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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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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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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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Parallel Narratives: Trauma, Relationality, and Dissociation in Psychoanalysis and Realist Fiction
HumanitiesThe 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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Drama education and personality change in students: A longitudinal study in school drama clubs
Social Sciences and Humanities OpenDrama education is thought to have an influence on the personality development of students who take part in theatre activities. However, drama is a complex process that consists of various elements and phases, such as warm-ups, acting, role work ...
Andreas Wirag, Carola Surkamp
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"Sex in Bed or Sex in the Head?" - A Transatlantic Love Affair
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2012 In early 1947, the French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir traveled across the United States. During her four-month voyage she met and fell in love with the then quite famous American novelist Nelson Algren of Chicago.
Anja Becker
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, 1987 Thiébaut Jacques. Jan De Grauwe. Historia Cartusiana Belgica, Salzbourg, Institut fur anglistik und amerikanistik, Universitàt Salzburg, 1985. In: Revue du Nord, tome 69, n°273, Avril-juin 1987. pp.
Thiébaut, Jacques
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History and Storytelling: Historical Narratives by Women Authors of the Contemporary American South
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2011 Contemporary historical fictions by women writers of the American South show new ways of dealing with the region’s history. In a project of rewriting mainstream history, they try to provide a means of identification and therefore a “usable past“ for ...
Susanne Rothaug
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Phenomenally Affective: Kass Morgan’s The 100 and the Apocalyptic Politics of Care
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2021 This essay confronts a growing consensus that the apocalyptic mode is the wrong way to tell the story of climate change. Contrary to the widely held belief that an apocalyptic framework invites apathy and political disengagement, I contend that the ...
Hannah Nelson-Teutsch
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