Aesthetic transgressions
Subtitle: modernity, liberalism, and the function of literature : Festschrift für Winfried Fluck zum 60. Geburtstag
By: herausgegeben von Thomas Claviez, Ulla Haselstein, Sieglinde Lemke.
Contributors: Claviez, Thomas.; Haselstein, Ulla.; Lemke, Sieglinde.; Fluck, Winfried.
Series: American studies -- v. 131; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 131.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9783825351977
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Literature -- Aesthetics -- Congresses.; Literature and society -- United States -- Congresses.; Liberalism in literature.; Letterkunde.; Engels.; Esthetica.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Festschrift.

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Modes of emergence / Wolfgang Iser; value: Timely or out of joint? transformations of the aesthetic and cultural change / Herbert Grabes; value: Aesthetic headaches: politics and art in the American novel / Emory Elliott; value: The power of illusion and the illusion of power / Ulla Haselstein; value: Leo Marx's 'Ur' theory of American studies: How 'garden' mechanisms would recover control of the field / Donald E. Pease; value: Steps towards a history of the changing cultural functions of literature: metaphoric and poetic fictions of British imperialism as a test case / Ansgar Nünning; value: The poet's burden / Astrid Franke; value: Transgressive aesthetics: awe, alterity, and apprehension in The scarlet letter / Sieglinde Lemke; value: Hawthorne's negative Romanticism: aesthetic self-reflection and the discursivity of story-telling in "Rappacini's daughter' / Stefan L. Brandt.; value: The ambiguous critique of lynch law: Fritz Lang and Hollywood's representation of injustice / Christof Decker; value: Transgressing taboos: projecting the Holocaust in Melvin Jules Bukiet's After and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is illuminated / Susanne Rohr; value: Aesthetic experience and the collective life: John Dewey's democratic aesthetics and the peculiarities of American modernism / Heinz Ickstadt; value: "Muted fanfares": the topos of the common man in the works of Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams and James Agee / Thomas Claviez; value: Modernist point of view technique and the ethics of reading: a Rortian approach to Ernest Hemingway / Kurt Müller; value: "You don't know Paree!": cultural indifference in The sun also rises / Frank Mehring; value: "The Athenian sun in an African [American] sky": Rita Dove's Grecian gift / Dalia El-Shayal.