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    <title>European journal of American studies</title>
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    <description>The European Journal of American Studies is published by the European Association for American Studies (EAAS). The Association brings together twenty-one national or pluri-national associations of specialists in American studies, a total of 4000 members from all disciplines through twenty-seven different countries (www.eaas.eu). Each year the EJAS publishes articles from various disciplines relating to the different aspects of American Studies. It is open to contributions from specialists in American Studies, working in Europe or elsewhere and aims to provide reliable information and the most recent research into all aspects of American culture and society.</description>        
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    <title>Casey High, Ann H. Kelly and Jonathan Mair, eds. The Anthropology of Ignorance: An Ethnographic Approach. Book Series: Culture, Mind and Society.</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">A few years ago, I was attracted by the critical concept of a «sociology of ignorance» (which did not exist as such) when I first read a paper by a noted scholar from UQAM who wrote an article about what he could not understand when observing a given social phenomenon. To my view, it was a pure waste of time (for the reader) and energy (from the sociologist who wrote this essay). Some academics are in such a privileged position they may write about almost anything, even on the things they claim not to understand, and be praised for doing so since they are raising new questions. This phenomenon became clear to me from the day I saw this same scholar repeating with conviction the same twisted ideas in a lecture at the Learned Societies conference in Montréal. Therefore, I was very much interested to read this new book on <em>The Anthropology of Ignorance</em>, co-edited by three anthropologists from Great-Britain. Their book comprises eight chapters mostly based on case studies, none of which ...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Yves Laberge</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2013-04-17</dc:date>
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    <title>Spurgeon, Sara L. ed. Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road.</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">This volume of essays from Continuum titled <em>Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road</em> (2011) aims to situate three of McCarthy’s late, and most widely read and studied works, in the context of contemporary critical debate. The essays contribute to the ever growing critical industry around the author, whose prominence within contemporary American literature is undisputed, a status bolstered by Harold Bloom’s comment that McCarthy is among the four major American novelists of the current time, alongside Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth. Each study in the new Continuum series presents ten original essays by subject specialists on the recent fiction of a significant author working in the United States or Canada, and takes recent fiction to be novels published since 1990. In considering an author such as McCarthy who has already reached canonical status within North American letters, the book takes the opportunity to consider authors of his statu...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Ben Robbins</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2013-04-17</dc:date>
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    <title>Huppauf, Bernd and Christoph Wulf, eds. Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination: The Image between the Visible and the Invisible.</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">A truly dense and elaborate collection, the <em>Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination: The Image between the Visible and the Invisible</em> is an anthology of interdisciplinary essays covering themes of imagination, creativity and the image, both material and mental, under perspectives and spectrums that are as diverse as the fields intersecting in the analyses. Indeed, the multifarious philosophical commitments and domains of the authors contributing to this anthology results in a compilation of approaches and interpretations that span from art and literature to theology, psychology or medical science and from Ancient Greek philosophy to modern medical imaging techniques. As a consequence, the reader is presented with a kaleidoscope of fragments that intersect but do not converge towards a solidly formulated epistemology or a clearly outlined methodology that could bridge theories of the image in the humanities and the sciences; nevertheless, it is precisely because of this kaleidoscop...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Angeliki Tseti</dc:creator>
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    <title>Baelo-Allué, Sonia.Bret Easton Ellis’s Controversial Fiction : Writing Between High and Low Culture</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Sonia Baelo-Allué’s monograph with the title <em>Bret Easton Ellis’s Controversial Fiction: Writing Between High and Low Culture </em>was published in 2011, a year during which two other volumes about Ellis’s works emerged: Naomi Mandel’s edited collection of essays with the title <em>Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park</em> and Georgia Colby’s monograph entitled <em>Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary.</em> The publication of these three volumes in the same year with two of them emerging from the same publisher constitutes a major event if one considers the controversy Ellis’s books have generated between editors, publishers, reviewers and literary analysts since the appearance of Ellis’s first novel in 1985. As regards Baelo-Allué’s work, this constitutes a well-informed and well-documented study that offers not only good food for thought but also multiple insights into Ellis’s works for scholars, university students, educators and the general reader with an interest in co...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Tatiani G. Rapatzikou</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2013-04-17</dc:date>
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    <title>Eckhard, Petra:  Chronotopes of the Uncanny: Time and Space in Postmodern New York Novels, Paul Auster’s City of Glass and Toni Morrison’s Jazz.</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr"> Petra Eckhard’s book seeks to examine the ways in which American writers of the late 20<sup>th</sup> century have incorporated the “uncanny” into their novelistic discourse. The writer, who is now Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies, University of Graz, Austria, reads two American novels of the late 20<sup>th</sup> century using the theories of Freud, Todorov and Bakhtin. The title itself is quite suggestive, as the words “chronotope” and “uncanny” set the tone of the analysis and introduce to us the psychoanalytic discourse of Eckhard’s study. However, the author uses the idea of the “return of the repressed” and its spatio-temporal bearing in a more general manner than the title alone suggests. The evocative picture on the cover also makes it obvious that the book will deal with urban space: a big city street, an American city street by the feel of it, perhaps even New York city – judging from the yellow cab and the vertical topography. Besides, the novels mentioned in the title-...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Evangelia Kiriakidou</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2013-02-06</dc:date>
