Transnationalism in practice : essays on American studies, literature and religion

Transnationalism in practice : essays on American studies, literature and religion /

Transnationalism in Practice brings together fourteen essays written by Paul Giles between 1994 and 2009 on the subjects of American studies, literature and religion. In an introduction written especially for the collection, Giles traces the evolution of critical transnationalism as it developed thr...

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Main Author: Giles, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Series:Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
Subjects:
1900-2099
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Transnationalism.
Literature and transnationalism.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
18.05 English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
American literature
Civilization
Literature and transnationalism
Religion
Education
Transnationalism
Literatur
Bellettrie.
Engels.
Amerikaans.
Culturele invloeden.
Culturele betrekkingen.
Literatur > USA > Geschichte 1945 ff > Quellen und Vorbilder.
Katholizismus > Literatur > USA > Geschichte 1945 ff.
Literatur > USA > Katholizismus > Geschichte 1945 ff.
United States > Study and teaching.
United States > Civilization.
United States > Religion.
États-Unis > Étude et enseignement.
États-Unis > Civilisation.
États-Unis > Religion.
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • [Pt.] I. American studies. Reconstructing American studies : transnational paradoxes, comparative perspectives (1994)
  • Transnationalism in practice (2001)
  • Post-liberalism : George W. Bush and the internationalization of American studies (2005)
  • E Pluribus Multitudinum : the new world of journal publishing in American studies (2005)
  • Historicizing the transnational : Robert Coover, Kathy Acker, and the rewriting of British cultural history, 1970-1997 (2007)
  • [pt.] II. Literature. F.O. Matthiessen : comparative criticism and the rhetoric of violence (2001, revised 2009)
  • Henry James Athwart : deterritorialization in The sacred fount (2003)
  • "The magnet attracting" : Dreiser's literary style (2004)
  • The literary culture of colonial America : theology and aesthetics (2005)
  • The abjection of American literature : Jamaica Kincaid and the ghosts of postcolonialism (2009)
  • [pt.] III. Religion. Catholic ideology and American slave narratives (1997)
  • The intertextual politics of cultural Catholicism : Tiepolo, Madonna, Scorsese (1997)
  • "Like a black bell" : Henry Carlile and the negative theology of place (2007)
  • The Springsteen affect : religion in American studies (2009).

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