Passages : : moving beyond liminality in the study of literature and culture / / edited by Elizabeth Kovach, Jens Kugele, Ansgar Nünning.

• Superior document: Comparative literature and culture
• TeilnehmendeR: Kovach, Elizabeth,; Kugele, Jens,; Nünning, Ansgar,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Comparative literature and culture.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (437 pages).

The study of literature and culture is marked by various distinct understandings of passages - both as phenomena and critical concepts. These include the anthropological notion of rites of passage, the shopping arcades (Passagen) theorized by Walter Benjamin, the Middle Passage of the Atlantic slave trade, present-day forms of migration and resettlement, and understandings of translation and adaptation. Whether structural, semiotic, spatial/geographic, temporal, existential, societal or institutional, passages refer to processes of (status) change. They enable entrances and exits, arrivals and departures, while they also foster moments of liminality and suspension. They connect and thereby engender difference. This volume is an exploration of passages as contexts and processes within which liminal experiences and encounters are situated. It aims to foster a concept-based, interdisciplinary dialogue on how to approach and theorize such a term. Based on the premise that concepts travel through times, contexts and discursive settings, a conceptual approach to passages provides the authors of this volume with the analytical tools to (re-)focus their research questions and create a meaningful exchange across disciplinary, national and linguistic boundaries. Contributions from senior scholars and early-career researchers whose work focuses on areas such as cultural memory, performativity, space, media, (cultural) translation, ecocriticism, gender and race utilize specific understandings of passages and liminality, reflecting on their value and limits for their research.

Table of Contents

Front Matter(pp. i-iv) -- Table of Contents (pp. v-vi) -- List of figures(pp. vii-vii) -- Notes on contributors (pp. viii-xiv) -- Acknowledgements (pp. xv-xvi) -- Introduction: approaching 'passages' from the perspective of travelling concepts, metaphors and narratives in the study of literature and culture (pp. 1-16) -- Part I: Symbolic passages between media, genres, languages and cultures -- 1 The sound of Benjamin's arcades (pp. 19-34) -- 2 Spectral passages: Christian Petzold's Transit (2018) as a mis-adaptation of Anna Seghers's novel (1944) and allusion to Europe's 'Summer of Migration'(pp. 35-55) -- 3 The passage from tragedy to novel in Álvaro Cunqueiro's Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes (1969) (pp. 56-71) -- 4 Translating behind bars: cultural passages from Shakespeare to the Italian dialects(pp. 72-88) -- 5 Cultural translation as a poetics of movement(pp. 89-102) -- Part II: Theoretical passages as transitions in art and (non)human life -- 6 The utterance as transgression: contextual liminality and the rhetoric of the verisimilar(pp. 105-118) -- 7 Kafka's actors: Josef K.'s journey to theatricality(pp. 119-133) -- 8 From passage to maturity to liminal critique: Foucault's care of the self as liminal practice (pp. 134-154) -- 9 Traversing Hell: Carl Gustav Jung and the practice of visionary travelling (pp. 155-172) -- 10 Multiple selves: understanding the nature of dissociation in Black Swan (2010)(pp. 173-185) -- 11 Passage and flow: oceanic dystopia in the self-conscious Anthropocene (pp. 186-200) -- Part III: Political passages related to identity, othering, supremacy and power -- 12 The gaze and the city: woman walking down the street(pp. 202-217) -- 13 Passages: reading before/for responsibility in Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart (1938)(pp. 218-236) -- 14 Thirdspace and hospitality: migratory passage and the labyrinth of national (in)difference in Rachid Boudjedra's Topographie idéale pour une agression caractérisée (1975)(pp. 237-256) -- 15 Passage into new realities: Albania(ns) at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the eyes of European travel writers(pp. 257-276) -- 16 Unmaking silence and futureS in the midst of 'The passing dreams of choice' (Audre Lorde) (pp. 277-292) -- Index(pp. 293-296) -- Back Matter(pp. 297-297).