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The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British
short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the
genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those
of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the
ties that bind individual short stories into a cycle. A section on
theory approaches the form from the point of view of genre theory,
cognitive literary studies, and book studies. It is followed by
investigations of hitherto neglected aspects of the generic
tradition of the British short story cycle and how they relate to
the contemporary outlook of the form. Readings of individual
contemporary cycles, illustrating the form's multifaceted uses from
the presentation of sexual identities to politics and trauma, make
up the third and most substantial part of the volume, placing its
focus squarely on the past decades. Unique in its combination of a
focus on the literary traditions, politics and markets of the UK
with a thorough examination of the genre's manifold formal and
thematic potentials, the volume explores what is at the heart of
the short story cycle as a literary form: the constant negotiation
between unity and separateness, collective and individual, of
coherence and autonomy.
Between the medieval conception of Christendom and the political
visions of modernity, ideas of Europe underwent a transformative
and catalytic period that saw a cultural process of renewed
self-definition or self-Europeanization. The contributors to this
volume address this process, analyzing how Europe was imagined
between 1450 and 1750. By whom, in which contexts, and for what
purposes was Europe made into a subject of discourse? Which forms
did early modern 'Europes' take, and what functions did they serve?
Essays examine the role of factors such as religion, history, space
and geography, ethnicity and alterity, patronage and dynasty,
migration and education, language, translation, and narration for
the ways in which Europe turned into an 'imagined community.' The
thematic range of the volume comprises early modern texts in
Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, and
Spanish, including plays, poems, and narrative fiction, as well as
cartography, historiography, iconography, travelogues, periodicals,
and political polemics. Literary negotiations in particular
foreground the creative potential, versatility, and agency that
inhere in the process of Europeanization, as well as a specifically
early modern attitude towards the past and tradition emblematized
in the poetics of the period. There is a clear continuity between
the collection's approach to European identities and the focus of
cultural and postcolonial studies on the constructed nature of
collective identities at large: the chapters build on the insights
produced by these fields over the past decades and apply them, from
various angles, to a subject that has so far largely eluded
critical attention. This volume examines what existing and
well-established work on identity and alterity, hybridity and
margins has to contribute to an understanding of the largely
un-examined and under-theorized 'pre-formative' period of European
identity.
The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British
short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the
genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those
of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the
ties that bind individual short stories into a cycle. A section on
theory approaches the form from the point of view of genre theory,
cognitive literary studies, and book studies. It is followed by
investigations of hitherto neglected aspects of the generic
tradition of the British short story cycle and how they relate to
the contemporary outlook of the form. Readings of individual
contemporary cycles, illustrating the form's multifaceted uses from
the presentation of sexual identities to politics and trauma, make
up the third and most substantial part of the volume, placing its
focus squarely on the past decades. Unique in its combination of a
focus on the literary traditions, politics and markets of the UK
with a thorough examination of the genre's manifold formal and
thematic potentials, the volume explores what is at the heart of
the short story cycle as a literary form: the constant negotiation
between unity and separateness, collective and individual, of
coherence and autonomy.
This special issue of Symbolism: An International Annual of
Critical Aesthetics explores the various functions of metaphor in
life writing. Looking at a range of autobiographical subgenres
(pathography, disability narratives, memoirs of migration,
autofiction) and different kinds of metaphors, the contributions
seek to 'map' the possibilities of metaphor for narratively framing
an individual life and for constructing notions of selfhood.
The complex nature of globalization increasingly requires a
comparative approach to literature in order to understand how
migration and commodity flows impact aesthetic production and
expressive practices. This special issue of Symbolism: An
International Journal of Critical Aesthetics explores the
trans-American dimensions of Latina/o literature in a
trans-Atlantic context. Examining the theoretical implications
suggested by the comparison of the global North-global South
dynamics of material and aesthetic exchange, this volume highlights
emergent Latina/o authors, texts, and methodologies of interest in
for comparative literary studies. In the essays, literary scholars
address questions of the transculturation, translation, and
reception of Latina/o literature in the United States and Europe.
In the interviews, emergent Latina/o authors speak to the processes
of creative writing in a transnational context. This volume
suggests how the trans-American dialogues found in contemporary
Latina/o literature elucidates trans-Atlantic critical dialogues.
