The Writing of America
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In this lively and provocative study, Geoff Ward puts forward the bold claim that the founding documents of American identity are essentially literary. America was invented, not discovered, and it remains in thrall to the myth of an earthly Paradise. This...
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In this lively and provocative study, Geoff Ward puts forward the bold claim that the founding documents of American identity are essentially literary. America was invented, not discovered, and it remains in thrall to the myth of an earthly Paradise. This is Paradise, and American ideology imprisons as it inspires.
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In this lively and provocative study, Geoff Ward puts forward the bold claim that the founding documents of American identity are essentially literary. America was invented, not discovered, and it remains in thrall to the myth of an earthly Paradise. This is Paradise, and American ideology imprisons as it inspires.The Writing of America shows the tension between these forces in a wide range of literary and other texts, from Puritan sermons and the Declaration of Independence, through nineteenth-century classics, to folk and blues lyrics and the popular novel. Alongside his provocative reassessments of canonical writers, Ward offers new material on lost or neglected figures from the world of literature, film and music. His acute and often startling analyses of American literature and culture make this an essential guide to what Lincoln termed the last best hope of earth.
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Acknowledgements viIntroduction: Paradise(TM) 11 Maps and Legends 112 American Literature and the Body Electric 313 Melville: Crises in Representation 674 'Eden is burning': Literature of the Popular Imagination 935 Going Fishing: Harry Smith, the Anthology of American Folk Music, and the Fan 1366 Modernism and the Subversive Imagination 1587 'Dedicated to America, whatever that is': Contemporary Literature and the Egress 188Afterword: Meditations in an Emergency 213Notes 215Select Bibliography 224Index 230Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Geoff Ward
- 2002, 248 Seiten, Maße: 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
- ISBN-10: 074562622X
- ISBN-13: 9780745626222
Sprache:
Englisch
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