The Stacks (Library of Anglo-American Culture & History - FID AAC, Göttingen State and University Library)
Not a member yet
3117 research outputs found
Sort by
Scale and Speculative Futures in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker and Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312
No full textCuötures of Climate: On Bodies and Atmospheres in Modern Fiction
No full textThis article analyzes Sharon Doubiago’s American long poem Hard Country (1982) from the joined perspectives of ecocriticism and mobility studies. It argues that Hard Country is a proletarian eco-epic that rethinks human-nature relations from a working-class perspective shaped by different kinds of (im)mobility. In my analysis, I show how the text revises the American epic tradition by foregrounding working-class people’s desire for meaningful relationships to place in light of histories of environmental injustice and displacement. Doubiago’s text promotes traditional place-based notions of belonging, but it also challenges ideas about what kind of sense of place can be environmentally suggestive. In doing so, it allows for the emergence of a proletarian “ecopoetics of mobility” (Gerhardt) that emphasizes the bodily experiences of Doubiago’s mobile narrator as well as U.S.-American histories and cultures of mobility. Among these cultures of mobility, settler colonialism stands out as a system of violent domination and form of environmental injustice (Whyte) that calls into question working-class people’s desire to move or settle on dispossessed indigenous lands. As such, settler colonialism poses a challenge to Doubiago’s proletarian ecopoetics of mobility, which must engage with the fact that white working-class people in the United States have always been perpetrators as well as victims of both environmental and mobility injustice
Towards a Poetics of the Mental Health Play
No full textThis study traces key developments in theatre’s engagement with mental health since the 1970s. It introduces and applies the concept of the ‘mental health play’ as accurate and timely in addressing the way mental distress and mental illness have been brought to the stage. The study argues that the theatre is a central calibrator for reflecting developments and tensions in, as well as attitudes towards, mental health care, and thus opens up a domain that still has stereotypes and myths attached to it. Theatre’s representations of mental distress inform and shape cultural production and vice versa. Mental health plays are central in encouraging and fostering conversations about mental health, and they thus intervene in ongoing debates. Due to its interdisciplinary approach, this study contributes to and extends existing research in multiple fields, including theatre and science, performance studies, and the medical humanities.https://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-459-
Digital Pedagogy in American Studies
No full textIn the recent rise of digital learning, “flipped classrooms” have become a controversial subject. This new form of learning inverts the traditional conception of the classroom: instruction is transferred from the classroom to out-of-class (online) tasks such as pre-recorded lectures on the Internet, while class time is devoted to activities that put the knowledge into practice. These classrooms have been touted as learner-based and student-centered models of education. Yet there is still little evidence supporting the effectiveness of the flipped classroom at higher levels of education, especially in the humanities. Taking American studies as an example, I will examine some of the arguments in favor of this model, but also and most importantly some of the challenges facing the application of this new educational model in the humanities. In general, the main concern is that flipped classrooms may undermine student-teacher dialogue, viewing teachers as “moderators” who design learning environments geared to the students. At the same time, home-learning environments may compromise learner autonomy and limit learners’ opportunities for self-organized work and interaction with peers outside class. Ultimately, a critique of the concept of flipped classrooms is also a critique of the egalitarian aspirations of digital pedagogy in general.http://www.asjournal.org/70-2020/flipped-classrooms-and-the-pitfalls-of-digital-learning
Introduction (Futures Past. Economic Forecasting in the 20th and 21st Century)
No full texthttps://www.peterlang.com/view/title/7142
The Quantified Child. Zur Darstellung von Adoleszenz unter den Bedingungen der Digitalisierung in der aktuellen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
No full textDataveillance, as part of a technological dystopia within children’s literature is often combined with narratives about adolescence. This paper analyses the depiction of surveillance technology in the life of young adults and children within recent fiction. The two exemplary texts analyzed are the children’s audio drama Die Nanny-App by Angela Gerrits (2018) and the ‘Eleria-Trilogie’ (2012–2014) by Ursula Poznanski. By placing a young adult as narrator and hero/heroine center stage, both texts depict the experience of adolescence as a personal crisis within an educational system under surveillance. The
heroines deal with the role of tracking device technology as a paradoxical and powerful weapon, which may serve as an extended element of self-regulation as well as a device of parental and/or governmental control.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/6988
Epistemologies of the City in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
No full textNew York looms large in much of Edith Wharton's work, maybe never more so than in The Age of Innocence. The city is not just the space in which the stories unfold or the social context which frames the central drama. Rather, “New York” serves as the central source of knowledge for characters and readers alike. Whether in the form of private gossip or society journals, news travels fast, judgement is swift, and knowledge about everyone's intimate affairs is ever present. The Age of Innocence is hence marked by the stark distinction between the reticence of its main characters—who live in an “atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies,” share “mute message[s],” and rely on “silence to communicate all [they] had to say”—and the eloquence of the city. By detailing this contrast between the novel's main characters and its setting, this article addresses gossip and other forms of communal, networked, or anonymous knowledge not only as an element of plot, but as narrative strategy in The Age of Innocence. It thus combines an exploration of Edith Wharton's distinct style with an analysis of New York's central role in her writing.Copyright © 2020 by The Pennsylvania State University. This article is used by permission of the Pennsylvania State University Press
Continuities and Discontinuities in Economic Forecasting
No full textThroughout the history of macroeconomic forecasting, several major themes have remained surprisingly consistent. The failure to forecast economic downturns ahead of time is perhaps the most significant of these. Forecasting approaches have changed, but forecasts for recessions have not improved. What can we learn from past evaluations of macroeconomic forecasts? Is it possible to predict major economic shocks or is it a fool’s errand? This chapter discusses how forecasting techniques have evolved over time and yet the record on forecasting recessions remains dismal. There are several competing hypotheses for why forecasters fail to foresee recessions, but little evidence any of them are going to be addressed before the next recession occurs. This suggests planners and policymakers should expect to be surprised by the arrival of downturns and develop ways to be prepared for recessions without having clear warning of their coming.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/7142
The Public Gossip of Town Topics: The Journal of Society (1885-1937)
No full textThe magazine Town Topics, published in New York City between 1885 and 1937, is best known for its “complicitous gossip pages [which] both condemned and sustained high society” (Knight 47). The specific characteristics and implications of such gossip, however, have yet to be examined. To this end, this essay analyzes how Town Topics: The Journal of Society and specifically its column “Saunterings” addressed its mass audience. Of central concern to this question are the magazine’s treatment of public figures and its anticipation of modern celebrity culture, and the gossip column’s stylistic evocation of conversational tone. Drawing on Michael Warner’s concept of “a public,” this essay outlines how gossip, a private mode of communication, is used within the public sphere to create the impression of intimate exchange. Overall, this article illustrates how Town Topics differentiated itself from traditional newspapers and magazines, which targeted “the public” as a “social totality” (Warner 413). Town Topics, in contrasts, addressed not the public as an independent, pre-existing entity, but as a specific public that was constituted by the act of mass-mediated gossip.https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/1642