Ingrid Hotz-Davies

Anton Kirchhofer

Sirpa Leppänen

As a medium which is beginning to investigate itself by means of various meta-debates within the vast community of Internet fictionalizers, Internet is also a location where emergent phenomena may be debated in their process of being generated. This book intends to explore this issue.

Internet Fictions

Christoph Reinfandt

Martin Middeke

This book traces literature’s long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, “material” effects. It brings this tradition into dialogue with the recent material turn in literary and cultural theory, which seeks to supplant or at least rethink the foundational influence of the linguistic turn in the field. Drawing on a variety of cutting‐edge new‐materialist theories, this book programmatically outlines the contours of a methodology of Interferential Reading that is then brought to bear on examples ranging from Shakespeare, Donne, Keats and Tennyson to Northern Irish poets Colette Bryce and Sinéad Morrissey and Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie; from British thing essays to J. G. Ballard, John Berger, Nicola Barker, Richard Powers, Colum McCann, Tim Crouch, Hanya Yanagihara and Korean writer Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for literature, and from the history of theatrical bodies to the intermedial as well as affective textures in very recent experimental theatre, live theatre broadcasting and media art.

Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage and Screen

Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading

Schamma Schahadat

Feminismus, Post-Feminismus, Gender Studies, Queer Studies - »Geschlecht« und »Sexuelle Orientierung« sind Kategorien, die immer weniger essentiell gedacht werden können. Neue theoretische Fragestellungen führen dazu, dass wir nicht nur neu lesen, sehen, denken, sondern auch anderes wahrnehmen. Die Vorstellung vom Kanon verändert sich. Die hier versammelten Beiträge aus den Bereichen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Soziologie, Geschichte, Philosophie, Medienwissenschaft und Kunstgeschichte stellen literarische Texte, Filme und Bilder vor, in deren Zentrum die Frage nach der Konstruktion und Implementierung von Geschlechterdifferenzen steht.

Gender in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur

Ins Wort gesetzt, ins Bild gesetzt

Franziska Bergmann

Georg Vogt

"Camp" is often associated with glamour, surfaces and an ostentatious display of chic, but as these authors argue, there is an underside to it that has often gone unnoticed: camp’s simultaneous investment in dirt, vulgarity, the discarded and rejected, the abject. This book explores how camp challenges and at the same time celebrates what is arguably the single most important and foundational cultural division, that between the dirty and the clean. In refocusing camp as a phenomenon of the dark underside as much as of the glamorous surface, the collection hopes to offer an important contribution to our understanding of the cultural politics and aesthetics of camp.

Ingrid Hotz-Davies

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