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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE / AS NEW condition. 1095pp. "America is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. [] In more than two hundred original essays, A NEW LITERARY HISTORY OF AMERICA brings together the nation's many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what 'Made in America' means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric--cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape. [] The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T. J. Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant Wood's American Gothic, Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on Tarzan, Bharati Mukherjee on The Scarlet Letter, Gish Jen on Catcher in the Rye, and Ishmael Reed on Huckleberry Finn. From Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop to Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell and Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous, Life, Chuck Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, this is America singing, celebrating itself, and becoming something altogether different, plural, singular, new." [jacket copy] "This magnificent volume is a vast, inquisitive, richly surprising and consistently enlightening wallow in our national history and culture . . . Neither reference nor criticism, neither history nor treatise, but a genre-defying, transcendent fusion of them all. It sounds impossible, but the result seems both inevitable and necessary and profoundly welcome, too . . . This book is not so much a history of our literature as it is a literary version of our history, told through the culture we've created to recount our past and conjure our future . . . In the age of Wikipedia, a reference book like this needs more than just the facts; it needs to tell us what the facts mean, and A NEW LITERARY HISTORY OF AMERICA does just that."--Laura Miller, Salon. "It's hard to imagine anyone right up to full professor failing to get excitement from this charged grid of event and interpretation . . . Hats off, though, to the editors above all, for constructing a volume where each element reinforces every other, often by contradicting it, so that the whole vast book is more exciting than even its most impressive part."--Adam Mars-Jones, The Observer. "This hefty yet invigorating anthology of 225 new essays about American culture and history is perfect for the hard-to-please smarty-pants."--Time Out New York. "[An] essential, eclectic doorstop anthology."--New York Magazine. Oversize book will likely require additional postage & insurance to get to you safely; please inquire with your specific interest/destination & shipping charges will be advised once destination is known. Pristine F/AN hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright & intact jacket covered in archival mylar. Quite presentable.

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. Sam Potts, Inv. (Jacket Design) (illustratore). Copyright © 2009 by the President and Fe. 1095 + xix pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Synopsis: America is a nation making itself up as it goes along - a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, "A New Literary History of America" brings together the nation's many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what 'Made in America' means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric - cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape. The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T.J.Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant Wood's "American Gothic", Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on Tarzan, Bharati Mukherjee on "The Scarlet Letter", Gish Jen on "Catcher in the Rye", and Ishmael Reed on Huckleberry Finn. From Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop to Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell and Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous, Life, Chuck Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, this is America singing, celebrating itself, and becoming something altogether different, plural, singular, and new.

Ppbd, 15 x 21 cm. Condizione: Gut. Taschenbuch,. 258 S. m. Index, Mit geringfügigen Gebrauchsspuren, guter Zustand. 3230 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 362.

Card covers with cloth spine. 258,(1)pp. 8°. Pages slightly creased, else good.