Format:
456 Seiten
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21 cm x 13.5 cm
ISBN:
3825367207
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9783825367206
Series Statement:
American studies. A monograph series volume 281
Content:
Introduction: The practices of reading and the need for literary value / Philipp Löffler -- Literary history and the problem of periodization / Clemens Spahr -- Singularity and the literary market / Günter Leypoldt -- Literary value and the question of generic change / Michael Basseler -- Shakespeare's complete works : canonization, completion, and collection in the 21st century / Peter Paul Schnierer -- The uses of Emerson : transcendentalism, transnationalism, and the New Americanists / Johannes Volz -- Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of detective fiction / Heiko Jakubzik -- Canon fodder : Thomas Pynchon and the invention of postmodernism / Sascha Pöhlmann -- Sherman Alexie and the uses of Native American literature / Franziska Schmid -- African-American literature, canonization, and the Nobel Prize : German and American perspectives on Toni Morrison / Katharina Gerund -- Canon and carnival : challenging hierarchies in Zadie Smith's NW / Caroline Lusin -- New canons in the classroom : teaching Black British writing / Jan Rupp -- The great unread : the shadow canon of Indian writing in English / Dirk Wiemann -- John Neal and the problem of Romanticism / Stefanie Schäfer -- Only in the chattel records : obscurity, historiography, and Frederick Douglass' The heroic slave / Karin Höpker -- Charismatic authorship : Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, and the nineteenth-century construction of Romantic canonicity / Tim Sommer -- No longer the text-book of any generation : Stover at Yale and the non-canonical / Sophie Spieler -- Highbrow - Middlebrow - Broadbrow? J. B. Priestley and cultural re-education in postwar Germany / Kirsten Hertel -- Canonizing youth in Mark Ravenhill's plays / Ellen Redling
Note:
Literaturangaben
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Introduction: The practices of reading and the need for literary value
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I - Periodization, prestige, genre
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Literary history and the problem of periodization
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II - Classics in the classroom
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Shakespeare's complete works: Canonization, completion, and collection in the 21st century
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III - In the name of diversity
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Sherman Alexie and the uses of Native American literature
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IV - Lost figures, unlikely revivals, newcomers
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John Neal and the problem of romanticism
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Singularity and the literary market
,
Literary value and the question of generic change
,
The uses of Emerson : transcendentalism, transnationalism, and the new Americanists
,
Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of detective fiction
,
Canon fodder: Thomas Pynchon and the invention of postmodernism
,
African-American literature, canonization, and the Nobel Prize: German and American perspectives on Toni Morrison
,
Canon and carnival: Challenging hierarchies in Zadie Smith's "NW"
,
New canons in the classroom: Teaching black British writing
,
The great unread: The shadow canon of Indian writing in English
,
'Only in the chattel records' - Obscurity, historiography, and Frederick Douglass' "The heroic slave"
,
Charismatic authorship: Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, and the nineteenth-century construction of romantic canonicity
,
No longer the 'text-book' of any generation: "Stover at Yale" and the non-canonical
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Highbrow - Middlebrow - Broadbrow? J. B. Priestley and cultural re-education in postwar Germany
,
Canonizing youth in Mark Ravenhill's plays
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Reading the canon Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017 ISBN 9783825376895
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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English Studies
Keywords:
USA
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Literatur
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Kanon
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Periodisierung
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Gattungstheorie
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USA
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Literatur
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Kanon
;
Periodisierung
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Gattungstheorie
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Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/978-3-8253-6720-6/Loeffler_Ed_Reading_the_Canon/
Author information:
Löffler, Philipp 1981-
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