Comfort in Contemporary Culture : the Challenges of a Concept.
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. Tak...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcipt Verlag,
2020.
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Colección: | Edition Kulturwissenschaft.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- 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'sDiary of a Bad Year
- Gothic Hauntings
- Embracing Mindful Discomfort
- "These Seats Are So Comfy"
- Discomforting Silences in Alt-Right America, 2019
- Contributors