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Klaus H. Schmidt

    "The outsider's vision"
    Flip sides
    Early America re-explored
    Blurred boundaries
    • Blurred boundaries

      • 254 stránok
      • 9 hodin čítania

      Paradoxically, the only definite evaluation that can be made about the state of American Studies in the middle of the 1990s is that «blurred boundaries» prevail in academic discourse and the subjects of research in the field. According to the editors, this new interest in boundaries is a reflection of a) global, social and cultural developments, b) recent trends in general cultural and literary theory, and c) the current reexamination of research methods within the discipline of American Studies itself. In this volume, contributors from Canada, Germany and the United States creatively respond to the phenomenon of «blurred boundaries,» reassessing authors such as Thoreau, Cooper, Melville, Jacobs, Stoddard, Whitney, Eastman, Mackenzie, McCarthy, Redbird, Walker, Carver and Holzer.

      Blurred boundaries
    • Early America re-explored

      • 599 stránok
      • 21 hodin čítania

      Early America Re-Explored is a transatlantic joint venture in which scholars from the United States, England, and Germany re-read and recontextualize American writings from the colonial to the antebellum periods. The authors and topics analyzed range from Winthrop and Puritan rhetorics, the Pynchons and Ha(w)thornes, Puritan missionary discourse, Rowlandson's captivity narrative in the context of Native American history, Scottish-American self-fashioning, the cultural inscription of Ashbridge's autobiography, and the transatlantic subtext of Wheatley's poetry, to the theory and practice of the early American novel, play, and short story, the role of geography books in the construction of American identities, women and Native Americans in Child and Sedgwick, the abolitionist writings of M. Stewart, political dimensions of Bryant's poetry and of the nineteenth-century rogue narrative, technology in antebellum short stories, and postcolonial aspects of Cooper's, Poe's, and Melville's sea fiction. The contributors include J. Achilles, S. Bercovitch, M. Bruckner, V. Carretta, W. Fluck, U. Hebel, F. Kelleter, S. Krause, G. Mackenthun, D. Madsen, S. Matter-Seibel, O. Moore, N. Salisbury, D. Schloss, J. Schopp, D. Williams, and J. Zanger.

      Early America re-explored
    • Flip sides

      • 140 stránok
      • 5 hodin čítania
      Flip sides
    • Im Mittelpunkt der Studie steht die Untersuchung von Erscheinungsformen und Funktionen der Marginalitätsthematik in der schwarzamerikanischen Erzähltradition. Obwohl die Figur des Außenseiters zu den eingeführten Motiven gehört, fand die narrative Umsetzung der Thematik als Erzählstrategie kaum Beachtung seitens der Kritik. Wie die Studie demonstriert, ermöglicht die Analyse der Marginalitätsprolematik als bewußt eingesetztes Mittel der Verschlüsselung und Verrätselung nicht nur eine Neuinterpretation von afro-amerikanischen Romanen, die bereits Eingang in den Kanon der amerikanischen Literatur gefunden haben, sondern führt zu einem besseren Verständnis von weniger bekannten zeitgenössischen schwarzen Prosatexten, deren inhaltliche und erzählkünstlerische Vielschichtigkeit mehr Beachtung verdient.

      "The outsider's vision"