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Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States

By Sarah M. Corse

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0521570026, 9780521570022
LCC
PR9185.2 .C67 1997
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6185124 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Pages
225\225
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Литературоведение;Изучение зарубежной литературы

Description

This analysis of two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a new theory of national literatures, demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building. It accounts for cross-national differences and illuminates the historically constructed and symbolic nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state. High-culture national literatures are selected as different from other novels; popular-culture bestsellers are mass market commodities for the largest, least differentiated audience.

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