Reading Jack Kerouac's classic On the Road through Virginia Woolf's canonical A Room of
One's Own, the author of this book examines a genre in North American literature which …

Houses packed with Grief – Trauma and Home in three Novels by Toni Morrison Page 1
Universität Trier Fachbereich II Anglistik/Amerikanistik Literaturwissenschaft Houses packed with …

My PhD engages with a number of recent works of fiction in order to understand how
American literature has commented on the emergence of a postsuburban environment–that …

This essay examines the mathematical influences on Ezra Pound's Vorticism at the same
time as it provides close readings, by way of interludes interwoven throughout, of digital texts …

In Nordamerika stellt sich die Frage nach der kartografischen Imagination literarischer Texte
am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts neu. Das historische Paradigma, das laut Michel Foucault …

This essay presents the conception, outline, and results of a cultural and literary studies
graduate course held at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and at the Calgary …

An increasing number of landscape scholars have promoted the cinema as a means to
comprehend the complex characteristics of place and site that inform the discipline of …

The spatial strategies adopted by the founding fathers of the American Republic are
examined and their political roots and consequences explored. In particular the reasons for …

Early American Studies scholars had little interest in modernization theories of the sort
propagated in the 1950s and 1960s. These used European and American history to justify a …

ABSTRACT The Big Lebowski, which was made in 1998, is often described as a cult piece
of art. It seems that this reputation was gained not only because of its successful plot based …