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  1. Belonging and narrative
    a theory of the American novel
    Author: Bieger, Laura
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Germany

    Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives.... more

     

    Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives. Drawing on phenomenological hermeneutics, human geography and social psychology, Laura Bieger contends that belonging is not a given; it is continuously produced by narrative. Against the current emphasis on metaphors of movement and destabilization, she explores the salience and significance of home. Challenging views of narrative as a mechanism of ideology, she approaches narrative as a practical component of dwelling in the world - and the novel a primary place-making agent.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839446003
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    DDC Categories: 810
    Series: Lettre
    Subjects: America; American Novel; American Studies; Cultural History; Cultural Studies; Literary Studies; Literature; Space and Place
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (179 Seiten), Illustration
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    Habilitationsschrift, Freie Universität Berlin, 2013
  2. Off-Canon pleasures - a case study and a perspective
    Author: Frank, Armin Paul,
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    The inclusion of works in a canonical list creates a large body of exclusions. But among these neglected works there are not a few that nevertheless are worth reading. Literary worth is not necessarily aesthetic impeccability. A literary work... more

     

    The inclusion of works in a canonical list creates a large body of exclusions. But among these neglected works there are not a few that nevertheless are worth reading. Literary worth is not necessarily aesthetic impeccability. A literary work recommends itself by a high degree of artistic achievement with elbowroom for historical importance. The present study focuses on Leo Rosten’s immigration novel The Education of Hyman Kaplan (1937) and Archibald MacLeish’s radio play Air Raid (1938). The first is more than the apparent compendium of language-based jokes. Read in the context of immigration policy from Presidents Theodore Roosevelt to F. D. Roosevelt and of Jewish-American humor, it displays Kaplan’s moral and intellectual growth, which extant commentary denies, and exhibits the “interior internationality” of an immigration country. Air Raid is one of the few achieved American radio plays to take a stand on foreign affairs in a context that does not only consist of broadcasting and Picasso’s collage-painting Guernica – the “screaming picture” which MacLeish transposed into the acoustic medium – but also of the historical saturation bombing of the Basque town.

     
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  3. American Mobilities : Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture
    Author: Leyda, Julia
    Published: 20160215
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility – social, economic, geographic – in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of »domestic«, referring to both... more

     

    American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility – social, economic, geographic – in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of »domestic«, referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces the important trope of mobility that runs through the »American« century. Juxtaposing canonical fiction with popular, and low-budget independent films with Classical Hollywood, Leyda brings the analytic tools of American cultural and literary studies to bear on an eclectic array of primary texts as she builds a case for the significance of mobility in the study of the United States.

     
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  4. Houses, Secrets, and the Closet : Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James
    Author: Bauer, Gero
    Published: 20160415
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    »Houses, Secrets, and the Closet« investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by... more

     

    »Houses, Secrets, and the Closet« investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James. The study approaches these texts through the lens of domestic space, gender, knowledge, and power. This approach serves to investigate the cultural roots of the »closet« – the male homosexual secret – which reveals a more general notion of male secrecy in modern society. The study thus contributes to a better understanding of the cultural history of masculinities and sexualities.

     
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  5. Migrating Fictions : Twentieth-Century Internal Displacements and Race in U.S. Women's Literature
    Author: Manzella, Abigail G.H.
    Published: 20180101
    Publisher:  The Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH

    In Migrating Fictions, Manzella turns to U.S. Women’s literature that represents internal migrations in the US in the twentieth century. This project situates itself within the “spatial turn” of literary studies to analyze the way the U.S has... more

     

    In Migrating Fictions, Manzella turns to U.S. Women’s literature that represents internal migrations in the US in the twentieth century. This project situates itself within the “spatial turn” of literary studies to analyze the way the U.S has displayed a history of spatial colonization, which we see as a pattern we turn to a variety of seemingly disconnected forced migrations. With chapters that focus on migrations related the Dust Bowl, the Great Migration, the migration of peoples placed in Japanese American internment camps, and the migration of Southwestern migrant labor, Manzella makes some fascinating connections across narratives that would not typically be brought together. Ultimately, this project lays bare the oppressive practices of U.S. policy and reveals the resistance individual groups accessed as they completed these internal migrations.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Literature; Literary Studies; American; American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Race and Ethnic Studies; United States; Zora Neale Hurston
  6. The Myths That Made America : An Introduction to American Studies
    Author: Paul, Heike
    Published: 20140815
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas... more

     

