A companion to American literature and culture /
This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. * Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. * Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more. * Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter. * Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contempor. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 688 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0631208925 9780631208921 9781444320626 1444320629 1282548220 9781282548220 9786612548222 6612548223 1444331728 9781444331721 1780340389 9781780340388 1444320637 9781444320633 |