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  1. How The Pink Panther came alive and how The Thin Man grew fatter: Hungry franchises and the adaptation industry
    Author: Schwanebeck, Wieland
    Published: 2020

    While entertainment franchises are usually not associated with engaging in adaptive work in the traditional sense of the term, the sheer necessity of creating new material for serialised properties makes adaptive work a necessity. Frequently,... more

     

    While entertainment franchises are usually not associated with engaging in adaptive work in the traditional sense of the term, the sheer necessity of creating new material for serialised properties makes adaptive work a necessity. Frequently, franchises will absorb other material, an aspect that has so far been neglected in studies of what Simone Murray calls the ‘adaptation industry’. This article discusses two entertainment properties that made a habit of lapping up cinematic trends and other properties in order to feed their appetite as ‘hungry franchises’: the Thin Man series (1934‐47) and the Pink Panther films (1963‐2009). They exhibit similar adaptive strategies to reconcile contemporary audience expectations and industrial trends with their needs as profitable studio properties. In the process, they also show somewhat Frankenstein-like tendencies towards monstrosity, eventually turning against their own creators.

     
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    Subjects: americanstudies; filmstudies; literarystudies
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  2. Fiction as Reconstruction of History: Narratives of the Civil War in American Literature
    Author: Isensee, Reinhard
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Center for United States Studies

    http://www.asjournal.org/53-2009/narratives-of-the-civil-war-in-american-literature/ more

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  3. Träume in Austerica: Zonen vergleichbaren utopischen Denkens in der Literatur der Vereinigten Staaten und Australiens
    Author: Prießnitz, Horst
    Published: 1994

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  4. The Things of Civilization, the Matters of Empire: Representing Jemmy Button
    Author: Mayer, Ruth
    Published: 2008

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  5. "Africa As an Alien Future": The Middle Passage, Afrofuturism, and Postcolonial Waterworlds
    Author: Mayer, Ruth
    Published: 2000

    This paper investigates recent revisionist representations of the Middle Passage, enacted in the visual arts, literature, and pop music. Most of the texts I explore can be subsumed under the heading 'Afrofuturism,' an artistic and theoretical... more

     

    This paper investigates recent revisionist representations of the Middle Passage, enacted in the visual arts, literature, and pop music. Most of the texts I explore can be subsumed under the heading 'Afrofuturism,' an artistic and theoretical movement which has become a vital part of contemporary black diasporic (pop) culture. Afrofuturist artists turn to black history in order to recreate it in a markedly fantastic mode. Mixing up the imagery of the Middle Passage with contemporary experiences of displacement, migration, and alienation, they turn the project of recuperating the past into a futuristic venture.

     
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  6. 'Taste It!': American Advertising, Ethnicity, and the Rhetoric of Nationhood in the 1920s
    Author: Mayer, Ruth
    Published: 1998

    This essay explores the analogies between the apparently most controversial discourses of consumer culture and ethnicity in the 1920s. In both discourses, the imagery of commemoration is of focal importance, and both shift from personal recollection... more

     

    This essay explores the analogies between the apparently most controversial discourses of consumer culture and ethnicity in the 1920s. In both discourses, the imagery of commemoration is of focal importance, and both shift from personal recollection to collective memory and ultimately evoke sensuous experience as an ideal and all-inclusive approach to a national/ethnic past. By emphasizing sensation over reflection and ephiphany over personal experience, both discourses subtly devaluate the need for individual recollection, replacing an actual past with its mythical image, an image which eventually renders personal experience superfluous - so that forgetting the actual past becomes a prerequisite for a 'true' memory of national/ethnic values.

     
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  7. Neither Life Nor Death: Poe's Aesthetic Transfiguration of Popular Notions of Death
    Author: Mayer, Ruth
    Published: 1996

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  8. ‘A Family of Peculiar Construction’: Tisch-(Un)Ordnungen in Frank J. Webbs The Garies and Their Friends
    Author: Maruo-Schröder, Nicole
    Published: 2019

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  9. “Space, Place, and Narrative”: A Short Introduction
    Author: Bieger, Laura; Maruo-Schröder, Nicole
    Published: 2016

    This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. more

     

    This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.

     
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  10. A(t) Home on the Frontier: Place, Narrative, and Material Culture in Caroline Kirkland and Eliza Farnham
    Author: Maruo-Schröder, Nicole
    Published: 2016

    Particularly during the westward expansion, the frontier was not just a concrete site of conquest, exploration, and settlement but also a space of projection and imagination of (future) possibilities. People not only imagined the frontier in a... more

     

    Particularly during the westward expansion, the frontier was not just a concrete site of conquest, exploration, and settlement but also a space of projection and imagination of (future) possibilities. People not only imagined the frontier in a variety of sometimes incompatible ways. They also used such imaginations to process and order their experience of the concrete, ‘real-life’ space so that the frontier becomes a space in which both, the lived and the imagined space, overlap and merge. This essay looks at how two popular antebellum writers used material objects and related cultural practices in their narrative construction of frontier space, arguing that, from this perspective, narrative space ceases to be only a property of the text and extends into the object world. Drawing on their own experience of life in the east, Caroline Kirkland and Eliza Farnham use gender- and class-based ideologies of taste and refinement to make the unknown space of the frontier meaningful and familiar, thus turning it from a mere place to live into something like a home. Such a use of material culture in the narrative construction of this space allows both writers to comment on and shape the ideological underpinnings of the frontier and, by extension, take part in the (narrative) construction of future America. ; This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.

