Screen LibraryComparative North American studies : transnational approaches to American and Canadian literature and culture /
"This monograph shows Comparative North American Studies at work in selected case studies and textual analyses. The analytical chapters take various approaches to literary, non-fictional as well as visual texts as their prime objects of analysis within selected areas of Comparative North Americ...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This monograph shows Comparative North American Studies at work in selected case studies and textual analyses. The analytical chapters take various approaches to literary, non-fictional as well as visual texts as their prime objects of analysis within selected areas of Comparative North American Studies. These text - and genre-centered case studies represent an array of rewarding approaches within Comparative North American Studies: period-oriented, generic, thematic/border studies, thematic/imagological, and receptionist. The book includes comparative analyses of American and Canadian mode "This monograph shows Comparative North American Studies at work in selected case studies and textual analyses focusing on the American and Canadian modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, national images of the United States and Canada, and reviews of Margaret Atwood's novels in Canada and the United States. The book includes an interview with Atwood on book reviewing in North America"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 273 pages : illustations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-256) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781137564221 1137564229 |
| Index Number: | PR9192 |
| CLC: | I710.074 |
| Call Number: | I710.074/N724 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- 1. Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts -- 2. Modernism in the United States and Canada: The Example of Poetry and of the Short Story -- 3. Border Studies, Borderlines, and Liminal Spaces: Crossing the Canada-US Border in North American Border Narratives -- 4. On Imagology, Canadian-US Relations, and Popular Culture: National Images and Border Crossings in Margaret Atwood's Works -- 5. Reviewing Atwood in Canada and the United States: From (Inter)Nationalism to Transnationalism -- 6. "The Writer, the Reader, and the Book": Margaret Atwood on Reviewing in Conver |