Axolotl Roadkill

Axolotl Roadkill
Title Axolotl Roadkill PDF eBook
Author Helene Hegemann
Publisher Constable & Robinson Ltd
Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Berlin (Germany)
ISBN 9781849010542

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Since the death of her mother, 16-year-old Mifti has been living in Berlin in an increasingly dire state of disarray. Diagnosed as a'pseudo stress-debilitated' problem child, she becomes enmeshed in the Berlin party scene, surviving her so called life through a haze of sex, drugs and club culture.

How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life

How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life
Title How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life PDF eBook
Author Kaavya Viswanathan
Publisher Little Brown & Company
Pages 314
Release 2006
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780316059886

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Offered a second chance at getting into Harvard when the dean urges her to prove she is capable of having fun as well as overachieving academically, Opal takes calculated measures to establish her place in the popular crowd.

Pop-Feminist Narratives

Pop-Feminist Narratives
Title Pop-Feminist Narratives PDF eBook
Author Emily Spiers
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 272
Release 2018-04-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0192552848

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In Pop-Feminist Narratives, Emily Spiers explores the recent phenomenon of 'pop-feminism' and pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany. Pop-feminism is characterised by its engagement with popular culture and consumerism; its preoccupation with sexuality and transgression in relation to female agency; and its thematisation of intergenerational feminist discord, portrayed either as a damaging discursive construct or as a verifiable phenomenon requiring remediation. Central to this volume is the question of theorising the female subject in a postfeminist neoliberal climate and the role played by genre and narrative in the articulation of contemporary pop-feminist politics. The heightened visibility of mainstream feminist discourse and feminist activism in recent years—especially in North America, Britain, and Germany—means that the time is ripe for a coherent comparative scholarly study of pop-feminism as a transnational phenomenon. This volume provides such an account of pop-feminism in a manner which takes into account the varied and complex narrative strategies employed in the telling of pop-feminist stories across multiple genres and platforms, including pop-literary fiction, the popular 'guide' to feminism, film, music, and the digital.

The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World

The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World
Title The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World PDF eBook
Author R. Cobb
Publisher Springer
Pages 449
Release 2014-04-02
Genre Social Science
ISBN 113735383X

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Authenticity in our globalized world is a paradox. This collection examines how authenticity relates to cultural products, looking closely at how a particular "ethnic" food, or genre of popular music, or indigenous religious belief attains its aura of originality, when all traditional cultural products are invented in a certain time and place.

Artistic License

Artistic License
Title Artistic License PDF eBook
Author Darren Hudson Hick
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 240
Release 2017-04-26
Genre Law
ISBN 022646038X

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The art scene today is one of appropriation—of remixing, reusing, and recombining the works of other artists. From the musical mash-ups of Girl Talk to the pop-culture borrowings of Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, it’s clear that the artistic landscape is shifting—which leads to some tricky legal and philosophical questions. In this up-to-date, thorough, and accessible analysis of the right to copyright, Darren Hudson Hick works to reconcile the growing practice of artistic appropriation with innovative views of artists’ rights, both legal and moral. Engaging with long-standing debates about the nature of originality, authorship, and artists’ rights, Hick examines the philosophical challenges presented by the role of intellectual property in the artworld and vice versa. Using real-life examples of artists who have incorporated copyrighted works into their art, he explores issues of artistic creation and the nature of infringement as they are informed by analytical aesthetics and legal and critical theory. Ultimately, Artistic License provides a critical and systematic analysis of the key philosophical issues that underlie copyright policy, rethinking the relationship between artist, artwork, and the law.

German Pop Literature

German Pop Literature
Title German Pop Literature PDF eBook
Author Margaret McCarthy
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 310
Release 2015-04-24
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110275767

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Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes bluntly derogatory reception in the press. Since then, less censorious scholarship on pop has emerged to challenge its flash-in-the-pan status by situating the genre within a longer history of aesthetic practices. This volume draws on recent work and its attempts to define the genre, locate historical antecedents and assess pop’s ability to challenge the status quo. Significantly, it questions the ‘official story’ of pop literature by looking beyond Ralf Dieter Brinkmann’s works as origin to those of Jürgen Ploog, Jörg Fauser and Hadayatullah Hübsch. It also remedies the lack of attention to questions of gender in previous pop lit scholarship and demonstrates how the genre has evolved in the new millennium via expanded thematic concerns and new aesthetic approaches. Essays in the volume examine the writing of well-known, established pop authors – such as Christian Kracht, Andreas Neumeister, Joachim Lottman, Benjamin Lebert, Florian Illies, Feridun Zaimoğlu and Sven Regener – as well as more recent works by Jana Hensel, Charlotte Roche, Kerstin Grether, Helene Hegemann and songwriter/poet PeterLicht.

German Women's Writing in the Twenty-first Century

German Women's Writing in the Twenty-first Century
Title German Women's Writing in the Twenty-first Century PDF eBook
Author Hester Baer
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 220
Release 2015
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1571135847

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Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German women's literature has been conceived.