Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Marburg (Institiut f?r Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: "The Art of Fiction" American Realism and Naturalism, language: English, abstract: The main theoretical input for this paper is Althusser's landmark essay ''Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.'' In this essay, Althusser develops his theory of the Ideological State Apparatuses...