American tantalus : horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture /: horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture. (2014 copyright 2014)
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- Book
- Title:
- American tantalus : horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture /: horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture. (2014 copyright 2014)
- Main Title:
- American tantalus : horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
- Other Titles:
- Impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
- Further Information:
- Note: Andrew Warnes.
- Authors:
- Warnes, Andrew, 1974-
- Contents:
- Introduction: Do Not Touch -- 1. Perpetual persuits: happiness, horizons, and other elusive objects in modern US culture -- 2. The becoming blank: fantasies of invisibility after the frontier -- 3. Play things: toys at the edge of whiteness -- 4. Necessary torments: temptations, falls, and bodily compensations in modern US culture -- Conclusion: beyond fetishism.
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Subjects:
- 810.9/353
Media studies
American literature -- History and criticism
Desire in literature
Teasing in literature
Searching behavior in literature
Material culture in literature
Consumption (Economics) in literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
Modernism (Literature) -- United States
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
American literature
Consumption (Economics) in literature
Desire in literature
Material culture in literature
Modernism (Literature)
National characteristics, American, in literature
Searching behavior in literature
Teasing in literature
Literatur
Amerikanisches Englisch
Begierde
Literary studies: general
Social Science -- Media Studies
Literary Criticism -- American -- General
Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory
Literary theory
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781628920017
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