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Lehman, David. SIGNS OF THE TIMES Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul De Man. NY: Poseidon Press, c. 1991.
Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Contents are already lightly age-browned, more so in the margins, else contents are clean and unmarked. DJ's spine is faded but lettering is unaffected, else DJ is almost as new. ; Black cloth spine, bright gold lettering. Bibliography. Index. PHILOSOPHY/ BIOGRAPHY. This is a brilliant, witty, and provocative account of deconstruction, which regards words as misleading 'signs' and reduces history and literature to 'linguistic predicaments. ' Lehman explains deconstruction in terms that finnaly render it intelligible . He also gives us the riveting story of the major scandals - pro-Nazi writings during WWII, a bigamous private life - surounding Paul de Man, the revered Yale professor who was deconstruction's foremost guru in the US. ; 9-1/2" Tall; 318 pages. 0671682393.

Hardcover; First Printing, VG/VG.

[KW: Deconstruction; Paul De Man; Anti-semitism; Binary Oppositions; Jacques Derrida; Ideology; Nazism; Yale University; PHILOSOPHY,]

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KHLEBNIKOVA, IRINA. Oppositions in Morphology. As Exemplified in the English Tense System. (Translated from the Russian). The Hague, Mouton, 1973. ; weicher Einband / soft cover

186 S. (Janua Linguarum, Series Minor 151). OKart.

[KW: English Language; Linguistics; Sprachwissenschaft, Anglistik]

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Brandt, Stefan L.: The Culture of Corporeality. Aesthetic Experience and the Embodiment of America, 1945-1960. (American Studies 151). Heidelberg: Winter 2007.
"The Culture of Corporeality" outlines a cultural history of the body in the American postwar years (1945-1960), based on contemporary critical theory and exemplified by a variety of films, literary works, and other documents. The book argues that the body, as a cultural, symbolic, and lived entity, was strategically foregrounded during this era, pervading discourses such as literature, cinema, television, music, the visual arts, architecture, design, medicine, and philosophy. As demonstrated in close analyses of works by James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Allen Ginsberg, and J. D. Salinger, cultural concepts of the body keep reinventing and reforming themselves through the exploration of boundaries. This complex interaction between text and environment may result in a justification of the dominant value system or in a dismantlement of cultural oppositions. By exploring the intricate strategies of 'embodiment' used in canonic texts, the study wants to contribute to current debates concerning the aesthetics and function of the body in the context of cultural processes of self-fashioning.

448 S., 67 Abb. Kart. *neuwertig*

[KW: American Studies; Literaturwissenschaft; Pädagogik, Soziologie; Soziologie]

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Döring, Tobias / Heide, Markus / Mühleisen, Susanne (Hg.): Eating Culture. The Poetics and Politics of Food. (American Studies 106). Heidelberg: Winter 2003.
Food has always operated in circulation between the local and the global, migration and resettlement and, with its power in defining and performing social meanings, served to construct notions of home and cultural otherness. But while previous studies emphasized these oppositions, our globalized and postcolonial setting today poses a new question: what happens to eating culture when the pure products go crazy? This transdisciplinary volume therefore draws on research in social anthropology, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, literature, film and cultural studies to investigate practices, representations and functions of food in American, European and Asian societies and their cross-cultural engagements. It argues that foodways precisely come to mark the material basis for both the identification and the translatability of cultures.

VIII, 284 S., 4 Abb. Kart. *neuwertig*

[KW: Essenskultur; Varia]

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