TY  - BOOK
AU  - Birke,Dorothee
AU  - Breidbach,Angela
AU  - Butler,Sarah
AU  - Butter,Stella
AU  - Bułat Silva,Zuzanna
AU  - Carandina,Elisa
AU  - Liedke,Heidi
AU  - Liston,Andrew
AU  - Marx,Dorothee
AU  - Melcer-Padon,Nourit
AU  - Sezer,Burak
AU  - Strick,Simon
AU  - Strätz,Juliane
AU  - Tsangue Douanla,Didymus
ED  - Universität Koblenz-Landau
TI  - Comfort in Contemporary Culture: The Challenges of a Concept 
T2  - Edition Kulturwissenschaft
SN  - 9783837649024
AV  - BJ1533.C7 C66 2020
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Bielefeld : 
PB  - transcript Verlag, 
KW  - Culture
KW  - Human comfort
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Well-being
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Cultural Theory
KW  - Film
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Media
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839449028?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839449028
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839449028/original
ER  -