Context in literary and cultural studies

Context in Literary and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary volume that deals with the challenges of studying works of art and literature in their historical context today. The relationship between art works and context has long been a central concern for aesthetic and cultural disciplines, and...

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Other Authors: Ladegaard, Jakob (Editor), Gaardbo Nielsen, Jakob (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London UCL Press 2019, 2019©2019
Series:Comparative literature and culture
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Cosmopolitanism and the historical/contextual paradigm / Bruce Robbins
  • Witness narratives in context: analysing the political prison writings of Graciliano Ramos and José Luandino Vieira / Elisa Scaraggi
  • Literature as testimony: textual strategies and contextual frameworks in Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword / Ana Ashraf
  • Between the audienzsaal and the bedroom: a feminist-narratological reading of female sovereignty in Caroline Auguste Fischer's Der Günstling (1809) / Aude Defurne
  • Literary form and limited liability: it-narratives and the context of corporate law in the British public sphere, 1860-1880 / Jakob Gaardbo Nielsen
  • Homeland(s) in comparison: contexts of reterritorialisation / Susana Araújo
  • Swimming against the hetero- and homonormative tide: a queer reading of Wolfgang Tillmans' Photo Installation (2004-2009) in the Panorama Bar at Berlin's Berghain / Oliver Klaassen
  • Performative contexts in contemporary theatre: towards the emancipation of the relational sphere / Belén Tortosa Pujante
  • I object to your position: hyperreal decontextualising of objects / Ana Calvete
  • From data to actual context / Mads Rosendahl Thomsen