Mapping the world of Anglo-American studies at the turn of the century / edited by Aleksandra Nikčcevićc-Batrićcevićc and Marija Krivokapić.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nikćcevićc-Batrićcevićc, Aleksandra, editor.

Krivokapićc, Marija, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

English language--Study and teaching.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

This volume revisits the most important issues that Anglo-American studies are facing at the beginning of the twenty-first century, with regards to both research and teaching. Given the English language's status as a lingua franca, the culture that produced it, and that has been changing it, the literature written in English, and relevant linguistic and literary discourse have come to largely dominate critical theory globally. Therefore, the subjects of Anglo-American studies, and their traditional and modern concepts, must be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, and must also be p

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART ONE

Reading Richard Powers at the Turn of the Century

Toril Moi's Reading of Simone de Beauvoir

Allan Houser's and Bob Haozous' Vision of Indianness

The Universal and Timeless World of Shakespeare's Work

Modern Critical Approaches to Shakespeare

Less is More

"Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori"

Anne Sexton's Search for ÉcritureFéminine

Between American Contemporary Literature and Albanian Culture

Poetic Image as Communicational Media in the Poetryof Seamus Heaney

Saul Bellow's Neo-Transcendentalism Under the Influence of European Modernist Literature and American Literary Tradition

The Power of Narration in The Woman Warrior

Dealing with Evanescence

PART TWO

Linguistic Cyberpunking

Translation and Arts Discourse

A New Vision for the Future

Humour and Horror in the Classroom

Mapping the Importance of Metacognitive Strategies in ForeignLanguage Reading Classroom

Genre Pedagogy and EFL Teaching through Writing

Shifting Identities

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8418-9

OCLC:

925303743