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Envisioning American Utopias

Editat de Antje Dallmann, Reinhard Isensee, Philipp Kneis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2011
The volume discusses utopian representations of American society, and reflections of American political thought and vision in literature, film, and television. The articles address topics of ecology, urbanism, politics, society, and heroism. Specifically, the volume addresses texts by Paul Auster, Ernest Callenbach, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bernard-Henri Levy, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Sam Shepard, Alexis de Toqueville, James Welch, and Nathanael West, and television series like "24," and the "Star Trek" and "Stargate" franchises, as well as video games. Contributors include Sandra Beyer, Rasmus Damkjaer Christensen, Antje Dallmann, Allison Davis-White Eyes, Martin Dalgaard Gron, Reinhard Isensee, Berenike Jung, Philipp Kneis, Daniela Simon, Katarzyna Sobieraj, Renate Ulbrich, and Thomas Wagenknecht."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783631575130
ISBN-10: 3631575130
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 145 x 208 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W

Notă biografică

Antje Dallmann has received her MA from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in American and British Studies, French and Culture Studies. In her dissertation, she discusses how the trope of paranoia is used to different ends in contemporary urban fiction. Presently she works on a project on the intersection of nineteenth-century literary and medical discourses. Reinhard Isensee graduated in English, American and German Studies. Afterwards he pursued a postgraduate degree in American Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His dissertation dealt with the topic of naturalist literature in the US, his habilitation in 2002 with American adolescent literature of the twentieth century. He has held numerous research and teaching positions as visiting professor in the USA and at European universities. Philipp Kneis has studied American Studies and History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He has been the organizer of numerous transatlantic student-based conferences and symposia. His main research interests are American film and television, American politics, European studies, Native American Studies, Aging, and Memetics. He has recently published The Emancipation of the Soul: Memes of Destiny in American Visual Culture (Lang, 2010).