Jani Scandura, Down in the Dumps: Place Modernity, American Depression

Too infrequently in a reader’s life one encounters books of such surprise, such difference and such mental and expository agility that one cannot release oneself from the memory of that text.  In fact, one becomes haunted by them.  Hugh Kenner’s The Pound Era was like that for me.  So was Hans Gable...

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Published in:European journal of American studies 2011-05
Main Author: Zacharias, Greg
Format: Article
Language:English
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Archives & records
Culture
Modernity
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Summary:Too infrequently in a reader’s life one encounters books of such surprise, such difference and such mental and expository agility that one cannot release oneself from the memory of that text.  In fact, one becomes haunted by them.  Hugh Kenner’s The Pound Era was like that for me.  So was Hans Gabler’s synoptic text version of Joyce’s Ulysses.  I add to the list the opening essay especially, but others as well, in Stephen Greenblatt’s Shakepearean Negotiations.  One common element in all of t...
ISSN:1991-9336
1991-9336
DOI:10.4000/ejas.9154