Autore: Barbara Korte

This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800. It traces the most important stages of this representation but also includes strands th …

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Von der Entdeckung und Erforschung der einen einzigen Welt am Beginn der europäischen Moderne bis zur statistischen Vermessung und Vereinheitlichung von Wirtschafts- und Universitätssystemen: Die Pra …

Wurden Kriegshelden, politische Führerhelden und Superhelden zum Thema unzähliger Studien, hat sich die Forschung bisher kaum mit der Heroisierung gewöhnlicher Menschen auseinandergesetzt. Das Buch s …

»James Bond« ist seit mehr als 60 Jahren als literarische und seit mehr als 50 Jahren als Filmfigur beispiellos populär. Wissenschaftler verschiedener Disziplinen und Generationen gehen den Gründen d …

War correspondents are prominent actors in the media world. They took hold in the cultural imaginary soon after their profession had been created in the mid-19th century. With a particular focus on B …

Geschichte hat gegenwärtig Konjunktur – besonders populäre Präsentationen prägen das Geschichtsbild nachhaltig. Dennoch ist das Forschungsfeld populärer Geschichtskulturen bisher wenig bearbeitet wor …

Britain’s recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into the realm of national history from the late 1990s o …

The present boom in popular history is not unprecedented. The contributions to this volume investigate peaks of historical interest which favour popular approaches from around 1800 to the present. Th …

One tends to associate history with serious modes of presentation rather than with humorous ones. Yet Clio also smiles and laughs out loud: Comic renderings of historical events and figures have made …

Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a glob …

Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a glob …

The tilt of a head, the quirk of an eyebrow, or a shift in position can eloquently portray a wide range of emotions without a single word being spoken. Body language is a critical component of everyd …

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Gilt die Fotografie im 19. Jahrhundert nahezu uneingeschränkt als ein Authentizität verbürgendes Medium, so wird im 20. Jahrhundert in Literatur und Film genau diese dem fotografischen Verfahren zuge …

Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century”s advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wi …

Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century’s advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wid …

Der Band bietet anhand vieler Beispiele eine Einführung in alle Arbeitsfelder, Ansätze und Begriffe des Anglistikstudiums und trägt insbesondere der derzeitigen Neuorientierung der Anglistik Rechnung …

Frischer Wind weht in die Anglistik. Neben den traditionellen Disziplinen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft stehen gleichberechtigt Kulturwissenschaften, Fachdidaktik und Sprachpraxis. Sprengt das di …

An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of t …

This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies. In today’s world, there is ample evidence of the return of borders worldwide: as material reality, as a concept, an …

A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is rese …

This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through …

This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through …

Originally a concern primarily of social studies and economics, poverty has emerged as a significant thematic focus and analytical tool in literary and cultural studies in the last two decades. The ‘ …

A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is rese …

The nexus between travel, writing and media in the contemporary world is dense: travel practice is increasingly interwoven with media; representations in old and new media are co-present and converge …

The nexus between travel, writing and media in the contemporary world is dense: travel practice is increasingly interwoven with media; representations in old and new media are co-present and converge …

This is the first study to explore the connections between the development of travel and the rapid expansion of the periodicals market in the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain. By the …