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Esthetic experiments : interdisciplinary challenges in American studies /

Contemporary American landscape is wrought with ongoing processes and phenomena of technicization observable at the intersections of multiple layers of society. This book brings to attention their cultural and political aspects, emphasizing timeliness and necessity of academic intervention into, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Just, Edyta, Wojtaszek, Marek M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcaste upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of illustrations; introduction
  • esthetic experiments; chapter one
  • technology and its discontents; chapter two
  • in the land of ghost-signs, or william gibson''s spook country; chapter three
  • military memoirs and masculinity; chapter four
  • humane soldiers; chapter five
  • different feminist approaches to reproductive technologies; chapter six
  • the centrifugal age; chapter seven
  • president goes to hollywood; chapter eight
  • simpleton as a symbol of american je-ne-sais-quoi, or a quasi-national icon; chapter nine
  • men, women and fame; chapter ten
  • pantopia of transference.
  • Chapter eleven
  • multiculturalism of american music as a basis of the national composers'' schoolcontributors; index.