In the last decade, the so called -spatial turn- has produced a broad discussion of space and spatiality in the social sciences, in architecture and art, as well as in philosophy, and also in literary criticism. The book focuses on one aspect largely ignored by literary historians as well as by theorists/historians of space, that is, the constitutive interrelationship of space and emotions. Departing from a dynamic concept of space as the result of human activities and perceptions, combined with the phenomenological concept of space possessing a specific atmosphere, we wish to initiate a...

Unter Einbeziehung aktueller Tendenzen der "Gender Studies" sowie der psychoanalytischen, soziologischen und literaturtheoretischen Forschung untersuchen zwolf Autorinnen literarische Darstellungen weiblicher Kindheit und Adoleszenz, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf der aktuellen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur liegt. Der Band enthalt Beitrage uber die "Entdeckung" der Sexualitat in der zeitgenossischen Madchenliteratur, uber lesbische Liebe, inzestuose Geschwister-Bindungen, abwesende Vater, uber Strategien der Geschlechterperspektivierung, uber Transvestismus und uber die Inszenierung der Adoleszenz...

The focus of -Fusion Fashion- is on Orientalism as a sartorial practice, which has to be differentiated from the common knowledge of Orientalism by means of its organization, constitution and reception. The book offers historic as well as systematic perspectives. On the one hand, it compares orientalizing practices in fashion since the Tang Period in China and European Renaissance. On the other hand, it highlights current tendencies of so called -orientalism-, -self-orientalism-, -occidentalism- in a globalized world. The book covers two time periods: Orientalized fashion practices from the...