Reading the canon : literary history in the 21st century /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
[2017]
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| Series: | American studies (Munich, Germany) ;
volume 281. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The practices of reading and the need for literary value / Philipp Löffler
- Literary history and the problem of periodization / Clemens Spahr
- Singularity and the literary market / Günter Leypoldt
- Literary value and the question of generic change / Michael Basseler
- Shakespeare's complete works : canonization, completion, and collection in the 21st century / Peter Paul Schnierer
- The uses of Emerson : transcendentalism, transnationalism, and the New Americanists / Johannes Volz
- Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of detective fiction / Heiko Jakubzik
- Canon fodder : Thomas Pynchon and the invention of postmodernism / Sascha Pöhlmann
- Sherman Alexie and the uses of Native American literature / Franziska Schmid
- African-American literature, canonization, and the Nobel Prize : German and American perspectives on Toni Morrison / Katharina Gerund
- Canon and carnival : challenging hierarchies in Zadie Smith's NW / Caroline Lusin
- New canons in the classroom : teaching Black British writing / Jan Rupp
- The great unread : the shadow canon of Indian writing in English / Dirk Wiemann
- John Neal and the problem of Romanticism / Stefanie Schäfer
- Only in the chattel records : obscurity, historiography, and Frederick Douglass' The heroic slave / Karin Höpker
- Charismatic authorship : Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, and the nineteenth-century construction of Romantic canonicity / Tim Sommer
- No longer the text-book of any generation : Stover at Yale and the non-canonical / Sophie Spieler
- Highbrow - Middlebrow - Broadbrow? J. B. Priestley and cultural re-education in postwar Germany / Kirsten Hertel
- Canonizing youth in Mark Ravenhill's plays / Ellen Redling.