Inhaltszusammenfassung

The notion of 'travelling concepts' has had a remarkable impact on recent approaches in literary and cultural studies. With the increasing focus on interdisciplinary and international collaborations, the dynamic travelling of concepts between different discipilnes and across academic research cultures has become ever more important for the humanities in general and the study of literature and culture in particular. As this book serves to show, these journeys are highly complex and, while bein...The notion of 'travelling concepts' has had a remarkable impact on recent approaches in literary and cultural studies. With the increasing focus on interdisciplinary and international collaborations, the dynamic travelling of concepts between different discipilnes and across academic research cultures has become ever more important for the humanities in general and the study of literature and culture in particular. As this book serves to show, these journeys are highly complex and, while being very productive, they often bear considerable risks. Through constant adaptation, translation, and reassessment across research areas, concepts, as well as metaphors and narratives, gain new or broader heuristic potential while being confronted with new challenges. This volume covers a wide variety of approaches to the mobility of concepts nad the metaphor of travelling, ranging from synchronic and diachronic journeys of theories, metaphors, and research practices to the travelling of narratives and their translations across spatial, temporal, and medial boundaires. Sixteen contributions from various fields of literary and cultural studies explore the potential of transfers between disciplines, social subsystems, cultures, and historical periods. These contributions invite readers to trace conceptual journeys while reflecting upon the challenges, obstacles, and transformations of concepts, metaphors, and narratives meet as they undergo academic, literary, and cultural transformations» weiterlesen» einklappen

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DFG Fachgebiet:
Literaturwissenschaft

DDC Sachgruppe:
Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft