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Atmosfears: The Uncanny Climate of Contemporary Ecofiction / Natalie Dederichs
Atmosfears: The Uncanny Climate of Contemporary Ecofiction / Natalie Dederichs
Autore Dederichs Natalie <1992->
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (289 pages)
Disciplina 813.6
Collana Critical Futures
Soggetto topico Ecocriticism
Atmospheres
Literature
Climate Change
Ecogothic
Nature
American Studies
British Studies
Ecology
Literary Studies
ISBN 9783839465875
3839465877
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. There is Something in the Air -- 2.1 Towards an Aesthetics of Literary Atmospheres -- 2.1.1 In the Presence of Absence: The Atmospheric Experience -- 2.1.2 Literary Spheres: Text, Contact, and the Reader -- 2.2 Material Ethics and the Affective Agency of Atmospheres -- 2.3 Gothic Nature and Uncanny Atmospheres -- 2.4 Entering a New Dark Age: Atmospheric Re(lation)ality and the Anthropocene Imagination -- 3. Being Polluted in the Global Garb-Age -- 3.1 Posthuman, Post-Nature, and Lit(t)erature -- 3.1.1 "Nothingness haunts being": Experiences on the Threshold between Toxic Spaces and the Self in Glister -- 3.1.2 "Clustering out like fungi": Liminal Modes of Being in Marrow Island -- 3.2 Making Sense of Embodied Permeability -- 4. Reading Matters, Material Readings -- 4.1 Weird Terroirs and Other Terrors -- 4.2 Traces of Atmospheric Agency -- 4.3 Atmospheric Agency of Literary Traces -- 5. Going Glocal -- 5.1 Glocal Points of Access -- 5.2 Ambient Literature and the Storying in and of Spacetime -- 5.3 Where to Read from Here: Duncan Speakman's It Must Have Been Dark By Then -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. Bibliography.
Altri titoli varianti Dederichs, Atmosfears
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Dederichs Natalie <1992->  
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Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionary Writings / Deborah Frick
Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionary Writings / Deborah Frick
Autore Frick Deborah <p>Deborah Frick, Universität Zürich, Schweiz </p>
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (156 p.)
Collana Lettre
Soggetto topico Gender
Authority
Authorship
Visionary Writings
Voice
Literature
British Studies
Literary Studies
ISBN 9783839456897
3839456894
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Conventions -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Weakness and Illness - The Female Body -- Chapter 2: Women and Politics -- Chapter 3: The Vessel of God - Voice vs. Mouthpiece -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
Altri titoli varianti Frick, Authority and Authorship in Medieval and ..
Record Nr. UNINA-9910485578703321
Frick Deborah <p>Deborah Frick, Universität Zürich, Schweiz </p>  
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DiverCity – Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon : Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a Globalizing Age / Melanie U. Pooch
DiverCity – Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon : Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a Globalizing Age / Melanie U. Pooch
Autore Pooch Melanie U <p>Melanie U. Pooch, University of Mannheim, Germany </p>
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina 810.9
Collana Lettre
Soggetto topico Diversity
Global City
Globalization
Culture
Literature
Los Angeles
New York
Toronto
City
British Studies
Literary Studies
Urban Studies
ISBN 9783839435410
3839435412
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 1. Introduction 9 2. Globalization and Its Effects 15 3. Global Cities as Cultural Nodal Points 27 4. Cultural Diversity in a Globalizing Age 37 5. The Poetics of diverCity 57 6. Dionne Brand's Toronto, What We All Long For 79 7. Chang-rae Lee's New York, Native Speaker 123 8. Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, Tropic of Orange 165 9. Conclusion 205 Works Cited 211
Altri titoli varianti Pooch, DiverCity Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a Globalizing Age
Record Nr. UNINA-9910263846103321
Pooch Melanie U <p>Melanie U. Pooch, University of Mannheim, Germany </p>  
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Ethics for the Future : Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction / Stephanie Bender
Ethics for the Future : Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction / Stephanie Bender
Autore Bender Stephanie <p>Stephanie Bender, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Deutschland </p>
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (317 pages)
Disciplina 891.709003
Collana Edition Kulturwissenschaft
Soggetto topico Future
Ethics
Film
Novels
21st Century
Literature
American Studies
British Studies
Literary Studies
ISBN 9783839468203
3839468205
