Godina izdanja: 1999
ISBN: 978-0-521-49732-9
Jezik: Engleski
Vrsta: Istorija svetske književnosti
Autor: Strani

The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 7, Prose Writing, 1940–1990: 07 Hardcover – 28 Jun. 1999, by Sacvan Bercovitch (Editor)

Product details
Publisher: ‎ Cambridge University Press (28 Jun. 1999)
Language: ‎ English
Hardcover: ‎ 800 pages
Dimensions: ‎ 15.95 x 4.19 x 23.37 cm

Volume VII of the Cambridge History of American Literature examines a broad range of American literature of the past half-century, revealing complex relations to changes in society. Christopher Bigsby discusses American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson, showing how innovations in theatre anticipated a world of emerging countercultures and provided America with an alternative view of contemporary life. Morris Dickstein describes the condition of rebellion in fiction from 1940 to 1970, linking writers as diverse as James Baldwin and John Updike. John Burt examines writers of the American South, describing the tensions between modernization and continued entanglements with the past. Wendy Steiner examines the postmodern fictions since 1970, and shows how the questioning of artistic assumptions has broadened the canon of American literature. Finally, Cyrus Patell highlights the voices of Native American, Asian American, Chicano, gay and lesbian writers, often marginalized but here discussed within and against a broad set of national traditions.

Cyrus R. K. Patell is Professor of Literature at NYUAD and Professor of English at NYU in New York. He began his scholarly career as a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century US literature and culture, but his recent scholarship and teaching has centered on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, on late-20th century US emergent literatures, Global Shakespeare, and Star Wars.
Patell is presently at work on essays about Batman, the Marvel comic `Not Brand Ecch,` and the Witches of Dathomir from the Star Wars universe, as well as a monograph on the ways in which Shakespeare`s Hamlet became a part of global cultural heritage. With Deborah Lindsay Williams, he is co-editing volume eight of the twelve-volume Oxford History of the Novel in English (general editor Patrick Parrinder) on the American novel after 1940.

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