Comfort in Contemporary Culture: The Challenges of a Concept

Comfort in Contemporary Culture: The Challenges of a Concept
Dorothee Birke, Stella Butter
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14 Dec 2020 AX
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9783837649024
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Comfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cozy 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 conceptualizations of comfort in linguistics, literary, media, and cultural studies and art history. They showcase how ? comfort? serves as a valuable lens to analyze contemporary artworks and developments, e. g. live theatre broadcasting or political interventions in the US-American media sphere.
Dorothee Birke is currently a visiting professor of English studies at the University of Innsbruck. Her main research interests include political drama, digital book culture, and the history of the novel. She has held 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 modernization.
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ISBN-13: 9783837649024
Published: 14 Dec 2020
Published In: Austria
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Format: Paperback
Height: 226mm
Width: 147mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
Pages: 330

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