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  1. A Pinnacle of Feeling
    American Literature and Presidential Government
    Author: McCann, Sean
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV)
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400828906; 1400828902; 0691136955; 9780691136950; 1282158260; 9781282158269
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    RVK Categories: HU 1691 ; HU 1819
    Series: 20/21
    Subjects: USA <Motiv>; Politik <Motiv>; Roman
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (264 S.)
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    Main description: There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern presidency and with the ideas about the relationship between state power and democracy that underwrote the rise of presidential authority. Sean McCann challenges prevailing critical interpretations through revelatory new readings of major writers, including Richard Wright, Gertrude Stein, Henry Roth, Zora Neale Hurston, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Norman Mailer, Don Delillo, and Philip Roth. He argues that these writers not only represented or satirized presidents, but echoed political thinkers who cast the chief executive as the agent of the sovereign will of the American people. They viewed the president as ideally a national redeemer, and they took that ideal as a model and rival for their own work. A Pinnacle of Feeling illuminates the fundamental concern with democratic sovereignty that informs the most innovative literary works of the twentieth century, and shows how these works helped redefine and elevate the role of executive power in American culture
  2. A Pinnacle of Feeling
    American Literature and Presidential Government
    Author: McCann, Sean
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    TH-AB - Technische Hochschule Aschaffenburg, Hochschulbibliothek
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    Technische Hochschule Augsburg
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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Hochschule Coburg, Zentralbibliothek
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    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek

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    Hochschule Landshut, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Bibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400828906; 1400828902; 0691136955; 9780691136950; 1282158260; 9781282158269
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: HU 1691 ; HU 1819
    Series: 20/21
    Subjects: USA <Motiv>; Politik <Motiv>; Roman
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (264 S.)
    Notes:

    Main description: There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern presidency and with the ideas about the relationship between state power and democracy that underwrote the rise of presidential authority. Sean McCann challenges prevailing critical interpretations through revelatory new readings of major writers, including Richard Wright, Gertrude Stein, Henry Roth, Zora Neale Hurston, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Norman Mailer, Don Delillo, and Philip Roth. He argues that these writers not only represented or satirized presidents, but echoed political thinkers who cast the chief executive as the agent of the sovereign will of the American people. They viewed the president as ideally a national redeemer, and they took that ideal as a model and rival for their own work. A Pinnacle of Feeling illuminates the fundamental concern with democratic sovereignty that informs the most innovative literary works of the twentieth century, and shows how these works helped redefine and elevate the role of executive power in American culture
  3. A pinnacle of feeling
    American literature and presidential government
    Author: McCann, Sean
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century... more

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    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern presidency and with the ideas about the relationship between state power and democracy that underwrote the rise of presidential authority. Sean McCann challenges prevailing critical interpretations through revelatory new readings of major writers, including Richard Wright, Gertrude Stein, Henry Roth, Zora Neale.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400828906; 1400828902; 1282158260; 9781282158269
    RVK Categories: HR 1708
    Series: 20/21
    Subjects: Literatur; Politik <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 248 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-241) and index
  4. A pinnacle of feeling
    American literature and presidential government
    Author: McCann, Sean
    Published: c2008
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J

    There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern presidency and with the ideas about the relationship between state power and democracy that underwrote the rise of presidential authority. Sean McCann challenges prevailing critical interpretations through revelatory new readings of major writers, including Richard Wright, Gertrude Stein, Henry Roth, Zora Ne

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1282158260; 0691136955; 9781400828906; 9781282158269; 9780691136950
    RVK Categories: HU 1691 ; HU 1819
    Series: 20 / 21
    Subjects: Executive power; Authors, American; Politics and literature; American literature; Presidents in literature; Executive power in literature
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xiv, 248 p), 25 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-241) and index

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    CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: "The Executive Disease": Presidential Power and Literary Imagination; CHAPTER ONE: Masters of Their Constitution: Gertrude Stein and the Promise of Progressive Leadership; CHAPTER TWO: Governable Beasts: Hurston, Roth, and the New Deal; CHAPTER THREE: The Myth of the Public Interest: Pluralism and Presidentialism in the Fifties; CHAPTER FOUR: Come Home, America: Vietnam and the End of the Progressive Presidency; EPILOGUE: Philip Roth and the Waning and Waxing of Political Time; Notes; Index