Christopher K. Coffman

Rewriting Early America

The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Rewriting Early America argues the need for a subtler understanding of how post-1945 literary figures represent America's prenational past. Rather than focusing only on how literary representations of the national origins advance political critiques, this book also recognizes the recuperative visions founds in many recent novels and poems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lehigh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781611462555
• ISBN-10: 161146255X
• Artikelnr.: 53772199

Autorenporträt

By Christopher K. Coffman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: Contemporary American Literature and Early
America Chapter 1: Berryman's Bradstreet and the End(s) of New Criticism
Chapter 2: John Barth's Metanarrative Critique, or, History as Literature
as Reenactment Chapter 3: Tradition and Critique in Paul Muldoon's "Madoc:
A Mystery" Chapter 4: Material Values in Pynchon and Vollmann Chapter 5:
The New World(s) of Thomas Pynchon Chapter 6: Silence and Places beyond
Power in the Poetry of Susan Howe Conclusion: The Problem of American
Origins, Freedom from Power, and Toni Morrison's A Mercy Bibliography Index
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