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American Silence
Zeese Papanikolas
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Description for American Silence
Hardback. 224 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight: 476.
In American Silence, a complement to his previous study Trickster in the Land of Dreams, Zeese Papanikolas investigates a number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of their makers. For Papanikolas, both the private failures and public successes of Clarence King, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, and Hank Williams resonate with silences. These silences—absences and omissions—put them in opposition to the American mythology of success and express the essential solitude Alexis de Tocqueville found at the heart of the American soul. The painters George Caleb Bingham and Jackson Pollock and the New Orleans photographer E. ... Read more
In American Silence, a complement to his previous study Trickster in the Land of Dreams, Zeese Papanikolas investigates a number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of their makers. For Papanikolas, both the private failures and public successes of Clarence King, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, and Hank Williams resonate with silences. These silences—absences and omissions—put them in opposition to the American mythology of success and express the essential solitude Alexis de Tocqueville found at the heart of the American soul. The painters George Caleb Bingham and Jackson Pollock and the New Orleans photographer E. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803237568
SKU
V9780803237568
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Ref
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About Zeese Papanikolas
Zeese Papanikolas lives and works in Oakland, California. He is the author of Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre, and Trickster in the Land of Dreams (both available in Bison Books editions), and, with Frank Bergon Looking Far West: The Search for the American West in History, Myth, and Literature.
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