Reading America
Subtitle: text as a cultural force
By: Matthew Guillen.
Publisher: Academica Press; Academica Press,LLC
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bethesda
Language: eng
Number of pages: 680
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading America; title: Nation myths; title: Manuscript culture and the advent of print; title: American civilization; title: Originalism and its discontents; title: New York and the politics of wealth; title: Melville's Wall Street; title: "Bartleby" and 19th century tort law; title: An epistemology of skepticism; title: Isabel Archer as unreflective thought; title: American legal discourse; title: Law and popular culture; title: Cinema, media, and The spectator; title: Comic books and juvenile crime; title: Text, airwaves, and content regulation; title: Mediatized national interest; title: A new left and novels of ideas; title: Skinner, Derrida, Baudrillard, and subversion; title: The entropic word; title: Language and responsibility; title: The politics of cultural atavism; title: Bilingual inequalities; title: Education revalorized; title: Life, death, and accountability.