Forked tongues? : comparing twentieth-century british and american-literature / edited by Ann Massa and Alistair Stead.

AUTOR: Ann Massa -  Alistair Stead
ISBN: 0582075556
IDIOMA: eng
PÁGINAS: XXIII, 384
AÑO: 1994

 
   
RECOMENDADO EN LAS SIGUIENTES ASIGNATURAS
Introducción a la literatura inglesa
 
RESUMEN

This collection of essays from scholars, critics and poets from both sides of the Atlantic sets out to discover the distinctiveness of modern British and American literature by comparing and contrasting the two traditions. It considers both the way the two literatures have influenced each other and what distinguishing characteristics they each possess. The book covers all the major genres and contains a mixture of celebrated and less well known writers and texts. It spans the period from T.S. Eliot and Willa Cather to Philip Roth and Angela Carter. Themes such as race and gender, myth and history, intertextuality and parallel traditions are considered
 
INDICE

Foreword Introduction
I. Cultural indenties: TS Eliot to Martin Amis.
1. Brer Rabbit and Brer Possum: The Americanness of Ezra Pound and T S Eliot
2. Cather's Bridge: Anglo-American Crossings in Willa Cather
3. Theatre of Manners, Theatre of Matters: British and American Theatre between the Wars
4. The Treacherous Years of Postmodern Poetry in English
5. Postmodern Americs in the Fiction of Angela Carter, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan II. Literary Relations: Evelyn Waugh to Alison Lurie.
6. Party-Going: The Jazz Age Novels of Evelyn Waugh, Wyndham Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Carl Van Vechten
7. American Variations on a British Theme: Giles Cooper and Edward Albee
8. Poetic Interface: American Poetry and the British Poetry Revival, 1960-1975
9. States of the Artist: The plays of Edward Bond and Sam Shepard
10. Paleface into Redskin: Cultural Transformations in Alison Lurie's Foreign Affairs III Generic Perspectives: George Orwell to Raymond Carver.
11. "The morning that is yours": American and British Literary Cultures in the Thirties
12. Is there a British Modernism?
13. Comparative Metafictions of History: E L Doctorow and John Fowles
14. Carver Country IV Gender and race: DHLawrence to Philip Roth.
15. Pastoral Sexuality in British and American Fiction
16. The City in Contemporary Women's Fiction
17. Alice Walker and Buchi Emecheta Rewrite the Myth of Motherhood
18. Philip Roth and Clive Sinclair: Representation of an "Imaginary Homeland" in Postwar British-Jewish and American-Jewish Literature Notes on Contributors Index