Johannes Voelz: 2 books
The Poetics of Insecurity
American Fiction and the Uses of Threat
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
The Poetics of Insecurity turns the emerging field of literary security studies upside down. Rather than tying the prevalence of security to a culture of fear, Johannes Voelz shows how American literary writers of the past two hundred years have mobilized insecurity to open unforeseen and uncharted...
Transcendental Resistance
The New Americanists and Emerson's Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Johannes Voelz offers a critique of the New Americanists through a stimulating and original reexamination of the iconic figure of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Voelz argues against the prevailing tendency among Americanists to see Emerson as the product of an “all-pervasive scope of cultural power.” Instead...