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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 May 2010
      28 October 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511557767
      9780521570022
      9780521579124
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557767
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.449kg, 226 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.34kg, 226 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Sociology: General Interest, Political Sociology, Sociology
      Series:
      Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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    Subjects:
    Sociology: General Interest, Political Sociology, Sociology
    Series:
    Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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    Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building, and that canonical novels play a symbolic role in this, this 1996 book accounts for cross-national literary differences, addresses issues of mediation and representation in theories of 'reflection', and illuminates the historically constructed nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state.

    Reviews

    "[Corse] offers an astute, Bourdieu-esque analysis of the markets for literary and popular books and the different mechanisms through which they acquire value." Erin A. Smith, American Literature

    "...Corse has shifted the grounding of future work in productive and important ways." Lyn Spillman, Contemporary Sociology

    "Sarah Corse's comparative study of Canadian and American literature...asks why two industrialized, predominantly English-speaking neighboring nations should espouse such radically different images of their own national characters." Graham Fraser, College Literature

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