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- ISBN 9783631617281
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jul 2011
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This collection presents essays by leading European and American scholars addressing new research approaches to US Studies and their transatlantic reverberations. Beginning with philosophical discussions of the serious challenges facing civilization from the perspective of philosophical pragmatism, through a critique of the pervasive and enduring media discourse of terrorism, to reflections on the position of scholarship focusing on the United States in difficult times – our times – this volume considers in depth what is called or miscalled «American Studies». The collection’s specific topics range from a fresh look at philosophical pragmatism, through various representations of danger and fear in visual culture, to texts recording new attitudes to the study of the United States. An essay on children confronting the New World, papers on transnational or postnational American studies, and on presidential leadership as therapy signal that the time has come to revise the canon of the study of the United States.
Elżbieta H. Oleksy is Full Professor of Humanities at the University of Łódź. She chairs the Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies and is Founding Director of Women’s Studies Centre. She has recently published on the limits of gendered citizenships and on intimate citizenships and gender.
Wiesław Oleksy teaches at the Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies at the University of Łódź. He has published several books and articles on American Studies, contrastive linguistics, and speech act theory.
Wiesław Oleksy teaches at the Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies at the University of Łódź. He has published several books and articles on American Studies, contrastive linguistics, and speech act theory.
