Reciting America

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  • Reciting America Book Detail

  • Author : Christopher Douglas
  • Release Date : 2001
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Genre : America
  • Pages : 224
  • ISBN 13 : 9780252026034
  • File Size : 21,21 MB

Reciting America by Christopher Douglas PDF Summary

Book Description: He explores how these novels and other texts confront national discourse and strive, though with inconclusive results, to open America up to new subject positions by offering alternatives to the dominant ideology." "Douglas finds contemporary intellectual and political life, against the backdrop of a mythology enshrined in proclamations, pledges, and public documents, to be impoverished by the pervasive use of cliches, which he identifies as figures of speech that stimulate emotion or action while shortcircuiting reflection. In its extreme cliched form, the American Dream consists of nothing more than advertising slogans and popular culture images; yet these pronouncements retain a powerful hold on the will and imagination of U.S. citizens."

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