    This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839414859
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Literature; America; Culture; Myth; Literature; History; American Studies; Cultural Studies; American History; Introduction; Christopher Columbus; Melting pot; Puritans
  7. Off-Canon pleasures : a case study and a perspective
    Author: Frank, Armin Paul
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    The inclusion of works in a canonical list creates a large body of exclusions. But among these neglected works there are not a few that nevertheless are worth reading. Literary worth is not necessarily aesthetic impeccability. A literary work... more

     

    The inclusion of works in a canonical list creates a large body of exclusions. But among these neglected works there are not a few that nevertheless are worth reading. Literary worth is not necessarily aesthetic impeccability. A literary work recommends itself by a high degree of artistic achievement with elbowroom for historical importance. The present study focuses on Leo Rosten’s immigration novel The Education of Hyman Kaplan (1937) and Archibald MacLeish’s radio play Air Raid (1938). The first is more than the apparent compendium of language-based jokes. Read in the context of immigration policy from Presidents Theodore Roosevelt to F. D. Roosevelt and of Jewish-American humor, it displays Kaplan’s moral and intellectual growth, which extant commentary denies, and exhibits the “interior internationality” of an immigration country. Air Raid is one of the few achieved American radio plays to take a stand on foreign affairs in a context that does not only consist of broadcasting and Picasso’s collage-painting Guernica – the “screaming picture” which MacLeish transposed into the acoustic medium – but also of the historical saturation bombing of the Basque town.

     
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  8. Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature : Literary and Cultural Essays
    Contributor: Fonseca, Vanessa (Publisher); Rosales, Jesús (Publisher)
    Published: 20171101
    Publisher:  The Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH

    Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature and Culture: Literary and Cultural Essays explores how Spanish literary critics from the U.S. and Spain view and study Chicano literature and culture, and reflects on Chicano literature’s literary place in... more

     

    Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature and Culture: Literary and Cultural Essays explores how Spanish literary critics from the U.S. and Spain view and study Chicano literature and culture, and reflects on Chicano literature’s literary place in 21st century America and its transnational aspirations.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Fonseca, Vanessa (Publisher); Rosales, Jesús (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Literature; Latina/o and Latin American Studies; American Studies; American Literacy Studies; Chicano; United States
  9. Fugitive Borders : Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
    Author: Sawallisch, Nele
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or... more

     

    Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada's Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839445020; 9783837645026
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general; Social & cultural history; Migration, immigration & emigration
    Other subjects: Black Canada; 19th Century; Slave Narrative; Life Writing; Borders; Literary History; Literature; America; Cultural History; American Studies; Migration; Literary Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (218 p.)
  10. Melting Pots & Mosaics: Children of Immigrants in US-American Literature
    Author: Heinze, Rüdiger
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or ethnology. Surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been... more

     

    In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or ethnology. Surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been somewhat more reluctant to approach the topic. While there is work on individual authors or, at the very most, particular ethnic groups, comparative approaches are rare. This monograph aims to amend this. It provides an extensive discussion of US-American literature about children of immigrants, comparing different authors, different ethnic groups and different literary and historical contexts.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839440452; 9783837640458
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Literature; US-America; Immigration; 2nd Generation Immigrants; Children of Immigrants; America; Migration; American Studies; General Literature Studies; Literary Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (300 p.)
  11. Amerikanische Historienmalerei
    neue Bilder für die Neue Welt
    Author: Klinke, Harald
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Graphentis-Verl., Göttingen

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  12. Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself : The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself
    Author: Grewe-Salfeld, Mirjam
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«.... more

     

    From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This trend has the potential to fundamentally change people's relationship with their bodies and biology but it also creates new cultural narratives of responsibility, authority, and differentiation. Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirement, promise and prescription.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839460047; 9783837660043
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general; Political science & theory; Medicine: general issues
    Other subjects: Culture; Representation; Biology; Medicine; Biocultures; Biohacking; Biotechnology; Cultural Narratives; DIY; America; Body; Biopolitics; American Studies; Life Sciences; Cultural Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (314 p.)
  13. The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few : Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
    Author: Spieler, Sophie
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations,... more

     

    How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse. Among the book's most surprising and groundbreaking insights is the tenacity and adaptability of meritocratic ideology across all three sub-discourses, despite its fundamental incompatibility with the American educational system.

