Since the end of the Cold War a significant number of fantastic texts, films, artworks and new media practices across Europe have raised social and political questions. The fantastic typically works to disrupt the mimetic through...

,Theatralisierung' verhandelt die Brisanz des Theaters als gesellschaftlichen Ort innovativer Wissensproduktion, als genuinen Raum des Erfahrens und als Verweis auf kulturelle Handlungsfelder und Praktiken, die das Kunsttheater ebenso...

'The Museal Turn' explores the dynamics of contemporary museum culture with regard to its ethics and aesthetics as well as its institutional, social and political frameworks. Aiming at a fuller understanding of both changes in museum...

This volume brings together papers given at the 18th British Cultural Studies Conference, held in Salzburg in 2007. As the title 'High Culture and / versus Popular Culture' suggests, it addresses an unsettled issue. On the one hand, it...

The book presents contributions to the 2012 conference of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English in which scholars of various fields of English Studies discuss aspects of contact and conflict in Anglophone...

The Author as Reader von Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine

This collection of essays is dedicated to the theory and practice of drama translation. The focus is on foreign-language plays translated into English and staged in Anglo-American theatres. In this connection, concepts like acculturation...

Der Kultur auf der Spur ... Reich bebildert, mit Interviews, Vorträgen und persönlichen Künstlerstatements bieten die Atelier Gespräche spannende Lektüre am Puls unserer Kultur. In 25 neuen Beiträgen, welche aktuelle Forschung mit...

Representations of the human life cycle in literature have varied with time, social conditions and value systems and may be seen as projections of, or deviations from, an 'ideal life'. The cult of childhood, the focus on initiation or...

Der vorliegende Band ist das Ergebnis einer bilateralen Forschungskooperation zwischen der Universität Salzburg und der Universität Reims und widmet sich der Verschränkung von Raumtheorie und Kunstpraxis. Die auf Deutsch, Englisch und...

Asking how we cope with change and compensate for loss, both cognitively and culturally, 'Memorialisation' brings together leading scholars in museum studies and art history, literature and trauma studies, theology, psychiatry,...

In einer neuartigen, interdisziplinären Einführung widmen sich die Autor/innen Alan Jay Lerner und Frederick Loewes Musical ,My Fair Lady'. In sechs Kapiteln werden Produktions- und Aufführungsgeschichte, Stoff- und Wirkungsgeschichte,...