| Description |
1 online resource (435 pages) |
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SIGNS OF THE SIGNS; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue The Sign of Ishmael; 1 Everything Possible Nothing Real: Electric Signs of America, 1890-1925; 2 Signlight and Moonlight in The Great Gatsby; 3 How Do I Get to Broadway? Reading Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer Sign; 4 Neon Light in August: Faulkner's Quarrel with Modernity; 5 Broadway by Night by Hollywood: Fitzgerald Revisited; 6 Search for the Originary Sign of Noir: Poe's ""The Man of the Crowd""; 7 The Double Nihilation of the Neon: Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles |
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8 Neon Lights Around Everything: West's ""West, "" Hitler's ""Empire, "" Postmodernism's ""Reality""9 Under the Neon Rainbow: Nelson Algren's Chicago; 10 Sad Paradise: Signs of Beat America; 11 Redbrick and Neon: Kerouac's Legend of Duluoz; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
This book is a study of the electric sign in American literature and culture. Although this book is mainly about bulb and neon signs, it also deals with non-electric signs and related phenomena, such as movie sets. A central strategy of the author is to treat the architectural sign as semiotic and the semiotic sign as architectural. This technique serves a central thesis that the architectural sign, particularly the electric sign, made people more conscious of the 'sign' in the semiotic senses of the word. In fiction, poetry and commentary, the electric SIGN became a 'sign' of manifold meaning |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Electric signs in literature.
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Neon signs in literature.
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Symbolism in literature.
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Semiotics and literature -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Electric signs in literature
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Neon signs in literature
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Semiotics and literature
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Symbolism in literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bucknell University Press.
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| ISBN |
9781611480436 |
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1611480434 |
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