The 'Journey of Life' in American Life and Literature

[jochen stremmel]

Of all the catchwords there (in the context of American Life and
Literature) one puzzles me a bit: Heidegger, Martin. Kind of a "ceterum
censeo"?

2015-09-04 8:41 GMT+02:00 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:

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> > The papers collected in this volume were presented at a conference on
> “The Journey of Life” which took place at Paderborn University in October
> 2013. They focus on a perennially recurring archetype of the human
> imagination which, for obvious reasons, is especially influential in the
> U.S. The articles offer exemplary insights into the manifestations and
> functions of the ‘journey of life’ concept in both American life and
> literature. Some contributions deal with ‘real’ journeys ranging from the
> westward travels of pioneer women physicians in the nineteenth century
> through Jack London’s ‘journeys of life’ to the attempts at tinkering with
> the human journey of life in the age of biotechnology. Other contributions
> present a taxonomy of journey types in American fiction, and they analyze
> literary journeys from the omnipresent journeys in Thomas Pynchon’s novels
> and the post-apocalyptic journey in Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’ through
> the journey plot in Robert Kirkman’s serial comic ‘The Walking Dead’ and
> the various kinds of journeys in Western films to the journeys of
> initiation in Sherman Alexie’s ‘The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
> Indian’ and José Antonio Villarréal’s ‘Pocho’. <
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> https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-7518-8/Freese_Ed_The_Journey_of_Life_PDF/
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