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

Autore	Redding Arthur F. <1964->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (196 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/3582825
Soggetto topico	American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Cold War in literature Politics in literature Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Cold War in motion pictures Politics in motion pictures
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-48576-8 9786612485763 1-60473-326-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cultural fronts -- Closet, coup, and Cold War : F.O. Matthiessen's From the heart of Europe -- What's black and white and red all over? the Cold War and the geopolitics of race -- What it takes to be a man : masculinity, deviance, and sexuality -- The dreaded voyage into the world : nomadic ethics -- Frontier mythographies : savagery and civilization in John Ford.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454150503321

Autore	Redding Arthur F. <1964->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (196 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/3582825
Soggetto topico	American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Cold War in literature Politics in literature Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Cold War in motion pictures Politics in motion pictures
ISBN	1-282-48576-8 9786612485763 1-60473-326-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cultural fronts -- Closet, coup, and Cold War : F.O. Matthiessen's From the heart of Europe -- What's black and white and red all over? the Cold War and the geopolitics of race -- What it takes to be a man : masculinity, deviance, and sexuality -- The dreaded voyage into the world : nomadic ethics -- Frontier mythographies : savagery and civilization in John Ford.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910810998603321

Autore	Seed David
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Kent, Ohio : , : Kent State University Press, , 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (384 p.)
Disciplina	813/.54093581
Soggetto topico	American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Atomic bomb in literature Cold War in literature Cold War in motion pictures
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-61277-655-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The atom -- from H. G. Wells to Leo Szilard -- The dawn of the atomic age -- the bomb and Hiroshima -- The debate over nuclear refuge -- Do-it-yourself survival -- Philip Wylie on the state of the nation -- Cultural cycles in Walter M. Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz -- The pathology of warfare in Bernard Wolfe's Limbo -- Push-button holocaust in Mordecai Roshwald's Level 7 -- Whales, submarines, and the Bedford incident -- Nuclear safety procedures in Fail-safe -- Uncovering the death wish in Dr. Strangelove -- Mapping the postnuclear landscape -- Future reportage on World War III -- Beyond the Cold War.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463697903321

Autore	Cucu Sorin Radu
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (414 p.)
Disciplina	809.3/935809045
Soggetto topico	Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Cold War in literature Political fiction - History and criticism National characteristics in literature Cold War - Social aspects - Europe
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8232-5436-4 0-8232-6099-2 0-8232-5437-2 0-8232-5435-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Writing the Cold War: literature, democracy and the global polis -- Kafka and the Cold War fantasies of the invisible master -- The vicissitudes of popular sovereignty -- National security in the age of the global picture -- All power to the networks! -- Transnational American studies in the fog of the Cold War.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465093303321