The Antinomy of Multilingual US Literature
In: Comparative American studies: an international journal, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 203-224
ISSN: 1741-2676
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In: Comparative American studies: an international journal, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 203-224
ISSN: 1741-2676
In: Norma: Nordic journal for masculinity studies, Band 13, Heft 3-4, S. 279-280
ISSN: 1890-2146
In: The Journal of the history of childhood and youth, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 343-345
ISSN: 1941-3599
In: Post*45
Introduction : the naked editor -- Shocking the middle class -- An aristocracy of smut -- Decrypting EC Comics -- Reading Playboy for the science fiction -- Mad ones, Mad men -- White-collar masochism -- Afterword : transgression in the post-pornographic era
In: Latino studies, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 423-425
ISSN: 1476-3443
In: American Culture Studies
The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media.
The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. The author shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media.
In: Utopian studies, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 353-383
ISSN: 2154-9648
ABSTRACT
An overview of the importance of religion, particularly Christianity, has had in American life from the earliest explorations and settlements to the present day and the way that importance has been reflected in numerous religious utopias and dystopias. Positive utopias have been inspired by Christ's teachings and by Eden, heaven, and the millennium. Dystopias, found mostly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, reflect, on the one hand, a fear that Christianity is under threat, and, on the other hand, the fear that fundamentalist Christians will impose their beliefs on the country. There have also been a number of Jewish utopias and anti-Semitic dystopias as well as a few Islamic utopias and a growing number of anti-Islamic dystopias based on the belief that Muslims want to impose Shari`a law on everyone.
In: Oltreoceano: rivista sulle migrazioni, Heft 19, S. 103-110
ISSN: 1973-9370
In: International observer, Band 23, Heft 413, S. 2535-2536
ISSN: 1061-0324
In: GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 162-164
ISSN: 1527-9375
In: Sprache und Literatur 34
In: Latino studies, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 277-279
ISSN: 1476-3443
In: Das Standesamt: STAZ ; Zeitschrift für Standesamtswesen, Familienrecht, Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht, Personenstandsrecht, internationales Privatrecht des In- und Auslands ; mit sämtl. amtl. Bekanntmachungen für die Standesamtführung, Band 51, Heft 9, S. 296
ISSN: 0341-3977