     
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  11. Framing War: Teaching (with) the Graphic Novel The Photographer
    Author: Maruo-Schröder, Nicole
    Published: 2018

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    Subjects: americanstudies; englishlanguageteaching; comics; history; literarystudies
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  12. 'Ther's somethin' in blood, after all': Late Nineteenth Century Fiction and the Rhetoric of Race
    Author: Mayer, Ruth
    Published: 1995

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  13. Two John Smiths and a Tent
    Author: Camboni, Marina
    Published: 2008

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  14. “An Older Light Than Ours”: Faulkner’s Reflections on Race and Racism in Light in August
    Author: Cyba, Frank
    Published: 2008

    This article examines William Faulkner’s reflections on race and racism in Light in August, by focusing on the crucial role that consciousness and psychology play in the novel for the construction of characters and their view of reality and of... more

     

    This article examines William Faulkner’s reflections on race and racism in Light in August, by focusing on the crucial role that consciousness and psychology play in the novel for the construction of characters and their view of reality and of themselves. Light in August does not reproduce the South’s pervading racism as experienced by Faulkner, but undertakes a close dissection of a collective racialized imaginary. In order to support this argument, the analysis focuses on three different aspects: First, the narrative strategy of alternating subjective perspectives that explores the consensus-building dynamics, which condition perception and cognition as much as they generate prejudice and racism. Second, the community’s conception of race as an existential condition of insurmountable ontological difference appears to be intimately wedded to common concepts of gender. This conception is radicalized through a Protestant spirit of guilt and punishment as existential imperatives. Finally, the article analyzes Joe Christmas as a psychotic character by examining the process of his narrative construction and analyzing the extent to which his dubious racial identity and existential dilemma are presented as the result of racist discourse and not of “incompatibilities of blood.”

     
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  15. Hybridity as a “Narrative of Liberation” in Trevor D. Rhone’s Old Story Time
    Author: Barthel, Johannes
    Published: 2008

    “The problem is important. I propose nothing short of the liberation of the man of color from himself” (8), writes Frantz Fanon in Black Skin, White Masks. Patrick Taylor has been identifying what he calls the “narrative of liberation” throughout... more

     

    “The problem is important. I propose nothing short of the liberation of the man of color from himself” (8), writes Frantz Fanon in Black Skin, White Masks. Patrick Taylor has been identifying what he calls the “narrative of liberation” throughout Fanon’s critical work, and his analysis of this can be linked with phenomena of hybridity. In Trevor D. Rhone’s play Old Story Time, hybridity is presented as such a liberating narrative. Hybridity is included in the play on several levels, beginning with the setting. The vernacular used by many of the play’s characters also reveals its hybrid character. Furthermore, on the formal level Trevor Rhone has created a drama that resists categorization into the Western form of epic drama by emphasizing the role of the Caribbean storytelling tradition. On the level of characters, Miss Aggy overcomes her self-destructive internalized racism in the final scene when she accepts the hybrid nature of her identity. In this sense, Old Story Time incorporates what Taylor terms an “imperative of liberation” (188). Read as an allegory to the society of the West Indies, the play calls for the acceptance of its hybrid nature as a means of overcoming the colonial legacy.

     
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  16. Don DeLillo and Society’s Reorientation to Time and Space: An Interpretation of Cosmopolis
    Author: Noble, Stuart
    Published: 2008

    This essay reads Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis as a novelization of social theories of time and space as expressed across various academic disciplines. Changing conceptions of time and space point to an underlying change in the social structure. I thus... more

     

    This essay reads Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis as a novelization of social theories of time and space as expressed across various academic disciplines. Changing conceptions of time and space point to an underlying change in the social structure. I thus view DeLillo’s novel as social theory. Economist Jeremy Rifkin recently wrote, “[t]he great turning points in human history are often triggered by changing conceptions of space and time. Sometimes, the adoption of a single technology can be transformative in nature, changing the very way our minds filter the world” (89). Eric Packer lives in a world with a multitude of adopted new technologies. His reflections on language embody this mental filtering. Cyber-capital, and digitization in general, represent these new technologies. Packer’s desire to “live on a disc” (105), epitomizes the novel’s portrayal of changing conceptions of time and space. This paper thus explores expressions of the inadequacy of contemporary language under these “turning points in human history.” It demonstrates how statements on language reflect society’s mental filtering or changing orientation to time and space. Cosmopolis could be viewed as a redescription project.

