Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics

Autorentext

Betina Entzminger is Associate Professor of English at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, US.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Origin and Evolution of American Stories 1. Decoding the Cryptic Past: Richard Powers's and Louis Bayard's Reconfigurations of Poe's Short Stories 2. 'A' is for America: Revisions of The Scarlet Letter 3. A Draft of a Draft: Sena Jeter Naslund's Reconfiguration of Moby-Dick 4. Revising Alcott, Revising America: Reconfigurations of Little Women 5. The "Quintessentially American Book": Reconfigurations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 6. Life After Awakening: Anne Tyler's Revision of Kate Chopin's The Awakening 7. Plundered Narrative: Contemporary Rewritings of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Conclusion: The Future of Origins Appendix A: Interview with Louis Bayard Appendix B: Interview with Sena Jeter Naslund Bibliography Index