Imaginary dialogues in American literature and philosophy : beyond the mainstream / edited by Till Kinzel, Jarmila Mildorf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kinzel, Till, editor.

Mildorf, Jarmila, editor.

Series:

Germanisch-romanische Monatsschrift. GRM-Beiheft ; 0178-4390 62.

Germanisch-romanische Monatsschrift. GRM-Beiheft, 0178-4390 ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialogue in literature.

Imaginary conversations.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

367 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2014]

Contents:

Mapping Imaginary Dialogues in America / Jarmila Mildorf

American Dialogues of Thomas Paine / Jack Fruchtman Jr.

Dialogue and Dialogic Structures in Benjamin Franklin's Writings / Kurt Muller

"It is not for me to smile at their tyranny": Democracy and Dialogue in Charles Brockden Brown's Alcuin / Nicole Maruo-Schroder

Washington Irving's Dialogical Bridges / Virgil Nemoianu

Conversing with the Netherworld: The Gothic Dialogue about Metaphysical Matters and Universal Thought in E. A. Poe's "Mesmeric Revelation" / Betsy van Schlun

Antislavery Dialogues in the United States / Joe Lockard

From Walden to Waldwasen: Dialogues between Hermits and Poets (Thoreau, Heidegger, Celan) / Antonio Lastra

Melville's Song and Dance: Diabolical Dialogue in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade / David Janssens

Stereotypes, Utopian Vision and the Creation of the Illusion of Life. An Analysis of Henry James's "Daniel Deronda: A Conversation" (1876) / Hans Ulrich Seeber

C. S. Peirce and Dialogue: Literary Form, Heuristic Function, and Overarching Ideal / Vincent Colapietro

In the end was ... "A Dialogue": William James's Performing Pragmatism / Miriam Strube

George Santayana's Dialogues in Limbo (1925) as a Form of Literary Philosophy / Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski

Dialogue of Dissent: Stance Marking in Gertrude Stein's Radio Interview (1934) / Christoph Schubert

Literary Criticism as Dialogue: From Jerome McGann's Dialogical Confrontation with Swinburne to Meta-Dialogue / Till Kinzel

From Philosophy in Dialogues to Philosophy of Dialogues: Rethinking Paul K. Feyerabend's Three Dialogues on Knowledge / Thomas Sukopp

Performing Dialogues in Leon Forrest's Divine Days / Walter Gobel

Exploring "our pitiful attempts at connection": Dialogue in Corey Mesler's Novel Talk / Jarmila Mildorf

"You and I sat here talking the pros and cons of-of-": Immediacy, Conspiracy, and the Dialogic Mode in Nicholson Baker's Checkpoint. A Novel / Sabrina Huttner

"It's more true but it aint as good": Searching for Truth in the Death-Deferring Dialogue of McCarthy's The Sunset Limited / Markus Wierschem.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783825363284

3825363287

OCLC:

882905583