Virtual Americas : transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Giles, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.
Colección:New Americanists.
Temas:
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.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique.
Nationalisme et littérature > États-Unis.
États-Unis dans la littérature.
Littérature comparée > Américaine et anglaise.
Littérature comparée > Anglaise et américaine.
Américains > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Americans
Comparative literature > American and English
Comparative literature > English and American
International relations
Literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
Nationalism and literature
Public opinion, American
Engels.
Amerikaans.
Letterkunde.
Great Britain > Foreign public opinion, American.
United States > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Relations > United States.
United States > In literature.
États-Unis > Relations > Grande-Bretagne.
Grande-Bretagne > Relations > États-Unis.
Great Britain
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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