Comfort in Contemporary Culture The Challenges of a Concept (Paperback)

Paperback. 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. This book is the first to provide a broader investigation of comfort as a cultural narrative and emotional touchstone in contemporary culture. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.