American superrealism [[electronic resource] ] : Nathanael West and the politics of representation in the 1930s / / Jonathan Veitch |
Autore | Veitch Jonathan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.52 |
Collana | The Wisconsin project on American writers |
Soggetto topico |
Capitalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century National characteristics, American, in literature Surrealism (Literature) - United States Depressions in literature Economics in literature Mimesis in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-42416-5
9786612424168 0-299-15703-2 0-585-07187-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455317603321 |
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American superrealism [[electronic resource] ] : Nathanael West and the politics of representation in the 1930s / / Jonathan Veitch |
Autore | Veitch Jonathan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.52 |
Collana | The Wisconsin project on American writers |
Soggetto topico |
Capitalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century National characteristics, American, in literature Surrealism (Literature) - United States Depressions in literature Economics in literature Mimesis in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-42416-5
9786612424168 0-299-15703-2 0-585-07187-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778894603321 |
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American superrealism : Nathanael West and the politics of representation in the 1930s / / Jonathan Veitch |
Autore | Veitch Jonathan |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.52 |
Collana | The Wisconsin project on American writers |
Soggetto topico |
Capitalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century National characteristics, American, in literature Surrealism (Literature) - United States Depressions in literature Economics in literature Mimesis in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-42416-5
9786612424168 0-299-15703-2 0-585-07187-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Who Can We Shoot? The Crisis of Representation in the 1930s -- PART I -- 1. American Superrealism -- 2. Euclid's Asshole: The Dream Life of Balsa Snell -- PART II -- 3. "Lousy with Pure / Reeking with Stark": Contact -- 4. The People Talk: Miss Lonelyhearts -- 5. The Folklore of Capitalism: A Cool Million -- 6. The Cliches Are Having a Ball: The Day of the Locust -- Postscript: Madonna's Bustier -- or "The Burning of Los Angeles -- Notes -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817038003321 |
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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski |
Autore | Swirski Peter <1963-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5409355 |
Collana | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Political fiction, American - History and criticism Utopias in literature Social control in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Exceptionalism - United States Social engineering - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-136-72339-0
1-283-15100-6 9786613151001 0-203-81661-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461388503321 |
Swirski Peter <1963-, >
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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski |
Autore | Swirski Peter <1963-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5409355 |
Collana | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Political fiction, American - History and criticism Utopias in literature Social control in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Exceptionalism - United States Social engineering - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-136-72338-2
1-136-72339-0 1-283-15100-6 9786613151001 0-203-81661-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789532403321 |
Swirski Peter <1963-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski |
Autore | Swirski Peter <1963-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5409355 |
Collana | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Political fiction, American - History and criticism Utopias in literature Social control in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Exceptionalism - United States Social engineering - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-136-72338-2
1-136-72339-0 1-283-15100-6 9786613151001 0-203-81661-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910799921103321 |
Swirski Peter <1963-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski |
Autore | Swirski Peter <1963-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5409355 |
Collana | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Political fiction, American - History and criticism Utopias in literature Social control in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Exceptionalism - United States Social engineering - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-136-72338-2
1-136-72339-0 1-283-15100-6 9786613151001 0-203-81661-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810472903321 |
Swirski Peter <1963-, >
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Amiri Baraka [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and art of a Black intellectual / / Jerry Gafio Watts |
Autore | Watts Jerry Gafio |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (592 pages) |
Disciplina | 818/.5409 |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
African Americans - Politics and government African Americans - Intellectual life Black people - Politics and government African Americans in literature Black people - Intellectual life Black people in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8147-8455-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1 Birth of an Intellectual Journey; 2 Bohemian Immersions; 3 An Alien among Outsiders; 4 Rejecting Bohemia: The Politicization of Ethnic Guilt; 5 The Quest for a Blacker Art; 6 Toward a Black Arts Infrastructure; 7 Black Arts Poet and Essayist; 8 Black Revolutionary Playwright; 9 Kawaida: Totalizing the Commitment; 10 The Slave as Master: Black Nationalism, Kawaida, and the Repression of Women; 11 New-Ark and the Emergence of Pragmatic Nationalism; 12 Pan-Africanism; 13 National Black Political Convention
14 Ever Faithful: Toward a Religious Marxism 15 The Artist as Marxist / The Marxist as Artist; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449799803321 |
Watts Jerry Gafio
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New York, : New York University Press, c2001 | ||
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Amiri Baraka [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and art of a Black intellectual / / Jerry Gafio Watts |
Autore | Watts Jerry Gafio |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (592 pages) |
Disciplina | 818/.5409 |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
African Americans - Politics and government African Americans - Intellectual life Black people - Politics and government African Americans in literature Black people - Intellectual life Black people in literature |
ISBN | 0-8147-8455-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1 Birth of an Intellectual Journey; 2 Bohemian Immersions; 3 An Alien among Outsiders; 4 Rejecting Bohemia: The Politicization of Ethnic Guilt; 5 The Quest for a Blacker Art; 6 Toward a Black Arts Infrastructure; 7 Black Arts Poet and Essayist; 8 Black Revolutionary Playwright; 9 Kawaida: Totalizing the Commitment; 10 The Slave as Master: Black Nationalism, Kawaida, and the Repression of Women; 11 New-Ark and the Emergence of Pragmatic Nationalism; 12 Pan-Africanism; 13 National Black Political Convention
14 Ever Faithful: Toward a Religious Marxism 15 The Artist as Marxist / The Marxist as Artist; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777349903321 |
Watts Jerry Gafio
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New York, : New York University Press, c2001 | ||
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Amiri Baraka [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and art of a Black intellectual / / Jerry Gafio Watts |
Autore | Watts Jerry Gafio |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (592 pages) |
Disciplina | 818/.5409 |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
African Americans - Politics and government African Americans - Intellectual life Black people - Politics and government African Americans in literature Black people - Intellectual life Black people in literature |
ISBN | 0-8147-8455-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1 Birth of an Intellectual Journey; 2 Bohemian Immersions; 3 An Alien among Outsiders; 4 Rejecting Bohemia: The Politicization of Ethnic Guilt; 5 The Quest for a Blacker Art; 6 Toward a Black Arts Infrastructure; 7 Black Arts Poet and Essayist; 8 Black Revolutionary Playwright; 9 Kawaida: Totalizing the Commitment; 10 The Slave as Master: Black Nationalism, Kawaida, and the Repression of Women; 11 New-Ark and the Emergence of Pragmatic Nationalism; 12 Pan-Africanism; 13 National Black Political Convention
14 Ever Faithful: Toward a Religious Marxism 15 The Artist as Marxist / The Marxist as Artist; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827861403321 |
Watts Jerry Gafio
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