Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Semiotics & Theory

Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation between Samuel Beckett and catastrophe in terms of war, the Holocaust, nuclear disasters and ecological crisis. Responding to the post-catastrophic situations in the twentieth century, Beckett created characters who often seem to have been through an unknown catastrophe.  Although the importance of catastrophe in Beckett has been noted sporadically, there has been no substantial attempt to discuss his aesthetics and work in relation to it. This collection will...

China blickt auf eine etwa 9.000 Jahre Zivilisation zurück, davon sind fast 4.000 Jahre durch Schriftzeugnisse belegt. Die Geschichte der chinesischen Literatur, die bislang umfassendste Darstellung der etwa 3.000-jährigen Literaturgeschichte, stellt jedes literarische Genre in seiner historischen Entwicklung von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart vor. Namhafte Fachgelehrte entwerfen ein Panorama der längsten lebendigen literarischen Tradition der Menschheit. Sieben Bände widmen sich einzelnen Gattungen, eine Bibliographie zur chinesischen Literatur in deutscher Sprache,...

2024 Ming Chuan University Research Award

This book proposes a model of reading called hyperobject reading that bridges the Anthropocene scale variance between humans and humanity by focusing on the large-scale problems and phenomena themselves. Hyperobject reading draws on narratology and reader-response theory, as well as newer developments such as the postcritical turn and object-oriented ontology. The theoretical introduction sets out the building blocks of hyperobject reading. Chapter 2 intervenes in critical disability studies and debates about the ecosomatic paradigm;...