Nationalism and Literature
The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States
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- Author: Sarah M. Corse, University of Virginia
- Date Published: December 1996
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521579124
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Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building, and that canonical novels play a symbolic role in this, this 1996 book accounts for cross-national literary differences, addresses issues of mediation and representation in theories of 'reflection', and illuminates the historically constructed nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state.
Read more- Offers a new social constructionist theory of how national literatures are created
- Links nation-building and literary canon-formation
- Nearly 200 high and popular culture novels analysed,with appendices of canonical novels, and literary prize-winners and bestellers
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- Date Published: December 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521579124
- length: 226 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- contains: 10 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: cultural fields and literary use
2. Nation-building and the historical timing of a national literature in the United States
3. Nation-building and the historical timing of a national literature in Canada
4. The canonical novels: the politics of cultural nationalism
5. The literary prize-winners: revision and renewal
6. The bestsellers: the economics of publishing and the convergence of popular taste
7. Literary meaning and cultural use
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