1991, ISBN: 0231073607

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[EAN: 9780231073608], Neubuch, [PU: Columbia University Press, New York & London], LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM: AMERICAN LITERATURE: THE NOVEL: COLUMBIA HISTORY OF NEW VIEWS: ELLIOT, EMOR… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780231073608], Neubuch, [PU: Columbia University Press, New York & London], LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM: AMERICAN LITERATURE: THE NOVEL: COLUMBIA HISTORY OF NEW VIEWS: ELLIOT, EMORY (EDITOR), WITH CATHY DAVIDSON, PATRICK O'DONNELL, VALERIE SMITH CHRISTOPHER P. WILSON (ASSOCIATE EDITORS), Jacket, WONDERFUL: COMPREHENSOVE: LUCID: LIVELY: CUTTING-EDGE: SCHOLARLY: DAZZLING: WIDE-RANGING: PROVOCATIVE: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1991) First Printing, NEW handsomely-designed "red-white-&-blue" jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $59.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW library-durable white fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles attractively stamped on spine in metallic-blue, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & crimson-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE bright-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed w/ handsome clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper. * 6.24" x 9.56" x 2.36", 1.78 kg, xviii+905 (923) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: How can the American novel be treated seriously now w/o a discussion of the book marketplace? w/o a discussion of autobiographical works? Of Canadian, Caribbean, & South American fiction? Of class, race, place, & gender at all stages of the development of the genre. "The Columbia History of the American Novel", the first ever history of America's major literary form, offers new views of our literary history & a sophisticated examination of areas of fiction that have only recently begun to receive attention. Like its companion volume "Columbia History of the United States", this volume is "refreshingly contentious & crammed w/ bright & bold revaluations." The approach is broadly chronological, & the major authors from Herman Melville, Henry James, & Edith Wharton to Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, & Toni Morrison are covered. In addition, a highly diverse group of critics & scholars take a variety of approaches to such topics as popular culture, realism, colonialism, discussions of gay & lesbian authors, romance, & modernism & post-modernism. Although the methods of "The Columbia History of the American Novel" are new, this volume still tells an old story: of story-telling. It begins w/ early narratives, proceeding rapidly to the time when novels began rolling off the presses, & on to those moments when American novelists found the form congenial to their imagination & genius. American fiction is one of the cultural offerings of which the Americas are particularly proud, & "The Columbia History of the American Novel" does justice to the ways it has developed from its beginnings to the end of the 20th Century. * HIGH PRAISE: "This lively collection of cutting-edge essays by the country's finest scholars of literature & culture addresses the key issues today's students are most eager to explore, presenting a dazzling variety of perspectives on critically important topics international in scope: post-modern culture, race, gender, sexual preference, region, domesticity, proletarianism, religion, science & technology. The titles of the chapters are so provocative & the topics so urgent that I can't imagine any lover of American fiction not wanting immediately to read all of them." -Elaine Kim, University of California (Berkeley) - "This is a book of & for our times, one that takes seriously each of its title's terms. As 'history' it offers a lucid recording of the complex & dynamic aesthetic, intellectual, & social processes of revaluation over time. It questions what constitutes the 'novel' - as a native genre, as fiction, as part of a larger context of cultural production w/ social & economic consequences. But what is most exciting is its challenge to the customary limiting of the term 'American' to the context of the United States, through the comparative dimension introduced by including Canadian (English & French), Caribbean, Latin American, & post-colonial exile-expatriate writing. Here at last is a wonderful, comprehensive, & inclusive history of the American novel." -Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto, Books<

1991, ISBN: 9780231073608

COLUMBIA UNIV PR, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: New, 905 Seiten, Publiziert: 1991-11-29T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 3.83 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2375, Nachschlagewerke, Literaturgeschichte & … Mehr…

COLUMBIA UNIV PR, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: New, 905 Seiten, Publiziert: 1991-11-29T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 3.83 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2375, Nachschlagewerke, Literaturgeschichte & -kritik, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, US-amerikanische Literatur, Regionen & Kulturkreise, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Enzyklopädien, Lexika, Hand- & Jahrbücher, Schule & Lernen, USA, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Elliott, Emory, Davidson, Cathy, O'Donnell, Patrick, COLUMBIA UNIV PR, 1991<

1991, ISBN: 0231073607

[EAN: 9780231073608], Nieuw boek, [SC: 9.3], [PU: Columbia University Press], New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000., Books

1991, ISBN: 0231073607

[EAN: 9780231073608], Neubuch, [PU: Columbia University Press], New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000., Books