Donkeys, Spirits, and Imperial Ladies

Michael Duszat

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 251
• Eliot Weinberger's essays conspicuously rely on an unusual literary device: enumeration. In close readings of selected essays from Weinberger's work, ... Lees meer

Melodrama!

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 145
• This volume explores the current status quo of 'melodrama studies' with respect to theater, prose writing, film, and other genres and forms, spanning ... Lees meer

Ethics in Postmodern Fiction

Barbara Schwerdtfeger

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 117
• Postmodern texts have generally been associated with a radical challenge of established conventions and with an "anything goes" mentality, which seems... Lees meer

Beyond the 'imaginary Indian'

Nancy Grimm

• Hardcover | Duits | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 171
• Vor dem Hintergrund geschichtlich entwickelter und gegenwartiger Indianerbilder verdeutlicht diese Studie die Moglichkeiten des interkulturellen Verst... Lees meer

Transcultural Visions of Identities in Images and Texts

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 175
• As the editors hope, this volume, that is primarily the outcome of an international conference in honor of Gunter H. Lenz at the Humboldt University B... Lees meer

Modern Domestic Fiction

Birte Christ

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 229
• The nineteenth-century genre of domestic fiction continues to perform important cultural work for women readers in the early twentieth century - this ... Lees meer

Literature on the Move

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 97
• Literature on the Move investigates the creativity emerging from the ruptures, unforeseen intersections, and new fusions of transmigration. The cultur... Lees meer

Der Verlorene Sohn in Der Amerikanischen Literatur

Manfred Siebald

• Hardcover | Duits | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 100
• Angesichts der manifesten Bedeutung religioser Konzepte fur die amerikanische Geschichte und Kultur untersucht die Studie den Einfluss der biblischen ... Lees meer

Betwixt, Between, or Beyond?

Birgit M Bauridl

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 215
• Betwixt, between, or beyond? is the first study of contemporary black performance poetry from the viewpoint of transnational American Studies. It inve... Lees meer

Americanisms

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 173
• The idea of a distinctive and even exceptional character of American society and culture has long enjoyed persuasive power. It has lastingly affected ... Lees meer

Medium Und Ereignis

Stefanie Hoth

• Hardcover | Duits | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 169
• Zehn Jahre nach den Terroranschlagen vom 11. September 2001 wirft das Ereignis noch immer einen langen Schatten. Neben den sowohl innen- als auch auss... Lees meer

Stages of Agency

Astrid Haas

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 204
• 'Stages of Agency' is the first monograph to analyze the contributions of American stage drama to the discourse on AIDS in the United States from the ... Lees meer

Europe and America

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 139
• Transatlantic relations seem to be slowly recovering from an unprecedented rift caused by conflict over Iraq and other issues. Even so, this transatla... Lees meer

The Culture of Catholicism in the United States

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 213
• Even though by now one quarter of the overall population of the United States is Catholic, the complexity and diversity of American Catholicism has no... Lees meer

Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 101
• This volume brings together twenty original essays by scholars from the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany. It focuses on the ce... Lees meer

The Body as Interface

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 150
• The body is a battleground. As such it has been at the center of debates in cultural and gender studies for over two decades. The concept of a cultura... Lees meer

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Body and Image

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 198
• Arnold Schwarzenegger is at the center of multiple overlapping themes that have defined the United States over the past fifty years: immigration and t... Lees meer

The Discovery of Point of View

Martin Klepper

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 197
• The nineteenth century, like no century before or after, witnessed a revolution in narrative devices differentiating perspective and focalization. Whi... Lees meer

There Is More Than One Site of Resistance

Thorsten Thiel

• Hardcover | Duits | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 98
• In den kritischen Studien zur zeitgenossischen Chicano/a-Literatur ist wiederholt von Strategien des Widerstandes und der Oppositionalitat zu lesen. D... Lees meer

Lovers and Knowers

Ulf Schulenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 158
• 'Lovers and Knowers' discusses the development of the American cultural Left in the twentieth century. Seeking to contribute to the discussion of the ... Lees meer

Divided Nation/S

Elisa Edwards

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 243
• Most American novels set in Germany and published after 1949 take place in West Germany and present it as a 'pars pro toto' for all of Germany, appare... Lees meer

Zwischen Tradition Und Innovation

Paul Neubauer

• Hardcover | Duits | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 93
• Immer wieder steht das Sonett als die markanteste Form der traditionellen Poetik im Mittelpunkt programmatischer wie praktischer Auseinandersetzungen ... Lees meer

Religion in African-American Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 83
• This volume focuses on the multi-faceted significance of religion in African-American literature and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... Lees meer

Kulturkontakt Und Racial Presences

Heike Paul

• Hardcover | Duits | American Studies - A Monograph | nr. 126
• Wie kommt es, dass deutsche Reisende und Einwanderer in die USA am Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts die afro-amerikanische Bevolkerung zu den spektakularen... Lees meer