American secrets [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and poetics of secrecy in the literature and culture of the United States / / edited by Eduardo Barros-Grela and José Liste-Noya

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/355
• Soggetto topico: American literature - History and criticism; Secrecy in literature; Secrecy - Political aspects - United States; Secrecy - Social aspects - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Barros-GrelaEduardo <1974-> Listé-NoyaJose <1962->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Secret nation/nation of secrets -- pt. 2. Secret selves -- pt. 3. (The) other('s) secrets.
• Sommario/riassunto: Predicated upon the principles of political freedom, cultural openness, religious tolerance, individual self-reliance and ethnic diversity, the United States of America has been tempted recurrently by the lures of the secret. This political, historical and cultural phenomenon is explored here from many, often surprisingly overlapping angles in these analyses of the literary and cultural uses and abuses of secrecy within a democratic culture. These essays reveal the politics within the poetics and, indissociably, the poetics fueling the politics of secrecy in its ambivalent deployment.
• Titolo autorizzato: American secrets
• ISBN: 1-283-24634-1; 9786613246349; 1-61147-007-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456671703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II