British And American Studies

Author : Martin Middeke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783476004062

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English and American Studies by Martin Middeke Pdf

Das ganze Studium der Anglistik und Amerikanistik in einem Band. Ob englische und amerikanische Literatur, Sprachwissenschaft, Literatur- und Kulturtheorie, Fachdidaktik oder die Analyse von Filmen und kulturellen Phänomenen führende Fachvertreter geben in englischer Sprache einen ausführlichen Überblick über alle relevanten Teildisziplinen. BA- und MA-Studierende finden hier die wichtigsten Grundlagen und Wissensgebiete auf einen Blick. Durch die übersichtliche Darstellung und das Sachregister optimal für das systematische Lernen und zum Nachschlagen geeignet.

Author : Marinela Burada,Raluca Sinu,Oana Tatu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443872911

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11th Conference on British and American Studies by Marinela Burada,Raluca Sinu,Oana Tatu Pdf

The present volume includes a selection of twenty-nine papers by academics, and senior and junior researchers who came together within the framework of the 11th Conference on British and American Studies. Structured into three sections, the contributions included here display a wide array of topics and methodologies illustrating a variety of scholarly pursuits and approaches. These, in their turn, reflect the issues which constitute the complex nature of language and culture, and their mutual relationship. The authors’ interests encompass aspects related to the structural and rhetorical organization of languages approached both individually and cross-linguistically; first and second language acquisition; issues of translation and rendering considered from linguistic and cultural perspectives; and the cultural construction of meaning and identity as reflected in literature and art.

Author : Marinela Burada,Raluca Sinu,Oana Tatu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Semantics
ISBN : 1443885878

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12th Conference on British and American Studies by Marinela Burada,Raluca Sinu,Oana Tatu Pdf

This book represents a selection of papers presented by academics and researchers at the 12th Conference on British and American Studies. They are grouped in two main theme clusters, corresponding to the two chapters of the book: Languages in Contact and Languages in Use and Multidisciplinarity and Multiculturalism in Literary Studies. In the first section, language is described, in turn, as subject to influence by other language systems, as an object of learning and acquisition, and as an instrument enabling users to bridge between cultures, disciplinary domains, and people. The second part of the volume is mainly concerned with such notions as hybridity, tolerance, identity, subversion and deconstruction, as reflected in classical and contemporary Anglo-American literary texts.

Author : Marinela Burada,Oana Tatu,Raluca Sinu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Sociolinguistics
ISBN : 1443848816

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13th Conference on British and American Studies by Marinela Burada,Oana Tatu,Raluca Sinu Pdf

"This volume brings together a selection of papers in linguistics presented at the 13th edition of the Conference on British and American Studies. Structured into three chapters, the studies included here are illustrative for the different perspectives, methodologies, and research traditions in the investigation of language-related phenomena. The first chapter, "Language Change and Cross-Linguistic Analysis", is mainly concerned with the external and internal catalysts for language change, and with a number of morphosyntactic and semantic particularities of Romanian, set in contrast with other languages. Aspects related to first or second language learning and language as an instrument of thought form the content of the second chapter, "Language Acquisition, Teaching and Processing". The focus of the final chapter, "Pragmatics, Translation, and the Negotiation of Meaning", is language as an instrument of power and (self-)communication."

Author : Joel Pfister
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317261810

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Critique for What? by Joel Pfister Pdf

Students want to know: What does one do with critique? Fortunately, some of the most provocative self-critical intellectuals, from the postwar period to the postmodern present, have wrestled with this. Joel Pfister, in Critique for What?, criss-crosses the Atlantic to take stock of exciting British and US cultural studies, American studies, and Left studies that challenge the academic critique-for-critique's-sake and career's-sake business and ask: Critique for what and for whom? Historicizing for what and for whom? Politicizing for what and for whom? America for what and for whom? Here New Left revisionary socialists, members of the "unpartied Left," cultural studies theorists, American studies scholars, radical historians, progressive literary critics, and early proponents of transnational analysis interact in what amounts to a lively book-length strategy seminar. British political intellectuals, including Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson, Stuart Hall, and Raphael Samuel, and Americans, including F. O. Matthiessen, Robert Lynd, C. Wright Mills, and Richard Ohmann, reconsider the critical project as social transformation studies, activism studies, organizing studies. Eager to prevent cultural studies from becoming cynicism studies, Critique for What? thinks creatively about the possibilities of using as well as developing critique in our new millennium.

Author : Marinela Burada,Raluca Sinu,Oana Tatu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443887533

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12th Conference on British and American Studies by Marinela Burada,Raluca Sinu,Oana Tatu Pdf

This book represents a selection of papers presented by academics and researchers at the 12th Conference on British and American Studies. They are grouped in two main theme clusters, corresponding to the two chapters of the book: Languages in Contact and Languages in Use and Multidisciplinarity and Multiculturalism in Literary Studies. In the first section, language is described, in turn, as subject to influence by other language systems, as an object of learning and acquisition, and as an instrument enabling users to bridge between cultures, disciplinary domains, and people. The second part of the volume is mainly concerned with such notions as hybridity, tolerance, identity, subversion and deconstruction, as reflected in classical and contemporary Anglo-American literary texts.

Author : Houston A. Baker (Jr.),Manthia Diawara,Ruth H. Lindeborg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226144801

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Black British Cultural Studies by Houston A. Baker (Jr.),Manthia Diawara,Ruth H. Lindeborg Pdf

Black British Cultural Studies has attracted significant attention recently in the American academy both as a model for cultural studies generally and as a corrective to reigning constructions of Blackness within African-American studies. This anthology offers the first book-length selection of writings by key figures in this field. From Stuart Hall's classic study of racially structured societies to an interview by Manthia Diawara with Sonia Boyce, a leading figure in the Black British arts movement, the papers included here have transformed cultural studies through their sustained focus on the issue of race. Much of the book centers on Black British arts, especially film, ranging from a historical overview of Black British cinema to a weighing of the costly burden on Black artists of representing their communities. Other essays consider such topics as race and representation and colonial and postcolonial discourse. This anthology will be an invaluable and timely resource for everyone interested in cultural studies. It also has much to offer students of anthropology, sociology, media and film studies, and literary criticism.

Author : Michał Choiński,Malgorzata Cierpisz
Publisher : Jagiellonian University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8323346852

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New Perspectives in English and American Studies by Michał Choiński,Malgorzata Cierpisz Pdf

This volume presents a selection of papers delivered at the 14th International Conference on English and American Literature and Language, an international event organized by the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The articles in the first volume revolve around the topics of literary and cultural studies.

Author : John Algeo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139457323

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British or American English? by John Algeo Pdf

Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: •Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? •Who takes a bath, and who has a bath? •Who says Neither do I, and who says Nor do I? •After 'thank you', who says Not at all and who says You're welcome? •Whose team are on the ball, and whose team isn't? Containing extensive quotations from real-life English on both sides of the Atlantic, collected over the past twenty years, this is a clear and highly organized guide to the differences - and the similarities - between the grammar of British and American speakers. Written for those with no prior knowledge of linguistics, it shows how these grammatical differences are linked mainly to particular words, and provides an accessible account of contemporary English in use.

Author : Patrick Brantlinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136038143

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Crusoe's Footprints by Patrick Brantlinger Pdf

"Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies seeks to analyze everday life and the social construction of "subjectivities." Crusoe's Footprints encompasses the movement of many colleges and universities in the 1960s towards such interdisciplinary and "radical" programs as American Studies, Women's Studies, and Afro-American Studies. Brantlinger also examines the role of feminist criticism which has been particularly crucial in both Britain and the U.S.

Author : Dr Kevin Floyd,Dr Stefan Horlacher
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781409466000

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Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture by Dr Kevin Floyd,Dr Stefan Horlacher Pdf

Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a transatlantic framework, this volume explores the inseparable and mutually influential relationship between different forms of national identity in Great Britain and the United States and the construction of masculinity in each country. The contributors take up issues related to how certain kinds of nationally specific masculine identifications are produced, how these change over time, and how literature and other forms of cultural representation eventually question and deconstruct their own myths of masculinity. Focusing on the period from the end of World War II to the 1980s, the essays each take up a topic with particular cultural and historical resonance, whether it is hypermasculinity in early cold war films; the articulation of male anxieties in plays by Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Sam Shepard; the evolution of photographic depictions of masculinity from the 1960s to the 1980s; or the representations of masculinity in the fiction of American and British writers such as Patricia Highsmith, Richard Yates, John Braine, Martin Amis, Evan S. Connell, James Dickey, John Berger, Philip Roth, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston. The editors and contributors make a case for the importance of understanding the larger context for the emergence of more pluralistic, culturally differentiated and ultimately transnational masculinities, arguing that it is possible to conceptualize and emphasize difference and commonality simultaneously.

Author : Brian T. Edwards,Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226185088

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Globalizing American Studies by Brian T. Edwards,Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar Pdf

The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. Now that the so-called American Century has come to an end, what would a truly globalized version of American studies look like? Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar offer a new standard for the field’s transnational aspiration with Globalizing American Studies. The essays here offer a comparative, multilingual, or multisited approach to ideas and representations of America. The contributors explore unexpected perspectives on the international circulation of American culture: the traffic of American movies within the British Empire, the reception of the film Gone with the Wind in the Arab world, the parallels between Japanese and American styles of nativism, and new incarnations of American studies itself in the Middle East and South Asia. The essays elicit a forgotten multilateralism long inherent in American history and provide vivid accounts of post–Revolutionary science communities, late-nineteenth century Mexican border crossings, African American internationalism, Cold War womanhood in the United States and Soviet Russia, and the neo-Orientalism of the new obsession with Iran, among others. Bringing together established scholars already associated with the global turn in American studies with contributors who specialize in African studies, East Asian studies, Latin American studies, media studies, anthropology, and other areas, Globalizing American Studies is an original response to an important disciplinary shift in academia.

Author : Dr Ella Dzelzainis,Dr Ruth Livesey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409473121

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The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy in British Culture, 1776–1914 by Dr Ella Dzelzainis,Dr Ruth Livesey Pdf

In nineteenth-century Britain, the effects of democracy in America were seen to spread from Congress all the way down to the personal habits of its citizens. Bringing together political theorists, historians, and literary scholars, this volume explores the idea of American democracy in nineteenth-century Britain. The essays span the period from Independence to the First World War and trace an intellectual history of Anglo-American relations during that period. Leading scholars trace the hopes and fears inspired by the American model of democracy in the works of commentators, including Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill, Richard Cobden, Charles Dilke, Matthew Arnold, Henry James and W. T. Stead. By examining the context of debates about American democracy and notions of ‘culture’, citizenship, and race, the collection sheds fresh light on well-documented moments of British political history, such as the Reform Acts, the Abolition of Slavery Act, and the Anti-Corn Law agitation. The volume also explores the ways in which British Liberalism was shaped by the American example and draws attention to the importance of print culture in furthering radical political dialogue between the two nations. As the comprehensive introduction makes clear, this collection makes an important contribution to transatlantic studies and our growing sense of a nineteenth-century modernity shaped by an Atlantic exchange. It is an essential reference point for all interested in the history of the idea of democracy, its political evolution, and its perceived cultural consequences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015053411479

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British and American Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520051610

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A Reference Guide for English Studies by Michael J. Marcuse Pdf

This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as "all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature.'' Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.-- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va. -Library Journal.