Horizons of enchantment : essays in the American imaginary /

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This title is about the peculiar power and exceptional pull of the imaginary in American culture. Johannessen's subject here is the almost mystical American belief in the promise and potential of the individual.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johannessen, Lene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, ©2011.
Colección:Re-mapping the transnational.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Individualism in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
Exceptionalism > United States.
Transnationalisme dans la littérature.
Exceptionnalisme > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Exceptionalism
Individualism in literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
Transnationalism in literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction:
  • The imaginary
  • "Perpetual progress" in Drude Krog Janson's A saloonkeeper's daughter
  • Songs of different selves: Whitman and Gonzales
  • The "long empty moment": Richard Ford's The sportswriter
  • "Relations stretched out" in the American imaginary
  • Recalling America: Huntington and Rodriguez.

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