Reading the Social in American Studies

Author:   Astrid Franke ,  Stefanie Mueller ,  Katja Sarkowsky
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2022 ed.
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9783030935504


Pages:   287
Publication Date:   13 March 2022
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Author:   Astrid Franke ,  Stefanie Mueller ,  Katja Sarkowsky
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2022 ed.
Weight:   0.519kg
ISBN:  

9783030935504


ISBN 10:   3030935507
Pages:   287
Publication Date:   13 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1: Reading the Social: An Introduction.- Chapter 2: Recognition, Literature, and their Social Dependence: An Inquiry into the Work of Bourdieu and Elias. Chapter 3: ‘Habit’ and the Concept of Character in American Literary Realism and Pragmatist Thought: The Example of William Dean Howells and the James Bothers.- Chapter 4: Pushing the ‘Envelope of Circumstances’: Reading the Social with Henry James and Pierre Bourdieu.- Chapter 5: Systemic Racism: Reading Ralph Ellison with Bourdieu’s Theory of Power.- Chapter 6: “On the Margins of One Group and Three Countries”: Exile, Belonging, and the Sociological Imagination in Reinhard Bendix’s From Berlin to Berkeley.- Chapter: 7. J.D. Vance, Cultural Alien: on Upward Mobility.- Chapter 8: Literariness and the Double Bind of Stigma.- Chapter 9: Civilization and Its Discontents: Reading Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club with Norbert.- Chapter 10: Reading Populism with Bourdieuand Elias.- Chapter 11: Reading the Social in Photography: Emotional Practices, Power Relations, and Iconography.

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Astrid Franke is Professor for American Literature and Culture at Tübingen University, Germany. Stefanie Mueller is a lecturer at the Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany.  Katja Sarkowsky is Professor of American Studies and Chair of American Studies at Augsburg University, Germany.

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