Cultures of Solitude : Loneliness – Limitation – Liberation

• Autore: Bergmann Ina
• Pubblicazione: Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (330 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Literary studies: general; General & world history; History of the Americas; Housing & homelessness; Alternative lifestyles
• Soggetto non controllato: Literature: history and criticism; History of the Americas; Politics and government
• Persona (resp. second.): HipplerStefan; BergmannIna
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of essays comprises cultural analyses of practices of eremitism and reclusiveness in the USA, which are inseparably linked to the American ideals of individualism and freedom. Covering a time frame from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, the essays study cultural products such as novels, poems, plays, songs, paintings, television shows, films, and social media, which represent the costs and benefits of deliberate withdrawal and involuntary isolation from society. Thus, this book offers valuable contributions to contemporary cultural discourses on privacy, surveillance, new technology, pathology, anti-consumerism, simplification, and environmentalism. Solitaries can be read as trailblazers for an alternative future or as symptoms of a pathological society.
• Altri titoli varianti: Cultures of Solitude
• Titolo autorizzato: Cultures of Solitude
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910420457803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II