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Comfort in Contemporary Culture The Challenges of a Concept Dorothee Birke, Stella Butter
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; Volume 212.
- Edition Kulturwissenschaft
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comfort.
- Literature.
- Media.
- Film.
- Culture.
- Cultural History.
- Cultural Theory.
- Literary Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Comfort.
- Literature.
- Media.
- Film.
- Culture.
- Cultural History.
- Cultural Theory.
- Literary Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Birke/Butter (eds.), Comfort in Contemporary Culture The Challenges of a Concept
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Dorothee Birke is associate professor of English literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. Her main research interests include political drama, digital book culture, and the history of the novel. She has held research fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies.
- Stella Butter is a professor of English and American literature at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Campus Landau). In her research, she is especially interested in representations of home in contemporary Anglophone literature, contingency and literature, and the cultural functions of the British novel in the process of modernisation.
- Summary:
- Comfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cosy environments, safe spaces, but also the importance of ›getting out of your comfort zone‹ attest. This volume is the first to investigate ›comfort‹ as a cultural narrative and emotional touchstone in contemporary culture. Taken together, the contributions to the volume offer an overview of different approaches to and conceptualisations of comfort in linguistics, in literary, media, and cultural studies, and art history. They showcase how ›comfort‹ serves as a valuable lens to analyse contemporary artworks and developments, e.g. live theatre broadcasting or political interventions in the US-American media sphere.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Introduction 7 Lexical-Semantic Analysis of 'Comfort' 21 On the Temptations of Comfort 43 "A sort of strange beginning out of time" 65 Comfort in Contemporary Art 85 Writing Dis/Comfort 101 Are You Dwelling Comfortably? 117 Subverting Late Capitalist Comfort 133 The Politics of Comfort in J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year 149 Gothic Hauntings 167 Embracing Mindful Discomfort 187 "These Seats Are So Comfy" 205 Discomforting Silences in Alt-Right America, 2019 227 Contributors 249
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839449028
- 3839449022
- OCLC:
- 1202475590
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