| Description |
xxviii, 252 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical American studies series
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Critical American studies series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-244) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Theoretical approaches. A future for American Studies: the comparative U.S. cultures model -- Postmodernity and the new American Studies -- Postnationalism, globalism, and the new American Studies -- The resistance to cultural studies in the United States -- Part II. Textual examples. Hawthorne's ghost in Henry James's Italy: sculptural form, romantic narrative, and the function of sexuality in the nineteenth century -- Modern art and the invention of postmodern capital -- Another modernism: poetic justice in Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead -- Metavideo: fictionality and mass media in our postmodern economy -- "Bringing it all back home": U.S. recyclings of the Vietnam War -- Elián González, Cuban American détente, and the rhetoric of family values. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
| ISBN |
0816635781 (pbk. |
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0816635773 |
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