Research Catalog

Title

Rewriting the dream : reflections on the changing American literary canon / edited by W.M. Verhoeven.

Publication

• Amsterdam ; Atlanta GA : Rodopi, 1992.
• ©1992

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Details

Additional Authors

• Verhoeven, W. M.
• Bakker, J. (Jan)

Description

xxii, 266 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Essay themes include the politics of gender and canon-formation, canonical appropriation, ethnicity and the ltierary canon, and canon formation as a social process.

Series Statement

Costerus, 0165-9618 ; New series, 83

Uniform Title

Costerus ; new ser., v. 83.

Subject

• Bakker, J
• American literature > History and criticism
• Canon (Literature)
• Criticism
• Ethnicity in literature
• Women and literature > United States
• Women and literature
• Ethnicity in literature
• American literature
• Criticism
• Literatur
• Kanon
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Amerikaans
• Canon
• Letterkunde
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

• Festschriften
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Festschriften.

Note

• "This volume contains fifteen essays written by friends, colleagues and former colleagues of Jan Bakker, professor of American literature at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, on the occasion of his retirement"--Page ix

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

I. Race, Class, Gender, and the Literary Canon: Toward a Poetics of a National Self? -- Literature, Race, and Ethnicity in America / John Cawelti -- Home As Heaven, Home As Hell: Uncle Tom's Canon / Leslie Fiedler -- Toni Morrison and Canonicity: Acceptance or Appropriation? / Richard Todd -- Rethinking Canonicity: Toni Morrison and the (Non)Canonic "Other" / Kofi Owusu -- Men Speaking for Women and American Literature: The Case of Henry Adams alias Frances Snow Compton / Duco Van Oostrum -- II. Canonical Hustling: Three Case Studies -- Caught between Canons: James, Pound, and Eliot / C.C. Barfoot -- Karl Shapiro's Crusade against the Canon / Marian Janssen -- The Harper American Literature and the Post-War Canon / Hans Bertens -- III. Reassessments -- Allegory, the American Canon, and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 / Marius Buning -- "First Son of America's Muses": Longfellow and His Dutch Correspondents, 1859-1881 / J.G. Riewald -- The Politics of Genre, Gender, and Canon-Formation: The Early American Bildungsroman and Its Subversions / Joke Kardux -- Displacing the Discontinuous; Or, The Labyrinths of Reason: Fictional Design and Eighteenth-Century Thought in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond / W.M. Verhoeven -- IV. Perspectives -- Working the American Canon: Reflections of a European Canon-Watcher / Theo D'Haen -- The Canonizers and the Canonized / J.J.A. Mooij -- Toward the "Endless End": The Paradox of Canonization / Helen Wilcox.

ISBN

• 905183361X
• 9789051833614

OCLC

• ocm26002628
• 26002628
• SCSB-8861097

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library