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Catrin (Hrsg.) Gersdorf

The Cultural Career of Coolness

Discourses and Practices of Affect Control in European Antiquity, the United States, and Japan

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Cool is a word of American English that has been integrated into the vocabulary of numerous languages around the globe. Today it is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles in our postmodern age. But what is the history of the term cool? When has coolness come to be associated with certain modes of contemporary self-fashioning? On what grounds do certain nations claim a privilege to be recognized as cool? These are some of the questions that served as a starting-point for a comparative cultural inquiry which brought together specialists from American Studies and Japanese Studi… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Haselstein, Ulla (Hrsg.) / Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-7391-7316-9
  • EAN: 9780739173169
  • Produktnummer: 15154866
  • Verlag: Lexington Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 294 S.
  • Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.4 cm x D3.5 cm 556 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 556

Über den Autor


Ulla Haselstein is professor of American Literature (chair) at the John F. Kennedy Institute and the director of the Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universitat Berlin. Her book publications include Entziffernde Hermeneutik (1991); Die Gabe der Zivilisation (2000); Iconographies of Power: The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation (2003, co-edited with Berndt Ostendorf and Peter Schneck), Cultural Transactions: 50 Years of American Studies in Germany (2005, co-edited with Berndt Ostendorf), and The Pathos of Authenticity. American Literary Imaginations of the Real (2010, co-edited with Andrew Gross, MaryAnn Snyder-Korber). Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit is professor of Japanology (chair) and director of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at Freie Universitat Berlin. She was awarded the Leibniz Prize 1992. Series Editor: 1990-2000 - Japanische Bibliothek (Japanese Library), 34 volumes; 1994-present - Iaponia Insula (Studies on Japanese Culture and Society), 27 volumes. Her monographs include: Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishosetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon. Cambridge, MA. 1996 (German version 1981, expanded ed. 2005, Japanese version 1992); ed.: Canon and Identity: Japanese Modernization Reconsidered: Trans-Cultural Perspectives. (2000). Catrin Gersdorf is professor and chair of American Studies at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. From 2009 to 2012 she was a member of the research group on Coolness at the research cluster Languages of Emotion, Freie Universitat Berlin. The author of The Poetics and Politics of the Desert: Landscape and the Construction of America (2009), she has published several articles on nineteenth and twentieth-century US-American literature and culture. Elena Giannoulis is advanced research fellow at the Institute of East Asian Studies at Freie Universitat Berlin. From 2010 to 2012 she was a researcher in the Languages of Emotion Cluster at Freie Universitaet Berlin. She currently works on her project Emotion Management in Japanese Literature and Culture since the 1980s. Publications: Giannoulis, Elena. Blut als Tinte: Wirkungs- und Funktionsmechanismen zeitgenossischer shishosetsu [Blood as Ink: Mechanisms of effects and functions of contemporary shishosetsu]. (2010).

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