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Literary Life of Things
Case Studies in American Fiction
Häftad, 2014
465 kr
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Contemplating the aesthetic and narrative forms of material life in American fiction as well as theoretical concepts of materiality, The Literary Life of Things looks at renewed attention to the physical world within the humanities and social sciences, variously designated as new materialism or the …
With the Face of the Enemy
Arab American Literature since 9/11
Häftad, 2025
429 kr
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With the Face of the Enemy takes a serious look at how the aesthetics of Arab American literature reflects the many psychosocial consequences of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan on an underexamined group of writers.Over the past two decades, the events of September 11, 2001, have inspired a …
American Studies in Dialogue
Radical Reconstructions between Curriculum and Cultural Critique
Häftad, 2013
475 kr
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American studies has changed drastically over the past few decades, as a new wave of scholars - armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research - flocked to the relatively young field. This focus on scholarship, though necessary to the advancement of the discipline, has left …
Fiction of America
Performance and the Cultural Imaginary in Literature and Film
Häftad, 2013
536 kr
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The Fiction of America juxtaposes classic literature of the American Renaissance with twentieth-century popular culture-pairing, for instance, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Finding Nemo, Walt Whitman with Spider-man, and Hester Prynne with Madonna - to investigate how the "Americanness" of American …
Revisiting the Sixties
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America's Longest Decade
Av Laura Bieger, Christian Lammert
Häftad, 2014
383 kr
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The 1960s launched an unprecedented public debate over the meaning of "America," dividing US society in deep and troubling ways. Yet despite the passage of time, the contemporary crises in the "American way of life" and the political system that sustain it might well make one wonder: to what degree …
Rereading the Machine in the Garden
Nature and Technology in American Culture
Av Eric C. Erbacher, Nicole Maruo-Schroder m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
564 kr
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This book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first laid out by Leo Marx fifty years ago. Contributors explore the lasting influence of this concept on American culture and the arts, rereading it as a dialectic wherein nature is as much technologized as technology is naturalized. …
Literary Spinoffs
Rewriting the Classics - Re-Imagining the Community
Häftad, 2016
707 kr
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In Literary Spinoffs, Birgit Spengler explores the literary strategies, theoretical dimensions, and cultural implications of contemporary rewritings of nineteenth-century American literary classics. By tapping into powerful, ingrained literary and cultural narratives, literary spinoffs challenge …
Chocolate and Blackness
A Cultural History
Häftad, 2018
453 kr
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This book draws out a number of unexpected connections between chocolate and blackness as both idea and reality. Silke Hackenesch builds her argument around four main focal points. First is the modes of production of chocolate—the economic realities of the business and the material connection …
