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Ulrike, Dembski, Mühlegger-Henhapel Christiane 1971-, Angerer Paul 1927-, and Österreichisches Theatermuseum, eds. Oskar Werner, 1922-1984: Welch einen sonderbaren Traum träumt' ich--. 2nd ed. Brandstätter, 2002.
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van Dalen-Oskam, Karina. The Riddle of Literary Quality. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789048558148.
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What is literature? Can we measure ‘literariness’ in texts themselves? The innovative Computational Humanities project The Riddle of Literary Quality asked thousands of Dutch readers for their opinion about contemporary Dutch and translated novels. The public shared which novels they had read, what they really thought of them, and how they judged their quality. Their judgments of the same novels were compared with the results of computational analysis of the books. Using evidence from almost 14,000 readers and building on more textual data than ever before, Van Dalen-Oskam and her team uncovered unconscious biases that shed new light on prejudices many people assumed no longer existed. This monograph explains in an accessible way how the project unfolded, which methods were used, and how the results may change the future of Literary Studies.
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Rilke, Rainer Maria, and Oscar Werner. Oskar Werner spricht Rainer Maria Rilke. Random House Audio, 2000.
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Dembski, Ulrike. Oskar Werner, 1922-1984: Welch Einen Sonderbaren Traum Traumt' Ich--. Brandstaetter, 2003.
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Picht, Barbara. Die "Interpreten Europas" und der Kalte Krieg: Zeitdeutungen in den französischen, deutschen und polnischen Geschichts- und Literaturwissenschaften. Wallstein Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46500/83535231.
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Die Metapher vom Eisernen Vorhang überwinden: Zur Geschichte der europäischen Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften im Systemkonflikt. Die Metapher vom Eisernen Vorhang beherrscht unsere Wahrnehmung des Kalten Kriegs bis heute. Doch welchen Einfluss hatte die Trennung zwischen Ost und West auf die sozial- und kulturhistorische Selbsterforschung Europas in der zeitgenössischen Geschichts- und Literaturwissenschaft? Barbara Picht macht das Ost-West-Paradigma selbst zum Untersuchungsgegenstand der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, anstatt es zu übernehmen. Sie analysiert signifikante kulturelle Selbstentwürfe im Europa des Kalten Krieges mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Geschichte und Literatur. Am Beispiel des Werkes von Fernand Braudel und Robert Minder (Frankreich), Werner Conze und Ernst Robert Curtius (BRD), Walter Markov und Werner Krauss (DDR) und Oskar Halecki und Czesław Miłosz (Polen bzw. US-amerikanisches Exil) zeigt sie, dass die "Interpreten Europas" der bipolaren Logik der Systemkonfrontation nicht gehorchten. Die "institutionelle Macht" des Kalten Krieges war sehr wohl zu spüren, doch vom beherrschenden Bild des iron curtain muss man sich lösen, geht es um die Geschichte der europäischen Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften im Systemkonflikt.
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Steinecke, Hartmut, and Claudia Liebrand. E.T.A. Hoffmann-Jahrbuch 2011. Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.37307/b.978-3-503-12298-1.
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Der 19. Band des E.T.A. Hoffmann-Jahrbuchs enthält Aufsätze über die Poesie der Lücke in "Die Marquise de la Pivardiere" sowie über das Paradox des Schauspielers in "Prinzessin Brambilla". Es beginnt der Abdruck der zeitgenössischen Rezensionen über Werke Hoffmanns. In einem wirkungsgeschichtlichen Beitrag werden die Hoffmann-Bezüge bei Oskar Panizza um 1900 behandelt. Ein Aufsatz erprobt die Methode der computergestützten Stilmessung zur Falsifikation der früher Hoffmann zugeschriebenen "Schwester Monika". Einem umfangreichen Rezensionsteil folgen Mitteilungen der E.T.A. Hoffmann Gesellschaft, u. a. mit Berichten über die Aufführung der Oper "Hoffmanns Welt" und den Erwerb einer kostbaren Sammlung von Autographen, Zeichnungen und Werken Hoffmanns für die Staatsbibliothek Bamberg.
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McAteer, Michael. Oscar Wilde. Edited by Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198706137.013.3.
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While Oscar Wilde’s plays—particularly his comedies—have often been read in terms of politics of gender identity and social class, it has not often been observed that they were also responding to a sense of political crisis in the 1890s. This chapter unravels the traces of a wider geopolitics in Wilde’s plays, extending beyond London or Dublin. It argues that the magnificent, unsettling witticisms of Wilde’s dramas, their constant play with the dangers of social and political subterfuge, and their fascination with the sacrificial act all contribute to the sense of his theatrical achievement as a portent of the calamities that would follow the age of Wagner. It concludes that while Wilde did not write for Ireland, the influence of Ireland’s historical conflict with England prompted and enabled him to develop his distinctive theatrical perspectives on art, politics, and sacrifice as prophecies of this future.
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Zwischenräume Zwischentöne: Wiener Moderne. Gegenwartskunst. Sammlungspraxis. Festschrift Für Patrick Werkner. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2018.
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Riley, Kathleen, Alastair J. L. Blanshard, and Iarla Manny, eds. Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789260.001.0001.
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Few authors of the Victorian period were as immersed in classical learning as Oscar Wilde. He studied Classics at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford, winning academic prizes and distinctions at both institutions. His undergraduate notebooks as well as his essays and articles on ancient topics reveal a mind engrossed in problems in classical scholarship and fascinated by the relationship between ancient and modern thought. His first publications were English translations of classical texts. Even after he had ‘left Parnassus for Piccadilly’, antiquity continued to provide Wilde with a critical vocabulary in which he could express himself and his aestheticism, an intellectual framework for understanding the world around him, and a compelling set of narratives to fire his artist’s imagination. Wilde’s debt to Greece and Rome is evident throughout his writings, from the sparkling wit of Society plays like The Importance of Being Earnest to the extraordinary meditation on suffering that is De Profundis. This book unites scholars in Classics and ancient history, English, theatre and performance studies, and the history of ideas to investigate the varied and profound impact that Graeco-Roman antiquity had on Wilde’s life and work. This wide-ranging collection covers all the major genres of Wilde’s literary output; it includes new perspectives on his most celebrated and canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material. It also encompasses the main aspects of the ancient world that Wilde engaged with, its literature, history, and philosophy.
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Werden der Organismen; Zur Widerlegung Von Darwin's Zufallstheorie Durch das Gesetz in der Entwicklung Von Oscar Hertwig. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2023.
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Werden der Organismen; Zur Widerlegung Von Darwin's Zufallstheorie Durch das Gesetz in der Entwicklung Von Oscar Hertwig. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2023.
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Ó Donghaile, Deaglán. Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siécle. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474459433.001.0001.
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Oscar Wilde’s political identity informed his literary writings, which were motivated by his revolutionary outlook as much as they were driven by his Paterian “passion for sensations”. Addressing his radical engagements with anarchism, socialism and anticolonial thought, this monograph provides a new interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism and of his major works by emphasising the importance of progressive politics to his positioning and self-identification within late Victorian literary culture. Consisting of previously unpublished material, it provides a politicised and historicised account of Wilde’s key works by situating them within the framework of his very pronounced – but to date critically under-recognised and as yet untheorised - ideological commitment to these radical political causes. This book interprets Wilde’s better-known works against the important political contexts addressed in his correspondence, reviews, lectures and journalism, and through his personal relationships with contemporary radicals.
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Allen, Linda, and Spencer Moon. Reel Black Talk. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216006268.
