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American World Literature: An Introduction

Authors: Paul Giles Publisher: Wiley Publication date: 2018 Publication language: Angielski Number of pages: 231 Publication formats: EAN: 9781119431794 ISBN: 9781119431794 Category: Literature & literary studies Publisher's index: - Bibliographic note: -

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A scholarly review of American world literature from early times to the postmodernist era

American World Literature: An Introduction explores how the subject of American Literature has evolved from a national into a global phenomenon. As the author, Paul Giles – a noted expert on the topic – explains, today American Literature is understood as engaging with the wider world rather than merely with local or national circumstances. The book offers an examination of these changing conceptions of representation in both a critical and an historical context.

The author examines how the perception of American culture has changed significantly over time and how this has been an object of widespread social and political debate. From examples of early American literature to postmodernism, the book charts ways in which the academic subject areas of American Literature and World Literature have converged – and diverged – over the past generations.

Written for students of American literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and in all areas of historical specialization, American World Literature offers an authoritative guide to global phenomena of American World literature and how this subject has undergone crucial changes in perception over the past thirty years.

TOC

  • Title Page 6
  • Copyright Page 7
  • Contents 8
  • Acknowledgments 9
  • Chapter 1 The Theory of American World Literature 12
    • References 36
  • Chapter 2 Early American Literature in the World 41
    • 2.1 Contact Zones and Extended Scales 41
    • 2.2 The Classical Counternarrative 52
    • 2.3 The Early American Novel’s Transatlantic Axis 62
    • 2.4 Thomas Paine and Universal Order 74
    • References 80
  • Chapter 3 National/Global: The Framing of Nineteenth‐Century American Literature 86
    • 3.1 National Agendas and Transnational Dialogues 86
    • 3.2 Slavery’s Global Compass 103
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