A Companion to American Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) [#182419]

A Companion to American Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) By Paul Lauter
2010 | 710 Pages | ISBN: 0631208925 | PDF | 3 MB
This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. * Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more * Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter * Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices * Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature