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Permeable Boundaries: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year and Jurij M. Lotman’s Semiosphere
Read more: Permeable Boundaries: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year and Jurij M. Lotman’s Semiospherehttps://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ang.2019.137.issue-1/ang-2019-0005/ang-2019-0005.xml?format=INT This article argues that the cultural semiotic model of the “semiosphere” by Lotman (Lotman, Grishakova and Clark 2009) can be productively employed to interpret the complex layers of social order and liminal sociality in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). Defoe’s text, analysed with a cultural semiotic approach, appears as more
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Posthumane Helden
Read more: Posthumane Heldena collaborative article I wrote with Kerstin Fest and Maria-Xenia Hardt on posthuman heroic figures is out on the online compendium of the collaborative research centre “heroes, heroization, heroisms”. You can read it or download the pdf here: Posthumane Helden
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Master Student Workshop “Experiencing Surveillance in Fiction and Theory”
Read more: Master Student Workshop “Experiencing Surveillance in Fiction and Theory”Surveillance, a fully pervasive feature of today’s lifeworlds, challenges borders of self and other, of institution, freedom and development. Surveillance technology has long since experienced a function creep from its intended, managerial uses into uses as devices that structure narratives and express emotions, as in the well-worn split screen of films that employ surveillance camera
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New Trends in Anglophone Studies – Lecture Series at the University of Cologne
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Interview on heroizations in British popular culture (in German)
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Heroism as a phenomenon in global popular culture – international conference in Freiburg, 28-30 September 2017
Read more: Heroism as a phenomenon in global popular culture – international conference in Freiburg, 28-30 September 2017Organized by Michael Butter (Tübingen), Nicole Falkenhayner, Wolfgang Hochbruck, Barbara Korte (Freiburg) and Simon Wendt (Frankfurt) In an age of globalization and transnationalism, heroes transcend their cultural spheres of origin and are re-rooted, adapted and translated in new local contexts across the world. We understand (male and female) heroes as a phenomenon of exceptionality that
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