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Der ausgewanderte Autor : über die Suche nach der eigenen Sprache
Was heißt es für einen Autor, fern der Heimat zu schreiben? Der preisgekrönte Autor Ha Jin erzählt anhand seines eigenen Lebens und dem zahlreicher berühmter Exilautoren von einem existentiellen Lebensgefühl. Aravind Adiga, Mohsin Hamid und Taiye Selasi stehen weltweit auf den Bestsellerlisten und zeugen von einem Bedürfnis nach Geschichten über das Leben zwischen den Kulturen. Oder Namen wie Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Alexander Solschenyzin, Joseph Conrad und Wladimir Nabokov sie alle verbindet eine Existenz und ein Schreiben an fremdem Ort, mal als Zwischenstopp, mal für immer, mal von Geburt an. Für den aus China stammenden US-Autor Ha Jin sind ihre Werke eine \"mentale Bibliothek\", die er mit seinem eigenen Schaffen in einen faszinierenden Dialog setzt und dabei wichtige Fragen stellt: Wie verändert sich die Rolle des Autors, wenn er sein Land von außen betrachtet? Wie prägt Sprache den Menschen, kann er ihr trauen? Wie findet ein Autor seine eigene, universelle Sprache und damit Leser, die ihn verstehen? -- From publisher's website.
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The Language of the Gods in the World of Men
In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beginning of the Common Era, when Sanskrit, long a sacred language, was reinvented as a code for literary and political expression, the start of an amazing career that saw Sanskrit literary culture spread from Afghanistan to Java. The second moment occurred around the beginning of the second millennium, when local speech forms challenged and eventually replaced Sanskrit in both the literary and political arenas. Drawing striking parallels, chronologically as well as structurally, with the rise of Latin literature and the Roman empire, and with the new vernacular literatures and nation-states of late-medieval Europe, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men asks whether these very different histories challenge current theories of culture and power and suggest new possibilities for practice.
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Victorian literature and the Victorian state : character and governance in a liberal society
Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to nineteenth-century Britain, with its decentralized, voluntarist institutional culture and passionate disdain for state interference. Focusing on a wide range of Victorian writing—from literary figures such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Harriet Martineau, J. S. Mill, Anthony Trollope, and H. G. Wells to prominent social reformers such as Edwin Chadwick, Thomas Chalmers, Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, and Beatrice Webb—Goodlad shows that Foucault's later essays on liberalism and \"governmentality\" provide better critical tools for understanding the nineteenth-century British state. Victorian Literature and the Victorian State delves into contemporary debates over sanitary, education, and civil service reform, the Poor Laws, and the century-long attempt to substitute organized charity for state services. Goodlad's readings elucidate the distinctive quandary of Victorian Britain and, indeed, any modern society conceived in liberal terms: the elusive quest for a \"pastoral\" agency that is rational, all-embracing, and effective but also anti-bureaucratic, personalized, and liberatory. In this study, impressively grounded in literary criticism, social history, and political theory, Goodlad offers a timely post-Foucauldian account of Victorian governance that speaks to the resurgent neoliberalism of our own day.
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Cricket
Stories, riddles, puzzles, rhymes, and articles by well-known authors, for early elementary grades. Includes a section of original writings by readers.
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Myth of the Silent Woman
Suellen Diaconoff situates French-language texts from Moroccan women writers in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation.
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Cricket
Stories, riddles, puzzles, rhymes, and articles by well-known authors, for early elementary grades. Includes a section of original writings by readers.
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Writers and Pilgrims
Writers and Pilgrims: Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives and Their Posterity by Donald R. Howard is a groundbreaking study of how medieval pilgrimage writings shaped literary history. Howard examines hundreds of overlooked pilgrimage accounts, once dismissed as mere travel notes, and argues for their significance as a neglected genre that illuminates the rise of fiction, satire, and narrative forms. By situating pilgrimage literature in its historical, cultural, and religious contexts, he shows how these texts bridged lived religious practices with imaginative storytelling, offering a lens into how medieval people viewed travel, salvation, and human experience. At the center of Howard's work are detailed explorations of Mandeville's Travels and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, two touchstones where fact and fiction intermingle to produce enduring literary achievements. Through these cases and others, Howard reveals how the metaphor of pilgrimage--life as a journey toward spiritual ends--continued to shape narrative structures well beyond the Middle Ages, influencing modern conceptions of travel, storytelling, and cultural identity. Written with scholarly rigor and literary sensitivity, this book restores medieval pilgrimage narratives to their rightful place in the genealogy of European literature. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.
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The Smallpox Report
After the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance. Contemporary illness narratives have become outlets for distrust, misinformation, reckless denialism, and selfish noncompliance. In The Smallpox Report , Fuson Wang rewinds this contemporary impasse between physician and patient back to the Romantic-era origins of vaccination.
The book offers a literary-historical account of smallpox vaccination, contending that the disease’s eventual eradication in 1980 was as much a triumph of the literary imagination as it was an achievement of medical Enlightenment science. Wang traces our modern pandemic-era crisis of vaccine hesitancy back to Edward Jenner’s publication of his treatise on vaccination in 1798, the first rumblings of an anti-vaccination movement, and vaccination’s formative literary history that included authors such as William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Arthur Conan Doyle. The book concludes with a re-examination of the current deeply contentious public discourse about vaccines that has arisen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. By recovering the surprisingly literary genres of Romantic-era medical writing, The Smallpox Report models a new literary historical perspective on our own crises of vaccine refusal.
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