     
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  14. Middlebrow Mission: Pearl S. Buck's American China
    Author: Künnemann, Vanessa
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld

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    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839431085; 9783837631081
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    RVK Categories: HU 3254
    Series: Lettre
    Subjects: Interkulturalität <Motiv>; Missionarin; Chinabild; Mission <Motiv>; Kulturimperialismus; Roman
    Other subjects: Buck, Pearl S. (1892-1973); China; Gender; Middlebrow Studies; Missionary Cultures; Literature; American Studies; General Literature Studies; Interculturalism; British Studies; Literary Studies
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (284 Seiten)
  15. Poets of Protest
    Mythological Resignification in American Antebellum and German Vormärz Literature
    Author: Drescher, Michael Rodegang
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839437452
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    RVK Categories: GL 1503
    Series: American Culture Studies ; Band 18
    Subjects: America; American History; American Studies; Antebellum America; Cultural Studies; Culture; Heinrich Heine; Karl Gutzkow; Literary Studies; Narratology; Nathaniel Hawthorne; National Identity; Politics; Vormärz Germany; William Wells Brown; Nationalbewusstsein <Motiv>; Deutsch; Mythologie; Mythos <Motiv>; Literaturtheorie
    Other subjects: Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864): The scarlet letter; Gutzkow, Karl (1811-1878): Wally, die Zweiflerin; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856): Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen; Brown, William Wells (1815-1884): Clotel, or the President's daughter
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (311 Seiten)
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  16. Existential threats
    American apocalyptic beliefs in the technological era
    Author: Vox, Lisa
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    Americans have long been enthralled by visions of the apocalypse. Will the world end through nuclear war, environmental degradation, and declining biodiversity? Or, perhaps, through the second coming of Christ, rapture of the faithful, and arrival of... more

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    Americans have long been enthralled by visions of the apocalypse. Will the world end through nuclear war, environmental degradation, and declining biodiversity? Or, perhaps, through the second coming of Christ, rapture of the faithful, and arrival of the Antichrist—a set of beliefs known as dispensationalist premillennialism? These seemingly competing apocalyptic fantasies are not as dissimilar as we might think. In fact, Lisa Vox argues, although these secular and religious visions of the end of the world developed independently, they have converged to create the landscape of our current apocalyptic imagination.In Existential Threats, Vox assembles a wide range of media—science fiction movies, biblical tractates, rapture fiction—to develop a critical history of the apocalyptic imagination from the late 1800s to the present. Apocalypticism was once solely a religious ideology, Vox contends, which has secularized in response to increasing technological and political threats to American safety. Vox reads texts ranging from Christianity Today articles on ecology and the atomic bomb to Dr. Strangelove, and from Mary Shelley's The Last Man to the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, demonstrating along the way that conservative evangelicals have not been as resistant to science as popularly believed and that scientists and science writers have unwittingly reproduced evangelical eschatological themes and scenarios in their own works. Existential Threats argues that American apocalypticism reflects and propagates our ongoing debates over the authority of science, the place of religion, uses of technology, and America's evolving role in global politics

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780812294019
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    Subjects: American History; American Studies; Religion; Religious Studies; Technologie; Eschatologie; Endzeiterwartung; Apokalyptik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 266 Seiten)
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  17. Sounds of a New Generation
    On Contemporary Jewish-American Literature
    Author: Wallrabenstein, Deborah
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld

    This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors' "shtetl life" or invent their own kind of Jewishness, they have a common curiosity in what makes them Jewish. Is it... more

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    This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors' "shtetl life" or invent their own kind of Jewishness, they have a common curiosity in what makes them Jewish. Is it becaus

     
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  18. Poetry Wars
    Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic
    Author: Wells, Colin
    Published: [2017]; © 2018
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    During America's founding period, poets and balladeers engaged in a series of literary "wars" against political leaders, journalists, and each other, all in the name of determining the political course of the new nation. Political poems and songs... more

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    During America's founding period, poets and balladeers engaged in a series of literary "wars" against political leaders, journalists, and each other, all in the name of determining the political course of the new nation. Political poems and songs appeared regularly in newspapers (and as pamphlets and broadsides), commenting on political issues and controversies and satirizing leaders like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Drawing on hundreds of individual poems—including many that are frequently overlooked—Poetry Wars reconstructs the world of literary-political struggle as it unfolded between the Stamp Act crisis and the War of 1812.Colin Wells argues that political verse from this period was a unique literary form that derived its cultural importance from its capacity to respond to, and contest the meaning of, other printed texts—from official documents and political speeches to newspaper articles and rival political poems. First arising during the Revolution as a strategy for subverting the authority of royal proclamations and congressional declarations, poetic warfare became a ubiquitous part of early national print culture. Poets representing the emerging Federalist and Republican parties sought to wrest control of political narratives unfolding in the press by engaging in literary battles.Tracing the parallel histories of the first party system and the rise and eventual decline of political verse, Poetry Wars shows how poetic warfare lent urgency to policy debates and contributed to a dynamic in which partisans came to regard each other as threats to the republic's survival. Breathing new life into this episode of literary-political history, Wells offers detailed interpretations of scores of individual poems, references hundreds of others, and identifies numerous terms and tactics of the period's verse warfare

