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What is American Literature?

Af: Ilan Stavans Engelsk Hardback

What is American Literature?

Af: Ilan Stavans Engelsk Hardback
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An incisive, thought-provoking, and timely meditation, at once panoramic and synoptic, on American literature for an age of xenophobia, heightened nationalism, and economic disparity. The distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the nation''s identity through the prism of its books, from the indigenous past to the early settlers, the colonial period, the age of independence, its ascendance as a global power, and its shallow, fracturing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The central motives that make the United States a flawed experiment--its celebration of do-it-yourself individualism, its purported exceptionalism, and its constitutional government based on checks and balances--are explored through canonical works like Mark Twain''s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Walt Whitman''s Leaves of Grass, Emily Dickinson''s poetry, F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby, the work of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison, and immigrant voices such as those of Américo Paredes, Henry Roth, Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jhumpa Lahiri, and others. This is literary criticism at its best-informed: broad-ranged yet pungent and uncompromising.
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An incisive, thought-provoking, and timely meditation, at once panoramic and synoptic, on American literature for an age of xenophobia, heightened nationalism, and economic disparity. The distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the nation''s identity through the prism of its books, from the indigenous past to the early settlers, the colonial period, the age of independence, its ascendance as a global power, and its shallow, fracturing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The central motives that make the United States a flawed experiment--its celebration of do-it-yourself individualism, its purported exceptionalism, and its constitutional government based on checks and balances--are explored through canonical works like Mark Twain''s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Walt Whitman''s Leaves of Grass, Emily Dickinson''s poetry, F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby, the work of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison, and immigrant voices such as those of Américo Paredes, Henry Roth, Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jhumpa Lahiri, and others. This is literary criticism at its best-informed: broad-ranged yet pungent and uncompromising.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 216
ISBN-13: 9780198816218
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0198816219
Kategori: Litteraturstudier: fra 1900 til 2000
Udg. Dato: 10 feb 2022
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 222mm
Højde: 147mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 10 feb 2022
Forfatter(e): Ilan Stavans
Forfatter(e) Ilan Stavans

Kategori Litteraturstudier: fra 1900 til 2000

ISBN-13 9780198816218

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 216

Udgave

Længde 27mm

Bredde 222mm

Højde 147mm

Udg. Dato 10 feb 2022

Oplagsdato 10 feb 2022

Forlag Oxford University Press