T. Bonfiglio, "Why is English Literature?: Language and Letters for the Twenty-First Century"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1137379871 | PDF | pages: 175 | 1.1 mb
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1137379871 | PDF | pages: 175 | 1.1 mb
Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century.