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American tantalus : horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture /
"American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; IntroductionDo Not Touch; Somewhere different; "The Everlasting Itch"; 1 Perpetual PursuitsHappiness, Horizons, and Other Elusive Objects in Modern US Culture; The land outside; Uninhabitable perfection; Tantalization: Uses and abuses; "A Country of Sunsets"; Happiness on the horizon; 2 The Becoming Blank; Looking for America; Strategies of blankness; Looking for Venice; Haunting Yosemite; 3 Play ThingsToys at the Edge of Whiteness; Harlem Tantalus; On the Edge; The ornamental toy; Lorain iconoclast.
- A bigger plaything4 Necessary Torments; Pedal point blues; Having it all; Hotel Tantalus; Victims of leisure; ConclusionBeyond Fetishism; The electric spark; Notes; Bibliography; Index.