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

• TeilnehmendeR: Nünning, Ansgar,; Kovach, Elizabeth,; Kugele, Jens,
• Place / Publishing House: London, United Kingdom : : UCL Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 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...

Table of Contents

• Part I, Symbolic passages between media, genres, languages and cultures. 1. The sound of Benjamin{u2019}s arcades Rolf J. Goebel ; 2. Spectral passages: Christian Petzold{u2019}s Transit (2018) as a misadaption of Anna Seghers{u2019}s novel (1944) and allusion to Europe{u2019}s 'Summer of Migration' Max Bergmann ; 3. The passage from tragedy to novel in Álvaro Cunqueiro{u2019}s Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes Marta Mariño Mexuto ; 4. Translating behind bars: cultural passages from Shakespeare to the Italian dialects Beatrice Montorfano ; 5. Cultural translation as a poetics of movement Marie-Christine Boucher 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 Tomi Moisio ; 7. Kafka{u2019}s actors: Josef K.{u2019}s journey to theatricality Tanja Marcotte ; 8. From passage to maturity to liminal critique: Foucault{u2019}s care of the self as liminal practice Ruben Pfizenmaier ; 9. Traversing Hell: Carl Gustav Jung and the practice of visionary travelling Tommaso Alessandro Priviero ; 10. Multiple selves: understanding the nature of dissociation in Black Swan Büke Sağlam ; 11. Passage and flow: oceanic dystopia in the self-conscious Anthropocene Florian Mussgnug Part III, Political passages related to identity, othering, supremacy and power. 12. The gaze and the city: woman walking down the street Martina Hrbková ; 13. Passages: reading before/for responsibility in Elizabeth Bowen{u2019}s The Death of the Heart (1938) Laura Lainväe ; 14. Thirdspace and hospitality: migratory passage and the labyrinth of national (in)difference in Rachid Boudjedra{u2019}s Topographie idéale pour une agression caractérisée Eric Wistrom ; 15. Passage into new realities: Albania(ns) at the turn of nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the eyes of European travel writers Oriol Guni ; 16. Unmaking silence and futures in the midst of {u2018}The passing dreams of choice{u2019} (Audre Lorde) Susan Arndt and Xin Li.