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Around Quitting Time

Work and Middle-class Fantasy in American Fiction

Autor: Robert Seguin
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Duke University Press
Disponibilitate: Retipărire preconizată
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629.42 lei
Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image...

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Autor
Robert Seguin
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2001
Pagini
224
EAN
9780822326755
ISBN
0822326752
Enbook ID
04937398
Editura
Duke University Press
Greutate
526
Dimensiuni
154 x 228 x 22

Descriere completă

Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society. Given the stark levels of social inequality that have actually existed and that continue today, what sustains this at once hopelessly ideological and breathlessly utopian mirage? In "Around Quitting Time", Robert Seguin investigates this question, focusing on a series of modern writers who were acutely sensitive to the American web of ideology and utopic vision in order to argue that a pervasive middle-class imaginary is the key to the enigma of class in America. Tracing connections between the reconstruction of the labour process and the aesthetic dilemmas of modernism, between the emergence of the modern state and the structure of narrative, Seguin analyses the work of Nathanael West, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, John Barth, and others. These fictional narratives serve to demonstrate for Seguin the pattern of social sites and cultural phenomenon that have emerged where work and leisure, production and consumption, and activity and passivity coincide. He reveals how, by creating pathways between these seemingly opposed domains, the middle-class imaginary at once captures and suspends the dynamics of social class and opens out onto a political and cultural terrain where class is both omnipresent and invisible. "Around Quitting Time" will interest critics and historians of modern U.S. culture, literary scholars, and those who explore the interaction between economic and cultural forms.

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