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Item Details
Title:
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A COMPANION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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By: |
Paul Lauter |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£35.25 |
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ISBN 10: |
0631208925 |
ISBN 13: |
9780631208921 |
Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
Pub. date: |
1 April, 2007 |
Series: |
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
Pages: |
712 |
Description: |
This expansive volume provides a set of fresh perspectives, some related, some dissonant, on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. |
Synopsis: |
This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature |
Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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