Stephanie Schwerter
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
It is broadly accepted that "terrorizing" images are often instrumentalized in periods of conflict to serve political interests. This volume proposes that paying attention to how images of trauma and conflict are described in literary texts, i.e. to the rhetorical practice known as "ekphrasis", is crucial to our understanding of how such images work. The volume's contributors discuss verbal images of trauma and terror in literary texts both from a...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In political and media debates, questions of societal homogeneity and heterogeneity are discussed using the keyword "parallel societies." The open concept of "parasocieties" in this volume sets itself in opposition to this reductionist gesture, thereby enabling a differentiated understanding of media reflections upon socio-political and societal interactions with diversity in the present day.
In politischen und medialen Debatten werden unter dem...