| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 321 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-306) and index. |
| Contents |
History and its specter : rethinking thinking in the post-Cold War age -- Althusser's "problematic" : vision and the Vietnam War -- Who killed Alden Pyle? : the oversight of oversight in Graham Greene's The quiet American -- Retrieving the thisness of the Vietnam War : a symptomatic reading of Philip Caputo's A rumor of war -- "The land is your enemy" : Tim O'Brien's Going after Cacciato -- American exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the frontier, before and after 9/11 : from the Puritans to the neo-con men -- Conclusion : the Vietnam War, 9/11, and its aftermath. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Vietnam War (1961-1975) |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the war.
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America -- In literature.
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America. |
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Literature and history -- United States.
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Literature and history. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1961-1975 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spanos, William V. American exceptionalism in the age of globalization. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008 9780791472897 0791472892 (DLC) 2007001681 (OCoLC)78893319 |
| ISBN |
9781435658714 (electronic book) |
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143565871X (electronic book) |
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