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    <title>Hartnell, Anna. Rewriting Exodus: American Futures from Du Bois to Obama.</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Anna Hartnell’s good knowledge of black political and religious discourse, dating from slavery to the present post-9/11 and post-Katrina America, grants her the confidence to draw parallels and to highlight the dividing lines that connect the political speeches of the most eminent African American politicians and thinkers in the history of the American nation. In an effort to map the Exodus rhetoric in the 20<sup>th</sup> and the early 21<sup>st</sup> century, the book explores the biblical Exodus text as it has been appropriated by African American from W. E. B. Du Bois to Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Toni Morrison and to U.S. President Barack Obama. </p>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">The story of the Jewish people out of ancient Egypt and towards the land of Canaan has worked as an allegory, expressing the nation’s struggle for freedom initially from religious persecutions and from the rule of the British Empire and later from slavery. The book studies the different renditions of the Exodus story that have shaped and voiced the black ...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Despoina Feleki</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2013-02-06</dc:date>
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    <title>Thomas Claviez. Aesthetics and Ethics: Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to House Made of Dawn.</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Unlike other fields of organized study that have originated in the last three decades, such as the Law and Literature movement, the intersection of ethics and literature dates back to Plato’s <em>The Republic</em> and Aristotle’s <em>Poetics</em>. Althoughuntil recently, ethics and literature were distanced and autonomous academic fields, they have exhibited strong ties throughout human history. Literature reflects common cultural and moral values and illuminates complex and hidden moral aspects of human experience, while at the same time, “a less amorphous phenomenon than art,” it bridges the gap between abstract literary imagination and specific moral principles, between the creative resistance to reductionism and the desire to subsume human experience under normative frames. Moreover, literature takes up the task of exhibiting and narrating the great debates and contradictions of human morality to a wider and more insightful extent than philosophy, at risk of turning into a vast laboratory for tho...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Lefteris Kalospyros</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2013-02-05</dc:date>
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    <title>Johannes Voelz, Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists &#38; Emerson’s Challenge</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">This wide-ranging yet highly focused book is a challenge to read. Emerson scholars will find it stimulating for what it reveals about the New England poet-philosopher’s tactful negotiation of the needs of a developing American market culture. In order to get there, however, they should be prepared to work through the complex chapters in which Voelz dissects the hidden utopian assumptions of the so-called “New Americanist” critics through their engagement with Emerson, the most “polarizing” writer of the American Renaissance. The book’s larger aim is twofold. On the one hand, Voelz casts new light on Emerson’s aesthetic and political doctrines by showing how he, far from being an otherworldly sage, cunningly exploited the possibilities offered by the lecture circuit in order to confront the modern problem of recognition in an increasingly mediatized society. On the other hand, Voelz draws on Emerson’s writings as a vehicle to confront, or to “challenge,” what he calls the “grounding ...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Michael Boyden</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2013-02-05</dc:date>
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    <title>Giorcelli, Cristina and Paula Rabinowitz, eds. Accessorizing the Body. </title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr"><em>Accessorizing the Body </em>is the first out of the four-volume series, entitled <em>Habits of Being,</em> which hosts a selection of essays from the ongoing research project <em>Abito e Identità: Ricerche di Storia Letteraria e culturale. </em>This vigorous study<em>, </em>edited by Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, invites the reader, student or researcher to start a journey from the European capitals to the American continent during the riotous era of the First and the Second World War in order to investigate the representational potentials of clothing garments and accessories and their power for self-narration. It also seeks to prove fashion’s transgressive nature by creating a dialogue between clothing and the construction of the self at the intersecting point where psychology, politics and the arts meet. Throughout the study the essentiality of accessories is sustained. For Micol Fontana, fashion designer and director of the Fontana Foundation in Rome, “the accessory comes <em>with </em>the dress, not <em>before </em>t...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Despoina Feleki</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2013-02-04</dc:date>
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    <title>Anthony DiMaggio, The Rise of the Tea Party: Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama.Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Writing in 1954—a decade before the conservatives’ ascendancy within the Republican Party and nearly a generation before conservatism would complete its transformation from an elitist ideology to a mass political movement—C. Wright Mills reflected upon what he understood as the absence of the social and historical conditions necessary for the development of an authentic American conservatism. His skepticism is worth quoting at some length: “A noble aristocracy, a peasantry, a petty-bourgeoisie with guild inheritance—that is what is needed for a conservative ideology…in America, liberalism—and the middle classes that bore it as a deep-seated style of thought—has been so paramount as to preclude any flowering of genuinely conservative ideology. Here, from their beginnings, the middle classes have been predominant—in class and in status and in power. There is one consequence of this simple fact that goes far to explain why there can be no genuinely conservative ideology in the United S...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Howison</dc:creator>
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