American Obscurantism

American Obscurantism
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9780199797318
ISBN-13 : 0199797315
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Book Synopsis American Obscurantism by : Peter Lurie

Download or read book American Obscurantism written by Peter Lurie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Obscurantism argues for a salutary indirection in US culture. Critiquing the impulse to see history in seminal works like Griffith's Birth of a Nation and the residual positivism of New Historicist methodology, the book challenges this shared visual epistemology . It traces meaningful exceptions to this pattern across canonical figures from US literature and film.


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