America in literature and film : modernist perceptions, postmodernist representations /
Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and Zizek's philosophical adaption of it, this book brings into dialogue a series of literary works, films and critical theory that are concerned with defining America. Elbeshlawy demonstrates that texts which particularly focus on demonstrating ho...
Основен автор: | Elbeshlawy, Ahmed. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
℗♭2011.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=398199 |
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America in literature and film. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction : approaching America
- Modernist perceptions. The epical American self and the psychotic phenomenon
- D.H. Lawrence's radical criticism of America
- The fiction of the castrating power of America : Kafka's dream
- Adorno's fascist America
- Postmodernist representations. America : a "stereotype" and a "beautiful imperialist"
- America : the invincible and the surreal
- Dogville : Lars von Trier's desexualized America
- Said's America : America's Said
- Hassan's radical identification with America
- Coda : America as an unrealized idea.