Winfried Fluck
Biographic Data
| ID | 839105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Winfried Fluck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Winfried |
| FAMILY NAME | Fluck |
| SIGNATURE | FLUCK W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
American Studies
Journal Article American Studies: Disziplingeschichte und Geschlecht (American studies: History of gender and the discipline) Get access By Levke Harders. (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2013. 341 pp. €56.00.) In German. Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1156–1157, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav749 Published: 01 March 2016
Philosophical Premises in Literary and Cultural Theory
Every literary and cultural theory must be based on certain explicit or implicit assumptions about the human condition, about what the human make-up is, what humans want, what they need, how society responds to these wants and needs, and what role literature and culture play in this context. Willingly or unwillingly, but always inevitably, such assumptions form the basis of every theoretical approach, although critics often do not want to acknowl…
Reading for Recognition
In the past decades the topic of recognition has moved to the center of critical theories and philosophical debates. Can these theories be of use for literary studies? This essay discusses the relation between literature and recognition in five parts: first, a comparison of two different perspectives on recognition that are especially suggestive for possible uses of the concept in literary studies; second, a discussion of the question of identity…
Transatlantic Narratives about American Art
A New Beginning
In recent years, debates about the theory and method of American studies have gone in a new direction called transnational American studies. This transnational project can be seen as a response to an impasse in the analysis of power effects that prior approaches in American studies had reached. Since the search for subject positions that would not yet be subject to the power effects of interpellation had already led to border regions and intercul…
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Ständig wachsende Vielfalt der amerikanischen Literatur. Von den Puritanern bis zur Postmoderne beleuchtet das beliebte Standardwerk alle wichtigen Autoren und ihre Werke. Ausführliche Porträts der in
Inside and Outside
Inside and Outside:What Kind of Knowledge Do We Need? A Response to the Presidential Address Winfried Fluck (bio) The theme of the 2006 annual meeting of the American Studies Association was "The United States from Inside and Out: Transnational American Studies," and Emory Elliott's carefully crafted presidential address acknowledges the theoretical challenge linked with the transnational turn in American studies when he asks in the subtitle of h…
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Wie das Land, so die Literatur: Die vielschichtigen Strömungen der amerikanischen Literatur stehen ganz im Zeichen von Multikultur. Welche Elemente charakterisieren die indianische, afro-, jüdisch- un
What is so bad about being rich? The representation of wealth in American culture
Today, the USA is the Western nation with the greatest percentage of the world's rich and with the greatest gap between rich and poor. However, there is hardly any national debate or outcry about this growth of wealth polarization. From a Cultural Studies perspective, this puzzling absence of protest raises the question whether and in what way culture plays a role in shaping US attitudes toward economic and social inequality. This article traces …
What is so bad about being rich? The representation of wealth in American culture
Today, the USA is the Western nation with the greatest percentage of the world's rich and with the greatest gap between rich and poor. However, there is hardly any national debate or outcry about this growth of wealth polarization. From a Cultural Studies perspective, this puzzling absence of protest raises the question whether and in what way culture plays a role in shaping US attitudes toward economic and social inequality. This article traces …
Fiction and Justice
Fictional texts have played a key role in Western societies in broadening the definition of what constitutes justice from issues of distribution to questions of recognition. In its first part, this essay describes three major reasons why fictional texts have gained central cultural importance in articulating claims for recognition: a) fiction is an important part of modernity, if not, in fact, one of its driving engines; b) fiction invites symbol…
America Noir
Journal Article America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era. By David Cochran. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. xiv, 280 pp. $27.95, isbn 1-56098-813-4.) Get access Winfried Fluck Winfried Fluck Free University of BerlinBerlin, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 1147–1148, https://doi.org/10.…
The Search for Distance
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism
In one sense, the future of American Studies seems to be more promising than ever. Because there are so many contested issues and intellectual challenges in the field, American Studies have gained greatly in theoretical interest. On the institutional level, the number of professional positions created after World War II in colleges and universities all over the world is remarkable. At the same time, this successful intellectual and institutional …
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Der Band gibt einen Überblick über die amerikanische Literaturgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Postmoderne. Die gewachsene internationale Bedeutung der Literatur Nordamerikas wird an deren wichtigs
"The American Romance" and the Changing Functions of the Imaginary
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 1996
The Power and Failure of Representation in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Winfried Fluck, The Power and Failure of Representation in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, New Literary History, Vol. 23, No. 2, Revising Historical Understanding (Spring, 1992), pp. 319-338
Fiction and Fictionality in Popular Culture
Popular Culture as a Mode of Socialization A Theory about the Social Functions of Popular Cultural Forms
Ästhetische Theorie und literaturwissenschaftliche Methode
Inside and Outside
Inside and Outside:What Kind of Knowledge Do We Need? A Response to the Presidential Address Winfried Fluck (bio) The theme of the 2006 annual meeting of the American Studies Association was "The United States from Inside and Out: Transnational American Studies," and Emory Elliott's carefully crafted presidential address acknowledges the theoretical challenge linked with the transnational turn in American studies when he asks in the subtitle of h…
Popular Culture as a Mode of Socialization A Theory about the Social Functions of Popular Cultural Forms
A New Beginning
In recent years, debates about the theory and method of American studies have gone in a new direction called transnational American studies. This transnational project can be seen as a response to an impasse in the analysis of power effects that prior approaches in American studies had reached. Since the search for subject positions that would not yet be subject to the power effects of interpellation had already led to border regions and intercul…
Fiction and Fictionality in Popular Culture
The Search for Distance
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
Philosophical Premises in Literary and Cultural Theory
Every literary and cultural theory must be based on certain explicit or implicit assumptions about the human condition, about what the human make-up is, what humans want, what they need, how society responds to these wants and needs, and what role literature and culture play in this context. Willingly or unwillingly, but always inevitably, such assumptions form the basis of every theoretical approach, although critics often do not want to acknowl…
