Bücher der Reihe International Cooper Series in English Language and Literature

These essays examine the New World dreams in the American Columbiad. They focus on Native American, Caribbean, African-American, Jewish American and New Zealand texts that highlight the contrast between the reality of colonization and exploitation and its ideological framework.

" (Karl: 27) Such assessments of course challenge my view that the comic is in significant ways connected with what is innovative in postmodernist US-American fiction. Yet the term comic -or related terms like humour, parody, irony and so fort- is regularly and heavily employed in discussions or reviews of con temporary fiction.

This study investigates the pragmatic dimension of Ezra Pound's work. Drawing on relevance theory, the text aims to reconstruct the dynamic communicative interface between Pound and his audiences (sociological, envisaged, and their dialectic) in the early period of his career.