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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Entzminger, Betina (1967-....)
Titre(s) : Contemporary reconfigurations of American literary classics [Texte électronique] : the origin and evolution of American stories / Betina Entzminger
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Collection : Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
Lien à la collection : Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature (Online)
Note(s) : "The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic
American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to
retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues
that by revising canonical American literature, contemporary American writers are
(re)writing an American myth of origins, creating one that corresponds to the contemporary
writer's understanding of self and society. Informed by cognitive psychology, evolutionary
literary criticism, and poststructuralism, Entzminger reads texts by canonical authors
Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Alcott, Twain, Chopin, and Faulkner, and by the contemporary
writers that respond to them. In highlighting the construction and cognitive function
of narrative in their own and in their antecedent texts, contemporary writers highlight
the fact that such use of narrative is universal and essential to human beings. This
book suggests that by revising the classic texts that compose our cultural narrative,
contemporary writers mirror the way human individuals consistently revisit and refigure
the past through language, via self-narration, in order to manage and understand experience"--
Sujet(s) : Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle
Canons littéraires
Indice(s) Dewey :
810.900 5 (23e éd.) = Littérature américaine de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique - 1900-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415539647
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43707300m
Notice n° :
FRBNF43707300
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