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780812294521
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    Series: Early American Studies
    Subjects: American History; American Studies; Literature; American poetry; Political poetry, American; Politics in literature; Verse satire, American; Lyrik; Politik; Poetik
    Scope: 1 online resource, 5 illus
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  19. The Language of Allegory
    Defining the Genre
    Author: Quilligan, Maureen
    Published: [2018]; © 1992
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    This lively and innovative work treats a body of literature not previously regarded as a unified genre. Offering comparative readings of a number of texts that are traditionally called allegories and that cover a wide time span, Maureen Quilligan... more

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    This lively and innovative work treats a body of literature not previously regarded as a unified genre. Offering comparative readings of a number of texts that are traditionally called allegories and that cover a wide time span, Maureen Quilligan formulates a vocabulary for talking about the distinctive generic elements they share. The texts she considers range from the twelfth-century De planctu naturae to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and include such works as Le Roman de la Rose, Langland's Piers Plowman, Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Melville's Confidence Man, and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Whether or not readers agree with this book, they will enjoy and profit from it

     
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501724480
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    Subjects: American Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature; Allegory; American literature; English literature; Sprache; Allegorie
    Scope: 1 online resource (312 pages)
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  20. Reconstructing the World
    Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898-1976
    Author: Stecopoulos, Harilaos
    Published: [2018]; © 2008
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    "The unending tragedy of Reconstruction," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois, "is the utter inability of the American mind to grasp its... national and worldwide implications." And yet the long shadow of Reconstruction's failure has loomed large in the American... more

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    "The unending tragedy of Reconstruction," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois, "is the utter inability of the American mind to grasp its... national and worldwide implications." And yet the long shadow of Reconstruction's failure has loomed large in the American imagination, serving as a parable of race and democracy both at home and abroad. In Reconstructing the World Harilaos Stecopoulos looks at an array of American writers who, over the course of the twentieth century, used the South as a touchstone for thinking about the nation's global ambitions. Focusing on the lives and writings of Charles Chesnutt, Thomas Dixon, James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Alice Walker, he shows the ways in which these public intellectuals viewed the U.S. South in international terms and questioned the relationship between domestic inequality and a quest for global power.By examining "big stick" diplomacy, World War II, and the Vietnam War in light of regional domestic concerns, Stecopoulos urges a reassessment of the American Century. Providing new interpretations of literary works both well-known (Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, McCullers's The Member of the Wedding) and marginal (Dixon's The Leopard's Spots, Du Bois's Dark Princess), Stecopoulos argues that the South played a crucial role in mediating between the national and imperial concerns of the United States. That intersection of region and empire, he contends, profoundly influenced how Americans understood not only cultural and political geographies but also issues of race and ethnicity

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781501729959
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    Subjects: American Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Regional; American literature; American literature; Imperialism in literature; Literature and history; Regionalism in literature; Prosa; Imperialismus <Motiv>
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  21. Reception Histories
    Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics
    Author: Mailloux, Steven
    Published: [2018]; © 1998
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences—students and... more

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    In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences—students and specialists in American studies, speech communications, rhetoric/composition, law, education, biblical studies, and especially literary theory and cultural criticism. Reception Histories marks a further development of Mailloux's influential critical project, as he demonstrates how rhetorical hermeneutics uses rhetoric to practice theory by doing history. Reception Histories works out in detail what rhetorical hermeneutics means in terms of poststructuralist theory (Part One), nineteenth-century U.S. cultural studies (Part Two), and the contemporary history of curricular reform within the so-called Culture Wars (Part Three). Mailloux situates, defends, and elaborates the theory he first proposed in Rhetorical Power, and he exemplifies it with a new series of provocative reception histories. He also both critiques and reconceptualizes the version of reader response criticism he developed in his first book, Interpretive Conventions. Throughout Reception Histories, Mailloux demonstrates his distinctive blend of neopragmatism and cultural rhetoric study. By tracing the rhetorical paths of thought, this book offers a new way to read the current volatile debates over higher education and contributes its own original proposals for shaping the future of the humanities

     
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    ISBN: 9781501728433
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    Subjects: American Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Criticism; Culture conflict; English language; English philology; Literature; Multiculturalism; Politics and literature; Pragmatism; Reader-response criticism; Rhetoric; Rezeptionsforschung; Literatur; Hermeneutik; Pragmatik; Englisch; Rhetorik; Kulturpolitik; Literaturwissenschaft
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  22. Beyond the Civil War hospital
    the rhetoric of healing and democratization in Northern reconstruction writing, 1861-1882
    Author: Twelbeck, Kirsten
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld

    Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural production. By treating selected texts from that era as multifaceted contributions to Reconstruction's »mental... more

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    Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural production. By treating selected texts from that era as multifaceted contributions to Reconstruction's »mental adaptation process« (Leslie Butler), Kirsten Twelbeck diagnoses individual conflicts between the »heart and the brain« only partly compensated for by a shared concern for national healing. By tracing each text's unique adaptation of the healing trope, she identifies surprising disagreement over racial equality, women's rights, and citizenship. The book pairs female and male white authors from the antislavery North, and brings together a broad range of genres

     
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    ISBN: 9783839434659
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    Series: Lettre
    Subjects: 19th Century; American History; American Literature; American Studies; Civil War; Democracy; Healing; History of Colonialism; Literary Studies; Literature; Reconstruction <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (435 Seiten)
  23. Postirony
    the nonfictional literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers
    Author: Hoffmann, Lukas
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld

    What is 'postirony'? Foremost, it is a response to the ironic zeitgeist. Moreover, it is the key to understanding a specific form of literature. The contemporary reader is familiar with and - unfortunately - used to postmodernism's ironic,... more

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    What is 'postirony'? Foremost, it is a response to the ironic zeitgeist. Moreover, it is the key to understanding a specific form of literature. The contemporary reader is familiar with and - unfortunately - used to postmodernism's ironic, self-reflexive metafiction. Authors like David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers chose a different path: Despite the reign of contemporary irony, they strive to reach the reader on a level beyond, cognitively as well as emotionally - they claim to be sincere and true. Focusing largely on nonfiction by said authors, Lukas Hoffmann explores the means the texts use to achieve something new - namely, a new form of sincerity

     
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    ISBN: 9783839436615
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    Series: Lettre
    Subjects: American Studies; British Studies; Cultural Studies; Culture; Dave Eggers; David Foster Wallace; General Literature Studies; Irony; Literary Studies; Nonfiction; Postirony; Postmodernism; Sincerity; U.S.A.; Nichtfiktionale Prosa; Ehrlichkeit <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Wallace, David Foster (1962-2008); Eggers, Dave (1970-)
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  24. 21st century retro: "Mad men" and 1960s America in film and television
    Author: Baruah, Debarchana
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld

    Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the 1960s but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a vocabulary to discuss these, using Mad Men as primary case study and... more

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    Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the 1960s but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a vocabulary to discuss these, using Mad Men as primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other examples from the US and around the world. She takes a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to studying film and television, drawing from history, memory, and nostalgia discourses, and layering them with theories of intertextuality, paratexts, and actor-networks. The book's compositionist style invites discussion from scholars of various fields, as well as those who are simply fans of history or of Mad Men

     
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    ISBN: 9783839457214
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    Series: American culture studies ; volume 32
    Subjects: 1960s; Actor-Network Theory; America; American Studies; Cultural Studies; Culture; Film; Mad Men; Nostalgia; Television; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Nostalgie; Fernsehen; Amerikabild; Geschichtsdarstellung; USA <Motiv>; Film
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  25. Ideal minds
    raising consciousness in the antisocial seventies
    Author: Trask, Michael
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca ; London

    In the wake of the 1960s, that decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing... more

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    In the wake of the 1960s, that decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing contractual theories of justice, radical ecologists interested in the paleolithic brain, seventies cultists, and the devout of both evangelical and New Age persuasions. In Ideal Minds, Michael Trask presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the seventies intellectual landscape who share a commitment to what he calls "neo-idealism" as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews.In a heterodox intellectual and literary history of the 1970s, Ideal Minds mixes ideas from cognitive science, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, deep ecology, political theory, science fiction, neoclassical economics, and the sociology of religion. Trask also delves into the decade's more esoteric branches of learning, including Scientology, anarchist theory, rapture prophesies, psychic channeling, and neo-Malthusianism. Through this investigation, Trask argues that a dramatic inflation in the value of consciousness and autonomy beginning in the 1970s accompanied a growing argument about the state's inability to safeguard such values. Ultimately, the thinkers Trask analyzes-John Rawls, Arne Neiss, L. Ron Hubbard, Hal Lindsey, Philip Dick, Ursula Le Guin, Edward Abbey, William Burroughs, John Irving, and James Merrill-found alternatives to statism in conditions that would lend intellectual support to the consolidation of these concepts in the radical free market ideologies of the 1980s

     
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