Virtual Americas : transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary / / Paul Giles
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| Autore: |
Giles Paul
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| Titolo: |
Virtual Americas : transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary / / Paul Giles
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/3273 |
| 810.93273 | |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - History and criticism |
| National characteristics, American, in literature | |
| Comparative literature - English and American | |
| Comparative literature - American and English | |
| Nationalism and literature - United States | |
| Americans - Great Britain - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Foreign public opinion, American |
| United States Relations Great Britain | |
| Great Britain Relations United States | |
| United States In literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-328) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Virtual subjects: transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary -- Narrative reversals and power exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British culture -- "Bewildering" intertanglement": Melville's engagement with British tradition -- "Changed and queer": Henry James and the surrealization of America -- From decadent aesthetics to political fetishism: the "oracle effect" of Frost's poetry -- Virtual Eden: Lolita, pornography, and the perversions of American studies -- Crossing the water: Gunn, Plath, and the poetry of passage -- Virtual Englands: Pynchon's transatlantic heresies -- Virtual Americas: cyberpastoral, transnationalism, and the ideology of exchange. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A discussion on the ways in which representations in the U.S. have been deflected from mythic to "virtual" phenomena in literary and cultural works of the modern era. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Virtual Americas |
| ISBN: | 9786613064219 |
| 9781283064217 | |
| 1283064219 | |
| 9780822384045 | |
| 0822384043 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910956317003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
New Americanists.