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Johannessen Lene |
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Titolo |
Horizons of Enchantment : Essays in the American Imaginary / / Lene M. Johannessen |
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Hanover, N.H. : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2011 |
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©2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-87528-4 |
1-61168-013-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (185 p.) |
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Collana |
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Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Exceptionalism - United States |
Transnationalism in literature |
Individualism in literature |
National characteristics, American, in literature |
American literature - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: -- The imaginary -- "Perpetual progress" in Drude Krog Janson's A saloonkeeper's daughter -- Songs of different selves: Whitman and Gonzales -- The "long empty moment": Richard Ford's The sportswriter -- "Relations stretched out" in the American imaginary -- Recalling America: Huntington and Rodriguez. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A unique and original reading of the American imaginary |
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