Virtual Americas

Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary

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Giles, Paul

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Beschreibung

A discussion on the ways in which representations in the US have been deflected from mythic to "virtual" phenomena in literary and cultural works of the modern era.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8223-2954-1

ProduktartBuch

EinbandGebunden

VerlagDuke University Press

Erscheinungsdatum15.08.2002

ReiheNew Americanists

Seiten352 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

Gewicht907 g

Artikel-Nr.1039537

KatalogBuchzentrum

Datenquelle-Nr.1155650

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Race and the Subject of Masculinities

Women's Camera Work: Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture

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The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism

Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America

Autor

Giles, Paul

Paul Giles is Reader in American Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his books are Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860; and American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics.