From literature to cultural literacy / edited by Naomi Segal, Daniela Koleva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Segal, Naomi, editor.

Koleva, Daniela, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Collective memory in literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Culture in literature.

Physical Description:

xviii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

In current contexts one can be a literary scholar and yet be working on objects other than poems, dramas or fiction. Something has happened to both the researchers and the discipline that has transformed this humanities domain, bringing it into a sharper focus to investigate the readability of contemporary social issues. The essays in this book, written by scholars from ten countries, range across this research domain, renamed 'literary-and-cultural studies' or LCS. LCS depends on four key concepts-textuality, fictionality, rhetoricity and historicity - which characterize both the material and the methods of their research. The 16 essays look at four broad fields: cultural memory; migration and translation; electronic textuality; and biopolitics, biosociality and the body. The aim of the collection is to deploy and enhance cultural literacy, a way of looking at social and cultural issues - especially issues of change and mobility - through the lens of literary thinking. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Remembering and Forgetting

1 Remembering and Forgetting: Introduction / Daniela Koleva Koleva, Daniela 15

2 Visual Recall in the Present: Critical Nostalgia and the Memory of Empire in Portuguese Culture / Isabel Capeloa Gil Gil, Isabel Capeloa 21

3 Textualized Memories of Politics: Turkish Coup d'État Novels / Sibel Irzik Irzik, Sibel 43

4 Can Developers Learn from Art? Janet Cardiff's 'The Missing Voice' in Spitalfields / Ricarda Vidal Vidal, Ricarda 62

Part II Migration and Translation

5 Migration and Translation: Introduction / Loredana Polezzi Polezzi, Loredana 79

6 Migrant Poet(h)ics / Borbála Faragó Faragó, Borbála 86

7 Translating the In-Between: Performance Poetry and the Relationship between Language, Literature and Society / Robert Crawshaw Crawshaw, Robert 106

8 Lost and Gained in Migration: The Writing of Migrancy / Mary Gallagher Gallagher, Mary 122

Part III Electronic Textuality

9 Electronic Textuality: Introduction / Leopoldina Fortunati Fortunati, Leopoldina 141

10 Non-Consumptive Reading / Susan Schreibman Schreibman, Susan 148

11 Reading (and Writing) Online, Rather than on the Decline / Kathleen Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick, Kathleen 166

12 I Fought the Law: Transgressive Play and the Implied Player / Espen Aarseth Aarseth, Espen 180

Part IV Biosociality, Biopolitics and the Body

13 Biopolitics, Biosociality and the Body: Introduction / Ulrike Landfester Landfester, Ulrike 191

14 Human Enhancement: Is It 'Mere' Science Fiction? The Rise and Rise of Disembodied Ethics / Heather Bradshaw-Martin Bradshaw-Martin, Heather 198

15 History in the Gene? How Biohistories are Implicated in Biopolitics and Biosocialities / Marianne Sommer Sommer, Marianne 216

16 Between Hybrid and Graft / Uwe Wirth Wirth, Uwe 232.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1137429690

9781137429698

OCLC:

893647302