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Author Melley, Timothy, 1963-

Title The covert sphere : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state / Timothy Melley.

Publication Info. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2012.
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Description 1 online resource (x, 289 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ""The Covert Sphere ""; ""Contents ""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: The Postmodern Public Sphere""; ""Cold War Redux""; ""We Now Know""; ""Public Secrets""; ""Mere Entertainment""; ""Strategic Irrationalism""; ""Representations of the Covert State""; ""1. Brainwashed!""; ""The Faisalabad Candidate""; ""Brain Warfare""; ""Little Shop of Horrors""; ""Softening Up Our Boys""; ""Renditions""; ""2. Spectacles of Secrecy""; ""Trial by Simulation""; ""Political Theater""; ""Recovered (National) Memory""; ""The State�s Two Faces""; ""Fakery in Allegiance to the Truth""; ""The Fabulist Spy""
""3. False Documents""""True Lies""; ""Enemies of the State""; ""Psy Ops""; ""The Epistemology of Vietnam""; ""4. The Work of Art in the Age of Plausible Deniability""; ""Narrative Dysfunction""; ""Calculated Ellipsis""; ""The Feminization of the Public Sphere""; ""The Journalist as Patsy""; ""Metafiction in Wartime""; ""5. Postmodern Amnesia""; ""Assassins of Memory""; ""The Dialectics of Spectacle and Secrecy""; ""Secret History""; ""The Magic Show""; ""6. The Geopolitical Melodrama""; ""Ground Zero""; ""Enemies, Foreign and Domestic""; ""Whatever It Takes""; ""Demonology""
""Melodrama as Policy""""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""
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Subject Spy stories, American -- History and criticism.
Spy stories, American.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Espionage in literature.
Espionage in literature.
Terrorism in literature.
Terrorism in literature.
Secrecy in literature.
Secrecy in literature.
World politics in literature.
World politics in literature.
Literature and history -- United States.
Literature and history.
United States.
National security -- Social aspects -- United States.
National security.
Social aspects.
Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Popular culture -- Political aspects.
History.
Popular culture.
Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 21st century
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780801451232 080145123X (DLC) 2012026271
ISBN 0801465915 (electronic book)
9780801465918 (electronic book)
9780801451232 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
080145123X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780801478536 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0801478537 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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