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Author Miller, John, 1946 March 11-

Title Egotopia : narcissism and the new American landscape / John Miller ; with a foreword by Ashley Montagu.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 167 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Includes index.
Contents Dark satanic malls -- New Man: mimesis and immanence -- New American Landscape: ego and Egotopia -- Myth of travel and the necessity of motion -- Aesthetics of the New Man: Beauty R Us -- Billboards: dominant visual modality of the New American Landscape -- Commercialization of public space -- American landscape that might have been -- Innate Philistinism of the environmental movement -- Democracy, therapy, and the triumph of bad taste -- Breaking the spell: The future of the New American Landscape.
Summary "Metaphoridcally, the ugliness of America's great suburban sprawl is the physical manifestation of our increasing narcissism--our egotopia."
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Landscapes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Landscapes.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Landscapes -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Psychological aspects.
Narcissism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Narcissism -- Social aspects.
Narcissism.
United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
Civilization.
Chronological Term 1970-
Since 1900
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Miller, John, 1946 March 11- Egotopia. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1997 0817309012 (DLC) 97010770 (OCoLC)36713078
ISBN 0585098069 (electronic book)
9780585098067 (electronic book)
0817309012 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780817309015 (cloth ; alkaline paper)