Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics

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  • Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics Book Detail

  • Author : Betina Entzminger
  • Release Date : 2013-03-05
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 256
  • ISBN 13 : 1136264213
  • File Size : 39,39 MB
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Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics by Betina Entzminger PDF Summary

Book Description: The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues that by revising canonical American literature, contemporary American writers are (re)writing an American myth of origins, creating one that corresponds to the contemporary writer’s understanding of self and society. Informed by cognitive psychology, evolutionary literary criticism, and poststructuralism, Entzminger reads texts by canonical authors Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Alcott, Twain, Chopin, and Faulkner, and by the contemporary writers that respond to them. In highlighting the construction and cognitive function of narrative in their own and in their antecedent texts, contemporary writers highlight the fact that such use of narrative is universal and essential to human beings. This book suggests that by revising the classic texts that compose our cultural narrative, contemporary writers mirror the way human individuals consistently revisit and refigure the past through language, via self-narration, in order to manage and understand experience.

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