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Virtual Americas : transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary /
A discussion on the ways in which representations in the U.S. have been deflected from mythic to "virtual" phenomena in literary and cultural works of the modern era.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | New Americanists.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Virtual subjects: transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary
- Narrative reversals and power exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British culture
- "Bewildering" intertanglement": Melville's engagement with British tradition
- "Changed and queer": Henry James and the surrealization of America
- From decadent aesthetics to political fetishism: the "oracle effect" of Frost's poetry
- Virtual Eden: Lolita, pornography, and the perversions of American studies
- Crossing the water: Gunn, Plath, and the poetry of passage
- Virtual Englands: Pynchon's transatlantic heresies
- Virtual Americas: cyberpastoral, transnationalism, and the ideology of exchange.