
What is American literature?
Ilan Stavans
Bok · Engelsk · 2022 · Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Omfang | xviii, 191 sider
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Utgave | First edition
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Opplysninger | I. The Ambition of origins -- Manifest Destiny -- Native trail -- Original sin -- "Give me your tired" -- The epicenter of narcissism -- II. Hucks R' Us -- Down the Mississippi -- Kids' lit -- Mending walls -- Sexual magnets -- I am anger -- III. Language and authority -- Forever young -- Of dictionaries and academies -- In defense of ignorance -- The part about superheroes -- Auto-corrected -- IV. Surviving democracy -- Books as merchandise -- The coolness of American libraries -- Teaching in the age of intolerance -- Born translated -- Unhappy people -- Epilogue: the Second American Civil War. - "An engaging, thought-provoking, and polemical volume on what makes American literature what it is today"-
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ISBN | 0198816219. - 9780198816218
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