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Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism.

In Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the skepticism, suspicion, and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguisticindeter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siebers, Tobin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Colección:Odéon.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the skepticism, suspicion, and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguisticindeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy, and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Siebers argues, belong to three dominant phases of the Cold War era. The age of charismatic leadershipcharacterized by Ch.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (180 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780195359923
0195359925
1280526556
9781280526558