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17 produkter
Crises: The Works of Paul Auster
Häftad, 2001
941 kr
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Paul Auster’s works enjoy a lasting popularity as examples of late-twentieth century American fiction. Auster criticism, however, has so far mainly focused on a few selected writings – notably the novels of The New York Trilogy, and Moon Palace – and their characteristics. The writer’s overall …
Amerika Haus als Bauaufgabe der Nachkriegszeit in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Architecture Makes a Good Ambassador
Inbunden, 2012
1351 kr
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Concord in Massachusetts, Discord in the World
The Writings of Henry Thoreau and John Cage
Av Jannika Bock
Häftad, 2008
1041 kr
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«Reading Thoreau’s Journal, I discover any idea I’ve ever had worth its salt,» notes the American composer John Cage in 1968. Upon reading the words of nineteenth-century nature philosopher Henry Thoreau, Cage is immediately fascinated with the Transcendentalist’s ideas, in particular his views on …
Darstellungen der Great Migration
Richard Wright und Jacob Lawrence
Av Tobias Schnettler, Bettina Friedl
Inbunden, 2014
863 kr
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Die Fotodokumentation 12 Million Black Voices von Richard Wright und Edwin Rosskam und der Gemäldezyklus The Migration of the Negro von Jacob Lawrence befassen sich mit der Great Migration , der afro-amerikanischen Urbanisierungsbewegung Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Diese beiden in Deutschland noch …
Constituting «Americanness»
A History of the Concept and Its Representations in Antebellum American Literature
Inbunden, 2015
1005 kr
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This work in cultural history and literary criticism suggests a fresh and fruitful approach to the old notion of Americanness. Following Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte, the author proposes that Americanness is not an ordinary word, but a concept with a historically specific semantic field. …
Art, Literature, and the Japanese American Internment
On John Okada’s «No-No Boy»
Av Thomas Girst
Inbunden, 2015
863 kr
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How can art, how can prose and poetry originate in spite of the restraints of manipulation, propaganda, and censorship? This study explores such issues by focusing on the cultural trajectory of Japanese American internment, both during and after World War II. Previously unknown documents as well as …
Norman Mailer and the Modernist Turn
Inbunden, 2015
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This study is a comprehensive scholarly treatment of Norman Mailer’s entire œuvre, including not only his fiction and non-fiction, but also his correspondence, his early journal articles and his interviews. It outlines Mailer’s Entwicklungsgeschichte, illuminating the lines of continuity and …
Ceremonial Storytelling
Ritual and Narrative in Post-9/11 US Wars
Av Frank Usbeck, Martin Klepper
Inbunden, 2019
1037 kr
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US society has controversially debated civil-military relationships and war trauma since the Vietnam War. Civic activists today promote Indigenous warrior traditions as role models for non-Native veteran reintegration and health care. They particularly stress the role of ritual and narrative for …
Echoes of Reaganism in Hollywood Blockbuster Movies from the 1980s to the 2010s
Av Ilias Ben Mna, Martin Klepper
Inbunden, 2021
1041 kr
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This book examines the reverberations of key components of Ronald Reagan’s ideology in selected Hollywood blockbuster movies. The aim of this analysis is to provide a clearer understanding of the intertwinement of cinematic spectacles with neoliberalism and neoconservatism. The analysis comprises a …
Alan Lomax, the South, and the American Folk Music Revival, 1933-1969
Av Risto Lenz, M. Michaela Hampf
Inbunden, 2022
983 kr
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Alan Lomax (1915-2002) is arguably the most popular and influential American folk song collector of the 20th century. Pursuing a mission of both preserving and popularizing folk music, Lomax moved between political activism, the scholarly world, and the world of popular culture. Based largely on …
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s «Hamilton»: Silenced Women’s Voices and Founding Mothers of Color
A Critical Race Theory Counterstory
Av Vanessa Vollmann, Astrid Böger
Inbunden, 2024
735 kr
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Chill and swaggering colorbent Founding Fathers have been blowing away Hamilton audiences since 2015. And there is no doubt that Lin-Manuel Miranda created an artistic monumental vessel of empowerment for people of Color whose stories have been left out. Yet, when we dig deeper into the historical …
Jack Kerouac and the American Spectacle
Resistance and Authenticity in Primitivism, Transcendence, and Communion
Inbunden, 2026
948 kr
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This book explores the search for authenticity in the work of Jack Kerouac in the context of postwar American capitalism and the rise of the spectacle as a dominant mode of social mediation. It examines how Kerouac’s experimental prose, spiritual inquiry, and relational aesthetics function as …
Dark Modernity
East-West Perspectives
Av Yoichiro Miyamoto, Hans-Peter Rodenberg
Inbunden, 2025
735 kr
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Since Shmuel Eisenstadt published his ground-breaking concept of multiple modernities, there have been various scholarly attempts to free the term modernity from its narrow Eurocentric origins. In line with this, the essays on literature, art and film by Japanese and European scholars in this …
«The Requirements of Our Life Is the Form of Our Art» Autobiographik Von Frauen Der Beat Generation
Av Larissa Bendel, Bettina Friedl
Häftad, 2005
872 kr
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Diese Arbeit setzt sich erstmals umfassend mit dem autobiographischen Werk von Frauen der Beat Generation auseinander. Seit jeher als männlich dominierte Bewegung verstanden, argumentiert die Autorin in einer eingehenden und kritischen Diskussion der autobiographischen Texte, daß und inwiefern auch …
From Word to Land
Early English Reports from North America as Worldmaking Texts
Av Maike Bettina Kolbeck, Bettina Friedl
Häftad, 2007
625 kr
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Early English reports from North America were principal sources of knowledge for their European audience. Nevertheless, they also share central features with fictional narratives. The author analyzes how, and to what effect, «the word became land» and how language functioned in these narratives to …
Die Naturbeschreibung Im «Journal» Von Henry David Thoreau
Av Wilfried Koch, Joseph C Schöpp
Inbunden, 2012
698 kr
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Die Arbeit geht der Frage nach, wie das Tagebuch als Textformat und Schreibort in Verbindung mit der Beschreibung die Erforschung, Darstellung und Erfahrung von Natur und Landschaft prägt. Unter Einbeziehung von Konzepten der kognitiven Narratologie sowie räumlich-visueller und transmedialer …