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Challenging Times -- Ethics for the Future: From Humanism to Posthumanism -- Ethical Criticism in the 21st Century -- Aesthetics for the Future: Popular Future Fictions -- The Chapters -- 2 Ethics for the Future through Fiction -- A Difficult Heritage: Humanism and Beyond -- New Ethics for a New Age: Hans Jonas -- Deconstruction, Ethics, and the Anthropocene: Joanna Zylinska -- Towards Posthumanist Ethics -- Actual Worlds and Possible Futures in Fiction -- Existing Ethical Approaches to Literature -- Ethical Criticism in Film -- Limitations of Existing Approaches -- Future Ethical Criticism: Worlds in the Making -- 3 Future World Ecologies: Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 (2017) and James Cameron's Avatar (2009) -- A Political World‐Ecology Approach: Kim Stanley Robinson's NewYork 2140 -- New Realist Utopianism -- Ethics through an Aesthetic Unity of Effect -- The Capitalocene: Economy‐Ecology -- Political Organisation through Actor Networks -- Back to "Nature" in James Cameron's Avatar -- Effective Affection? Ethical Responses to the Fantastic -- Ecologies without Nature -- The Unobtainium of the Industrial‐Military Complex -- Are the Scientists also the Good Guys? -- Can You See What Is Real? -- Conclusion -- 4 Transhumanist Futures: Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) and Wally Pfister's Transcendence (2014) -- Transhumanist Ethics in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar -- Directing Viewers' Emotions -- The End Times of the Earth's World Ecology Managed by Bureaucrats -- Normative Humanity and Border Transgressions -- The Scientific, Science Fiction, and Space -- The Otherworld in Space: A Fusion of Science and Love -- Philosophical Essentialism: Futuristic Technologies and The Humanin Wally Pfister's Transcendence -- More than Black and White: Ambiguous Ethics and Aesthetics.
Will as a Prototypical Representative of Transhumanist Thought -- Technology as a New Form of Secular Spirituality -- A Natural Techno‐Spirituality -- The Classical Substantivist View: Revolutionary Independence fromTechnology -- The Resolution? Max as Middle Ground, Love as Reconciling Force -- Conclusion -- 5 Futuristic Digital Neoliberalism: Spike Jonze's Her (2013) and Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) -- The Self and the Other in Digital Neoliberalism: Relationshipsand Identities in Spike Jonze's Her -- The Aesthetics of Digital Neoliberalism, the Self and the Other -- A Digital Mimicking of Neoliberal Selfhood -- Failed Romance: Meeting the Self instead of the Other -- Selling Love -- A Posthuman(ist) Possibility of an Other(world) -- The Economy of Attention in Dave Eggers's The Circle -- The Aesthetics of Warning -- The Threat of a Digital Economy of Attention -- Digital Capitalism and Transhumanism -- The Individual Level: Computational Psychologies -- The Political Level: Democratic Transhumanism -- The Physical and the Political Economy as Otherworlds -- Conclusion -- 6 Biopolitics of the Future: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2006) and Don DeLillo's Zero K (2016) -- The Biopolitics of Health in an Alternative Past: KnowingandNotKnowinginKazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go -- Knowing and Not Knowing -- The Alternative Futuristic History -- The Complicity of the Deprived -- Narrative Worldmaking -- Structures of Recognition -- Making Arts and Creating Illusions: Humanist Art as a Tool forIdeological Worldmaking -- A Futuristic Present: The Power over Life and Death inDonDeLillo'sZero K -- The Present as Future -- The Biopolitics of Death in the Future -- Language and Life -- The Immortality of Art and the Art of Immortality -- The Little Life as Otherworld -- Conclusion.
7 More than Human?: Threats of AI in Dennis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Alex Garland's ExMachina (2014) -- "To Be Born Is to Have a Soul, I Guess." Reproduction andHuman(e)ness in Dennis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 -- The Ethics and Aesthetics of Biopunk Futures -- Reality and Simulation -- The Dominant World: Capitalism and Transhumanism, Again -- Reproducing "the Human" -- Deconstructing "the Human" -- Reflecting the Speculative Spectacle: Alex Garland's ExMachina -- The Speculative Spectacle: Cultural Fear of AI -- ExMachina "through the Looking Glass" -- Transhumanist Hubris: Nathan -- Humanism Failed: Caleb as the Antihero -- Posthuman(ist) Otherness: Ava -- Conclusion -- 8 Posthumanist Futures: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy (2003, 2006, 2013) and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl (2009) -- Ethics through Metafiction: Storytelling in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy -- "It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories" -- Postmodernist Aesthetics and Ethics -- Neoliberal Capitalism Unleashed -- The Otherworld of the Gardeners -- The Story of the Apocalypse -- Postapocalyptic Posthumanism -- Non‐human Agents and Posthumanist Ethics in Paolo Bacigalupi'sThe Windup Girl -- Biopunk and the Aesthetics of Scale -- A Complex Entanglement of Worlds -- The Bioconservatist Regression to "Niche and Nature" -- The New Expansion of Biocapitalism -- Posthuman and Transhumanist Perspectives -- Posthumanist Ethics -- Conclusion -- 9 Contemporary Imaginaries of the Future -- Ethical Openness versus Closure -- Unmaking Capitalist Futures -- Otherworlds of the Future -- Speculative Realism -- Works Cited.
