Austria and America

Austria and America
Author: Joshua Parker,Ralph J. Poole
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2017
Genre: Austria
ISBN: 3643958129

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Austria and America 20th Century Cross Cultural Encounters

Austria and America  20th Century Cross Cultural Encounters
Author: Joshua Parker,Ralph J. Poole
Publsiher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2017
Genre: Austria
ISBN: 9783643908124

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Through literature, film, diplomatic relations, and academic exchanges, this volume examines key historical points in Austrian-American relations of the past century, pondering the roots of how and why "austrianness" was adapted to American culture, and how America's cultural lens focused on the two countries' exchanges. From Freud's early reception, to FDR's policy toward Austrian refugees in the Pacific, and from film adaptations to film-writing, literature and Freudianism during the McCarthy era, it reviews encounters between Austria and the United States, between Austrians and Americans, between each's images of the other, and the lives of those caught in between. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 15) [Subject: Politics, American Studies, Austrian Studies, Sociology]

US American Expressions of Utopian and Dystopian Visions

US American Expressions of Utopian and Dystopian Visions
Author: Saskia Fürst,Yvonne Kaisinger,Ralph Poole
Publsiher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2017
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783643909312

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This collection takes stock of current discourses in American studies on the political valence of American utopias, be they as religious diasporas or as socialist experiments, fantastic or realist, successful or failed. The included essays take into account the spatiality of utopias (especially in their visionary scope), analyze currents in literary utopias, and look at dystopian visions in literature. This volume strives to keep alive the long tradition of writers, artists, and scholars who warned against imminent disasters and envisioned ways to counter such ruinous bearings. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 17) [Subject: Sociology, Literary Studies]

Pioneer African American Educators in Washington D C Anna J Cooper Mary Church Terrell and Eva B Dykes

Pioneer African American Educators in Washington  D C   Anna J  Cooper  Mary Church Terrell  and Eva B  Dykes
Author: Marina Bacher
Publsiher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018
Genre: African American civic leaders
ISBN: 9783643909459

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Anna J. Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, and Eva B. Dykes shaped the educational landscape in Washington, D.C., in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These three pioneer educators serve as examples to describe the societal circles they were involved in. The many facets of their educational achievements are analyzed in the context of the educational elite of Washington. Cooper, Terrell, and Dykes not only had to live with race discrimination but also with gender discrimination. Unpublished archive material is used to illustrate how they interacted and how they treated each other. Marina Bacher is a scholar, author, and educator. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 18) [Subject: Education, Sociology, History]

Space Oddities

Space Oddities
Author: Stefan L. Brandt,Michael Fuchs
Publsiher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9783643507976

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"Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City" approaches a space (and place) central to the American imagination-the city. In particular, this volume discusses the paradoxes of American cities and American urban life. In this way, the book critically engages with the paradoxes of the American identity, embodied by cultural practices in, and cultural representations of, urban life in the United States. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 16) [Subject: Sociology, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies]

Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts

Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts
Author: Martin Kindermann,Rebekka Rohleder
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2020-10-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783030552695

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Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity explores the narrative formations of urbanity from an interdisciplinary perspective. Within the framework of the “spatial turn,” contributors from disciplines ranging from geography and history to literary and media studies theorize narrative constructions of the city and cities, and analyze relevant examples from a variety of discourses, media, and cities. Subdivided into six sections, the book explores the interactions of city and text—as well as other media—and the conflicting narratives that arise in these interactions. Offering case studies that discuss specific aspects of the narrative construction of Berlin and London, the text also considers narratives of urban discontinuity and their theoretical implications. Ultimately, this volume captures the narratological, artistic, material, social, and performative possibilities inherent in spatial representations of the city.

Contemporary Quality TV

Contemporary Quality TV
Author: Saskia M. Fürst,Ralph J. Poole
Publsiher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2021-06-17
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9783643911995

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Ever since HBO's slogan "It's Not TV, It's HBO" launched in 1996, so-called quality television has reached a new level of marketing, recognition, and indeed quality. With other networks imitating the formula, the "HBO effect" triggered a wave of creative output. This turn to quality set off two shifts: (a) Contemporary television staged an international resurgence of the auteur, and (b) America transformed into an "on-demand nation." The chapters in this volume analyze new television lifestyles including marginalized perspectives, fan participation, and an emerging nostalgia correlated with trash aesthetics.

Literatures of Urban Possibility

Literatures of Urban Possibility
Author: Markku Salmela,Lieven Ameel,Jason Finch
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021-05-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783030709099

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This book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility. In city literature, ideas of possibility emerge primarily through two perspectives: texts may focus on what is possible for cities, and they may present the urban environment as a site of possibility for individuals or communities. The volume combines reflections on urban possibility from a range of geographical and cultural contexts—in addition to the English-speaking world, individual chapters analyse possible cities and possible urban lives in Turkey, Israel, Finland, Germany, Russia and Sweden. Moreover, by engaging with issues such as city planning, mass housing, gentrification, informal settlements and translocal identities, the book shows imaginative literature at work outlining what possibility means in cities.