Transcribing the Territory; or, Rethinking Resistance: A Study in Classic American Fiction - Couverture rigide

Semrau, Janusz

 
9783631635407: Transcribing the Territory; or, Rethinking Resistance: A Study in Classic American Fiction
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3631635400 ISBN 13 : 9783631635407
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2011

Synopsis

Inspired by Martin Heidegger's notion of being-in-the-world, this study presents a quasi-phenomenological close reading of Herman Melville's most famous novella Bartleby the Scrivener and Mark Twain's most famous novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is meant as a broad critique of both cultural and intellectual rhetoric of recalcitrance, estrangement and awayness that has long predominated within interpretations of American literature. The study refers selectively to the works of such classic authors as James F. Cooper, Washington Irving, R. W. Emerson, H. D. Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Robert Frost, James Joyce, and Donald Barthelme. As an extended intertextual footnote, Transcribing the Territory advances also a more positive existential appreciation of the ostensibly forbidding landscape of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous romance The Scarlet Letter.

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À propos de l'auteur

Janusz Semrau teaches American literature at Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna ? and at the Academy of Management in Warsaw. He is the author of various publications.

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Éditeur
Peter Lang AG
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3631635400
ISBN 13 
9783631635407
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
281
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Personne responsable
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