Unusable Past - Theory and the Study of American Literature

First Published in 2002. Amongst a time of rapid and radical social change, New Accents is a positive response to change, with each volume seeking to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. This study offers the authors' theories of American literature and more specifically, his interest here is in how those theories define the canon of American literature and how those definitions influence our understanding and teaching of that canon.

Table des matières

Chapter 1 The unused past; Chapter 2 The problem of Puritan origins in literary history and theory; Chapter 3 ‘Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is’; Chapter 4 American Literature Should Not Mean But Be; Chapter 5 What is to Be Done?; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

A propos de l'auteur

Russell J. Reising

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Russell J Reising, Russell J. Reising, Reising Russell J.
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 28.08.2013
• EAN: 9780415866422
• ISBN: 978-0-415-86642-2
• Pages: 302
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: de l'Antiquité à nos jours; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism