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Lost Chances? Re-Negotiating Forest Activism in the Anthropocene

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2021
This essay examines the recent cultural revisit of previous forms of forest activism. Focusing on the 2019 Austrian art installation “For Forest” by Klaus Littmann and the 2018 novel The Overstory“ by American novelist Richard Powers, the article takes ...
Sarah Marak
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New Mexico’s Faustian Bargain with Science: Balancing Pride, Greed and Fear

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2014
This article is an account of the emotional heritage of the scientific revolution which dramatically transformed the state of New Mexico into a nuclear Eldorado.
Lucie Genay
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Sir and Guys in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century American English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the diachronic development of formal and informal address and reference terms in American English as an effect of democratization using the COHA corpus (1900–2020). In focus are two address/reference terms with especially drastic frequency trends in the timespan investigated: the honorific sir, which declines sharply from ...
Hanna Bruns, Svenja Kranich
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“Confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up”: Place and Knowledge in Joan Didion’s Memoir Where I Was From

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2012
This essay is a close reading of Joan Didion’s memoir Where I Was From“ (2003), and it is particularly focused on the spatial aspects of Didion’s narrative.
Alexandra Wagner
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From automaton to autonomy : mechanical reproduction in Fritz Lang's Metropolis : öffentlicher Gastvortrag, Prof. Dr. Richard Begam (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Dienstag, 2. Juni 2015, 16.30-18.00 Uhr, Gebäude: 23.32, Raum:01.65 [PDF]

, 2015
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf ; Organisation: Prof. Dr.

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Arbitrary Ruptures: The Making of History in Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2012
Michael Chabon’s alternate history novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union“ (2007) is one of a few novels of that genre that have received recognition from beyond its fan community.
Birte Otten
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Translation : übersetzen, 19.30 Uhr Autorenlesung mit Okwiri Oduou, BiBaBuZe Buchhandlung : Do 19/01/17 [PDF]

, 2017
Foto: Stephan Machac ; Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Abteilung V / Anglophone literatures and literary translation, Dr.

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Parallel Narratives: Trauma, Relationality, and Dissociation in Psychoanalysis and Realist Fiction

Humanities
The reciprocal relationship between cultural trauma studies and psychoanalytic discourse on the one hand, and trauma studies and fictional representations of trauma on the other, has been commented on by scholars within the field of literary studies ...
Mona Becker, C. Christina Sjöström
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The Purloined Chamber: A Lacanian Reading of Richard Powers’s Plowing the Dark

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2012
This article focuses on the short chapters in Richard Powers’s novel Plowing the Dark“ that describe obscure rooms which cannot easily be related to the novel’s action. Comparing these rooms to the letter in Poe’s short story “The Purloined Letter,“
Johanna Heil
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