The global remapping of American literature
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10444513 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the deterritorialization of American literature
- Part one: Temporal latitudes. Augustan American literature: an aesthetics of extravagance; medieval American literature: antebellum narratives and the "map of the infinite"
- Part two: The boundaries of the nation. The arcs of modernism: geography as allegory; suburb, network, homeland: national space and the rhetoric of broadcasting
- Part three: Spatial longitudes. Hemispheric parallax: South America and the American South; metaregionalism: the global pacific northwest
- Conclusion: American literature and the question of circumference.