Surface and depth : the quest for legibility in American culture / / Michael T. Gilmore
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| Autore: |
Gilmore Michael T
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| Titolo: |
Surface and depth : the quest for legibility in American culture / / Michael T. Gilmore
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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