American obscurantism : history and the visual in U.S. literature and film /

'American Obscurantism' argues for a salutary indirection in US culture. Critiquing the impulse to see history in seminal works like Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation' and the residual positivism of New Historicist methodology, the text challenges this shared visual epistemology...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Lurie, Peter
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Zusammenfassung:
'American Obscurantism' argues for a salutary indirection in US culture. Critiquing the impulse to see history in seminal works like Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation' and the residual positivism of New Historicist methodology, the text challenges this shared visual epistemology. It traces meaningful exceptions to this pattern across canonical figures from US literature and film.
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 221 pages) : illustrations
Anmerkungen:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-084263-6
0-19-022573-4
0-19-979737-4
Schlagworte:
History in literature.
Historicism in literature.
Race in literature.
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