Comfort in Contemporary Culture
The Challenges of a Concept
Comfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cosy 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. Taken together, the contributions to the volume offer an overview of different approaches to and conceptualisations of comfort in linguistics, in literary, media, and cultural studies, and art history. They showcase how ›comfort‹ serves as a valuable lens to analyse contemporary artworks and developments, e.g. live theatre broadcasting or political interventions in the US-American media sphere.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Introduction
Seiten 7 - 20 -
Lexical-Semantic Analysis of 'Comfort'
Seiten 21 - 42 -
On the Temptations of Comfort
Seiten 43 - 64 -
"A sort of strange beginning out of time"
Seiten 65 - 84 -
Comfort in Contemporary Art
Seiten 85 - 100 -
Writing Dis/Comfort
Seiten 101 - 116 -
Are You Dwelling Comfortably?
Seiten 117 - 132 -
Subverting Late Capitalist Comfort
Seiten 133 - 148 -
The Politics of Comfort in J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year
Seiten 149 - 166 -
Gothic Hauntings
Seiten 167 - 186 -
Embracing Mindful Discomfort
Seiten 187 - 204 -
"These Seats Are So Comfy"
Seiten 205 - 226 -
Discomforting Silences in Alt-Right America, 2019
Seiten 227 - 248 -
Contributors
Seiten 249 - 254
2. Oktober 2020, 254 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4902-4
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