Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic

Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic
Title Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic PDF eBook
Author Christine Lötscher
Publisher LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages 213
Release 2014
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3643801858

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By creating hybrid zones of autonomy, the 'fantastic' - a subgenre of literary works - provides alternatives to conventional understandings of the world, knowledge, or identity. The fantastic raises a number of significant questions about cultural and social developments, and challenges existing boundaries. With regard to fantastic fiction in literature and different media representations, the articles in this volume explore: crossings into other worlds, time travel, metamorphoses, hybrid creatures, and a variety of other transitions and transgressions. The book analyzes hybrid genres, inter-media adaptations, transpositions into new media, as well as various forms of crossover as exemplified in the increasing trend of generation-spanning all-age literature. (Series: Research in the Fantastic / Fantastikforschung - Vol. 2)

Indexing ‘Chav’ on Social Media

Indexing ‘Chav’ on Social Media
Title Indexing ‘Chav’ on Social Media PDF eBook
Author Emilia Di Martino
Publisher Springer Nature
Total Pages 380
Release 2022-09-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3030968189

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The book sets out to examine the concept of 'chav', providing a review of its origins, its characterological figures, the process of enregisterment whereby it has come to be recognized in public discourse, and the traits associated with it in traditional media representations. The author then discusses the 'chav' label in light of recent re-appropriations in social network activity (particularly through the video-sharing app TikTok) and subsequent commentary in the public sphere. She traces the evolution of the term from its use during the first decade of the twenty-first century to make sense of class, status and cultural capital, to its resurgence and the ways in which it is still associated with appearance in gendered and classed ways. She then draws on recent developments in linguistic anthropology and embodied sociocultural linguistics to argue that social media users draw on communicative resources to perform identities that are both situated in specific contexts of discourse and dynamically changing, challenging the idea that geo-sociocultural varieties and mannerisms are the sole way of indexing membership of a community. This volume contends that equating 'chav' with 'underclass' in the most recent uses of the concept on social networks may not be the whole story, and the book will be of interest to sociocultural linguistics and identity researchers, as well as readers in anthropology, sociology, British studies, cultural studies, identity studies, digital humanities, and sociolinguistics.

Tolkien as a Literary Artist

Tolkien as a Literary Artist
Title Tolkien as a Literary Artist PDF eBook
Author Thomas Kullmann
Publisher Springer Nature
Total Pages 319
Release 2021-05-05
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 303069299X

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This book takes a fresh look at Tolkien’s literary artistry from the points of view of both linguistics and literary history, with the aim of shedding light on the literary techniques used in The Lord of the Rings. The authors study Tolkien’s use of words, style, narrative techniques, rhetoric and symbolism to highlight his status as literary artist. Dirk Siepmann uses a corpus stylistic approach to analyse Tolkien’s vocabulary and syntax, while Thomas Kullmann uses discourse theory, literary history and concepts of intertextuality to explore Tolkien’s literary techniques, relating them to the history of English fiction and poetry. Issues discussed include point of view, speeches, story-telling, landscape descriptions, the poems inserted into the body of the narrative, and the role of language in the characterization of the novel’s protagonists. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of literature, corpus linguistics and stylistics, as well as Tolkien fans and specialists.

Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century

Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century
Title Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century PDF eBook
Author Caroline Lusin
Publisher Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Total Pages 408
Release 2019-02-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3823301357

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Since the turn of the 21st century, the television series has rivalled cinema as the paradigmatic filmic medium. Like few other genres, it lends itself to exploring society in its different layers. In the case of Great Britain and Ireland, it functions as a key medium in depicting the state of the nation. Focussing on questions of genre, narrative form, and serialisation, this volume examines the variety of ways in which popular recent British and Irish television series negotiate the concept of community as a key component of the state of the nation.

Fantastische Spiele

Fantastische Spiele
Title Fantastische Spiele PDF eBook
Author René Reinhold Schallegger
Publisher LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages 510
Release 2017-10-12
Genre Civilization, Modern
ISBN 3643506511

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Durch sein Wesen eröffnet das Spiel Welten jenseits der alltäglichen Realität und neue Bezugssysteme, die immer bedeutungsvoll mit ihr interagieren. Kultur braucht den Freiraum, den das Spielen generiert, um zu entstehen, sich zu verändern und anzupassen. Komplexe Querverbindungen zwischen spielerischen Anderswelten und dem Alltag von Individuen und Gruppen bilden das Kerninteresse dieser Publikation, sowie die Möglichkeiten des sozio-kulturellen Austausches zwischen den Realitäten. Es entsteht ein Überblick über die Palette an Möglichkeiten, Problemen und die zukünftigen Potentiale von Spielen und spielbaren Medien als Vermittler zwischen fantastischen Welten und dem Alltagsleben.

Körper Technik Wissen

Körper Technik Wissen
Title Körper Technik Wissen PDF eBook
Author Markus Verne
Publisher LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages 510
Release 2017
Genre Anthropology
ISBN 3643137397

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Auch in einer Welt der Zirkulation, in der dieselben Dinge und Ideen bis in die letzten Winkel vordringen, gleichen sich die Lebensverhaltnisse nicht notwendig einander an. DEnn an den konkreten Orten, an die sie gelangen, werden diese Dinge und Ideen umgearbeitet und neu erfunden, in kreativen Prozessen, den jeweils bestehenden Vorstellungen und Wunschen gemaSS. Kurt Beck hat wesentlich dazu beigetragen, dass diese Einsicht in das Wesen globaler Vernetzung zum ethnologischen Stand der Dinge wurde. MIt Hilfe dreier fur sein wissenschaftliches Arbeiten zentraler Zugange - Korper, Technik, Wissen untersucht der vorliegende Band die kreative Gestaltung einer sich immer im Wandel befindlichen Welt, zumeist am Beispiel Afrikas.

Szenerien und Illusion

Szenerien und Illusion
Title Szenerien und Illusion PDF eBook
Author Alexander Gall
Publisher Wallstein Verlag
Total Pages 472
Release 2016-05-30
Genre Science
ISBN 3835329030

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Am Beispiel des Deutschen Museums in München wird erstmalig die Geschichte von Dioramen untersucht. Das Diorama als illusionistische Inszenierung dient oft dazu, einen Kontext für Ausstellungsobjekte herzustellen. Dieser Band beleuchtet den überraschend großen Variantenreichtum dioramatischer Formen erstmals spartenübergreifend: Die Autorinnen und Autoren analysieren nicht nur ihre lange Geschichte anhand bekannter Beispiele aus Naturkunde und Ethnologie, sondern zeigen auch, wie archäologische, technische und naturwissenschaftliche Museen und Sammlungen mit den Potenzialen von Dioramen umgehen. Der überraschende Variantenreichtum dioramatischer Formen wird repräsentativ am Beispiel des Deutschen Museums in München untersucht. Dabei kommen wissenschaftliche und handwerkliche Herausforderungen bei Konzeption und Bau ebenso zur Sprache wie die für viele Museen zentralen Fragen nach Authentizität, Nachahmung und Didaktik.