Activity – MICHAEL BOEHLER – Humanities Commons

MICHAEL BOEHLER deposited “Cross the Border – Close the Gap!” (L. Fiedler) – The Decanonization of Elite Culture in the Postmodern and the Recanonization of the American Myth: On the Canon Debates (“Canon Wars”) in the United States from the Sixties to the Nineties – seen from without (1996) – transl. from German: “Cross the Border – Close the Gap!” Die Dekanonisierung der Elitekultur in der Postmoderne und die Rekanonisierung des Amerika-Mythos. Zur Kanondiskussion in den USA on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

Critical examination and analysis of the Canon Debates (“Canon Wars”) in the United States from the Sixties to the Nineties – seen from without. (Symposium paper [1996] published in 1998 in German under the title “Cross the Border – Close the Gap!” – Die Dekanonisierung der Elitekultur in der Postmoderne und die Rekanonisierung des Amerika-Mythos. Zur Kanondiskussion in den USA. In: Renate von Heydebrand, Hg.: Kanon Macht Kultur. Theoretische, historische und soziale Aspekte ästhetischer Kanon-bildungen. Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Weimar 1998, pp. 483–503. Translated by Robert E. (Steve) Goodwin, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs/NY. – original German text attached)

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