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Format: 1 online resource (XV, 538 p.)

Edition: 1st ed. 2012.

ISBN: 3-476-00406-6

Content: Das ganze Studium der Anglistik und Amerikanistik in einem Band. Ob englische und amerikanische Literatur, Sprachwissenschaft, Literatur- und Kulturtheorie, Fachdidaktik oder die Analyse von Filmen und kulturellen Phänomenen führende Fachvertreter geben in englischer Sprache einen ausführlichen Überblick über alle relevanten Teildisziplinen. BA- und MA-Studierende finden hier die wichtigsten Grundlagen und Wissensgebiete auf einen Blick. Durch die übersichtliche Darstellung und das Sachregister optimal für das systematische Lernen und zum Nachschlagen geeignet.

Note: Includes index. , Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface of the Editors -- Introduction -- Part I: Literary Studies -- 1 Introducing Literary Studies -- 2 British Literary History -- 2.1 The Middle Ages -- 2.1.1 Terminology -- 2.1.2 Anglo-Saxon Literature -- 2.1.3 Middle English Court Cultures -- 2.1.4 Romances and Malory -- 2.1.5 Late Medieval Religious Literature -- 2.1.6 Oppositions and Subversions -- 2.2 The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 2.2.1 Overview -- 2.2.2 Transformations of Antiquity -- 2.2.3 New Science and New Philosophy -- 2.2.4 Religious Literature: A Long Reformation -- 2.2.5 The Literary Culture of the Court and Popular Literature -- 2.2.6 European Englishness? Cultural Exchange versus Nation-Building -- 2.3 The Eighteenth Century -- 2.3.1 Terminology and Overview -- 2.3.2 The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere -- 2.3.3 Pope and Neoclassicism -- 2.3.4 The Public Sphere, Private Lives: The Novel 1719-1742 -- 2.3.5 Scepticism, Sentimentalism, Sociability: The Novel After 1748 -- 2.3.6 Literature of the Sublime: The Cult of Medievalism, Solitude and Excess -- 2.4 Romanticism -- 2.4.1 Romanticism as a Cultural Idiom -- 2.4.2 Theorising Romanticism -- 2.4.3 Modes of Romantic Poetry -- 2.4.4 Other Genres -- 2.4.5 Historicising Romanticism -- 2.5 The Victorian Age -- 2.5.1 Overview -- 2.5.2 The Spirit of the Age: Doubts, Unresolved Tensions, and the Triumph of Time -- 2.5.3 The Novel -- 2.5.4 Poetry -- 2.5.5 Drama -- 2.6 Modernism -- 2.6.1 Terminology -- 2.6.2 Scope and Periodization -- 2.6.3 Modernist Aesthetics -- 2.6.4 Central Concerns of Modernist Literature -- 2.7 Postmodernism -- 2.7.1 Terminology -- 2.7.2 Period, Genre, or Mode? -- 2.7.3 Conceptual Focus: Representation and Reality -- 2.7.4 Genre and Postmodern Literary History -- 2.7.5 Postmodern Developments in Britain and Ireland -- 2.7.6 After Postmodernism?. , 3 American Literary History -- 3.1 Early American Literature -- 3.1.1 Overview -- 3.1.2 Labor and Faith: English Writing, English Settlement (1584-1730) -- 3.1.3 A Revolutionary Literature (1730-1830) -- 3.1.4 Fictional Writing in the Early Republic -- 3.1.5 Voices From the Margins -- 3.2 American Renaissance -- 3.2.1 Terminology -- 3.2.2 Wider Historical Context -- 3.2.3 The Formation of an American Cultural Identity -- 3.2.4 Literary Marketplace -- 3.2.5 The Role of Women Writers -- 3.2.6 Industrialization, Technology, Science -- 3.2.7 Materialism vs. Idealism -- 3.2.8 Art and Society -- 3.3 Realism and Naturalism -- 3.3.1 Terminology -- 3.3.2 The Poetics of American Realism -- 3.3.3 William Dean Howells and the Historical Context of the Gilded Age -- 3.3.4 American Naturalism -- 3.4 Modernism -- 3.4.1 Terminology -- 3.4.2 The Two