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Reading Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married" In Post-Communist Bulgaria, Kornelia Slavova
Reading Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married" In Post-Communist Bulgaria, Kornelia Slavova
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Kornelia Slavova, in her paper "Reading Liksom's Short Story 'We Got Married' in Post-communist Bulgaria," discusses the intricate interrelations of texts and social practices in postcommunist Bulgaria by analysing Rosa Liksom's short story read by sixty readers. Further, Slavova proposes the study of the uses of stereotypes in fiction and their discursive hardening in extratextual practices at times of radical political and cultural change. With this notion, she focuses on two major stereotypical patterns concerning gender and the supranational opposition East/West. Slavova argues that the latter function as palimpsest structures on which earlier bipolar representations from the communist Cold-War era …
"We Got Married" [Untitled Short Story], Rosa Liksom
"We Got Married" [Untitled Short Story], Rosa Liksom
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No abstract provided.
Reading Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married" In Post-Communist Estonia, Malle Järve
Reading Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married" In Post-Communist Estonia, Malle Järve
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In her paper, "Reading Liksom's Short Story 'We Got Married' in Post-communist Estonia," Malle Järve discusses the reception of Rosa Liksom's text in post-communist Estonia. After gaining independence, Estonians became exposed to varieties of literature including avant-garde texts which did not fit easily with the expectations and rules of interpretation developed during Soviet rule. Based on data collected in 1993 and 1998, Järve focuses on the cultural repertoire (discourses, stereotypes, values, literary expectations, etc.) used by readers while constructing meaning to the text, perceived predominantly as foreign/Other. Järve's objective is an attempt to explain: 1) who/what the Other in the …
Selected Bibliography Of Textual Analysis In Cultural Studies, Xianfeng Mou, Urpo Kovala
Selected Bibliography Of Textual Analysis In Cultural Studies, Xianfeng Mou, Urpo Kovala
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Cultural Studies And Cultural Text Analysis, Urpo Kovala
Cultural Studies And Cultural Text Analysis, Urpo Kovala
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In his article, "Cultural Studies and Cultural Text Analysis," Urpo Kovala discusses the role of textual analysis in cultural studies. He begins with a sketch of different conceptions of textual analysis within cultural studies by pointing to differences in the concepts of text and context themselves. Next, Kovala explores the reasons for including textual analysis as a category and method in cultural studies and in humanities and social sciences scholarship generally. Finally, Kovala sketches briefly a model for the cultural analysis of text where his main point is that the argument about the incompatibility of cultural studies and textual analysis …
Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married" And (Finnish) Identity Construction, Kimmo Jokinen
Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married" And (Finnish) Identity Construction, Kimmo Jokinen
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In his paper, "Liksom's Short Story 'We Got Married' and (Finnish) Identity Construction," Kimmo Jokinen proposes the validity of common belief today that a shift into a late-modern era is taking place. It has often been claimed in contemporary sociological debates that our "post-industrial" life has become more thoroughly imbricated with culture and signs and sociologists, in their analyses of contemporary life, are interested especially in stories people tell, hear, and read. Based on readers' survey data in Finland, Jokinen analyses the ways in which Rosa Liksom's short story "We Got Married" is being employed in identity construction. For Jokinen, …
Liksom's Short Stories And The Ironies Of Contemporary Existence, Chris Pawling
Liksom's Short Stories And The Ironies Of Contemporary Existence, Chris Pawling
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In his paper, "Liksom's Short Stories and the Ironies of Contemporary Existence," Chris Pawling examines Rosa Liksom's short stories in her volume One Night Stands. Pawling proposes that Liksom's texts can be understood as postmodern pastiches (Jameson) of different literary voices which in turn are couched in an "affect-less" prose that attempt to inhabit the mental universe of the narrator/protagonist without necessarily endorsing any aesthetic or ethical point of view. Liksom's fictional universe is populated by individuals who are alienated from the life of predictable routines and are searching for "action" in scenes of low life in late-night city bars. …
Reading Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married" In A Cultural And Political Perspective, Erkki Vainikkala
Reading Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married" In A Cultural And Political Perspective, Erkki Vainikkala
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In his paper, "Reading Liksom's Short Story 'We Got Married' in a Cultural and Political Perspective," Erkki Vainikkala examines Rosa Liksom's short story as well as one reader's response to the text. In Vainikkala's analysis, the short story is described as a structure of inversions and reversals where sequences are opened and cut short, standpoints are offered and taken back immediately, and where the code of realism is suggested but not carried out as the development of the story lacks convincing motivation. The resulting effect of exhaustion, evident also in the manifestation of pathological narcissism in the story, is seen …
Introduction To Cultural Text Analysis And Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married", Urpo Kovala
Introduction To Cultural Text Analysis And Liksom's Short Story "We Got Married", Urpo Kovala
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Comparative Civilizations Review
