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A Companion to American Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

By Paul Lauter

Book information

Year
2010
ISBN
0631208925, 9780631208921
LCC
PS88 .C63 2010
Open Library ID
OL23725493M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2971558 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
710\710
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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

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