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Transatlantic Currents
Essays in Honor of David E. Nye
Herausgeber: Brøndal, Jørn | Mørk, Anne | Grotle Rasmussen, Kaspar
European Views of the United States, Bd. 11
2022
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Abstract
This book—written by nine scholars based in Europe and another eight in the United States—is an undertaking in American Studies where, typically, transnational intellectual currents and cross-currents meet. Its sixteen chapters unite around three major themes and one common goal. The themes are, first, technology and energy; second, place, space, and the environment; and, third, the theory and method of American Studies. At the same time, the goal is to pay tribute to David E. Nye, one of the leading American Studies scholars of our time. Not only has he dedicated the major part of his academic life to exploring those exact three themes; as an “absent native son” born in the United States yet working in Europe and for nearly three decades chairing the Center for American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, he has contributed mightily to stimulating those intellectual currents and cross-currents that make up the stuff of American Studies.
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| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Titel | III | ||
| Imprint | IV | ||
| Table of Contents | V | ||
| List of Publications under the Auspices of the European Association for American Studies | IX | ||
| JØRN BRØNDAL, ANNE MØRK, KASPER GROTLE RASMUSSEN: Introduction | 1 | ||
| I Technology and Energy | 11 | ||
| DALE CARTER: The Mechanical Wedding: Some Robotic Engagements in 19th-Century American Culture | 11 | ||
| HENRIK R. LASSEN: The Closing of the American Fireplace: A Technological Transition and Its Cultural Consequences | 25 | ||
| JENNIFER L. LIEBERMAN: Blackout Narratives and Energy Fantasies: From the African American Press through Speculative Fiction | 33 | ||
| JEFFREY L. MEIKLE: “You’ve Been on This Road Before”: The Making of Laurie Anderson’s ‚United States‘ as an American Techno-Pastoral | 51 | ||
| ANDERS BO RASMUSSEN AND OLE SØNNICHSEN: Freedom on Four Wheels: The Ford Motor Company and William S. Knudsen’s Education in Armament | 63 | ||
| KASPER GROTLE RASMUSSEN: Negotiation and Nuclear Weapons: Carl Kaysen and the 1961 Berlin Crisis | 75 | ||
| II Place, Space, and the Environment | 95 | ||
| CLARA JUNCKER: Hemingway in Place: The Aging Warrior in ‚Across the River and into the Trees' | 95 | ||
| MARIANNE KONGERSLEV: Indigenizing the “American Landscape” | 109 | ||
| THOMAS ZELLER: Loving Parks, Embracing Highways: Bernard DeVoto on Wilderness and Roads | 123 | ||
| MARTIN V. MELOSI: Fresh Kills and Anti-Landscapes | 135 | ||
| MILES ORVELL: Marching through Georgia: Photography and the “Destructive Analysis of War” | 143 | ||
| KLAUS BENESCH: “How I Built This”: Horatio Greenough, ‚Walden‘, and the Search for an American Architecture | 153 | ||
| III Theory and Method of American Studies | 171 | ||
| JONATHAN COOPERSMITH: How Do I Teach with Thee? Let Me Count the Ways | 171 | ||
| RAYMOND HABERSKI, JR.: The Perennial Crisis of American Studies and the ‘Stereo Vision’ of David E. Nye | 181 | ||
| MARK LUCCARELLI: David Nye’s Cultural History and the Natures of the American Republic | 191 | ||
| MALCOLM MCCULLOUGH: Inhabiting Electricity: David Nye on the Built Environment | 203 | ||
| Main Works by David E. Nye in Chronological Order | 217 | ||
| Tabula Gratulatoria | 219 | ||
| Contributors to This Volume | 223 | ||
| Backcover | Backcover |
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