This collection of essays by a leading scholar of American literature
and culture demonstrates the impressive scope and depth of Heinz
Ickstadt's scholarly interventions and his intense engagement with
crucial concepts and questions that have preoccupied the field of
American studies over the past decades. Moving from the philosophy of
pragmatism to issues of identity formation, from aesthetic experience to
pluralist aesthetics, and from imaginaries of American modernism to
strategies of commemoration, Ickstadt's recent work explores the
complexities of the agenda of literary and cultural studies at large.