From Literature to Cultural Literacy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Naomi Segal

      Pages 1-12

3. Remembering and Forgetting

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Remembering and Forgetting: Introduction

      • Daniela Koleva

      Pages 15-20

   3. Visual Recall in the Present: Critical Nostalgia and the Memory of Empire in Portuguese Culture

      • Isabel Capeloa Gil

      Pages 21-42

   4. Textualized Memories of Politics: Turkish Coup d’État Novels

      • Sibel Irzik

      Pages 43-61

   5. Can Developers Learn from Art? Janet Cardiff’s ‘The Missing Voice’ in Spitalfields

      • Ricarda Vidal

      Pages 62-76

4. Migration and Translation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Migration and Translation: Introduction

      • Loredana Polezzi

      Pages 79-85

   3. Migrant Poet(h)ics

      • Borbála Faragó

      Pages 86-105

   4. Translating the In-Between: Performance Poetry and the Relationship between Language, Literature and Society

      • Robert Crawshaw

      Pages 106-121

   5. Lost and Gained in Migration: The Writing of Migrancy

      • Mary Gallagher

      Pages 122-137

5. Electronic Textuality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Electronic Textuality: Introduction

      • Leopoldina Fortunati

      Pages 141-147

   3. Non-Consumptive Reading

      • Susan Schreibman

      Pages 148-165

   4. Reading (and Writing) Online, Rather than on the Decline

      • Kathleen Fitzpatrick

      Pages 166-179

   5. I Fought the Law: Transgressive Play and the Implied Player

      • Espen Aarseth

      Pages 180-188

6. Biosociality, Biopolitics and the Body

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Biopolitics, Biosociality and the Body: Introduction

      • Ulrike Landfester

      Pages 191-197

   3. Human Enhancement: Is It ‘Mere’ Science Fiction? The Rise and Rise of Disembodied Ethics

      • Heather Bradshaw-Martin

      Pages 198-215

Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues – especially issues of change and mobility – through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics.

• Literary studies
• literary-and-cultural studies
• cultural literacy
• textuality
• fictionality
• rhetoricity
• historicity
• cultural memory
• migration
• translation
• electronic textuality
• biopolitics
• the body
• Cultural Studies
• Essay
• novel
• Online
• society

• Birkbeck, University of London, UK

  Naomi Segal

• St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria

  Daniela Koleva

Espen Aarseth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Heather G. Bradshaw-Martin University of Bristol, UK Robert Crawshaw, Lancaster University, UK Borbála Faragó, University of Budapest, Hungary Kathleen Fitzpatrick, New York University, USA Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine, Italy Mary Gallagher, University College Dublin, Ireland Isabel Capeloa Gil, Catholic University of Portugal Sibel Irz?k, Sabanc? University, Turkey Daniela Koleva, University of Sofia, Bulgaria Ulrike Landfester, St. Gallen, Switzerland Loredana Polezzi, University of Warwick, UK Susan Schreibman, National University of Ireland Maynooth Naomi Segal, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Marianne Sommer, University of Lucerne, Switzerland Ricarda Vidal, King's College London, UK Uwe Wirth, Justus Liebig University, Germany

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