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New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing.(Book review)
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Early American Literature
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January 1, 2008
- Author:
- Egan, Jim
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New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing
DAVID READ
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005
177 pp.
In New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing, David Read wants to promote the value of specifically literary interpretation in the face of the general turn toward cultural studies that has come to dominate the study of colonial writings. Such cultural approaches, Read contends, ultimately provide less "accurate" readings of colonial texts because, among other reasons, they rely on what Read argues is a rather narrow and presentist definition of just what "colonial" means in the first place ...