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Reading the canon: literary history in the 21st century

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Introduction: The practices of reading and the need for literary value / Philipp Löffler -- Literary history and the problem of periodization / Clemens Spahr -- Singularity and the literary market / Günter Leypoldt -- Literary value and the question of generic change / Michael Basseler -- Shakespe...

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Other Authors: Löffler, Philipp (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Universitätsverlag Winter [2017]
Series:American studies volume 281
In: American studies (volume 281)

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Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Gattungstheorie
Periodisierung
Kanon
Literatur
USA
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Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://d-nb.info/1123519420/04
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Author Notes:edited by Philipp Löffler
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The practices of reading and the need for literary value Philipp Löffler
  • I - Periodization, prestige, genre
  • Literary history and the problem of periodization Clemens Spahr
  • II - Classics in the classroom
  • Shakespeare's complete works: Canonization, completion, and collection in the 21st century Peter Paul Schnierer
  • III - In the name of diversity
  • Sherman Alexie and the uses of Native American literature Franziska Schmid
  • IV - Lost figures, unlikely revivals, newcomers
  • John Neal and the problem of romanticism Stefanie Schäfer
  • Singularity and the literary market Günter Leypoldt
  • Literary value and the question of generic change Michael Basseler
  • The uses of Emerson : transcendentalism, transnationalism, and the new Americanists Johannes Völz
  • Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of detective fiction Heiko Jakubzik
  • Canon fodder: Thomas Pynchon and the invention of postmodernism Sascha Pöhlmann
  • African-American literature, canonization, and the Nobel Prize: German and American perspectives on Toni Morrison Katharina Gerund
  • Canon and carnival: Challenging hierarchies in Zadie Smith's "NW" Caroline Lusin
  • New canons in the classroom: Teaching black British writing Jan Rupp
  • The great unread: The shadow canon of Indian writing in English Dirk Wiemann
  • 'Only in the chattel records' - Obscurity, historiography, and Frederick Douglass' "The heroic slave" Karin Höpker
  • Charismatic authorship: Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, and the nineteenth-century construction of romantic canonicity Tim Sommer
  • No longer the 'text-book' of any generation: "Stover at Yale" and the non-canonical Sophie Spieler
  • Highbrow - Middlebrow - Broadbrow? J. B. Priestley and cultural re-education in postwar Germany Kirsten Hertel
  • Canonizing youth in Mark Ravenhill's plays Ellen Redling

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