Nationalism and Literature
Nationalism and Literature
The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States
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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.
- 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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March 2011Adobe eBook Reader
9780511891175
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10 tables
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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
- Appendices.
