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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- The British Reliance on Identity -- Northern Landscapes and Anti-Thatcherite Positioning -- There is no such thing as political memory!? -- A Fatal Attraction? -- Killing Fields and Poppy Fields -- HMY Britannia -- Reviews: -- Wolfram Schmidgen (2013), Exquisite Mixture. The Virtues of Impurity in Early Modern England -- Gaby Mahlberg & -- Dirk Wiemann, eds. (2013), European Contexts for English Republicanism -- Gert Hofmann & -- Snježana Zorić, eds. (2012), Topodynamics of Arrival. Essays on Self and Pilgrimage -- Addresses of Contributors.

This collection of twelve original essays explores the politics of tale-telling across the field of English Studies. A programmatic introduction uses the fuzzy boundaries of tales to argue that their indeterminacy and polymorphous quality is responsible for the endless attraction, proliferation, and transgressive potential of the 'tale' as a literary form. The case studies address representative developments in British culture, focussing on the tales' potential for cultural critique in literature, film, music and other cultural practices. Four sections cover 'Shakespeare Retold', 'Victorian Tales', 'Fairy Tales Revisited', and 'Narrating (National/Cultural) Identity'. Topics include classic fairy tales and their rewritings; melodramatic, Gothic and fantasy fiction and film; writings about the condition of England and negotiations of Irish identity; discourses of Empire in public spectacles; and every-day life represented in popular music. On each of them hangs a tale. ; Zwölf für diesen Band neuverfasste Aufsätze untersuchen die kulturelle Arbeit von tales, Erzählungen, im Bereich der britischen Literatur. Eine programmatische Einleitung nutzt die unscharfen Grenzen von tales, um im Blick auf deren Unbestimmtheit und polymorphe Qualität die fortwährende Attraktion, weite Verbreitung und das transgressive Potential dieser literarischen Form auszuloten. Die Fallstudien widmen sich dabei repräsentativen Entwicklungen im Bereich der britischen Kultur mit besonderem Augenmerk auf dem kulturkritischen Potential von tales. Vier Sektionen behandeln 'Neuerzählungen von Shakespeare', 'Viktorianische Erzählungen', 'Märchen neu betrachtet' sowie 'Das Erzählen von (nationaler/kultureller) Identität'. Unter den Themen finden sich klassische Märchen und ihre Neuerzählungen ebenso wie Melodramatisches, Phantastisches und Schauererzählungen in Literatur und Film, Zustandsbeschreibungen Englands und Verhandlungen irischer Identität, imperialistische Diskurse in öffentlichen Zeremonien und Alltagsweltliches in der Popmusik. Und ...

This volume explores the cultural significance of Brexit, situating it in debates about nation and identity. Contributors to this collection seek to contextualize Britain's decision to leave the EU and to assess its reverberations in language, literature, and culture. Addressing such aspects as British exceptionalism, myth-making, medievalism, and nostalgia, contributions range from travelogues, Ladybird books, and rural cinema-going to ageing. An important focus lies on marginalized groups and geographical fringes, as contributors attend to the Irish situation and the scarcity of EU migrants in Brexit literature (BrexLit). Finally, two essays widen the perspective to assess American parallels to the discourses about a Brexit that is still far from "done."