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America in literature and film : modernist perceptions, postmodernist representations /

Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and ZŒizŒek'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...

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Основен автор: Elbeshlawy, Ahmed.
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
Подобни документи: Print version:: 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.