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1. America: The Usable Cliché

   In Reciting America, Christopher Douglas examines the discursive facility of the “American dream” as the fundamental cliché that “America,” as a national, historical, and social body, uses to talk of itself to itself. Douglas by no means assumes a monolithic vision of “America” as a geopolitical and cultural entity, nor does he delineate a singular narrative or genealogy of the American dream. Rather, what he rightfully brings to the fore is the extent to which the discourse of the American dream, like other ideals of American national exceptionalism (liberty, justice, right of self-determination, self-reliant individualism), functions as a national ideology, as individuals past and present invoke its vocabulary, myths, and ideals to map themselves as American citizen-subjects, economic-subjects, and literary-subjects. Hence Reciting America explores the linguistic, semiotic, and most importantly, the social significance of reciting American clichés.

   Trung Tran - 24.10.2017 - 14:59

2. Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction

   Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction

   Glenn Solvang - 07.11.2017 - 15:21

3. Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions

   Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions

   Glenn Solvang - 07.11.2017 - 15:42

4. The Body Artist

   The Body Artist

   Glenn Solvang - 07.11.2017 - 15:50

5. The Franchiser

   The Franchiser

   Glenn Solvang - 09.11.2017 - 13:12

6. The Rabbi of Lud

   The Rabbi of Lud

   Glenn Solvang - 09.11.2017 - 13:15

7. The Cybernetic Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism

   Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.

   Glenn Solvang - 09.11.2017 - 13:23

8. What Lies Beneath?

   Gene Kannenberg, Jr. finds the most well-publicized comic by one of America’s most significant cartoonists to be technically accomplished, challenging as narrative but finally all too true to its title: the characters and situations in David Boring are in fact boring.

   Glenn Solvang - 09.11.2017 - 13:40

9. Further Notes From the Prison-House of Language

   Linda Brigham works through Embodying Technesis by Mark Hansen.

   Glenn Solvang - 09.11.2017 - 13:45

10. Mindful of Multiplicity

    Linda Carroli reviews Michael Joyce on networked culture, whose emergence changes our ideas of change.

    Glenn Solvang - 09.11.2017 - 13:49

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