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Creating American Civilization : A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline

David R. Shumway contends that American literature is the product of study - the deliberate invention of a discipline seeking to define the character and legitimate the existence of a specifically American civilization. He traces the various reconstitutions of American literature by examining the di...

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Autor principal: Shumway, David R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; Introduction: The History of a Discipline; Part I. Beginnings; 1. The Literary in America, 1890-1920; 2. Preprofessional History and Criticism; 3. English as a Discursive Practice; Part II. Institutionalization; 4. American Literature as a Discipline: Constituting the Object; 5. Institutionalizing American Literature; 6. American Literature in the Curriculum; Part III. Creating American Civilization; 7. The Triumph of the Aesthetic; 8. Left Criticism and the New York Intellectuals; 9. Civilization "Discovered"; Epilogue: A Trailer; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G. 
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