A Companion to American Literature and Culture. Paul Lauter
A Companion to American Literature and Culture
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Автор произведения: Paul Lauter
Жанр: Критика
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
isbn: 9781444320633
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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