American obscurantism history and the visual in U.S. literature and film /
'American Obscurantism' argues for a salutary indirection in US culture. Critiquing the impulse to see history in seminal works like Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation' and the residual positivism of New Historicist methodology, the text challenges this shared visual epistemology...
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| Main Author: |
Lurie, Peter, 1965- |
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Oxford Scholarship Online. |
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eBook
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| Language: |
English
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| Published: |
New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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