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Virtual Americas : transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary /

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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Giles, Paul (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.
Collection:New Americanists.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.