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Author:

Lawrence, Jeffrey, 1983- author.

Title:

Anxieties of experience : the literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño / Jeffrey Lawrence.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

x, 298 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

America--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.
Literature and history--United States.
Literature and history--Latin America.
Literature.
Literature and history.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.
America.
Latin America.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Cultural divergence: the US literature of experience and the Latin American literature of the reader -- An inter-American episode: Jorge Luis Borges, Waldo Frank, and the battle for Whitman's America -- Uncommon grounds: the representation of history in Absalom, Absalom!, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Song of Solomon -- Full immersion: modernist aesthetics and the US literature of experience -- Voracious readers: the Latin American lettered city and the US literature of experience -- Epilogue: after Bolaño: toward a contemporary literature.

Series:

Oxford studies in American literary history

ISBN:

0190690208
9780190690205

OCLC:

(OCoLC)990777754

LCCN:

2017014043

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)