This study focuses on how Puritans in England and especially New England used the church fathers when reading the Bible and defending Congregationalism. The analysis of a variety of textual genres and largely unedited sources written between 1592 and 1728 shows that patristic sources are often cited. Contrary to the widespread assumption that they embraced a fundamentalist Biblicism, Puritans prove to be fully engaged in the rich traditional theological discourse and display a remarkable knowledge of the church fathers. Their authority was that of close witnesses of the primitive age rather...
This study focuses on how Puritans in England and especially New England used the church fathers when reading the Bible and defending Congregationalis...
-Judischkeit- - wie druckt sich die Beziehung eines Autors zu einer religiosen und kulturellen Gemeinschaft in dessen Werk aus? Am Beispiel des bekannten judisch-amerikanischen Schriftstellers und Filmemachers Woody Allen versucht der Autor, diese Frage zu erortern. Welche philosophischen Standpunkte vermittelt Allen, wie steht er zur Religion im allgemeinen und zur judischen im besonderen? Und vor allem: Wie reiht er sich ein in eine jahrtausendealte literarische Tradition? Affinitaten zu Schriftstellern der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart werden aufgezeigt, die Allen u.a. in einen Kontext...
-Judischkeit- - wie druckt sich die Beziehung eines Autors zu einer religiosen und kulturellen Gemeinschaft in dessen Werk aus? Am Beispiel des bekann...
Prasentation und Signifikanz Prags im Erzahlwerk von Cynthia Ozick und Philip Roth bilden das zentrale, bislang nicht erforschte Thema dieses Buches. Die Verbindungen, die durch Ozicks Ruckgriff auf die Prager judische Legendentradition und Roths durch Kafka ausgeloste Befassung mit dem Prag der 1970er Jahre zur amerikanischen Gegenwart hergestellt werden, verdeutlichen die transatlantische Ausstrahlung dieser traditionsreichen europaischen Stadt, die nicht nur als Brucke zwischen den Kontinenten, sondern auch als Vorbild und Gedachtnisort fungiert. Um das uberragende Wirkpotenzial dieser zum...
Prasentation und Signifikanz Prags im Erzahlwerk von Cynthia Ozick und Philip Roth bilden das zentrale, bislang nicht erforschte Thema dieses Buches. ...
The author examines motherhood and female self-realization in feminist discourse and Joyce Carol Oates s recent fiction. While the first and second wave of feminism repudiated motherhood, the third wave claimed the right to enjoy it. The present fourth wave is now reviving the reservations about motherhood of the first two waves. This book demonstrates how Oates s writing reflects these shifts and how Oates takes up and transforms feminist standpoints in her work without writing conventional feminist literature. Literary criticism has only marginally dealt with Oates s mother figures....
The author examines motherhood and female self-realization in feminist discourse and Joyce Carol Oates s recent fiction. While the first and second...
Offering a thoroughly new approach to American literature, this book examines the literary representation of smell regarding its impact on establishing and subverting power structures. Although smell carries an enormous affective potential, it has been largely - but unjustly - overlooked in literary and cultural studies. Through her innovative close readings of works by authors such as Melville, Whitman, Equiano, Wilkins Freeman, Faulkner, Morrison, or Ellison, the author shows how smell stereotypes are used to discriminate against people and how odor references serve to undermine...
Offering a thoroughly new approach to American literature, this book examines the literary representation of smell regarding its impact on establis...
The case studies of Joe Namath, Dennis Rodman and Barry Bonds show how this phenomenon has become visible from the 1960s onwards because of profound changes within the media and sports. These athletes undermined the original sports-hero ideology and still became successful and popular on and off the field - also in a commercial fashion.
The case studies of Joe Namath, Dennis Rodman and Barry Bonds show how this phenomenon has become visible from the 1960s onwards because of profound c...
