Surface and depth : the quest for legibility in American culture /

The idea of a common American culture is in retreat; arguments emphasizing difference have discredited the grand synthetic studies that marginalized groups and perspectives at odds with the master narrative. This work is an attempt to revitalize an interpretive overview.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gilmore, Michael T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
American prose literature > History and criticism.
Social problems in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
American fiction > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States.
Prose américaine > Histoire et critique.
Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
American prose literature
Civilization
Literature
Literature and society
National characteristics, American, in literature
Social problems in literature
United States > In literature.
United States > Civilization.
États-Unis > Civilisation.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Freud's night out
  • Three foundational documents and their indelibility
  • Majoritarian and racial tyranny: Tocquevill and Beaumont
  • Popular forms : Cooper and the western ; Poe and the detective story ; Fanny Fern and the celebrity novel
  • The nineteenth-century canon: hidden in plain sight : The scarlet letter ; Melville's Moby-dick ; Thoreau's Walden ; James's The American
  • Freud and film redux
  • Twentieth-century classics and new technologies of legibility : Wharton's Summer ; Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby as a "modernist" western ; Hemingway's The sun also rises
  • Race/erasure: Douglass to Roth
  • Equivocal epilogue: total visibility in utopia and dystopia.

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