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The Journey of Life in American Life and Literature /
The papers collected in this volume were presented at a conference on "The Journey of Life" which took place at Paderborn University in October 2013. They focus on a perennially recurring archetype of the human imagination which, for obvious reasons, is especially influential in the U.S. T...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
[2015]
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| Colección: | American studies (Munich, Germany)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / PETER FREESE
- Introduction / PETER FREESE
- The "Journey of Life" in American Fiction / PETER FREESE
- Modern(s) Walking: Rousseau, Thoreau, Heidegger/ KLAUS BENESCH
- From Womb to Tomb: The Journey of Life in the Age of Biotechnology / RÜDIGER KUNOW
- Jack London's Journeys of Life / ALFRED HORNUNG
- Westward Home! Of Pioneers, Petticoats, and Practitioners in America's Old West / CARMEN BIRKLE
- Journeys in(to) the Western Film / BRIGITTE GEORGI-FINDLAY
- Vectors of Desire: Pynchon's Space Travels / HEINZ ICKSTADT
- At a Crossroads of Life and Death: The Apocalyptic Journey(s) of Cormac McCarthy's Fiction / MARKUS WIERSCHEM
- Travels with Carl: Apocalyptic Zombiescape, Masculinity and Seriality in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead / JEANNE CORTIEL
- Initiation and Cultural Identity in Sherman Alexie's Young Adult Fiction / KARSTEN FITZ
- The Intercultural Journey of Belonging in José Antonio Villarreal's Pocho / JOSEF RAAB
- Making Sense of Richard Brautigan's Short Story of (Anti- )Initiation "A Short History of Oregon" / LAURENZ VOLKMANN.