The Global Remapping of American Literature /

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This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Giles, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Space in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature.
Geography in literature.
Boundaries in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature regionale.
Espace dans la litterature.
Frontieres dans la litterature.
Geographie dans la litterature.
American literature > History and criticism.
United States.
United States > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the deterritorialization of American literature
  • Part one: Temporal latitudes. Augustan American literature: an aesthetics of extravagance; medieval American literature: antebellum narratives and the "map of the infinite"
  • Part two: The boundaries of the nation. The arcs of modernism: geography as allegory; suburb, network, homeland: national space and the rhetoric of broadcasting
  • Part three: Spatial longitudes. Hemispheric parallax: South America and the American South; metaregionalism: the global pacific northwest
  • Conclusion: American literature and the question of circumference.

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