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Politisch-philosophische Provokationen und Ausbrüche eines abendländischen Tea-Party-Aktivisten Formen der Erfahrung, Abtreibungen, Widerstandsrecht, Fontane: Th. Mann als Verderber, Theologie, Unikrise, George und Hofmannsthal, R. Dawkins, neuer Antimodernismus- Eid, die Beendigung Deutschlands, Demokratie, linke Justiz, Bildungsferne?, Anarcho-Katholizismus, Geographische Psychologie, das Schweigen der Linken zu linken Völkermorden, no revolution, Tradition und Geist, grüner Mief und Muff, Medienmist, Russoo, LiebeProf. Dr. Jürgen Bellers InhaltsverzeichnisVier Formen der Erfahrung: Wissen,
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This book explores a range of (mis)uses of the Russian classical literature canon and its symbolic capital by contemporary Russian literature, cinema, literary scholarship, and mass culture. It outlines processes of current canon-formation in a situation of the expiration of a literature-centric culture that has been imbued with specific messianism and its doubles. The book implements Pierre Bourdieu''s theory of the cultural field, focusing on a field''s constitutive pursuit of autonomy and on its flexible resistance to the double pressure of the political field and the economic field. It pr
Russian literature --- History and criticism. --- Messianism in literature --- Popular culture in literature --- Criticism --- Criticism. --- Messianism in literature. --- Popular culture in literature. --- Russian literature. --- History and criticism --- 1800-1899. --- Russia (Federation).
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"Stuff, the hoard of minor objects which have shed their commodity glamor but which we refuse to recycle, flashes up in fiction, films and photographs as alluring, unruly reminder of how people and matter are intertwined. Stuff is modern materiality out of bounds that refuses to be contained by the western semiotic system. It declines its role as the eternal sidekick of the subject, and thus is the ideal basis for a counter-narrative of materiality in flux. Can such a narrative, developed by the new materialism, reinvigorate the classical materialist account of human alienation from commodities under capital? By shifting the discussion of materiality toward the aesthetic and the everyday, the book both embraces and challenges the project of new materialism. It argues that matter has a politics, and that its new plasticity offers a continued possibility of critique.Stuff Theory's five chapters illustrate the intermittent flashes of modern 'minor' materiality in twentieth-century modernity as fashion, memory object, clutter, home de;cor, and waste in a wide range of texts: Benjamin's essays, Virginia Woolf's and Elfriede Jelinek's fiction, Rem Koolhaas' criticism, 1920s German photography and the cinema of Tati, Bertolucci, and Mendes. To call the commodified, ebullient materiality the book tracks stuff, is to foreground its plastic and transformative power, its fluidity and its capacity to generate events. Stuff Theory interrogates the political value of stuff's instability. It investigates the potential of stuff to revitalize the oppositional power of the object.Stuff Theory traces a genealogy of materiality: flashpoints of one kind of minor matter in a succession of cultural moments. It asserts that in culture, stuff becomes a rallying point for a new critique of capital, which always works to reassign stuff to a subaltern position. Stuff is not merely unruly: it becomes the terrain on which a new relation between people and matter might be built"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Material culture in literature. --- Property in literature. --- Personal belongings in art. --- Personal belongings in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- PHILOSOPHY --- Semiotics & Theory. --- Metaphysics. --- Material culture in literature --- Personal belongings in art --- Personal belongings in literature --- Property in literature --- Philosophy
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This title examines the oppositional emergence and eventual ideological containment of 'rugged consumers' in late 20th century American literature, who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires. The book shows how certain authors position their rugged consumers within the intertwined American myths of primal nature and rugged individualism, creating left- and right-libertarian maker communities that are skeptical of both traditional political institutions and (in its pre-neoliberal state) globalised corporate capitalism.
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'This study, exploring a broad range of evocative Irish travel writing from 1850 to 1914, much of it highly entertaining and heavily laced with irony and humour, draws out interplays between tourism, travel literature and commodifications of culture. It focuses on the importance of informal tourist economies, illicit dimensions of tourism, national landscapes, 'legend' and invented tradition in modern tourism"--
Travelers' writings, English --- Travel writing --- Tourism --- Culture in literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Ireland --- In literature. --- Social life and customs. --- Description and travel.
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"American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
American literature --- Desire in literature. --- Teasing in literature. --- Searching behavior in literature. --- Material culture in literature. --- Consumption (Economics) in literature. --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism.
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What does it mean to own something? How does a thing become mine? Liberal philosophy since John Locke has championed the salutary effects of private property but has avoided the more difficult questions of property’s ontology. Chad Luck argues that antebellum American literature is obsessed with precisely these questions. Reading slave narratives, gothic romances, city-mystery novels, and a range of other property narratives, Luck unearths a wide-ranging literary effort to understand the nature of ownership, the phenomenology of possession. In these antebellum texts, ownership is not an abstract legal form but a lived relation, a dynamic of embodiment emerging within specific cultural spaces—a disputed frontier, a city agitated by class conflict. Luck challenges accounts that map property practice along a trajectory of abstraction and “virtualization.” The book also reorients recent Americanist work in emotion and affect by detailing a broader phenomenology of ownership, one extending beyond emotion to such sensory experiences as touch, taste, and vision. This productive blend of phenomenology and history uncovers deep-seated anxieties—and enthusiasms—about property across antebellum culture.
American fiction --- Material culture in literature. --- Property in literature. --- Personal belongings in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Affect. --- American Literature. --- Antebellum Culture. --- Eighteenth-Century. --- Embodiment. --- Nineteenth-Century. --- Ownership. --- Phenomenology. --- Property. --- Space.
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