Literary Spinoffs Rewriting the Classics - Re-Imagining the Community |
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Author:
| Spengler, Birgit |
Series title: | North American Studies |
ISBN: | 978-3-593-50311-0 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2016 |
Publisher: | Campus Verlag GmbH
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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Literary Spinoffs: Rewriting the Canon – Re-Imagining the Community explores the literary strategies, theoretical dimensions, and cultural implications of contemporary rewritings of nineteenth-century classics. By hooking on to powerful literary and cultural narratives, literary spinoffs seek to interfere with the cultural imaginary and revise the ways in which the cultural community constructs itself via formative narratives. Spengler offers in-depth case studies...
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Literary Spinoffs: Rewriting the Canon – Re-Imagining the Community explores the literary strategies, theoretical dimensions, and cultural implications of contemporary rewritings of nineteenth-century classics. By hooking on to powerful literary and cultural narratives, literary spinoffs seek to interfere with the cultural imaginary and revise the ways in which the cultural community constructs itself via formative narratives. Spengler offers in-depth case studies of prominent contemporary rewritings and the cultural work they undertake, while also examining the genre’s particular aesthetics and effects. Through their intensely intertextual form, spinoffs raise urgent questions about the possibilities for participation in processes of cultural meaning-making and invigorate contemporary debates about intellectual property, cultural capital, as well as high and popular culture.