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Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon

Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the traditional canon. This book is an effort to recover those lost voices. Engaging New Historicist, neo-Marxist,..

DKK 464.95

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The Errant Art of Moby-Dick - The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies - William V. Spanos

Reexamines Melville's monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. This book presents a view of the development of literary history in the United States, and a devastating critique of the genealogy of ideology in the American cultural establishment.

DKK 473.95

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Partisan Canons

Case studies that counter the idea of a transcendent art canon by demonstrating that the content of any and every canon is historically and culturally specific.

DKK 463.95

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The Politics of Liberal Education

Controversy over what role \the great books\ should play in college curricula and questions about who defines \the literary canon\ are at the forefront of debates in higher education. This study offers a defence of educational reform in response to attacks by academic traditionalists.

DKK 478.95

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The Dialectics of Our America - Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History - Jose David Saldivar

Entering the debate on American literary history, this study offers a perspective on what constitutes not only the canon of American literature, but also the notion of America itself. The author argues for a conception of American culture which is more responsive to trans-national ideologies.

DKK 372.95

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Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson - Race, Conflict and Culture

This collection seeks to place Pudd’nhead Wilson—a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain’s—in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors’ introduction argues the virtues of using Pudd’nhead Wilson as a teaching text, a case study in many of the issues presently occupying literary criticism: issues of history and the uses of history, of canon formation, of textual problematics, and finally of race, class, and gender. In a variety of ways..

DKK 408.95

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