Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Frankfurt (Main), course: Decadence and Moderism in the Late 20th Century American Cinema, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Jonathan Veitch asserts in the preface of his book American Superrealism that critics have had problems in placing Nathanael West within the literature of the 1930s and American literature in general. They understood him for example as "a poet of darkness," as "an apocalyptic writer," as "a homegrown surrealist," as "a writer of the left,"...

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Frankfurt (Main), course: Englische Prosa des 17. Jahrhunderts: Robert Burton und Sir Thomas Browne, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The word 'imagination' has and had various meanings as this extract from The Oxford English Dictionary illustrates: 1. The action of imagining, or forming a mental concept of what is not actually present to the senses ...]; the result of this process, a mental image or idea (often with implication that the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Sonstiges, Note: 1, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, Veranstaltung: Zur psychischen Wirkungsweise des Nationalsozialismus in der ersten, der zweiten und der dritten Generation der Opfer und Tater, 11 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit der Kapitulation Deutschlands am 8. Mai 1945 endete der Zweite Weltkrieg und zunachst auch der Staat Deutschland, der in vier Besatzungszonen unter Leitung des Alliierten Kontrollrats und im Jahr 1949 in die beiden Teilstaaten Bundesrepublik...

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Frankfurt (Main), 74 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: ...] Starting with the realistic short fiction, I will show Gilman's main ideas to resolve typical problems of women with the example of some selected stories. I resolved to treat them not in chronological order but to delineate the structural changes in the different levels of social organization that are to be discerned. Moreover I decided to use two narratives in each subdivision because choosing only one...

Scholarly Paper (Advanced Seminar) aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 2,7, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, Veranstaltung: Women Writers in the 19th century, 18 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Abstract: I. Introduction In the conclusion to Feminist Fiction, Anne Cranny-Francis (compare to 201-202) brings up the question: How can a feminist use the genre of detective fiction which seems superficially to be about detection and revelation, but which is ideologically about concealment and mystification?...