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American World Literature: An Introduction

Paul Giles author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:15th Feb '19

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A scholarly review of American world literature from early times to the postmodernist era

American World Literature: An Introduction explores how the subject of American Literature has evolved from a national into a global phenomenon. As the author, Paul Giles – a noted expert on the topic – explains, today American Literature is understood as engaging with the wider world rather than merely with local or national circumstances. The book offers an examination of these changing conceptions of representation in both a critical and an historical context.

The author examines how the perception of American culture has changed significantly over time and how this has been an object of widespread social and political debate. From examples of early American literature to postmodernism, the book charts ways in which the academic subject areas of American Literature and World Literature have converged – and diverged – over the past generations.

Written for students of American literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and in all areas of historical specialization, American World Literature offers an authoritative guide to global phenomena of American World literature and how this subject has undergone crucial changes in perception over the past thirty years.

“…and what this book tries to do – is elaborating a new procedure, a method to disentangle a complex entity into simpler units which enhance comprehension without giving anything for granted. The pursue of such aim makes American World Literature a particularly rich book, ideal for students with a background in literature and scholars wishing to keep an account of the major historical and critical issues of the subject at hand.” - Serena Demichelis for Iperstoria, Issue 14 – Fall/Winter 2019

ISBN: 9781119431640

Dimensions: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm

Weight: 431g

240 pages