Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary'
Title | Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2019-09-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004406743 |
What grows out of the ordinary? This volume focuses on that which has been regarded as ordinary and formulaic in literary and cultural phenomena and contests the hegemonic logic of revealing oppression and rebuilding liberation in contemporary critical theory.
Powerful Prose
Title | Powerful Prose PDF eBook |
Author | R. L. Victoria Pöhls |
Publisher | transcript Verlag |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2021-10-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3839458803 |
What makes a reading experience »powerful«? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers who tackle the question by investigating the effects and reader responses generated by selected extracts of literary prose. The twelve contributions theorize this widely-used, but to date insufficiently studied notion, and provide insights into the therefore still mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection explores a variety of stylistic as well as readerly and psychological features responsible for short- and long-term effects - topics of great interest to those interested or specialized in literary studies and narratology, (cognitive) stylistics, empirical literary studies and reader response theory.
Engagements with Hybridity in Literature
Title | Engagements with Hybridity in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Kuortti |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2023-10-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000964604 |
Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction is a textbook especially for undergraduate and graduate students of literature. It discusses the different dimensions of the notion of hybridity in theory and practice, introducing the use and relevance of the concept in literary studies. As a structured and up-to-date source for both instructors and learners, it provides a fascinating selection of materials and approaches. The book examines the concept of hybridity, offers a historical overview of the term and its critique, and draws upon the key ideas, trends, and voices in the field. It critically engages with the theoretical, intellectual, and literary discussions of the concept from the time of colonialism to the postmodern era and beyond. The book enables students to develop critical thinking through engaging them in case studies addressing a diverse selection of literary texts from various genres and cultures that open up new perspectives and opportunities for analysis. Each chapter offers a specific theoretical background and close readings of hybridity in literary texts. To improve the students’ analytical skills and knowledge of hybridity, each chapter includes relevant tasks, questions, and additional reference materials.
Figurations of Peripheries Through Arts and Visual Studies
Title | Figurations of Peripheries Through Arts and Visual Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Maiju Loukola |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2023-12-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1003815618 |
This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists. The book is a collection of approaches from several disciplines where the spatial, conceptual, and theoretical hierarchies and biased assumptions of ‘peripheries’ are challenged. Chapters provide a diverse collection of viewpoints, analyses, and provocations on ‘peripherality’ through bringing together international specialists to discuss the socio-political, aesthetic, artistic, ethical, and legal implications of ‘peripheral approach.’ The aim is to illuminate the existing, hidden, often incommensurable, and controversial margins in the society at large from equal, ethical, and empathic perspectives. The book is designed to assist established researchers, academics, and students across disciplines who wish to incorporate novel, arts and practice-based research and critical approaches in their research projects, artwork, and academic writing. Providing both a consolidated understanding of the peripheries, visual studies, and artistic research as they are and setting expansive and new research insights and practices, this book is essential reading for scholars of arts and humanities, visual culture, art history, design, philosophy, and cultural studies.
Decolonising Social Work in Finland
Title | Decolonising Social Work in Finland PDF eBook |
Author | Kris Clarke |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2024-03-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1447371453 |
Introduction and Chapter 10 available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the contemporary social care realities and practices of Finland, a small nation with a history enmeshed in social relations as both coloniser and colonised. Decolonising Social Work in Finland: · Interrogates coloniality, racialisation and diversity in the context of Finnish social work and social care. · Brings together racialised and mainstream White Finnish researchers, activists and community members to challenge relations of epistemic violence on racialised populations in Finland. · Critically unpacks colonial views of care and wellbeing. It will be essential reading for international scholars and students in the fields of Social Work, Sociology, Indigenous Studies, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Education.
Arrivals and Departures
Title | Arrivals and Departures PDF eBook |
Author | Otto Latva |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2024-09-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 311121527X |
This book explores the human relationship to changing biodiversity by bringing together multidisciplinary insights into human-nature relations from the humanities. New animal and plant species arrive and previously existing ones may disappear. However, the historical and social perspectives of the changes have been understudied so far. This book approaches the human relationship with changing biodiversity from three different angles: belonging and non-belonging, emotions, and environmental policy. The question of belonging and non-belonging is crucial when it comes to changing biodiversity. The authors ask who decides where species can move and live and when invasive becomes native. Similarly, emotions have a big role in human-nature relations. The book shows why we grieve the loss of some species and hate some other species, and how our emotions change over time. The writers also aim to show how environmental policies, or the practice of governing species, are affected by societal discussion, emotions, scientific research, and topical concepts as well as how these policies shape biodiversity and our perceptions of different species. The authors provide fresh insights into human-nature relations and explain why we need multidisciplinary approaches in order to fully understand their complexity.
Arrivals and Departures
Title | Arrivals and Departures PDF eBook |
Author | Otto Latva, Heta Lähdesmäki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, Harri Uusitalo |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2024-05-13 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3111215784 |