Reading American Novels and Multicultural Aesthetics

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Romancing the Postmodern Novel

ISBN: 1403984867
ISBN 13: 9781403984869
Autor: Caton, L
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: XVIII, 265 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.12.2007
Auflage: 1/2007
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

ORIGINA L: The ?Theory? section considers Coleridge not as a product of Romanticism but as a thinker who challenges our easy tendency to see unbridgeable gaps between ethnic groups. The ?Practice? section shows how concepts such as idealism, dialectic, and organicity actually have a practical use in interpreting contemporary novels. The book?s complex understanding of post-metaphysical thinking helps the reader investigate and complicate concerns over ethnicity, aesthetics, and the postmodern. WELL-BALANCED: There is a solid balance between theory and literary text as well as a strong balance between well-established writers like Kincaid and Delillo, and other minority authors who have been receiving more attention over the last decade such as Change-Rae Lee and Luis Rodriquez. MULTIDISCIPLINARY: This book will appeal to scholars and students in such fields of study as literary theory, British Romanticism, Ethnic and Cultural Studies, and contemporary literature courses.

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Beschreibung

Using romantic theories, Caton analyzes America's contemporary novel. Organized through the two sections of "Theory" and "Practice," Reading American Novels and Multicultural Aesthetics begins with a study of aesthetic form only to have it reveal the content of politics and history. This presentation immediately offers a unified platform for an interchange between multiple cultural and aesthetic positions. Romantic theory provides for an integrated examination of diversity, one that metaphorically fosters a solid, inclusive, and democratic legitimacy for intercultural communication. This politically astute cosmopolitan appreciation will generate an intriguing "cross-over" audience: from ethnic studies to American studies and from literary studies to romantic studies, this book will interest a range of readers.

Autorenporträt

Lou Freitas Caton is Assistant Professor of English atWestfield State College.

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