{"product_id":"children-of-the-raven-and-the-whale-9780813943602","title":"Children of the Raven and the Whale","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking its cue from Perry Miller's 1956 classic of American literary criticism,  \u003cem\u003eThe Raven and the Whale\u003c\/em\u003e, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman examines ways in which contemporary multi-ethnic American writers of the United States have responded to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century texts historically central to the American literary canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In  \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Raven and the Whale\u003c\/i\u003e, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman makes an effective case for conceiving recent achievements in U.S. fiction and memoir as part of a ‘Third American Renaissance’ inspired by the legacies of the mid-nineteenth century and the modernist period. Drawing judiciously on theories of intertextuality and literary influence, Hellman offers a set of useful case studies in the dynamics of U.S. literary history, while illuminating the connections of recent writing to an American past and a global present.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371771732311,"sku":"9780813943602","price":18.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813943602.jpg?v=1730154493","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/children-of-the-raven-and-the-whale-9780813943602","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}