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 > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > -- Dirk Johnson 676 Geary #407 San Francisco, CA 94102 [log in to unmask] Home: 415-771-7734 Office Direct: 510-208-8200 Office Fax: 510-208-8282