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Bonfires of the American dream in American rhetoric, literature and film / Daniel Shaviro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaviro, Daniel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American Dream in literature.
- American Dream in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (114 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England ; New York, New York : Anthem Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- In Bonfires of the American Dream, through close cultural studies of classic novels and films - Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, It's a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street - Daniel Shaviro helps to provide a better understanding of what went wrong culturally in America.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction
- CHAPTER 2 Winners and Losers in Russell Conwell's Acres of Diamonds Lecture and the John Galt Speech in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
- CHAPTER 3 Pessimism for Optimists and Voyeurism for Pessimists in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
- CHAPTER 4 Bailey Versus Belfort: Comparing It's a Wonderful Life and The Wolf of Wall Street
- CHAPTER 5 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-83998-383-3
- 1-83998-384-1
- OCLC:
- 1323251164
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