Rediscovering the New World : inter-American literature in a comparative context / Earl E. Fitz.
Material type: TextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1991.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 275 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1587290642
- 9781587290640
- America -- Literatures -- History and criticism
- Latin American literature -- History and criticism
- Comparative literature
- Litt�erature latino-am�ericaine -- Histoire et critique
- Litt�erature compar�ee
- Am�erique -- Litt�eratures -- Histoire et critique
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American
- Comparative literature
- Latin American literature
- Literature
- America
- Literatur
- Geschichte
- Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
- Amerika
- Lateinamerika
- Nordamerika
- USA
- 809/.897 20
- PN843 .F58 1991eb
- digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.
The concept of "American" literature is not the exclusive province of any one nation. Thanks to the historical circumstances that governed the European conquest and settlement of the Americas, we can and should approach the writings of English and French Canada, the United States, Spanish America, and Brazil as a cohesive group of American literature, worthy of study without constant reference to European texts. Now, Rediscovering the New World makes a timely addition to this expanding field on Inter-American scholarship that should help lead tothe formation of a new canon. Th.
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Pre-Columbian Era; 2. The Narratives of Discovery and Conquest; 3. The New World Epic; 4. The Theme of Miscegenation; 5. Refining the New World Novel: Henry James and Machado de Assis; 6. The Five (Six?) Faces of American Modernism; 7. In Quest of an American Identity; 8. Regionalism as a Shaping Force; 9. Solitude: The Evolution of an American Literary Motif; 10. The Conflict between Civilization and Barbarism; Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. MiAaHDL
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Print version record.
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide