Faces of fiction : essays on American literature and culture from the Jacksonian period to postmodernity / Heinz Ickstadt. Ed. by Susanne Rohr, Sabine Sielke
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Heidelberg :
Winter,
2001
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| Schriftenreihe: | American studies
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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
- -- 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