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Back to Community. Criticism of Conversation in German-Language Reflexion on Conversation in the 20th Century
The normative discourse on conversation in the German-speaking world of the 20th century is characterized by a clear break with the ideal of sociable...
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Censor’s scissors in Croatian literature: Sha** a(n) (inter)national community
Using some of the best-known examples from Croatian literature, this article examines the influence of censors on sha** the literary field in the...
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Intimacy and alienation: Mór Jókai in China
The 20th century witnessed two Chinese translation booms of the Hungarian writer Mór Jókai’s work. In order to have a better understanding of Jókai...
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The post-memory of the Armenian genocide and the myth of origins in Antonia Arslan’s works
This contribution aims to analyse the postmemory of the origins through the work of an Italian author of Armenian descent, Antonia Arslan, and stems...
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Late Twentieth-Century Intermedia Poetry in the Americas
This chapter provides an overview of significant intermedia poetic activities taking place in the Americas during the late twentieth century....
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Conversation in the Salon and Among Salonnières in 19th-Century Paris and Berlin
19th century salon conversation adapted to the changes of the age. There were not only restaurative, but also innovative tendencies and thus more...
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Navigating Women’s Friendships in American Literature and Culture
This volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women’s friendship in women’s literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural...
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The Novel as a Challenge to the Concept of Literature
This article takes two supposedly emergent genres of contemporary fiction – »autofiction« and the »theory novel« – and holds them up to a critical...
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200 Years of National Philologies From Romanticism to Globalization
The 17 contributions in this volume pursue a positioning of the philologies, which - based on the 'Volksgeist' (popular spirit) of the 19th century...
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Late Twentieth-Century Intermedia Poetry in the Americas
This chapter provides an overview of significant intermedia poetic activities taking place in the Americas during the late twentieth century....
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Ezra Pound, Chinese culture and the variation theory
Ezra Pound emerged as a distinctive poet and proponent of literary movements in the early 20th century, particularly Imagism. Pound drew inspiration...
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Space, Literature, Culture: Methodological Considerations
In the following analysis, cultural and literary spatial constructions function as a methodological tool with which to examine the literary...
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Women’s Bibles, White and Black: Twentieth Century and Beyond
Besides slavery, the most intense biblical clashes in America occurred around the status of women. Women’s poetry provides a central scene of...
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Between nation, post-empire, and world-literature
African Lusophone literatures are largely a Portuguese product: the very construction of literary corpora though book editing and printing was mainly...
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World Literature in China: Aspiration, Anxiety and Some Theoretical Questions
Since early 1827 GoetheGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von repeatedly talked about “world literature”; he believed in this “hope-filled word that in view of...
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Introduction: A Migrant Literature in the Making—In Search of a Name and a Canon
Divided into two parts—“The Ethnicity Factor and the Corpus” and “From Theory to Content Organisation: The Structure of this Volume”—this...
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The Function of Symptoms of ‘Mental Health’: How Literature Is Situated in the Debate Between Cure and Care
This chapter offers a revision of the links between literature and madness by addressing the ideological framework of mental health specialists and...
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Introduction. Local Tongues: Twentieth-Century English-Language Poetry and the Politics of Speech
The introduction lays out the book’s claim that local speech is a transnational poetic resource for reconciling the supposed incompatibilities...