European spaces of conflict — past, present and future

van Weringh, Judith

Tiemersma, Ninah Danique

de Graaf, Yannick

van der Werf, Bastiaan N.

Konobrodska, Anastasiia

Lankhaar, Christa

Krüll, Katharina

Smit, Lisa

Schmahl, Julia

Medzińska, Ola

Kruger, Loura

Griško, Marina

Bakker, Iris

Jutstra, Tessa

Lippert, Florian

Alexander, Vera

Godioli, Alberto

Pinilla Duarte, Elizabeth

2023

Ediciones Universidad de La Frontera

All the pieces in this volume share the common pursuit of meditating over some space of conflict, particularly, but not limited to, a European context. These conflicts cover spaces as diverse as the modernist struggle between rationality and irrationality; reinterpretations of the old nature-culture dichotomy, now understood between the poles of the Anthropocene and the post-human; and the pursuit of a path between realism and utopianism in political discourse—not to forget that most recognisable of physical conflict spaces, the battlefield, whether on the plain of ancient Troy or in the trenches of the First World War. The collection of essays is divided into three sections: past, present, and future. These distinctions are made according to the objects of analysis, the primary sources: the ‘past’ section mainly focuses on literary texts from the modernist period, and the ‘present’ section on twenty-first century cultural texts; the ‘future’ section is more provocative and argumentative in its tone, with, accordingly, less emphasis on past scholarship. Over and above these divisions, many of the essays across sections intersect in, for example, their probing of concepts such as nature, temporality, and utopia. Impressive for me in the volume was the range of different primary materials which the various essays employed, including genre fiction such as science fiction, ancient poetry, literary fiction, a low-budget YouTube miniseries, commercial television series, and video games; outside of an interest in the representational arts, several discussions drew on narratological and discourse-analysis approaches in order to interrogate contemporary political manifestos or general vernacular discourse. To match this diversity of materials, a great variety in different academic fields can be recognised, introducing the reader to theoretical backgrounds and the typical tools employed therein, for example humour studies, memory studies, and cognitive narratology. - Hamish Williams

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Conflictos europeos

Análisis literario

Análisis de discurso

Racionalidad

Modernidad

Pensamiento racional

Literatura clásica griega

Guerra

Filosofía

Naturaleza

Video games

Inglés

105 páginas

Libro

Nicole Drouilly Yurich