Reading America : citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature / / Kristin L. Matthews |
Autore | Matthews Kristin L. <1973-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Disciplina | 810.9/0054 |
Collana | Print culture and the history of the book |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Books and reading - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Cold War in literature Politics and literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Citizenship in literature Democracy in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61376-469-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Introduction: "there is much to be gained by our reading" -- America reads: literacy and Cold War nationalism -- Reading for character, community, and country: J. D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Reading to outmaneuver: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and African American -- Literacy in Cold War America -- Reading against the machine: Oedipa Maas and the quest for democracy in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 -- Metafiction and radical democracy: getting at the heart of John Barth's Lost in the funhouse -- Confronting difference, confronting difficulty: culture wars, canon wars, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior -- Conclusion: "reading makes a country great". |
Altri titoli varianti | Citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467779303321 |
Matthews Kristin L. <1973-> | ||
Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading America : citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature / / Kristin L. Matthews |
Autore | Matthews Kristin L. <1973-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Disciplina | 810.9/0054 |
Collana | Print culture and the history of the book |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Books and reading - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Cold War in literature Politics and literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Citizenship in literature Democracy in literature |
ISBN | 1-61376-469-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Introduction: "there is much to be gained by our reading" -- America reads: literacy and Cold War nationalism -- Reading for character, community, and country: J. D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Reading to outmaneuver: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and African American -- Literacy in Cold War America -- Reading against the machine: Oedipa Maas and the quest for democracy in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 -- Metafiction and radical democracy: getting at the heart of John Barth's Lost in the funhouse -- Confronting difference, confronting difficulty: culture wars, canon wars, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior -- Conclusion: "reading makes a country great". |
Altri titoli varianti | Citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794768503321 |
Matthews Kristin L. <1973-> | ||
Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading America : citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature / / Kristin L. Matthews |
Autore | Matthews Kristin L. <1973-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Disciplina | 810.9/0054 |
Collana | Print culture and the history of the book |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Books and reading - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Cold War in literature Politics and literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Citizenship in literature Democracy in literature |
ISBN | 1-61376-469-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Introduction: "there is much to be gained by our reading" -- America reads: literacy and Cold War nationalism -- Reading for character, community, and country: J. D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Reading to outmaneuver: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and African American -- Literacy in Cold War America -- Reading against the machine: Oedipa Maas and the quest for democracy in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 -- Metafiction and radical democracy: getting at the heart of John Barth's Lost in the funhouse -- Confronting difference, confronting difficulty: culture wars, canon wars, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior -- Conclusion: "reading makes a country great". |
Altri titoli varianti | Citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811495003321 |
Matthews Kristin L. <1973-> | ||
Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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