Vertiginous Pull of Negative Rhetoric: The American “No! In Thunder”

• Authors: Janusz Semrau
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents a sample historical-literary survey of a specific popular idea of the gist of ‘Americanness’ in the guise of condensed observations in broad cultural circulation. This is to provoke the question about the degree to which this kind of discourse may reflect the so-called habits of the heart (de Tocqueville [1835-1840] 1966: 264), as against how at a certain point it may explode - to borrow from Paul de Man (1979: 10) - into “vertiginous possibilities of referential aberration”.1

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 61-71

Dates

published

2012-04-01

online

2013-03-27

Contributors

author

Janusz Semrau

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10121-010-0020-7