Title American literature as world literature / edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Published New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 283 pages) Series Literatures as world literature Literatures as world literature. Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- American Literature as World Literature: An Introduction -- Part 1: World, Worldings, Worldliness -- 1. American Literature and Its Shadow Worlds: Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Specters of Worldliness -- 2. Worldings of American Literature off the Cultural Radar -- 3. Who Needs American Literature?: From Emerson to Marcus and Sollors -- Part 2: Literature, Geopolitics, Globalization -- 4. Worlds of Americana -- 5. Political Serials: Tanner '88 to House of Cards -- 6. Welt literature? American Literature after Territorialism: Manifesto for a Twenty-First-Century Critical Agenda -- 7. Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy in American World Literature -- Part 3: Experience, Poetics, New Worlds -- 8. Whitman's Polyvocal Poetic Revolution: Equality and Empire in New World Literature -- 9. Experience to Experiment, Signs to Signals: Toward Flusser's New World -- 10. Un-Making American Literature: Mind-Making Fictions of the Literary -- Part 4: History and the American Novel -- 11. Last American Stories and Their Adventurous Sequels -- 12. Transhuman Poetics and American World Literature: James Baldwin's Demon of History in Just Above My Head -- 13. The Pathos of History: Trauma in Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 05, 2018) Subject American literature -- Appreciation American literature -- History and criticism. Comparative literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature American literature -- Appreciation Comparative literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Di Leo, Jeffrey R., editor LC no. 2017036863 ISBN 9781501332289 1501332287 9781501332302 1501332309

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