Andrew S Gross
Biographic Data
| ID | 5657823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew S Gross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew S |
| FAMILY NAME | Gross |
| SIGNATURE | GROSS A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Commerce and Sentiment in Tales of Barbary Encounter
A number of American sailors were taken hostage by Barbary Corsairs and held as slaves in North Africa in the years following the Revolutionary War. The crisis would ultimately lead to open warfare, but many Americans were optimistic that international commerce and common sympathy might overcome religious differences. This essay sketches the history of the Barbary conflict and considers three fictionalized accounts of Barbary encounter as secular…
Imaginary Jews and True Confessions
Berryman was fascinated with the figure of "the imaginary Jew." The phrase is the title of his first short story, it recurs in The Dream Songs, and it was to have been the topic of the final chapter of his autobiographical novel Recovery. Critics have not treated Berryman's "imaginary Jew" kindly. Early critics saw prosopopoeia as uncongenial to the confessional project. More recent critics see the figure as a misappropriation of Jewish identity.…
The American Guide Series
The American Guide Series:Patriotism as Brand-Name Identification Andrew S. Gross (bio) The WPA American Guide Series has received a significant amount of scholarly attention, most of it historical or political in orientation rather than literary or cultural.1 This critical bias is not entirely unjustified. Among the most striking aspects of the Guide Series are the institutional conditions that produced it. Federal Project Number One was the Roo…
Memory, Authority, and Identity
Holocaust scholars often privilege survivor testimony by contrasting it with the more detached way history is traditionally studied. By communicating affect rather than fact through its gaps and inconsistencies, testimony's emotional intensity guarantees its authority. The scandal surrounding Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments, the false testimony of a troubled man, challenges trauma theory's tendency to identify with victims by showing that the au…
The American Guide Series
The American Guide Series:Patriotism as Brand-Name Identification Andrew S. Gross (bio) The WPA American Guide Series has received a significant amount of scholarly attention, most of it historical or political in orientation rather than literary or cultural.1 This critical bias is not entirely unjustified. Among the most striking aspects of the Guide Series are the institutional conditions that produced it. Federal Project Number One was the Roo…
Memory, Authority, and Identity
Holocaust scholars often privilege survivor testimony by contrasting it with the more detached way history is traditionally studied. By communicating affect rather than fact through its gaps and inconsistencies, testimony's emotional intensity guarantees its authority. The scandal surrounding Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments, the false testimony of a troubled man, challenges trauma theory's tendency to identify with victims by showing that the au…
The American Guide Series
The American Guide Series:Patriotism as Brand-Name Identification Andrew S. Gross (bio) The WPA American Guide Series has received a significant amount of scholarly attention, most of it historical or political in orientation rather than literary or cultural.1 This critical bias is not entirely unjustified. Among the most striking aspects of the Guide Series are the institutional conditions that produced it. Federal Project Number One was the Roo…
Imaginary Jews and True Confessions
Berryman was fascinated with the figure of "the imaginary Jew." The phrase is the title of his first short story, it recurs in The Dream Songs, and it was to have been the topic of the final chapter of his autobiographical novel Recovery. Critics have not treated Berryman's "imaginary Jew" kindly. Early critics saw prosopopoeia as uncongenial to the confessional project. More recent critics see the figure as a misappropriation of Jewish identity.…
Commerce and Sentiment in Tales of Barbary Encounter
A number of American sailors were taken hostage by Barbary Corsairs and held as slaves in North Africa in the years following the Revolutionary War. The crisis would ultimately lead to open warfare, but many Americans were optimistic that international commerce and common sympathy might overcome religious differences. This essay sketches the history of the Barbary conflict and considers three fictionalized accounts of Barbary encounter as secular…
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