The other serious : essays for the new American generation
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The other serious : essays for the new American generation
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- The other serious : essays for the new American generation
- Title remainder
- essays for the new American generation
- Statement of responsibility
- Christy Wampole
- Title variation
- Essays for the new American generation
- Subject
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- Civilization
- trueCulture
- Essays
- History
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
- Social values
- trueSocial values -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Civilization -- 21st century
- trueUnited States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Social history
- 2000 - 2099
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- " The Other Serious: American Essays contains a motley assortment of reflections on the United States as anomaly. Among the many maneuvers in this collection are: A close reading of the light-obsessed "Star-Spangled Banner" alongside the gory French national anthem; an analysis of Jim Henson's "Labyrinth" (1986) as a cryptofeminist fantasy; various forms of praise for oldness, dirt, and boring things; a eulogy for the messy humanity in Richard Linklater's Slacker (1991); and reflections on awkwardness, distraction, the North-South divide, the legacy of the Enlightenment in America, and Apple's goal to make its products totally invisible. Above all, this assemblage of essays proposes a framework for approaching life in our muddled nation with a joyful seriousness"--
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- Dewey number
- 973.93
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- Literary form
- non fiction
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