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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255253003321

Autore

Nischik Reingard M

Titolo

Comparative North American Studies : Transnational Approaches to American and Canadian Literature and Culture / / by Reingard M. Nischik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137559654

1137559659

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Classificazione

LIT000000LIT004020LIT004080

Disciplina

810.997

Soggetti

America - Literatures

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature - History and criticism

North American Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts; 2 Modernism in the United States and Canada: The Example of Poetry and of the Short Story; 3 Border Studies, Borderlines, and Liminal Spaces: Crossing the Canada-US Border in North American Border Narratives; 4 On Imagology, Canadian-US Relations, and Popular Culture: National Images and Border Crossings in Margaret Atwood's Works; 5 Reviewing Atwood in Canada and the United States: From (Inter)Nationalism to Transnationalism

6 "The Writer, the Reader, and the Book": Margaret Atwood on Reviewing in Conversation with Reingard M. NischikNotes; Selective Bibliography: Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Merging selected approaches to Comparative North American Studies



with detailed textual analyses, this book studies works of writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood. Topics include comparative approaches to the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, and North American reviews of Atwood's novels. .