African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition, T. Walters

Автор: Highet, Gilbert; Bloom, Harold
Название: The Classical Tradition
ISBN: 0199377693 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199377695
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A monumental work of literary scholarship, reissued with a legacy-establishing foreword by Harold Bloom.

Автор: Walters
Название: African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition
ISBN: 0230600220 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230600225
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: A comparative analysis of classical revisions by eighteenth and nineteenth century Black women writers Phillis Wheatley and Pauline Hopkins and twentieth century writers Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, and Rita Dove reveals that Black women writers revise specific classical myths for artistic and political agency.

Автор: Entzminger Betina
Название: Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics
ISBN: 0415539641 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415539647
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues that by revising canonical American literature, contemporary American writers are (re)writing an American myth of origins, creating one that corresponds to the contemporary writer's understanding of self and society. Informed by cognitive psychology, evolutionary literary criticism, and poststructuralism, Entzminger reads texts by canonical authors Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Alcott, Twain, Chopin, and Faulkner, and by the contemporary writers that respond to them. In highlighting the construction and cognitive function of narrative in their own and in their antecedent texts, contemporary writers highlight the fact that such use of narrative is universal and essential to human beings. This book suggests that by revising the classic texts that compose our cultural narrative, contemporary writers mirror the way human individuals consistently revisit and refigure the past through language, via self-narration, in order to manage and understand experience.