Reading America Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature |
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| Author:
| Matthews, Kristin L. |
| Series title: | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62534-235-5 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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Explores a range of political, educational, popular, and touchstone literary texts to demonstrate how Americans from across the political spectrum - including "great works" proponents, New Critics, civil rights leaders, postmodern theorists, neoconservatives, and multiculturalists - celebrated particular texts and advocated particular interpretive methods as they worked to make their vision of "America" a reality.
Explores a range of political, educational, popular, and touchstone literary texts to demonstrate how Americans from across the political spectrum - including "great works" proponents, New Critics, civil rights leaders, postmodern theorists, neoconservatives, and multiculturalists - celebrated particular texts and advocated particular interpretive methods as they worked to make their vision of "America" a reality.