Author: Armin Paul FrankPublisher: Wallstein Verlag
ISBN: 9783892443179
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Internationality of National Literatures in Either America
Author: Armin Paul FrankPublisher: Wallstein Verlag
ISBN: 9783892443179
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Internationality of National Literatures in Either America: British America and the United States, 1770s-1850s
Author: Armin Paul FrankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Internationality of National Literatures in Either America
Author: Armin Paul FrankPublisher: Wallstein Verlag
ISBN: 9783892443551
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Internationality of National Literatures in Either America
Author: Armin Paul FrankPublisher:
ISBN: 9783892443551
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 398
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From New National to World Literature
Author: Bruce KingPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838268563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
From New National to World English Literature offers a personal perspective on the evolution of a major cultural movement that began with decolonization, continued with the assertion of African, West Indian, Commonwealth, and other literatures, and has evolved through postcolonial to world or international English literature. Bruce King, one of the pioneers in the study of the new national literatures and still an active literary critic, discusses the personalities, writers, issues, and contexts of what he considers the most important change in culture since modernism. In this selection of forty-five essays and reviews, King discusses issues such as the emergence and aesthetics of African literature, the question of the existence of a “Nigerian literature”, the place of the new universities in decolonizing culture, the contrasting models of American and Irish literatures, and the changing nature of exile and diasporas. He emphasizes themes such as traditionalism versus modernism, the dangers of cultural assertion, and the relationships between nationalism and internationalism. Special attention is given to Nigerian, West Indian, Australian, Indian, and Pakistani literature.
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
Author: The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Author: 'Relations Stop Nowhere'
Author: Hugh RidleyPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042021837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book attempts for the first time a comparative literary history of Germany and the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its material does not come from the familiar overlaps of individual German and American writers, but from the work of the literary historians of the two countries after 1815, when American intellectuals took Germany as a model for their project to create an American national literature. The first part of the book examines fundamental structural affinities between the two literary histories and the common problems these caused, especially in questions of canon, realism, aesthetics and in the marginalization of popular and women's writing. In the second part, significant figures whose work straddle the two literatures - from Sealsfield and Melville, Whitman and Thomas Mann to Nietzsche, Emerson and Bellow - are discussed in detail, and the arguments of the first part are shown in their relevance to understanding major writers. This book is not merely comparative in scope: it shows that only international comparison can explain the course of American literary history in the nineteenth and twentieth century. As recent developments in American Studies explore the multi-cultural and 'hybrid' nature of the American tradition, this book offers evidence of the dependencies which linked American and German national literary history.
The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author: John D. KerkeringPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139440985
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering explores poetry's formal properties, its sound effects, as they intersect with the issues of race and nation. He shows how formal effects, ranging from meter and rhythm to alliteration and melody, provide these writers with evidence of a collective identity, whether national or racial. Through this shared reliance on formal literary effects, national and racial identities, Kerkering shows, are related elements of a single literary history. This is the story of how poetic effects helped to define national identities in Anglo-America as a step toward helping to define racial identities within the United States. This highly original study will command a wide audience of Americanists.
Bulletin of the International University Information Office
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ISBN:
Category : Intellectual cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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