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Author Papanikolas, Zeese

Title American silence / Zeese Papanikolas
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations
Contents Overture : the unpaintable West -- The inner geology of Clarence King -- Henry Adams at the fair -- The cruelty of seeing -- Some versions of the pastoral -- Sublime America -- Lonesome America
Summary In American Silence, a complement to his previous study Trickster in the Land of Dreams, Zeese Papanikolas investigates a number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of their makers. For Papanikolas, both the private failures and public successes of Clarence King, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, and Hank Williams resonate with silences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-212) and index
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Subject National characteristics, American.
Silence in literature.
Silence in art.
Failure (Psychology) -- Case studies
Authors, American -- Biography -- Anecdotes
Artists -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Artists
Authors, American
Civilization
Failure (Psychology)
Intellectual life
National characteristics, American
Silence in art
Silence in literature
Nationalcharakter
Literatur
Kunst
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139934
West (U.S.) -- Civilization
United States -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140363
United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes
Subject United States
West United States
USA
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Anecdotes
Case studies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780803205963
0803205961
9786610823659
6610823650