Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Modern - General

Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction written between 1920 and 2020. Exploring a range of authors including Agatha Christie, Patricia Wentworth, Val McDermid, Sarah Caudwell, Georgette Heyer, Dorothy Dunnett, Jonathan Stroud and Ben Aaronovitch, Lisa Hopkins argues that both the literal and literary disinterment of the past use elements of the national past to interrogate the present. As such, in the texts discussed, uncovering the truth...

Shakespeare's plays are fascinated by the problems of speed and flight. They are repeatedly interested in humans, spirits, and objects that move very fast; become airborne; and in some cases even travel into space. In Speed and Flight in Shakespeare, the first study of any kind on the subject, Steggle looks at how Shakespeare’s language explores ideas of speed and flight, and what theatrical resources his plays use to represent these states. Shakespeare has, this book argues, an aesthetic of speed and flight.  Featuring chapters on The Comedy of Errors, A...

Die Studie zeichnet ein differenziertes Bild von schriftstellerischen Selbstinszenierungen seit den 1990er Jahren. Anhand von zwölf repräsentativen Autor:innen der unterschiedlichen Bereiche des literarischen Feldes wird das internetspezifische Medienhandeln analysiert. Im Vordergrund stehen – neben den literarischen Texten – die Websites der Autor:innen und ihre Aktivitäten in den sozialen Medien. Aus den Analysen resultieren zwei Typologien, die für weitere Forschungen genutzt werden können: die Typologie medialer Habitusformen und die Inszenierungsformen von Publikumsnähe und...

The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature provides an interdisciplinary exploration in early medical trauma treatment and the emergent postmodern canon of the 1960s and 1970s. By identifying key postmodern literary tropes (paranoia, uncanniness, biomediation) as products of an overarching post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) narrative paradigm, this concise study reveals unexplored aspects of the canonical novels at hand—such as the link between individual and collective traumatization—highlights the presence of epic elements in postmodern...