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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
American literatures initiative
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In Main Street and Empire, Ryan Poll argues that the small town, as evoked by the image of "Main Street," is not a relic of the past but rather a metaphorical screen upon which the nation's "everyday" stories and subjects are projected on both a national and global level. It brings together a wide range of literary, cultural, and political texts to examine how the small town is used to imagine and reproduce the nation throughout the twentieth- and into the twenty-first century. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the small town as a modern nation form -- Sacred islands in modernity: the prehistory of the dominant small town -- An unfinished revolution: "the revolt from the village" reconsidered -- Mapping the modern small town: a circular imaginary -- A new machine in the small-town garden: periodizing an automodernity -- The formation of a U.S. fascist aesthetics; or, welcome to main street -- Staging and archiving the nation: pedagogical theater, Thornton Wilder's Our town, and U.S. imperialism -- "One happy world": the postmodern small town and the small-town postmodern -- Global belonging: the small town as the world's home -- Afterword: the global village. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Cities and towns in literature.
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Cities and towns in literature. |
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City and town life in literature.
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City and town life in literature. |
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Cities and towns -- United States.
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Cities and towns. |
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United States. |
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Literature and globalization.
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Literature and globalization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786613947031 (DLC) 2011035598 |
| ISBN |
9780813552941 (electronic book) |
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081355294X (electronic book) |
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0813552907 |
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9780813552903 |
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9780813552897 |
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0813552893 |
| Standard No. |
9786613947031 |
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