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Uneasy Alliance : Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography book

Uneasy Alliance : Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography book

Uneasy Alliance : Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography.cHans Bak
Uneasy Alliance : Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography
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Author: Hans Bak
Number of Pages: 367 pages
Published Date: 01 Jan 2004
Publisher: Brill
Publication Country: Leiden, Netherlands
Language: English
ISBN: 9789042016118
File Name: Uneasy.Alliance.Twentieth-Century.American.Literature,.Culture.and.Biography.pdf
Download Link: Uneasy Alliance Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography
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Uneasy Alliance illuminates the recent search in literary studies for a new interface between textual and contextual readings. Written in tribute to G.A.M. Janssens, the twenty-one essays in the volume exemplify a renewed awareness of the paradoxical nature of literary texts both as works of literary art and as documents embedded in and functioning within a writer's life and culture. Together they offer fresh and often interdisciplinary perspectives on twentieth-century American writers of more or less established status (Henry James, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros) as well as on those who, for reasons of fashion, politics, ideology, or gender, have been unduly neglected (Booth Tarkington, Julia Peterkin, Robert Coates, Martha Gellhorn, Isabella Gardner, Karl Shapiro, the young Jewish-American writers, Julia Alvarez, and writers of popular crime and detective fiction). Exploring the fruitful interactions and uneasy alliance between literature and ethics, film, biography, gender studies, popular culture, avant-garde art, urban studies, anthropology and multicultural studies, together these essays testify to the ongoing pertinence of an approach to literature that is undogmatic, sensitive and sophisticated and that seeks to do justice to the complex interweavings of literature, culture and biography in twentieth-century American writing.

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