Spotlights
- Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 2
- Bridging Worlds, Curating Knowledge
- Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 1
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Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 2
SpotlightRead MoreThis new volume of AMERICANA eBooks, part of the Szeged Series in American Studies (SZESAS), addresses the issue of US society and culture at the threshold of crisis and healing in a selection of American literary representations. American society and culture has mostly been fragmented along many fracture lines, and the volume offers a collection of essays that focus on literary representations of these. The papers explore a diverse range of texts from highly canonized to almost marginal by interrogating the possibilities of transformation, agency, and the limits to healing. The...
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Bridging Worlds, Curating Knowledge
SpotlightRead MoreThis collection of essays was compiled in honor of Roberta Maierhofer, Professor of American Studies and Director of the Center for Inter-American Studies (C.IAS) at the University of Graz, Austria, on the occasion of her retirement. As close colleagues, former students, and lifelong collaborators, we gathered our contributions in this volume around the Inter-American CEEPUS Network with its gravitational center in Graz to celebrate not only Roberta Maierhofer’s impressive intellectual contributions and extraordinary career but also the profound personal impact she has had on our...
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Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 1
SpotlightRead MoreThis volume of Americana eBooks has been designed to explore the theme of crisis in US culture and history, showing specific concern with changes generated by critical periods in the country’s history. As well as spanning various periods, the chapters encompass a diversity of topics and approaches ranging from historical linguistics through contemporary popular culture and film studies. With few exceptions, they all revolve around the problem of change and transformation – a concomitant effect of crisis – probing into its wider significance in American culture.
