1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698587503321

Autore

Mittal Anu K

Titolo

Update on the status of the merchantable timber contracting pilot program [[electronic resource] /] / [Anu K. Mittal]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (10 pages)

Soggetti

Forest management - United States

Timber - Marketing

Federal aid to community development - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (GAO, viewed May 18, 2010).

"March 4, 2010."

"GAO-10-379R."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956317003321

Autore

Giles Paul

Titolo

Virtual Americas : transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary / / Paul Giles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2002

ISBN

9786613064219

9781283064217

1283064219

9780822384045

0822384043

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Disciplina

810.9/3273

810.93273

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

National characteristics, American, in literature

Comparative literature - English and American

Comparative literature - American and English

Nationalism and literature - United States

Americans - Great Britain - History

Great Britain Foreign public opinion, American

United States Relations Great Britain

Great Britain Relations United States

United States In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-328) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Virtual subjects: transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary -- Narrative reversals and power exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British culture -- "Bewildering" intertanglement": Melville's engagement with British tradition -- "Changed and queer": Henry James and the surrealization of America -- From decadent aesthetics to political fetishism: the "oracle effect" of Frost's poetry -- Virtual Eden: Lolita, pornography, and the perversions of American studies -- Crossing the water: Gunn, Plath, and the poetry of passage -- Virtual Englands:



Pynchon's transatlantic heresies -- Virtual Americas: cyberpastoral, transnationalism, and the ideology of exchange.

Sommario/riassunto

A discussion on the ways in which representations in the U.S. have been deflected from mythic to "virtual" phenomena in literary and cultural works of the modern era.