Imagology Revisited
Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
Jan 2010 · Rodopi
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Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- A Personal Memoir: Towards the Study of Imagology -- National Stereotypes in Literature in the English Language: A Review of Research -- The Theory of Climate and the Tableau of Nationalities -- Foreign Faces: Physiognomy and the Theory of Climate -- The Theory of Climate in North American Texts since 1776 -- Johannes Kepler, James Howell, and Thomas Lansius: The Competition between European Nations as a Literary Theme in the 17th Century -- Transatlantic Differences: (Mis)Perceptions in Diachronic Perspective -- Sketches of a Traveler: Observations on a Dominant Theme in Washington Irving's Work -- Remarks on the Tradition and Function of Heterostereotypes in North American Fiction between 1900 and 1940 -- A Separate Identity Asserted: Agrarian Affinities with European Culture -- Atlantic Double-Cross - Reciprocity of Influence: Germany as an Alternative Model in the Search for an American National Identity, 1830 to 1930 -- Southern Alumni of German Universities. Fashioning a Tradition of Excellence -- German Ethnicity in the American South and the Permeability of Ethnic Borders -- The Rise and the Demise of German and Hybrid German-English in American (Popular) Culture -- Stereotypes in Walker Percy's Fiction -- Elective Affinities and Biased Encounters in the Alpine Provinces of Austria -- Masks, Minstrels and Melancholy: From Waltzing in the German Paris to Descending into Dreams of Decadence -- La joie-de-vivre et l'ombre des tombeaux: Vienna and Austria in Canadian Literature -- Charme à l' Anglaise - On the Image of the Restless Worldly-Wise from England in the Tableau of Nationalities -- The Rise of Cultural Nationalism in the New World: The Scottish Element and Example -- Stereotypes and Sense of Identity of Jewish Southerners -- Self Perception and Presentation of Jewish Immigrants in North American Discourse, 1900-1940 -- Perfect Revenge: Observations on the Image of Italy in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Perspectives on the Mediterranean: Americans as Transatlantic Sojourners -- Bibliography: -- Index.
Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- A Personal Memoir: Towards the Study of Imagology -- National Stereotypes in Literature in the English Language: A Review of Research -- The Theory of Climate and the Tableau of Nationalities -- Foreign Faces: Physiognomy and the Theory of Climate -- Th...
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