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Comfort in Contemporary Culture : The Challenges of a Concept / ed. by Stella Butter, Dorothee Birke.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 212Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783837649024
  • 9783839449028
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BJ1533.C7 C66 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

funded by Universität Koblenz-Landau

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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