You mean, whatever, wherever, or whoever an American is, thinks, or may
be, we can sum his or her thought/writing/ideas up with the neat moniker
"American Studies"?  Excellent!  World Studies must be a synonym for
Pound Studies, then.

Stoner James wrote:

>Dirk (and possibly others),
>
>You asked what are American studies?
>
>American Studies, simply put, is a multidisciplinary exploration and study
>of the development of American society and culture from the colonial
>period to the present, incorporating history, literature, politics,
>economics, visual art and film, ect. Topical areas are quite diverse and
>are only limited by the imagination of those exploring the area(s):
>urban-industrial transformation, war and society, race and ethnicity,
>politics, poetics, fictions, non-fiction, and other literary forms such as
>the comic book, detective fiction, horror and pulp fiction.  Other
>historic and contemporary sources include literature, law, photography,
>painting, film, TV, music, fashions, environments, events of everyday
>life.  Often AS programs are sponsored by English Department's in
>cooperation with faculty from the departments of Anthropology, Art, Drama,
>Economics, History, Music, Religious Studies, and Sociology, Philosophy,
>as well as from the Schools of Architecture and Law, among others.  My
>particular interest is aesthetics, poetics, and philosophy (American
>Pragmatism and Poetics-Modern Studies, Postmodernism.)  I personally love
>the excitement of not limiting myself to the departmentalized notion of
>scholarly studies.
>
>I think most of us share the American studies type interests.  Pound would
>have thought it a good idea, since he liked to cross-over.
>
>Ezstoner
>
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