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Reading America : text as a cultural force /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guillen, Matthew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bethesda : Academica Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Written communication > Social aspects > United States.
Written communication > United States > History.
Visual communication > Social aspects > United States.
National characteristics, American.
Popular culture > United States.
Literacy > United States.
Reading > Social aspects > United States.
American literature > History and criticism.
United States > Civilization.
United States > Social conditions.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Reading America
  • Nation myths
  • Manuscript culture and the advent of print
  • American civilization
  • Originalism and its discontents
  • New York and the politics of wealth
  • Melville's Wall Street
  • "Bartleby" and 19th century tort law
  • An epistemology of skepticism
  • Isabel Archer as unreflective thought
  • American legal discourse
  • Law and popular culture
  • Cinema, media and The spectator
  • Comic books and juvenile crime
  • Text, airwaves and content regulation
  • Mediatized national interest
  • A new left and novels of ideas
  • Skinner, Derrida, Baudrillard and subversion
  • The entropic word
  • Language and responsibility
  • The politics of cultural atavism
  • Bilingual inequalities
  • Education revalorized
  • Life, death and accountability.