Name: Mapping the World of Anglo-American Studies at the Turn of the Century
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Mapping the World of Anglo-American Studies at the Turn of the Century

Edited By: Marija Knežević

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This book revisits key issues in Anglo-American studies. From a multidisciplinary perspective, it approaches mainstream cultural and literary achievements alongside marginalized fields. It covers culture, literature, linguistics, and teaching methodology.

This volume revisits the most important issues that Anglo-American studies are facing at the beginning of the twenty-first century, with regards to both research and…

This volume revisits the most important issues that Anglo-American studies are facing at the beginning of the twenty-first century, with regards to both research and teaching. Given the English language’s status as a lingua franca, the culture that produced it, and that has been changing it, the literature written in English, and relevant linguistic and literary discourse have come to largely dominate critical theory globally. Therefore, the subjects of Anglo-American studies, and their traditional and modern concepts, must be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, and must also be problematized in, and determined by, other spheres of the world, especially at the universities at which they are studied.

This book, consequently, approaches both mainstream cultural, literary, linguistic and academic achievements and, often by way of comparison, those smaller, more distant, and marginalized fields, traditionally subordinate studies, as well as instances of cultural hybridization.

Given its concern with a broad field of culture, literature, linguistics, and methodology of teaching English as a foreign language, this book consists of two main parts comprising the closest research and teaching fields; one attending to culture and literature, and the other approaching linguistics and methodology.

Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević teaches courses on American literature, American women poetry and feminist literary theory and criticism at the Faculty of Philosophy in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Montenegro. She has MA and PhD degrees in American Literature, while her publications include papers on Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, second wave feminism, Herman Melville, and a number of other American authors. She has served as President of Montenegrin Association for Anglo-American Literary Studies since 2008, and has edited and co-edited sixteen books, published in Montenegro and Great Britain. She is currently writing a book about the literary canon and feminist interventions in it.

Marija Krivokapić teaches 19th- and 20th-century British Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Montenegro. Her publications generally focus on the work of D.H. Lawrence (Lawrence in Italy (Belgrade, 2000) and Quest for the Transcendent in D.H. Lawrence’s Prose (Nikšić, 2009), as well as dozens of other short publications), though her recent interests also include contemporary Native American literature (Towards the End of Indian History (Nikšić, 2014) and Contemporary Native American Literature (Osijek, 2013)), and travel writing. With Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević, she has co-edited six Cambridge Scholars Publishing editions, the most recent being The Beauty of Convention (2014). She has also edited a series of translations of British, Canadian, South African, and Native American authors, and is the current general editor of linguistics and literature journal Folia Linguistica et Litteraria.