Record Nr.

UNINA9910451595003321

Autore

Ridley Hugh

Titolo

'Relations stop nowhere' [[electronic resource] ] : the common literary foundations of German and American literature 1830-1917 / / Hugh Ridley

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007

ISBN

94-012-0423-3

1-4294-8118-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, , 0929-6999 ; ; 109

Disciplina

810.9003

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

German literature - History and criticism

American literature - German influences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-308) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Preface -- Introduction to National Literatures -- The Early Years of German and American Literary History -- Literary History and Democratic Nation-Building -- Democracy and Realism -- Hunting for American Aesthetics -- Exclusions from the Canon -- Literary History and Anthropology -- The American Heart of Darkness: Charles Sealsfield and the West -- American Idylls beyond Buffalo Bill -- Emerson in the German and American traditions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book attempts for the first time a comparative literary history of Germany and the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its material does not come from the familiar overlaps of individual German and American writers, but from the work of the literary historians of the two countries after 1815, when American intellectuals took Germany as a model for their project to create an American national literature. The first part of the book examines fundamental structural affinities between the two literary histories and the common problems these caused, especially in questions of canon, realism, aesthetics and in the

marginalization of popular and women’s writing. In the second part, significant figures whose work straddle the two literatures – from Sealsfield and Melville, Whitman and Thomas Mann to Nietzsche, Emerson and Bellow – are discussed in detail, and the arguments of the first part are shown in their relevance to understanding major writers. This book is not merely comparative in scope: it shows that only international comparison can explain the course of American literary history in the nineteenth and twentieth century. As recent developments in American Studies explore the multi-cultural and ‘hybrid’ nature of the American tradition, this book offers evidence of the dependencies which linked American and German national literary history.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001855879707536

Autore

Andrews, George E.

Titolo

q-series : their development and application in analysis, number theory, combinatorics, physics, and computer algebra / George E. Andrews

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Providence, RI : Published for the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences by the American Mathematical Society, c1986

ISBN

0821807161 (pbk.)

Descrizione fisica

xii, 130 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

Collana

Regional conference series in mathematics, 0160-7642 ; 66

Classificazione

AMS 05A30

AMS 11P57

LC QA1.R33

Altri autori (Enti)

American Mathematical Society

Disciplina

515.243

Soggetti

q-series