Weak Nationalisms : Affect and Nonfiction in Postwar America /

Mostrar otras versiones (2)

"Weak Nationalisms employs affect theory as well as traditional close reading techniques to explore the ways a range of writers negotiate nationalistic feeling that embraces core tenets of American liberalism while resisting and questioning the hierarchies that are often associated with nationa...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dowland, Douglas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Synecdoche.
Nationalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Synecdoque.
Nationalisme dans la litterature.
American literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: affected readers in an imagined community
  • Moodiness: the everyday America of Beauvoir's America day by day
  • Curiosity and its discontents: Steinbeck's Travels with Charley and America and Americans
  • Hopefulness: on the road with Charles Kuralt
  • Incredulity: reading Sarah Vowell
  • Conclusion: affected critics, the nation, and the limits of critique.

Ejemplares similares