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In American Silence, a complement to his previous study Trickster in the Land of Dreams, Zeese Papanikolas investigates a number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of their makers. For Papanikolas, both the private failures and public successes of Clarence King, Henry Adams, Ge...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Papanikolas, Zeese
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
National characteristics, American.
Silence in literature.
Silence in art.
Failure (Psychology) > Case studies.
Authors, American > Biography > Anecdotes.
Artists > United States > Biography > Anecdotes.
Silence dans la littérature.
Silence dans l'art.
Échec > Études de cas.
Écrivains américains > Biographies > Anecdotes.
Artistes > États-Unis > Biographies > Anecdotes.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Artists
Authors, American
Civilization
Failure (Psychology)
Intellectual life
National characteristics, American
Silence in art
Silence in literature
Nationalcharakter
Literatur
Kunst
United States > Civilization.
West (U.S.) > Civilization.
United States > Intellectual life.
United States > Biography > Anecdotes.
États-Unis > Civilisation.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
États-Unis > Biographies > Anecdotes.
United States
West United States
USA
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies
Anecdotes
Case studies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Overture : the unpaintable West
  • The inner geology of Clarence King
  • Henry Adams at the fair
  • The cruelty of seeing
  • Some versions of the pastoral
  • Sublime America
  • Lonesome America.

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