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Shock and awe : American exceptionalism and the imperatives of the spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court /

Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of the early twenty-first century, the author offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain's classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, providing an assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spanos, William V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2013]
Colección:Re-mapping the transnational.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • American Exceptionalism : A Genealogy
  • A Connecticut Yankee as American Jeremiad : The Historical Context
  • Americanist Criticism of A Connecticut Yankee : A Critical History
  • Staging the Spectacle : A Contrapuntal Reading of A Connecticut Yankee
  • A Connecticut Yankee and America's "War on Terror" : Thinking the Spectacle.