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Rewriting early America : the prenational past in postmodern literature
- Title
- Rewriting early America : the prenational past in postmodern literature / Christopher K. Coffman.
- Author
- Coffman, Christopher K.
- Publication
- Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xxvii, 157 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Rewriting Early America argues the need for a subtler understanding of how post-1945 literary figures represent America's prenational past. Rather than focusing only on how literary representations of the national origins advance political critiques, this book also recognizes the recuperative visions founds in many recent novels and poems"--
- Subjects
- United States
- United States > In literature
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- History in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- 1600-1999
- History
- Literature and history > United States
- American literature > 21st century > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: contemporary American Literature and early America -- Berryman's Bradstreet and the end(s) of New Criticism -- John Barth's metanarrative critique, or, history as literature as reenactment -- Tradition and critique in Paul Muldoon's 'Madoc: a mystery' -- Material values in Pynchon and Vollmann -- The new world(s) of Thomas Pynchon -- Silence and places beyond power in the poetry of Susan Howe -- Conclusion: the problem of American origins, freedom from power, and Toni Morrison's A mercy.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2790
- ISBN
- 9781611462555
- 161146255X
- LCCN
- 2018041747
- OCLC
- 1089284186
- Author
- Coffman, Christopher K., author.
- Title
- Rewriting early America : the prenational past in postmodern literature / Christopher K. Coffman.
- Publisher
- Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Coffman, Christopher K., author. Rewriting early America Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2018] 9781611462562 (DLC) 2019009685
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2790