Reciting America
Subtitle: Culture and Cliche in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: November 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780252026034
Subjects: Cultural studies; Language, Literature And Biography; 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Poetry; 20th century; American fiction; History; History and criticism; In literature; Language and culture; National characteristics, American, in literature; United States
First sentence: "We have no princes, for whom we toil, starve, and bleed," wrote J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur of his new American home around the time of the American Revolution, adding, "we are the most perfect society now existing in the world" (36).