Faces of fiction : essays on American literature and culture from the Jacksonian period to postmodernity / Heinz Ickstadt. Ed. by Susanne Rohr, Sabine Sielke

Bibliographische Detailangaben
VerfasserIn: Ickstadt, Heinz (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Personen: Rohr, Susanne (HerausgeberIn), Sielke, Sabine (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:German
English
Veröffentlicht: Heidelberg : Winter, 2001
Schriftenreihe:American studies 92
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505 1 |a America as literary and cultural model in Postwar Germany : in place of an introduction -- Instructing the American democar : James Fenimore Cooper and the concept of popular fiction in Jacksonian America -- Empire as fiction and fiction as Empire : Melville's "Moby Dick" -- Exploring the Abyss : the discovery of the social underground in late-nineteenth-century American fiction -- The novel and the people : democratic fiction and Howells's idea of the reading public -- Concepts of society and the practice of fiction : symbolic responses to the experience of change in late-nineteenth-century America -- A tale of two cities : culture and its social function in Chicago during the progressive period -- "The salt that saves" : fiction and history in the late work of Henry James -- Trans-national democracy and Anglo-Saxondom : fears and visions of a dominant minority in the 1920s 
505 1 |a -- Emily Dickinson's place in literary history : or, the public function of a private poet -- Deconstructing/reconstructing order : the faces of Transatlantic modernism -- A kaleidoscope of images : snapshot and stream of consciousness in Early-Twentieth-Century urban literature -- Province and Metropolis in the literature of the American Twenties -- The discourse of race in Faulkner's "The sound and the fury" and "Absalom, Absalom!" -- Versions of public art : national self-representation in the iconographies of Nazi Germany and the New Deal -- Myth and history - symbolizations of the frontier in US-American and Canadian fiction -- The city in English-Canadian and US-American literature -- Telling the moment : the poetry of Frank O'Hara and New York painting in the fifties and sixties -- Trash and collage : the city in post-modern American fiction -- History, fiction, and the designs of Robert Coover -- The narrative world of Don DeLillo -- Plot, conspiracy, and the reign of chance : the fantastic as history in Pynchon's novels 
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