Comparative North American Studies [electronic resource] : Transnational Approaches to American and Canadian Literature and Culture /
Nischik, Reingard M.author.
Merging selected approaches to Comparative North American Studies with detailed textual analyses, this book studies works of writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood. Topics include comparative approaches to the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, and North American reviews of Atwood's novels. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts; 2 Modernism in the United States and Canada: The Example of Poetry and of the Short Story; 3 Border Studies, Borderlines, and Liminal Spaces: Crossing the Canada-US Border in North American Border Narratives; 4 On Imagology, Canadian-US Relations, and Popular Culture: National Images and Border Crossings in Margaret Atwood's Works; 5 Reviewing Atwood in Canada and the United States: From (Inter)Nationalism to Transnationalism
6 "The Writer, the Reader, and the Book": Margaret Atwood on Reviewing in Conversation with Reingard M. NischikNotes; Selective Bibliography: Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Merging selected approaches to Comparative North American Studies with detailed textual analyses, this book studies works of writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood. Topics include comparative approaches to the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, and North American reviews of Atwood's novels. .
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.