Format:
251 S.
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Ill.
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22 cm
ISBN:
3825309851
Series Statement:
American studies 82
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Rhetoric as cultural work: The example of John Winthrop’s „A model of christian charity“
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Literaturangaben
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Patterns in a world of passion: Epistemological structures of object formation in Vladimir Nabokov’s „Lolita“
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Driving away ‘a chosen version of our culture‘ or, Re- and De-Defining the world in Ben Marcus’s „The age of wire and string“
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Containment or emergence? A theory of American literature
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The future of American literary criticism
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Vexed images: Edgar Allen Poe’s story „The oval portrait“ and feminist theory
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Faces of war: Mathew Brady, Stephen Crane, and the civil war
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Man-made nature: The role of technology in American culture
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Eros and economy: Henry James and „The science of criticism“
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The dramaturgy of witnessing: Hamlet, Douglass, and „The heroic slave“
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Alterity, the limits of identification, and the hazards of fiction: William Styron’s „The confessions of Nat Turner“
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Trick translation: African adventures and American affairs
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(Post-)Modernists or misfits? Nonsynchronism, subjectivity, and the paradigms of American literary history
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Multicultural postmodernism: Cultural hybridity and diaspora in contemporary African American literary and cultural theory
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
USA
;
Literatur
;
Politische Identität
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Rohr, Susanne 1958-
