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Author Eisenhauer, Robert G., 1946-

Title Aftermyths : hysteria, colloquialism, and caricature in the age of doubt / Robert Eisenhauer
Published New York : Peter Lang, [2007]
©2007

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Description xiii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; v. 87
Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; v. 87
Contents 1. Cadence of decadence : Katzenjammer, (faux) German, and American expatriates -- 2. Detecting the capital of the 20th century : scenes, evidence, theory -- 3. The exemplarity of bears : extra-species identification and mimetic aftermyth -- 4. Immortality with a sea-view : other-history in Grass and Hamill -- 5. Twisting the absolute : notes on the ontological-hysteric theatre
Summary "Aftermyths investigates fault-lines in literary and visual representation from 1870 to the early twentieth century as they range from a faux essentialism, often with ethnic overtones, to a "cadence of decadence" reflecting the dissensions of modernity. Reading Henry James and Mark Twain with side-glances to the cartoon revolution of Rudolf Dirks and Richard Felton Outcault, Robert Eisenhauer delves into the archive of frontier or histrionic "decadence," "Americanness," and "Germanness.""--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-241) and index
Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
Caricature in literature.
Comparative literature -- American and German.
Comparative literature -- German and American.
Hysteria in literature.
Literature and society.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature, Experimental.
Sociolinguistics in literature.
LC no. 2006027890
ISBN 0820486973 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820486970 (hardcover : alk. paper)