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The global remapping of American literature [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Giles



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Autore: Giles Paul Visualizza persona
Titolo: The global remapping of American literature [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Giles Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2010
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/32
Soggetto topico: American literature - History and criticism
Geography in literature
Boundaries in literature
Space in literature
Regionalism in literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
Soggetto geografico: United States In literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: American Civil War
American Renaissance
American South
American broadcasting
American culture
American literary studies
American literature
Augustan American literature
Cotton Mather
Dave Eggers
David Foster Wallace
Don DeLillo
Douglas Coupland
Elizabeth Bishop
European medievalism
F. O. Matthiessen
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flix Guattari
Gary Snyder
Gertrude Stein
Gilles Deleuze
Jos Mart
Magnalia Christi Americana
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Native Americans
New England
Pacific Northwest
Philip Roth
Phillis Wheatley
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Brautigan
South America
Timothy Dwight
Toni Morrison
U.S. national identity
Ursula Le Guin
Voice of America
Wallace Stevens
William Dean Howells
William Faulkner
William Gibson
William Gilmore Simms
Zora Neale Hurston
allegory
antebellum narratives
cartography
deterritorialization
electronic media
extravagance
geography
globalization
liberal democracy
medieval American literature
medievalism
metaregionalism
modernism
narratives
national space
place
plantations
poetry
pseudo-geography
regionalism
social boundaries
space
technological innovations
transnationalism
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: the deterritorialization of American literature -- Part one: Temporal latitudes. Augustan American literature: an aesthetics of extravagance; medieval American literature: antebellum narratives and the "map of the infinite" -- Part two: The boundaries of the nation. The arcs of modernism: geography as allegory; suburb, network, homeland: national space and the rhetoric of broadcasting -- Part three: Spatial longitudes. Hemispheric parallax: South America and the American South; metaregionalism: the global pacific northwest -- Conclusion: American literature and the question of circumference.
Sommario/riassunto: This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. He contrasts this with the more amorphous boundaries of American culture in the eighteenth century, and with ways in which conditions of globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century have reconfigured the parameters of the subject. In light of these fluctuating conceptions of space, Giles suggests new ways of understanding the shifting territory of American literary history. ranging from Cotton Mather to David Foster Wallace, and from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Zora Neale Hurston. Giles considers why European medievalism and Native American prehistory were crucial to classic nineteenth-century authors such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. He discusses how twentieth-century technological innovations, such as air travel, affected representations of the national domain in the texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. And he analyzes how regional projections of the South and the Pacific Northwest helped to shape the work of writers such as William Gilmore Simms, José Martí, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Gibson. Bringing together literary analysis, political history, and cultural geography, The Global Remapping of American Literature reorients the subject for the transnational era.
Titolo autorizzato: The global remapping of American literature  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-96451-8
9786612964510
1-4008-3651-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910458183403321
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