Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Claviez, Thomas.
• Haselstein, Ulla.
• Lemke, Sieglinde.
• Fluck, Winfried.

Description

384 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

American studies ; v. 131

Uniform Title

American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 131.

Subject

• American literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Literature > Aesthetics > Congresses
• Literature and society > United States > Congresses
• Liberalism in literature

Note

• Festschrift.
• International conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 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.

ISBN

3825351971 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

68629553

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library