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UNISA996445954003316 |
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Autore |
Paul Heike |
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Titolo |
Myths That Made America : an Introduction to American Studies / / Heike Paul |
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Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , 2014 |
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American studies ; ; v. 1 |
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Amerikaforschung |
Geografie, Reisen |
Literature and literary studies |
Literature: history and criticism |
Literary studies: general |
HISTORY - United States - State & Local - General |
LITERARY CRITICISM - American - General |
Nationalcharakter |
Mythos |
History |
United States History Errors, inventions, etc |
United States |
USA |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Christopher Columbus and the Myth of 'Discovery' -- Pocahontas and the Myth of Transatlantic Love -- Pilgrims and Puritans and the Myth of the Promised Land -- American Independence and the Myth of the Founding Fathers -- E Pluribus Unum? The Myth of the Melting Pot -- Agrarianism, Expansionism, and the Myth of the American West -- Expressive Individualism and the Myth of the Self-Made Man. |
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This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of discovery, the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the |
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Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building. |
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UNISA996466474103316 |
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Titolo |
Algebraic groups : proceedings of a symposium in honour of T. A. Springer : Utrech 1986. / / A. M. Cohen [and three others], editors |
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Berlin : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1987] |
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©1987 |
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[1st ed. 1987.] |
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1 online resource (VIII, 288 p.) |
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Lecture notes in mathematics ; ; 1271 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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A vanishing theorem in relative Lie algebra cohomology -- Nilpotent orbits, primitive ideals, and characteristic classes -- Some examples of hochschild and cyclic homology -- On the topology of algebraic torus actions -- Restricted lie algebra cohomology -- On geometric invariant theory for infinite-dimensional groups -- Etale local structure of matrix invariants and concomitants -- Fourier transforms on a semisimple Lie algebra over Fq -- Commuting differential operators and zonal spherical functions -- Some surfaces covered by the ball and a problem in finite groups -- Invariant theory and kloosterman sums -- On actions of on -- Normality of G-stable subvarieties of a semisimple Lie algebra -- Unipotent elements and parabolic subgroups of reductive groups. II. |
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From 1-4 April 1986 a Symposium on Algebraic Groups was held at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, in celebration of the 350th birthday of the University and the 60th of T.A. Springer. Recognized leaders in the field of algebraic groups and related areas gave lectures which covered wide and central areas of mathematics. Though the fourteen papers in this volume are mostly original research contributions, some survey articles are included. Centering on the Symposium subject, such diverse topics are covered as Discrete Subgroups of Lie Groups, Invariant Theory, D-modules, Lie Algebras, Special Functions, Group Actions on Varieties. |
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