| Comfort in Contemporary Culture: The Challenges of a Concept Contributor(s): Birke, Dorothee (Editor), Butter, Stella (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3837649024 ISBN-13: 9783837649024 Publisher: Transcript Publishing OUR PRICE: $59.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Literary Criticism - History | Social History |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6" W x 9" (0.76 lbs) 330 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |