Housebound: Selfhood and Domestic Space in Contemporary German Fiction, Monika Shafi

Автор: Shiach, Morag
Название: Modernism, labour and selfhood in british literature and culture, 1890-1930
ISBN: 0521119022 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521119023
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. She explores a series of efforts to articulate the relations between labour and selfhood within modernism. This study will be of interest to literary and cultural scholars alike.

Автор: Danielle Sands
Название: Animal Writing: Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy
ISBN: 1474439039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474439039
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should be primary mode of engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories that we tell, and are told, by insects – beings at the edges of animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by empathy. Along the way she encounters fiction writers Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois.

Автор: Rosie MacLachlan
Название: Nina Bouraoui, Autofiction and the Search for Selfhood
ISBN: 3034318472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034318471
Издательство: Peter Lang
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The motif of the ‘identity quest’ features strongly in much contemporary French women’s writing, but nowhere more so than in the work of Nina Bouraoui. Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of the 2005 Prix Renaudot, Bouraoui persistently explores the question of self-expression in her work, experimenting with a variety of self-representational modes and emphasising the importance of language to the construction of her sense of self.

Considering the textual identities produced through Bouraoui’s work in the period 1999–2011, this book examines how self-referential writing can represent a crucial act of resistance to a number of contemporary problems, including race, gender and social isolation. Using the work of Monique Wittig and Judith Butler to theorise the transformative potential of the literary text, the author proposes autofiction as a uniquely unrestricted space, which for writers such as Bouraoui may provide the only medium through which to formulate a coherent and manageable sense of self.

Автор: Andrew S. Bergerson, K. Scott Baker, Clancy Martin, Steve Ostovich
Название: The Happy Burden of History: From Sovereign Impunity to Responsible Selfhood
ISBN: 3110485974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110485974
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do differently? Indeed, scholars have yet to outline viable alternatives for how any of us should respond to terror and genocide. And because of the way they compartmentalize everyday life, our discipline-bound analyses often disguise more than they illuminate. Written by a historian, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian, The Happy Burden of History takes an integrative approach to the problem of responsible selfhood. Exploring the lives and letters of ordinary and intellectual Germans who faced the ethical challenges of the Third Reich, it focuses on five typical tools for cultivating the modern self: myths, lies, non-conformity, irony, and modeling. The authors carefully dissect the ways in which ordinary and intellectual Germans excused their violent claims to mastery with a sense of ‘sovereign impunity.’They then recuperate the same strategies of selfhoodfor our contemporary world, but in ways that are self-critical and humble. The book shows how viewing this problem from within everyday life can empower and encourage usto bear the burden of historical responsibility ? and be happy doing so.

Автор: Russell Goulbourne, David Higgins
Название: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism: Gender and Selfhood, Politics and Nation
ISBN: 1474250661 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474250665
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Bringing together leading scholars from the USA, UK and Europe, this is the first substantial study of the seminal influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on British Romanticism. Reconsidering Rousseau’s connection to canonical Romantic authors such as Wordsworth, Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism also explores his impact on a wide range of literature, including anti-Jacobin fiction, educational works, familiar essays, nature writing and political discourse. Convincingly demonstrating that the relationship between Rousseau’s thought and British Romanticism goes beyond mere reception or influence to encompass complex forms of connection, transmission and appropriation, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism is a vital new contribution to scholarly understanding of British Romantic literature and its transnational contexts.

Автор: M. Roston
Название: The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature
ISBN: 1349414557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349414550
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The scientific achievements of the modern world failed to impress the leading writers of this century, leaving them instead profoundly disturbed by a sense of lost values and of the insignificance of the individual in a universe seemingly indifferent to human concerns. In The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature Roston explores the strategies adopted by such mid-century authors as Greene, Salinger, Osborne, Baldwin and others in their attempt to cope with the spiritual vacuity - strategies including the emergence of the anti-hero and of literary existentialism - and offer in the course of the investigation fascinatingly new insights into their work.

Автор: M. Roston
Название: The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature
ISBN: 0333763343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333763346
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This text explores the strategies adopted by such authors as Greene, Salinger, Osborne, Baldwin and others in their attempt to cope with the spiritual vacuity-strategies including the emergence of the anti-hero and of literary existentialism. It also offers new insights into their work.