Comfort in Contemporary Culture : : The Challenges of a Concept / / ed. by Stella Butter, Dorothee Birke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• Funder: Universität Koblenz-Landau
• MitwirkendeR: Birke, Dorothee,; Breidbach, Angela,; Butler, Sarah,; Butter, Stella,; Bułat Silva, Zuzanna,; Carandina, Elisa,; Liedke, Heidi,; Liston, Andrew,; Marx, Dorothee,; Melcer-Padon, Nourit,; Sezer, Burak,; Strick, Simon,; Strätz, Juliane,; Tsangue Douanla, Didymus,
• HerausgeberIn: Birke, Dorothee,; Butter, Stella,
• Author: Universität Koblenz-Landau
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 212
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Lexical-Semantic Analysis of ‘Comfort’ --; On the Temptations of Comfort --; “A sort of strange beginning out of time” --; Comfort in Contemporary Art --; Writing Dis/Comfort --; Are You Dwelling Comfortably? --; Subverting Late Capitalist Comfort --; The Politics of Comfort in J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year --; Gothic Hauntings --; Embracing Mindful Discomfort --; “These Seats Are So Comfy” --; Discomforting Silences in Alt-Right America, 2019 --; Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839449028; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704723; 9783110704549; 9783110696301; 9783111025124; 9783110689617
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839449028?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Stella Butter, Dorothee Birke.

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.