"America" dream or nightmare?: reflections on a composite image
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Essen
Verl. Die Blaue Eule
1994
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| Edition: | 3., rev. and enl. ed. |
| Series: | Arbeiten zur Amerikanistik
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| Physical Description: | 430 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 3892066256 |
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Table of Contents 5
List of Illustrations 7
Preface 11
Preface to the Second Revised Edition 16
Preface to the Third Revised Edition 18
1: Innocents Abroad or Cultural Imperialists?
The Power of National Images 21
My Discovery of America 23
The Spectre of German Anti Americanism 28
America as a Place of the Mind 35
From Kind Uncle to Hateful Big Brother? 66
2: The American Dream and the American
Nightmare : A Survey 85
The Sources of the Dream and Its
Main Ingredients 94
Success and Progress 109
Frontiers, Real and Imaginary 119
Manifest Destiny: From Continentalism
to Imperialism 139
From Melting Pot to Multiculturalism 151
The Other Side of the Coin: The Nightmare 161
The Future of the Dream 174
3: E pluribus unum? Growing up in a Multicultural
Society as Depicted in the American Short Story 179
The Relevance of Socialization Patterns in
a Multicultural Society 189
6 Contents
From Melting Pot to Multiculturalism: Changing
Concepts of American Identity 194
Growing up in a Multicultural Society
in Selected American Short Stories 236
4: Worshippers of the Bitch Goddess of Success:
Businessmen in American Literature 273
Calvinism, Social Darwinism, and Capitalism 276
The Commercial Fall as a Prerequisite for
the Moral Rise: William Dean Howells,
The Rise of Silas Laphatn 287
Financial Success as a Sign of
Spiritual Failure: Abraham Cahan,
The Rise of David Levinsky 294
From Condemnation to Contempt: The Attitude
of Anti Success from F. Scott
Fitzgerald to Kurt Vonnegut 307
5: America Is West : A Popular Myth
and Its Revisionist Interpretations 320
Owen Wister s The Virginian, or
the Dubious Politics of the Western 330
E. L. Doctorow s Welcome to Hard Times, or
the Fraudulence of the Popular Western 355
Bernard Malamud s A New Life, or the
Mendacity of the Myth of the West 375
Conclusion 395
Bibliography 400
Index 426
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