LEADER 02690cam 22005054a 4500001 ocm71004018 003 OCoLC 005 20141211195316.0 008 060808s2007 mdu b 001 0 eng 010 2006024339 020 193314629X 020 9781933146294 029 1 YDXCP |b2465965 029 1 NZ1 |b10966890 035 (Sirsi) o71004018 035 (OCoLC)71004018 040 DLC |cDLC |dBAKER |dC#P |dYDX |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dERE |dUtOrBLW 043 n-us--- 049 EREE 050 00 P211.3.U6 |bG85 2007 082 00 302.2/244 |222 100 1 Guillen, Matthew. |=^A720218 245 10 Reading America : |btext as a cultural force / |cMatthew Guillen. 260 Bethesda : |bAcademica Press, |c©2007. 300 vi, 680 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [641]-676) and index. 505 0 Reading America -- Nation myths -- Manuscript culture and the advent of print -- American civilization -- Originalism and its discontents -- New York and the politics of wealth -- Melville's Wall Street -- "Bartleby" and 19th century tort law -- An epistemology of skepticism -- Isabel Archer as unreflective thought -- American legal discourse -- Law and popular culture -- Cinema, media and The spectator -- Comic books and juvenile crime -- Text, airwaves and content regulation -- Mediatized national interest -- A new left and novels of ideas -- Skinner, Derrida, Baudrillard and subversion -- The entropic word -- Language and responsibility -- The politics of cultural atavism -- Bilingual inequalities -- Education revalorized -- Life, death and accountability. 650 0 Written communication |xSocial aspects |zUnited States. |=^A144903 650 0 Written communication |zUnited States |xHistory. |=^A144903 650 0 Visual communication |xSocial aspects |zUnited States. |=^A145199 650 0 National characteristics, American. |=^A7778 650 0 Popular culture |zUnited States. |=^A248768 650 0 Literacy |zUnited States. |=^A22171 650 0 Reading |xSocial aspects |zUnited States. |=^A2027 650 0 American literature |xHistory and criticism. |=^A16698 651 0 United States |xCivilization. |=^A19249 651 0 United States |xSocial conditions. |=^A1102 856 41 |3Table of contents only |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006024339.html 994 C0 |bERE 596 1 998 1090310