Internationality in American Fiction: Henry James, William Dean Howells, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison (Interamericana. Interamerican Literary History and Culture)
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Product Description This collection of essays is part of a project that surveys American literatures in terms of the writers' responses to international literature. Among English American novelists, 1860s to 1990s, James and Howells contributed significantly to the programmatic - Great American Novel by broadening the internationality they engaged with to include French and Russian books among the works to which they related their own. Faulkner is a key figure of a later phase when a number of American authors, while drawing upon a similar breadth of internationality, in turn became exemplary abroad in various countries. Morrison, interpreted as contributing to intra-American internationality, and the French Canadian writer Hebert, discussed in a summarizing essay, represent responses to Faulkner." Review « Recently, a fascinating approach to literary studies called 'writer response criticism' originated among Americanists at the University of Gottingen. It marks a promising advance over the Constance Model of 'reception aesthetics'. By focusing on the act of writing in the context not of a given academic discipline but of the choices made by the writer under study, the Gottingen Model transcends the customary national perspective to take the transnational intertext fully into account. Writer response studies delineate the choices made, in the act of writing, among rival perspectives and the artistic potential provided by different literatures and cultures. This concept of literary writing as the challenging of competing foreign literatures by means of modification, transformation, and purposeful avoidance also serves to liberate the customary, nationally circumscribed literary historiography by methodically engaging the comprehensive but focused internationality of literary life. This emphasis is one of the strongest assets of the Gottingen Model. It accounts for its originality and innovative force.
Internationality in American Fiction: Henry James, William Dean Howells, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison (Interamericana. Interamerican Literary History and Culture) Armin Paul Frank and Rolf Lohse and Henry James Jr. and William Dean Howells and Toni Morrison and Daniel Goske and William Faulkner
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Product Description This collection of essays is part of a project that surveys American literatures in terms of the writers' responses to international literature. Among English American novelists, 1860s to 1990s, James and Howells contributed significantly to the programmatic - Great American Novel by broadening the internationality they engaged with to include French and Russian books among the works to which they related their own. Faulkner is a key figure of a later phase when a number of American authors, while drawing upon a similar breadth of internationality, in turn became exemplary abroad in various countries. Morrison, interpreted as contributing to intra-American internationality, and the French Canadian writer Hebert, discussed in a summarizing essay, represent responses to Faulkner." Review « Recently, a fascinating approach to literary studies called 'writer response criticism' originated among Americanists at the University of Gottingen. It marks a promising advance over the Constance Model of 'reception aesthetics'. By focusing on the act of writing in the context not of a given academic discipline but of the choices made by the writer under study, the Gottingen Model transcends the customary national perspective to take the transnational intertext fully into account. Writer response studies delineate the choices made, in the act of writing, among rival perspectives and the artistic potential provided by different literatures and cultures. This concept of literary writing as the challenging of competing foreign literatures by means of modification, transformation, and purposeful avoidance also serves to liberate the customary, nationally circumscribed literary historiography by methodically engaging the comprehensive but focused internationality of literary life. This emphasis is one of the strongest assets of the Gottingen Model. It accounts for its originality and innovative force.