Fiction and Justice
Fictional texts have played a key role in Western societies in broadening the definition of what constitutes justice from issues of distribution to questions of recognition. In its first part, this essay describes three major reasons why fictional texts have gained central cultural importance in articulating claims for recognition: a) fiction is an important part of modernity, if not, in fact, one of its driving engines; b) fiction invites symbol…
The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism
In one sense, the future of American Studies seems to be more promising than ever. Because there are so many contested issues and intellectual challenges in the field, American Studies have gained greatly in theoretical interest. On the institutional level, the number of professional positions created after World War II in colleges and universities all over the world is remarkable. At the same time, this successful intellectual and institutional …
"The American Romance" and the Changing Functions of the Imaginary
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 1996
The Power and Failure of Representation in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Winfried Fluck, The Power and Failure of Representation in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, New Literary History, Vol. 23, No. 2, Revising Historical Understanding (Spring, 1992), pp. 319-338
Ästhetische Theorie und literaturwissenschaftliche Methode
Popular Culture as a Mode of Socialization A Theory about the Social Functions of Popular Cultural Forms
Fiction and Fictionality in Popular Culture
The Power and Failure of Representation in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Winfried Fluck, The Power and Failure of Representation in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, New Literary History, Vol. 23, No. 2, Revising Historical Understanding (Spring, 1992), pp. 319-338
"The American Romance" and the Changing Functions of the Imaginary
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 1996
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Der Band gibt einen Überblick über die amerikanische Literaturgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Postmoderne. Die gewachsene internationale Bedeutung der Literatur Nordamerikas wird an deren wichtigs
The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism
In one sense, the future of American Studies seems to be more promising than ever. Because there are so many contested issues and intellectual challenges in the field, American Studies have gained greatly in theoretical interest. On the institutional level, the number of professional positions created after World War II in colleges and universities all over the world is remarkable. At the same time, this successful intellectual and institutional …
The Search for Distance
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
America Noir
Journal Article America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era. By David Cochran. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. xiv, 280 pp. $27.95, isbn 1-56098-813-4.) Get access Winfried Fluck Winfried Fluck Free University of BerlinBerlin, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 1147–1148, https://doi.org/10.…
What is so bad about being rich? The representation of wealth in American culture
Today, the USA is the Western nation with the greatest percentage of the world's rich and with the greatest gap between rich and poor. However, there is hardly any national debate or outcry about this growth of wealth polarization. From a Cultural Studies perspective, this puzzling absence of protest raises the question whether and in what way culture plays a role in shaping US attitudes toward economic and social inequality. This article traces …
What is so bad about being rich? The representation of wealth in American culture
Today, the USA is the Western nation with the greatest percentage of the world's rich and with the greatest gap between rich and poor. However, there is hardly any national debate or outcry about this growth of wealth polarization. From a Cultural Studies perspective, this puzzling absence of protest raises the question whether and in what way culture plays a role in shaping US attitudes toward economic and social inequality. This article traces …
Fiction and Justice
Fictional texts have played a key role in Western societies in broadening the definition of what constitutes justice from issues of distribution to questions of recognition. In its first part, this essay describes three major reasons why fictional texts have gained central cultural importance in articulating claims for recognition: a) fiction is an important part of modernity, if not, in fact, one of its driving engines; b) fiction invites symbol…
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Wie das Land, so die Literatur: Die vielschichtigen Strömungen der amerikanischen Literatur stehen ganz im Zeichen von Multikultur. Welche Elemente charakterisieren die indianische, afro-, jüdisch- un
Inside and Outside
Inside and Outside:What Kind of Knowledge Do We Need? A Response to the Presidential Address Winfried Fluck (bio) The theme of the 2006 annual meeting of the American Studies Association was "The United States from Inside and Out: Transnational American Studies," and Emory Elliott's carefully crafted presidential address acknowledges the theoretical challenge linked with the transnational turn in American studies when he asks in the subtitle of h…
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Ständig wachsende Vielfalt der amerikanischen Literatur. Von den Puritanern bis zur Postmoderne beleuchtet das beliebte Standardwerk alle wichtigen Autoren und ihre Werke. Ausführliche Porträts der in
A New Beginning
In recent years, debates about the theory and method of American studies have gone in a new direction called transnational American studies. This transnational project can be seen as a response to an impasse in the analysis of power effects that prior approaches in American studies had reached. Since the search for subject positions that would not yet be subject to the power effects of interpellation had already led to border regions and intercul…
Transatlantic Narratives about American Art
Reading for Recognition
In the past decades the topic of recognition has moved to the center of critical theories and philosophical debates. Can these theories be of use for literary studies? This essay discusses the relation between literature and recognition in five parts: first, a comparison of two different perspectives on recognition that are especially suggestive for possible uses of the concept in literary studies; second, a discussion of the question of identity…
American Studies
Journal Article American Studies: Disziplingeschichte und Geschlecht (American studies: History of gender and the discipline) Get access By Levke Harders. (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2013. 341 pp. €56.00.) In German. Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1156–1157, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav749 Published: 01 March 2016
Philosophical Premises in Literary and Cultural Theory
Every literary and cultural theory must be based on certain explicit or implicit assumptions about the human condition, about what the human make-up is, what humans want, what they need, how society responds to these wants and needs, and what role literature and culture play in this context. Willingly or unwillingly, but always inevitably, such assumptions form the basis of every theoretical approach, although critics often do not want to acknowl…
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