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UNINA9910789532403321 |
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Swirski Peter <1963-, > |
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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-136-72338-2 |
1-136-72339-0 |
1-283-15100-6 |
9786613151001 |
0-203-81661-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 p.) |
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Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; ; 15 |
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American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Political fiction, American - History and criticism |
Utopias in literature |
Social control in literature |
National characteristics, American, in literature |
Exceptionalism - United States |
Social engineering - United States - History - 20th century |
Political culture - United States - History - 20th century |
Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or |
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politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. |
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The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. It insists on forgetting what preceded the headlines of today and on denying continuity with history. It insists, in short, on its exceptionalism.American Utopia and Social Engineering sets out to correct this amnesia. It misses no opportunity to flesh out both the historical premises and the politic |
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UNINA9910808842303321 |
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Autore |
Allmendinger Blake |
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The melon capital of the world : a memoir / / Blake Allmendinger ; set in Bulmer by Lindsey Auten ; designed by N. Putens |
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Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, England : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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0-8032-5665-5 |
0-8032-5664-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Adult children of divorced parents - United States |
Baby boom generation - United States |
Rocky Ford (Colo.) Biography |
Rocky Ford (Colo.) Social life and customs Anecdotes |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""1. The Melon Capital of the World""; ""2. TJ Is a Wonderful Boy""; ""3. I Met a Traveler from an Antique Land""; ""4. Bad Day for a Black Brother""; ""5. Remember Me""; ""6. A Bump in the Road""; ""7. The Diary""; ""About Blake Allmendinger"" |
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In this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty-year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado, formerly known as the Melon Capital of the World, forces the author to confront his own sad and disturbing history, one that parallels his hometown's decline. Allmendinger's family was dominated by his emotionally and mentally unstable mother, who became depressed while living in Rocky Ford as a young woman. For the rest of her life she abused the members of her family, creating tensions that remained |
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