American Studies Shifting Gears

Author : Birte Christ
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211725010

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American Studies, Shifting Gears by Birte Christ Pdf

American Studies/Shifting Gears brings together contributions by younger scholars from Germany and by renowned colleagues from both sides of the Atlantic. Taking the debate about the "Futures of American Studies" as its point of departure, the volume addresses three larger issues that are crucial to the present and the future positioning of the field: first, the internationalization of the American Studies scholarly community and of scholarly exchange as well as the transnationalization of the field's objects of study; second, interdisciplinary collaborations and transdisciplinary approaches and research; and third, the politics and politicalness of American Studies. "American Studies/Shifting Gears" leads the reader expertly and creatively through what's at stake for the discipline. In its reflections and analyses, the volume slows down at times, then speeds up a little, halts and finds a resting-point, drives down slopes and up steep inclines, and, in the process, shifts gears.

Author : Philip J. Deloria,Alexander I. Olson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520296794

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American Studies by Philip J. Deloria,Alexander I. Olson Pdf

American Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States. Despite being taught in universities around the world, American Studies has resisted developing a coherent methodology for fear of losing the flexibility and freedom to imagine new avenues of thought. But what if these fears are misplaced? Through a fresh look at the origins of the field, this book contends that a shared set of “rules” can offer a springboard to creativity. American Studies: A User’s Guide offers readers a critical introduction to the history and methods of the field, useful strategies for interpretation, curation, analysis, and theory, and case studies of American Studies in practice.

Author : Philip Fisher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520327375

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The New American Studies by Philip Fisher Pdf

Author : Cecelia Tichi
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807841676

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Shifting Gears by Cecelia Tichi Pdf

Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from automobiles and harvesting machines to b

Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1444319086

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A Concise Companion to American Studies by John Carlos Rowe Pdf

A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the "new" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline Addresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the “new” American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialism Explores the relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American Studies Designed to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1581 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192446

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set by Brian W. Shaffer Pdf

This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

Author : Kornelia Freitag
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443881890

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Recovery and Transgression by Kornelia Freitag Pdf

There is no poetry without memory. Recovery and Transgression: Memory in American Poetry is devoted to the ways in which poetic texts shape, and are shaped by, personal, collective, and cultural memory. It looks at the manifold and often transgressive techniques through which the past is recovered and repurposed in poetry. T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” Susan Howe’s THIS THAT, Lyn Hejinian’s Writing Is an Aid to Memory, John Tranter’s “The Anaglyph,” Amiri Baraka’s “Somebody Blew Up America,” and Amy Clampitt’s “Nothing Stays Put” are only some of the texts discussed in this volume by a group of international poetry experts. They specifically focus on the effects of the cultural interaction, mixture, translation, and hybridization of memory of, in, and mediated by poetry. Poetic memory, as becomes strikingly clear, may be founded on the past, but has everything to do with the cultural present of poets and readers, and with their hopes and fears for the future.

Author : Michael Rodegang Drescher
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839437452

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Poets of Protest by Michael Rodegang Drescher Pdf

Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying significant implications for questions of identity, democracy, and nationalism in Europe and America. Precise narratological analyses are paired with detailed, transnational readings of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin, Brown's Clotel, and Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen. The study marries literature, mythology, and politics and contributes to the study of American and German literature at large.

Author : Philipp Wolfgang Stockhammer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3642218466

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Conceptualizing Cultural Hybridization by Philipp Wolfgang Stockhammer Pdf

Within the context of globalization, cultural transformations are increasingly analyzed as hybridization processes. Hybridity itself, however, is often treated as a specifically post-colonial phenomenon. The contributors in this volume assume the historicity of transcultural flows and entanglements; they consider the resulting transformative powers to be a basic feature of cultural change. By juxtaposing different notions of hybridization and specific methodologies, as they appear in the various disciplines, this volume’s design is transdisciplinary. Each author presents a disciplinary concept of hybridization and shows how it operates in specific case studies. The aim is to generate a transdisciplinary perception of hybridity that paves the way for a wider application of this crucial concept

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521365597

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American Studies by Jack Salzman Pdf

This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.

Author : R. Nischik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137413901

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The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature by R. Nischik Pdf

A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.

Author : Michael Butter,Maurus Reinkowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110338270

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Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East by Michael Butter,Maurus Reinkowski Pdf

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East is the first book to approach conspiracy theorizing from a decidedly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Whereas previous studies have engaged with conspiracy theories within national frameworks only, this collection of essays draws attention to the fact that conspiracist visions are transnational narratives that travel between and connect different cultures. It focuses on the United States and the Middle East because these two regions of the world are entangled in manifold ways and conspiracy theories are currently extremely prominent in both. The contributors to the volume are scholars of Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology, History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, and American Studies, who approach the subject from a variety of different theories and methodologies. However, all of them share the fundamental assumption that conspiracy theories must not be dismissed out of hand or ridiculed. Usually wrong and frequently dangerous, they are nevertheless articulations of and distorted responses to needs and anxieties that must be taken seriously. Focusing on individual case studies and displaying a high sensitivity for local conditions and the cultural environment, the essays offer a nuanced image of the workings of conspiracy theories in the United States and the Middle East.

Author : Regina Schober
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111060590

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Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk by Regina Schober Pdf

Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk explores the shifting functions of the network as a metaphor, model, and as an epistemological framework in US American literature and culture from the 19th century until today. The book critically inquires into the literary, cultural, philosophical, and scientific rhetoric, values, and ideological underpinnings that have given rise to the network concept. Literature and culture play a major role in the ways in which networks have been imagined and how they have evolved as conceptual models. This study regards networks as historically emergent and culturally constructed formations closely tied with the development of knowledge technologies in the process of modernization as well as with an increasingly critical awareness of network technologies and infrastructures. While the rise of the network in scientific, philosophical, political and sociological discourses has received wide attention, this book contributes an important cultural and historical perspective to network theory by demonstrating how US American literature and culture have been key sites for thinking in and about networks in the past two centuries.

Author : Vanessa Künnemann
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839431085

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Middlebrow Mission: Pearl S. Buck's American China by Vanessa Künnemann Pdf

Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck's engagement with (neo-)missionary cultures in the United States and China was unique. Against the backdrop of her missionary upbringing, Buck developed a fictional project which both revised and reaffirmed American foreign missionary activity in the Pacific Rim during the 20th century. Vanessa Künnemann accurately traces this project from America's number one expert on China - as Buck came to be known - from a variety of disciplinary angles, placing her work squarely in Middlebrow Studies and New American Studies.

Author : K. Machtans,M. Ruehl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137032386

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Hitler - Films from Germany by K. Machtans,M. Ruehl Pdf

The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich in the national historical imagination.