Comfort in contemporary culture: the challenges of a concept

Comfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cozy environments, safe spaces, but also the importance of »getting out of your comfort zone« attest. This volume is the first to investigate »comfort« as a cultural narrative and emotional touchstone in contemporary culture....

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Weitere Verfasser: Birke, Dorothee 1975- (HerausgeberIn), Butter, Stella (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bielefeld transcript [2020]
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Schriftenreihe:Culture & theory volume 212
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Zusammenfassung:Comfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cozy environments, safe spaces, but also the importance of »getting out of your comfort zone« attest. This volume is the first to investigate »comfort« as a cultural narrative and emotional touchstone in contemporary culture. Taken together, the contributions to the volume offer an overview of different approaches to and conceptualizations of comfort in linguistics, literary, media, and cultural studies and art history. They showcase how »comfort« serves as a valuable lens to analyze contemporary artworks and developments, e.g. live theatre broadcasting or political interventions in the US-American media sphere
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (252 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9783839449028
DOI:10.14361/9783839449028