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Canons and Contexts.
The essays in this volume represent the author's effort to reconstruct American literature by establishing a theory of "canonical criticism", which aims to open up the canon of American literature to the works of women, minorities and working-class writers.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1991.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Society and the Profession, 1958-83; Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties; The Literatures of America--A Comparative Discipline; Reconstructing American Literature--Curricular Issues; Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers; The Two Criticisms--or, Structure, Lingo, and Power in the Discourse of Academic Humanists; Canon Theory and Emergent Practice; Retrenchment--What the Managers Are Doing; A Scandalous Misuse of Faculty--Adjuncts; Beyond Consciousness Raising--Changing Institutions.