Comparative North American studies : transnational approaches to American and Canadian literature and culture /

This monograph shows comparative North American studies at work in selected case studies and textual analyses. The analytical chapters take various approaches to literary, non-fictional as well as visual texts as their prime objects of analysis within selected areas of comparative North American stu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nischik, Reingard M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:	Short stories, Canadian > History and criticism. Short stories, American > History and criticism. Comparative literature > Canadian and American. Comparative literature > American and Canadian. National characteristics, Canadian, in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. Modernism (Literature) > Canada. Modernism (Literature) > United States. Transnationalism in literature. Atwood, Margaret, > 1939- > Criticism and interpretation. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts
2. Modernism in the United States and Canada: The Example of Poetry and of the Short Story
3. Border Studies, Borderlines, and Liminal Spaces: Crossing the Canada-US Border in North American Border Narratives
4. On Imagology, Canadian-US Relations, and Popular Culture: National Images and Border Crossings in Margaret Atwood's Works
5. Reviewing Atwood in Canada and the United States: From (Inter)Nationalism to Transnationalism
6. "The Writer, the Reader, and the Book": Margaret Atwood on Reviewing in Conversation with Reingard M. Nischik.