Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of SeeingIn a wide-ranging study, Josh Cohen argues that the American fixation with image - literally celebrating the surface, the visual, the spectacular spaces of the cinema and the city - has produced a crisis of literary perception, with crucial cultural and political consequences. |
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the development of Norman Mailers | 24 |
the allegorical impulse of cinematographic | 74 |
Los Angeles in postmodern American | 110 |
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