The volume explores the state of contemporary American Studies in the light of recent developments and currently emerging perspectives of research. Featuring contributions by leading American Studies scholars from the German-speaking...

Since its earliest records, Shakespeare's Tempest has undergone continuous change. It is a play by which readers, spectators and critics just as artists, writers, actors ordirectors try to understand themselves. Over the courseof four...

What are the connections between literature and culture, and between literature and cultural change? Literature and its conventions are obviously subject to cultural change, and can be used as documentary evidence of particular aspects...

'Romance with America?' is a collection of twenty-one essays by one of today's most important American Studies scholars. The selection assembled here pays tribute to the immense scope of Winfried Fluck's intellectual pursuits. It traces...

REAL 27. The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature / States of Emergency - States of Crisis von Fluck, Winfried

German? American? Literature? von Fluck, Winfried

Mit dieser Geschichte des amerikanischen Romans wird eine Darstellung vorgelegt, die im Kontext der Debatte um den Beitrag des Romans zum neuzeitlichen Modernisierungsprozeß steht. Für diese Darstellung sind die vom Modernismus...