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Turns of event : American literary studies in motion /

American literary studies has undergone a series of field redefinitions over the past two decades that have been consistently described as "turns," whether transnational, hemispheric, postnational, spatial, temporal, postsecular, aesthetic, or affective. In Turns of Event, Hester Blum and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Blum, Hester (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Academic positioning systems / Hester Blum
  • part I. Provocations
  • Turn it up : affects, structures of feeling, and face-to-face education / Geoffrey Sanborn
  • Literary history, book history, and media studies / Meredith L. McGill
  • The cartographic turn and American literary studies : of maps, mappings, and the limits of metaphor / Martin Brückner
  • Twists and turns / Christopher Castiglia
  • part II. Turn- by- turn directions : transnational, hemispheric, oceanic
  • Of turns and paradigm shifts : humanities, science, and transnational American studies / Ralph Bauer
  • The geopolitics and tropologies of the American turn / Monique Allewaert
  • The Caribbean turn in C19 American literary studies / Sean X. Goudie
  • Oceanic turns and American literary history in global context / Michelle Burnham.