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Treasure in Literature and Culture
Herausgeber: Emig, Rainer
Regensburg Studies in Gender and Culture, Bd. 6
2013
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Abstract
Treasure and treasure hunting are vast themes in literature and culture, yet have so far not received much sustained and coherent academic interest. The present collection of essays approaches treasure and treasure hunts in literature and culture from the Renaissance to the present. It asks questions about the legal, social, and cultural role of treasure, especially in connection with its links with gender and sexuality. The essays of the collection deal with Renaissance documents and their depiction of legal struggles over treasure, Romantic conceptions of the self as treasure, American nineteenth-century views of treasure, decadent treasure hunters in British and German literature, the link between imperial and domestic treasures in Victorian fiction, the emptying of treasure in Modernist fiction, intertextual and intermedial uses of treasure in opera and fiction, the treasuring of identity in the context of race in modern American writing, nature as treasure in ecocritical contemporary fiction, and AIDS medication as treasure in present-day South Africa.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vorwort | 5 | ||
| Table of Contents | 7 | ||
| Rainer Emig - Treasure in Literature and Culture: From Motif to Discourse | 9 | ||
| Jessica Malay - The Trouble with Treasure in Tudor and Stuart England | 15 | ||
| Stefan Herbrechter - Treasuring the Self: Romanticism… in Theory | 35 | ||
| Dominique Claisse - Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Mother of Pearl and Other Gems | 49 | ||
| Karin Preuss - Family Treasures and Subversive Power Play in Wilkie Collins’ "The Moonstone" | 63 | ||
| Rainer Emig - Treasure Hunts: Between Decadence and Morality | 81 | ||
| Russell West-Pavlov - Treasure, Value and Signs in Conrad’s Nostromo | 89 | ||
| Marcin Stawiarski - Treasure and the Desire to Know: Richard Wagner’s "Der Ring des Nibelungen" and Anthony Burgess’s "The Worm and the Ring" | 99 | ||
| Carl Plasa - “The Object of His Craving”: Loss and Compensation in Toni Morrison’s "Song of Solomon" | 117 | ||
| Oliver Lindner - Broken Future, Broken Narrative: Risk and the Threatened Treasure of the Environment in David Mitchell’s "Cloud Atlas" (2004) and Margaret Atwood’s "The Year of the Flood" (2009) | 133 | ||
| Ellen Grünkemeier - Antiretroviral AIDS Medication in South(ern) Africa – a Treasure? | 147 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 169 |
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