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Traveling Bodies
Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling and thus complements and expands upon existing research in travel studies with new perspectives on and insights in the entanglement of bodies and traveling. The case studies assembled in this volume discuss a variety of traveling practices, experiences, and media with chapters featuring Asian, American, and European historical and contemporary perspectives. Truly interdisciplinary in its approach, the volume identifies and examines diverse literary, historical and cultural texts, contexts, and modes in which traveling and the body intersect, including ‘classic’ travelogues, (new) media (e.g., film, digital travel apps), surf culture, and travel-inspired tattoos. The contributions offer various avenues for further research, not only for scholars working with body theory and travel (writing), but also for anyone interested in the intersections of literature, culture, media, and embodied practices of traveling.
Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture
Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture analyses the cultural and literary histories of medicine and mobility as entangled processes whose discourses and practices constituted, influenced, and transformed each other. Presenting case studies of novels, poetry, travel narratives, diaries, ship magazines, skin care manuals, asylum records, press reports, and various other sources, its chapters identify and discuss diverse literary, historical, and cultural texts, contexts, and modes in which medicine and mobility intersected in nineteenth-century Britain, its empire, and beyond, whereby they illustrate how the paradigms of mobility studies and the medical humanities can complement each other.
Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer
Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer addresses the multifaceted concept of cultural transfer through travel writing, with the aim of expanding our knowledge of modes of travel in the past and present and how they developed, as did the way in which travel was reported. Travel as both factual and fictional— with authors and narratives moving between different worlds— is one of the many devices that demonstrate the fluidity of the genre. This fluidity accounts for the manifold and powerful influence of travel writing on processes of cultural transfer. This volume also illustrates that cultural transfer is frequently linked to issues of power, colonialism and politics. The various chapters investigate the transmission of other cultures, ideas and ideologies to the writer’s own cultural sphere and consider how the processes of cultural transfer interact with the forms and functions of travel writing.
Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature
Centering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots texts into conversation with contemporary discourses on sexual assault and the #MeToo movement. The book explores the topic in the late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle and in related literary works, including chivalric romance, devotional lyric, saints’ lives, and the works of major authors such as Margery Kempe and William Dunbar. By engaging issues that are important to feminist activism today—the gray areas of sexual consent, the enduring myth of false rape allegations, and the emancipatory potential of writing about survival—this volume demonstrates how...
The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood
The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood throws fresh light on narratives about Christian holy men and women from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Rather than focusing on the relationship between story and reality, it asks what literary choices authors made in depicting their heroes and heroines: how they positioned the narrator, how they responded to existing texts, how they utilised or transcended genre conventions for their own purposes, and how they sought to relate to their audiences. The literary focus of the chapters assembled here showcases the diversity of hagiographical texts written in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac, as well as pointing out the ongoing conversations that connect them. By asking these questions of this diverse group of texts, it illuminates the literary development of hagiography in the late antique, Byzantine, and medieval periods.
Handbuch Literatur und Reise
Obwohl eines der prominentesten Themen literarischer Texte, fand das Reisen in der Literaturwissenschaft lange Zeit wenig Beachtung. Stärker in den Blick rückte es erst die sozialgeschichtlich orientierte Reiseliteraturforschung der 1980er Jahre, die sich allerdings vor allem für Reiseberichte im engeren Sinn interessierte. Seither wurde die Frage des ‚Reisen Schreibens‘ in vielfältiger, auch fiktionale Literatur berücksichtigender Weise neu akzentuiert, ohne dass dieses weite Gebiet jedoch systematisch erfasst worden wäre. Das Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über einschlägige Texte, Topoi und Schreibweisen sowie den Stand und die wichtigsten Tendenzen der zunehmend ...
Glaube und Geschlecht
Geschlechterfragen bilden bis heute einen der wesentlichen Unterschiede zwischen Katholizismus und Protestantismus. Der Band fragt nach Entwicklungen innerhalb der christlichen Kirchen wie nach Wechselwirkungen von Glaube und Geschlecht in andere Weltreligionen. Das Verhältnis von Glaube und Geschlecht bildet ein Grundlagenthema der Reformation. Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht Bezüge, die erstmals von Frauen und Männern in der reformatorischen Bewegung des 16. Jahrhunderts hergestellt und gelebt wurden und fragt sowohl nach den Anteilen von Männern und Frauen an Kirche und Religiosität als auch nach ihren religiös begründeten oder bedingten Rollen, Räumen, Aufgaben und Lebenswegen, nach Gewinnen, Verlusten und nach Kontinuitätslinien bis in die heutige Gesellschaft.
Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture
"Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture is a welcome and timely addition to the debates touching on the theme of mobility as it was developed through literature, medicine, and history of the nineteenth century. Truly interdisciplinary in their approaches, these dynamic essays encourage us to think afresh about mobility as a central feature of the modern condition." -Professor Andrew Mangham, Department of English Literature, University of Reading "This volume gathers major international names in nineteenth-century scholarship to address full-frontally the relation of transport and medical cultures in a period when both were evolving symbiotically...
Populärkultur - Geschlecht - Handlungsräume
Populärkultur ist zugleich Schauplatz und Gegenstand diverser Diskurse um Produktion, Inszenierung und Repräsentation von Geschlecht. Das Spektrum der Diskussionen entspricht dabei der Diversität der Medien und Akteur*innen. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge aus den Kultur-, Medien- und Sozialwissenschaften, in denen untersucht wird, wie Geschlecht in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Öffentlichkeit mittels verschiedener Medien verhandelt und repräsentiert wird. Darüber hinaus werden geschlechtsspezifische Produktionsbedingungen von Populärkultur sowie deren Vermarktung und Rezeption in herkömmlichen und webbasierten Medien analysiert. Die Bandbreite der betrachteten Medien und Genres reicht dabei von Neuer Frauenliteratur, nicht-heteronormen Bilderbüchern, Mommy Blogs und Beauty Videos über Actionfilm und Musikvideos bis hin zu Körperinszenierungen jugendlicher Nachwuchsathleten und filmischer Online-Pornographie.
Visual Aggression
Why does a society seek out images of violence? What can the consumption of violent imagery teach us about the history of violence and the ways in which it has been represented and understood? Assaf Pinkus considers these questions within the context of what he calls galleries of violence, the torment imagery that flourished in German-speaking regions during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Exploring these images and the visceral bodily responses that they produced in their viewers, Pinkus argues that the new visual discourse on violence was a watershed in premodern conceptualizations of selfhood. Images of martyrdom in late medieval Germany reveal a strikingly brutal parade of passio...
