Shock and Awe : American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court /

Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of the early twenty-first century, the author offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain's classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, providing an assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American i...

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Glavni autor: Spanos, William V.
Format: Elektronički e-knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2013]
Serija:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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