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-
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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