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Schweighauser traces the acoustic imagination of American literature from naturalism to postmodernism. He reads the noises writers represent as fictional responses to the social, cultural, and political changes and conflicts of modernity and postmodernity. Exploring the social functions of literature, he also suggests that literature itself, in its constant search for new language forms, has...
University Press of Florida
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / Amerikanistik (Schweighauser)
Publication: Edited Book (Herausgeber eines eigenständigen Buches)
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Rapcsak, Balazs; Nixon, Mark; Schweighauser, Philipp
Featuring twelve original essays by leading Beckett scholars and media theorists, this book provides the first sustained examination of the relationship between Beckett and media technologies. The chapters analyse the rich variety of technical objects, semiotic arrangements, communication processes and forms of data processing that Beckett's work so uniquely engages with, as well as those that -...
Manchester University Press
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / Amerikanistik (Schweighauser)
This timely volume explores a wealth of North American literary texts that engage with moral and ethical dilemmas. It ranges from William Dean Howells’s and Henry James’s realist novels to Edward Sapir’s intermedial poems, and from John Muir’s unpublished letters and journal of his 1893 tour of the Swiss Alps to Rudy Wiebe’s A Discovery of Strangers and the poetry of...
Narr Francke Attempto
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / Amerikanistik (Schweighauser)
Askin, Ridvan; Ennis, Paul J.; Hägler, Andreas; Schweighauser, Philipp
Ever since the turn of the century aesthetics has steadily gained momentum as a central field of study across the disciplines. No longer sidelined, aesthetics has grown in confidence. While this recent development brings with it a return to the work of the canonical authors (most notably Baumgarten and Kant), some contemporary scholars reject the traditional focus on epistemology and theorize...
Punctum Books
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / Amerikanistik (Schweighauser)
Starting from the Comte de Buffon's loose 1753 definition of 'style' as "nothing but the order and movement one gives to one's thoughts" while insisting on the potentially violent act of inscription that the etymological origin of 'style' in Latin stilus points to, this essay explores major Boasian anthropologist Ruth Fulton Benedict's ethnographic and poetic styles. Focusing on her bestselling...
Peter Lang
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / Amerikanistik (Schweighauser)
This essay proposes three ways of reading the first sentimental American novels from a transatlantic perspective. The first, most established account tells the story of American novelists’ transformations of Richardsonian literary formulae and negotiations of Lockean empiricism and liberalism. Inspired by the transnational turn in American Studies, the second narrative expands the scope of...
De Gruyter
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / Amerikanistik (Schweighauser)
