Betina Entzminger

Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics

The Origin and Evolution of American Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781138109322
• ISBN-10: 1138109320
• Artikelnr.: 57045701

Autorenporträt

Betina Entzminger is Associate Professor of English at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, US.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Origin and Evolution of American Stories 1. Decoding the
Cryptic Past: Richard Powers's and Louis Bayard's Reconfigurations of Poe's
Short Stories 2. 'A' is for America: Revisions of The Scarlet Letter 3. A
Draft of a Draft: Sena Jeter Naslund's Reconfiguration of Moby-Dick 4.
Revising Alcott, Revising America: Reconfigurations of Little Women 5. The
"Quintessentially American Book": Reconfigurations of Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn 6. Life After Awakening: Anne Tyler's Revision of Kate
Chopin's The Awakening 7. Plundered Narrative: Contemporary Rewritings of
Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Conclusion: The Future of Origins Appendix A:
Interview with Louis Bayard Appendix B: Interview with Sena Jeter Naslund
Bibliography Index