TY - BOOK AU - Ryszard Wolny AU - Stankomir Nicieja PY - 2014 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2197-4438 SN - 9783653039825 TI - Poisoned Cornucopia T2 - Excess, Intemperance and Overabundance across Cultures and Literatures DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-03982-5 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1047968 N2 - This volume explores the notions of excess, intemperance and overabundance in cultures and literatures of both the English- and Chinese-speaking worlds. It concentrates on some aspects of literary and cultural meanings of excess(es) in various theories and practices of these antipodean territories of human experience and consciousnesses, bringing together what is common between them and what sets the West apart from the East: eroticism, drug abuse, alcoholism, urban concepts, music, food, etc. In times of a serious crisis of Western-style capitalism, growing consumerism and the collapse of traditional values, the eyes of the world are now turned to the East, seeking solutions in China, Taiwan, Singapore or Hong Kong for what may come as Eastern-style neopostmodernism. KW - westliche Kultur, Postmoderne, Massenmedien, Kapitalismus LA - English ER -