ISBN:
3825368475
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9783825368470
Language:
English
Pages:
314 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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21 cm x 13.5 cm
Series Statement:
American Studies. A monograph series volume 285
Series Statement:
American studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Projecting American studies
DDC:
810
Keywords:
United States Study and teaching
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Methodology
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Konferenzschrift 2014
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Amerikanistik
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Methode
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Forschungsgegenstand
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Interdisziplinarität
Abstract:
"How do theories, methods, and scholarly practices shape major research projects currently underway in American Studies? In twenty original essays, the contributors to Projecting American Studies interrogate their ongoing work in various interdisciplinary contexts, shedding light on contemporary Americanist practices, styles, and publics."--Cover page 4
Description / Table of Contents:
Prologue: Opening moves
Description / Table of Contents:
Section I - Reading narrative, narrative readings: American studies and the methods of text
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Section II - Field and spaces of cultural exchange
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Section III - New urbanism
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Section IV - Affective resonances
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Section V - The uses of interdisciplinarity
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Section VI - Literary actions
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Section VII - Where are we now?
Note:
Literaturangaben
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"conference "Looking forward, 2014" at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in the fall of 2014" preface
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Scenes from the American studies locker room
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Seeing double: Reading naturalism after the new historicism
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On the conditions of the field imagination: Realism and William Dean Howells
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Finding words: American studies in dialogue with urban planning
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Identification and critique
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Greater than the sum of its parts: American studies as interdisciplinary area studies
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Thinking objects, building worlds: Why the new materialisms deserve literary imagination
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Can superhero comics studies develop a method? And what does American studies have to do with it?
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A Matter of scale: Is close reading to American studies what place is to space?
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Narratives about the American south: From cavalier myth to new southern studies
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Toward a poetics of practice: Self improvement, 'Nancy Drew', and the 'Chicago Defender'
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Travelling cultures in the here, there, and now of a new black atlantic
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On the textuality if American cities and their others: A disputation
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Public feeling, tacit knowledge, and civil sentimentalism in contemporary US culture
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American studies as a multi/inter/transdisciplinary endeavor? Problems, challenges, and the potential of heroism for collaborative research
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Ecotoning inter- and transdisciplinarity
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Belonging as critical method - 13 propositions
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Transvaluations of security
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Media/knowledge: American(ist) epistemic formats 1900/2000
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DISCIPLINE COOL. Notes, quotes, tweets, and facebook postings on the study of American self-studies (LookingForward remix)
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