Jeffrey Lawrence

Anxieties of Experience

The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño

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Produktbeschreibung

Anxieties of Experience offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature. Rereading a range of canonical works from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass to Roberto Bolaño's 2666, it traces the development and interaction of two distinct literary strains in the Americas: the "US literature of experience" and the "Latin American literature of the reader."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780190690205
• ISBN-10: 0190690208
• Artikelnr.: 49138523

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Lawrence is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers-New Brunswick.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Hemispheric Literary Divides
* Chapter 1: Cultural Divergence: The US Literature of Experience and
the Latin American Literature of the Reader
* Chapter 2: An Inter-American Episode: Jorge Luis Borges, Waldo Frank,
and the Battle for Whitman's America
* Chapter 3 Uncommon Grounds: The Representation of History in
Absalom, Absalom!, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Song of Solomon
* Part II: The Literary Fields of the Americas
* Chapter 4: Full Immersion: Modernist Aesthetics and the US Literature
of Experience
* Chapter 5 Voracious Readers: The Latin American Lettered City and the
US Literature of Experience
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* Epilogue
* Notes