Werner

Aurelio Galfetti Castelgrande, Bellinzona

System der christlichen Ethik

Karl Werner

ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Religionen

Die Religionen und Culte des vorchristlichen Heidenthums

Ergebnisse langjähriger Erfahrungen eines alten Landwirthschaftsbeamten

Aehrenlese

Craig Hansen Werner

In Playing the Changes, Craig Hansen Werner presents a polyrhythmic approach to the continuities and discontinuities of the American literary tradition. He focuses on the relationship between two superficially distinct traditions: European (post)modernism and African American culture in both literary and musical forms. A primary contribution of Playing the Changes is its exploration of different "phrasings" of issues important to highly conscious African American artists from the late nineteenth century (Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman) to the 1990s (Toni Morrison's Jazz). A final sequence highlights the centrality of black music to African American writing, arguing that recognizing blues, gospel, and jazz as theoretically suggestive cultural practices rather than specific musical forms points to what is most distinctive in twentieth-century African American writing: its ability to subvert attempts to limit its engagement with psychological, historical, political, or aesthetic realities.

From Afro-modernism to the Jazz Impulse

Playing the Changes

Werner

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