Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Subjects & Themes - General

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in both autobiography and environmental literature. In Refiguring the Map of Sorrow, Mark Allister brings these two genres together by examining a distinct form of grief narrative, in which the writers deal with mourning by standing explicitly both outside and inside the text: outside in writing about the natural world; inside in making that exposition part of the grieving process.

Building on Peter Fritzell's thesis in Nature Writing and America that the best American nature writing blends Aristotelian natural history and...

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in both autobiography and environmental literature. In Refiguring the Map of Sorrow, Mark Allister brings these two genres together by examining a distinct form of grief narrative, in which the writers deal with mourning by standing explicitly both outside and inside the text: outside in writing about the natural world; inside in making that exposition part of the grieving process.

Building on Peter Fritzell's thesis in Nature Writing and America that the best American nature writing blends Aristotelian natural history and...

Simon Featherstone's Postcolonial Cultures is a clearly written introduction to the study of postcolonial cultures, and it broadens the reach of postcolonial theory and criticism.

The book covers current topics in the field, such as nationhood, hybridity and identity, globalism and regionalism, diasporas, the politics of gender, and cultural diversity and difference. These subjects are discussed as theories developed in a variety of disciplines and through case studies that emphasize a range of cultural practices, including popular music, literature, tourism, and oral...

Die Interpretationen zu Geschichten uber Sprache aus drei Jahrtausenden zeigen, dass sich unser Denken und Wissen uber Sprache nicht nur begrifflich in Form von Theorien konkretisieren lasst, sondern auch narrativ in Form von Erzahlungen. Die narrative Objektivierungsweise hat gegenuber der begrifflichen ganz bestimmte Vorteile. Wir lernen die Sprache nicht in methodisch motivierten abstrakten Vereinfachungen kennen, sondern in konkreten kognitiven und kommunikativen Handlungszusammenhangen. Dadurch tritt sie fur uns als ein sehr komplexes Phanomen in Erscheinung, das nicht leicht auf...