American World Literature: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781119431640 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str.

Paul Giles

Spis treści

Acknowledgments (follow typescript)1. The Theory of American World Literature2. Early American Literature in the WorldContact Zones and Extended ScalesThe Classical CounternarrativeThomas Paine and Universal Order3. National/Global: The Framing of Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureNational Agendas and Transnational DialoguesSlavery's Global CompassPlanetary Space and Intellectual Distance4. The Worlds of American ModernismThe American Novel and the Great WarThe Aesthetics of ContradictionAmerican Studies and World Literature: The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath5. Postmodernism, Globalization and U.S. Literary CultureThe Politics of PostmodernismStyles of GlobalizationDisorientation and Reorientation: Kincaid, Morrison, KingstonIndex

O autorze

Paul Giles is Challis Professor of English at the University of Sydney, Australia. He was previously Professor of American Literature at the University of Oxford, University Lecturer in American Literature at Cambridge, and President of the International American Studies Association.