Modernities and Modernization in North America
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1. Edition, 2018
471 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-6953-8
Product: Book
Edition: Hardcover
Subject: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Series: American Studies – A Monograph Series, Volume No.: 298
Available: 28.01.2019
Keywords:
amerikanische Literatur, literarische Moderne, U.S.A., Eliot, T. S., Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Unmittelbarkeit, Kerouac, Jack, Stein, Gertrude, Avant-garde, Howells, William Dean, 19. Jahrhundert, 20. Jahrhundert, Modern Dance, Hurston, Zora Neale, Verdecchia, Guillermo, Queer, Post-Apokalyptik, Gernsback, Hugo, New Deal, Weltausstellung 1939/40, Weltausstellung 1964/65, Dystopien, Neue Rechte, 21. Jahrhundert, Neoliberalismus, Hustvedt, Siri, Augmented Reality
From the ‘early modern’ period to the present moment, the United States has consistently been associated with notions of modernization and modernity. Nevertheless, ideas of what is considered modern change over time, in accordance with a respective historical context’s understanding of the ‘old’ or ‘ancient.’ And although any period in US history is (self-)stylized as modern, the discourse of modernity culminates particularly at the beginning of the twentieth century, when fundamental categories and concepts of spatial, temporal, and moral orientation were redefined.
This volume combines two lines of inquiry: it brings together new assessments of turn-of-the-century modernity in diverse formats such as literature, film, and stage performances and it offers investigations of modernity and modernization in other eras and media, including depression-era documentaries, the 1940 and 1964 World’s Fairs, twenty-first-century computer games, and augmented reality art projects.
Contrib. by: Ilka Brasch, Ruth Mayer, Anita Patterson, Birgit Capelle, Ulla Haselstein, Heike Schaefer, Florian Sedlmeier, Herwig Friedl, Laura Horak, Johanna Heil, Birgit Bauridl, Astrid M. Fellner, Florian Weinzierl, Sascha Klein, Connor Pitetti, Martin Holtz, Florian Groß, Torsten Kathke, Simon Schleusener, Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich, Christian Guese, Diana Wagner, Sören Schoppmeier, Ingrid Gessner
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