Forked tongues? : comparing twentieth-century British and American literature

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Forked tongues? : comparing twentieth-century British and American literature

edited by Ann Massa and Alistair Stead

Longman, 1994

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: hbk ISBN 9780582075542

内容説明

This collection of essays from scholars, critics and poets from both sides of the Atlantic sets out to discover the distinctiveness of modern British and American literature by comparing and contrasting the two traditions. It considers both the way the two literatures have influenced each other and what distinguishing characteristics they each possess. The book covers all the major genres and contains a mixture of celebrated and less well known writers and texts. It spans the period from T.S. Eliot and Willa Cather to Philip Roth and Angela Carter. Themes such as race and gender, myth and history, intertextuality and parallel traditions are considered. The contributors are: Richard Brown (University of Leeds);Bryan Cheyette (University of London); Ruby Cohn (University of California, USA); Peter Egri (Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary); Brian Harding (University of Birmingham); Mark Jarman (Vanderbilt University, USA); William A. Johnsen (Michigan State University, USA); Olga Kenyon (University of Bradford); Hermione Leed (University of York); Eric Mottram (University of London); Judie Newman (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne); David Peck (California State University, USA); Paulina Palmer (University of Warwick); Brian Scobie (University of Leeds); David Seed (University of Liverpool); Keith Tuma (Miami University, USA).
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780582075559

内容説明

This fascinating collection of 18 essays sets out to discover the distinctiveness of modern British and American literature by comparing and contrasting the two traditions. It covers all the principal generic categories, poetry, drama and prose, from Eliot, Waugh and Fitzgerald, to Fowles and Philip Roth, and considers some major themes such as women's and black fiction. It uses particular case studies to consider both the way the two literatures have influenced one another and what distinguishing characteristics they each possess.

目次

Foreword Introduction I. Cultural indenties: TS Eliot to Martin Amis. 1. Brer Rabbit and Brer Possum: The Americanness of Ezra Pound and T S Eliot 2. Cather's Bridge: Anglo-American Crossings in Willa Cather 3. Theatre of Manners, Theatre of Matters: British and American Theatre between the Wars 4. The Treacherous Years of Postmodern Poetry in English 5. Postmodern Americs in the Fiction of Angela Carter, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan II. Literary Relations: Evelyn Waugh to Alison Lurie. 6. Party-Going: The Jazz Age Novels of Evelyn Waugh, Wyndham Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Carl Van Vechten 7. American Variations on a British Theme: Giles Cooper and Edward Albee 8. Poetic Interface: American Poetry and the British Poetry Revival, 1960-1975 9. States of the Artist: The plays of Edward Bond and Sam Shepard 10. Paleface into Redskin: Cultural Transformations in Alison Lurie's Foreign Affairs III Generic Perspectives: George Orwell to Raymond Carver. 11. "The morning that is yours": American and British Literary Cultures in the Thirties 12. Is there a British Modernism? 13. Comparative Metafictions of History: E L Doctorow and John Fowles 14. Carver Country IV Gender and race: DHLawrence to Philip Roth. 15. Pastoral Sexuality in British and American Fiction 16. The City in Contemporary Women's Fiction 17. Alice Walker and Buchi Emecheta Rewrite the Myth of Motherhood 18. Philip Roth and Clive Sinclair: Representation of an "Imaginary Homeland" in Postwar British-Jewish and American-Jewish Literature Notes on Contributors Index

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