Screen LibraryA companion to American literature /
""The test of time," an abundant literature, geographical expansiveness, artistry, and, more recently, inclusiveness represented by a complex awareness of gender and cultural diversity. These are key criteria used to determine entry into American literary canons and American literary...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
85 |
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| Summary: |
""The test of time," an abundant literature, geographical expansiveness, artistry, and, more recently, inclusiveness represented by a complex awareness of gender and cultural diversity. These are key criteria used to determine entry into American literary canons and American literary histories. Scholars who specialize in indigenous oral literatures would doubtless claim that this literature fulfills all the criteria and thus deserves a major place in canon and history. For these readers, I could proceed directly to the main business of this chapter: an overview of how Native oral narratives, song, and ceremony have and will continue to challenge in constructive ways EuroAmerican concepts of authorship, context, genre, geographic and period designation, the functions of literature, and the importance of understanding how literature is experienced. But most American literature teachers and students have little knowledge of the magnitude and importance of the oral literatures. For these readers, it is appropriate to begin by establishing how this form of literature fulfills conventional expectations for inclusion in a twenty-first century literary history-and specifically inclusion as the grand opening entry to the narrative of our literature"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 3 volumes ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781119146711 1119146712 |
| Index Number: | PS121 |
| CLC: | I712.06 |
| Call Number: | I712.06/C737-3 |
| Contents: |
Volume I. Origins-1820 / edited by Theresa Strouth Gaul -- Volume II. 1820-1914 / edited by Linck Johnson -- Volume III. 1914 to The Present / edited by Michael Soto. Origins-1820. General Introduction / Introduction to Volume I / The Storyteller's Universe: Indigenous Oral Literatures / Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early American Literatures: From Incommensurability to Exchange / Settlement Literatures Before and Beyond the Stories of Nations / The Puritan Culture of Letters / Writing the Salem Witch Trials / Captivity: From Babylon to Indian Country / Africans in Early America / Migration, Exile, Imperialism: The Non-English Literatures of Early America Reconsidered / Environment and Environmentalism / Acknowledging Early American Poetry / Travel Writings in Early America, 1680-1820 / Early Native American Literacies to 1820: Systems of Meaning, Categories of Knowledge Transmission / The Varieties of Religious Expression in Early American Literature / Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Editor, and Writer / Writing Lives: Autobiography in Early America / Captivity Recast: The Captivity Narrative in the Long Eighteenth Century / Gender, Sex, and Seduction in Early American Literature / Letters in Early American Manuscript and Print Cultures / Early American Evangelical Print Culture / The First Black Atlantic: The Archive and Print Culture of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery / Manuscripts, Manufacts, and Social Authorship / Cosmopolitan Correspondences: The American Republic of Letters and the Circulation of Enlightenment 1820-1914. General Introduction / Susan Belasco -- Introduction to Volume II / The Transformation of Literary Production, 1820-1865 / Travel Writing / The Historical Romance / The Gothic Tale / Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Transcendentalism / Henry David Thoreau and the Literature of the Environment / Herman Melville and the Antebellum Reading Public / Women Writers at Midcentury / Popular Poetry and the Rise of Anthologies / Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World / Emily Dickinson and the Tradition of Women Poets / The Literature of Antebellum Reform / Sex, the Body, and Health Reform / Proslavery and Antislavery Literature / Gender and the Construction of Antebellum Slave Narratives / Antebellum Oratory / Literature and the Civil War / Disability and Literature / The Development of Print Culture, 1865-1914 / Local Color and the Rise of Regionalism / Poetry, Periodicals, and the Marketplace / Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton / Mark Twain and the Idea of American Identity / Henry James at Home and Abroad / Naturalism / Social Protest Fiction / The Immigrant Experience / Double Consciousness: African American Writers at the Turn of the Century / Na 1914-Present. Introduction to Volume III / Magazines, Little and Large: American Print Culture in the Early Twentieth Century / Regional Literary Expressions / The Literature of the U.S. South: Modernism and Beyond / American Literature and the Academy / The Literature of World War I / The Course of Modern American Poetry / Modernism and the American Novel / The Little Theatre Movement / The Lost Generation and American Expatriatism / The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro / Proletarian Literature / Realism in American Drama / Nature Writing and the New Environmentalism / The Literature and Film of World War II / The Beat Minds of Their Generation / The Black Arts Movement and the Racial Divide / Literary Self-Fashioning in the Pharmacological Age: Confessional Poetry / New Frontiers in Postmodern Theater / Poetry at the End of the Millennium / The Literature and Film of the Vietnam War / Gay and Lesbian Literature / American Literature in Languages Other than English / Jewish American Literary Forms / Native American Literary Forms / Asian American Literary Forms / Latina/o Literary Forms / African American Fiction After Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Creative Nonfictions / The Rise and |