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Inbunden, Engelska, 1988
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Addressing a phenomenon that continues to shape our culture today, Professor Lunden presents a full-length analysis of the relationship between business and religion during the 1920s. He examines both the impact of the business mentality on Protestant institutions and values and the effects of religion on business. Beginning with a discussion of business and entrepreneurship as determining factors in the development of American society, Lunden looks at the position of the Protestant churches vis-a-vis business. He next explores business attitudes toward religion. Commenting on the adoption of specific Judeo-Christian concepts, religion. Commenting on the adoption of specific Judeo-Christian concepts, he describes both how these concepts were applied in a business context and what concessions were made by business when Protestant values came into conflict with those of the commercial world. In his final chapter he considers the implications of the business community's appropriation of religious functions and the widespread belief that its mission was linked to the redemption of society.
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United Stories of America
Studies in the Short Story Composite
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
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This book discusses the American short story composite, or short story cycle, a neglected form of writing consisting of autonomous stories interlocking into a whole. The critical work done on this genre has so far focused on the closural strategies of the composites, on how unity is accomplished in these texts. This study takes into consideration, to a greater degree than earlier criticism, the short story composite as an open work, emphasizing the tension between the independent stories and the unified work, between the discontinuity and fragmentation, on the one hand, and the totalizing strategies, on the other. The discussion of the genre is illustrated with references to numerous American short story composites.
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Man Triumphant: The Divided Life of David Edstrom
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
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Man Triumphant – The Divided Life of David Edstrom tells the fascinating rags-to-riches-and-back-to-rags story of the young boy who grew up in Småland, Sweden, emigrated to Iowa, U.S.A. A hundred years ago regarded, together with Carl Milles, as the hope of Swedish sculpture, David Edstrom is today more or less forgotten. Man Triumphant – The Divided Life of David Edstrom tells the story of the young boy who grew up in Småland, Sweden, emigrated to Iowa, U.S.A., and hoboed his way back in 1894 to get his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. After twenty-one years in Europe—in Stockholm, Florence, Paris, and Berlin—he returned to the United States and settled in Hollywood. As a person of two cultures he found himself betwixt and between, divided in his allegiance equally to his mother country and his adopted one. A stubborn, uncompromising man, Edstrom managed to produce sculpture qualitatively well above what the average artist of the time could accomplish. He received acclaim from the best of the contemporary critics of Italy, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Sweden. And yet, gradually he was disregarded and finally ousted from the canon of art. Over the years he came to know a number of the key figures of the period—Giovanni Papini (and some of the Italian Futurists-to-be), Gertrude Stein, who wrote two portraits of him, and her brother Leo, Henri Matisse, Frederik van Eeden, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and his wife Margaret, Ellen Key, Ernest Thiel, Harry Chandler, Robert A. Millikan, Gloria Swanson, and Charlie Chaplin of Los Angeles. This book thus presents, from Edstrom’s point of view, the turbulent period of early modernism in Europe and the vibrancy of Southern California culture of the 1920s. Rolf Lundén is professor emeritus of American literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has written extensively on not only American literature but also other aspects of American Studies, such as the American influence in Sweden, literature and film, and business and religion in the United States.