Comparative North American Studies

Transnational Approaches to American and Canadian Literature and Culture
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-56422-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 273 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Merging selected approaches to Comparative North American Studies with detailed textual analyses, this book studies works of writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood. Topics include comparative approaches to the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, and North American reviews of Atwood's novels. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nischik, Reingard M

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Conversation with Reingard M. Nischik
Selective Bibliography: Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts

Über Autor(innen)

Reingard M. Nischik is Professor and Chair of North American Studies at the University of Konstanz, Germany.