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Surface and depth : the quest for legibility in American culture / / Michael T. Gilmore



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Autore: Gilmore Michael T Visualizza persona
Titolo: Surface and depth : the quest for legibility in American culture / / Michael T. Gilmore Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
Disciplina: 818/.08
Soggetto topico: American prose literature - History and criticism
Social problems in literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
American fiction - History and criticism
Literature and society - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States In literature
United States Civilization
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PROLOGUE : Freud's Night Out; 1 Three Foundational Documents and Their Indelibility; 2 Majoritarian and Racial Tyranny: Tocqueville and Beaumont; 3 Popular Forms; Cooper and the Western; Poe and the Detective Story; Fanny Fern and the Celebrity Novel; 4 The Nineteenth-Century Canon: Hidden in Plain Sight; The Scarlet Letter; Melville's Moby-Dick; Thoreau's Walden; James's The American; 5 Freud and Film Redux; 6 Twentieth-Century Classics and New Technologies of Legibility; Wharton's Summer; Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a "Modernist" Western
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises7 Race/Erasure: Douglass to Roth; EQUIVOCAL EPILOGUE : Total Visibility in Utopia and Dystopia; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Sommario/riassunto: The idea of a common American culture is in retreat; arguments emphasizing difference have discredited the grand synthetic studies that marginalized groups and perspectives at odds with the master narrative. This work is an attempt to revitalize an interpretive overview.
Titolo autorizzato: Surface and depth  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-028906-6
0-19-531324-0
0-19-803587-X
1-60256-941-X
9786610502776
1-280-50277-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808913903321
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