Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts -- 2. Modernism in the United States and Canada: The Example of Poetry and of the Short Story -- 3. Border Studies, Borderlines, and Liminal Spaces: Crossing the Canada-US Border in North American Border Narratives -- 4. On Imagology, Canadian-US Relations, and Popular Culture: National Images and Border Crossings in Margaret Atwood's Works -- 5. Reviewing Atwood in Canada and the United States: From (Inter)Nationalism to Transnationalism -- 6. "The Writer, the Reader, and the Book": Margaret Atwood on Reviewing in Conversation with Reingard M. Nischik.
Summary:
"This monograph shows Comparative North American Studies at work in selected case studies and textual analyses. The analytical chapters take various approaches to literary, non-fictional as well as visual texts as their prime objects of analysis within selected areas of Comparative North American Studies. These text - and genre-centered case studies represent an array of rewarding approaches within Comparative North American Studies: period-oriented, generic, thematic/border studies, thematic/imagological, and receptionist. The book includes comparative analyses of American and Canadian modernism and of the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, national images of the United States and Canada in literature, reviews of Margaret Atwood's novels in North America, as well as an interview with Margaret Atwood on book reviewing in North America"-- Provided by publisher. "This monograph shows Comparative North American Studies at work in selected case studies and textual analyses focusing on the American and Canadian modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, national images of the United States and Canada, and reviews of Margaret Atwood's novels in Canada and the United States. The book includes an interview with Atwood on book reviewing in North America"-- Provided by publisher.
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