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Symbolism 16 (Hardcover)
Rudiger Ahrens, Florian Klager, Klaus Stierstorfer; Contributions by Keith A. Sandiford
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Essays in this special focus constellate around the diverse
symbolic forms in which Caribbean consciousness has manifested
itself transhistorically, shaping identities within and without
structures of colonialism and postcolonialism. Offering
interdisciplinary critical, analytical and theoretical approaches
to the objects of study, the book explores textual, visual,
material and ritual meanings encoded in Caribbean lived and
aesthetic practices.
Diaspora studies has developed in recent years from disparate
enquiries into diasporic phenomena in political science,
anthropology, history, geography, and literary and cultural
studies. Its emergence as a full-fledged transdisciplinary research
field has been predicated to a large degree on an interest in
questions of dispersal and mobility. Based on the proceedings of an
international conference by the Marie Curie Initial Training
Network CoHaB, this volume undertakes to shift the focus to
phenomena of home-making and the articulation of a sense of
belonging in diasporic contexts. Contributors from a broad range of
disciplines discuss a variety of historical and geographical
instances of diasporas, exploring the methodological and
theoretical challenges posed by the subjects of 'home' and
'belonging'. Including an interview with Homi K. Bhabha on these
subjects and the place of theory in diaspora studies as well as
contributions by such central figures as Pnina Werbner and Ihab
Hassan, the volume aims at offering a new prospectus of the range
and potential of academic work on the cultural formations of
diaspora.
Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent
heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus
inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both
in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and
theorizing symbols from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in
critical writings of theorists of diaspora. What kinds of symbols
and symbolic practices, contributors ask, are germane to the
representation, both emic and etic, of diasporics and diasporas?
How are specific symbols and symbolic practices analyzed across the
academic fields contributing to diaspora studies? Which symbols and
symbolic practices inform the academic study of diasporas,
sometimes unconsciously or without being remarked on? To study
these phenomena is to engage in a dialogue that aims at refining
the theoretical and methodological vocabulary and practice of truly
transdisciplinary diaspora studies while attending to the
imperative of specificity that inheres in this emerging field. The
volume collects a range of analyses from social anthropology,
history and ethnography to literary and film studies, all combining
readings of individual symbolic practices with meta-theoretical
reflections.
Between the medieval conception of Christendom and the political
visions of modernity, ideas of Europe underwent a transformative
and catalytic period that saw a cultural process of renewed
self-definition or self-Europeanization. The contributors to this
volume address this process, analyzing how Europe was imagined
between 1450 and 1750. By whom, in which contexts, and for what
purposes was Europe made into a subject of discourse? Which forms
did early modern 'Europes' take, and what functions did they serve?
Essays examine the role of factors such as religion, history, space
and geography, ethnicity and alterity, patronage and dynasty,
migration and education, language, translation, and narration for
the ways in which Europe turned into an 'imagined community.' The
thematic range of the volume comprises early modern texts in
Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, and
Spanish, including plays, poems, and narrative fiction, as well as
cartography, historiography, iconography, travelogues, periodicals,
and political polemics. Literary negotiations in particular
foreground the creative potential, versatility, and agency that
inhere in the process of Europeanization, as well as a specifically
early modern attitude towards the past and tradition emblematized
in the poetics of the period. There is a clear continuity between
the collection's approach to European identities and the focus of
cultural and postcolonial studies on the constructed nature of
collective identities at large: the chapters build on the insights
produced by these fields over the past decades and apply them, from
various angles, to a subject that has so far largely eluded
critical attention. This volume examines what existing and
well-established work on identity and alterity, hybridity and
margins has to contribute to an understanding of the largely
un-examined and under-theorized 'pre-formative' period of European
identity.
Diaspora studies has developed in recent years from disparate
enquiries into diasporic phenomena in political science,
anthropology, history, geography, and literary and cultural
studies. Its emergence as a full-fledged transdisciplinary research
field has been predicated to a large degree on an interest in
questions of dispersal and mobility. Based on the proceedings of an
international conference by the Marie Curie Initial Training
Network CoHaB, this volume undertakes to shift the focus to
phenomena of home-making and the articulation of a sense of
belonging in diasporic contexts. Contributors from a broad range of
disciplines discuss a variety of historical and geographical
instances of diasporas, exploring the methodological and
theoretical challenges posed by the subjects of 'home' and
'belonging'. Including an interview with Homi K. Bhabha on these
subjects and the place of theory in diaspora studies as well as
contributions by such central figures as Pnina Werbner and Ihab
Hassan, the volume aims at offering a new prospectus of the range
and potential of academic work on the cultural formations of
diaspora.
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