Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature write by Yvonne Liebermann. This book was released on 2023-06-06. Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Up until fairly recently, memory used to be mainly considered within the frames of the nation and related mechanisms of group identity. Building on mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, this form of memory focused on the event as a central category of meaning making. Taking its cue from a number of Anglophone novels, this book examines the indeterminate traces of memories in literary texts that are not overtly concerned with memory but still latently informed by the past. More concretely, it analyzes novels that do not directly address memories and do not focus on the event as a central meaning making category. Relegating memory to the realm of the latent, that is the not-directly-graspable dimensions of a text, the novels that this book analyses withdraw from overt memory discourses and create new ways of re-membering that refigure the temporal tripartite of past, present and future and negotiate what is ‘memorable’ in the first place. Combining the analysis of the novels’ overall structure with close readings of selected passages, this book links latency as a mode of memory with the productive agency of formal literary devices that work both on the micro and macro level, activating readers to challenge their learned ways of reading for memory.
Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures
Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures write by Sibylle Baumbach. This book was released on 2023-08-08. Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises, past, present, and future appear to collapse into each other and give way to temporal disjunction and rupture. Offering pluralised and context-sensitive approaches to temporalities in and of crises, this volume explores how literature’s engagement with crises suggests both the need for and possibility of rethinking ‘time’. The volume is committed to examining the affordances of specific genres and their potential in pointing beyond temporalities of crises to facilitate a sense of futurity. Individual essays are grounded in recent theories of temporality and literary form, which are related to novel advancements in ecocriticism, queer studies, affect theory, and postcolonial studies. The chapters cover a broad range of examples from different literary genres to reveal the knowledge of literature about temporalities in and of crises.
Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives
Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives write by Jan Alber. This book was released on 2021-05-10. Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the complex interrelationship between fact and fiction in narratives of the twenty-first century. Current cultural theory observes a cultural shift away from postmodernism to new forms of expression. Rather than a radical break from the postmodern, however, postmodernist techniques are repurposed to express a new sincerity, a purposeful self-reflexivity, a contemporary sense of togetherness and an associated commitment to reality. In what the editors consider to be one manifestation of this general tendency, this book explores the ways in which contemporary texts across different media play with the boundary between fact and fiction. This includes the examination of novels, autobiography, autofiction, film, television, mockumentary, digital fiction, advertising campaigns and media hoaxes. The chapters engage with theories of what comes after postmodernism and analyse the narratological, stylistic and/or semiotic devices on which such texts rely. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.
Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel
Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel write by Yvonne Liebermann. This book was released on 2021-09-25. Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an overview on the growing field of nonhuman studies in relation to Anglophone novels. It illuminates the variety of nonhuman actors that take centre stage in the twenty-first-century novel and the formal changes that the Anthropocene, the digital turn, the animal rights movement, and research into plant consciousness have brought to the novel as a form. The book is divided into four sections, each focusing on a different aspect of twenty-first-century literature that engages with the nonhuman. The collection investigates how the environmental changes and the increasing use of AI technologies have fostered the flourishing of genres like the New Weird, Climate Fiction, and speculative fiction, how it makes us embrace new perceptions of life in relation to genetic engineering, and how it forces us to engage with newly emerging political contexts.
Mobility, Agency, Kinship
Mobility, Agency, Kinship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mobility, Agency, Kinship write by Lea Espinoza Garrido. This book was released on 2024. Mobility, Agency, Kinship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers new perspectives on the ways in which migrants use storytelling practices and kinship formations in order to navigate and modify spaces of sovereignty, and thus to re-write narratives portraying them as helpless and passive victims. It provides one of the first investigations that assembles multidisciplinary contributions to look beyond individual acts of migrant agency and toward the entanglements of individual and collective agency, formations of kinship structures, and feelings, expressions, and representations of community and (multiple) belonging(s). The contributions explore the interplay between agency, kinship, and migration from various fields, including sociology, psychology, philosophy, border studies, gender and queer studies, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, film and media studies, and literary and cultural studies--with a special focus on interdisciplinary narrative theory. They address real and imagined assertions of migrant agency and kinship formations; draw on empirical research, interviews, and accounts of lived experiences; and analyze the role of narrative, media, and technologies in artistic, literary, and cinematic representations of migrant agency and kinship. Lea Espinoza Garrido is a researcher and lecturer in the field of American Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, where she is also co-chair of the Narrative Research Group of the Center for Narrative Research. Carolin Gebauer is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in British Literature and Culture at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and a board member of Wuppertal's Center for Narrative Research. Julia Wewior is a researcher and lecturer in the field of American Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, where she is a board member of the Center for Narrative Research.
