Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño

ISBN-13: 9780190690205 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 312 str.

Jeffrey Lawrence

Opis

Anxieties of Experience offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature. Rereading a range of canonical works from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass to Roberto Bolano's 2666, it traces the development and interaction of two distinct literary strains in the Americas: the "US literature of experience" and the "Latin American literature of the reader."

Recenzje

A massively erudite and elegantly written book, Anxieties of Experience takes its readers on a hemispheric journey through modern times, leading up to the present. Comparing and contrasting the literatures of North and South America is ultimately, for Lawrence, a means of examining whether a bookish life is a life lived to the fullest. With its sustained line of inquiry across corpora, the volume makes a valuable contribution to several fields of studywhile also introducing general readers to hemispheric studies.

O autorze

Jeffrey Lawrence is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers-New Brunswick.