Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States

ISBN: 9780521579124 出版年：1996 页码：227 Sarah M Corse Cambridge University Press

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.