     
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  17. Seeing Through the Bell Jar: Distorted Female Identity in Cold War America
    Author: Smith, Rosi
    Published: 2008

    Through the character of Esther in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, this essay investigates the struggle of middle-class white women coming of age in 1950s America to achieve personalized identities. It argues that the Cold War era led to the creation of... more

     

    Through the character of Esther in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, this essay investigates the struggle of middle-class white women coming of age in 1950s America to achieve personalized identities. It argues that the Cold War era led to the creation of an ideology of cultural containment, enforcing prescriptive roles on women within an American suburban, conservative, and conformist setting. Investigated here are methods by which this model of domesticity was promoted. Also, examined here is the fracturing of identity those methods caused in women, who were unable to fully assimilate themselves into this role. Butler’s theory of performativity is employed to assess strategies of female identity formation. Furthermore, it indicates how functionalist approaches arising from popular Freudianism defined gender roles as principally biologically determined and saw differing models of sexuality and female dissatisfaction as illnesses treatable by psychology. In this context, Esther’s search for a self with whom she can identify becomes the novel’s principal quest and is, by drawing on the concept of hyper-realism, explored through the processes of observation, reflection, and image reproduction.

     
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  18. aspeers 2009: Call for papers
    Author: Editors of aspeers
    Published: 2009

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  19. The Internet as Spectator Disclosure: Consent, Community, and Responsibility in Patricia Lockwoods Viral Poem 'Rape Joke'
    Author: Lanphier, Elizabeth
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  ASJ

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  20. Bilocated Identities: Taking the Fork in the Road in Against the Day
    Author: Aghoro, Nathalie
    Published: 2009

    Offering one of the first critical receptions on identity in Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel beyond the reviews, this paper seeks to show that bilocation, a fictional disposition affecting personal mobility in Against The Day, brings up the question of... more

     

    Offering one of the first critical receptions on identity in Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel beyond the reviews, this paper seeks to show that bilocation, a fictional disposition affecting personal mobility in Against The Day, brings up the question of what we are by suggesting what we could be. It investigates how the novel redefines and enlarges concepts of identity by exploring several aspects of sameness and selfhood exposed to a very special kind of migration: Being in two places, countries, or worlds at the same time, a multiplicity of characters in Against The Day opt for the excluded middle when a fork in the road presents itself. The paper investigates these new forms of identity in the novel and explores their impact on philosophical concepts such as the notion of a seamless continuity of identity, the role of subjectivity for identity, and the concept of a narrative identity.

     
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  21. Grace Before Meals
    Author: Alleyne, Lauren K.
    Published: 2010

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  22. Introduction
    Author: Herrmann, Sebastian M.; Krug, Ines; Mooser, Andreas; Neugebauer, Julia; Qin, Bailing; Ravizza, Eleonora; Schubert, Stefan; Wenk, Franziska; Zywietz, Maria
    Published: 2010

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  23. A "Truth Like This": Language and the Construction of Power and Knowledge in Vampire Fiction
    Author: Schulze, Jutta
    Published: 2011

    The paper examines the relationship between power, knowledge, and language in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight from the vantage point of discourses on vampirism. Based on Michel Foucault’s notion of power as a localized,... more

     

    The paper examines the relationship between power, knowledge, and language in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight from the vantage point of discourses on vampirism. Based on Michel Foucault’s notion of power as a localized, ubiquitous, and heterogeneous set of social strategies, it discusses the constitutive role of language in the construction of power relationships, focusing on gender and sexual relationships in both novels. In Dracula, the patriarchal system functions as a dominant discourse which prescribes legitimate sexual relations for women, while vampirism threatens this order by pointing out its gaps and inconsistencies. Revealing the ‘in-between’ of this order’s dichotomous relations, the rupture of its supposed coherence and ‘naturalness’ manifests itself through the notion of desire. Desire shares important features with language, as it is characterized by difference and deferral. Despite its appearance as an alternative social order, the interplay between power, knowledge, and language in Twilight suggests similar restrictions to female sexuality. This discourse on vampirism and sexuality is constructed by Edward and Bella, but is decisively mediated through Bella’s narrative voice. Their collaboration establishes a relationship of power which casts Bella in a state of weakness and submissiveness but also shows how language and knowledge may transform power relationships.

     
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  24. Intimate Knowledge in American Naturalism and Realism
    Author: Horn, Katrin; Motyl, Katharina
    Published: 2021

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  25. Transfrontera Crimes: Representations of the Juárez Femicides in Recent Fictional and Non-Fictional Accounts
    Author: Messmer, Marietta
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Center for United States Studies

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