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Egotopia : narcissism and the new American landscape

Author: John Miller
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Metaphoridcally, the ugliness of America's great suburban sprawl is the physical manifestation of our increasing narcissism--our egotopia."
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Miller, John, 1946 Mar. 11-
Egotopia.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1997
(OCoLC)605308488
Online version:
Miller, John, 1946 Mar. 11-
Egotopia.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1997
(OCoLC)608843195
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Miller
ISBN: 0817309012 9780817309015
OCLC Number: 36713078
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xvi, 167 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Dark satanic malls --
The New Man: mimesis and immanence --
The New American Landscape: ego and Egotopia --
The myth of travel and the necessity of motion --
The aesthetics of the New Man: Beauty R Us --
Billboards: dominant visual modality of the New American Landscape --
The commercialization of public space --
The American landscape that might have been --
The innate Philistinism of the environmental movement --
Democracy, therapy, and the triumph of bad taste --
Breaking the spell: The future of the New American Landscape.
Responsibility: John Miller ; with a foreword by Ashley Montagu.

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"Metaphoridcally, the ugliness of America's great suburban sprawl is the physical manifestation of our increasing narcissism--our egotopia."

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