Transatlantic currents : essays in honor of David E. Nye / edited by Jorn Brondal, Anne Mork, Kasper Grotle Rasmussen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brøndal, Jørn, editor.

Rasmussen, Kasper Grotle, editor.

Series:

European views of the United States ; Volume 11.

European Views of the United States ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nye, David E., 1946-.

Nye, David E.

Education.

United States--Study and teaching--Europe.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2021]

Summary:

"This book--written by nine scholars based in Europe and another eight in the United States--is an undertaking in American Studies where, typically, transnational intellectual currents and cross-currents meet. Its sixteen chapters united around three major themes and one common goal. The themes are, first, technology and energy; second, place, space, and the enviroment; and, thrid, the theory and method of American Studies. At the same time, the goal is to pay tribute to David E. Nye, one of the leading American Studies schoalrs of our time. Not only has he dedicated the major part of his academic life to exploring those exact three themes; as an 'absent native son' born in the United States yet working in Europe and for nearly three decades chairing the Center for American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, he has contributed mightily to stimulating those intellectual currents and cross-currents that make up the stuff of Amercian Studies."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Cover

Titel

Imprint

Table of Contents

List of Publications under the Auspices of the European Association for American Studies

JØRN BRØNDAL, ANNE MØRK, KASPER GROTLE RASMUSSEN: Introduction

I Technology and Energy

DALE CARTER: The Mechanical Wedding: Some Robotic Engagements in 19th-Century American Culture

HENRIK R. LASSEN: The Closing of the American Fireplace: A Technological Transition and Its Cultural Consequences

JENNIFER L. LIEBERMAN: Blackout Narratives and Energy Fantasies: From the African American Press through Speculative Fiction

JEFFREY L. MEIKLE: "You've Been on This Road Before": The Making of Laurie Anderson's ‚United States' as an American Techno-Pastoral

ANDERS BO RASMUSSEN AND OLE SØNNICHSEN: Freedom on Four Wheels: The Ford Motor Company and William S. Knudsen's Education in Armament

KASPER GROTLE RASMUSSEN: Negotiation and Nuclear Weapons: Carl Kaysen and the 1961 Berlin Crisis

II Place, Space, and the Environment

CLARA JUNCKER: Hemingway in Place: The Aging Warrior in ‚Across the River and into the Trees'

MARIANNE KONGERSLEV: Indigenizing the "American Landscape"

THOMAS ZELLER: Loving Parks, Embracing Highways: Bernard DeVoto on Wilderness and Roads

MARTIN V. MELOSI: Fresh Kills and Anti-Landscapes

MILES ORVELL: Marching through Georgia: Photography and the "Destructive Analysis of War"

KLAUS BENESCH: "How I Built This": Horatio Greenough, ‚Walden', and the Search for an American Architecture

III Theory and Method of American Studies

JONATHAN COOPERSMITH: How Do I Teach with Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

RAYMOND HABERSKI, JR.: The Perennial Crisis of American Studies and the 'Stereo Vision' of David E. Nye

MARK LUCCARELLI: David Nye's Cultural History and the Natures of the American Republic.

MALCOLM MCCULLOUGH: Inhabiting Electricity: David Nye on the Built Environment

Main Works by David E. Nye in Chronological Order

Tabula Gratulatoria

Contributors to This Volume

Backcover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Brøndal, Jørn Transatlantic Currents

ISBN:

9783825385392

3825385396