Overview
This analysis of two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a new theory of national literatures, demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building. It accounts for cross-national differences and illuminates the historically constructed and symbolic nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state. High-culture national literatures are selected as different from other novels; popular-culture bestsellers are mass market commodities for the largest, least differentiated audience.
- | Author: Sarah M. Corse
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Oct 28, 1996
- | Number of Pages: 226 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521579120
- | ISBN-13: 9780521579124
