Surface and Depth
The Quest for Legibility in American Culture
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2006. június 29.
- ISBN 9780195313246
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem256 oldal
- Méret 230x153x14 mm
- Súly 3 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 1 halftone 0
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Rövid leírás:
Surface and Depth offers a fresh interpretation of the unity of American culture. This book focuses on a pervasive zeal for knowing or making things accessible. It traces this compulsion in religion, landscape, politics, and popular entertainment, and explores the complex engagement of American literature with the mandate of legibility.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
The idea of a common American culture has been in retreat for a generation or more. Arguments emphasizing difference have discredited the grand synthetic studies that marginalized groups and perspectives at odds with the master narrative.
Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture is a fresh attempt to revitalize an interpretive overview. It seeks to recuperate a central tradition while simultaneously recognizing how much that tradition has occluded. The book focuses on the American zeal for knowing or making accessible. This compulsion has a long history stretching back to Puritan anti-monasticism; to the organization of the landscape into clearly delineated gridwork sections; and to the creation of a national government predicted on popular vigilance. It can be observed in the unmatched American receptivity to the motion pictures and to psychoanalysis: the first a technology of visual surfaces, the second a technique for plumbing interior depths.
Popular literature, especially the Western and the detective story, has reinscribed the cult of legibility. Each genre features a plot that drives through impediments to transparent resolution. Elite literature has adopted a more contradictory stance. The landmarks of the American canon typically embark on journeys of discovery while simultaneously renouncing the possibility of full disclosure (as in Ahab's doomed pursuit of the "inscrutable" white whale). The notorious modernism of American literature, its precocious attraction to obscurity and multiple meaning, evolved as an effort to block the intrusions of a hegemonic cultural dynamic.
The American passion for knowability has been prolific of casualties. Acts of making visible have always entailed the erasure and invisibility of racial minorities. American society has also routinely trespassed on customary areas of reserve. A nation intolerant of the hidden paradoxically pioneered the legal concept of privacy, but it did so in reaction to its own invasive excesses.
"The core of this book is an account of the literary dimensions of legibility, the intersection of the drive to make accessible and known with the literature of the American nation. Michael Gilmore argues his case with precision, bravura, and skill, offering a masterly intervention in the current debate over American literature--revealing, as he does so, an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of contemporary critical discourses, a sophisticated use of relevant cultural theories, and genuine ease with interdisciplinary strategies. Surface and Depth is provocatively poised against the current critical norm, which tends to emphasize plurality and difference. This is a work that, if anything, swims against the disciplinary tide in an effort to get ahead of current critical thinking--and, in my opinion, magnificently succeeds."--Richard Gray, University of Essex
