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Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics: The Origin and Evolution of American Stories book cover

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Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics The Origin and Evolution of American Stories

By Betina Entzminger Copyright 2013
254 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: The Origin and Evolution of American Stories   1. Decoding the Cryptic Past: Richard Powers’s and Louis Bayard’s Reconfigurations of Poe’s Short Stories  2. ‘A’ is for America: Revisions of The Scarlet Letter  3. A Draft of a Draft: Sena Jeter Naslund’s Reconfiguration of Moby-Dick  4. Revising Alcott, Revising America: Reconfigurations of Little Women  5. The "Quintessentially American Book": Reconfigurations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  6. Life After Awakening: Anne Tyler’s Revision of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening  7. Plundered Narrative: Contemporary Rewritings of Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!  Conclusion: The Future of Origins Appendix A: Interview with Louis Bayard  Appendix B: Interview with Sena Jeter Naslund  Bibliography  Index

 

Biography

Betina Entzminger is Associate Professor of English at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, US.

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