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Novel Frames
Joseph R. Urgo
其他書名
Literature as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture
出版University Press of Mississippi, 1991
主題Literary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical EventsLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Culture, Race & EthnicityLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Love & EroticaSocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN08780553049780878055302
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pgFaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Urgo argues that when literary texts depict selfhood in a particular historical context, they convey more knowledge about society than the texts explicitly acknowledge. This "knowledge" is not primarily historically accurate information; but it consists of criticisms and questions that can help to formulate a contemporary cultural criticism connected to the American literary past. Urgo reformulates the argument about race and identity in America in Ellison's Invisible Man, and uses it to interpret TV coverage of Jesse Jackson in 1988. Faulkner's Sanctuary helps Urgo raise questions about sexuality and pornography, and through these discourses of regulated desire, about magazines like Glamour. Cather's A Lost Lady (1923) provides ways of thinking about historical change and discontinuity, which he uses to interpret alternative movements and texts from the 1960s, such as Yippie anarchism and Overthrow magazine. ISBN 0-87805-530-4: $35.00.