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02641aam a2200373 a 4500 001 8022C7026B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 120405s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012013298 020 $a 0203108027 (ebk) 020 $a 9780203108024 (ebk) 020 $a 0415539641 (hardback) 020 $a 9780415539647 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)774498994 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d ERASA $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BWX $d NLGGC $d CDX $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS221 E58 2013 100 1 $a Entzminger, Betina, $d 1967- 245 10 $a Contemporary reconfigurations of American literary classics : $b the origin and evolution of American stories / $c Betina Entzminger. 260 $a New York : $b Routledge, $c 2013. 300 $a 242 p. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; $v 28 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-235) and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x Theory, etc. $x Theory, etc. 650 0 $a Canon (Literature) 830 0 $a Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; $v 28. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180109020319.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826060955.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8022C7026B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search