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1 online resource (316 pages). |
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American Studies - A Monograph Series ; v. 285
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American Studies - A Monograph Series.
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| Contents |
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. |
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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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HEIKE PAUL: Public Feeling, Tacit Knowledge, and Civil Sentimentalism in Contemporary US CultureSection V: The Uses of Interdisciplinarity; BORIS VORMANN: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: American Studies as Interdisciplinary Area Studies; SIMON WENDT: American Studies as a Multi/Inter/Transdisciplinary Endeavor? Problems, Challenges, and the Potential of Heroism for Collaborative Research; SABINE SIELKE: Ecotoning Inter- and Transdisciplinarity; Section VI: Literary Actions; BABETTE B. TISCHLEDER: Thinking Objects, Building Worlds: Why the New Materialisms Deserve Literary Imagination. |
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LAURA BIEGER: Belonging as Critical Method â#x80;#x94; 13 PropositionsJOHANNES VOELZ: Transvaluations of Security; Section VII: Where Are We Now?; DANIEL STEIN: Can Superhero Comics Studies Develop a Method? And What Does American Studies Have to Do with It?; RUTH MAYER & ALEXANDER STARRE: Media/Knowledge: American(ist) Epistemic Formats 1900/2000; FRANK KELLETER: DISCIPLINE COOL. Notes, Quotes, Tweets, and Facebook Postings on the Study of American Self-Studies (LookingForward Remix); Contributors; Backcover. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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United States -- Study and teaching -- Methodology.
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United States. |
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Methodology. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Starre, Alexander.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kelleter, Frank. Projecting American Studies : Essays on Theory, Method, and Practice. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, ©2018 9783825368470 |
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382537775X |
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3825368475 |
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9783825368470 |
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9783825377755 (electronic book) |
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9783825368470 |
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