American obscurantism : history and the visual in U.S. literature and film / Peter Lurie.
2018
PN1995.2
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Title
American obscurantism : history and the visual in U.S. literature and film / Peter Lurie.
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ISBN
9780190225735 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
PN1995.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.4365873
Summary
'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.
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'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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 17, 2018).
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Print version: 9780199797318
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