Handbook of the American novel of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Handbook of the American novel of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries:

Increasing specialization within the discipline of English and American Studies has shifted the focus of scholarly discussion toward theoretical reflection and cultural contexts. These developments have benefitted the discipline in more ways than one, but they have also resulted in a certain neglect...

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Weitere Verfasser: Müller, Timo 1980- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Handbooks of English and American studies Volume 4
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 1903-2012
Amerikanische Gegenwartsliteratur
Amerikanischer Roman
Roman
USA
Aufsatzsammlung
Online-Zugang:DE-12
DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-858
DE-Aug4
DE-859
DE-860
DE-188
DE-473
DE-355
DE-824
DE-739
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Zusammenfassung:Increasing specialization within the discipline of English and American Studies has shifted the focus of scholarly discussion toward theoretical reflection and cultural contexts. These developments have benefitted the discipline in more ways than one, but they have also resulted in a certain neglect of close reading. As a result, students and researchers interested in such material are forced to turn to scholarship from the 1960s and 1970s, much of which relies on dated methodological and ideological presuppositions. The handbook aims to fill this gap by providing new readings of texts that figure prominently in the literature classroom and in scholarly debate − from James’s The Ambassadors to McCarthy’s The Road. These readings do not revert naively to a time "before theory." Instead, they distil the insights of literary and cultural theory into concise introductions to the historical background, the themes, the formal strategies, and the reception of influential literary texts, and they do so in a jargon-free language accessible to readers on all levels of qualification
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (IX, 460 Seiten)
ISBN:9783110422429
9783110422542
DOI:10.1515/9783110422429

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