The Internationality of National Literatures in Either America
Author: Armin Paul Frank
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9783892443179
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Author: Armin Paul Frank
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9783892443179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Armin Paul Frank
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Published: 1999
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Armin Paul Frank
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9783892443551
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bruce King
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-07-05
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 3838268563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom New National to World English Literature offers a personal perspective on the evolution of a major cultural movement that began with decolonization, continued with the assertion of African, West Indian, Commonwealth, and other literatures, and has evolved through postcolonial to world or international English literature. Bruce King, one of the pioneers in the study of the new national literatures and still an active literary critic, discusses the personalities, writers, issues, and contexts of what he considers the most important change in culture since modernism. In this selection of forty-five essays and reviews, King discusses issues such as the emergence and aesthetics of African literature, the question of the existence of a “Nigerian literature”, the place of the new universities in decolonizing culture, the contrasting models of American and Irish literatures, and the changing nature of exile and diasporas. He emphasizes themes such as traditionalism versus modernism, the dangers of cultural assertion, and the relationships between nationalism and internationalism. Special attention is given to Nigerian, West Indian, Australian, Indian, and Pakistani literature.
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 730
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 978
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hugh Ridley
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9042021837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book attempts for the first time a comparative literary history of Germany and the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its material does not come from the familiar overlaps of individual German and American writers, but from the work of the literary historians of the two countries after 1815, when American intellectuals took Germany as a model for their project to create an American national literature. The first part of the book examines fundamental structural affinities between the two literary histories and the common problems these caused, especially in questions of canon, realism, aesthetics and in the marginalization of popular and women's writing. In the second part, significant figures whose work straddle the two literatures - from Sealsfield and Melville, Whitman and Thomas Mann to Nietzsche, Emerson and Bellow - are discussed in detail, and the arguments of the first part are shown in their relevance to understanding major writers. This book is not merely comparative in scope: it shows that only international comparison can explain the course of American literary history in the nineteenth and twentieth century. As recent developments in American Studies explore the multi-cultural and 'hybrid' nature of the American tradition, this book offers evidence of the dependencies which linked American and German national literary history.
Author: John D. Kerkering
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-12-11
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1139440985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering explores poetry's formal properties, its sound effects, as they intersect with the issues of race and nation. He shows how formal effects, ranging from meter and rhythm to alliteration and melody, provide these writers with evidence of a collective identity, whether national or racial. Through this shared reliance on formal literary effects, national and racial identities, Kerkering shows, are related elements of a single literary history. This is the story of how poetic effects helped to define national identities in Anglo-America as a step toward helping to define racial identities within the United States. This highly original study will command a wide audience of Americanists.
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 624
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