Is the Book of Mormon the Great American Novel' Decades before Melville and Twain composed their great works, a farm hand and child seer named Joseph Smith unearthed a long-buried book from a haunted hill in western New York State, which told of an epic history of ancient Americ…
A witty and probing travelogue through the landscapes associated with The Book of Mormon, it argues for taking The Book of Mormon seriously as work of American storytelling.
by Kuntz, Mary
fromMnemosyne <Leiden> / Supplementum
by Kuntz, Mary
fromMnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava
by Kuntz, Mary
fromMnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava
"In this new collection of essays on the cinema, all written over the last ten years, Peter Wollen explores an extraordinarily wide range of topics, stretching from an analysis of time in film and video art to a study of Riff-Raff Realism in British film. Provocative essays disc…
"The satire 'Timon', attributed to the earl of Rochester and probably written in 1674, exemplifies much that is generally thought to be typical of Restoration poetry. Densely packed with cultural allusions and expectations, it is preoccupied with money, sex, eating and drinking,…
Moretti explores the fascinating connections between literature and space, illuminating the geographical assumptions of 19th century novels and the geographical reach of particular authors and genres across the continent.
In diesem Sammelband werden Schauplätze der Umweltgeschichte aus dem heutigen Bundesland Nordrhein-Westfalen vorgestellt. Damit werden Mensch-Umwelt-Interaktionen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart an ausgewählten Orten in den Blick genommen. Das Themenspektrum reicht vom Bild des R…
Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America's innocence.
Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America's innocence.
