Literary Studies: C 1900 To C 2000

Denise Burkhard• Marion Gymnich• Dieter Petzold (eds.) inklings – Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik

Flora und Fauna in Fantastischen Welten / Flora and Fauna in Fantastic Worlds . Symposium 2019 in Bonn

Berlin, 2020 . 252 pp . inklings. Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik. Vol. 37

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„Inklings” nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J .R .R . Tolkien und C .S . Lewis waren . Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e .V . widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und ihnen nahestehender Autoren sowie der Analyse des Phantastischen in Literatur, Film und Kunst allgemein . Ihre Jahrestagungen werden in Jahrbüchern dokumentiert . Dieser Band enthält elf Vorträge der Tagung “ Flora und Fauna in Fantastischen Welten”, die 2019 in Bonn stattfand, sowie Rezensionen . “Inklings” was the name of a group of Oxford scholars and writers; its bestknown members were J .R .R . Tolkien and C .S . Lewis . The German Inklings-Gesellschaft, founded in 1983, is dedicated to the discussion and dissemination of the works of these authors and of writers commonly associated with them and to the study of the fantastic in literature, film and the arts in general . The proceedings of the annual Inklings conferences are published in yearbooks . This book contains eleven chapters presented as papers at the 2019 conference entitled “Flora and Fauna in Fantastic Worlds” and reviews .

Mara Cambiaghi A.S. Byatt’s Art of Memory

Berlin, 2020 . 218 pp ., 5 fig . col . Literary and Cultural Studies, Theory and the (New) Media. Vol. 5

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This book provides a comprehensive reading of some of A .S . Byatt’s major novels . Focusing on memory, Renaissance forms of theatrical reinvention in post-war culture, ekphrasis, visuality, the cognitive processes of the mind, gender and science, the book retraces a network of theoretical questions illuminating the author’s fictional world from within . This study devotes special attention to the craft with which Byatt translates complex issues into imaginative fiction, engaging with Byatt’s texts . It presents a lucid and coherent account of a wide range of arguments underpinning the work of one of the most prolific and acclaimed contemporary writers .

Vanessa Keiper The Horses of Cormac McCarthy’s «All the Pretty Horses»: Rides and Rites of Passage

Berlin, 2021 . 252 pp . Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik. Vol. 76

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The horses in All the Pretty Horses are ubiquitous but rarely the center of attention . Their depiction is surprisingly authentic and without anthropomorphization . This book illustrates how an equicentric reading offers new insights into the novel’s spaces, characters, and relationships . It features comparisons with popular horse-narratives and an equicentric analysis of the novel’s gender relations . How does horsemanship redefine masculinity? What is the inherent connection between femininity and the equine? This book answers these questions from an equicentric perspective, while taking into account patterns of anthropocentrism and misogyny . In addition, the focus is on the narratees and on how the degree of equine experience they bring to the narrative may enhance the horses’ figurative significance .

Teona Micevska Modernist Women Dandies

Poetry, Photography, Authorship

Berlin, 2021 . 290 pp ., 1 fig . col ., 9 fig . b/w . Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS). Vol. 5

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Assessing the cultural history of the dandy as a figure traditionally gendered masculine, this wide-ranging study advances a critical space for the discussion of the woman dandy .Modernist Women Dandies revisits dandyism to provide an interpretative framework for re-evaluating the literary careers of women authors with atypical literary presence: Edith Sitwell, Nancy Cunard, and Mina Loy . Cutting across media boundaries, it demonstrates how their experimental poetry and portrait photographs feed into each