Aesthetic transgressions : modernity, liberalism, and the function of literature : Festschrift für Winfried Fluck zum 60. Geburtstag / herausgegeben von Thomas Claviez, Ulla Haselstein, Sieglinde Lemke.

• Modes of emergence / Wolfgang Iser -- Timely or out of joint? transformations of the aesthetic and cultural change / Herbert Grabes -- Aesthetic headaches: politics and art in the American novel / Emory Elliott -- The power of illusion and the illusion of power / Ulla Haselstein -- Leo Marx's 'Ur' theory of American studies: How 'garden' mechanisms would recover control of the field / Donald E. Pease -- Steps towards a history of the changing cultural functions of literature: metaphoric and poetic fictions of British imperialism as a test case / Ansgar Nünning -- The poet's burden / Astrid Franke -- Transgressive aesthetics: awe, alterity, and apprehension in The scarlet letter / Sieglinde Lemke -- Hawthorne's negative Romanticism: aesthetic self-reflection and the discursivity of story-telling in "Rappacini's daughter' / Stefan L. Brandt.
• The ambiguous critique of lynch law: Fritz Lang and Hollywood's representation of injustice / Christof Decker -- Transgressing taboos: projecting the Holocaust in Melvin Jules Bukiet's After and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is illuminated / Susanne Rohr -- Aesthetic experience and the collective life: John Dewey's democratic aesthetics and the peculiarities of American modernism / Heinz Ickstadt -- "Muted fanfares": the topos of the common man in the works of Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams and James Agee / Thomas Claviez -- Modernist point of view technique and the ethics of reading: a Rortian approach to Ernest Hemingway / Kurt Müller -- "You don't know Paree!": cultural indifference in The sun also rises / Frank Mehring -- "The Athenian sun in an African [American] sky": Rita Dove's Grecian gift / Dalia El-Shayal.

Ämnesord

Amerikansk litteratur  (sao)

Litteraturestetik  (sao)

Litteratur och samhälle  -- Förenta staterna (sao)

Liberalism in literature.  (LCSH)

American literature  -- History and criticism -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Literature  -- Aesthetics -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Literature and society  -- United States -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Letterkunde.  (gtt)

Engels.  (gtt)

Esthetica.  (gtt)

Moderne.  (swd)

Literatur.  (swd)

Ästhetik.  (swd)

American literature  (LCSH)

USA.  (swd)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Konferenser  (saogf)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Geq Litteraturhistoria: amerikansk

Klassifikation

PS88 (LCC)

810.9 (DDC)

17.83 (bcl)

Geq (kssb/8)