Focusing on the interplay between travel and periodicals in Victorian Britain, this study reveals how travel articles became integral to the periodicals market by the 1860s. It highlights the unique representation of travel in periodicals compared to traditional travel books, emphasizing their cultural significance. By analyzing various general-interest publications aimed at diverse audiences, the book demonstrates how these articles engaged families, women, young people, and the working class, ultimately shaping their perceptions and experiences of travel.
Exploring existential questions, this book invites readers to delve into the meaning of life and their purpose. It offers insights on how to enhance personal understanding and invites a sense of wonder and guidance. Through its pages, readers can discover ways to infuse their lives with magic and deeper significance, making it a compelling read for those seeking spiritual growth and clarity.
Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change
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The book examines the interplay between heroism and national identity in contemporary British culture, focusing on how these themes are represented in British television drama. It delves into the evolving perceptions of heroes and the implications for society, highlighting the relationship between hero narratives and the state of the nation in the twenty-first century.
This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800. It traces the most important stages of this representation but also includes strands that have been marginalised or silenced in a dominant masculine and higher-class framework - the studies include explorations of female versions of the heroic, and they consider working-class and ethnic perspectives. The chapters in this volume each focus on a prominent conjuncture of texts, histories and approaches to the heroic. Taken together, they present an overview of the ‘literary heroic’ in fiction since the late eighteenth century.
Spione - Figuren der kritischen Verhandlung von Helden und Heldentum in der populären Kultur der Gegenwart. Spione sind spätestens seit dem Kalten Krieg problematische Helden: Ihre Handlungen finden im Geheimen statt, abseits der Öffentlichkeit, für deren Sicherheit sie agieren. Die Ethik ihres Handelns ist streitbar, denn sie kämpfen mit den gleichen trügerischen und schmutzigen Mitteln wie ihre Gegner und können von diesen Gegnern »gedreht« werden. In ihrem prägnanten Essay beschreibt Barbara Korte Spione als Kippfiguren, die Grauzonen und Grenzlinien des Heroischen erkennbar machen. Sie eignen sich für eine kritische Betrachtung von Vorstellungen über Helden und Heldentum, aber auch für einen Blick auf Praktiken der Spionage - eine in Zeiten der umfangreichen Überwachung durch Geheimdienste sehr aktuelle Frage, die die gegenwärtige Konjunktur des Spionagegenres nach 9/11 erklärt. Nach einem Blick auf wichtige Traditionslinien widmet sich Barbara Korte populären Darstellungen von Geheimagenten im 21. Jahrhundert in Literatur, Film und Fernsehen. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die britische Kultur, in der die Fiktion des Spions ihre Ursprünge hat und die mit James Bond einen der weltweit populärsten »geheimen Helden« hervorbrachte.
Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their attention between current representations of poverty and important earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today. The book's contributions discuss the representation of social suffering with attention to agencies of enunciation, ethical implications of 'voice' and 'listening', limits of narratability, the pitfalls of sensationalism, voyeurism and sentimentalism, potentials and restrictions inherent in specific representational techniques, modes and genres; cultural markets for poverty and precarity. Overall, the book suggests that analysis of poverty narratives requires an intersection of theoretical reflection and a close reading of texts.
Lives in precarious conditions are on the edge and out of balance. They call for recognition and reaction, but they also cause discomfort for those who regard them. This collection of articles focuses on how such lives can - or cannot - be represented, especially in narrative modes. Since Judith Butler's seminal study 'Precarious Life', the term 'precariousness' has proliferated in scholarly debate, with various shades of meaning. The contributions to this volume aim to clarify the concept of precariousness as well as related notions, and to explore their significance in various areas of human suffering. The second aim is to analyse the different ways in which precariousness intersects with issues of narrative representation in a wide range of media and genres.
One tends to associate history with serious modes of presentation rather than with humorous ones. Yet Clio also smiles and laughs out loud: Comic renderings of historical events and figures have made a significant contribution to »popular« history since around 1800. This volume offers case studies on history and humour in Britain and the US from 1800 to the present, discussing various historical topics, actors and events from the Middle Ages to the recent past.
Der Sammelband enthält vorwiegend Stories von Vertretern der „Black British Literature“; hinzu kommt ein irischer und ein jüdisch-britischer Autor. Texte in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.
The present boom in popular history is not unprecedented. The contributions to this volume investigate peaks of historical interest which favour popular approaches from around 1800 to the present. They analyse the media, genres and institutions through which historical knowledge has been disseminated - from artefacts to the archive, from poetry to photography, from music to murals, and from periodicals to popular TV series. They ask how major traditions in the popular imagery of the past have evolved and changed over time. Cultural contexts covered in the book include Western and Southern Europe, the United States and West Africa. Contributors come from a range of disciplines, including history, literary and cultural studies, musicology as well as social and cultural anthropology.
