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Vote with a Bullet is the first systematic study of assassination in American fiction. It proffers not only a fundamental overview of the genre but also an argument about its larger cultural, aesthetic, and political significance in the present moment as well as in the respective historical contexts of the works themselves.The study argues that American assassination fiction is a symbolic condensation of the larger conflict between individual and society that is at the heart of modern democracy, and that has been especially contested in the democratic culture of the US. Starting with Henry James's The Princess Casamassima (1886) and ending with Noah Hawley's The Good Father (2012), the chapters analyze twelve works ranging from canonical classics to popular genre fiction. A conclusion considers Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day (2006). The book describes the loose continuum of assassination fiction as an imaginary laboratory in which fantasies of individual empowerment and social unity play out in different ways, negotiating the tension between individualism and mass society in a democracy that is based on the former but must restrict it to preserve the latter. Furthermore, the study connects the imaginary of assassination with a variety of related themes such as hegemonic masculinity and whiteness, electoral and non-electoral political choice, agency panic, subjectivity, as well as conspiracies and conspiracy theory.

Assassination in literature. --- American fiction --- History and criticism. --- American democracy. --- American literature. --- Assassination fiction. --- cultural significance. --- individualism. --- literary analysis. --- literature and society. --- mass society. --- political themes.

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In recent years, the discourse of memory - and of German memory culture in particular - has become increasingly concerned with questions of the archive. An archive can refer to a physical place, the material found there, or the system that orders this material; in its broadest sense, it might refer to something public (records housed in a municipal building), or something private (photographs in afamily album). The material and documentary qualities of the archive confer on it an authenticating function attributed only cautiously to memory, but theories of the archive have questioned the status of material, documentary vestiges of the past. Memory and the archive are inextricably linked, but how does this affect the mediation of the past? This volume explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945. Contributions approach this topic from a range of perspectives (film, visual culture, urban culture, digital technology, as well as literature) and offer illuminating studies of Harun Farocki, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas Demand, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jürgen Fuchs, Stefan Wolter, and Sasa Stanisic. Contributors: Priyanka Basu, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Regine Criser, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Diana Hitzke and Charlton Payne, Caitríona Leahy, Dora Osborne, Annie Ring, Lizzie Stewart, Simon Ward. Dora Osborne is Lecturer in German at Durham University.

German literature --- History and criticism. --- Collective memory --- History. --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Archive. --- Cultural Significance. --- German Literature. --- German Memory Culture. --- Identity. --- Literature. --- Memory. --- Visual Culture.

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Mountains have always stirred the human imagination, playing a crucial role in the cultural evolution of peoples around the globe and becoming infused with meaning in the process. Beyond their geographical-geological significance, mountains affect the topography of the mind, whether as objects of peril or attraction, of spiritual enlightenment or existential fulfilment, of philosophical contemplation or aesthetic inspiration. This volume challenges the oversimplified assumption that human interaction with mountains is a distinctly modern development, one that began with the empowerment of the individual in the wake of Enlightenment rationalism and Romantic subjectivity. These essays by European and North American scholars examine the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, with a focus on the interaction between humans and the alpine environment. The contributors consider mountains not as mere symbolic tropes or literary metaphors, but as constituting a tangible reality that informs the experiences and ideas of writers, naturalists, philosophers, filmmakers, and composers. Overall, this volume seeks to provide multiple answers to questions regarding the cultural significance of mountains as well as the physical practice of climbing them. Contributors: Peter Arnds, Olaf Berwald, Albrecht Classen, Roger Cook, Scott Denham, Sean Franzel, Christof Hamann, Harald Höbusch, Dan Hooley, Peter Höyng, Sean Ireton, Oliver Lubrich, Anthony Ozturk, Caroline Schaumann, Heather I. Sullivan, Johannes Türk, Sabine Wilke, Wilfried Wilms. Sean Ireton is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri. Caroline Schaumann is Associate Professor of German Studies at Emory University.

Berg --- Berg. --- Deutsch. --- Film. --- Gebirge --- German literature --- German literature. --- Literatur. --- Literature and society --- Literature and society. --- Mountains in literature. --- Mountains in motion pictures. --- Philosophy of nature --- Philosophy of nature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Deutschland. --- Germany. --- History. --- Motion pictures --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Philosophy --- European history. --- German culture. --- Middle Ages. --- Mountains. --- North American history. --- aesthetic inspiration. --- alpine environment. --- cartology. --- climbing. --- cultural significance. --- cultural trends. --- culture. --- effects of mountains. --- existential fulfillment. --- geographical-geological significance. --- geography. --- medieval history. --- middle ages. --- migration. --- modern history. --- mountains. --- philosophical contemplation. --- philosophy. --- sociology. --- spiritual enlightenment. --- spread of ideas. --- topography. --- trade of ideas. --- trade. --- twenty-first century.

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In Mock Classicism Nilo Couret presents an alternate history of Latin American cinema that traces the popularity and cultural significance of film comedies as responses to modernization and the forerunners to a more explicitly political New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s. By examining the linguistic play of comedians such as Cantinflas, Oscarito and Grande Otelo, Niní Marshall, and Luis Sandrini, the author demonstrates aspects of Latin American comedy that operate via embodiment on one hand and spatiotemporal emplacement on the other. Taken together, these parallel examples of comedic practice demonstrate how Latin American film comedies produce a ";critically proximate"; spectator who is capable of perceiving and organizing space and time differently. Combining close readings of films, archival research, film theory, and Latin American history, Mock Classicism rethinks classicism as a discourse that mediates and renders the world and argues that Latin American cinema became classical in distinct ways from Hollywood.

Motion pictures --- Motion picture actors and actresses --- Comedy films --- Comedy videos --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Film actors --- Film stars --- Motion picture stars --- Movie stars --- Moving-picture actors and actresses --- Stars, Movie --- Actors --- Actresses --- Production and direction --- History --- History and criticism --- 1960s. --- alternate history. --- archival research. --- cantinflas oscarito. --- comedians. --- comedic practice. --- cultural significance. --- embodiment. --- film comedies. --- film theory. --- films. --- grande otelo. --- latin america. --- latin american cinema. --- latin american history. --- linguistic play. --- luis sandrini. --- modernization. --- new latin american cinema. --- nini marshall. --- popularity. --- spatiotemporal emplacement.