Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1557534985 ISBN 13 : 9781557534989

Editeur : Purdue University Press, 2008

Synopsis

In his book Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction, Thomas O. Beebee analyzes fictional texts as a "discursive territoriality" that shape readers' notions of (and ambivalence about) national and regional belonging. Several canonical works of literary fiction have provided their readers with verbal maps that in their depictions of boundary spaces construct indirect images of national territory and geography. Beebee analyzes the historical and cultural diversity in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's, Nikolai Gogol's, and Ivan Turgenev's competing geographies of Russia and its empire, Euclides da Cunha's ambivalent nomination of the sertanejo (backlander) as the "bedrock of the Brazilian race," William Faulkner's and Jose Lins do Rego's cultural memories of the plantation, Jose Maria Arguedas's novelistic ethnogeographies of Andean culture, Juan Benet's construction of region as both metaphor and metonym for Francoist Spain, and the "utopian" North American (U.S. and Canada) desert landscapes of Mary Austin, Nicole Brossard, and Joy Harjo.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas O. Beebee teaches comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is interested in criticism and theory, eighteenth-century literature, translation studies, law, and literature, which is expressed in his research and teaching. Beebee has published widely in these fields and his book-length publications include Clarissa on the Continent, The Ideology of Genre, and Epistolary Fiction in Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Purdue University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1557534985
• ISBN 13: 9781557534989
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Éditeur: Beebee Thomas O.
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