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As evidenced in interviews included in this volume, many African American filmmakers consider themselves artists first, their ethnicity being only part of what influences their work. This is the first book by an African American on contemporary African American filmmakers. Here directors and producers speak for themselves, posing challenges to current thinking in the field. Special emphasis is given to the filmmakers' productions and their experiences. Essays on historic figures reveal the rich history of the African American contribution to cinema. From Oscar Micheaux and Spencer Williams to Neema Barnett and the team of George Jackson and Doug McHenry, this revealing reference work will enlighten scholars, students, and film buffs. As early as 1899, African Americans were involved in the filmmaking industry. Oscar Micheaux took directing, writing, and producing to a higher level with the release of his first film in 1918; by 1948 he had made more than forty films. Currently, by international world cinema standards, the African American tradition rivals cinema from anywhere in the world, but these filmmakers face a quandary: whether to make films through the Hollywood system or follow an independent vision. This book presents a cross-section of filmmakers from each camp and also focuses on those who work in both arenas.
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Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten E. 1. Realism, naturalism, and symbolism. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199658770.003.0002.
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The two decades from 1880 to 1900 are astonishing not just for the new ideas about drama and the radical changes in theatre practice and playwriting, but for the pace of those developments. ‘Realism, naturalism, and symbolism’ considers the realism of Ibsen’s plays; the naturalism inspired by the increasingly scientific context of late 19th-century Europe; the comedies of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw; the controversial works of Elizabeth Robins and Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi (1896); the symbolism of Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck; and the tragic-comedy of Anton Chekhov. The common features running through these radically different new tendencies were experimentation, innovation, and language.
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Farfan, Penny. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190679699.003.0001.
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This introduction sets forth the book’s central argument and establishes the historical, theoretical, and critical context for its case studies. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern sexual identities emerged into view while at the same time being rendered invisible, as in Oscar Wilde’s 1895 trial on charges of gross indecency and the 1928 obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness. Early stage representations of homosexuality were typically coded or censored, yet the majority of the works considered in this book were highly visible in their subversions of conventional gender and sexual norms. Queer readings of these plays and performances establish connections across high and popular cultural domains, demonstrating that some of traditional modernism’s perceived failures, rejects, and outliers were modernist through their sexual dissidence. These insights in turn contribute to a more precise understanding of how modernity was mediated and how such mediations enacted change.
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Williams, Sonja D. Remembering. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039874.003.0001.
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This chapter recounts Richard Durham's memorial service at Rayner's funeral home in his hometown Chicago. Durham died unexpectedly of a heart attack on April 27, 1984, during a business trip in New York City. Among those who paid tribute to the complicated family man, friend, and mentor—as well as the writer and dedicated freedom fighter—were Durham's thirty-four-year-old son, Mark; one of Mark's uncles, his mother's oldest brother, Robert Davis; Pulitzer Prize–winning author Louis Terkel; and Margaret Burroughs, the visual artist, writer, and co-founder of the South Side's Du Sable Museum of African American History. Others who spoke fondly of Durham were journalist Vernon Jarrett and activists Ishmael Flory and Edward “Buzz” Palmer; the singer, actor, and activist Oscar Brown Jr.; and Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor. The final speaker was Durham's brother Earl Durham.
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Evangelista, Stefano. Cosmopolitan Classicism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789260.003.0013.
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Oscar Wilde associated ancient Greece and modern France as the homelands of artistic autonomy and personal freedom. France and the French language were crucial in his adoption of a cosmopolitan identity in which his close emotional and intellectual engagement with the ancient world also played a key role. His practices of classical reception therefore have roots in the French as well as English traditions. Wilde’s attitude towards ancient Greece initially shows the influence of French Parnassian poetry. As time goes on, however, he starts to engage with the new images of the ancient world promoted by Decadence and Symbolism, which sidelined the Greek classicism idealized by the Parnassians in favour of Hellenistic and Latin antiquity. Particularly important to Wilde were his exchanges with French Symbolist authors Marcel Schwob and Pierre Louÿs, whose writings on Hellenistic Greece are in dialogue with Wilde’s works, notably ‘The Critic as Artist’ and Salomé.
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Eastlake, Laura. Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833031.001.0001.
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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome from the French Revolution to the First World War, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature were at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire. The Roman parallel was used to capture the martial virtue of Wellington just as it was used to condemn the deviance and degeneracy of Oscar Wilde. Using approaches from literary and cultural studies, reception studies, and gender studies, this book is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of ancient Rome for Victorian ideas about masculinity. With chapters on education, politics, empire, and late Victorian decadence, it makes sense of the manifold and often contradictory representations of Rome—as distinct from Greece—in authors like Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, and others.
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Sandkühler, Hans Jörg, ed. Philosophie im Nationalsozialismus. Felix Meiner Verlag, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.28937/978-3-7873-2124-7.
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n diesem Band geht es um die Darstellung des Spektrums von Beförderung und / oder Anpassung bis hin zum deutlichen Widerstand, mit dem die Philosophie in Deutschland 1933 auf den Nationalsozialismus reagierte. Die Beiträge in diesem Buch zu Universität, Wissenschaft und Philosophie im Nationalsozialismus, zum Untergang des Neukantianismus im 'Dritten Reich' und zu Oskar Becker, Martin Heidegger, Erich Rothacker, Joachim Ritter und Karl Schlechta einerseits und andererseits zu Hannah Ahrend und Karl Jaspers sowie zum Wiener Kreis - sie stehen für Alternativen, die es gegenüber dem Nationalsozialismus gegeben hat - zeigen, daß das wechselseitige Bestätigungsverhältnis der symbolischen Traditionen, gemeinsame Praktiken und Einstellungen nicht schicksalhaft zu Uniformität geführt haben. Zu unterscheiden und sich zu unterscheiden, war nicht unmöglich. Dies ist zu berücksichtigen, wenn es um das Verstehen dessen geht, was nicht vergessen und verdrängt werden darf. Zur nachträglichen Entschuldigung ist das Verstehen weder aufgerufen noch berufen. Das Verstehen-Können ist auch keine Alternative zu kantischer Kritik. Lehren ziehend, wird man die moralische Norm nicht aufgeben, auf deren Grundlage Hannah Arendt gefordert hat, "daß Menschen auch dann noch Recht von Unrecht zu unterscheiden fähig sind, wenn sie wirklich auf nichts anderes mehr zurückgreifen können als auf das eigene Urteil, das zudem unter solchen Umständen in schreiendem Gegensatz zu dem steht, was sie für die einhellige Meinung ihrer gesamten Umgebung halten müssen". Mit Beiträgen von Volker Böhnigk, Dagmar Borchers, Emmanuel Faye, Hans Friedrich Fulda, Michael Grüttner, Wolfram Hogrebe, Lars Lambrecht, Hans Jörg Sandkühler, Jens Thiel und Gereon Wolters.
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Sannwald, Daniela, ed. Michael Haneke. edition text + kritik im Richard Boorberg Verlag, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783869168845.
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Michael Haneke, 1942 in München geboren und in Wien aufgewachsen, versteht sich als Regisseur, der seine Zuschauer beunruhigen will. Für seinen "Das weiße Band" (2009) ist er 2010 für einen Oscar nominiert worden. Haneke, der seine Drehbücher selbst verfasst, gehört zu den international renommierten deutschsprachigen Regisseuren. Seine Arbeiten, die sich seit "Bennys Video" (1992) stets mit den Zuschauererwartungen beschäftigen und diese bewusst enttäuschen, werden von der internationalen Kritik begeistert aufgenommen und regelmäßig auf Festivals ausgezeichnet. Michael Haneke hat in Österreich, Deutschland, Frankreich und den USA gearbeitet, Literatur von Franz Kafka ("Das Schloss", 1997) und Elfriede Jelinek ("Die Klavierspielerin", 2001) adaptiert, politische Parabeln wie "Caché" (2005) und 2Das weiße Band" inszeniert und sich in allen seinen Filmen mit Konzepten wie nationales Gedächtnis, Schuld, Voyeurismus und Erbsünde beschäftigt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Heftes stammen aus verschiedenen kulturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen und befassen sich unter jeweils spezifischem Erkenntnisinteresse mit Hanekes Werk, angefangen von seinen Fernseharbeiten für den ORF in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren bis hin zu seinem bisher letzten Film "Das weiße Band".
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Claes, Koenraad. The Late-Victorian Little Magazine. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474426213.001.0001.
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Fed up with the commercial and moral restrictions of the mainstream press of the late Victorian era, the diverse avant-garde groups of authors and artists of the Aesthetic Movement developed a new genre of periodicals in which to propagate their principles and circulate their work. Such periodicals are known as ‘little magazines’ for their small-scale production and their circulation among limited audiences, and during the late Victorian period they were often conceptualized as integrated design project or ‘Total Works of Art’ in order to visually and materially represent the ideals of their producers. Little magazines like the Pre-Raphaelite Germ, the Arts & Crafts Hobby Horse and the Decadent Yellow Book launched the careers of innovative authors and artists and provided a site for debate between minor contributors and visiting grandees from Matthew Arnold to Oscar Wilde. This book offers detailed discussions of the background to thirteen little magazines of the Victorian Fin de Siècle, situating these within the periodical press of their day and providing interpretations of representative content items. In doing so, it outlines the earliest history of this enduring publication genre, and of the Aesthetic Movement that developed along with it.
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Bowen, Zack R. Dictionary of Irish Literature. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216190905.
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This second edition of theDictionary of Irish Literatureis a revised, updated, and considerable expansion of the original volume. Included are more than twice as many entries as in the first edition, with many devoted to new writers who have appeared and developed in the Irish publishing explosion of the last 15 years. A substantial number of entries also discuss earlier authors who were omitted from the first edition. Introductory material discusses the principal themes of Irish writing, the history of Irish writing in English, and literature written in the Irish language. Though Ireland is a small island with some five million inhabitants, it has produced one of the most remarkable bodies of literature in the world. Many Irish authors, such as Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, and James Joyce are among the most widely read and closely studied writers in the English language. The Irish literary renaissance during the earlier decades of the 20th century prompted authors to incorporate traditional Irish myths and legends in their works, and the last 15 years has witnessed a dramatic explosion of publishing activity in Ireland.
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McKee, Robert J. Community Action against Racism in West Las Vegas. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666988390.
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This book chronicles Robert J. McKee's active participation in a successful protest action, led primarily by black females in the historically African American community of West Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2008-2013. The residents protested the closure of a main street (F Street) in their community for the expansion of Interstate 15. The community felt the street closure was racially motivated, with the intent of further alienating and isolating this already marginalized community. The street closure was one of many instances in a protracted history of events that further exacerbated race relations in Las Vegas. With only minimal support from the black church, courageous women mobilized their community from a neighborhood coalition into a successful community protest group, despite resistance from city officials and a racist backlash from some Las Vegas residents. The key players in this work were then-Mayor Oscar Goodman, State Senator and now U.S. Congressman Steven Horsford, and a host of local and state leaders. The closing of F Street creates an environ for McKee to discuss the current problems of race relations, urban sociology, city planning, social action, ethnography, and institutionalized racism.
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Decker, Frank, Bernd Henningsen, Marcel Lewandowsky, and Philipp Adorf, eds. Aufstand der Außenseiter. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845297996.
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Rechtspopulismus, Rechtsextremismus und sogar Rechtsterrorismus sind in Europa heute längst wieder politische Realität. Fast überall hat sich die äußere Rechte in unterschiedlichen Formen und unterschiedlicher Stärke institutionalisiert, in einigen Ländern bestimmt sie die Regierungspolitik mit. Was macht die rechten Phänomene aus, und wie lässt sich ihr Bedeutungszuwachs erklären? Wie stellen sie sich in den einzelnen Ländern dar? Welche Rolle spielen das Internet und die sozialen Medien bei der Verbreitung des rechtsradikalen Gedankenguts? Und welche Strategien gibt es, den Gefahren von rechtsaußen zu begegnen? Um zumindest vorläufige Antworten darauf zu geben, versammelt der Band Beiträge aus verschiedenen Disziplinen. Als Nachfolger des in derselben Schriftenreihe erschienenen Werkes „Rechtspopulismus und Rechtsextremismus“ (Nomos Verlag, 2015) wurde er neu konzipiert, auf den aktuellen Stand gebracht und vor allem in den Länderrubriken stark erweitert. Mit Beiträgen von Philipp Adorf | Luca Argenta | Christoph Arndt | Eiríkur Bergmann | Alexander Berzel | Balázs Böcskei |Frank Decker | Aladin El-Mafaalani | Bernd Gäbler | Jens Gmeiner | Peter Graf Kielmansegg | Simona Guerra | Reinhard Heinisch | Anna-Sophie Heinze | Bernd Henningsen | Manfred Henningsen | Johannes Hillje | Christina Holtz-Bacha | Kjetil A. Jakobsen | Stijn van Kessel | Jörn Ketelhut | Claudia Lenz | Marcel Lewandowsky | Miroslav Mareš | Claudia Yvette Matthes | Michael May | Oscar Mazzoleni | Lazaros Miliopoulos | Peder Nustad | Isabelle-Christine Panreck | Bartek Pytlas | Olaf Reis | Dirk Rochtus | Wolfgang Schroeder | Jakob Schwörer | Roland Sturm | Bernhard Weßels | Elmar Wiesendahl | Anna-Lena Wilde-Krell | Martin Ziegenhagen.
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Dyer, Darby. Shift in the Portrayal and Reception of Homosexuality from the Victorian to the Modern Period. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978748828.
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A Shift in the Portrayal and Reception of Homosexuality from the Victorian to the Modern Period explores how the reception of homosexuality in literature evolved and morphed greatly from the late 19th century to the 20th century and how the gender of the author played a particularly import role. Victorian society scorned and punished gay men to a harsher degree due to the subversive, taboo, and “emasculating” nature of male homosexuality, as evident in the reception of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. In contrast, the Modern period saw a positive portrayal and reception of homosexuality in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Modern society as well as Victorian society accepted same-sex female relationships under the assumption that women were incapable of engaging in sexual acts—an assumption influenced by Queen Victoria. Thus, on the surface, both societies tolerated female homosexuality in literature. However, this distorted tolerance was a limiting and silencing force. Darby Dyer compares the homosexuality in the works and lives of Wilde and Woolf to other authors during their time periods to address how far queer representation has come in literature and other arts. She concludes with a call to action that the fight is not over.
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Ridenhour, Jamieson. In Darkest London. Published by Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881819064.
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During the 19th century, London was a complex, vibrant, and multi-faceted city, the first true metropolis. As such, it contained within it a widely disparate array of worlds and cultures. Representations of London in literature varied just as widely. In the late 1830s, London began appearing as a site of literary terror, and by the end of the century a large proportion of the important Victorian “Gothic revival” novels were set in the city: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Three Impostors, The Beetle, Dracula, and many others. In Darkest London is a full-length study of the Victorian Urban Gothic, a pervasive mode that appears not only in straightforward novels of terror like those mentioned above but also in the works of mainstream authors such as Charles Dickens and in the journalism and travel literature of the time. In this volume, author Jamieson Ridenhour looks beyond broad considerations of the Gothic as a historical mode to explore the development of London and the concurrent rise of the Urban Gothic. He also considers very specific aspects of London’s representation in these works and draws upon recent and then-contemporary theories, close readings of relevant texts, and cartography to support and expand these ideas. This book examines the work of both canonical and non-canonical authors, including Dickens, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, G.W.M. Reynolds, Richard Marsh, Arthur Machen, Marie Belloc Lowndes, and Oscar Wilde. Placing the conventions of the Gothic form in their proper historical context, In Darkest London will appeal to scholars and students interested in an in-depth survey of the Urban Gothic.
