"Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art"--Provided by publisher.
"Research on the relationship between the apocalyptic tradition and the literary imagination has typically espoused a temporal approach which in one way or another revolves around the order of events that precedes the end of history and the ensuing establishment of a new world. …
Introduction -- 1. A Spatial Approach to Apocalypse -- 2. "That Theory of Paradise": Rick Moody's Suburban Apocalypse -- 3. "A City Better than Perfect": Harlem as the New Jerusalem in Toni Morrison's Jazz -- 4. McCarthy's Sourceless Apocalypse in Blood Meridian and The Road -- …
"Research on the relationship between the apocalyptic tradition and the literary imagination has typically espoused a temporal approach which in one way or another revolves around the order of events that precedes the end of history and the ensuing establishment of a new world. …
"Research on the relationship between the apocalyptic tradition and the literary imagination has typically espoused a temporal approach which in one way or another revolves around the order of events that precedes the end of history and the ensuing establishment of a new world. …
In this broad ranging study, Gretchen Woertendyke reconfigures US literary history as a product of hemispheric relations. Hemispheric Regionalism: Romance and the Geography of Genre, brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave narratives, advertisements, po…
This broad-ranging study reconfigures US literature as a product of hemispheric relations. 'Hemispheric Regionalism' brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave narratives, advertisements, political treatises, and literature to construct a new literary hist…
This broad-ranging study reconfigures US literature as a product of hemispheric relations. 'Hemispheric Regionalism' brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave narratives, advertisements, political treatises, and literature to construct a new literary hist…
In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified. But is the conceptual box of the nation dispensable? What would American literature look like without it? Leading scholars take up this debate in this book, …