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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Eloquent obsessions. Durham : Duke University Press, 1994 (OCoLC)624378927 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marianna Torgovnick |
| ISBN: | 082231455X 9780822314554 082231472X 9780822314721 |
| OCLC Number: | 29517507 |
| Notes: | Rev. and expanded version of the South Atlantic quarterly, v. 91, no. 1 (winter 1992) special issue, "Writing cultural criticism," edited by Marianna Torgovnick. |
| Description: | vi, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The American stranger / Alice Yaeger Kaplan -- Decades / Nancy K. Miller -- The duplicity of the Southern story : reflections on Reynolds, Price's The surface of Earth and Eudora Welty's "The wide net" / Linda Orr -- Tatami room / Cathy N. Davidson -- Saving our lives : Dances with wolves, Iron John, and the search for a new masculinity / Jane Tompkins -- Pursuing authenticity : the vernacular moment in contemporary American art / Henry M. Sayre -- Becoming America's lens on the world : National geographic in the twentieth century / Jane Collins and Catherine Lutz -- Power, history, and authenticity : the Mowachaht whalers' washing shrine / Aldona Jonaitis and Richard Inglis -- The ecology of images / Andrew Ross -- Academic writing and the uses of bad publicity / Gerald Graff -- Ideology, energy, and cultural criticism / Mark Edmundson -- Invoking culture : the messy side of "cultural politics" / Virginia R. Dominguez -- The politics of the "we" / Marianna Torgovnick. |
| Other Titles: | Writing cultural criticism. South Atlantic quarterly. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Marianna Torgovnick. |
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