Altri titoli varianti Bender, Ethics for the Future Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction
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Bender Stephanie <p>Stephanie Bender, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Deutschland </p>  
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History's Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War / Natalie Marena Nobitz
History's Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War / Natalie Marena Nobitz
Autore Nobitz Natalie Marena <p>Natalie Marena Nobitz, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Deutschland </p>
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (311 pages)
Disciplina 809.93353
Collana Queer Studies
Soggetto topico British War Literature
Queer
Homosexuality
Military
Second World War
Gender
Literature
British Studies
Queer Theory
Gender Studies
Gender History
Literary Studies
ISBN 9783839445433
3839445434
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: "Never in the History of Sex was so Much Offered to so Many by so Few" -- "People's Pasts [are] so Much More Interesting than Their Futures" - Re-Negotiating the Homosexual Problem Novel -- "We Have to Do the Things They Tell Us" - Nation, Masculinity and War -- "The Collapse of a Wall [...] Starts with a Few Loose Bricks" - Queering Space, Body and Time -- "No Sense of a Tidy Ending": Resisting Closure -- Bibliography -- Index
Altri titoli varianti Nobitz, History's Queer Stories Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War
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Nobitz Natalie Marena <p>Natalie Marena Nobitz, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Deutschland </p>  
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Houses, Secrets, and the Closet : Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James / Gero Bauer
Houses, Secrets, and the Closet : Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James / Gero Bauer
Autore Bauer Gero <p>Gero Bauer, Universität Tübingen, Deutschland </p>
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource
Disciplina 420
Collana Lettre
Soggetto topico Literature
Gender
Queer
Masculinity
Homosexuality
Gothic Novel
Sensation Novel
Henry James
Literary Studies
British Studies
American Studies
Gender Studies
Cultural Studies
ISBN 9783839434680
3839434688
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 7 Introduction 9 Bluebeard's 'Closet:' Gothic Novels 45 The Contested Secret Room: Sensation Novels 101 Globalising the 'Closet:' Henry James 165 Coda 213 Works Cited 223
Altri titoli varianti Bauer, Houses, Secrets, and the Closet Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James
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Bauer Gero <p>Gero Bauer, Universität Tübingen, Deutschland </p>  
Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2016
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Imagined Economies – Real Fictions : New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain / Jessica Fischer, Gesa Stedman
Imagined Economies – Real Fictions : New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain / Jessica Fischer, Gesa Stedman
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (180 p.)
Disciplina 330.0941
Collana Edition Kulturwissenschaft
Soggetto topico Economy
Homo Economicus
Real Fiction
Neoliberalism
Great Britain
Reality
Europe
Brexit
Financial Crisis
Power
Culture
Cultural Studies
British Studies
Cultural Theory
Economic Theory
ISBN 3-8394-4881-6
Classificazione HD 402
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Introduction 7 Why Imagined Economies? 17 The Rise and Decline of Doux Commerce: Change of Experience and Change of Perception 35 The Emotional Economies of Colonial Capitalism and Its Legacies 55 Imagining Money 79 Beneath and Beyond the City: The Multiple Faces of British Finance 101 A Nation of Shopkeepers? The Idealised High Street in Brexit Britain 119 The New Democratic Economy: An Imaginary and Real Alternative 139 Imaginary Economies: Narratives for the 21st Century 157 Authors 175
Altri titoli varianti Fischer/Stedman (eds.), Imagined Economies New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain
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Imagining Ageing : Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures / Carmen Concilio
Imagining Ageing : Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures / Carmen Concilio
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (213 pages)
Disciplina 809.93354
Collana Aging Studies
Soggetto topico Anglophone Literatures
Aging
Geriatrics
World Literature
Film
Medicine
Aging Studies
Literature
Cultural Studies
General Literature Studies
British Studies
English Literature
ISBN 9783839444269
3839444268
Classificazione HG 431
