809 Geschichte, Darstellung, Literaturwissenschaft und –k ritik
Refine
Document Type
- Book (1)
- Doctoral Thesis (1)
Has Fulltext
- yes (2)
Keywords
- Anglistik (1)
- British Empire (1)
- Erzähltheorie (1)
- Film (1)
- Gothic (1)
- Kulturwissenschaften (1)
- Literaturtheorie (1)
- Melodrama (1)
- Märchen (1)
- Phantastik (1)
Institute
Juli Zehs Roman "Unterleuten" ist eine Dorfgeschichte der Gegenwart und entwirft im literarischen Dorf Perspektiven auf die Gesellschaft. Die Arbeit beleuchtet literaturhistorische Verbindungslinien ebenso wie interdisziplinäre Forschungsperspektiven auf das Dorf und untersucht zudem die Positionierung Juli Zehs innerhalb eines ökonomisch ausgerichteten Literaturbetriebs.
This collection of twelve original essays explores the politics of tale-telling across the field of English Studies. A programmatic introduction uses the fuzzy boundaries of tales to argue that their indeterminacy and polymorphous quality is responsible for the endless attraction, proliferation, and transgressive potential of the ‘tale’ as a literary form. The case studies address representative developments in British culture, focussing on the tales’ potential for cultural critique in literature, film, music and other cultural practices. Four sections cover ‘Shakespeare Retold’, ‘Victorian Tales’, ‘Fairy Tales Revisited’, and ‘Narrating (National/Cultural) Identity’. Topics include classic fairy tales and their rewritings; melodramatic, Gothic and fantasy fiction and film; writings about the condition of England and negotiations of Irish identity; discourses of Empire in public spectacles; and every-day life represented in popular music. On each of them hangs a tale.