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Poetry --- American literature --- Thematology --- Cold War in literature --- Guerre froide dans la littérature --- Koude oorlog in de literatuur --- American poetry --- 20th century --- History and criticism

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What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness. On Endings significantly extends the project of historicizing postmodernism while returning the nuclear to a central place in the study of the Cold War.

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Fiction --- Thematology --- Film --- American literature --- Cold War --- Cold War in literature --- Dr. Folamour (Film) --- Dr. Strangelove (Film) --- Dr. Strangelove (motion picture) --- Guerre froide --- Guerre froide dans la littérature --- Koude oorlog --- Koude oorlog in de literatuur --- Oorlog [Koude ] --- Science fiction, American --- American fiction --- Science fiction films --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- History and criticism --- Science fiction [American ] --- 20th century --- Heinlein, Robert Anson --- Criticism and interpretation --- Anderson, Poul --- Pohl, Frederick --- Miller, Walter M. --- Hoban, Russell --- Wolfe, Bernard --- Kornbluth, C.M. --- Wylie, Philip --- Szilard, Leo --- SCIENCE-FICTION AMERICAINE --- FILMS DE SCIENCE-FICTION --- GUERRE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- GUERRE ET LITTERATURE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America’s most distinguished critics reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick—a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its publication—William V. Spanos uncovers a text remarkably suited as a foundation for a "New Americanist" critique of the ideology based on Puritan origins that was codified in the canon established by "Old Americanist" critics from F. O. Matthiessen to Lionel Trilling. But Spanos also shows, with the novel still as his focus, the limitations of this "New Americanist" discourse and its failure to escape the totalizing imperial perspective it finds in its predecessor.Combining Heideggerian ontology with a sociopolitical perspective derived primarily from Foucault, the reading of Moby-Dick that forms the center of this book demonstrates that the traditional identification of Melville’s novel as a "romance" renders it complicitous in the discourse of the Cold War. At the same time, Spanos shows how New Americanist criticism overlooks the degree to which Moby-Dick anticipates not only America’s self-representation as the savior of the world against communism, but also the emergent postmodern and anti-imperial discourse deployed against such an image. Spanos’s critique reveals the extraordinary relevance of Melville’s novel as a post-Cold War text, foreshadowing not only the self-destructive end of the historical formation of the American cultural identity in the genocidal assault on Vietnam, but also the reactionary labeling of the current era as "the end of history."This provocative and challenging study presents not only a new view of the development of literary history in the United States, but a devastating critique of the genealogy of ideology in the American cultural establishment.

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Anti-communist movements in literature --- Anti-communistische bewegingen in de literatuur --- Cold War in literature --- Esclavage dans la littérature --- Esclaves dans la littérature --- Geschiedenis in de literatuur --- Guerre froide dans la littérature --- Histoire dans la littérature --- History in literature --- Holocaust [Jewish ] (1939-1945) in literature --- Holocaust [Joodse ] (1939-1945) in de literatuur --- Holocaust juif (1939-1945) dans la littérature --- Koude oorlog in de literatuur --- Mouvements anticommunistes dans la littérature --- Slaven in de literatuur --- Slavernij in de literatuur --- Slavery in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Anti-communist movements in literature. --- Cold War in literature. --- American poetry --- Genocide in literature. --- History in literature. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Literature and history --- Modernism (Literature) --- Slavery in literature. --- History and criticism --- History --- 19th century --- United States --- 20th century --- Genocide --- In literature