Title:
Eloquent obsessions : writing cultural criticism / edited by Marianna Torgovnick.
South Atlantic quarterly.
Writing cultural criticism.
Main Entry:
Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949-
South Atlantic quarterly.
Publisher:
Duke University Press,
Publication Date:
1994.
Publication Place:
Durham :
ISBN:
082231455X (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780822314554 (cloth : acid-free paper)
082231472X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780822314721 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Subject:
Popular culture -- United States.
Arts, American -- 20th century.
Culture.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Culture
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.
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