American tantalus : horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture /

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"American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warnes, Andrew, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Desire in literature.
Teasing in literature.
Searching behavior in literature.
Material culture in literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Désir dans la littérature.
Taquineries dans la littérature.
Comportement de recherche dans la littérature.
Culture matérielle dans la littérature.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Media studies.
Literary studies: general.
Literary theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Consumption (Economics) in literature
Desire in literature
Material culture in literature
Modernism (Literature)
National characteristics, American, in literature
Searching behavior in literature
Teasing in literature
Literatur
Amerikanisches Englisch
Begierde > Motiv
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; IntroductionDo Not Touch; Somewhere different; "The Everlasting Itch"; 1 Perpetual PursuitsHappiness, Horizons, and Other Elusive Objects in Modern US Culture; The land outside; Uninhabitable perfection; Tantalization: Uses and abuses; "A Country of Sunsets"; Happiness on the horizon; 2 The Becoming Blank; Looking for America; Strategies of blankness; Looking for Venice; Haunting Yosemite; 3 Play ThingsToys at the Edge of Whiteness; Harlem Tantalus; On the Edge; The ornamental toy; Lorain iconoclast.
  • A bigger plaything4 Necessary Torments; Pedal point blues; Having it all; Hotel Tantalus; Victims of leisure; ConclusionBeyond Fetishism; The electric spark; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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