Projecting American Studies: Essays on Theory, Method, and Practice

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"How do theories, methods, and scholarly practices shape major research projects currently underway in American Studies? In twenty original essays, the contributors to Projecting American Studies interrogate their ongoing work in various interdisciplinary contexts, shedding light on contemporary Americanist practices, styles, and publics."--Page 4 of cover.

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Full title :Projecting American Studies : Essays on Theory, Method, and Practice.

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Publication Date:2018.

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Publisher(s):Universitätsverlag Winter
Place of Publication:Heidelberg
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

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Description:1 online resource (316 pages)

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ISBN:382537775X, 3825368475, 9783825368470, 9783825377755
oclc:on1024253730
LC Classification:LB2325
Dewey Decimal:378

Cover; Titel; Imprint; Contents; FRANK KELLETER & ALEXANDER STARRE: Preface; Prologue: Opening Moves: CHRISTOPH RIBBAT: Scenes from the American Studies Locker Room; Section I: Reading Narrative, Narrative Readings: American Studies and the Methods of Text; JAMES DORSON: Seeing Double: Reading Naturalism after the New Historicism; KLAUS BENESCH: A Matter of Scale: Is Close Reading to American Studies. What Place Is to Space?; WINFRIED FLUCK: Narratives About the American South: From Cavalier Myth to New Southern Studies; Section II: Fields and Spaces of Cultural Exchange.

FLORIAN SEDLMEIER: On the Conditions of the Field Imagination: Realism and William Dean HowellsALEKSANDRA BOSS & MARTIN KLEPPER: Toward a Poetics of Practice: Self-Improvement, ""Nancy Drew"", and the ""Chicago Defender; MARTIN LÃ#x9C;THE: Travelling Cultures in the Here, There, and Now of a New Black Atlantic; Section III: New Urbanisms; JULIA SATTLER: Finding Words: American Studies in Dialogue with Urban Planning; BARBARA BUCHENAU & JENS GURR: On the Textuality of American Cities and Their Others: A Disputation; Section IV: Affective Resonances; RITA FELSKI: Identification and Critique.

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