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Editor's Introduction 7 Preface. Ageing in a Faraway Land 13 Shakespeare's Grandiose Old Men 19 Ageing and the Attainment of Form in Robinson Crusoe 27 The Ageing Confessor and the Young Villain: Shadowy Encounters of a Mirrored Self in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending 41 "Making Sense or No Sense of Existence": The 'Plot' of Thomas Kinsella's Late Poems in the Light of Norberto Bobbio's De senectute 61 A Voice Fit for Winter: Seamus Heaney's Poetry on Ageing in Human Chain 85 "The Mark on the Floor": Alice Munro on Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease in The Bear Came Over the Mountain and Sarah Polley's Away From Her 103 Coming to Terms: Ageing and Moral Regeneration in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello 127 Imagi(ni)ng Ageing: Old Women in J.M. Coetzee and Virginia Woolf. Mrs Curren and Mrs Dalloway 141 "Representing Age and Ageing in New Zealand Literature": The Mori Case 165 Ageing and Neurologic Disease 183 Contributors 203
Altri titoli varianti Concilio (ed.), Imagining Ageing Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
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Kulturelle Einflussangst : Inszenierungen der Grenze in der Reiseliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts / Michael C. Frank
Kulturelle Einflussangst : Inszenierungen der Grenze in der Reiseliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts / Michael C. Frank
Autore Frank Michael C <p>Michael C. Frank, Universität Zürich, Schweiz </p>
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2015
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (232)
Disciplina 823.80932
Collana Lettre
Soggetto topico Reiseliteratur
Literature
Kolonialismus
Culture
Diskurstheorie
General Literature Studies
Interculturalism
Polynesien
Schwarzafrika
British Studies
Herman Melville
Postcolonialism
Rider Haggard
Literary Studies
Joseph Conrad
Literatur
Kultur
Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft
Interkulturalität
Anglistik
Postkolonialismus
Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN 9783839405352
3839405351
Classificazione EC 7459
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione ger
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter 1 Inhalt 5 Einleitung 9 I. Grenzziehungen 21 II. Grenzüberschreitungen 49 III. Kultureller Einfluss: Herman Melville, Typee (1846) 87 IV. Rassischer Einfluss: H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (1885) 129 V. Der Einfluss der Tropen: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899) 163 Schlussbetrachtungen 201 Bibliographie 213 Danksagung 229 Backmatter 230
Altri titoli varianti Frank, Kulturelle Einflussangst Inszenierungen der Grenze in der Reiseliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts
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Frank Michael C <p>Michael C. Frank, Universität Zürich, Schweiz </p>  
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Mikrologien : Literarische und philosophische Figuren des Kleinen / Marianne Schuller, Gunnar Schmidt
Mikrologien : Literarische und philosophische Figuren des Kleinen / Marianne Schuller, Gunnar Schmidt
Autore Schuller Marianne <p>Marianne Schuller, Universität Hamburg (emeritus) und HafenCity Universität Hamburg, Deutschland </p>
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2015
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (182)
Disciplina 800
Collana Lettre
Soggetto topico Mikrologien
Literature
Kafka
General Literature Studies
Philosophy of Language
Freud
Lacan
German Literature
Benjamin
British Studies
Kleist
Literary Studies
Literatur
Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft
Sprachphilosophie
Germanistik
Anglistik
Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN 9783839401682
3839401682
Classificazione EC 5000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione ger
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter 1 Inhalt 5 Vorbemerkung 7 Kleines Wunder 11 Mikrophysik der Macht 15 Körner 17 [K]ein Kinderspiel 19 Nanologie 22 Small is Beautiful 26 Objekt a 28 Von Tropfen und Spiegeln. Medienlogik und Wissen im 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhundert 33 Scherben. W. Benjamins Miniatur »Das bucklichte Männlein« 58 Das Kleine der Literatur. Stifters Autobiographie 77 Anfangen - ohne Ende. Samuel Becketts »Breath« 90 Vor dem Objekt des Erzählens. Eine Mäuse-Geschichte Kafkas 100 Zu klein für zwei. Eine Anekdote Kleists 113 Rauschen: Von Zwergen und Atomen. Assoziationen zu V. Woolf und F.T. Marinetti 124 Medienumwelt. Sprachgeschehen. Über die Miniaturisierung der Sprache in der Moderne 145 Literatur 169 Abbildungsverzeichnis 180 Backmatter 181
Altri titoli varianti Schuller/Schmidt, Mikrologien Literarische und philosophische Figuren des Kleinen
Record Nr. UNINA-9910372812103321
Schuller Marianne <p>Marianne Schuller, Universität Hamburg (emeritus) und HafenCity Universität Hamburg, Deutschland </p>  
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