Romantic Renderings of Selfhood in Classic American Literature - Anca Peiu

Romantic Renderings of Selfhood in Classic American Literature is the complete form of Anca Peiu’s book on eleven masters of American literature. The previous volume entitled Five Versions of Selfhood in 19th Century American Literature represents the author’s first step toward the accomplishment of her literary studies gathered here.
The new book consists of two sections: the former one titled “Selfhood in/or Poetry,” dealing with five foremost authors who laid the foundations of American poetry; and the second section called “Selfhood in/or Story-Telling,” containing essays on the main works of six emblematic American masters of fiction.
Anca Peiu’s present book is meant for students of philology, in the first place; likewise, for those high-school pupils interested in American culture and its classic writers; and, last but not least, for those readers who are still fond of the American literary canon, and also aware of its undeniable impact upon our own approach of the contemporary world.

In Romania, all the eleven American writers discussed here – E. A. Poe, R. W. Emerson, H. D. Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin – are part of any syllabus bibliography for the study of American literature. Therefore our return today to these American masterpieces of universal literature acquires an enhanced significance.

Dr. Anca Peiu is a Romanian essayist, professor and translator of literature. She is a Ph D and a graduate of the University of Bucharest, the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, with a double professional competence in English and German.

Romantic Renderings of Selfhood in Classic American Literature reprezinta forma completa a cartii doamnei Anca Peiu, despre unsprezece scriitori americani de prim rang. Volumul Five Versions of Selfhood in 19th Century American Literature reprezinta stadiul initial al acestui demers al autoarei studiilor cuprinse aici.
Noua lucrare contine doua sectiuni: prima intitulata „Selfhood in/or Poetry”, tratand operele si personalitatile celor cinci autori esentiali, care au pus bazele poeziei americane; si cea de-a doua sectiune, ”Selfhood in/or Story-Telling”, continand eseuri asupra operelor principale ale unui numar de sase emblematici maestri americani ai fictiunii.

Cartea de fata a Ancai Peiu se adreseaza, in primul rand, studentilor filologi; de asemenea, acelor elevilor de liceu, interesati de cultura americana si de scriitorii ei clasici; si, nu in ultimul rand, acelor cititori inca pasionati de canonul literar american si, in acelasi timp, constienti de forta sa incontestabila asupra felului nostru de a ne raporta la lumea contemporana.

In Romania, cei unsprezece scriitori americani discutati aici – E. A. Poe, R. W. Emerson, H. D. Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin – intra in bibliografia obligatorie a oricarui curs de literatura americana clasica. Prin urmare, cu atat mai graitoare devine intoarcerea noastra de azi, la aceste capodopere americane ale literaturii universale.

Dr. Anca Peiu este eseist roman, profesor si traducator literar. Ea este doctor in filologie si a absolvit cursurile Universitatii din Bucuresti, Facultatea de Limbi si Literaturi Straine, cu o dubla specializare in engleza si germana.

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