Through the Bars of My Memory

Katharina Matuschek

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 319
• Through the Bars of My Memory" investigates how prison experiences are remembered and constructed in 40 autobiographical prison texts published during... Lees meer

U.S. American Culture as Popular Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 318
• This volume of original essays presents an overview of Popular Culture Studies as an ever-growing branch of American Studies while also reflecting the... Lees meer

Corporeal Battlegrounds

Juliane Gambock-Stratz

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 321
• 'Corporeal Battlegrounds' explores the depiction and critical potential of the entanglement of work and embodiment in contemporary realist U.S.-Americ... Lees meer

Temple Grandin and the Mediation of Autism Debates at the Interface Between Life Writing and the Life Sciences

Natalie Kruse

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 313
• Since its first official mentioning in 1943, autism spectrum disorder has proven to be a much-discussed yet seemingly unfathomable object of investiga... Lees meer

Writing During the Disasters

Marius Henderson

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 320
• 'Writing during the Disasters' is devoted to conceptualizing the relation between suffering and poetic writing. This monograph investigates contempora... Lees meer

Perspectives on Homelessness

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 314
• As growing economic and racial inequality continues to shape American society, homelessness remains an urgent issue. Embedded in American history, and... Lees meer

Cultural Criticism in Woman's Experimental Writing

Kornelia Freitag

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 128
• Contemporary experimental poetry? By women? But is this women's writing? The type of poetry that is central to this book has long been met with surpri... Lees meer

'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations'

Katja Kanzler

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 115
• Since its first appearance on the small screen in 1966, the multimedia franchise Star Trek has attracted an unprecedented fan-following in the U.S. an... Lees meer

Perspectives on Values

Gerhard Hoffmann

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 323
• Delving deep into the structural and structuring intricacies of humor in British and American novels, this book presents a systematic theory that unra... Lees meer

Political Education and American Studies

• Paperback | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 324
• With surges of authoritarian movements in both Europe and the United States, political education is a prominent and urgent topic. Given the long-held ... Lees meer

The Clown of Armageddon

Peter Freese

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 174
• The unique career of Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), America's first major writer to have begun his career in the paperback industry, spanned more than h... Lees meer

Participation in American Culture and Society

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 322
• Participation is a core value of the U.S.-American concept of the nation. The promise of participation encompasses full and equal access to participat... Lees meer

Data Imaginary

Sebastian M Herrmann

• Hardcover | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | nr. 316
• 'Data Imaginary' is about the co-evolution of the literary and of data around the middle of the long nineteenth century. It argues that, during romant... Lees meer

The Myths That Made America

Heike Paul

• Paperback | Engels | American Studies - A Monograph Series | American Culture Studies | nr. 1
• This essential introduction to American Studies examines the core foundational myths which the nation is based upon and which still determine discussi... Lees meer