subjects, Representations, Contexts
This volume explores phenomena of resistance in a range of historical and contemporary environments, thus opening up a theoretical dialogue on terms and concepts of resistance both in and across disciplines.