TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patrick Studer
AU  - Sabine Egger
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - From the Margins to the Centre
T2  - Irish Perspectives on Swiss Culture and Literature
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102346
N2  - Arising from a colloquium held in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, in March 2004, this volume offers fresh insights into Swiss culture and literature from an Irish perspective. It brings together articles by writers and scholars from various academic fields including cultural studies, linguistics and literature. The book is a reflection of the multifaceted interests of Irish academics in Switzerland as a cultural space in the heart of Europe. Ireland as a vantage point, situated at the western margin of the European continent, offers new perspectives from which differences as well as surprising parallels between the two cultures become visible and from which Switzerland appears in a different light. The volume critically addresses questions of identity in Swiss literature and culture and discusses them from various angles – by analysing the representation of minority cultures in Swiss literary and media discourse, by reading Swiss literature in an intercultural context, but also through accounts of Irish visitors in Switzerland and Swiss writers travelling to or living in Ireland.
KW  - Schweiz, Literatur, Irland, Kongress, Swiss culture, Cross cultural, Irish perspective, Rezeption, Swiss literature
LA  - English
ER  -