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020			_a978-1-1194-378-7
040			_bEnglish. _cCvSU-CCAT Campus Library _erda.
050			_aPS157 _bG55 2019
100			_aGiles, Paul, author. _9242
245			_aAmerican world literature : _ban introduction / _cPaul Giles.
260			_aHoboken, NJ : _bJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc., _cc2019.
300			_avii, 220 pages : _bcolor illustrations ; _c23 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_a1 - The theory of American world literature 2 - Early American literature in the world 3 - National/global : the framing of nineteenth-century American literature 4 - The worlds of American modernism 5 - Postmodernism, globalization, and US literary culture
520			_aAmerican World Literature: An Introduction explores how the subject of American Literature has evolved from a national into a global phenomenon. As the author, Paul Giles – a noted expert on the topic – explains, today American Literature is understood as engaging with the wider world rather than merely with local or national circumstances. The book offers an examination of these changing conceptions of representation in both a critical and an historical context. The author examines how the perception of American culture has changed significantly over time and how this has been an object of widespread social and political debate. From examples of early American literature to postmodernism, the book charts ways in which the academic subject areas of American Literature and World Literature have converged – and diverged – over the past generations. Written for students of American literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and in all areas of historical specialization, American World Literature offers an authoritative guide to global phenomena of American World literature and how this subject has undergone crucial changes in perception over the past thirty years.
546			_aIn English text.
650			_aAmerican literature _9243 _vHistory and criticism.
650			_aComparative literature. _92988
942			_cBK _hPS 157 G55 2019 _2lcc _kCIR
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