Comfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cosy 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 conceptualisations of comfort in linguistics, in literary, media, and cultural studies, and art history. They showcase how ›comfort‹ serves as a valuable lens to analyse contemporary artworks and developments, e.g. live theatre broadcasting or political interventions in the US-American media sphere.

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Publisher

transcript Verlag

Year

2020

ISBN

9783839449028

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Popular Culture

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Contents
Introduction
Lexical-Semantic Analysis of ‘Comfort’
On the Temptations of Comfort
“A sort of strange beginning out of time”
Comfort in Contemporary Art
Writing Dis/Comfort
Are You Dwelling Comfortably?
Subverting Late Capitalist Comfort
The Politics of Comfort in J.M. Coetzee’sDiary of a Bad Year
Gothic Hauntings
Embracing Mindful Discomfort
“These Seats Are So Comfy”
Discomforting Silences in Alt-Right America, 2019
Contributors