Front Matter, Comparative Civilizations Review
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Charles Melville, Ed. Safavid Persia: The History And Politics Of An Islamic Society, Laina Farhat-Holzman
Charles Melville, Ed. Safavid Persia: The History And Politics Of An Islamic Society, Laina Farhat-Holzman
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Full Issue, Comparative Civilizations Review
Full Issue, Comparative Civilizations Review
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Beatrix Midant-Reynes. The Prehistory Of Egypt: From The First Egyptians To The First Pharoahs, Laurence Grambow Wolf
Beatrix Midant-Reynes. The Prehistory Of Egypt: From The First Egyptians To The First Pharoahs, Laurence Grambow Wolf
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Global Vision Of World History In Contemporary China, Ricardo K. S. Mak
Global Vision Of World History In Contemporary China, Ricardo K. S. Mak
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
From The Editors, Joseph Drew
Editor's Note, Joseph Drew
Traditions And Civilizations: Another Approach To Understanding Human History, Walter Benesch, Eduardo Wilner
Traditions And Civilizations: Another Approach To Understanding Human History, Walter Benesch, Eduardo Wilner
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
What Is Living And What Is Dead In Eurocentrism?, Ricardo Duchesne
What Is Living And What Is Dead In Eurocentrism?, Ricardo Duchesne
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
The Civilizational Concept, Matthew Melko
The Civilizational Concept, Matthew Melko
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Globalization Vs. Americanization: Is The World Being Americanized By The Dominance Of American Culture, Yoichi Shimemura
Globalization Vs. Americanization: Is The World Being Americanized By The Dominance Of American Culture, Yoichi Shimemura
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
An Assessment Of Innovative Dating In Recent Studies Of Ancient Civilization, Rosco C. Hinkle
An Assessment Of Innovative Dating In Recent Studies Of Ancient Civilization, Rosco C. Hinkle
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Globalization As A Signal Of The Next Stage In Cultural Evolution, Lee Stauffer
Globalization As A Signal Of The Next Stage In Cultural Evolution, Lee Stauffer
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Fernand Braudel. Civilization And Capitalism, 15th-18th Century. V. 2 The Wheels Of Commerce, Gloria Emeagwali
Fernand Braudel. Civilization And Capitalism, 15th-18th Century. V. 2 The Wheels Of Commerce, Gloria Emeagwali
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
J.G. Macquee The Hittites, George Von-Der-Muhll
J.G. Macquee The Hittites, George Von-Der-Muhll
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Eiji Hattori. Letters From The Silk Roads: Thinking At The Crossroads Of Civilization., Ashley Souther
Eiji Hattori. Letters From The Silk Roads: Thinking At The Crossroads Of Civilization., Ashley Souther
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
David Keys, Catastrophe: A Quest For The Origins Of The Modern World., Laina Farhat-Holzman
David Keys, Catastrophe: A Quest For The Origins Of The Modern World., Laina Farhat-Holzman
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
John Ruedy (Ed.) Islamism And Secularism In North Africa, Corrine Lathrop Gilb
John Ruedy (Ed.) Islamism And Secularism In North Africa, Corrine Lathrop Gilb
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Investigative Spaces In The Poetry Of Pierre Reverdy, Jules Supervielle, And Henri Michaux, Hugo Azérad
Investigative Spaces In The Poetry Of Pierre Reverdy, Jules Supervielle, And Henri Michaux, Hugo Azérad
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In his paper, "Investigative Spaces in the Poetry of Pierre Reverdy, Jules Supervielle, and Henri Michaux," Hugo Azérad revisits the notion of poetic space and tries to re-examine it in a novel light. In so doing, Azérad re-adapts phenomenology, which tells us that space outreaches itself in the shape of an horizon of perception. But can we posit a space which would progressively do away with perceiver and perceived alike, a space which poetry (art?) can help establish? Azérad attempts to approach poetic space as if it were a utopian place of encounter, different from the physical or psychological dimensions …
In Conversation With Itamar Even-Zohar About Literary And Culture Theory, Dora Sales Salvador
In Conversation With Itamar Even-Zohar About Literary And Culture Theory, Dora Sales Salvador
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Dora Sales Salvador presents, in "In Conversation with Itamar Even-Zohar about Literary and Culture Theory," the text of an interview with literary and culture theoretician Itamar Even-Zohar (Tel Aviv University). In the interview, Sales Salvador discusses with Even-Zohar his polysystem theory, a framework that emerges from the wish to foster open dialogue between different trends in culture research. The discussion suggests that there are assumptions shared by practitioners of cultural studies and Even-Zohar's culture research framework he has been developing since 1993. At the same time, the discussion reveals that it is also necessary and perhaps much more important to …
Comparative Literature In An Age Of "Globalization", Lois Parkinson Zamora
Comparative Literature In An Age Of "Globalization", Lois Parkinson Zamora
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Lois Parkinson Zamora, in her paper "Comparative Literature in an Age of 'Globalization'," presents a definition of globalization and considers how its cultural and spatial displacements have, and might, change traditional disciplinary practices of comparative literature. Zamora discusses how contemporary Latin American writers dramatize and evaluate the forces of globalization in their fiction and she exemplifies her observations with texts by Carpentier, Borges, Paz, Fuentes, Puig, García Márquez, and Vargas Llosa. Further, the author proposes that the cultural specificity of fictions by contemporary Latin American writers may serve as an antidote to current processes of cultural homogenization.