Canons by Consensus - Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Csicsila is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University where he was recognized with the 2002 Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching. Tom Quirk is Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the author of Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination. Klappentext Scholars have long noted the role that college literary anthologies play in the rising and falling reputations of American authors. Canons by Consensus examines this classroom fixture in detail to challenge and correct a number of assumptions about the development of the literary canon throughout the 20th century. Zusammenfassung Scholars have long noted the role that college literary anthologies play in the rising and falling reputations of American authors. Canons by Consensus examines this classroom fixture in detail to challenge and correct a number of assumptions about the development of the literary canon throughout the 20th century.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Csicsila, Joseph/ Quirk Csicsila
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2016
• EAN: 9780817358679
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5867-9
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies