The shape of things to come
Subtitle: prophecy and the American voice
By: Greil Marcus.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780374104382
Subjects: National characteristics, American.; Nationalism -- United States.; Prophecy -- Political aspects -- United States.; Prophecy in literature.; Politics in art.; Quotations, American.; United States -- Civilization.
Description: "In The Shape of Things to Come, Greil Marcus traces America's fable of self-invention from its Puritan beginnings to its successive retelling in the work of contemporary artists as diverse as Philip Roth and David Lynch. While artists rather than politicians struggle to define what the nation is and what it is for, Marcus opens up the ferment of America as an idea and as a story."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.