California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion's Novels
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California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion's Novels
Exiled from Eden
Nowak McNeice, Katarzyna
Taylor & Francis Ltd
12/2018
202
Dura
Inglês
9781138370418
15 a 20 dias
453
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Introduction
Part 1: Joan Didion, the Native Daughter
Didion the Sacramentan, Californian, Westerner
Critical Reception
Joan Didion's Melancholy California
Part 2: Californian Losses and Melancholia
The Myth of an Empty Frontier
How Joan Didion Expelled Herself from Paradise
Racial Melancholia and the Emergence of Conscience
The Social Dimension of Melancholia
Chapter 1: The Loss of Nature
Problems with American Nature
Problems with The Garden of Eden
The Paradoxes of Nature
Writing to Remember and to Redeem
Pioneers and Ancestors
Purification through Fire
The Howling Wilderness: The California Desert
Turner's and Didion's Frontierless West
Chapter 2: The Loss of History
Manifest Destiny and Its Fulfillment in California
Freedom from History
History, Nature, and Hysteria
"A History of Accidents"
"You Can't Call This a Bad Place"
The Freeway Experience
Escaping the Meaninglessness of History
Chapter 3: The Loss of Ethics
The Emergence of Conscience
The Melancholic Donner Party
Desire and the Wagon-Train Morality
Betrayals of Familial Loyalty
Life as Gambling
Parental Influence
Parental Transgressions
Chapter 4: The Loss of Language
Looking Awry at Conscience and Loss
The Language of Melancholia
The Limits of Language
Estrangement from the Body
Translation and Betrayal
The Modern Pioneers and the Loss of Memory
The Language of Democracy
Conclusion
Part 1: Joan Didion, the Native Daughter
Didion the Sacramentan, Californian, Westerner
Critical Reception
Joan Didion's Melancholy California
Part 2: Californian Losses and Melancholia
The Myth of an Empty Frontier
How Joan Didion Expelled Herself from Paradise
Racial Melancholia and the Emergence of Conscience
The Social Dimension of Melancholia
Chapter 1: The Loss of Nature
Problems with American Nature
Problems with The Garden of Eden
The Paradoxes of Nature
Writing to Remember and to Redeem
Pioneers and Ancestors
Purification through Fire
The Howling Wilderness: The California Desert
Turner's and Didion's Frontierless West
Chapter 2: The Loss of History
Manifest Destiny and Its Fulfillment in California
Freedom from History
History, Nature, and Hysteria
"A History of Accidents"
"You Can't Call This a Bad Place"
The Freeway Experience
Escaping the Meaninglessness of History
Chapter 3: The Loss of Ethics
The Emergence of Conscience
The Melancholic Donner Party
Desire and the Wagon-Train Morality
Betrayals of Familial Loyalty
Life as Gambling
Parental Influence
Parental Transgressions
Chapter 4: The Loss of Language
Looking Awry at Conscience and Loss
The Language of Melancholia
The Limits of Language
Estrangement from the Body
Translation and Betrayal
The Modern Pioneers and the Loss of Memory
The Language of Democracy
Conclusion
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Donner Party;Canyon Live Oak;American Literature;Demarcation Line;Literary History;Wagon Train;Critical theory;Homeless Generation;Critical Studies;Run River;Western American Literature;Ethical Residue;California;Clean Slate;California Literature;Californian Character;Landscape studies;Racial Melancholia;Autobiography;Melancholic Processes;Memoir;Ekphrastic Indifference;Journalism;Martha's Death;Melancholia;Split Rail Fence;Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice;Rail Fence;Didion's fiction;Lily's Father;ethical values;Californian identity;Californian history
Introduction
Part 1: Joan Didion, the Native Daughter
Didion the Sacramentan, Californian, Westerner
Critical Reception
Joan Didion's Melancholy California
Part 2: Californian Losses and Melancholia
The Myth of an Empty Frontier
How Joan Didion Expelled Herself from Paradise
Racial Melancholia and the Emergence of Conscience
The Social Dimension of Melancholia
Chapter 1: The Loss of Nature
Problems with American Nature
Problems with The Garden of Eden
The Paradoxes of Nature
Writing to Remember and to Redeem
Pioneers and Ancestors
Purification through Fire
The Howling Wilderness: The California Desert
Turner's and Didion's Frontierless West
Chapter 2: The Loss of History
Manifest Destiny and Its Fulfillment in California
Freedom from History
History, Nature, and Hysteria
"A History of Accidents"
"You Can't Call This a Bad Place"
The Freeway Experience
Escaping the Meaninglessness of History
Chapter 3: The Loss of Ethics
The Emergence of Conscience
The Melancholic Donner Party
Desire and the Wagon-Train Morality
Betrayals of Familial Loyalty
Life as Gambling
Parental Influence
Parental Transgressions
Chapter 4: The Loss of Language
Looking Awry at Conscience and Loss
The Language of Melancholia
The Limits of Language
Estrangement from the Body
Translation and Betrayal
The Modern Pioneers and the Loss of Memory
The Language of Democracy
Conclusion
Part 1: Joan Didion, the Native Daughter
Didion the Sacramentan, Californian, Westerner
Critical Reception
Joan Didion's Melancholy California
Part 2: Californian Losses and Melancholia
The Myth of an Empty Frontier
How Joan Didion Expelled Herself from Paradise
Racial Melancholia and the Emergence of Conscience
The Social Dimension of Melancholia
Chapter 1: The Loss of Nature
Problems with American Nature
Problems with The Garden of Eden
The Paradoxes of Nature
Writing to Remember and to Redeem
Pioneers and Ancestors
Purification through Fire
The Howling Wilderness: The California Desert
Turner's and Didion's Frontierless West
Chapter 2: The Loss of History
Manifest Destiny and Its Fulfillment in California
Freedom from History
History, Nature, and Hysteria
"A History of Accidents"
"You Can't Call This a Bad Place"
The Freeway Experience
Escaping the Meaninglessness of History
Chapter 3: The Loss of Ethics
The Emergence of Conscience
The Melancholic Donner Party
Desire and the Wagon-Train Morality
Betrayals of Familial Loyalty
Life as Gambling
Parental Influence
Parental Transgressions
Chapter 4: The Loss of Language
Looking Awry at Conscience and Loss
The Language of Melancholia
The Limits of Language
Estrangement from the Body
Translation and Betrayal
The Modern Pioneers and the Loss of Memory
The Language of Democracy
Conclusion
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
Donner Party;Canyon Live Oak;American Literature;Demarcation Line;Literary History;Wagon Train;Critical theory;Homeless Generation;Critical Studies;Run River;Western American Literature;Ethical Residue;California;Clean Slate;California Literature;Californian Character;Landscape studies;Racial Melancholia;Autobiography;Melancholic Processes;Memoir;Ekphrastic Indifference;Journalism;Martha's Death;Melancholia;Split Rail Fence;Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice;Rail Fence;Didion's fiction;Lily's Father;ethical values;Californian identity;Californian history
