Blurred Boundaries
Critical Essays on American Literature, Language, and Culture
Published on 1. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
254 pages
978-3-631-49298-7 (ISBN)
Description
Paradoxically, the only definite evaluation that can be made about the state of American Studies in the middle of the 1990s is that «blurred boundaries» prevail in academic discourse and the subjects of research in the field. According to the editors, this new interest in boundaries is a reflection of a) global, social and cultural developments, b) recent trends in general cultural and literary theory, and c) the current reexamination of research methods within the discipline of American Studies itself. In this volume, contributors from Canada, Germany and the United States creatively respond to the phenomenon of «blurred boundaries,» reassessing authors such as Thoreau, Cooper, Melville, Jacobs, Stoddard, Whitney, Eastman, Mackenzie, McCarthy, Redbird, Walker, Carver and Holzer.
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Persons
The Editors: Klaus H. Schmidt teaches American Language and Literature at the University of Mainz in Germersheim. He is currently an A.C.L.S. fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, preparing his habilitation thesis on 18th-century American Literature.
David Sawyer teaches American Studies at the University of Mainz in Germersheim. He is currently a visiting professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. His present research centers on German-American travel writing.
The Contributors: Klaus H. Schmidt, David Sawyer, Volker Raatz, Magdalen Mayer, Ulrike Nüßler, Sabina Matter-Seibel, Christoph Irmscher, Susanne Hagemann, Barbara Kraus, Sandra Carolan-Brozy, Opal Moore, Sabine Sielke.
David Sawyer teaches American Studies at the University of Mainz in Germersheim. He is currently a visiting professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. His present research centers on German-American travel writing.
The Contributors: Klaus H. Schmidt, David Sawyer, Volker Raatz, Magdalen Mayer, Ulrike Nüßler, Sabina Matter-Seibel, Christoph Irmscher, Susanne Hagemann, Barbara Kraus, Sandra Carolan-Brozy, Opal Moore, Sabine Sielke.
Content
Contents: Introduction - Critical Essays on Thoreau's Journal, Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Melville and Jacobs, Stoddard and Whitney, Eastman's From the Deep Woods to Civilization, Mackenzie's The Monarch of the Glen, McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Redbird's Red on White, Hurston and Walker, Carver and Altman, and Holzer's «Lustmord».