Winfried Fluck Books

The volume explores the state of contemporary American Studies in the light of recent developments and currently emerging perspectives of research. Featuring contributions by leading American Studies scholars from the German-speaking world, the collection of essays represents a broad spectrum of thematic, theoretical and methodological approaches that constitute major research agendas within current American Studies. It also includes contributions by renowned colleagues from the U. S. which provide a transatlantic framework of scholarly debate. In line with the original, dialogic conference format, the volume is organized around central topics covered by main papers and shorter response papers. While the essays position American Studies in Germany in its transnational contexts, they also highlight its distinct contribution to the global field of American Studies in the early 21st century.

The collapse of the Twin Towers ten years ago symbolizes the lapse into a permanent state of emergency at the beginning of the 21st century. The ensuing „War on Terror“, rdquo, ushered in the suspension of civil liberties in the United States, normalized a disregard for International Law and created serious doubts about the legitimacy of the Western world´s hegemonic order. In the wake of 9/11, various crises have shattered established orders but also offered chances for the emergence of new paradigms. A new awareness of „States of Emergency“ and „States of Crisis“ reverberates through the social, the political, the cultural and literary realm. Volume 27 of REAL Yearbook brings together interdisciplinary contributions by established and upcoming scholars, using the concepts „state of exception“ and „crisis“ as new paradigms for the analysis of American society and culture, and covering, among others, the contemporary discourse of crisis, literary and other fictional responses, as well as theoretical discussions of key problems of legitimation and the lives of `precarious others.´

R.E.A.L : the Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. XV

More than 25,000 German-language titles have been published in the United States from the colonial period to the twentieth century. This book gives a fresh look at this rich historical tradition, with essays discussing all genres of this colorful literature, ranging from immigrant letters to experimental German-language poetry by Jewish women, from German-American novelists and playwrights to Austrian refugee publishers and a psychological theorist of the movies. German? American? Literature? reintroduces the modern reader to a fascinating subject that has gained new relevance in an age of increased global migrations.

'Romance with America?' is a collection of twenty-one essays by one of today's most important American Studies scholars. The selection assembled here pays tribute to the immense scope of Winfried Fluck's intellectual pursuits. It traces nearly four decades of continuous engagement with a set of key problems, among them the cultural functions of fiction and the imaginary, their manifestations in different periods of American literary and cultural history, the role of aesthetic experience in the construction of national and individual identities, as well as the state of American Studies and its competing narratives about America. Throughout these essays, several of them previously unpublished or not yet published in English, the author unfolds a comprehensive cultural theory that reaches well beyond the study of 'America.'