The author deals critically analyses the writings of early Canadian women authors on the background of the main theme, the pressure on girls and women to conduct themselves »properly«. The book contains the following chapters: Woman as she should be or; Conduct books and the discourse of the lady; Improper reading, proper conduct; Conduct in action; The pattern heroines; Subversive conduct; Challenging conduct: new women and newer girls; excluding conduct from the canon.
COBISS.SI-ID: 17714184
The book is the result of a long research into recent and mostly overlooked literary trends. With the help of the poststructuralist theoretical conceptualisation, especially Baudrillard, the author makes the readers aware of the fact, that postmodernist prose, considered the dominant trend in narrative, is getting to an end. In contrast to this dead end of literary production the author points out a tradition of understanding literature going back to pop-art, followed by cyberpunk and leading top avant-pop.
COBISS.SI-ID: 252950016
Hockey occupies a prominent place in Canadian culture, evidenced by numerous stories on the theme. This book takes the readers on a thematic journey through Canadian hockey literature, grouping the works into five common themes - nationhood, the hockey dream, violence, national identity, and family. The analysis of texts reveals that contemporary hockey fiction exposes a troubled relationship with the national sport. This is the first book to focus exclusively on hockey in Canadian literature.
COBISS.SI-ID: 41771874
In the renowned German review Lili (Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik) the author – a researcher and theoretician of intercultural hermeneutics – published a study trying to include yet another new and buirning issue into her intercultural reflexion, that of violence and its individual and collective repercussions. Katharina Hacker´s acclaimed and award-winnig novel Die Habenichtse of 2006 is a good basis to discuss the issue connected to different types of individual and collective foreignness.
COBISS.SI-ID: 43681634
The research programme focuses mainly on intercultural aspects of modern and contemporary literatures as well as the literary phenomena of the 19th century. It includes, however, also some research work of earlier periods from the Middle Ages on. In this case it deals with two texts from different positions of power that are reflected also in the linguistic structures. The study is important not only for its diachronical linguistic view but also because it analyses less known older texts.
COBISS.SI-ID: 43801954