Discourses of Modernism -- 3.4.3 Early Modernism: Stein, Pound, Eliot -- 3.4.4 Home-Made Modernism -- 3.4.5 African American Modernism -- 3.4.6 Modernism and the Urban Sphere -- 3.4.7 Modernist Fiction -- 3.4.8 Late Modernism -- 3.5 Postmodern and Contemporary Literature -- 3.5.1 Overview -- 3.5.2 American Drama From Modernism to the Present -- 3.5.3 Transitions to Postmodernism in Poetry and Prose -- 3.5.4 American Poetry in the Later Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries -- 3.5.5 Postmodern and Contemporary Fiction -- 4 The New Literatures in English -- 4.1 The History of the New Literatures in English -- 4.2 Global Englishes: Colonial Legacies, Multiculturalism, and New Diversity -- 4.3 The Concept of Diaspora -- 4.4 Globalization -- 4.5 Anglophone Literatures -- 4.5.1 Trinidad/Tobago -- 4.5.2 India -- 4.5.3 Canada -- 4.5.4 Nigeria -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Part II: Literary and Cultural Theory -- 1 Formalism and Structuralism -- 1.1 Origins -- 1.2 Russian Formalism -- 1.3 New Criticism -- 1.4 French Structuralism. , 2 Hermeneutics and Critical Theory -- 2.1 The Philosophy of Universal Interpretation: Hermeneutics -- 2.2 The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory -- 2.3 Postmodern Marxism -- 3 Reception Theory -- 3.1 Reader-Response Criticism in the United States -- 3.2 The Constance School -- 3.3 Applying Reception Theory -- 4 Poststructuralism/Deconstruction -- 4.1 Derrida: Deconstruction -- 4.2 Foucault: Discourse, Knowledge, Power -- 4.3 Other Poststructuralist Thinkers -- 5 New Historicism and Discourse Analysis -- 5.1 General Aspects -- 5.2 Emergence and Characteristics -- 5.3 Critical Practice and Key Concepts -- 5.4 New Historicism and Contemporary Criticism -- 6 Gender Studies, Transgender Studies, Queer Studies -- 6.1 Changing Concepts of Gender -- 6.2 Transgender Studies and Queer Theory -- 6.3 Gender and Sexuality in English and American Studies -- 7 Psychoanalysis -- 7.1 Freud's Psychoanalysis -- 7.2 The Model of the Dream -- 7.3 Poststructuralist Psychoanalysis -- 7.4 Poststructuralist Psychoanalytic Literary Theory -- 7.5 Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies -- 7.6 Critical Race Studies, Postcolonial Studies -- 8 Pragmatism and Semiotics -- 8.1 Classical Pragmatism -- 8.2 The Pragmatic Maxim -- 8.3 A Key Tenet of Pragmatist Thinking: Anti-Cartesianism -- 8.4 Reality-A Somewhat Precarious Affair -- 8.5 A Very Brief History of Semiotics -- 8.6 The Linguistic Turn -- 9 Narratology -- 9.1 Definition -- 9.2 Narrativity -- 9.3 Major Categories of Narratology -- 10 Systems Theory -- 10.1 Consciousness and Communication -- 10.2 Medium vs. Form -- 10.3 Systems Theory and Reading/Analysing Texts -- 11 Cultural Memory -- 11.1 Definition -- 11.2 The Representation of Memory in Literature and Film: 'Traumatic Pasts' -- 11.3 The 'Afterlife' of Literature -- 11.4 Transnational and Transcultural Memory -- 12 Literary Ethics. , 12.1 Early Conceptualizations of the Connection Between Literature and Ethics -- 12.2 Twentieth-Century Literary Ethics Before 1970 -- 12.3 Hard Times for Literary Ethics -- 12.4 The Ethical Turn of the 1990s and After -- 13 Cognitive Poetics -- 13.1 Definition -- 13.2 Beginnings -- 13.3 Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Blending Theory -- 13.4 Cognitive Poetics and Jazz Literature -- 13.5 Other Approaches -- 13.6 The Impact of Cognitive Poetics -- 14 Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology -- 14.1 Emergence and Definitions of Ecocriticism -- 14.2 Directions of Ecocriticism -- 14.3 Critical Theory and Ecocriticism -- 14.4 From Natural Ecology to Cultural Ecology -- 14.5 Literature as Cultural Ecology -- Part III: Cultural Studies -- 1 Transnational Approaches to the Study of Culture -- 1.1 Cultural and National Specificity of Approaches -- 1.2 The Study of Culture in an International Context -- 1.3 Trans/national Concepts of Culture -- 1.4 Cultural Turns in the Humanities -- 1.5 Travelling Concepts and Translation -- 1.6 From Cultural Studies to the Transnational Study of Culture -- 2 British Cultural Studies -- 2.1 The Rise and Fall of Cultural Studies -- 2.2 A Cultural History of Cultural Studies -- 2.3 Cultural Studies in Germany as Discipline and/or as Perspective -- 2.4 Cultural Studies, Kulturwissenschaft, and Medienwissenschaft -- 2.5 Theory and Methodology of Cultural (Media) Studies -- 2.6 Future Cultural (Media) Studies -- 3 American Cultural Studies -- 3.1 Beginnings -- 3.2 Myth and Symbol School -- 3.3 Popular Culture Studies -- 3.4 Ideological Criticism, New Historicism, New Americanists -- 3.5 Race and Gender Studies -- 3.6 Border Crossings, Multiple Identities, and Transnationalisms -- 4 Postcolonial Studies -- 4.1 Postcolonial Theory: A Contested Field -- 4.2 Colonial Discourse Analysis -- 4.3 Cultural Nationalism -- 4.4 Writing Back. , 4.5 Hybridity -- 4.6 Future Perspectives: Postcolonial Studies in the United States and Europe -- 5 Film and Media Studies -- 5.1 Introduction: Media Culture in the Electronic Age -- 5.2 Media Studies: Medium-Mediality-Materiality -- 5.3 Intermediality and Remediation -- 5.4 Literature and the (Audio-)Visual Media: Photography-Film-TV -- Part IV: Analyzing Literature and Culture -- 1 Analyzing Poetry -- 1.1 Traditional Poetry -- 1.2 Experimental Poetry -- 2 Analyzing Prose Fiction -- 2.1 The Narrator -- 2.2 Symbol, Allegory, Image -- 2.3 Historical Subtexts -- 2.4 Other Approaches -- 3 Analyzing Drama -- 3.1 Genre and Dramaturgy -- 3.2 A New Historicist Reading -- 3.3 A Feminist Reading -- 3.4 A Psychoanalytic Reading -- 3.5 Metatheatricality -- 4 Analyzing Film -- 4.1 Film Narratology: Screening Subjectivity -- 4.2 The Example of Memento: Screening Memory and Oblivion -- 4.3 Filmic Adaptations of Literary Texts -- 5 Analyzing Culture -- 5.1 Football, Nationality, and Multiculturalism -- 5.2 Football, War, and Colonialism -- 5.3 Football, Gender, and Sexuality -- Part V: Linguistics -- 1 Introducing Linguistics -- 2 Linguistic Theories, Approaches, and Methods -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Turn Towards Modern Linguistics -- 2.2.1 The Pre-Structuralist Tradition in the Nineteenth Century -- 2.2.2 Saussure and His Impact -- 2.3 American Structuralism -- 2.3.1 Bloomfield on Phonemes -- 2.3.2 Fries on Word Classes -- 2.3.3 Gleason on Immediate Constituents -- 2.4 Generative Grammar and Case Grammar -- 2.4.1 Chomsky's Generative Grammar -- 2.4.2 Case Grammar: Fillmore's 'Semanticization' of Generative Grammar -- 2.5 Cognitive Approaches -- 2.5.1 Prototype Theory -- 2.5.2 Conceptual Metaphor Theory -- 2.5.3 Construction Grammar -- 2.6 Psycholinguistic Approaches -- 2.7 Corpus-Based Approaches -- 2.8 Summary and Outlook -- 3 History and Change. , 3.1 Language Change: Forces and Principles.

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-476-02306-0

Language: English

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-476-00406-2