The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American VoiceFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 M08 21 - 336 pages From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity |
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... American popular culture since Edmund Wilson ... His readings of American Pastoral , The Human Stain , and I Married a Communist are absorbing . And when he gets to The Plot Against America , he outdoes himself . " -D . D. Guttenplan ...
... American Berserk : Bill Pullman's Face 101 American Pastoral : Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer 147 Crank Prophet Bestride America , Grinning : David Thomas 201 EPILOGUE Kansas 259 Works Cited 285 Acknowledgments 305 Index 309.
Prophecy and the American Voice Greil Marcus. prophecy ? Before it is anything else it ... American promises were catchphrases and betrayals were always those of ... Pastoral to The Plot Against America , or in efforts as weightless as the ...
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Contents
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Philip Roth and the Lost Republic | 41 |
Bill Pullmans Face | 101 |
Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer | 147 |
David Thomas | 201 |
Kansas | 259 |
Acknowledgments | 305 |