KULT_online 59 (2019)

Out now: KULT_online 59 (2019)

https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/issue/view/79

The Open Access Review Journal of the Giessen Graduate Centre for Humanities (GGK) and the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), based at Justus Liebig University Giessen. It is published twice each semester and features reviews of books and event reports that are related to the broad field of the study of culture.

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KULT_reports
Report on the International Conference: “Villains! Constructing Narratives of Evil”
Justus Liebig University Giessen, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, February 6th - 8th, 2019
A Report by Richard Vargas
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.561


KULT_reviews
Living with Companions: On the Peaceful Coexistence of Humans and Other Animals
Kalof, Linda (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
A Review by Liza Bauer
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.279

Whiteness Made in Germany
Wulf D. Hund. Wie die Deutschen weiß wurden. Kleine (Heimat) Geschichte des Rassismus. J.B. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart, 2017
A Review by Ewelina Pepiak
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.295

When Academia Met Politics: The Balkans’ Imagology
Mishkova, Diana: Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making. New York: Routledge, 2018.
A Review by Zerina Ćatović
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.252

Reading, Argumentation and Persuasion: Using Rhetorical Analysis in Textual Interpretation
Camper, Martin: Arguing over Texts. The Rhetoric of Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
A Review by David E. Susa
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.292

Towards an Agentive Understanding of Political Silence
Dingli, Sophia and Thomas N. Cooke (eds.). Political Silence: Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity. Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2018.
A Review by Gerlov van Engelenhoven
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.260

In Pursuit of the Person in Psychology
Schiff, Brian: A New Narrative for Psychology. New York: Oxford UP, 2017.
A Review by Melanie Kreitler
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.259

Initiatoren und Beobachter: Wie Reporter die Welt entdeckten
Homberg, Michael: Reporter-Streifzüge. Metropolitane Nachrichtenkultur und die Wahrnehmung der Welt 1870-1918. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017.
Eine Rezension von Tim Brückmann
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.267

Difference as Affirmation. The Restoring of Motherhood in Western Civilization
Muraro, Luisa: The Symbolic Order of the Mother. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018.
A Review by Laura Popa
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.456

Materielle Kulturforschung: Das als Quelle vernachlässigte Objekt im geschichtswissenschaftlichen Diskurs
Cremer, Anette Caroline; Mulsow, Martin (Hg.): Objekte als Quellen der historischen Kulturwissenschaften. Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung (Ding, Materialität, Geschichte, Bd.2) Köln: Böhlau Verlag 2017.
Eine Rezension von Cathérine Annette Ludwig-Ockenfels
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.289

Collective Experiences, Individual Interpretations
Hanich, Julian. The Audience Effect. On the Collective Cinema Experience. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
A Review by Amanda Rosasco Mazzini
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.280

Von Untoten – Die aristotelische Poetik auf theatertheoretischem Prüfstand
Dupont, Florence: Aristoteles oder der Vampir des westlichen Theaters. Aus dem Französischen von Kerstin Beyerlein. Berlin: Alexander 2018.
Eine Rezension von Eva Zimmermann
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.253