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Franz Kafka --- littérature polonaise --- Théâtre

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This new collection of J. Hillis Miller’s essays centres on the question “why and to what end should we read, teach, and spend our time with literary and/or cultural studies?” At a time when electronic media seem to dominate the market completely, and jobs follow the money flows into electronic and technical fields, literary and cultural studies might appear as a decorative addenda but not really necessary for the process of growth and development, neither in business nor in the area of personal development. This question is not really new, it has many facets, requires differentiated answers which depend and mirror the political and cultural climate of a society.

Literature & literary studies --- Cultural studies --- cultural studies --- literary studies --- literaturwissenschaft --- kulturwissenschaft --- Franz Kafka --- Lyrik

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This new collection of J. Hillis Miller’s essays centres on the question “why and to what end should we read, teach, and spend our time with literary and/or cultural studies?” At a time when electronic media seem to dominate the market completely, and jobs follow the money flows into electronic and technical fields, literary and cultural studies might appear as a decorative addenda but not really necessary for the process of growth and development, neither in business nor in the area of personal development. This question is not really new, it has many facets, requires differentiated answers which depend and mirror the political and cultural climate of a society.

Literature --- Literature and society. --- History and criticism --- Philosophy. --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Social aspects --- Theory --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Sociolinguistics --- Criticism --- Literary style --- cultural studies --- literary studies --- Franz Kafka --- Friedrich Nietzsche --- The Cares of a Family Man --- United States --- World literature

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Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels-from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth century who are not usually connected, including Kafka, Kraus, Levi, Lustig, Wiesel, and Frankl. It follows the typical routes that exiled writers took, from East to West and later often as far as America. The concept and forms of exile are analyzed from many different points of view and great importance is devoted especially to the forms of inner exile. In Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought, Bronislava Volková, an exile herself and thus intimately familiar with the topic through her own experience, develops a unique typology of exile that will enrich the field of intellectual and literary history of twentieth-century Europe and America.

Alienation (Philosophy) in literature. --- Central European literature --- Exile (Punishment) in literature. --- Exiles in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- Alma Mahler. --- Arnost Lustig. --- Arthur Schnitzler. --- Bruno Schulz. --- Central Europe. --- Egon Hostovsky. --- Elie Wiesel. --- Expulsion. --- Franz Kafka. --- Franz Werfel. --- Hermann Broch. --- Hermann Ungar. --- Holocaust. --- Hugo von Hofmannsthal. --- Jewish history. --- Jiri Weil. --- Joseph Roth. --- Judaism. --- Karl Kraus. --- Ladislav Fuks. --- Marcel Proust. --- Max Nordau. --- Peter Weiss. --- Primo Levi. --- Robert Musil. --- Saul Friedlander. --- Shoah. --- Sholem Aleichem. --- Sigmund Freud. --- Stefan Zweig. --- Theodor Herzl. --- Wandering. --- aesthetics. --- cultural studies. --- diaspora. --- exile. --- gender. --- identity. --- literature. --- oppression. --- philosophy. --- twentieth century.

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Animal Narratology interrogates what it means to narrate, to speak—speak for, on behalf of—and to voice, or represent life beyond the human, which is in itself as different as insects, bears, and dogs are from each other, and yet more, as individual as a single mouse, horse, or puma. The varied contributions to this interdisciplinary Special Issue highlight assumptions about the human perception of, attitude toward, and responsibility for the animals that are read and written about, thus demonstrating that just as “the animal” does not exist, neither does “the human”. In their zoopoetic focus, the analyses are aware that animal narratology ultimately always contains an approximation of an animal perspective in human terms and terminology, yet they make clear that what matters is how the animal is approximated and that there is an effort to approach and encounter the non-human in the first place. Many of the analyses come to the conclusion that literary animals give readers the opportunity to expand their own points of view both on themselves and others by adopting another’s perspective to the degree that such an endeavor is possible. Ultimately, the contributions call for a recognition of the many spaces, moments, and modes in which human lives are entangled with those of animals—one of which is located within the creative bounds of storytelling.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Animals & society --- animal narrators --- anthropocentrism --- cultural ontologies --- discourse analysis --- fiction–nonfiction distinction --- framing and footing --- life writing --- narratology --- politeness --- self-narratives --- animal studies --- human-animal studies --- speaking animals --- Tolstoy --- Bulgakov --- trauma theory --- Russian literature --- allegory --- humanism --- literary theory --- film studies --- George Orwell --- Animal Farm --- Chicken Run --- Uwe Timm --- ‘Morenga’ --- African history --- colonialism --- postcolonial German literature --- animal narratology --- multi-perspective narration --- animal agency --- The Plague Dogs --- Richard Adams --- unreliability --- talking animal stories --- non-human focalizer --- Pincher Martin --- non-human narrators --- intradiegetic narration --- Gerard Genette --- anthropomorphism --- Eric Linklater --- The Wind on the Moon --- direct speech --- characterization --- posthumanism --- inter-species comprehension --- Hindi cinema --- Bollywood --- animal narrator --- world literature --- empathy --- Cartesian dualism --- Maurice Merleau-Ponty --- animal poetry --- ‘Inventing a Horse --- ‘Spermaceti’ --- eco-humanities --- eco-criticism --- eco-philosophy --- Industrial Farm Animal Production --- narrative --- plot --- conflict --- environmental crisis --- catastrophe --- play theory --- Franz Kafka --- manuscripts --- speaking-for --- narrative representation --- literary representation --- animal autobiography --- fictional autobiography --- meta-autobiography --- contextualist narratology --- cultural and literary animal studies --- poetics of knowledge --- zoology --- natural history --- equine autozoography --- horse-science --- narrative voice --- inoperativity --- singing mice --- zoopoetics --- anthropological machine --- community --- music --- Cervantes --- Novelas ejemplares --- El coloquio de los perros --- Novela del casamiento engañoso --- Siglo de Oro --- Early Modern Age --- cynicism --- Diogenes of Sinope --- Montaigne --- Derrida --- Animal Studies --- rhetoric --- animal narration --- fable --- Aesopic fables --- Greek fable --- antagonistic fables --- comics --- animals --- cinema --- sound effects --- science fiction --- Achilles --- Archilochus --- fox --- Gryllus --- Hesiod --- Homer --- Lucian --- pig --- Plutarch --- Pythagoras --- rooster --- Xanthus --- talking dogs --- agency --- animal --- dystopia --- Marie Darrieussecq --- human --- non-human --- Truismes --- Kafka studies --- adaptation studies --- intertextuality --- intermediality --- mimesis --- emulation --- imitation --- repetition --- parody --- autobiography --- genre --- entanglement --- Cixous --- dogs --- earth --- worldviews --- indigenous wisdom traditions --- relationality --- ecology --- language --- more-than-human geography --- multispecies ethnography --- ecopsychology --- anthropology --- environmental philosophy --- decolonization --- intuition --- instinct --- myth --- non-verbal communication --- IK --- TEK --- animality --- film --- White God --- filmic representation of animals --- material ecocriticism --- Moby-Dick --- Werner Herzog --- Hans Sahl --- lyric poetry --- mole --- space --- time --- species --- metamorphosis --- transformation --- exile --- n/a --- fiction-nonfiction distinction --- 'Morenga' --- 'Inventing a Horse --- 'Spermaceti' --- Novela del casamiento engañoso