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UNINA9910781576003321 |
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Jurca Catherine |
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White Diaspora : The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel / / Catherine Jurca |
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Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] |
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1-283-33973-0 |
9786613339737 |
1-4008-2413-3 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (247 p.) |
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813.509321733 |
813/.509321733 |
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American fiction - 20th century - |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism |
Race in literature |
Segregation in literature |
Suburban life in literature |
Suburbs in literature |
White people in literature |
American fiction - History and criticism - 20th century |
American Literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. Tarzan, Lord of the Suburbs -- CHAPTER TWO. Sinclair Lewis and the Revolt from the Suburb -- CHAPTER THREE. Mildred Pierce's Interiors -- CHAPTER FOUR. Native Son's Trespasses -- CHAPTER FIVE. Sanctimonious Suburbanites and the Postwar Novel -- EPILOGUE: Same As It Ever Was (More or Less) -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative--the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms "homelessness." In the process, she challenges representations of white suburbia as prostrated by its own privileges. In novels as disparate as Tarzan (written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richard Wright's Native Son, and recent fiction by John Updike and Richard Ford, Jurca finds an emphasis on the suburb under siege, a place where the fortunate tend to see themselves as powerless. From Babbitt to Rabbit, the suburban novel casts property owners living in communities of their choosing as dispossessed people. Material advantages become artifacts of oppression, and affluence is fraudulently identified as impoverishment. The fantasy of victimization reimagines white flight as a white diaspora. Extending innovative trends in the study of nineteenth-century American culture, Jurca's analysis suggests that self-pity has played a constitutive role in white middle-class identity in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground in literary history and cultural studies, while telling the story of one of our most revered and reviled locations: "the little suburban house at number one million and ten Volstead Avenue" that Edith Wharton warned would ruin American life and letters. |
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UNINA9910133352303321 |
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Erik Hollnagel Éric Rigaud, Denis Besnard (dir.) |
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Proceedings of the fourth Resilience engineering symposium : 8-10 June, 2011, Sophia Antipolis, France |
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Presses des Mines, 2011 |
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[Place of publication not identified], : Presses des mines, 2011 |
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1 online resource (284 pages) |
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Collection Sciences Économiques |
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Mechanical Engineering |
Engineering & Applied Sciences |
Industrial & Management Engineering |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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These proceedings document the various presentations at the Fourth Resilience Engineering Symposium held on June 8-10, 2011, in Sophia-Antipolis, France. The Symposium gathered participants from five continents and provided them with a forum to exchange experiences and problems, and to learn about Resilience Engineering from the latest scientific achievements to recent practical applications. The First Resilience Engineering Symposium was held in Söderköping, Sweden, on October 25-29 2004. The Second Resilience Engineering Symposium was held in Juan-les-Pins, France, on November 8-10 2006, The Third Resilience Engineering Symposium was held in Juan-les-Pins, France, on October 28-30 2008. Since the first Symposium, resilience engineering has fast become recognised as a valuable complement to the established approaches to safety. Both industry and academia have recognised that resilience engineering offers valuable conceptual and practical basis that can be used to attack the problems of interconnectedness and intractability of complex socio-technical systems. The concepts and principles of resilience engineering have been tested and refined by applications in such fields as air traffic |
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management, offshore production, patient safety, and commercial fishing. Continued work has also made it clear that resilience is neither limited to handling threats and disturbances, nor confined to situations where something can go wrong. Today, resilience is understood as the intrinsic ability of a system to adjust its functioning prior to, during, or following changes and disturbances, so that it can sustain required operations under both expected and unexpected conditions. This definition emphasizes the ability to continue functioning, rather than simply to react and recover from disturbances and the ability to deal with diverse conditions of functioning, expected as well as unexpected. For anyone who is interested in learning more about Resilience Engineering, the books… |
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