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Signs of the Signs : the Literary Lights of Incandescence and Neon.
This book is a study of the electric sign in American literature and culture. Although this book is mainly about bulb and neon signs, it also deals with non-electric signs and related phenomena, such as movie sets. A central strategy of the author is to treat the architectural sign as semiotic and t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Bucknell University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- SIGNS OF THE SIGNS; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue The Sign of Ishmael; 1 Everything Possible Nothing Real: Electric Signs of America, 1890-1925; 2 Signlight and Moonlight in The Great Gatsby; 3 How Do I Get to Broadway? Reading Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer Sign; 4 Neon Light in August: Faulkner's Quarrel with Modernity; 5 Broadway by Night by Hollywood: Fitzgerald Revisited; 6 Search for the Originary Sign of Noir: Poe's ""The Man of the Crowd""; 7 The Double Nihilation of the Neon: Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles.
- 8 Neon Lights Around Everything: West's ""West, "" Hitler's ""Empire, "" Postmodernism's ""Reality""9 Under the Neon Rainbow: Nelson Algren's Chicago; 10 Sad Paradise: Signs of Beat America; 11 Redbrick and Neon: Kerouac's Legend of Duluoz; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.