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The Journey of life in American life and literature / Peter Freese (ed.).
- Title
- The Journey of life in American life and literature / Peter Freese (ed.).
- Publication
- Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2015]
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- Description
- 259 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- American studies : a monograph series, 0178-1987 ; volume 260
- Uniform Title
- American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 260.
- Subject
- American literature > 19th century > Themes, motives > Congresses
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism > Congresses
- Travel in literature > Congresses
- Women pioneers > United States > Congresses
- Physicians > United States > Congresses
- American literature > Themes, motives > Congresses
- American literature > History and criticism > Congresses
- United States > Description and travel > Congresses
- United States > In literature > Congresses
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Proceedings of conference held October 2014 at Universität-Gesamthochschule Paderborn.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / PETER FREESE -- Introduction / PETER FREESE -- The “Journey of Life” in American Fiction / PETER FREESE --Modern(s) Walking: Rousseau, Thoreau, Heidegger/ KLAUS BENESCH -- From Womb to Tomb: The Journey of Life in the Age of Biotechnology / RÜDIGER KUNOW -- Jack London's Journeys of Life / ALFRED HORNUNG -- Westward Home! Of Pioneers, Petticoats, and Practitioners in America's Old West / CARMEN BIRKLE -- Journeys in(to) the Western Film / BRIGITTE GEORGI-FINDLAY -- Vectors of Desire: Pynchon's Space Travels / HEINZ ICKSTADT -- At a Crossroads of Life and Death: The Apocalyptic Journey(s) of Cormac McCarthy's Fiction / MARKUS WIERSCHEM -- Travels with Carl: Apocalyptic Zombiescape, Masculinity and Seriality in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead / JEANNE CORTIEL -- Initiation and Cultural Identity in Sherman Alexie's Young Adult Fiction / KARSTEN FITZ -- The Intercultural Journey of Belonging in José Antonio Villarreal's Pocho / JOSEF RAAB -- Making Sense of Richard Brautigan's Short Story of (Anti- )Initiation "A Short History of Oregon" / LAURENZ VOLKMANN.
- ISBN
- 9783825364656 (hd.bd.)
- OCLC
- 907173436
- SCSB-11537495
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library