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A panoramic view of the Age of Enlightenment. From the search for knowledge and a new kind of science to debates about religion, human equality, freedom of mankind, the demand…
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Liliane Weissberg
In Leben und Werk ist Edgar Allan Poe einer der originellsten amerikanischen Schriftsteller des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mit seinen Erzahlungen wurde er zum Schoepfer der short-story und der modernen Detektivgeschichte. Er…
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On Writing with Photography explores what happens to texts-and images-when they are brought together, addressing a wide range of genres and media, including graphic novels, children’s books, photo-essays, films, diaries…
In this volume, a handful of leading Americanists revisit the Poe issue, re-examining what it means to speak of an author or his work as a racist, and where the…
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Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity brings together scholars of folklore, literature, history, and communication to explore the dynamics of cultural memory in a variety of contexts.
With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws…
