Context in Literary and Cultural Studies
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9 color plates
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9 1/4 x 6 1/4
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Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
I Contexts of Production
1. Cosmopolitanism and the Historical/Contextual Paradigm
Bruce Robbins
2. Witness narratives in context: Analysing the political prison writings of Graciliano Ramos and Luandino Vieira
Elisa Scaraggi
3. Literature as Testimony: Textual Strategies and Contextual Frameworks in Fatima Bhutto’s Songs of Blood and Sword
Ana Ashraf
II Interventions in Context
4. Between the ‘Audienzsaal’ and the bedroom: A feminist-narratological reading of female sovereignty in Caroline Auguste Fischer’s Der Günstling (1809)
Aude Defurne
5. Literary form and limited liability: It-narratives and the context of corporate law in the British public sphere, 1860-1880
Jakob Gaardbo Nielse
6. Homeland(s) in Comparison: Contexts of Reterritorialization
Susana Araújo
III New Contexts
7. Swimming against the Hetero- and Homonormative Tide: A Queer Reading of Wolfgang Tillmans’ Photo Installation (2004-09) in the Panorama Bar at Berlin’s Nightclub Berghain
Oliver Klaassen
8. Performative Contexts in Contemporary Theatre: Towards the Emancipation of the Relational Sphere
Belén Tortosa Pujante
9. I Object to Your Position: Hyperreal Decontextualizing of Objects
Ana Calvete
10. From data to actual context
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
I Contexts of Production
1. Cosmopolitanism and the Historical/Contextual Paradigm
Bruce Robbins
2. Witness narratives in context: Analysing the political prison writings of Graciliano Ramos and Luandino Vieira
Elisa Scaraggi
3. Literature as Testimony: Textual Strategies and Contextual Frameworks in Fatima Bhutto’s Songs of Blood and Sword
Ana Ashraf
II Interventions in Context
4. Between the ‘Audienzsaal’ and the bedroom: A feminist-narratological reading of female sovereignty in Caroline Auguste Fischer’s Der Günstling (1809)
Aude Defurne
5. Literary form and limited liability: It-narratives and the context of corporate law in the British public sphere, 1860-1880
Jakob Gaardbo Nielse
6. Homeland(s) in Comparison: Contexts of Reterritorialization
Susana Araújo
III New Contexts
7. Swimming against the Hetero- and Homonormative Tide: A Queer Reading of Wolfgang Tillmans’ Photo Installation (2004-09) in the Panorama Bar at Berlin’s Nightclub Berghain
Oliver Klaassen
8. Performative Contexts in Contemporary Theatre: Towards the Emancipation of the Relational Sphere
Belén Tortosa Pujante
9. I Object to Your Position: Hyperreal Decontextualizing of Objects
Ana Calvete
10. From data to actual context
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
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