Michael Grawe – författare

Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: very good, University of Paderborn (American Studies), course: Proseminar: New Orleans in Literature, language: English, abstract: This paper will compare and contrast the written form of TennesseeWilliams’ play $6WUHHWFDU1DPHG''HVLUH1 with the 1951 movie version.2 Itwill explain and discuss the major differences between the two, focusingon the issue of censorship as it was an important factor in thedevelopment of the play from its Broadway form into a film. As this paperwill show this was due to the fact that during the 1940s and 50s the worldof theater in America was much more permissive than that of film. Thispaper will also examine Williams’ concept of a ’plastic theater’, aninnovative approach by him which utilized music, sound effects, movementand lighting to express abstract themes. His idea of a ’plastic theater’, wascloser to the world of film than to the traditional form of the stage and isevident in $6WUHHWFDU1DPHG''HVLUH. It influenced the adaptation of theplay to the big screen.[...]

Master''s Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1.3 (A), University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: Paris has traditionally called to the American heart, beginning with the arrival of Benjamin Franklin in 1776 in an effort to win the support of France for the colonies’ War of Independence. Franklin would remain in Paris for nine years, returning to Philadelphia in 1785. Then, in the first great period of American literature before 1860, literary pioneers such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne were all to spend time in the French capital. Henry James, toward the close of the nineteenth century, was the first to create the image of a talented literary artist who was ready to foreswear his citizenship. From his adopted home in England he traveled widely through Italy and France, living in Paris for two years. There he became close friends with another literary expatriate, Edith Wharton, who made Paris her permanent home. Between them they gave the term “expatriate” a high literary polish at the turn of the century, and their prestige was undeniable. They were the ‘in’ cosmopolitans, sought out by traveling Americans, commented on in the press, the favored guests of scholars, as well as men and women of affairs.This thesis investigates the mass expatriation of Americans to Paris during the 1920s, and then focuses on selected works by two of the expatriates: Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926) and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925). The specific emphasis is on disillusionment with the American lifestyle as reflected in these novels. The two books have been chosen because both are prominent examples of the literary criticism that Americans were directing at their homeland from abroad throughout the twenties.