عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
PS366.S62 G55 2003eb
PS366
.
S62
G55
2003eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0195157761
(Number (ISBN
019803587X
(Number (ISBN
0199787786
(Number (ISBN
1280502770
(Number (ISBN
9780195157765
(Number (ISBN
9780198035879
(Number (ISBN
9780199787784
(Number (ISBN
9781280502774
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b744947
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Surface and depth :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the quest for legibility in American culture /
First Statement of Responsibility
Michael T. Gilmore.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Prologue: Freud's night out -- Three foundational documents and their indelibility -- Majoritarian and racial tyranny: Tocquevill and Beaumont -- Popular forms : Cooper and the western ; Poe and the detective story ; Fanny Fern and the celebrity novel -- The nineteenth-century canon: hidden in plain sight : The scarlet letter ; Melville's Moby-dick ; Thoreau's Walden ; James's The American -- Freud and film redux -- Twentieth-century classics and new technologies of legibility : Wharton's Summer ; Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby as a "modernist" western ; Hemingway's The sun also rises -- Race/erasure: Douglass to Roth -- Equivocal epilogue: total visibility in utopia and dystopia.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
The idea of a common American culture is in retreat; arguments emphasizing difference have discredited the grand synthetic studies that marginalized groups and perspectives at odds with the master narrative. This work is an attempt to revitalize an interpretive overview.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Surface and depth.
International Standard Book Number
0195157761
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American fiction-- History and criticism.
American prose literature-- History and criticism.
Literature and society-- United States.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Social problems in literature.
American fiction.
American prose literature.
Civilization.
LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
Literature and society.
Literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Social problems in literature.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, Civilization.
United States, In literature.
United States.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
GTBK
LIT-- 004020
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
818/
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08
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PS366
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S62
Book number
G55
2003eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Gilmore, Michael T.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201204052100.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
pn
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