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Heinisch, Reinhard, Christina Holtz-Bacha, and Oscar Mazzoleni, eds. Political Populism. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748907510.
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Populism represents the greatest political challenge to Western democracies since World War II. The electoral successes of populist parties and actors, Brexit, the presidency of Donald Trump or campaigns against containing the coronavirus pandemic are expressions of this phenomenon, in which the electorate is mobilised against supposed elites. The revised and expanded handbook Political Populism offers a comprehensive theoretical and empirical introduction to the causes and effects of political populism, especially in the democratic systems of Europe, but also in North and South America. It focuses on explaining populism as a consequence of a legitimation crisis of the representative system as well as on the controversies and limitations in the current academic debate. Drawing on political and communication science, the book also offers a comprehensive analysis of the effects of populism on various policy areas, such as environmental, health and economic policy. With contributions by Tjitske Akkerman, Manuel Anselmi, Wolfgang Aschauer, Hans-Georg Betz, Cecilia Biancalana, Paul Blokker, Giuliano Bobba, María Esperanza Casullo, Carlos de la Torre, Paula Diehl, Sarah C. Dingler, Martin Dolezal, Marco Fölsch, Flavia Freidenberg, Sergiu Gherghina, Florian Habersack, Vlastimil Havlík, Kirk A. Hawkins, Reinhard Heinisch, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Robert A. Huber, Gilles Ivaldi, Philip Kitzberger, Benjamin Krämer, Maria Elisabetta Lanzone, Zoe Lefkofridi, Dietmar Loch, Miroslav Mareš, Alfio Mastropaolo, Oscar Mazzoleni, Sergiu Miscoiu, Teun Pauwels, Franca Roncarolo, Saskia Pauline Ruth, Carlo Ruzza, Steven Saxonberg, Christian H. Schimpf, Damir Skenderovic, Sorina Soare, Lone Sorensen, Carlos H. Waisman, Carsten Wegscheider and Sandra Vergari. With a welcome expansion in cases and policy fields, the second edition of Political Populism: Handbook on Concepts, Questions and Strategies for Research brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to reflect on the fundamental challenge populism poses today. This Handbook is essential to every reader who wants to understand where populism comes from, how it manifests and how it influences policies, political actors and the very institutions that make democracy. Theoretically sophisticated, substantiated in its content yet approachable for the interest reader, this Handbook marks an important step in the appreciation of the complexity and consequences of this global phenomenon. Annika Werner, Australian National University Two decades of turbulent political history show that populism is here to stay, and to shape politics for a long time to come. It is considered a serious threat to traditional democratic institutions. That’s why political and communication scientists have massively engaged in studying it, in explaining it, in analyzing its features and implications. Among the several recent scholarly productions, this Handbook is perhaps the best tool put in the hands of all those who want to get a multi-dimensional yet comprehensive understanding of political populism as it is developing in Europe and in the Americas. Definitely a must-have book! Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Università di Milano, Italy This highly readable and detailed Handbook synthetizes a wealth of accumulated and innovative research on contemporary populism in Europe and the Americas. Drawing the insights of a distinguished group of specialists, the volume presents a comprehensive and updated view of the vibrant field of populist studies. Its four sections and thirty-four chapters provide stimulating perspectives on the theory, politics, and communicational dimensions of populism as well on emerging areas of research. A must read for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of a phenomenon that is likely to remain an enduring and unsettling presence in the political life of XXI century democracies. Enrique Peruzzotti, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina