A Companion to American Literature and Culture

704 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 contemporary theories and practices - Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature

• ISBN: 9781119685654
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.09.2020
• Größe: 241 x 165 mm
• Verlag: Wiley
• Herausgegeben von: Paul Lauter