Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies - Couverture rigide

 
9781571134240: Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1571134247 ISBN 13 : 9781571134240
Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2018

Synopsis

Compares the cultural productions of Canada and the US - literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks - providing a reassessment of Canadian Studies within a comparative framework.


Since the elections of Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau, unprecedented international attention is being drawn to the differences between the United States and Canada. This timely volume takes a close comparative look at the national imaginaries of the two countries. In its analyses of the two countries' cultural productions - literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks - it follows the approach of Comparative North American Studies, which has been significantly advanced by Reingard M. Nischik's work over recent decades. Featuring such illustrious contributors as Linda Hutcheon, Sherrill Grace, and Aritha van Herk, the volume considers the works of writers such as MargaretAtwood, whose concern with both countries' identities is well known, but also offers surprising new insights, for example by comparing writing by Edgar Allan Poe with Canadian Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi and Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro's work with that of the American graphic novelist Alison Bechdel.

Contributors: Margaret Atwood, Shuli Barzilai, Julia Breitbach, Jutta Ernst, Florian Freitag, Marlene Goldman, Sherrill Grace, Michael and Linda Hutcheon, Bettina Mack, Silvia Mergenthal, Claire Omhovère, Katja Sarkowsky, Aritha van Herk.

Eva Gruber is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Konstanz. Caroline Rosenthal is Professor of American Literature at the University of Jena.

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À propos de l'auteur

Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature/American Studies, Universität Konstanz (University of Constance).

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Éditeur
Camden House Inc
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1571134247
ISBN 13 
9781571134240
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
252
Éditeur
Gruber Eva, Rosenthal Caroline
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
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