The Fiction of America
The Fiction of America juxtaposes classic literature of the American Renaissance with twentieth-century popular cultureapairing, for instance, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Finding Nemo, Walt Whitman with Spiderman, and Hester Prynne with Madonnaato investigate how the aAmericannessa of American culture constitutes itself in the interplay of the cultural imaginary and performance. Conceptualizing aAmericaa as a transhistorical practice, Susanne Hamscha reveals disruptive, spectral moments in the narrative of aAmerica, a which confront American culture with its inherent inconsistencies.can, a others would readily identify Emersona#39;s figure of the a#39;scholara#39; as the embodiment of the a#39;true, a#39; a#39;real, a#39; or a#39;modala#39; American.3 The figure of the scholar runs through Emersona#39;s essay like a red thread and was, from the mid-1830s on, alsoanbsp;...
| Title | : | The Fiction of America |
| Author | : | Susanne Hamscha |
| Publisher | : | Campus Verlag - 2013-05 |
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