Simplify, simplify! Brevity, Plainness and Their Complications in American Literature and Culture - Festschrift for Bernd Engler on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

This volume explores the varieties of the short form in American literature, art, and culture as well as different ideas and aesthetics of simplicity, plainness, and brevity from the 19th century to the present. The contributors discuss how these ideas were translated into widely diverging practices, serving an equally broad spectrum of cultural and political functions. The essays survey a range of media and genres, including short fiction, plays, popular rhetoric, songs, photography, film, and Twitter.

About the author

Isabell Klaiber is Akademische Rätin in American Studies at Universität Tübingen.
Oliver Scheiding is Professor of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.
Jan Stievermann is Professor for the history of Christianity in the USA.

Product details

• Assisted by: Isabell Klaiber (Editor), Olive Scheiding (Editor), Oliver Scheiding (Editor), Stievermann (Editor), Jan Stievermann (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill Schöningh
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2019
• EAN: 9783506701725
• ISBN: 978-3-506-70172-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 420 g
• Illustrations: 3 SW-Abb.
• Series: Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur; Beiträge z.engl.u.amerik. Literatur
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies