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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... Dead Elvis : A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession ( 1991 ) In the Fascist Bathroom : Punk in Pop Music , 1977–1992 ( 1993 , originally published as Ranters & Crowd Pleasers ) The Dustbin of History ( 1995 ) The Old , Weird America : The ...
... dead wrong , and we were right . In our conflict we don't talk ; we don't tell . We never confess . When activists were paraded before grand juries , asked to name names , to humiliate themselves and to participate in destroying the ...
... dead center in the U.S.A .: " A lone man talking to myself , no house in the brown vastness to hear / imagining the throng of Selves / that make this nation one body of Prophecy . " This book is an attempt to travel through that throng ...
... dead represented by the living , the living taking their legitimacy from the dead , and both standing in for those to follow . Then , as political speakers politely turn their backs or flee in cowardice from the terror the drama ...
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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 |