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American mythologies : essays on contemporary literature /
In United States culture, myth has played a significant role in representing the dominant ideologies of the nation as it emerged from colonial dependence to self-created superstate. In the period following the Vietnam War, however, such foundation myth has been radically challenged by the emergence...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool [England] :
Liverpool University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts and Studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- The individual's ghost: towards a new mythology of the postmodern
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- 'No way back forever': American western myth in Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy
- Native American visions of apocalypse: prophecy and protest in the fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor
- The brave new world of computing in post-war American science fiction
- Mythologies of 'estactic immersion': America, the poem and ethics of lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot
- Whose myth is it anyway? Coyote in the poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz
- Aging, anxious and apocalyptic: baseball's myths for the millennium
- Finding a voice, telling a story: constructing communal identity in contemporary American women's writing.