The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines literary studies with the philosophy of time and sociological theories of modernity, and provides new approaches to canonical American authors from the past two centuries.
The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines literary studies with the philosophy of time and sociological theories of modernity, and provides new approaches to canonical American authors from the past two centuries.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Johannes Voelz is Professor of American Studies, Democracy, and Aesthetics at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany. In 2016, he was awarded a Heisenberg-Professorship by the German Research Foundation. He is the author of Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists and Emerson's Challenge (2010) and has edited several books and special issues, among them 'Security and Liberalism' (Telos, 2015) and 'Chance, Risk, Security: Approaches to Uncertainty in American Literature' (Amerikastudien/American Studies, 2015).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: security and the uncertain worlds of fiction 2. The virtue of uncertainty: securing the republic in Arthur Mervyn 3. Harriet Jacobs's imagined community of insecurity 4. Willa Cather and the security of radical contingency 5. Cold War liberalism and Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person' 6. In the future, toward death: finance capitalism and security in DeLillo's cosmopolis Epilogue.
1. Introduction: security and the uncertain worlds of fiction 2. The virtue of uncertainty: securing the republic in Arthur Mervyn 3. Harriet Jacobs's imagined community of insecurity 4. Willa Cather and the security of radical contingency 5. Cold War liberalism and Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person' 6. In the future, toward death: finance capitalism and security in DeLillo's cosmopolis Epilogue.
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