Horizons of enchantment : essays in the American imaginary / Lene M. Johannessen.

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Johannessen, Lene

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781611680133
1611680131
1283875284
9781283875288

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Horizons of enchantment.DDC classification:

810.9 22

LOC classification:

PS169.N35 J65 2011eb

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Contents:

Introduction: -- The imaginary -- "Perpetual progress" in Drude Krog Janson's A saloonkeeper's daughter -- Songs of different selves: Whitman and Gonzales -- The "long empty moment": Richard Ford's The sportswriter -- "Relations stretched out" in the American imaginary -- Recalling America: Huntington and Rodriguez.

Summary: This title is about the peculiar power and exceptional pull of the imaginary in American culture. Johannessen's subject here is the almost mystical American belief in the promise and potential of the individual.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This title is about the peculiar power and exceptional pull of the imaginary in American culture. Johannessen's subject here is the almost mystical American belief in the promise and potential of the individual.

English.

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