Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United StatesHow is a nation brought into being? In a detailed examination of crucial texts of eighteenth-century American literature, Christopher Looby argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Historical material informs and animates theoretical texts by Derrida, Lacan, and others as Looby unravels the texts of Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge and connects them to nation-building, political discourse, and self-creation. Correcting the strong emphasis on the importance of print culture in eighteenth-century America, Voicing America uncovers the complex process of early American writers articulating their new nation and reveals a body of literature and a political discourse thoroughly concerned with the power of vocal language. |
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Logocracy in America | 13 |
The Affairs of the Revolution Occasiond | 99 |
Law Language | 145 |
Language Text and Society in Brackenridges | 203 |
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| العنوان | Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States, Christopher Looby |
| المؤلف | Christopher Looby |
| الإصدار | مزود بصور توضيحية |
| الناشر | University of Chicago Press, 1996 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 0226492834, 9780226492834 |
| عدد الصفحات | 287 من الصفحات |
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