Atheism and Theism in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction

Daniel Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 77
• The beginning of the 21 st century saw the rise of "New" Atheism and a resulting conflict with Theists - at the same time as the resurgence of fantasy... Lees meer

Auctoritas Patrum?

Ann-Stephane Schäfer

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 58
• This study focuses on how Puritans in England and especially New England used the church fathers when reading the Bible and defending Congregationalis... Lees meer

How to Become Jewish Americans?

Magdalena Ewa Bier

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 66
• The study analyzes the first decades of the Yiddish advice colum A Bintel Brief . Created by Abraham Cahan, it ran as the most enduring feature in the... Lees meer

Narrating North American Borderlands

Evelyn P Mayer

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 64
• Combining historical, sociological and political as well as literary methods, the interdisciplinary study analyzes Thomas King's Truth & Bright Water ... Lees meer

Revisiting Walt Whitman

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 73
• The collection of essays explores the transnational and intermedial (music, visual arts, digital media) legacy of Walt Whitman. It provides examples o... Lees meer

Contending Forces

Sabina Matter-Seibel

• Hardcover | Duits | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 61
• Die Untersuchung zeigt eine kontinuierliche Entwicklung von Traditionslinien weiblichen Schreibens in den USA von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis z... Lees meer

Framing and Reframing the Ladies

Heike Fahrenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 54
• Striving to leave fidelity-criticism behind, this comparative analysis treats Henry James' Portrait of a Lady and its cinematic counterpart by Jane Ca... Lees meer

The Brownies' Book

Christina Schäffer

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 60
• 'The Brownies' Book: ' Inspiring Racial Pride in African-American Children offers a descriptive analysis and interpretation of America's first magazin... Lees meer

Appropriating Thomas Jefferson, 1929-1945

Caroline Heller

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 74
• I'll Take My Stand, two different Jefferson memorials, the Library of Congress Symposium, and the New Masses special issue testify to the diversity of... Lees meer

The Popular Anti-Icon in American Sports

Geological Survey

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 70
• The case studies of Joe Namath, Dennis Rodman and Barry Bonds show how this phenomenon has become visible from the 1960s onwards because of profound c... Lees meer

From Fiction to Libretto

Nassim Balestrini

• Paperback | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 51
• This study introduces the reader to the mostly unknown world of libretto adaptations of nineteenth-century American fiction. The analysis of stage wor... Lees meer

American Multiculturalism and Ethnic Survival

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 59
• In this collection of essays, Americanists from the United States, Germany, and Latvia enter the scholarly debate about the ever increasing pluralizat... Lees meer

Perra, Padre, Promise

Ines E Veauthier

• Hardcover | Duits | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 56
• Identitätsentwicklung im Spannungsfeld von Gender, Ethnizität und Kultur steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie, die zwei Werke der zeitgenössischen mexik... Lees meer

Zeitgeist, Naturwissenschaft Und Die Suche Nach Gott in John Updikes Romanen

Claudia Türk

• Paperback | Duits | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 53
• Diese Studie vertritt die These, dass in John Updikes Romanen The Poorhouse Fair (1959), Roger's Version (1986) und Toward the End of Time (1997) - ch... Lees meer

Crossing, Trespassing, and Subverting Borders in Chicana Writing

Debora Holler

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 75
• The book focuses on the minority literature of the Chicanas. Topics such as the deconstruction of pre-established roles and patriarchal beliefs, femal... Lees meer

Die Uebersetzung amerikanischer Texte in deutschen Printmedien

Nadine Scherr

• Hardcover | Duits | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 62
• Die Studie untersucht deutsche Übersetzungen amerikanischer journalistischer Texte. Durch Übersetzung werden journalistische Leitkriterien verletzt, d... Lees meer

The Kaiserslautern Borderland

Jörg Zorbach

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 65
• The area around the German city of Kaiserslautern - or K-Town in American parlance - is home to approximately 50,000 Americans who live within the Kai... Lees meer

Das Konzept Des Continued Growth Im Leben Und Werk Von Margaret Fuller

Stefanie Rechtsteiner

• Hardcover | Duits | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 63
• Continued Growth lautet das Lebensprinzip Margaret Fullers. Der Nachweis der konsequenten Orientierung Fullers an diesem philosophischen Konzept wird ... Lees meer

Motherhood and Self-Realization in the Four Waves of American Feminism and Joyce Carol Oates's Recent Fiction

Julia Hillenbrand

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 68
• The author examines motherhood and female self-realization in the four waves of feminism and Joyce Carol Oates's recent fiction. Drawing on Gender Stu... Lees meer

Prag in Der Amerikanischen Literatur: Cynthia Ozick Und Philip Roth

Simone Kraus

• Hardcover | Duits | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 67
• Präsentation und Signifikanz der Stadt Prag im Erzählwerk von Cynthia Ozick und Philip Roth bilden das zentrale, bislang nicht erforschte Thema des Bu... Lees meer

The Horses of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses

Vanessa Keiper

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 76
• The horses in All the Pretty Horses are ubiquitous but rarely the center of attention. Their depiction is surprisingly authentic and without anthropom... Lees meer

Boer, Burgher, Businessman: Dutch-American Images in the United States

Maren Dingfelder-Stone

• Paperback | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 52
• The study is an imagological analysis of Dutch immigrants in the United States, giving insights into stereotyping, identity formation, and the marketi... Lees meer

The Exercise of Soft Power - U.S. Self-Imaging in International Broadcasting to Iran

Yasmin Djabarian

• Hardcover | Engels | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 71
• This study analyzes the U.S. self-image in programs of the official U.S. broadcasting service to Iran. It illustrates the development of VOA Persian a... Lees meer

Bedingte Ordnungen

Elisabeth Hecker-Bretschneider

• Paperback | Duits | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik | nr. 55
• Bedingte Ordnungen zeigt am Beispiel des amerikanischen Dichters Walt Whitman (1819-1892), wie in den Vereinigten Staaten vor Ausbruch des Bürgerkrieg... Lees meer