Simulacrum America

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 5
• A collection of articles that analyses the role of the media in America from a deconstructionist viewpoint. This collection of original essays is a re... Lees meer

Concepts of Realism

Luc Herman

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 1
• Examination of the critical discourse on the literary movement of 'realism.' Concepts of Realismsurveys the central episodes in the development of the... Lees meer

The Musical Novel

Emily Petermann

• Paperback | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 18
• Analyzes two groups of "musical novels" -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Mich... Lees meer

History of Literature in Canada

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 13
• The development of literature in Canada with an eye to its multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nature. From modest colonial beginnings, literatur... Lees meer

Space and Place in Alice Munro's Fiction

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 22
• Alice Munro, the 2013 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, has revolutionized the architecture of the short story. This collection of essays on Munro e... Lees meer

The Farm Novel in North America

Florian Freitag

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 17
• From John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese to Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine , some of the most famous works of Americ... Lees meer

A Self-Made Surrealist

Caroline Blinder

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 6
• A new evaluation of a writer who was the talk of the literary world in the early days of the sexual revolution. Since the publication of Tropic of Can... Lees meer

Analog Fictions for the Digital Age

Julia Breitbach

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 16
• Shows how current photographic discourse can illuminate the analysis of recent literary realism and proposes a truly original photographic hermeneutic... Lees meer

The Canadian Short Story

• Paperback | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 11
• The first anthology of critical interpretations of major Canadian short stories. Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modern... Lees meer

Margaret Atwood

• Paperback | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 9
• A collection of new essays on the multi-talented Canadian writerMargaret Atwood. Novelist, poet, cultural critic, Margaret Atwood is one of the most f... Lees meer

Narrative Deconstructions of Gender in Works by Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, and Louise Erdrich

Caroline Rosenthal

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 10
• By analyzing the works of Thomas, Marlatt, and Erdrich through the lenses of subjectivity, gender studies, and narratology, Caroline Rosenthal brings ... Lees meer

New York and Toronto Novels After Postmodernism

Caroline Rosenthal

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 14
• First comparative study of urban fiction in the US and Canada investigates representations of the urban after postmodernism in two New York and two To... Lees meer

Biofictions

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 3
• The starting point for this collection of essays is the observation that as a literary subject, fictionalized and dramatized "lives" in the form of fi... Lees meer

Narrative and Stylistic Patterns in the Films of Stanley Kubrick

Luis M García Mainar

• Paperback | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 8
• A critical study of the films of Stanley Kubrick, one of the great directors of the century. García Mainar's critical study of the films of the late S... Lees meer

Thomas King

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 15
• A comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the work of one of the foremost Native North American writers and his reception and influence. Thomas King is ... Lees meer

Pluralist Desires

Philipp Löffler

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 19
• In Pluralist Desires, Philipp Löffler explores the contemporary historical novel in conjunction with three cultural shifts that have crucially affecte... Lees meer

Humor in Contemporary Native North American Literature

Eva Gruber

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 12
• In contrast to the popular cliché of the "stoic Indian," humor has always been important in Native North American cultures. Recent Native literature t... Lees meer

The Musical Novel

Emily Petermann

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 18
• Analyzes two groups of "musical novels" -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Mich... Lees meer

European Perspectives on John Updike

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 21
• From the publication in 1958 of his first book, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures , the American writer John Updike attracted an internatio... Lees meer

Future-Founding Poetry

Sascha Pöhlmann

• Hardcover | Engels | European Studies in North American Literature and Culture | nr. 20
• No scholarly work has yet addressed the topic of beginnings in American poetry in sufficient scope or detail or adequate theoretical background. Altho... Lees meer