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This essay examines the efforts of Austrian writers to make their fellow citizens more tolerant of recent immigrant groups. Postmodern discourses on identity, diversity and cultural difference have shaped debates in Austria about multiculturalism and have encouraged Austrian writers to challenge concepts of national identity and cultural homogeneity and to insist that multicultural and marginalized voices be heard. Like their counterparts in other countries, they encourage the celebration of difference. In their literary works as well as in political essays both in print and on the world wide web they play a leading role in speaking out against anti-foreigner sentiments and intolerance and they present models of a multicultural and multiethnic Austria in which not only Austria's historical minorities such as Jews, Roma and other groups from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, but also more recently arrived immigrants and refugees can live together and mutually enrich each other's cultures and lives.

Literature is defined as an art that develops in human society throughout the ages quite independently of sociol, whereas sociol is a sci whose purpose is to discover objective laws of soc life in all its manifestations, including creative art. The main diff between literature & the other arts is that the subject of literature is syncretic. It is held that literature lends itself more than any other art to sociol'al study. The sociol'at must try to solve the general problems concerning the nature of literature as an art & its place in the historical development of society. Literature is related to the general laws of art, & the ideological essence of art is discussed. Literature is a special form of intellectual creation which uses a special form of imagination. This imagination creates images that transform human life in a specific & expressive manner, both in the relations of its objective soc being & in the subjective world of its soc consciousness. Ideology as expressed in literature does not simply represent people's intellectual convictions or their ideas about life-it also embraces the feelings & aspirations engendered by those convictions & ideas. It is found not only in the form of theories, but is primarily a direct, emotional & total awareness of the diff manifestations of soc life. All creative artists strive to express their emotional interpretation of life in graphic & expressive images in their works because it is their ideological interpretation of life, imbued with emotion & pathos. Consequently the soc substructure of an artistic creation can explain the peculiarities of the content & form of certain works & the history of the development of all types of art throughout the world. E. Weiman.

María José Falcón y Tella invites us on a fascinating journey through the world of law and literature, travelling through the different eras and meeting eternal and as such current issues such as justice, power, resistance, vengeance, rights, and duties. This is an unending conversation, which brings us back to Sophocles and Dickens, Cervantes and Kafka, Dostoyevsky and Melville, among many others. 0There are many ways to approach the concept of ?Law and Literature?. In the classical manner, the author distinguishes three paths: the Law of Literature, involving a technical approach to the literary theme; Law as Literature, a hermeneutical and rhetorical approach to examining legal texts; and finally, Law in Literature, which is undoubtedly the most fertile and documented perspective (the fundamental part of the work, accorded more time than the others, lies in this direction). This volume offers an introduction to this enormous field of study, which was born in the United States over a century ago and is currently taking root in the European continent

"Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity surrounding a single class/estate group and its characteristic sins in the context of literary texts influenced by estates satire. This book focuses in depth on both large works by well-known authors and lesser-studied works, including The Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman, Gower's Mirour de l'Omme, The Book of Margery Kempe, The York Plays, The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye, "The Childe of Bristowe," and the Pseudo-Chaucerian "Tale of Beryn." Its approach documents the trajectory of antimercantile ideology under the pressures of the major developments made in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages"--