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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski
| 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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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski
| 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 |
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Swirski Peter <1963-, >
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski
| 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 |
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Swirski Peter <1963-, >
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski
| 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 |
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Swirski Peter <1963-, >
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature [[electronic resource] ] : Writing Apartheid / / by Tyrone R. Simpson
| Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature [[electronic resource] ] : Writing Apartheid / / by Tyrone R. Simpson |
| Autore | Simpson Tyrone R |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
| Disciplina |
810.9355
813/.5409355 |
| Collana | Future of Minority Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Ethnicity
America-Literatures Literature, Modern-20th century Sociology, Urban Ethnicity Studies North American Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Urban Studies/Sociology Social Structure, Social Inequality |
| ISBN |
1-280-58406-8
9786613613882 1-137-01489-X |
| Classificazione | SOC020000SOC026030LIT004020 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Writing Apartheid; Contents; Acknowledgments; Copyright Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mapping the Racial Partition; Chapter 1: "The Love of Colour in Me": Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and the Space of White Racial Manufacture; "More and More We Wanted More Things": Desire and Deception in Commodity America; "They Put on Color": Of Narrative Shadows and Failed Masquerades; "Everything in Its Place": The Unconscious Production of White Space
Chapter 2: "To Make a Man out of You": Masculine Fantasies and the Failure of Whiteness in Michael Gold's Jews without Money"Their Country and Their Hamburger Steak": Toward Claims of Ghetto Nationhood; "Not to Play with that Nigger": Abjecting the Absent Black; "One Jew Could Kill a Hundred Indians": The Making of Imperial White Men; "A Serious Married Man": The American Gender Imperative; "There Will Be a Boom in Brownsville": The White Right to Suburban Flight; "The City Is Locked against Me!": A Coda on Immigrant Urbanism Chapter 3: "Something Tangible to Strike at": Urban Moralism and the Transvestitic Antidote in Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn"Emile Zola Is Not My Shtick": Selby's Moral Unnaturalism; "And Baby Makes Three": Race, the City, and Selby's Heteronormative Imagination; "I Find Staying in Brooklyn Too Long Very Oppressive": On Urban Flight and Hip Queer Escape; Chapter 4: "Enough to Make a Body Riot": Chester Himes, Melancholia, and the Postmodern Renovation; "I Could Always Feel Race Trouble . . . Never More Than Two Feet Off": Chester Himes's Melancholic Perception "It Was Another Ghetto like Any Other": The After-Image of Himes's Harlem"There Ain't Gonna Be Any Facts": On Epistemological Shifts and Postmodern Solutions; "At Last You've Finally Got Your Own House": Beyond a Segregationist Imaginary; Chapter 5: "In a World with No Address": Carceral Ghettos and Ambivalent Nationalist Rebellions in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place; "They Came Because They Had No Choice": Mapping Naylor's Carceral Cartography; "Viewed with a Jaundiced Eye": Wayward Women and Sex in the Panoptic Ghetto "A Man's Gotta Be a Man": Nationalism and Naylor's Gender TroubleChapter 6: "And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing": Black Flanerie and Traumatic Photorealism in Wideman's Two Cities; "When Words Led Him into a Familiar Place": The Trauma of Language; "Staying Put Where They Put Us": On Ghetto Containment and Black Flanerie; "No Words for What Separates and Connects These Moments": Mallory's Trauma and Silence; "Asking My Pictures to Be Mirrors": Seeking Photographic Refuge; "Look What You Done to Yourselves": Redemption by Photorealism; Coda: An Emergency of Surplus Conclusion: On Ghettos to Come |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790469003321 |
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Simpson Tyrone R
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| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature [[electronic resource] ] : Writing Apartheid / / by Tyrone R. Simpson
| Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature [[electronic resource] ] : Writing Apartheid / / by Tyrone R. Simpson |
| Autore | Simpson Tyrone R |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
| Disciplina |
810.9355
813/.5409355 |
| Collana | Future of Minority Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Ethnicity
America-Literatures Literature, Modern-20th century Sociology, Urban Ethnicity Studies North American Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Urban Studies/Sociology Social Structure, Social Inequality |
| ISBN |
1-280-58406-8
9786613613882 1-137-01489-X |
| Classificazione | SOC020000SOC026030LIT004020 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Writing Apartheid; Contents; Acknowledgments; Copyright Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mapping the Racial Partition; Chapter 1: "The Love of Colour in Me": Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and the Space of White Racial Manufacture; "More and More We Wanted More Things": Desire and Deception in Commodity America; "They Put on Color": Of Narrative Shadows and Failed Masquerades; "Everything in Its Place": The Unconscious Production of White Space
Chapter 2: "To Make a Man out of You": Masculine Fantasies and the Failure of Whiteness in Michael Gold's Jews without Money"Their Country and Their Hamburger Steak": Toward Claims of Ghetto Nationhood; "Not to Play with that Nigger": Abjecting the Absent Black; "One Jew Could Kill a Hundred Indians": The Making of Imperial White Men; "A Serious Married Man": The American Gender Imperative; "There Will Be a Boom in Brownsville": The White Right to Suburban Flight; "The City Is Locked against Me!": A Coda on Immigrant Urbanism Chapter 3: "Something Tangible to Strike at": Urban Moralism and the Transvestitic Antidote in Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn"Emile Zola Is Not My Shtick": Selby's Moral Unnaturalism; "And Baby Makes Three": Race, the City, and Selby's Heteronormative Imagination; "I Find Staying in Brooklyn Too Long Very Oppressive": On Urban Flight and Hip Queer Escape; Chapter 4: "Enough to Make a Body Riot": Chester Himes, Melancholia, and the Postmodern Renovation; "I Could Always Feel Race Trouble . . . Never More Than Two Feet Off": Chester Himes's Melancholic Perception "It Was Another Ghetto like Any Other": The After-Image of Himes's Harlem"There Ain't Gonna Be Any Facts": On Epistemological Shifts and Postmodern Solutions; "At Last You've Finally Got Your Own House": Beyond a Segregationist Imaginary; Chapter 5: "In a World with No Address": Carceral Ghettos and Ambivalent Nationalist Rebellions in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place; "They Came Because They Had No Choice": Mapping Naylor's Carceral Cartography; "Viewed with a Jaundiced Eye": Wayward Women and Sex in the Panoptic Ghetto "A Man's Gotta Be a Man": Nationalism and Naylor's Gender TroubleChapter 6: "And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing": Black Flanerie and Traumatic Photorealism in Wideman's Two Cities; "When Words Led Him into a Familiar Place": The Trauma of Language; "Staying Put Where They Put Us": On Ghetto Containment and Black Flanerie; "No Words for What Separates and Connects These Moments": Mallory's Trauma and Silence; "Asking My Pictures to Be Mirrors": Seeking Photographic Refuge; "Look What You Done to Yourselves": Redemption by Photorealism; Coda: An Emergency of Surplus Conclusion: On Ghettos to Come |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822416903321 |
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Simpson Tyrone R
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| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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