Comfort in Contemporary Culture : : The Challenges of a Concept /

Comfort in Contemporary Culture : : The Challenges of a Concept / / 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....

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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,
:
Universität Koblenz-Landau
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 212
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Physical Description:1 online resource (254 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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